Now Here's a Pair to Draw to...Sid and Rocky...

Well, now you'll meet my boys! Rocky is the one on the right. He is 3 yrs old. We got his mom in the paper free and didn't know she was pregnant. She had 6 male pups. and he was the one we kept. The rest went to family and believe me when we have a reunion, we have a reunion.
He looks just like his mom and she was a fox terrier.

Then my daughter who loves puppies and never saw one she could resist got " Sid the Kid" not really sure what he is but he is full of personality. My daughter loves puppies but isn't too good with responsiblity so after a few months mom got the pee-poo-chew thing. and yes he does all that. He is a year old now so it's not quit as bad. However he knows how to get what he wants. If vern gets up before I do, then it's time for me to get up so in my face he comes. and visa-versa. I can't get him to chase a ball like a normal dog but he loves to drag sticks in through the doggy door and lay them all over the house. oh yeah and chicken feathers. So it is hard to keep the floor clean with all his treasures.

Rocky is the more mature of the two and sometimes it looks like he stands back and looks at Sid like, "whatever" but then he jumps in and starts playing so there is some puppy still left in him.
Why am I writing about my dogs? well They are a big part of my life and when your kids leave home they sort of become the kids. Vern is funny, he says we have too many dogs, but as soon as he comes in and sits in his chair they jump up in his lap and that's where they stay. As you can see from the picture. All they want is love and their food and water and give you lots of love back. What more can you ask for!

At the church retreat the thing we talked about was wheither we were autthentic or not. We run around with happy smiles and are hurting or dying inside. I did that for many years. AT age 22 I started going to church and would walk in on Sunday Morning with a big smile and when someone would ask how I was, I'd lie and say I was great. but deep down inside I wasn't. Not because of my situation because I was married and had 2 babies , but because of depression. Depression gets a hold of you and doesn't want to let you go. It tells you your worthless and nobody cares about you and the world would be better off without you. It's a struggle to stay alive everyday. That's why some depressed people stay in bed with the covers over their head.

I went for many years not knowing how anyone could see worth in me. How can those people like me when I didn't like myself. I'm not sharing this to get sympathy. But to let you know that a person doesn' t have to stay that way. It took me years to realize that GOD loved me and was shaping me into someone he could use to touch others. There is actually a scripture that says, "we go through these things so we can help others" . It's hard to understand what someone is going through unless we've been there. Like the old saying, :"walk a mile in my shoes.

They gave us a little can of play-do (which was not smart cause I started making little animal shapes instead of listening to the speaker)oops!!! The play-do represented how GOD takes us as a glob and shapes us into the person HE wants us to be. Not physically but in Charactor. I like the person I am now and I know HE is not finished with me. Now when they ask me how I am I tell them "great and if I'm not there is always tomarrow." Take care until next time. Have a great day!

What an awsome weekend. My daughter Kat invited me to a womens retreat near Santa Cruz. I left Thursday spent the night with her family and Friday morning we drove over to Scott valley. Beautiful place. It rained hard going over and a few times when we got there. But It's a wonderful place. little cabins and a creek running behind and under some of the buildings. It sure was nice to be waited on for three meals a day and not have to do dishes. wow. We had free time on Saturday and not having heard about the tsunama we drove to the beach in Santa Cruz and the waves were really ripping. Hunderds of people lined the road watching for it. And we started to walk down to the water and the Beach patrol came and told us to leave. That's when we found out what happened. There were actually two surfers out in the water. duh!!! Anyway Thank GOD it didn't do what they thought it would .So we went back and just had a great time at the camp. Wonderful staff, friendly and things couldn't have been more perfect. Thank You to my daughter for taking me. We had a great time sharing with each othe., and with all the other ladies from Kathys' church they are incredable.