funeralizing melba

we got aunt melba buried, after a dreadful baptist service that, as expected, morphed into a sermon --- being a pall bearer i was on the front row and got the full effect of the preachers and the tenor singing hymns

the dog world has lost a great champion, as witnessed by the flowers from all the dogs that she has fostered over the last few years --- never mind, the decades before that --- and a small fortune for veterinary services ---

i'll miss her