From The Past: July 19, 2005

Kevin and I have joined a group on Yahoo called Bluegrass Pugs. Ever since Guido moved in, I have wanted him to have the opportunity to play with other Pugs. A few times while I was waiting outside at Ashley’s school, someone would bring their Pug out to play, but most of the time not.

This is exciting to me and I can hardly wait to see how he reacts to the other Pug boys and Pug girls. We will meet them for the first time in a few weeks at a park in Lexington.

For the past few summers, we have not seen any lightning bugs. I don’t know why, but they just didn’t come around. I remembered when I was little catching them in my hands and then watching them fly away. I always thought they were the coolest bug besides ladybugs.

This year, we have lightning bugs! If we go out back when it is getting dusky, we can see their little bodies lighting up a small pinprick of sky with green. Then, we see Guido. What is he doing? He’s chasing the lightning bugs. He is jumping up in the air because he wants to eat them and he does in fact eat them. He’s sick! He runs around quickly trying to gobble them all up. Then he’ll get one caught in his throat and gag and I’ll tell him he deserves it. He’s a sick Pug who eats lightning bugs. He needs therapy.