Letters For Andrew

  Dear Andrew,            There’s not a week — no! — there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think of you! I miss our walks and picture taking adventures and now you’re getting so grown up! The saddest part is that I’m missing it!           But I can’t change that so I won’t dwell. Dwell, used this way, just means I won’t think about it too much.           I like the snow. I like the way it makes the world look so fresh and clean, the way it crunches under my boot, and the way it sparkles like diamonds in the sunlight. This week, Mother Nature threw me a few snowflakes and I smiled.           I like springtime too! The snow didn’t stay around long and it got warm enough outside that I washed and hung our bedsheets on the clothesline. They smell so nice after the sun and the wind dried them.          ...

  Dear Andrew,           I was outside, on my kitchen patio, when I noticed that my trashcan was gone! It used to sit right here behind my screen door. Inside that trashcan was a big bag of sunflower seeds for my birdfeeders.           Who would take it? Who would want a can full of sunflower seeds?           Maybe it was a bear!            We went looking for the trashcan and found it in the neighbor’s field. That bear must’ve been strong to take it that far! And he ate almost all of the seeds too!           That night I put a trail camera up on the post to see if he comes back.           A trail camera is a camera used by hunters to see what kind of critters use the trails at night. The pictures it makes aren’t the best but you can still tell what they are. ...