What is the greatest experience of being alive, living your life. Answer to know love, the love of your creator. Simply put God created us for his pleasure. That was his master plan, and He gave us the ability to reject Him or accept Him. He gave us choice.
How often do we get all upset when we aren't chosen by, for, others to be part of their inner circle. Kind of places you in a different vantage point does not it. Here it is God created you, its written He knew us before we existed on earth. Does that mean our spirit was in existance prior to our body time here? So God knew me, and He may have spent plenty of time in anticipation of my time on earth, and when it came to it, I dissapointed Him with my antics, yet He still loves me in His crazy perfect ways. Why ? when at times I can't stand myself, He still does. His love for me is as unfathomable as the way in which He created our universe.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
fun exercise
Played Tennis tonight at the park. very first time since....high school on a real court. Wii sports does not qualify. fun, 1 hour in of true cardio!
Saturday, May 23, 2009
BIG BLUE gone...
Sold big blue today, Robbie came over, I got new batteries warantee replacement at costco 175.55 he started right up, the big strong brute , gentleman that he was. Gonna be towing a bass boat from now on, good life, better than sitting in the yard waiting for another day. End of an era fitting its on a Memorial Day weekend. no bow shoots just sittin in the front yard rusting out.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
198 and change
198 and change Hoover back home after a night in the kennel at his Doctors place. Salivary Gland laceration, with infection. no foxtail in the lung! PTL, he's a ok except his mental status of having to sleep in Oakdale one more night.
Watched biggest loser tonight, rode my bike 20 minutes, and worked the bow on each side to pass the time. why is it so hard to exercise but its so easy to internet site to site?
Bb back from UK filled stores, and guess what ms E joined her, and made a play forher bro. certainly shades of RS is you tell me so, perhaps that is why she understood him so well too.
save the naive from themselves but then again the Lord did say the meek shall inherit the earth. hmmm maybe meek and naive are different animals.
Watched biggest loser tonight, rode my bike 20 minutes, and worked the bow on each side to pass the time. why is it so hard to exercise but its so easy to internet site to site?
Bb back from UK filled stores, and guess what ms E joined her, and made a play forher bro. certainly shades of RS is you tell me so, perhaps that is why she understood him so well too.
save the naive from themselves but then again the Lord did say the meek shall inherit the earth. hmmm maybe meek and naive are different animals.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
another Vet bill
Last saturday it was a fox tail removal 240.00 and then 3 days at Loo 84.00, and now there's this kind of 2nd tongue thing I saw it as Loo lifted him off her truck, and then he was so warm, before he ran, and not really overly friendly.
Today we saw it again after he ran 6 blinds. Had a hard time eating his dinner, Loo said he didn't really eat at her place either.
Feelings are it happen when they knocked him out during fox tail removal, or he got in a fence fight at Loo's. Internet research says its a salivary mucocele, impacted salivary gland, surgery is the answer. H's tongue is blue after running, On Monday gotta get him in.
sure feel bad for him. making him run all those trainings and be sick.
Today we saw it again after he ran 6 blinds. Had a hard time eating his dinner, Loo said he didn't really eat at her place either.
Feelings are it happen when they knocked him out during fox tail removal, or he got in a fence fight at Loo's. Internet research says its a salivary mucocele, impacted salivary gland, surgery is the answer. H's tongue is blue after running, On Monday gotta get him in.
sure feel bad for him. making him run all those trainings and be sick.
Friday, May 1, 2009
San Jose Retriever Club qual
TGIF been waiting on this day to try my luck at the field trial, try my luck, geez sure wish I would of found a pile of that stuff somewhere today. Must of been all used up when we got moved down from the first spot of the day to the big 19. Ok enough of the pity party, lets, list the positive things.
Hoover got 3 days of kenneling at Lou's and 3 days of training, enough to find out he has a thing about not getting in the water, they call that being a cheat. Labrador adultery. Ok I get back on the positive wagon. He got some routine back into his life.
Today you learned more about really holding him to the sit and mark that spot, no NOT that spot but this spot. And don't you think you can fool me, I only want you to look at that spot. now do it.
He was over heated, and you didn't do anything about it before he ran, and then he ran out of steam.
He did an ok flyer mark had a bit of hunt within 10 yds of it on either side. He did a good, job on the easy memory bird. Ran at the gun and them put the angle in as he approached the gun, He didn't run to the gun and make a left 90. He showed he was thinking.
The next memory bird the long retired one, inthe bank of yellow mustard grass. There was the big mound in between that spot That Carl told Judy who told me stir em to the left of that or they will back side the gunners. Judy pulled Bella the best she thought and she still back sided the gun, So I pull him more, and I got more, more into the wrong direction. Way to Way, and h e took the line and established a hunt in nowhere near the mark and gave up, POPPED. I gave it the college try of waiting out the pop, Hoover wasn't interested. NOTE to self, Popping isn't as bad a thing in qual as it is in Master. only a minor fault. Next time, if there is one, do some feet shuffling, you know how well he takes casts with your legs try that before hitting the whistle.
I called him back in, he came tongue and sides heaving, Cal said he admired me trying to pull him as other dogs had back sided the guns, but perhaps you pulled to much. I didn't check back to see if the spine was aligned up. In fact I didn't do much besides the process Christy told me too. It was a mechanical form of dancing by the numbers, I didn't have any soul.
Talked to Dick Ellis, he said it takes to time to get soul. Dennis said he feeds on the adrendline rush this brings.
You teach and teach and when test day comes its anything goes, and see if you can survive. You need to forget the blue ribbon, or any ribbon. and just concentrate on the fundementals that got you here. Hoover forged on the matt, you felt like he was too wide, you gave him the here command and YOU didn't take steps back. Timing. comes with practice and respect. It wasn't there today.
Judges Cal Cadmus, Mike Moore
triple with go bird flyer up the middle and deep, right hand bird short, left hand bird medium with a retired gun.
land blind placed between the short bird and the flyer station.
double water blind, short land to a needle wide opening of tules into a channel up on land bird.
return long land run to water and a point, that you had to take, then over into a channel 20 yds to shore and bird
Water series:
Did I say it was raining, it was
LONG retired bird up the middle, Land, water land, water....long water, and then about 130 yds of land.
shore Left hand bird on land, small scallop piece of water better get in,
right hand bird behind some tules, guns sitting
and a flyer thrown just as you start to go for the far right bird, this flyer kind of makes it a flower pot, and its to the left to right. about 30 ft between the 2 gunner stations. All throws were square, flat/
first place JO Tripete, 2nd Dennis H Iceman 3 dog 14, 4th Judy & Bella, RJ Moon's Sister, 20, 7, 21 jams. 24 dogs started, and 11 were taken to the last series.
Hoover got 3 days of kenneling at Lou's and 3 days of training, enough to find out he has a thing about not getting in the water, they call that being a cheat. Labrador adultery. Ok I get back on the positive wagon. He got some routine back into his life.
Today you learned more about really holding him to the sit and mark that spot, no NOT that spot but this spot. And don't you think you can fool me, I only want you to look at that spot. now do it.
He was over heated, and you didn't do anything about it before he ran, and then he ran out of steam.
He did an ok flyer mark had a bit of hunt within 10 yds of it on either side. He did a good, job on the easy memory bird. Ran at the gun and them put the angle in as he approached the gun, He didn't run to the gun and make a left 90. He showed he was thinking.
The next memory bird the long retired one, inthe bank of yellow mustard grass. There was the big mound in between that spot That Carl told Judy who told me stir em to the left of that or they will back side the gunners. Judy pulled Bella the best she thought and she still back sided the gun, So I pull him more, and I got more, more into the wrong direction. Way to Way, and h e took the line and established a hunt in nowhere near the mark and gave up, POPPED. I gave it the college try of waiting out the pop, Hoover wasn't interested. NOTE to self, Popping isn't as bad a thing in qual as it is in Master. only a minor fault. Next time, if there is one, do some feet shuffling, you know how well he takes casts with your legs try that before hitting the whistle.
I called him back in, he came tongue and sides heaving, Cal said he admired me trying to pull him as other dogs had back sided the guns, but perhaps you pulled to much. I didn't check back to see if the spine was aligned up. In fact I didn't do much besides the process Christy told me too. It was a mechanical form of dancing by the numbers, I didn't have any soul.
Talked to Dick Ellis, he said it takes to time to get soul. Dennis said he feeds on the adrendline rush this brings.
You teach and teach and when test day comes its anything goes, and see if you can survive. You need to forget the blue ribbon, or any ribbon. and just concentrate on the fundementals that got you here. Hoover forged on the matt, you felt like he was too wide, you gave him the here command and YOU didn't take steps back. Timing. comes with practice and respect. It wasn't there today.
Judges Cal Cadmus, Mike Moore
triple with go bird flyer up the middle and deep, right hand bird short, left hand bird medium with a retired gun.
land blind placed between the short bird and the flyer station.
double water blind, short land to a needle wide opening of tules into a channel up on land bird.
return long land run to water and a point, that you had to take, then over into a channel 20 yds to shore and bird
Water series:
Did I say it was raining, it was
LONG retired bird up the middle, Land, water land, water....long water, and then about 130 yds of land.
shore Left hand bird on land, small scallop piece of water better get in,
right hand bird behind some tules, guns sitting
and a flyer thrown just as you start to go for the far right bird, this flyer kind of makes it a flower pot, and its to the left to right. about 30 ft between the 2 gunner stations. All throws were square, flat/
first place JO Tripete, 2nd Dennis H Iceman 3 dog 14, 4th Judy & Bella, RJ Moon's Sister, 20, 7, 21 jams. 24 dogs started, and 11 were taken to the last series.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Hoover first day of school in April
Today was the first day of school and he was assigned to Judy C. They worked together on 4 walking singles,, and a easy wide triple all guns standing.
On water his cheating ways surfaced on the go bird, and he's so fast, and not use to green monster whistle. Had to repeat the mark 3 times before he was convinced its better to enter the water than run the bank. End 4:30 pm.
Tomorrow on the Gulvins, more water work. Sure hope he buys me a souvenier t-shirt
On water his cheating ways surfaced on the go bird, and he's so fast, and not use to green monster whistle. Had to repeat the mark 3 times before he was convinced its better to enter the water than run the bank. End 4:30 pm.
Tomorrow on the Gulvins, more water work. Sure hope he buys me a souvenier t-shirt
flaming HOT topics mtg
why is it someone would say, I know this isnt following protocol, but I'm still going to bring this up in an open forum and let the chips fly cause thats what I want to do.
since when is laying open a co worker cause you aren't getting your way an excusable thing? Well thats how she opened the conversation. I could have don't the same thing, but didn't. Cause I still had my pay it forward bracelet to give away?
got to keep your cool, didn't do a very good job of not showing this got to you. now you must walk away from it, solve the problem as best you can and let it go. Forgive and not forget. All that gossiping about other people and not questioning directly, manipulating others to do her dirty work and now that you've been caught in the same cross hairs, see how uncomfortable it is? Time to take a big step back, and let her play her game by herself. Or with the popular group that will drop you like a hot potato. Prepare to be alone, until they need your support.
on to better things....the kids first day at school
since when is laying open a co worker cause you aren't getting your way an excusable thing? Well thats how she opened the conversation. I could have don't the same thing, but didn't. Cause I still had my pay it forward bracelet to give away?
got to keep your cool, didn't do a very good job of not showing this got to you. now you must walk away from it, solve the problem as best you can and let it go. Forgive and not forget. All that gossiping about other people and not questioning directly, manipulating others to do her dirty work and now that you've been caught in the same cross hairs, see how uncomfortable it is? Time to take a big step back, and let her play her game by herself. Or with the popular group that will drop you like a hot potato. Prepare to be alone, until they need your support.
on to better things....the kids first day at school
Monday, April 27, 2009
Be a wise Guy
4 he taught me and said,
"Lay hold of my words with all your heart;
keep my commands and you will live.
"Lay hold of my words with all your heart;
keep my commands and you will live.
5 Get wisdom, get understanding;
do not forget my words or swerve from them.
Sleeping in the dog house
Took Hoover training after work tonight. the wind was howling, and a wave chopped the lake. Oh its too cold to run a deep swim. Seems the trainer called and had an opening to help him be better prepared for Friday gig. and maybe a bit more for the Saturday after next friday. Felt like I'd failed having to take him there, there to advance towards next years goal. Responsbilities change how we are able to do what we want too. The kid bunking with a black wild cat named Jezzie. Hes sleeping in a kennel, no snuggling on the down comforter.
Farewell Cher
Today with a goal in mind i dressed with a purpose a thought in my heart and went to the funeral. So hard to keep my thoughts focus on one simple plan. Yet I went alone to say gee's this happened way to sudden.
It was at the Greek Orthodox Church. A beautiful fresco mural'ed room, side walls painted with solemn Saintly soldiers for the Lord. Each bearing a cross and having a golden head band.
The paster explained the purpose was not one of eulogies, other than those of blessings, but rather a celebration and prayerfest to Jesus and with the soul of the dearly departed to gain her access to the path to paradise for ever, and ever, and ever more. An fragrant incense filled the room, the path to heaven is lined with bells, deep voices singing sweet Psalms. Psalms 119 to begin with.
She was blessed with a loving spirit, she applied to all her life's work. Father John said we the folks remaining received a lesson in the true meaning of AGAPE love. As this was her special talent on loan from God. He read St Paul's letter to those in Corthan, II chapter 13, and everywhere it mentioned Love is, he replaced Love with Mother.
Mother is patient, Mother is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Mother does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7She always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
It was at the Greek Orthodox Church. A beautiful fresco mural'ed room, side walls painted with solemn Saintly soldiers for the Lord. Each bearing a cross and having a golden head band.
The paster explained the purpose was not one of eulogies, other than those of blessings, but rather a celebration and prayerfest to Jesus and with the soul of the dearly departed to gain her access to the path to paradise for ever, and ever, and ever more. An fragrant incense filled the room, the path to heaven is lined with bells, deep voices singing sweet Psalms. Psalms 119 to begin with.
She was blessed with a loving spirit, she applied to all her life's work. Father John said we the folks remaining received a lesson in the true meaning of AGAPE love. As this was her special talent on loan from God. He read St Paul's letter to those in Corthan, II chapter 13, and everywhere it mentioned Love is, he replaced Love with Mother.
Mother is patient, Mother is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Mother does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7She always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Mother never fails.
Donations in Memory welcome for Guide Dogs for the Blind, INC San Rafael CA
Sunday, April 26, 2009
A new leaf
In the beginning there was me and the mind inside that races...constantly from point to point. Not really hitting the mark, even though it knows how to strike a target dead center when it wants too. This is the initial post of many or few depending on who over comes the status of the me mind union. Today I am going to drop the Me Mind off at the feet of Jesus. Knowing that each day this must be my mission. Or the race runs as it has for so long will continue as I have allowed it to play out.
Lets call it the turning over of a new leaf.
Lean NOT on your own understandings, but in all ways TRUST GOD and HE WILL set your path straight. Prov 4:5 and six
My understandings have sent me on many different paths leading to death, pain, heartbreak, and hard work, joy, friendships, separation, freedom,
Lets call it the turning over of a new leaf.
Lean NOT on your own understandings, but in all ways TRUST GOD and HE WILL set your path straight. Prov 4:5 and six
My understandings have sent me on many different paths leading to death, pain, heartbreak, and hard work, joy, friendships, separation, freedom,
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