For a moment, when I thought about writing this post, I thought, “Oh, no, I haven’t taken a single picture in July.”
Duh. Totally wrong. I took many, many pictures, because the best part of July was spending time with the Best Brother Ever’s puppy.
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Also, of course, BBE’s kids. Well, and him. And his wife, aka Best SIL Ever. But mostly the puppy. 🙂
Still, the nicest part of this exact specific moment of the month is that my own puppy is doing really well. I’m a little scared to write that, of course, because time is not on our side, but she’s eaten for several days in a row and yesterday she actually ate all her dog food and then seemed interested enough in her bowl that I gave her more and she ate that, too. And this morning she woke up at her historically normal time and wanted to go for a walk. Joy! It’s amazing how moments that you took for granted for years can become special, but this morning’s walk was definitely special.
In a nice moment of serendipity, I was hunting for a USB drive to transfer some files to my nephew’s computer, and I found one that turned out to have some old photos on it. Fourteen years old, in fact.
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I’m sure that when I first saw this photo, I thought about how messy my hair was and how much I hate my freckles and how fat my arm looked, because, you know, photos. I don’t like them and I don’t post ones of me very often. But now I look at it and I see how sweet my puppy was and how much I loved her, and I’m glad this photo came back into my life.
I think that’s an excellent photo of you and Zelda. So very glad she’s doing better. Signs of a healthy appetite returning is a really good sign!
It’s very exciting that she’s eating. I’m not counting on it keeping up — she’s gotten increasingly picky over the years and for the last several months, she’s basically been on the “eat every few days” diet. But today is a food day which makes it a good day!
It’s an EXCELLENT photo!!!
I know how you feel though. I wasn’t all that old before I was only able to appreciate photos of myself that were at least ten years old. I always figure when I hate a current photo, that the good news is, in ten years, I might change my mind.
I feel the same way now! There’s still not a lot of pictures of me and I don’t take them myself, but I don’t resist them either, because I know eventually I’ll think I looked pretty good back then. 🙂 And I definitely regret that I avoided the camera so thoroughly when I was 15 -25.
Sounds like July was good. Happy for you. It was okay for me, too.
I’m hope “okay” turns into “great” for August for you! It’s good to “see” you again 🙂