I've not had a visit from my little Nimby but have from Earl. Earl was my first and very special boy. He was the gentlest soul.
Earl had a favorite toy. It was a grey long-haired peanut that giggled. Shortly after he left I know he came to tell us he was okay. We had been in bed about 1 hour. Nimby sleeping on the dog bed beside her daddy's side and me watching TV. I heard the peanut giggle!!! I was so shocked I got up and came down stairs. The peanut wasn't in the toy box any more but in the room where the dog bowls are in the middle of the floor and it wasn't there when we went to bed. Nimby rarely played with that toy and she was upstairs with us. And they never, ever took their toys in there. I know it was Earl that put the toy in that room on his way through to wherever he was going.
The toy is still in the toy box waiting for him to come back. And it is funny that Dante and Cordal (who will take every toy out of the toy box!) never play with that one toy.
Another time on Geniene and I were in the car driving in the county. The sky was blue, not a cloud to be seen and it hadn't rained. We were talking about Earl and Geniene said "Look mom! A rainbow! Earl has sent you a rainbow!" I will never, ever forget that.
I miss my big black golden-eyed boy.
Liz