What's In a Name

Sailor was first known as Light Blue because the breeders put colored yarn on their necks to tell them apart. We had known which colored yarn we wanted before we arrived at the kennels, and it wasn't until I saw Donna with the puppies did I understand that she would not pick any of the ones we had thought we would come home with. She would be coming home with the one who picked her from the very start.

On the way home from Cabot, AR we had thought maybe Oliver, Moses, or maybe Noah for all the rain we had to go through in order to get to him. We stopped at a gas station that had been closed down to get in under an overhang from the rain. However, our little light blue didn't really care that it was wet and soon he had a little mist on his fur and water dripping from his legs. Donna ruffled his head and said that he looked like a little man coming home from the sea. Her little sailor man. And, his name has stuck with him. Our little Sailor man. Our Angel Bear, our Honey Bear. Sailor Boy. We love him so.