Wednesday in Japan. Osaka

I love Osaka.

It is a great city and the people who live there are a hoot !

I always have the best time when I walk (when I could walk) around the city.

Especially in the older city .

I am re-running some photos of  Osaka for today's post,

while trying to learn the new Chrome program. 

Downloading photos from my phone into Dropbox is not working, yet

but I will master it !

If you have read my blog for any time you will remember some of these photos,
my love of the Osaka Tower and the Takoyaki Stand below it.

Still the best Takoyaki I have ever had. 

Little round dough balls filled with a small piece of octopus, 

with sauce, tuna flakes, pickled ginger  and green onions on top.

Heaven in a bite.

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 Tsutenkaku ( Building leading to heaven) is a symbol of Osaka and has been in many movies.

It was built in 1912, and was a symbol of ShinSekai (A new world).

The lights on the round neon sign gives the weather forecast in color combinations. 

White = fair, Orange = cloudy, Blue = rainy.

 I want one of these Fugu lanterns

The fish it self is rather bland.

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 Takyoyaki street stand 

 Here they are making my favorite street food.

It takes just a few minutes from looking like the what chef oh the left is doing

to the cooked octopus balls the chef on the right is finishing.

You eat them with a toothpick.

They are wonderful.

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And just because I can here is your mid week pretty.

thehamish and Watson looking very pretty.

Always napping together. thehamish always finds a way to snuggled in

wherever Watson sleeps.

takoyaki. . . parsnip

music. . . Tonati No Totoro,  Joe Hisaishi

parley view parsnip. . . starting again

Ready, Set ... Start !

Two Little Square Black Dogs blog

is back with a new look.
Still needs some work but I like it so far.

Like the set up before...

Monday is about Tucson,
Wednesday is life in Japan
and of course Friday is 

Square Dog Friday !

The best day of the week.

yert !

I have several post ready to go with Dr. Watson still in them.  He was

such a big part of our life for 17 years, I still want to use them.

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I miss him so very much.

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And of course what would my blog be without some parsnips ?

And a few  angryparsnips

tossed in for fun.
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 Everyone alway picks the carrots oh my goodness even me !

yert !

And now for

 a dragon who has been eating my garden. . .

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along with a zombie  prickly pear fruit.

The above crazy veggies were made for John's Blog for the 

Trelalwnyd Vegetable and Flower Show.

My pick for best in show was the little strawberry that looked like a chicken 

sitting on a brown egg and the  lemon par-medic.

A blog  winner wasn't annonced so I picked my two favorites beside my Dragon fruit monster.

I can do this because this is my blog.

I should have asked John if I could have use his photos. 

Maybe I will ask John for permission to use them for a later post. 

They were that  outstanding !

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And of course here is your pretty for the start of the week.

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Of course.

yert !

smile. . . parsnip

music. . .  Hold My Hand,  Jess Glynne

Square Dog Friday sorta of. . .

Hello Everyone !

Not back yet, start up date 5 October 

but

Japanese son sent me this clip and thehamish and I

wanted to share it.

Man builds 'dog train' to take stray dogs on adventures

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 Mr. Bostick is 80 years old amd lives in Forth Worth, Texas.

He and his brother have been taking care of the wildlife around

their home for over 30 years.

They started taking in all the stray dogs that

 (mean, stupid, idiots, my words) are dumped on their road.

The brothers wanted to take the dogs on trips.  Mr. Bostick came up with 

this idea after seeing a tractor pulling a cart.  

They said that the dogs get so excited about their weekly train rides.

I love these brothers !

thehamish sents wurfs

and chkikin' strips to all

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thehamish is doing fine but he misses his Watson

I miss him too !

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 wurfs. . . parsnip

music. . . Happy,  Pharrell

A Beautiful Morning and A Thank You

Not ready to come back to the blogging world 

so much to do and catch up with and grieve but

this morning was so wonderful I had to post a photo.

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Monsoon Season is officially over but a few tropical storms can pop up 

here and there. 

We desert dwellers love this extra blessings of rain. 

Today at noon when I took this photo it was a cool, for Tucson, 74

beautiful overcast gray day with a drizzling rain gently falling.

A real treat for me. 

A few doors were open to let in the soft sweet air in.

A real treat living where I do. It is usually to hot to leave the doors open

because every critter you don't want in your home will walk in.

From scorpions, wolf spiders and the odd snake or two.

So to have a door open today was wonderful.

Reminds me very much of the day Dr. Watson died.

Just a sweet beautiful day.

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I will be back to blogging in a few weeks after I catch up.

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I would like to Thank everyone who left such lovely and wonderful

comments on Watson's post and e-mails.

I have read them many time as my tears fell and they comforted me.

I tried to answer each one but it was very hard.

Several friends of friends and a few new people that I don't know 

left heartfelt notes. 

They were very appreciated.

tears . . . parsnip

music. . . Running Up That Hill,  Placebo

Goodby Sweet Watson.

On Saturday September 5th
a very cool beautiful morning with a light mist falling, 

Dr. Watson died at home surrounded by the people who loved him.

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As Adam held him the doctor first gave him an injection to relax him 

and help with the pain and then the last injection to free him from pain.
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We knew his arthritis in his hip and leg was getting worst but

he seemed to rally when Japanese family came for a visit.

His special little person Mia was here.

As soon as they left he took a turn for the worst. Watson was pulling inward.

Sleeping most of the day, rapid breathing and not eating.
He started to be constantly with Adam, his person.
Sleeping most of the day on his bed.

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Another trip to the doctor showed he had a extremely painful 

 form of fast moving, invasive bone cancer that was spreading.

At 17 (about 95) I had no choice but to relive him of his pain. 

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Adam took him on one last walk, mostly carrying him
To his favorite places to look for bunnies and sniff the flowers.

Adam  asked if I could make his favorite pancakes.

Which he ate and seemed to enjoy.

One of his last photos with a new toy.
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 We will be looking for a flowering bush/tree to plant by the pond that I can see
from my computer desk.
Watson loved looking at and sniffing flowers, watching the bunnies,
birds and chipmunks that come every day.
We will put his ashes and Kirby's the Scotty he was a companion to
just like Sherlock Hound.  They are/will be together again.
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I will not be blogging for some time.
If you noticed I have already cut down on the amount of posts
to spend more time with Watson.
I need some time to regroup.
I always thought that even with Watsons age, 
thehamish would leave us first.
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Warning
Extremity offensive language that I do not say or write. 

 Dealing with all of Watson's  problems
and the concern and heartbreak that comes with it.
I am having some misgivings with blogs.
One wonderful blog I usually read every morning had one
of his too clever commenters calling me a fucking american.

Now if he would have said fucking american government
I would have let it pass. I rarely agree with my government.
But to say I am a fucking american ?
Does he know me and my life ?
Plus he conventionally forgot what his country the UK has been doing
 in this region before WW1 is rather one sided.
But typical.
One of his friends then attacked me when I protested

So I have to step back,  regroup and think.
My heart is broken and I have been in tears since last Monday.
I know in my brain it was the right decision for Watson
but my heart  doesn't know that yet.
I miss my sweet baaboo.

I will not be commenting on all your wonderful blogs for now.
I want to rest.
I have had a month long migraine. 

Thank you for all the wonderful comments.
cheers, gayle

Tuesday In Tucson, more monsoon madness !

Just a few photos from the last few days.

It really is monsoon madness here !

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These two photos show how the mountains are greening up with all the rain.

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Nice misty rain

that turned to golden fat raindrops,

that came zooming towards me.

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And here is your pretty for the day.

 rain. . . parsnip
music. . . Open Your Eyes,  Snow Patrol

Square Dog Friday. . . thehamish speaks

WooHoo

The best day of the week is here.

Thank goodness !

And it is not even over as it is flowing over to more doctors visits for me 

and the Square Ones Next week.

woe

Watson is losing the ability to use his right back leg.

He is is on a new course of meds and he goes back for more tests and x-rays. 

He is 17 and no operations for him.

thehamish's Cushing is acting up which causes 

many of his organs to not work properly. 

But his pancreases is working so that is one good sign.

No more late night dashes to the Specialty Hospital that he is a charter member.

It has been a rough two weeks.

My wonderful Japanese family visiting for two weeks was the best part.

The Square Ones deteriorating  health problems was the bad part.
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  So here is a big happy brought to you by thehamish.

Not the best video, the back lighting is making a Little Black Square Dog

hard to see but you have to shoot where you are when a "fun" appears.

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 translation
i thehamish is wanting to play now

nice tall person who feed us put down the clickin' thingie and play

oh woe is me

needin' play 

now

woe

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 Sleeping Square Dogs the night after the bad bad but some good news from the vet.

Watson has "nested" his blanket as he does every night.

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 Good morning nice tall person who feeds us.
I lurve you.

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 awww Good Morning my sweet baboo

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You are just the best gud dug.
Notice where the gud dug blanket is. All rolled up into a ball and not over my sheets.
They do take over the bed.

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 hey i thehamish is gud sweet baboo too

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  woe
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Aww sweet thehamish you know I think you are a sweet baboo.
Bonkers  but sweet.

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As always just because I can here is your pretty  to start the weekend.

Thursday evening storm started out light and pretty.

Looks like a soft sweet rain.

Then came the thunder, lighting everywhere 

and sheets of rain pounding down on the roof !

I almost started to build an ark.

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lighting. . . parsnip

music. . . Passing By,  Ulrich Schnauss