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A Gift From The Crow

This is Fruitycake. This time of year, I see a lot of persons getting each other gifts. I like gifts I like getting treats, my favorite veggie dental sticks and my pizza and focaccia. That reminds me. We need to get some groceries. These persons of mine are slacking.

Gifts are nice. But I suppose the thought behind them is the nicest. The best gifts are ones that come to you because someone truly loves and cares for you. The best gifts are ones that have a thought under the wrapping paper.

When we started putting seeds out for the birds here, we really didn’t expect them to eat them. Why? Ever since we got here, the birds have kept their distance. But it’s winter now. And we wanted to try again. And we are so glad we did.

Because they all came for it. The little birds and the big birds.

And the crows! Yes, the crows! They didn’t think that we saw them. But we sure did. We’ve been looking for them!

Even though we admired them, we did that from afar. We wondered if they knew we had gave them the seeds. We hoped so. Because we don’t want the birds to be scared of us. Not even me and my bark.

And we went about our day and our many chores. We put some more seeds out when they were gone. And we went to bed. This morning, when we woke up, we found a surprise for us. A gift. A dollar coin where the bird seed was. A gift from the crow.

Do we really know it was from the crow? Yes.

Unless someone walked up this mountain, ate bird seed and paid us for it. That’s more nonsense than thinking the crow left it! A gift is a gift! And how amazing is that?

We may not expect a gift. But sometimes, they can come when we least expect it, but need it the most. Like your encouragement has been to us here, we hope we bring a gift to your life. It’s been our goal for so many years to make a difference, even if things are hard for us.

You, our 2 Traveling Dogs family, have been one of the greatest gifts we have ever had the privilege to receive. Just like the crow, we leave a gift today of gratitude for all you do for us.

–Fruitycake

Thank you for asking what we need this week. We were able to get the generator working for now, but we do need to purchase parts and groceries. Any amount helps today at www.tinyurl.com/2tdnecessities