march day twenty five: in memory

Today is a very sad day: my mom had to put our dog of 13 years to sleep. In her memory, I took a photo of one of my favorite trees on my street.

When I was in seventh grade, my mom and I scheduled a road trip with my grandparents with a family reunion in Albuquerque as our destination. About a week before the trip, my grandpa was working in the garage where he was bitten by a black widow. He ended up in the hospital and was very ill-- too ill to go on vacation. Instead of going without him, we ended up canceling the trip. My mom had money saved up for our vacation and we decided to spend it in other ways. We bought a new computer… and a puppy. (When I was younger I would always convince my mom it was a good idea to go look at animals at the humane society.) But this trip was different… we found a little black puppy who had the sweetest face. We took her into the room and I fell in love. We had to have this dog. 

After making arrangements to pick up the dog later in the week, we went straight to Barnes and Noble to look at baby name books to pick out the perfect name. I came across the name Darbi (with an i) and was sold. A few days later, I had a new puppy named Darbi.

She was a great dog from the start. Always a little scared of others, but a great dog for me and my mom. 

I will miss that little puppy.