{"id":39,"date":"2016-09-30T03:34:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T08:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sophiegoldendoodle.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-09-29T23:07:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T04:07:34","slug":"just-cant-seem-to-finish-our-last-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sophiegoldendoodle.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/30\/just-cant-seem-to-finish-our-last-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Just can’t seem to finish our last project"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Paint<\/a>
Paint Doors project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miss Sophie would always keep me company on my many projects wherever they happened to take place. The house, the garage, the backyard, the front yard. Not a bother, didn’t get into anything -usually- just sat quietly, she just wanted to be around. If the project spanned several areas, she would of course follow, and I of course waited for her. Held a door as needed, fixed a spot for her to sit. It was just a given. She was going to be there. If I didn’t let her know I was starting up something and maybe let her nap, she was invariably offended that I started without her. I’d come back in, an she was waiting, noticably peeved and immediately joined the venture.\u00a0I regularly had to tell her as I went out the front door, “no, I’m not going outside for anything, I just have to run to the store- I’ll be right back”.<\/p>\n

As her illness worsened, and Texas summer heated up, I found she couldn’t be outside for long, and not wanting to leave her alone, I focused on indoor projects like painting these doors, where she could be near, and watch.<\/p>\n

And I enjoyed the audience, the eyes always watching me- head rarely moving- just her eyes tracking, keeping me in view. I felt I was doing the projects with her, often for her. But this one was our last, and she passed away before I was able to finish it. I just can’t seem to get on it again. My heart’s just not in it anymore baby girl. Maybe this weekend…<\/p>\n

Here are those eyes tracking me, keeping me close:
\nSophie watching me paint<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miss Sophie would always keep me company on my many projects wherever they happened to take place. The house, the garage, the backyard, the front yard. Not a bother, didn’t get into anything -usually- just sat quietly, she just wanted to be around. If the project spanned several areas, she would of course follow, and … Continue reading “Just can’t seem to finish our last project”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,6],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grieving","category-stories","category-videos","tag-sophiegoldendoodle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiegoldendoodle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiegoldendoodle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiegoldendoodle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiegoldendoodle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiegoldendoodle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiegoldendoodle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiegoldendoodle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiegoldendoodle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiegoldendoodle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sophiegoldendoodle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}