MEET THE MEERIES: THE WIND BENEATH OUR WINGS

TODAY IT BEGAN SNOWING HEAVILY AND WE RECEIVED NOTICE IN OUR "INBOX" THAT THE SNOW IS TO CONTINUE UNTIL TOMORROW...WELL, THEY QUITE LEFT OFF THERE...

SO, BEING INDOORS WITH OUR TAKE-OUT BLUEBERRY PANCAKES AND MAPLE SYRUP AND SUCH-LIKE, we feel it's about time to introduce you to the meeries in our family who live near (not really, not near, we just said that) and far (now that's more like it, the far part, that part is true) that and the fact that anyone with a pair of cross-country skis or snowshoes (like MOM) is going to head right off to downtown here to get their ice cream cones and dance in the street, it's a Bellingham Tradition to get ice

cream when we have blizzards and can't get to Mt. Baker, we go en masse to the Ice Creamery to defy...well, we enjoy defiance in any way, shape, or form...but I digress!

MEET OUR VERY OWN WUNNERFUL FAMILY!!!! 

ABOVE PLEASE MEET "THE MEERIS OF BAVARIA" WHO OWN THE POET INGRID AND HER DEAR HELMUT! WE ARE SO BEYOND IN LOVE WITH THEM AND KNOW WE WOULD BE HAVING LOTS OF FUN, LOOK HOW MANY!

BOY ARE THEY SOME LUCKY MEERIS, THEY ARE.

HERE is where the luckiest Bavarian meeris in the world live,
is that a fine looking caviary OR WHAT? IT LOOKS HOME-MADE! Wish we had one, all neat and clean, but we are Americans and...'nuff said. What a beautiful place to live, 
Bavaria, and what beautiful souls to own, our own dear, precious
Ingrid and Helmut, introduced to us by...

FAIRY! Fairy, looks like you are preparing for a big sleep-over and getting everything "just so" for
your friends...OH! A Tale of 3 Piggies is our favorite book, too! But where is Marigold? Where is she going to sleep? 

Fairy lives with Marigold and they recently lost their own precious Mariella. We all lost a near and dear one recently...most of our friends experienced losses yet not a one missed any opportunity given them to console us, even in their own grief. That brings tears to our eyes, their losses, too...please do not think they are any less for now we are one family and every guinea pig, cavy, meeri dear as our own heartbeat!

Oh, well, we nearly forgot, THIS IS FAIRY'S HOUSE! Err...
mmmm....uh....Fairy....why is your dad wearing it and where are
you and he is beginning to remind us of Hugh Laurie! Yes, quite,
we could see "HOUSE" wearing a guinea pig house on his own
head...but where are you?

OH, you have gone outside! You know, Fairy, we had this picture of you as our screensaver, but every time mom turned her computer on she just wanted to pet and brush you and stared at the screen so long we had to put on something else, especially your cheek, she just wanted to comb it and give you scritchy-scrunchies and did she get anything done? Why, Fairy, she looked at you so much and petted and combed you so much she forgot why she turned the computer on in the first place so then she turned it off!

DID WE MENTION IT IS SNOWING BUT WE HAVE PANCAKES?

BAVARIAN MEERI, HOW PRETTY AND COLOURFUL AND SWIRLY! OH, LOOK AT THAT SWIRL IN THE BACK! NOW THAT'S A SWIRL IF EVER THERE WAS ONE!

OH NOW THAT THE SNOW IS COMING DOWN the Bavarian Meeris have all come 'round!
You black beauty in the straw, hay, grassy stuff,
we bet you glitter and your coat is so smooth after a nice comb-out! We love your floppy ears, too.
WE love ALL OF YOU! EVEN WHEN IT ISN'T SNOWING AND WE DON'T HAVE BLUEBERRY PANCAKES IN THE HOUSE!

BAVARIAN meeris send white roses to console us...did we mention the meeris also lost one of their own, too? And we
pray no more than one? For we just today got to last week's

emails...and...eyes closed in prayer and breath stuck in throat -

WHILE Fairy invents scritchy-scratchers to comfort us...although her dad actually brought this one back from London Towne where we are certain he dressed like Mr. Steed, with a bowler hat, umbrella, and impeccable sleuthing and spy skills...wonder what is

really contained within that "alleged" gift for dear Fairy? The code to the Queen's doggery where, with the push of a button, you could release all the Pembroke Welsh Corgis? AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME? WICKED! WICKED FUNNY! But there we go being swashbuckling Americans again, SORRY there, now you know we're just Pirates in disguise, Fairy, and yet you love us anyway. So kind you are.

And you lost your dear Mariella...grief knocked on your door,
on the Meeris door, on Jen who makes our fabulous cuddle cups' door...twas an epidemic of grief yet...tears glued us together into a bigger, howsoever broken, heart than ever before.

FRIENDS. UNDERSTOOD IN EVERY LANGUAGE.

NOW meet the new American kids on the block! The newest of the new, little bitty (though grown, yet having never had a home) Almond Joy! She owns CD3, who we know from "Molly the Owl"
watching and "Friday Nights at the Movies" with our Molly the Owl friendsies.

CD3 got Almond Joy to keep her very first guinea pig rescue, Millie Bea company...and it wasn't easy getting that Almond Joy! The rescue really put her through the ringer so now that she is home at last and ready to be Millie Bea's forever-friend...

CD3, how would you put it? All right then, I shall use your own words: "She's the Queen" yes, indeed, Millie Bea is like, "You got
a WHAT? for WHO? like...WHY?" And now each pig has that "separate but equal" status that we know all too well, even know
it here now, what with YumYum kicking me out after Raj passed...


Well, friends, there you have it.


We love you. You held us. You rocked us in your arms, sent us emails always, checked up on us, wrote poems for us, sent pictures to us, prayed for us, and never let us go, not for a minute even though you yourselves were grieving your own losses, dear Mariella and our meeri...


There is no language with a heart big enough to contain
the gratitude we wish to convey...
so in the gentlest, softest as rose-petals whisper..."thank you"
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