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Friday, October 25, 2013

Scoop That Poop Blog Hop: I Do

Taking part in Sugar the Golden Retriever's Scoop That Poop Blog Hop! (With apologies to Dr. Seuss.)


Doo You? I Do!

I do.
I can clean up doggie's doo.
Doo you?

I can scoop it with a bag.
I can scoop it with a rag.

I can use a towel.
I can use a trowel.

I can scoop it when it rains.
I can scoop it near storm drains.

Do you scoop your doggie's doo?
If you do, then good for you!

I do not like it on my foot.
I do not like it on my boot.

I do not like it on my lawn.
I do not like it 'til it's gone.

I do not like it, though I like dogs.
I do not like it on my clogs. 

Do you scoop your doggie's doo?
If you do, then good for you!

I do not like it 'cause it stinks.
I do not like the squish, I think.
I will not clean my doggie's doo.
I will not do it! No can do!

It squishes and it stinks, it's true.
But there are products just for you!

No touch, no feel, they seal the odor.
Get on the web and place an order!

Or you can visit my friend Sugar,
To learn to scoop with nice new scoop gear.

I do not like poop on the grass.
I'll start to scoop it - no more sass!
    *you thought I was going to rhyme something else with grass didn't you...*

Do you scoop your doggie's doo?
I'm glad you do, I do too!


Posted by at 8:32 AM 9 comments

Scoop That Poop Blog Hop: I Do

Taking part in Sugar the Golden Retriever's Scoop That Poop Blog Hop! (With apologies to Dr. Seuss.)
Doo You? I Do!

I do.
I can clean up doggie's doo.
Doo you?

I can scoop it with a bag.
I can scoop it with a rag.

I can use a towel.
I can use a trowel.

I can scoop it when it rains.
I can scoop it near storm drains.

Do you scoop your doggie's doo?
If you do, then good for you!

I do not like it on my foot.
I do not like it on my boot.

I do not like it on my lawn.
I do not like it 'til it's gone.

I do not like it, though I like dogs.
I do not like it on my clogs. 

Do you scoop your doggie's doo?
If you do, then good for you!

I do not like it 'cause it stinks.
I do not like the squish, I think.
I will not clean my doggie's doo.
I will not do it! No can do!

It squishes and it stinks, it's true.
But there are products just for you!

No touch, no feel, they seal the odor.
Get on the web and place an order!

Or you can visit my friend Sugar,
To learn to scoop with nice new scoop gear.

I do not like poop on the grass.
I'll start to scoop it - no more sass!
    *you thought I was going to rhyme something else with grass didn't you...*

Do you scoop your doggie's doo?
I'm glad you do, I do too!


Posted by at 8:32 AM 10 comments

Monday, October 21, 2013

Monday Mischief: I/O Syndrome

Last night Toby contracted a most mischievous  disease during the Broncos/Colts game. This disease is some kind of psychosomatic nuisance known as I/O syndrome. Perhaps you know of it?

In/Out syndrome. In for 2 minutes, then out, then 30 seconds later back in, then...

Out please?

In, por favor?

Out?

Ahem, I'm waiting!

Out again please?
Actually he was polite about it, whining a little instead of his usual insistent bark. We never did figure out what was going on. Fortunately he's made a complete recovery today.

Do you ever suffer from I/O mischief?
Posted by at 1:17 PM 15 comments

Monday Mischief: I/O Syndrome

Last night Toby contracted a most mischievous  disease during the Broncos/Colts game. This disease is some kind of psychosomatic nuisance known as I/O syndrome. Perhaps you know of it?

 In/Out syndrome. In for 2 minutes, then out, then 30 seconds later back in, then...

Out please?

In, por favor?

Out?

Ahem, I'm waiting!

Out again please?
Actually he was polite about it, whining a little instead of his usual insistent bark. We never did figure out what was going on. Fortunately he's made a complete recovery today.

 Do you ever suffer from I/O mischief?
Posted by at 1:17 PM 15 comments

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Spooky Neighbors

Folks in Southeastern Virginia like to decorate outside their homes for every holiday. So on our walk today Toby met some new friends...

Howdy, neighbor!

Haha, that was a good one!

I can recommend a good optometrist...
But one newcomer to the neighborhood was too frightful to befriend...
Toby not only wouldn't pose with him, he barked like a scaredy cat!
BOO!
Posted by at 4:16 PM 7 comments

Spooky Neighbors

Folks in Southeastern Virginia like to decorate outside their homes for every holiday. So on our walk today Toby met some new friends...

Howdy, neighbor!

Haha, that was a good one!

I can recommend a good optometrist...
But one newcomer to the neighborhood was too frightful to befriend...
Toby not only wouldn't pose with him, he barked like a scaredy cat!
BOO!
Posted by at 4:16 PM 7 comments

Friday, October 11, 2013

See Beautiful: Memories

Note to my grownup kids: I'm restraining myself, but apologies in advance for sharing a little of your ADORABLENESS as youngsters!
Our infamous Gettysburg camping trip during the monsoon.

It all began several months ago with a paragraph in Parade magazine. A company called ScanMyPhotos.com was recommended for turning those pre-digital photos* into jpegs. This was something I'd been meaning to look into, but was afraid of the expense.


Sunny was our family dog/Houdini for 15 years. 
*Do you remember those days of buying rolls of 24 or 36 exposures? You'd take a picture now and then, spreading the roll out over a few weeks. It cost real money to develop the film - cheaper to get doubles the first time around for sharing - though you also had to pay for doubles of the fuzzy, overexposed, underexposed, or just unthinkably bad photos that went straight into the trash. Then you carefully added the prints to a photo album or the fridge. Maybe on vacation you splurged and took two rolls of film in just one week! Wheeee!

When I googled the company a link to a Groupon came up. I'd never used Groupon but getting 1000 pictures digitized for $29.99 sounded great. It took awhile but finally on July 29 the pics were boxed, numbered, counted. They spanned a period from 1992 to 2000. It was spooky putting them in the mail. Would we ever see them again?
First winter after moving back East from California...
When September came to an end I got nervous. The live chat help at ScanMyPhotos reassured me that my photos would be returned the following week. Several days later they arrived with a DVD. They were in perfect numerical order, with none missing. 

What a nostalgic trip it's been, from removing and then replacing the photographs in their albums to sorting them into iPhoto 'events'.

I believe that we are our memories. The devastating thing about watching my mother-in-law Joan's Alzheimer's disease progress was witnessing the slow, inexorable theft of her memories. Gradually I came to feel that the woman I had grown to love over 34 years was disappearing before my very eyes. 
With my grandmother Helen, many Thanksgivings ago.
Photographs give us a record of who we are, what we've done with the years, who we loved, when and why. If it's true that what we do with our time reveals what is truly of importance to us then leafing through the old pictures can illuminate the search for meaning in our lives.
This may be the only time Lauren and I played music together!
There can be regrets too. In keeping with the theme of See Beautiful I will confess one. I never felt pretty and most especially fretted constantly about my weight. "I don't like that picture," I'd say, "it makes me look too fat." Or, "No give me the camera, I hate having my picture taken." Now, looking at those old images, I wonder, was I crazy? Who did I think I was supposed to look like?


Me with Honest Abe!

If you catch yourself criticizing how you look, just stop. Don't do that to yourself! Nobody likes every picture of themselves. So what? Find what is beautiful in every picture. In thirty years, believe me, you will think you looked pretty darn good. And guess what? You do. You really do.

Disclaimer: I'm not advertising for nor being compensated by ScanMyPhotos.com. I'm just giving my opinion about my personal experience with them.
Posted by at 1:37 PM 15 comments

See Beautiful: Memories

Note to my grownup kids: I'm restraining myself, but apologies in advance for sharing a little of your ADORABLENESS as youngsters!
Our infamous Gettysburg camping trip during the monsoon.

It all began several months ago with a paragraph in Parade magazine. A company called ScanMyPhotos.com was recommended for turning those pre-digital photos* into jpegs. This was something I'd been meaning to look into, but was afraid of the expense.
Sunny was our family dog/Houdini for 15 years. 
*Do you remember those days of buying rolls of 24 or 36 exposures? You'd take a picture now and then, spreading the roll out over a few weeks. It cost real money to develop the film - cheaper to get doubles the first time around for sharing - though you also had to pay for doubles of the fuzzy, overexposed, underexposed, or just unthinkably bad photos that went straight into the trash. Then you carefully added the prints to a photo album or the fridge. Maybe on vacation you splurged and took two rolls of film in just one week! Wheeee!

 When I googled the company a link to a Groupon came up. I'd never used Groupon but getting 1000 pictures digitized for $29.99 sounded great. It took awhile but finally on July 29 the pics were boxed, numbered, counted. They spanned a period from 1992 to 2000. It was spooky putting them in the mail. Would we ever see them again?
First winter after moving back East from California...
When September came to an end I got nervous. The live chat help at ScanMyPhotos reassured me that my photos would be returned the following week. Several days later they arrived with a DVD. They were in perfect numerical order, with none missing. 

What a nostalgic trip it's been, from removing and then replacing the photographs in their albums to sorting them into iPhoto 'events'.

I believe that we are our memories. The devastating thing about watching my mother-in-law Joan's Alzheimer's disease progress was witnessing the slow, inexorable theft of her memories. Gradually I came to feel that the woman I had grown to love over 34 years was disappearing before my very eyes. 
With my grandmother Helen, many Thanksgivings ago.
Photographs give us a record of who we are, what we've done with the years, who we loved, when and why. If it's true that what we do with our time reveals what is truly of importance to us then leafing through the old pictures can illuminate the search for meaning in our lives.
This may be the only time Lauren and I played music together!
There can be regrets too. In keeping with the theme of See Beautiful I will confess one. I never felt pretty and most especially fretted constantly about my weight. "I don't like that picture," I'd say, "it makes me look too fat." Or, "No give me the camera, I hate having my picture taken." Now, looking at those old images, I wonder, was I crazy? Who did I think I was supposed to look like?
Me with Honest Abe!

 If you catch yourself criticizing how you look, just stop. Don't do that to yourself! Nobody likes every picture of themselves. So what? Find what is beautiful in every picture. In thirty years, believe me, you will think you looked pretty darn good. And guess what? You do. You really do.

 Disclaimer: I'm not advertising for nor being compensated by ScanMyPhotos.com. I'm just giving my opinion about my personal experience with them.
Posted by at 1:37 PM 16 comments

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Black and White Sunday: Fall Friends


Posted by at 11:39 AM 15 comments

Black and White Sunday: Fall Friends


Posted by at 11:39 AM 15 comments

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Out To Lunch

It's a beautiful Saturday, and we chose to spend it at the beach. After a very long walk with a couple of swims, we decided to head to a little local place with an outdoor porch. They don't mind if Toby hangs out there with us while we eat.

We've never had other canine company while there but today there were two other dogs bringing their people out to lunch!


Can you find me?
Fortunately all the dogs were friendly and well behaved. 

Sadly though Toby disgraced himself by chugging the bowl of fresh water provided by our server, then...um, divesting himself of a tummy full of salt water he sampled at the beach. Guess it's a good thing the other customers were doggie people!
Posted by at 5:17 PM 2 comments

Out To Lunch

It's a beautiful Saturday, and we chose to spend it at the beach. After a very long walk with a couple of swims, we decided to head to a little local place with an outdoor porch. They don't mind if Toby hangs out there with us while we eat.

 We've never had other canine company while there but today there were two other dogs bringing their people out to lunch!
Can you find me?
Fortunately all the dogs were friendly and well behaved. 

Sadly though Toby disgraced himself by chugging the bowl of fresh water provided by our server, then...um, divesting himself of a tummy full of salt water he sampled at the beach. Guess it's a good thing the other customers were doggie people!
Posted by at 5:17 PM 2 comments
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