Friday, November 18, 2016

Friday, November 18, 2016

Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2007. Mattie was five years old and holding a toy microphone. Microphone or no microphone, Mattie always commanded the attention of others. He just had that kind of personality!



Quote of the day: Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James

It has been an abolutely full day! It started with taking Sunny to get groomed this morning. While he was dropped off for that, I went to my monthly licensure board meeting. Which lasted SIX hours. That alone was exhausting. But then I had to jump back in the car and pick Sunny up from the groomer's. Mandy, the groomer, has fallen in love with Sunny. She says he has "bedroom eyes!" After grooming, most dogs go into daycare, but Sunny doesn't care for that large playroom environment. He prefers one on one human attention. So Mandy literally keeps Sunny with her for the entire six hours he is there. She is grooming other dogs, but she says Sunny is a peach. He watches, observes and also interacts with the other dogs waiting to be groomed. This is done without any cages, so Sunny roams around in Mandy's space. I am much happier with that arrangement. In addition, Mandy makes bandanas for dogs as well as homemade oatmeal dog bisquits. As you can see Sunny is wearing Mandy's fall leaf bandana and he has already demolished two of the bisquits she baked for him. 

Meanwhile back at home, check out Indie's strategic position.... On top of our buffet! It removes her from Sunny, yet she has a bird's eye view of our living and dining rooms!

My parent's sent Indie this new toy and we had to quickly remove it from Sunny's sight. Otherwise he would want to play with it too. Indie spent a lot of time with this toy tonight, which is wonderful, because both Sunny and Indie are VERY hands on pets. It was nice she could play by herself for a bit. 

My friends sent me these photos today while I was at my licensure board meeting. They spent several hours in Ann's garage organizing candy bins for delivery after Thanksgiving. Organizing means that bins are filled to the top with bagged sorted candy and labels are on the boxes so we know which institution they should be delivered to. 

This may look easy, but each of these bins weighs a ton. Moving one or two is hard, but moving and stacking over 60 bins and many boxes of candy is difficult to put it mildly.