Her eyes met mine as she walked down the corridor peering apprehensively into the kennels. I felt her need instantly and knew I had to help her. I wagged my tail, not too exuberantly, so she wouldn’t be afraid.
As she stopped at my kennel I blocked her view from a little accident I had in the back of my cage. I didn’t want her to know that I hadn’t been walked today. Sometimes the shelter keepers get too busy and I didn’t want her to think poorly of them.
As she read my kennel card I hoped that she wouldn’t feel sad about my past. I only have the future to look forward to and want to make a difference in someone’s life. She got down on her knees and made little kissy sounds at me. I shoved my shoulder and side of my head up against the bars to comfort her.
Gentle fingertips caressed my neck; she was desperate for companionship. A tear fell down her cheek and I raised my paw to assure her that all would be well.
Soon my kennel door opened and her smile was so bright that I instantly jumped into her arms. I would promise to keep her safe. I would promise to always be by her side. I would promise to do everything I could to see that radiant smile and sparkle in her eyes.
I was so fortunate that she came down my corridor. So many more are out there who haven’t walked the corridors. So many more to be saved. At least I could save one.
I rescued a human today.
Nov 14, 10:46AM PST | 12 cheers | 8 comments
It is a strange thingh to ponder, but like many things in life, the internet has answers for the curious.
It can be found here
As for me?
You Scored as Trajan
You are quite fortunate to rank as the emperor Trajan, possibly the greatest of Roman emperors. You have relentlessly expanded the empire and even humbled the mighty Parthian empire. Loved by all, vastly larger than life, you are the model for all future emperors. It is hard to find a bad thing to say about you. HAIL CAESAR!
Trajan
71%
Nov 12, 08:58AM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments
From time to time, I get to look at companies from a unique perspective… as a customer.
Not as simple as it may sound.
You see, I also get to write about it.
And in theis instance it was the required corporate greeting.
Hello!
Wonderful.
You have been greeted.
The next customer comes in.
Hello!
I am seeing a pattern here.
As the greeting was not directed, I respond back Hello!
A look of irritation ensues.
Again…
Hello!
It reminds me of a parrot.
All that is lacking is the whistle between statements and the ruffle of feathers.
Hello!
ok…
Hello!
Polly want a cracker?
Nov 09, 10:15AM PST | 0 comments
My sojourner of the Forrest lies beneath a pair of stones.
A flat one to protect him from all but G_d’s hands…
and a raised one to mark the passing of the tiny furry one that tried to give me nuts.
May G_d’s grace grant you nuts to enjoy, and may your children give mine as much pleasure as you granted me.
Go peacefully to eternity amongst your brethren.
And rest until you are called…
to gather nuts…
once again.
Oct 22, 08:23AM PDT | 3 cheers | 6 comments
A small beast, a tree dweller.
Giver of nuts.
Entertainment and a harmless creature on the whole.
I spy the dog focused over it, twitching in his tail…
Off! I command.
The dog drops and waits for his next order.
Was he the cause or merely the sentinel who alerted me to the small thing, twitching in the yard.
He crawls to put a fence post between me and himself…
Eying me with defiance.
I know that this is not normal for a squirrel.
Yet he crawls.
I cannot see if it is a leg (or worse).
Defiant.
Aggressive even.
Yet definitely not for long.
His eyes dimming before me.
Nothing I can do save grant him the dignity of death on his own terms.
I elect to leave him be.
A creature of the wild.
About to return to his maker.
The same as me…
Only the time is his rather than mine.
Oct 21, 01:02PM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments
Mr. Hippiechick DEPENDS on me to remind him of things that he is supposed to do. One of the things is to remind him when his family memebers have important days that he is supposed to remember . . .
Last year I screwed up on his Mom’s birthday. I felt awful as I truly do really really like her.
This year . . . her birthday is on October 17 (well it is every year actually), however, today, October 12, 2008, I ordered flowers to be sent to her at work on Friday afternoon , sent the e-card to be delivered to her inbox on Friday morning and have a post-it-note ready to remind me to have Mr. Hippiechick call her Friday night after dinner.
I rock!!!
Oct 13, 01:17AM PDT | 10 cheers | 9 comments
I am not naturally a gardiner…
My mother had a green arm…
Me?
I am a technician at best.
However…
There is a patch of weeds that formerly occupied some 30 feet of land space adjacent to a fence that would be the perfect location for a square foot garden the kind my lady is interested in making a feature of her home.
So…
I have been digging….
And weeding…
and laying ground cloth.
Next step will be laying stone edging and building up the raised bed she wishes.
I can’t do much these days…
But a construction project like this I can do.
I hope she likes it…
Oct 02, 12:49PM PDT | 1 comment
Getting things back to the oprder I would like them…
Drain the gasoline out of appliances and store them….
Add StaBil to the remaining supplies of fuel (good for 12 months now rather than 60 days as it is when it comes from the pumps)...
Collect and coil and store the extension cords (you know, he BIG ones that you need to run from a remote location to where you need to connect things)...
Run to the bank…
Get some supplies…
Next task… RESCREEN THE BACK DOOR!
Hooo Rah!
Sep 24, 10:57AM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments
Its amazing what six days without power will do to your perspective.
Valuable items I used to take for granted:
ICE
GASOLINE
NON-PERISHABLE FOOD
INTERNET
PHONE
Things are starting to get better, but as I am still among the 100,000 or so local households without power, this is still an extended camping trip.
Could be a LOT worse.
There is a roof.
There are walls.
There is water.
And there is life for all I hold dear.
Sep 20, 12:59PM PDT | 3 cheers | 0 comments
This is always a fun and entertaining thing to do.
It is the process by which you establish the new reality of your life…
impossible to attain, until the state has recognized the event, and Caesar has been accorded his fee…
We need…
Bureaucrats are in need of paper.
It is the diet that sustains their very existence.
Accordingly…
Drivers License from original state
Original Birth Certificate (Just in case the previous state was confused with respect to your being a legal citizen and all)
Original Social Security Card (Just like being an employee, and they say we lack a national identity card…)
Original Proof of Residency (This is always a doosy. Very hard to get one of these until you have a driver’s license. But you can’t get a driver’s license until you have one. Many people were turned away at the counter over this little detail).
I am document rich.
New fees due to budget constraints….
That’s nice.
The state is low on revenue.
This must be made up by…
People like you!
Uh huh.
My first license cost $3
This one cost twice what my last one did.
$21 out the door, and I get to have a new picture of myself.
It is official.
I can vote in this place.
I can drive.
and I can actually say…
I live here.
DMV means Department of Motor Vehicles in case you were curious
Sep 11, 12:21PM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments
