Archive for category: Odds and Ends

Holiday Goodies!!!!!

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Our dear friend Francine brought  homemade  Rocky Road fudge to the Papillon Agility trial for us!!! On top of being out of this world yummy…. she decorated it in honor of Masher's trip to the UK for the World team event!!! And it is the shape of a butterfly!!! How cute is that????  

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Duty in Life….

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"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart." — Pearl S. Buck "Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline…too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with…something about yourself, your career, your spouse." — Dale Dauten "Nothing truly valuable arises […]

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40 somethings gone wild……

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We celebrated our friend Kate's milestone birthday at Sevilla in Long Beach after the AKC Invitational.   The restaurant is a cool little Spanish place that serves tapas and tapitas… which are appetizers.We called ahead and bought tickets for their 4:30 Flamenco Dinner and Show. We arrived and were told there was NO 4:30 show. […]

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Thought for the Day

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"The well of Providence is deep. It’s the buckets we bring to it that are small." — Mary Webb

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The verdict is in…..

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So I wore my new Enell NO BOUNCE bra today. Putting it on was intense. I couldn't breathe for the first 20 minutes. I felt like I was suiting up for battle!!! Almost super hero like. I would rename the bra tho….. and call it the Enell minimal minimal bounce bra. All in all I […]

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The Holy Grail of Bras.

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  I am hoping that I have found the Holy Grail of bras. The name seems to lead me to think so. The Enell NO BOUNCE bra!!! And it just came in the mail today. I am so excited I can hardly stand my little self. I have had the worst issues with bras. I once […]

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Opportunity

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“We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.” — Margaret Mead “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” — Francis Bacon "What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. […]

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Discover the treasures inside

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"You wander from room to roomHunting for the diamond necklaceThat is already around your neck!" — Jalal-Uddin Rumi "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." — Denis Waitley "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and […]

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From a friend that makes me smile…

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i thought of you when i read the following in this chinese book translated to english called monkey.  it's about monsters and they are exploring life and zen and the world like you are. i hatch no plot, i scheme no scheme;fame and shame are one to me,a simple life prolongs my days. 🙂

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Attitude and Perception……

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I truly try to live my life with this in mind…. but I had slipped into some kind of funk when it came to conformation shows. I met a new person at a show over a year ago and she helped me with my attitude adjustment. I have been attending more and more agility trials […]

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