The Brief Shining Moment.....

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-Here is Trevor with his sister big Hallie!  This was during our heyday of walking… we would go for 10 miles and have the time of our lives going off trails and exploring all kinds of remote places…..  Our funniest adventure consisted climbing up this super steep hill for hours only to get to the top and realize we could have followed the trail up!  LOL… What was funnier was when I asked Trevor and Hallie do we follow the trail down or go back down the way we came…. Hallie wrinkled her nose as she looked down the trail and headed for the edge to go down how we came up… Trevor looked at me as if he was saying; where you go dad I will be there…. so down we went! 

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Here is Trevor looking like a Alpha and Hallie looking Regal!  In the back is Lad… thinking about what else? Hi ball… sigh…

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Our adventures were the best of my life… we frolicked and played and Hallie and Trevor enjoyed our explorations of places unknown.  We saw sunrises, sunsets, huge trees that were in isolated swamplands that were well over 200 years old and so big we stood on top of the huge roots that pushed up 4 feet from the ground.  We saw wild turkeys (Trevor and Hallie looked at them and then looked at me like that were saying, those are some ugly birds and that looked ridiculous as the birds ran with their wattles flopping off the sides of their heads!  Hallie chased a thousand squirrels, we saw opossums, deer, birds, beaver, woodchucks, frogs, chipmunks, ducks, crows, raccoons and other endless animals.

We walked in the snow, during a blizzard, in fog so thick we got lost several times, in rain, in sleet, snow, windstorms, at night and one of my favorite moments is sitting on a hill looking up at the stars and Hallie and Trevor were looking up also in awe.  We shared food, drink, would run and laugh and yell and bark and I would sing (horribly) as they strutted along grinning…. it was our heyday…….

BUt, it was cut short by the tragic loss of Hallie and then Trevor growing old…. Now they are both gone and I am at the point again when I wonder will the days of curiosity, fun and adventure will return…. experience tells me it will….but right now it is hard to believe.

We had the times of our lives and our love was deep… Hallie, Trevor and I would take off on our pre-dawn walking adventure and return late in the afternoon…..  usually after Trevor would find the burrs which I would remove patiently from his coat as Hallie looked on…. I always felt bad for Trevor until one day when I looked at Hallie and she was grinning at Trevor and when I looked back I caught him grinning too… he loved the attention and I realized he did it to get a break from walking and get some personal attention… my ol’ boo.

As I sit here alone without them I look up at the stars in wonder, amazement and sadness for I miss them….. I relished those days and still do… but little did I realize those days were the heyday of the Meadow….. while we have potential to reach that again with all our collies here but it will be very different …. I only hope we can create those fun times in a unique and new way… knowledge says we will but my heart wonders…. for I will go for walks and enjoy those I am with,,,, but miss those not there…… just as I did with Trevor and Hallie missing Niamh…..

But, like a walk life is a pathway that one must walk down and walk it we will.  I just hope this generation of collies has as much fun and love as we have had in the past…….   we shall see….

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They are just a memory now……  I can only hope as they run across the fields of heaven they remember me….   RIP my Hallie gal and my Trevor forever (Boo)……  Thank you and I love you!

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