Eulogy For Molly The Dog

April 24, 2021 2 minute read

I didn’t think that the very first post I’d make under this personal section would be in memory of Molly. She went from healthy to deathly in just three weeks, between the birthday of this site and before the release of V0.03. So here I am writing the first personal post, a tribute to a very good dog.

We got Molly as a rescue in August of 2009. JoAnn and Alex picked her out; I was sandbagged the day after returning from a gig. After I reluctantly agreed to getting a dog, they had her home by the next day. The vet estimated her at 9 months old when we got her. Her papers had her name as Dolly, but JoAnn wanted a pet with moxie, so Dolly became Roxy; but she was such a sweet and self-effacing thing, that by the next week, we all agreed that she didn’t have enough moxie to be a Roxy, so Molly she became and stayed for the next 13 years.

Molly had a good dog life. She got to grow up with her boy becoming a man, swimming and tubing, hiking, camping, even snow sports. As a grand dame, she spent a year in urban Charlotte, and became comfortable with life in the big city, where she talked to everyone in the elevators and at the park. She spent her retirement years in Park City and Deer Valley, Utah, hiking many afternoons in the mountains with her family. She was even a good sport about being costumed for Halloween! She lived to be an estimated almost fourteen, and departed from us in April of 2021. I hope this gallery reminds us all of the good times we had together, and the memories she is taking along with her on the next stage of our journey.