Please indulge me in another round of this thread. If it gets a lot of action I know someone will make a Part Three.

A critter called Sugar Dog makes her first appearance in the Part One thread on this:

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=21011&messages=141

In these threads, as we got to know Sugar Dog, we also found out what is a Sugar Dog Man. And that's why I am refreshing this.

A dear Sugar Dog Man from our parish died today-- Ernie. So since I didn't get to say goodbye, I thought maybe I would just toast him here. His widow is also a sugar dog, Marguerite. She is blind and as Amos said to me today, and I paraphrase cuz I don't remember it accurately, she must be in a deeper darkness now. I said, I dunno, a sugar dog will amaze you most of the time, she's already so far ahead of me that I could not begin to imagine how she is in this, now. Strong I know, and taking her tears in their season head on, from what Hardi said after going to see her.

So-- raise a glass to Ernie and Marguerite, a love that kept two people together body and soul throughout life's infirmities, lives lived in the Lord, and a way of seeing people that has magic and joy and fun in it.

And JenEllen-- aaaahhhHHHH-ROOOOOOoooohhh!

~Susan~