A difficult couple of weeks

The weather has been great - except for the very strong cold winds the last two days - but it has been a difficult couple of weeks since Willow stopped being able to get up and use her back legs on Veteran's Day, 11/12/12.  I've been making sure she gets turned on other side every four hours latest, so being unemployed has been a blessing for this.  Getting up at 3 AM every morning to turn her over is no problem, but I have been so tired I just couldn't get up the energy to ride my bike.

We've had some really beautiful days together - these two weeks have been exceptional weather-wise.  One day there was a perfectly blue sky through the stark limbs of the willow tree we were lying under.  All of a sudden, through the limbs there is this really short and perfect rainbow in a shape I'd never seen.  To me it was a sign from the Universe that Willow is a very loved and special dog, and that our time together was right.

I can't believe tomorrow is the day.  She seemed so tired when I brought her in two days ago - like it was just getting to be too much.  And then it didn't.  But tonight it was really hard for her to use her front legs - she is getting fatigued.  I am tired too, but I will go as long as it is right.