I miss you Sam!!

I miss you Sam!!
I miss you Sam!!

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Pet Pride and Mother's Day!! Hooray!!

Sam Schnauzer and I wish all of you Moms a most wonderful day! Enjoy!

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!!
Happy Mother's Day to you, Mom!! And to all the Moms who visit us! I love holidays -- people are more generous with treats then!!!

Shadow Shot Sunday!

Welcome, all, to Shadow Shot Sunday 2! 
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Friday, May 11, 2012

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!
Hope all of you are ready for a great weekend and hopefully, some lovely weather as well!!
Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
Joy Page
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Sky Watch!!

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 and I. 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!
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Lauryn Hill

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.  Juvenal

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Evening Wisdom and Beauty

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and
          the stars; you have a right to be here.  Desiderata


A Little Humor for the Day!


Sometimes you are encouraged about the future when you see something like this:
  

    Specifically, there is an annual contest at the University of Arkansas  calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.    

This year's term was:  "Political Correctness."
    The winner wrote:
    "Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end. "
 
    
AND .......
With the world the way it is today,

Would you know a Dictator if you saw one?


Could you really tell ???


Well this should help!!!


This is what a dictator looks like


 
 
 
 
 



 

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put into order. John Burroughs
All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness
    within.   Horace Friess

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.  Charles A. Lindbergh

My Inconclusive Travel Plans for 2012


I have been in many places, but I've never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can't go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone.

I've also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there.

I have, however, been in Sane. They don't have an airport, you have to be driven there. I have made several trips there, thanks to my partner, work and politicians who affect my life.

I would like to go to Conclusions, but you have to jump, and I'm not too much on physical activity anymore.

I have also been in Doubt. That is a sad place to go, and I try not to visit there too often.

I've been in Flexible, but only when it was very important to stand firm.

Sometimes I'm in Capable, and I go there more often as I'm getting older.

One of my favorite places to be is in Suspense! It really gets the adrenalin flowing and pumps up the old heart! At my age I need all the stimuli I can get!

I may have been in Continent, but I must’ve been sleeping while traveling through. It's an age thing.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Our World!!





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/ 
We have sun in Seattle -- at last!! Everything is blooming and there are gorgeous colors everywhere! The complex where I live is even overflowing with color and that is what I want to share with you today! Wishing all of you a beautiful week!

In summer, the song sings itself.
                                                                       William Carlos Williams


I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.  George
Washington Carver

The poetry of the earth is never dead.  John Keats
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.  Author Unknown
All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness
    within.
              Horace Friess       


Sunday, May 6, 2012

Evening Wisdom and Beauty

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.  John Muir

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.  Hal Borland
Nature is my medicine.  Sara Moss-Wolfe

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!!

No, No, No! It's still raining and I'm not going out!!

No, I won't mess up the floor! Where's the bathroom!! I can learn to use that!! I'm over half human!!

What Can I Say?

What Can I Say?
I'm interested in almost everything. Use to like to travel, but it's too expensive now. I take Tai Chi classes, swim, volunteer in a Jump-start program for pre-schoolers. I'm an avid reader and like nearly everyone these days I follow politics avidly. I'm a former teacher and Special Projects Coordinator for a Telecommunications company, Assistant to the President of a Japanese silicon wafer manufacturing company. Am now enjoying retirement -- most of the time. I have two daughters, one son-in-law and two sons scattered all over the country. No grandchildren.

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