A week or so ago my corgi pal Minnow came back to visit! It was a bright spot in an already great week, so it slipped my mind among the bear sightings (no photos, sadly, too quick and bumbling for me) and shooting stars (also too fast) and such.
Today the truly benevolent god of corgwen have blessed me with a generous gift: time with their precious child, Minnow.
Minnow is a corgi mixed with another sort of herding dog (which I forgot, because there was a corgi to play with) and is as soft as he is delightfully stubborn. Which isn't necessarily what I'd look for in a canine companion, but is a lot of fun on a Thursday.
Minnow knows a few tricks, and I was able to capture a few on video. They're in the comments.
Like Bennie before him, Minnow was an absolute dream come true. I love animals, especially the common dog, and few creatures have the power to steer your mood quite so powerfully. Today, my mood needed no correction, today was as sunny in fact as it was in metaphor. Minnow pushed me over the top.
I am truly glad that an item I had given up on for the Remission List was vanquished handily twice. Maybe there's hope for getting to see the geese leave me one last time.
Crossed paws.
Corgi Band day would have been nothing without the wonderful humans who showed up and made it happen. From left to right in the group shot, they are Thor, Catherine, Bruce, me, Alison, and Tom (The Jammers). Plus Bennie the corgi. These people made a very sick person's day (and week and month), for which im tremendously thankful.
The List Formally Known as the Remission List has a wide variety of weird and fun things to do on it. From visiting all the historic locks of the Trent-Severn Waterway, to hearing each carillon in the province (country?) play a piece, to participating in a lottery and seeing certian animals that are dear to me. And while I like moose and beaver and painted turtles, no animal was closer to my heart than the beautiful corgi.
I genuinely expected this to be an easy one. I'd be out walking, someone else in the park would have a small wiggle of corgwen. I'd ask to pet them, mark something off my list, and have a moderately better day.
Instead, I had a magical day with my new corgi friend Bennie, and the band she brought along (coming in a future entry!) catapulted the moderately better I expected from crossing off this item to one of the best days I've had in the whole of 2024 (and I got to meet Wiarton Willy this year, a life long goal of mine)