Banjo
Posted by Troy Eckhardt on April 12, 2008 at 12:49 am
Our dog Banjo was born on June 9, 1994 in southeastern Tennessee. My wife Jennifer and I met her in an animal shelter on 441 between Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. The meeting took place on July 30, 1994 on the seventh day of our honeymoon.
Banjo was a frisky puppy. Of the two females in the litter, we chose her because she was the more playful. She had a beautiful black coat, and a bit of black on her tongue. Although she looks like a shaggy black lab, she must have some chow in her. Not much, though, because she has none of the lousy chow disposition.
We had to sneak her into the honeymoon chalet on the last night of our stay, because the shelter was not open on the day we left Gatlinburg. We kept her in a box, so no harm was done. She had a bit of diarrhea, which became a deluge of feces on the trip home, during which we must have stopped fifty times for puppy potty breaks. Read the rest of the article »
I’m blogging tonight from my driveway, where I’m looking at the crescent moon, with Mars right next to it and the two head stars of Gemini, Castor and Pollux, right there with the moon and Mars. It’s a very pretty sight. The sky is rather clear, although, I do feel a little cheated by all the light polution that has been creeping in over the last 28 years that I’ve lived here. But it’s still refreshing to have a clear night, to look up and to see some familiar stars like old friends just waiting for me to come out here and visit with them. That’s all for now.