This Thanksgiving holiday we mourned the sudden loss of a dear friend. Chip has been with Amy and I since right after we married. While I had always professed to be a dog person, I would have chosen this blue eyed ball of fur above any of “man’s best friends”. Chip had a contagious warmness of the soul. When we would come home he would run to the door and roll over so you could scratch his belly. As our young friend Richard put it so succinctly, “He does tricks.” For thirteen years, in three houses, and through the birth of our two children he was always here for us with unwavering loyalty and friendship. Goodbye old friend, may we meet again in the ever-after. “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” -George S. Patton, Jr. “Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.” – Seneca Chip In loving memory 1993 - 2006