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From My Best Friend Nemo
You have heard the saying that dog is man's best friend, but do you
understand what that saying really means?
In the summer of 1996, on a rainy night after coming home from an awful day
of work as a quality engineer, I sat on my couch and started reviewing the
problems that had occurred earlier at work. I thought hard about how I was
going to correct the situation tomorrow when I returned to the job. Then I
remembered I needed to feed the dogs. I thought, "What else can happen to
me today? My day at work was a mess, and now I have to go feed the dogs
in the rain!"
I put on my raincoat, went downstairs to the basement, retrieved the dog food
and headed into the rain. I finished feeding everybody but Nemo, a 6 year old
German Shepherd. Nemo was trained as a working dog and was my right
hand.
As I stood there in the entrance to Nemo's kennel, emptied the rain water out
of his bowl, then started to fill it up with food. Nemo came out of his doghouse
like always. I didn't say a word to him; I just continued to fill the dog bowl. My
thoughts were still at work and not on what was going around me. The next
thing I knew, Nemo jumped up and pushed me down onto the wet grassy
yard. We started wrestling like two kids. I'm now covered with mud and grass.
As quickly as this wrestling match started, all of a sudden it was over. Nemo
returned to his kennel as if nothing had happened and started eating.
I'm sitting in the rain on my butt covered with mud and grass trying to
understand what had just happened. Then I realized my best friend had
sensed that something was wrong with me because I wasn't my normal
playful self. Nemo wanted to cheer me up by taking my mind off my problems.
While sitting in the rain covered with mud and grass, I realized all the
problems of the world were no big deal. For that moment in time wrestling
with Nemo, I was a kid again--just wrestling in the grass with my dog. My best
friend did it! He cheered me up.
It's said a dog can sense what its owner is feeling, and now I know it to be
true. I told Nemo thanks and gave him a pat on the head for cheering me up. I
returned to the house covered with mud and grass but feeling much better
about my day.
Thank you for all the fun times and great memories:
Rest In Peace
My Best Friend
Nemo Von Der Durham Haus 1990 - 2004
Darryl Durham Sr.
6/23/05
You have heard the saying that dog is man's best friend, but do you
understand what that saying really means?
In the summer of 1996, on a rainy night after coming home from an awful day
of work as a quality engineer, I sat on my couch and started reviewing the
problems that had occurred earlier at work. I thought hard about how I was
going to correct the situation tomorrow when I returned to the job. Then I
remembered I needed to feed the dogs. I thought, "What else can happen to
me today? My day at work was a mess, and now I have to go feed the dogs
in the rain!"
I put on my raincoat, went downstairs to the basement, retrieved the dog food
and headed into the rain. I finished feeding everybody but Nemo, a 6 year old
German Shepherd. Nemo was trained as a working dog and was my right
hand.
As I stood there in the entrance to Nemo's kennel, emptied the rain water out
of his bowl, then started to fill it up with food. Nemo came out of his doghouse
like always. I didn't say a word to him; I just continued to fill the dog bowl. My
thoughts were still at work and not on what was going around me. The next
thing I knew, Nemo jumped up and pushed me down onto the wet grassy
yard. We started wrestling like two kids. I'm now covered with mud and grass.
As quickly as this wrestling match started, all of a sudden it was over. Nemo
returned to his kennel as if nothing had happened and started eating.
I'm sitting in the rain on my butt covered with mud and grass trying to
understand what had just happened. Then I realized my best friend had
sensed that something was wrong with me because I wasn't my normal
playful self. Nemo wanted to cheer me up by taking my mind off my problems.
While sitting in the rain covered with mud and grass, I realized all the
problems of the world were no big deal. For that moment in time wrestling
with Nemo, I was a kid again--just wrestling in the grass with my dog. My best
friend did it! He cheered me up.
It's said a dog can sense what its owner is feeling, and now I know it to be
true. I told Nemo thanks and gave him a pat on the head for cheering me up. I
returned to the house covered with mud and grass but feeling much better
about my day.
Thank you for all the fun times and great memories:
Rest In Peace
My Best Friend
Nemo Von Der Durham Haus 1990 - 2004
Darryl Durham Sr.
6/23/05