Peanut did the above trick as though it was his thing, and not our trick. Sometimes he'd come over and just start it himself with an out reached paw.

 We are going to miss his daily duties. Every evening when Deb got home from work, Peanut would bark at her and head for the front door, come back, and nudge her leg and bark some more if she acted like she was ignoring him. After all it was now time to go "check the mail". If you wanted to go out and check for it without him.. you would have to spell-out "I am g-o-i-n-g to c-h-e-c-k the m-a-i-l". Once you "said" mail, Peanut was going to check it.

  Around here, one could not go for a walk. We had to go for a "w-a-l-k". Same with just about "going" anywhere. It became I'm going for a "r-i-d-e", and how about us going to the "l-a-k-e" today. Of course our pal always went with us. It's just you could not "say" go until you where really ready to g-o!

 Our ol friend went for his final "r-i-d-e" today.. excuse me for a little bit..
"Anyone wanna go for a walk?"