Shave and a haircut - Day 215

I couldn't take it anymore.  So, I took him to a friend's house, 

and she took care of that poor little moppy face.  This is the yards and yards of fur

that was covering all his goodness.  I still think we lost at least half a dog somewhere!

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.  ~Will Rogers

I totally need a haircut! - Day 214

We love this little guy, but this fur-ball is getting ridiculous!  Totally, totally stole our hearts though.

"My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet."   ~Edith Wharton

My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am. 

Helping Daddy - Day 213

“Learn to like your work. Learn to say ‘This is my work, my glory, not my doom’”

(Stepping Stones to an Abundant Life, comp. Llewelyn R. McKay [1971], 115–16).

Coming together is a beginning.  Keeping together is progress.  Working together is success. 

Pray as though everything depended on God. 

Work as though everything depended on you. 

"Fewer and fewer parents ask their children to do chores around the house because they think they are already overwhelmed by social and academic pressures. But children devoid of responsibilities risk never learning that every individual can be of service and that life has meaning beyond their own happiness." 

H. David Burton

Pages of Love - Day 212

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes."

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."  William Shakespeare

Friendship multiplies joy and divides grief.

"A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away."

Flower Blossoms - Day 211

I know, they are so small, but they are actual flowers in my front yard!!  I am so happy to make their acquaintance!  Spring has finally shown her face in my town.  

Earth's crammed with heaven
and every common bush, afire with God.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

Purple Blossoms! - Day 210

The girls and I planted these bulbs at the end of last year.  

Look at the goodies that are coming up in my front yard!

"And the day came when the risk 

to remain tight in a bud was more painful 

than the risk it took to blossom."  Anais Nin

"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. 

We are all children of chance and none can say 

why some fields will blossom while others lay 

brown beneath the August sun."  Kent Nerburn 

Macro Friday - Yellow Joy - Day 209

Joining in for Macro Friday today with Blogging From Bolivia.

Hope to see you there!

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is
     to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone
     with the heavens, nature and God.

Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and
     that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple
     beauty of nature.  I firmly believe that nature brings solace
     in all troubles.                                                                                  - Anne Frank