Thank you.....and a strange thing happened

Let me start off by saying thank you to all of you who visited my site and posted a comment regarding my tribute to my mom. Yesterday was a very hard day for me.

To distract myself from my grief, I managed to get my sorry butt outside and went for a power walk/jog with my daughter Candice. It was lovely. Walking/jogging through the trails, the cool breeze coming from off the water, the eagles and ravens in the background making their calls to let us know they were there, the sun shone through the leaves like little arms and hands reaching out to touch me, to caress me, to give me peace and serenity. It was soothing.

I spent a lot of time yesterday reading tributes for those who lost their lives on 9/11. The tributes were all so very wonderfully written. Some of you provided great detail about a person you made your tribute to, even though you did not know the person. Others wrote briefly about the person and then more about how their loss had impacted us all. Regardless, in one of my comments to a fellow blogger who was worried that she didn't say enough or have enough information about the person she was doing her tribute to, I say to her, the mere fact that she took the time to research this persons life and dedicate her blog to them was tribute enough. I can't thank all of you enough for what you did. Not only for the families and friends of the deceased but for me. I met some wonderful people through your tributes that I would have otherwise never had gotten to know. Thank you. May god bless you all.

Now the strangest thing happened to me this morning. Please don't think me odd, as I don't even know what to make of it myself.

I was sitting in my livinging being distracted by some program on TV, when I looked out my window and saw this little white dog, it looked like a Jack Russell, I think it had one faint brown spot on it, and it had a dog collar and tag, a pink tag I might add. Anyhow, the oddest thing....as quickly as this dog came into my view it was gone. I observed it meandering in my yard, as though it was checking things out. It came around my car, towards my dog Bert(who was on his lead at the time), but Bert did not bark, or growl or anything. Bert would normally bark to intruders or when he sees the bunnies wonder across the drive, or when my in laws have visitors, Bert barks. This time, he didn't bark. The dog wandered down in front of my car towards Bert and then I think it turned around and headed towards my in-laws place. My hubby was just returning home through the trail which leads to his parents place, Bert barked at Doug. Doug came in the back door and I asked him if he saw the Jack Russell. What dog he says? I told him what I saw. He shook his head. His mother is a breeder and is selling puppies right now and has had visitors at her home so I asked Doug if she had someone over and if the dog could belong to them. No was his answer.
I started to get a little distraught....so still in my housecoat I make the trek up and around our drive to the road(my drive is gravel and treed and wild, the road leading to my home is gravel, country living). I look both ways, no sign of this dog. I walk back down the drive and look over at my in laws place ..my mother in law is not even home.

Did I really see a dog? We don't get strays here....never....not where I live...what did I see? Why didn't Doug see the dog? Why didn't Bert bark? Hmmmmmmmmmmm........

My friends and family sometimes call me the amateur Sylvia Browne. I don't know about that but I have seen and heard some strange things in my life. I don't feel like this is the case in this time....or was it? What I do know is that I am bothered by it....... I can assure you I will be on the look out for that Jack Russell today......

Hope life is treating you all well......