We lost our elder family dog today, Poppy. Poppy went with us to Luxembourg when she was only about 2 years old, and when she started getting sick a few months later, we learned she had a disease called Addison’s, which – trust me – is hard to communicate in French. Fortunately, it’s chronic but manageable, and with daily medications to give her the hormones that her failed adrenal glands wouldn’t, she went on to live over 10 more years.

The above picture is her years later, back in 2022, with one of our other pets, Muffin the budgie. They got along great. That porch in the background is the back porch where I take my eVscope astrophotography pictures from.

We had to say goodbye this evening; her kidneys were failing, and she wasn’t doing well, and wasn’t going to ever get better. She had a great last day with a romp in the lake down at the park, and got to eat most of a hamburger.

She loved people, she loved us, and we loved her. She was the best, and we’ll miss her.