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I will admit to bias but I think Fur and Feathers are pretty sweet! These two had been asleep, side by side, but when I went to grab the camera, of course they woke up! It was a chilly day and I'd brought Spike out for some extra "huggies," and Katie was curled up on the blanket in the chair. Spike will look at her and say, "Hello, Bird!" They go nose-to-beak for some smooching, too. Now, I call that pretty doggone sweet!
In light of last weeks anticipation of a milestone birthday and feeling blue in it's wake, I need to take the upper hand and plant myself firmly on the ground. I need to realize, as so many have reminded me, that age is relative and not a number. Great things await if only I leave myself open to opportunity.
1. Happiness is inward, and not outward, and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on who we are. ~Henry Van Dyke
2. Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. ~Charles Dickens
3. I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward. ~May Sarton
4. There is no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
5. It is not how old you are, but how you are old.~ Marie Dressler
6. The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.~ English Proverb
7. Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.~ Golda Meir
8. The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ~Jean Paul
9. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ~Douglas MacArthur
10. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Mark Twain
11. Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. ~Jim Fiebig
12. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? ~Satchel Paige
13. Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many ~Anonymous
Shaz, at Us Danes, tagged me for this meme, which I thought I'd already done. But after reading many of them, I realized I'd only copied the first few questions and not the rest. So, I'm going to complete the meme~!
I cannot begin to thank all of you for stopping by and leaving birthday greetings, but I sure as heck am gonna try:
My daughter took us all out to eat Sunday afternoon, so in honor of Sarge Charlie and his
Grilled Salmon
Shrimp stuffed with Crab
And the piece de resistance, caramel pecan cheesecake!
For my birthday today (yesterday since I'm having a night owl attack!), I fixed fresh green beans with bacon, my special potato salad (red potatoes, eggs, chives and bacon) and country-style pork spareribs. The green beans and spareribs simmered slowly most of the afternoon and were absolutely worth the wait (if I do say so myself!).
The Charities, figures of Greek mythology known as "the Three Graces."Please scroll down past Rockin' Woman Award for Manic Monday today. I saved it as a draft, and of course it is further down the page and I cannot figure out how to move it forward!!!
THANK YOU ALL!
The light coming through the window made the blue glass shiny; the roses are from my garden.
A new friend, Laura, tagged me with this one:
(I highly recommend "The Quotidian Mysteries" for anyone looking for a very intriguing blog!)
1. What were you doing ten years ago?
I have trouble remembering what I was doing ten minutes ago, but I can honestly say, I was getting ready to avoid my 50th birthday, er, celebrate. My kids pulled off a wonderful surprise party and my youngest and her husband treated us to a weekend in Santa Barbara.
2. What were you doing one year ago?
We listed our house for sale the first week in July so the month of June was spent preparing our home! We had a garage sale, boxed up "stuff," and all of the general things one does to prepare for the sale of a house!
3. List five snacks you enjoy.
It would be easier listing five snacks I don't enjoy! I guess my favorites are cinnamon graham crackers, kettle chips, anything with cheese or chocolate in, on or around it, and bananas (have to throw in a fruit).
4. List five songs you know all lyrics to:
This one is really hard because I started singing in choir in 6th grade; was in choir all through high school; sang in an octet as an adult, besides all the thousands of hours listening to CD's and the radio over a lifetime!
Favorites: Amazing Grace (surprise!); Be Thou My Vision; 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall (just kidding!); just about anything by the Doobies (Toulouse Street); Battle Hymn of the Republic;
The Lord's Prayer
5. List five things you'd do if you were a millionaire:
Okay, you've figured out that I'm a "Church Lady," so the obvious to me is a chunk of change to my church or missions or where I'm led to give; next, I'd pay off my children's mortgages (one needs a house!); we'd all take a "gynormous" trip to the Hawaiian islands and invest in a condo on the Princeville golf course; buy a home in Colorado, Oregon or Montana by water; help some dear friends that are in financial straits. (If this is limited to strictly $1,000,000, it would only buy a 4 bedroom tract house in Orange Co., CA!)
This is what your mouth will look like inside after you eat some of these....
Of all the sources of heat and all the possibilities, the one that bugs me most is the summer weather! I hate summer and it's vile heat!!! Okay, enough of that hobby horse. So, I choose one of nature's most unique sources of heat and discomfort, the heat emanating from hot peppers!
A big fat Happy Father's Day greeting to all you great dads who stop by on occasion. Thanks for all of the time you spend loving your kids and their moms...
1919 - 1969
He was taken too soon, this man - my dad..I only knew him through the eyes of a child,
BOOK EXCERPT - "Right You Are, and That's That"
By Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
Neuroscientists have recently shown that biases in thinking are built into the very way the brain processes information - all brains, regardless of their owner's political affiliation. In a study of people who were being monitored by magnetic resonance imaging while they were trying to process dissonant or consonant information about George Bush or John Kerry, researchers found that the reasoning areas of the brain virtually shut down when participants were confronted with dissonant information, and the emotion circuits of the brain lit up happily when consonance was restored. Researchers also showed that reading information that goes against your point of view can make you all the more convinced you are right. So there is a neurological basis for the observation that once our minds are made up, it is hard to change them.
I found this to be fascinating information! So does this mean liberalism is a mental disorder??? (Just joking!)
The Weather - The old phrase goes "Everybody talks about it but nobody does anything about it..."
We had a huge amount of water in our river (not above) a couple of years ago and the city fathers have been able to keep it rolling through the city during the summer. This year is different. We didn't have a successful snowpack in the Sierras so the water is at a low level. Also, since the Southern California and Central California water boards fight constantly over the fate of the water, on a low year it can mean the difference between a lawn or not! What's worse is that the poor farmers and ranchers have crops and livestock to worry about.
Weather is the irony of all ironies. It's pouring in New York.
I was tagged last week by Linda, at "Are We There Yet," for another meme and the object of this one is to blog “8 Random Facts About Myself”. The rules are as follows:
1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
Are you ready for a flight into boredom? Here we go
I am going to "tag" eight people I don't know very well. They are certainly under NO pressure whatsoever to participate - I just thought it would be fun to throw this to someone I don't really know in the hopes that I will!
