Elise Sereni Patkotak

In case you didn’t see this posting when I put it on Facebook, I’m repeating it here because my heart is still smiling from it.

Here’s what’s so wonderful about living in Alaska and even more wonderful about having lived in Bush Alaska. I got a letter in the mail today from my Vet Clinic, College Village Animal Clinic. I go there because Dr. Basler used to be a vet in Barrow and when I got here, I knew I trusted him. Apparently an old Barrow friend, Jeslie, brought his pets to the clinic while here in town. And, because

Feeling hormonal surges when you see Gibbs on TV? Or when you see an old boyfriend, you know, the one that got away? Well, just be careful. Those hormones caused all of us to make some of the most disastrous decisions of our lives. Just because we’ve gotten older doesn’t mean our hormones have gotten wiser.

Would someone please come and explain this concept of daylight savings time and turning the clock back an hour to my birds and dogs. They apparently don’t quite grasp it. I stayed up an extra hour on Saturday night to revel in the change. They got up an extra hour earlier on Sunday morning, totally unimpressed with the concept of magically changing time based on government fiat. Perhaps they’ve followed the government’s recent debacles and figured they shouldn’t pay attention to anything it tries to do.

It occurs to me that I spend more time reading the ingredients in my dogs’ food than I do in the food I eat. Hmmm….

Is there anything more fun than handing out treats to your dogs that they really don’t like but not a one of them is going to pass it up for fear the others will have the advantage. They stand there with the treat in their mouths, each eying the other and then go hide it. It will reappear at some point during my annual deep cleaning ritual when I’m willing to look into the dark spaces.

It makes everything old seem new again since we don’t remember a damn thing from one day to the next.