I've been combing through boxes of photographs to locate images of the five pets we've had in our adult lives.
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| Little Dog at Christmastime, 1998 | Kiyoti likes this arrangement - she's inside with us, and guarding the door to keep Lady out! | A peace of sorts was reached between the two after several months - Kiyoti and Lady would share the bed with me. This is from 1995. | |
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| Still tolerating each other in 1997 | We had just returned from our 25th Anniversary rail trip around the USA when this picture was taken in May of 2000 | A favorite place for the dogs was the river near Mo's mom's house in Sequim. That's Little Dog tucked away at Mo's knee | Kathy & Terry at Sequim with the dogs in 1998 |
Using the detailed calendar-diaries that Mo has kept for every year since 1978, I was able to reconstruct our pet family history:
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The past month (since Kiyoti left us in August) is the first time we haven't shared our house with at least one animal since we adopted Keli in 1977.