R.I.P. Rachel

Today definitely hasn't been the best of days.

This morning, the skies looked ominous from all the grey clouds, sadly with a blue sky that was slowly fading into the distance. Luckily, the blue sky broke through. It's just too bad that good "news" kinda thing didn't last for too long.

As soon as I got into Lostwithiel, I had Richard tell me he had some bad news. My immediate thought to that was "Oh great...some grant never went through huh?". The bad news was nothing like that though. During the time I hadn't been going up there, one of his dogs, Rachel, had run out onto the railway tracks. Somehow, she survived that, which is honestly a miracle in itself. However, her spine was broken and Richard just couldn't afford to have it fixed or nothing, so it was best for her just to be put to sleep.

We had to go and pick up her body from the vets, and had a very sad burial out on the field. Richard and I dug the hole, and he went to get her from the car, crying his eyes out as he carried her up to the hole we'd dug. I ended up crying myself as we started to bury her. May not have been my dog, but I still cared about her since I'd seen her a lot during this project, and it was just sad as hell to see that she was dead and wouldn't be racing around the field anymore with her sister Poppy. I can't imagine what this is gonna be like for Poppy. She's gonna be wondering where her sister is for a while now. Will probably be looking around for her too.

This is going to be a complete worry for Richard now too. Everytime he takes Poppy out to the field now, he's gonna be worried that the same kind of thing will happen to her, and we really don't want that to happen to Poppy too. It's gonna be sad for a while to do any work out at the field because of the loss of Rachel.

Rest In Peace, Rachel. You will be sorely missed by your family, and by me too.