EVERYTIME I THINK OF BELLA DRIVING THEIR TRUCK......---I JUST QUIT THINKING...HOW DID SHE GET THAT OLD?????AND HUNTER????HE LOOKS LIKE AN ADULT-- WELL ALMOST... AND EVE WITH DANCING WITH. TEH STARS?????? AND JOSH DOING GREAT NOT EVEN WITH DAISY FOR THE 6 MONTHS OLD STAGE THAT I ALWAYS THINK OF AS "WHEW... THEY MADE IT"
every time I see a photo of Josh and Daisy first I smile (a big smile) then the tears come. The joy in his face, Daisy’s pride, the places they go! It’s almost more than I can take in. It fills my heart.
As a parent I imagine the worries and fears and exhaustion of his parents. They must be so happy.
The gift of this match is enormous, it is enough. You can rest on your laurels, you have done so much good for so many. Just look at that face!
Ever grateful,
Sue
NERVOUS???? WHO ME???? YOU FOLK DON'T REALIZE HOW TERRIFIED I AM EVERY TIME I SEE THESE KIDS WALKING DOWN STAIRS FOR THE FIRST TIME.-- EVEN THO THE CHOICE TO LET THEIR KIDS DO THAT IS ULTIMATELY THE PARENTS... ...I KNOW HOW accidents can be so darn accidental..... LIKE SHOELACE MANAGEMENT.... OR....jpsh at teh beach.... you all are thinking how beautiful a smile. .. teh sun , sand, breeze. and i am thinking "did we get her trained in horseshoe crabs????" ...
PRIDE GO-ETHE BEFORE A FALL.... MOST ALL THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE OUR DOGS FALL AT SOME POINT FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.... IT IS ONE THING TO HAVE A 6'4" ---220 POUND GUY FALL... GENERALLY THEY GET UP.. BUT A KID WITH BRITTLE BONES????? I TRY AND MAKE IT VERY CLEAR TO ANYONE GETTING A DOG-- WE DON'T GUARENTEE A THING.... WE CAN POINT YOU TO A PROCESS WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE WORKED IN THE PAST... BUT ANYONE WITH ANY EXPERIENCE WITIH ANIMALS WILL TELL YOU THERE IS NO 100% WITH ANY ANIMAL-- NOR IS THERE A 100% GUARENTEE WITH PEOPLE-- AS A MATTER OF FACT I WOULD GIVE OUR DOGS 98% AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ... MAYBE 42% --
I ONCE WAS SEVERELY CRITICIZED FOR DONATING A DOG TO A MAN WITH ANGER PROBLEMS-- HE HATED PEOPLE.. BUT LOVED HIS DOG.... SOMEHOW I DID NOT THINK THAT TO BE A PROBLEM...
AND THEN THERE IS THE GUY WHO ARRIVED IN OUR OFFICE JUST HAVING SURVIVED SUICIDE BECAUSE THE KNOT IN THE ROPE DID NOT HOLD.. ONE OF OUR DOGS LITERALLY CHOSE HIM... SO. I GAMBLED.. AMID CRITICISM.. BUT HE HAS GONE ON TO PAY IT FORWARD AND NOW TRAVELS NY STATE LECTURING ON PTSD..
( AND WRITING A BOOK "KNOT TODAY" - AMAZON). SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO GO WITH IT... WHATEVER IT IS.
GOOD OLE RUDYARD
"IF YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEAD WHEN ALL ABOUT YOU
ARE LOOSING THEIRS AND BLAMINIG IT ON YOU
YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION !"
THERE IS A COFFEE MUG WITH THAT ON IT SOMEWHERE IN THIS HOUSE...
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SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW THIS STORY... ..... 100 YEARS AGO MY MOTHER PUT UP POEMS ON OUR MIRRORS EVERY WEEK TO MEMORIZE... AND IN THE HALL WAS RUDYARD KIPLING'S "IF". .. WE GOT $10 FOR MEMORIZING THAT....
THAT WAS A LOT OF MONEY BACK WHEN $10 WOULD TAKE A FAMILY OF 5 TO DINNER AT A SPAGETTI JOINT “JOE’s” ON A FRIDAY NIGHT.--
THE REST OF THAT STORY IS -----ONCE IN A WHLE MY FATHER WOUDL FORGET TO CASH A CHECK AND WANT TO BORROW MY $10 usually to go to dinner with another couple....-- SO I WOULD LOAN IT TO HIM FOR 10 CENTS A day. And hope he forgot for a few days....
********-thus was my introduction to banking.
The plastic netting is holding the chickens off the newly seeded gras area for the new puppy pen... 7 feet tall... it is nearly invisable---- no dog has run into it full tilt yet... so it may be something to consider on the long runn maybe folding it back in half? DecisionS around here must remain flexable.
You all may also know I have a mouse/rat management plastic tub.... being the expert at the setting of the rat trap..... I wait for judy to ask ( and I am told gizelle and family are back) so to get hold of judy to set in motion the setting of rat traps... her special email is sdpvisits@gmail.com
Well-----I also have a plastic tub of 50 years of hose connecdtions,, historically if we needed a short hose I bought the shortest easily available. 25 feet.... we needed about a 5 foot hose and just dragged the rest around thru whatever.... it took me30 years of collecting “fittings” to realize I had all the makings of brass quick connects to alter the size of the hose from25 feet to 5 five footers.........thus eliminating the drag component...and evenbettter eliminating the eliminated stuff it was getting dragged thru.
Also kennels 1 thru 10 - some had brass quick connects.. some plastic that almost fit and didn’t spray too much....
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seeing as the Ipswich river has been declared as one of the 10 most threatened water source in the country , spent 1 day so far making my shoulders ache from pushing those connections on the hose so our leaking dribble will do our part to save the river.
Which..... here we go..... we borrow water ????? we get it from wells... run it thru some system ( including us) and put it back in the ground somewhere not close to the wells.... and the ground sifts it back to clean?????
Very closely related to if you are at the very peak of the rocky mountains. Any “fluids” released..... will go to which ocean ....... Atlantic or pacific?
