Christmas Border Collie

As some of you know, my dad passed away on November 24, 2017, the day after Thanksgiving. It was quite a shock in that he had been in excellent health almost to the day he died. The funeral and reception were held the following Thursday, with the burial on Friday at the family plot at the Woodside cemetery in Westminster, Massachusetts. For that reason our blog is a bit late this month, and this entry will be short.

Olive seemed to know that something was amiss. She was very attentive to me and always there with border collie kisses and affection.

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New research has revealed an astounding bit of biblical history:

Border collies existed back more than two thousand years ago, and were used by shepherds in the Middle East to help with the sheep. As the gospels tell us, shepherds watching over their flocks came to the manger on that first Christmas night. Well, now we have proof that those shepherds had border collies with them and that at least one of those border collies was present at the birth of Jesus.

Well, how else were the shepherds going to manage all of those sheep?

With that bit of Christmas baloney, Olive and I wish all a happy holiday and a prosperous new year.