SOPHIE

We grow to be like our pets.

And, if we are lucky, they grow to resemble us.

Sophie Matilda of Waterford is our perfect English Bulldog.

She gardens with us; she breakfasts with us; she is as one with us.

She follows us around the house and loves to travel with us.
She loves the North.

She is more interesting probably than we are.

She doesn’t require a lot of exercise.

She sits and thinks a lot.
She is quiet, most of the time.
She doesn’t like to be scolded.
She doesn’t know how to do a lot of things.
Folks think she is…different.
She is patient.

Patience is a good thing.

As the old saying goes, “Lord, help me to be the man my dog thinks I am.”