Casual Friday – 7/10/2015

On Fridays I join Aimee of Aimee Writes for Casual Friday, a post with “no structure, no prompts, no rules, anything goes.” Check out her blog here and join us in Casual Friday if you would like.

Last week I mentioned a new yellow blossom in the garden but I confessed that I did not know what it was. Turns out it yarrow. It commonly grows around here and I should have been able to identify it.  Ours had been planted in that spot 3 years ago but it had never blossomed. This year when it finally bloomed I did not recall that we had planted it and I did not recognize it.

Dogs Can Teach Us About Life – A Tuesday List of 10

Today’s edition of the Tuesday List of Ten is suggested by something near and dear to my heart, Dogs are considered to be man’s best friend. Could that be because they offer so much? This edition of the Tuesday List of 10 is:

Things Dogs Do That People Should Emulate

1. Drink lots of water.
2. Get lots of exercise to include long walks.
3. Get plenty of sleep, take a nap when needed and stretch when you get up.
4. Show your excitement and greet people with all the joy you can demonstrate.
5. Explore your environment.
6. Find out what you like in life, and then do it repeatedly.
7. Accept love. There is great satisfaction in being touched and cuddled.
8. Train the people around you and your life will be good.
9. Be loyal without judging. See and hear and know everything and be trusted to not repeat it.
10. Sometimes it is enough to just be there for someone.

I am keeping the list brief and to the point. I think no further explanation is needed.

What are other lessons that we can learn from the animals in our lives?

Happy Tuesday.

Dogs – A Words Crush Wednesday Quote

Both of my dogs have May birthdays. I am celebrating dogs this week, so I have selected a humorous quote about dogs:

I used to look at [my dog] Smokey and think, “If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,” and he’d look at me like he was saying, “If you were a little smarter, I wouldn’t have to.”

–Fred Jungclaus

On Wednesdays I participate in the Words Crush Wednesday favorite quote challenge sponsored by Lisa Tetting on her blog Rebirth of Lisa.  Check out her blog and other quotes.

Favorite Dog Quotes – A Tuesday List of Ten

I am a dog owner and a dog lover. After introducing my dogs on a Sunday post “In the Dog House”, it seems appropriate that this week’s list relates to dogs.

In this Tuesday List of Ten I choose to share my favorite quotes about dogs.

In the Dog House

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

–Unknown

I share my home with my sister Mary and two adoring, loyal fur babies of the canine ilk.

I have not properly introduced the two dogs who occupy my heart. I refer to them occasionally on my blog and I have been asked to write about them.

The living being (pet or person) who has shared my living space for the longest is Chelsey, a yellow Labrador retriever. Chelsey came to live with my husband, my daughter and me as a puppy. She was actually a gift from my husband to my daughter. My daughter had long begged to get a dog. Although both my husband and I had dogs growing up, we came from a country setting where there was a lot of space for pets. Keeping a dog in a city did not seem desirable to us although of course many people do it. But when a  friend of my husband’s decided to breed her yellow lab, my husband felt it was the opportunity to get the puppy my daughter desired. Chelsey thus joined our family.