Every Friday and Saturday night in Chattanooga free music is played downtown. Chattanooga is a super kid friendly city and has so much to offer for children and adults. Kids are always welcome at all the free music and festivities downtown. Wyatt loves music and and also loves the free balls and frisbees. He spend his time walking up and down a grassy hill, along with about 15 other kids, kicking a ball. This has been great for Vincent and I because we can still get out and do things that we like and also have Wyatt enjoy being there too. We sometimes take out boat and dock it downtown (also free slips for I think 2 hours) and spend some time on the boat or in the river and then sometime on the grass. You can hear and see the music from the boat so it is the best of both worlds (that is if Wyatt is in a good mood:)). Here are a couple of pictures. The first is the baby pool full of lake water we have on the boat so that Wyatt does not have to put on the awful life jacket to get in the water and the 2nd picture Wyatt is kicking his ball down the hill.
I am actually just now posting about the death of our dog Thorn although she did die about 2 months ago. I am still to this day, as I know Vincent is, grieving her death. She was known to most as a mean dog but we knew her other sides. She was a true friend and to us almost human. She never threatened us, only protected us and made us feel safe. She was the best hiker, guard dog, best friend, laziest, sweetest, happiest, funniest, toughest and most beautiful dog that we had ever known. She died at around 630 in the morning in Vincent's arms. She had been having heart problems and was on around 6 or so pills a day. We knew she was dying but we just dreaded it. Her final day she ran up the stairs on the porch into her daddy's arms where she definitely felt safest and had another "episode" (we called each heart attack that) and just did not ever wake back up. It sounds stupid to many people to be so sad about her death but Vincent and I have never been sadder. She was our family and we truly feel like we still have a missing piece without her. She is just so missed.
