Small Reflections: Camera Critters - Molly Meets Roscoe and Penny

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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Camera Critters - Molly Meets Roscoe and Penny

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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." Sir Winston Churchill

11 visitors shared:

Sue said...: Awwww what a sweet series of pics! Happy weekend, and thank you for visiting my entry :); July 18, 2009 4:19 PM
Sylvia K said...: What a great bunch of doggie shots! Love them! Hope you're having a great weekend!; July 18, 2009 6:00 PM
Snap said...: Wonderful collage. Molly and the Corgi's -- fun!; July 18, 2009 7:13 PM
Vicki ~ FL said...: Great collage, as usual.; July 18, 2009 7:17 PM
Ladynred said...: Lovely collage. The dogs are gorgeous!; July 18, 2009 10:38 PM
SquirrelQueen said...: They are all just so sweet, a great group of photos.
Have a great weekend,
SQ; July 19, 2009 1:53 AM
jabblog said...: All very well-mannered dogs - lovely to see them obeying canine etiquette.; July 19, 2009 4:10 AM
Reader Wil said...: Lovely doggies! Are they all yours?; July 19, 2009 5:25 AM
Sally in WA said...: They are so cute. I like the composition of how you put the shots together. Looks nice; July 19, 2009 2:54 PM
Carletta said...: It's nice for pets to have some visitors once in awhile!
Cute shots!; July 20, 2009 8:16 PM
George said...: What a great collage of Molly and her new friends.; July 21, 2009 11:25 AM

Today I'm thankful ...

1. for the pair of season's tickets to the Pacific Chorale concerts that I won in a drawing. The first concert on Sunday evening was magnificent ;-)

2. I was home with 'L' called this morning to let me know she was going to be in the area and wanted to meet for breakfast. We had a wonderful visit and a tasty meal.

3. I had time & opportunity to REST today when I realized I wasn't feeling top-notch ... and that the Vitamin C, chicken soup, extra water and rest seemed to stave off whatever bug was trying to take hold.

4. I managed to finish creating Peace Globes and posts for each of my blogs in time to post before I went to class tonight.

5. for all those participating in today's Blog Blast for Peace: Dona Nobis Pacem.

6. for wonderful 'catch up' cell phone visits with 'C' and my sister ... both of whom are traveling in RVs with their husbands.

7. I've managed to stay 'functional' ...(if not totally healthy)... by mindfully limiting my activities the past week or so.

8. the folks (vacationing from New York) renting the house next door for a month seem friendly and have two standard poodles -- Katie, the elder white one, is standoffish but Molly likes to play with Ned, the young black male ;-)

9. I managed to visit the grocery store today so I've got fresh produce in the house again ... finally!

10. for what I learned in my first 'Fix Your Own Computer' class tonight ... and for the lessons to follow. Hopefully I'll figure out what causes my Dell 1720 laptop to crash so regularly and get it fixed ... finally ;-)

11. Service Champions checked out my furnace this morning so I can turn it on to take the 'edge off' on chilly mornings again.

12. for my DVR so I can fast- forward through commercials when I do watch televised programs ... saving about 20 minutes out of every 60 to use for other endeavors.

13. Stephen King has written and published a new book ... I'm looking forward to reading it ;-)

14. for a fun catch up phone visit with my writing buddy from Taos this morning and a beautiful warm sunny day outside as I watered my overly dry yard.

15. my sister called last night after having no cell signal for the several days.

16. to reconnect with a former student in the Jury Pool yesterday ... we had a nice chat before getting sent to a court room for Jury selection that will continue tomorrow morning at 9am. So far I'm still in the audience watching and listening ... so I guess we'll see what happens next.

17. that even though I was selected for a jury, we were released in time for me to drop by home to feed the fur-kids and still make it to my my evening Adult School class by 6pm. It was a LONG day, but I managed to stay focused until 9pm and drive home safely.

18. California courts are 'dark' on Wednesdays giving me the day off because tomorrow will be another LONG day starting with Jury Duty and ending with an Adult School class from 6-9pm again. Hopefully I'll have time to drop by home to feed the fur-kids between the two activities.

19. after coming down with the flu yesterday morning and coping with nasty symptoms throughout the night, I was able to keep a few soda crackers and a bit of chicken soup down ... then sleep this afternoon ... finally.

20. that (although not totally healthy yet) I'm feeling much improved this morning and even managed to create a Haiku Sky Watch Friday post at Sacred Ruminations using a mosaic I created last week ... though I don't know how much energy I'll have to visit blogs today because my head hurts. I'm hopeful the trial continued yesterday without me since there was an alternate juror, but no one called me back after I called in sick.

21. to be feeling MUCH better today!

FYI - My previous Gratitude Lists can be found at Happily Retired Gal, my new WordPress site. It is my intention to keep this 'Daily Gratitude List' in my sidebar indefinitely because I believe it makes sense to focus on what's right in our lives regularly. Click for:
2009 Lists - October, September, August, July, June, May, April, March, February, January
2008 Lists - December, November

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Evolution of my blogs
Late in October of 2007, I started playfully exploring possibilities here and at SacredRuminations ... the site where I joined Carla's Sacred Life Project. I published daily on both sites initially, but in mid-January of 2008 I gave myself permission to cut myself some slack & rethink things. Since committing to Blog 365 at Small Reflections, I've continued to publish daily here, but I'm thinking about alternating days and/or experimenting a bit with a variety of possibilities in an attempt to balance my online activities with my "real life" ... without giving "short shrift" to either blog. Therefore, it's all a work in progress, and I hope you'll bear with me.

In October of 2008, I celebrated my 1st Blogoversary here at Small Reflections on the 22nd & at Sacred Ruminations on the 23rd.

I completed Blog 365 in 2008 with a total of 378 posts here at Sacred Ruminations, 234 at Sacred Ruminations, 20 at BlogRolls, Bling & Blurbs, and 30 at Happily Retired Gal for a grand total of 662 ... all in 366 days!

In 2009, my sister & her husband returned to So Cal for 4 months and I had less time to blog. Even though they're on the road again, I'm finding it challenging to recapture a daily blogging habit. Click for more specifics about this.

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My Blog Blasts for Peace:
Sacred Ruminations- The Strength of Gentleness
Small Reflections-A Revolution of Music
Blog Rolls & Bling - What if? (a Colorful Alternative to Bombs)
and last June:
Thirteen Thoughts on the Topic of Peace
Peace in Every Step

My Peace Globes are below
Clicking on them will take you to the related 'Bl0g Blast' post also.
"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear .... It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson

Food for Thought

(or reminders for myself)

"it takes courage to become who you really are." e.e. cummings

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

"How you handle the situation IS the situation." Stephen Covey

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." Lao-Tzu

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James

"At mid-life more than any other time, we have renewed opportunity to create health by expressing our creativity fully." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"It is never too late to be who you might have been." George Eliot

"Things are only impossible until they're not." Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows." Ralph Waldo Emerson

More thoughts

"We have been so eager to give our children what we didn't have in life, we have neglected to give them what we did." Anyonmous

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are events in life that cannot be explained or changed. I acknowledge them, feel them, and I release the rage, guilt, loss, anger, and grief." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." Bernadette Devlin

"The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity." Edmund Burke

"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us." Virginia Woolf

"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and their unlimited imagination." James Michener

"If you think you can, or think you can't -- you're right." Henry Ford

More Thoughts ...

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do." Georgia O'Keefe

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true." Richard Bach

"Telling stories causes others to remember what they have always known." Anonymous

"Character is the bridge between our beliefs and our behavior. Character is the glue of personality, the connective tissue that makes a person whole, integrated, a person of integrity." Joan Konner, journalist

"What you choose not to look at in life, rules your life." Lynn Andrews

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"When a woman changes her life for the better, her entire family (whether or not she has children) generally benefits. She sets the tone. The well-being of the family and of society itself depends upon women becoming and remaining healthy. So we owe it to ourselves to put ourselves first and take the time we need to heal." Dr. Christiane Northrup

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Camera Critters - Molly Meets Roscoe and Penny

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