Scout
January 17, 2025
Our first four-legged guest.
I’ll admit, we had some concerns, but she turned into a wonderful guest! She’s well behaved and sweet. Not to mention super soft. I do get why people love their dogs.
Oh, Scout came with owners Lisa and Claire, surrogate parents to Peter for the last four and half years in Ann Arbor. Their lovely relationship started when Peter landed in A2 in the August of 2020 – peak COVID — and was largely sequestered in his coop, unable to travel home for Thanksgiving or Christmas that year, and got from L&C a heavy dose of family love and support.
I do think of Lisa (and now Claire) as family, as Lisa is a famed Hesse girl… one of the 13 kids (three families with nine daughters and four sons between them) who grew up together celebrating Christmas Eves (and a variety of other holidays and gatherings) for a couple of decades. Our dads worked together in the go-go era of aerospace in LA. Lucky us girls, we’ve all stayed in touch and are quite the sisterhood. Particularly nice for me, having zero sisters and three brothers. One could say I had three brothers, sure, but gained eight sisters in the deal.
And a dog!
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