Sunday, December 1, 2019

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in December of 2008. Mattie was home between treatments and requested Chinese food. Since Mattie typically did not have an appetite and was hardly eating, whenever he requested food, we made sure to get it. I would say that Mattie went through certain food phases while on treatment, requesting such items as: vanilla milkshakes, chicken nuggets, big pretzels, potato chips, vanilla frosted donuts, cupcakes, and shrimp of all things. Keep in mind that Mattie did not eat many of these requested foods prior to his cancer diagnosis. 




Quote of the day: The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook, chop, braise and blanch. Then it’s gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sort of in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up. ~ Ted Allen

It was one of those cold, pouring and gray DC days today! Yet as any dog owner knows...... YOU  HAVE TO WALK THE DOG! Regardless of weather! We took Sunny back to Roosevelt Island. It was his Thanksgiving Day treat, as he has visited the Island three days in a row. 

As we pulled into the parking lot..... we were the only ones there! 

I had a feeling we would see a lot of wildlife as there were no people walking about. Can you see this big hawk sitting on the branch?

The peaceful sight from the boardwalk. 

We literally saw five deer on our walk! Sunny was barking and was ready to charge the deer. Fortunately we never let Sunny off leash, otherwise, we would have been running all over the woods today. 

Can you see the three deer? By the time we were finished from the walk we were all soaked and covered in mud. It was a messy but lovely walk.