My beautiful Black Lab was run over by a Petoskey, MI man driving a pick-up truck entirely too fast for road conditions while towing a trailer on Hwy 2 near the Pictured Rocks / Seney Park northerly cut-off.

I might mention here that the state had to release a hundred state troopers into their own futures due to monetary issues. The travelers were not obeying the 55 mph traffic signs. Guess why.

My adopted Caesar (who I called "Sneezer"), lived a happy life with me for the past 4 years. My plan was to take him to the local jail to work with inmates through the county, also to take him and his best buddy KoBe ("Toes" or "KoBe Toes")south for search and rescue training. Both of them being of the age at which they were settled enough for such training and activities.

I am in a holding pattern now, holding KoBe as much as he and I seem to need. I also await lazer surgery on my right eye at the end of August.

It is all I can do to keep from coming totally unglued.