Shadow Shot Sunday!

Shadow Shot Sunday #2 - Magical Mystical Teacher + Chubskulit + Gemma Wiseman

It's gray, gray, gray again and I had to go looking for some sunshine in my photo files! I wanted to see green grass and happy geese! Enjoy your day.  Wishing you all a very Happy New Year filled with lots of laughter and love!  

Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
Vivian Komori

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay

Weekend Reflections!

Weekend Reflections is hosted by James each week beginning Friday at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time. It's another wonderful way of opening your eyes to new and different kinds of beauty. Click on the web address under the blog title and sign up to play with us!

Wishing all of you a very wonderful and Happy New Year!!

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined
make happiness
        - John Buchan

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a
little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so
often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

Sky Watch Friday!

Time to share your skies, the beauty over your world, the clouds, the colors! Sky Watch is hosted each week by  the Sky Watch team of  Sandy, Wren and me. And this week as every week, we remember Klaus and know that he joins us in spirit! Join us and the many people from all over the world who share theirs with us each week! Click on the address under the post title to be taken to the SWF website where you can sign up. 

Wishing you all a very beautiful, peaceful New Year  filled with lots of love and laughter!!

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

Have You Heard the Music Industries Latest Star???

PIANO SOLO Too funny!

Imagine you are a singer and you accompany yourself on the piano. You have a small dog who is your constant companion and who watches as you rehearse.  Got the picture? Now, imagine that you're away for a few hours, leaving the dog alone at home with the video camera on. 

Here is what happened while you were away! 

Watery Wednesday

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Allen Klein

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

Join the fun on Watery Wednesday hosted by 2sweetnsaxy!!  http://waterywednesday.blogspot.com/

I had a lot of trouble posting today for whatever reason and was unable to put the above information at the top of the page!! My apologies!!

Our World Tuesday!!

Time for "Our World" again! This is a wonderful way to find the beauty, the fun, the good and even the bad things about Our World and to share them! Hope you will join us! Click on the link  to go to the Our World site and sign up!!
http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/
As my world begins to settle down after Christmas and before I take on a new year, I spent some time looking around my world today! From my bedroom filled with golden light, to the amazing skies and a chance to see the magnificent Rainier! I happened to look up to see a plane overhead and for a moment I felt as though I was seeing my world from up in the skies! So, I'm sharing those views of my part of Our World today!

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin

When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

You change your life by changing your heart.
Max Lucado

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Wishing all of you a most beautiful and joyous  Merry Christmas!!

Hey, Guys! Hope all of you are having a great Christmas! I surely am! Don't I look terrific?  Look at all my goodies! Hugs to Bozo, wish you were here to celebrate with me!!!

Shadow Shot Sunday!

Shadow Shot Sunday #2 - Magical Mystical Teacher + Chubskulit + Gemma Wiseman

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis

Weekend Reflections

Weekend Reflections is hosted by James each week beginning Friday at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time. It's another wonderful way of opening your eyes to new and different kinds of beauty. Click on the web address under the blog title and sign up to play with us!

It's definitely winter!! And I was longing for the harbor and the ships!

Wishing you all a very beautiful, Merry Christmas with lots of love and laughter!!

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones

Sky Watch Friday!

Time to share your skies, the beauty over your world, the clouds, the colors! Sky Watch is hosted each week by  the Sky Watch team of  Sandy, Wren and me. And this week as every week, we remember Klaus and know that he joins us in spirit! Join us and the many people from all over the world who share theirs with us each week! Click on the address under the post title to be taken to the SWF website where you can sign up. 

I do hope your world, is a a world filled with love and laughter and beauty as Christmas draws near!

To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
Ayn Rand

There is no limit to the power of loving.
John Morton

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes

Watery Wednesday

Join the fun on Watery Wednesday hosted by 2sweetnsaxy!!  http://waterywednesday.blogspot.com/

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your
attitude.
Maya Angelou

Consider Holiday Inn Instead of a Nursing Home!!

No NURSING HOME FOR me!!!

  I'll be checking into a Holiday Inn!

With the average cost for a nursing home care costing $188.00 per day, there is a better way when I get old and too feeble. I've already checked on reservations at the Holiday Inn.

 For a combined long term stay discount and senior discount, it's $59.23 per night.

Breakfast is included, and some have happy hours in the afternoon.

That leaves  $128.77 a day for lunch and dinner in any restaurant I want, or room service, laundry, gratuities and special TV movies.

Plus, they provide a spa, swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge and washer-dryer, etc.

Most have free toothpaste and razors, and all have free shampoo and soap.$5 worth of tips a day you'll have the entire staff scrambling to help you.

They treat you like a customer, not a patient.

There's a city bus stop out front, and seniors ride free.

The handicap bus will also pick you up (if you fake a decent limp).

To meet other nice people, call a church bus on Sundays.

 For a change of scenery, take the airport shuttle bus and eat at one of the nice restaurants there. 

While you're at the airport, fly somewhere.  Otherwise, the cash keeps building up.

It takes months to get into decent nursing homes. Holiday Inn will take your reservation today.

And you're not stuck in one place forever -- you can move from Inn to Inn, or even from city to city.

Want to see  Hawaii?  They have Holiday Inn there too.

TV broken?  Light bulbs need changing?  Need a mattress replaced?  No problem.. They fix everything,  and apologize for the inconvenience

The Inn has a night security person and daily room service. The maid checks to see if you are ok.  If not, they'll call an ambulance . . . or the undertaker.

 If you fall and break a hip, Medicare will pay for the hip, and Holiday Inn will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.     

                         And no worries about visits from family. They will always be glad to find you, and probably check in for a few days mini-vacation.The grandkids can use the pool.  What more could I ask for?

So, now that I have reached that golden age, I'll face it with a grin.

 

AIDS WARNING!

   To all of  you approaching 50 or have REACHED 50 and past,  this  email is especially for you......

 

SENIOR  CITIZENS   ARE THE NATION'S LEADING CARRIERS OF AIDS!

HEARING  AIDS 

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WALKING AIDS  

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Not  forgetting HIV (Hair is Vanishing)

Our World Tuesday!!

Time for "Our World" again! This is a wonderful way to find the beauty, the fun, the good and even the bad things about Our World and to share them! Hope you will join us! Click on the link  to go to the Our World site and sign up!!
http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/

One of the things I love most about being a part of Our World is that each week it gives me the opportunity to realize how blessed I am to be surrounded by so much beauty and so many good things!

Well,  this hasn't been one of my better weeks, but if you take the time to look around the chances are good that you'll see something that will take your breath away or make you smile. I did and it works!! So, I thought I'd share some of it with you today.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon
the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 I actually caught this one a couple of years ago when we had an unusual amount of snow for Seattle.  This is truly a pissed off seagull! But he did then and did today -- make me smile!

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller
 

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Whatever you do, never stop dreaming.
Darren L. Johnson

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Khalil Gibran

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes

Pets Forever!

Hey guys, get up off your tush and lets go see Bozo over at his pad in Mumbai! It's always a fun time when we all get together and talk about what's been happin', Bro! You know? Get your human to click on the Post Title, that'll take them to the website where you can sign up! I'll be waiting for you!!

Hooray!! Bozo is out of the hospital! I'm so happy! I jumped up on Mom's bed!  Hope you're getting lots of  hugs and treats, too, Bozo!!

Silent Saturday

I'm just taking a day off, will be back tomorrow. Hope all of you have a wonderful weekend -- the countdown to Christmas begins!

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that
might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Andre Maurois

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes