THIS

Day after day and night after night it's the same thing:

Let me out.  I gotta go, gotta go. It's urgent.   

Every. Ten. Minutes.

Why, Gracie?  Why?

True, she likes to dine on rabbit poop.  It is her hors d'oeuvre,  fill-in at meal time and dessert.  It's a late night snack and an early morning wake-up treat.  Her furry friends provide her with reason to live....  sadly...  in more ways than one.

This is just some of what I pulled from her rebellious little mouth while she protested being brought inside abruptly the other day:

Mama bunny stood confrontationally and eerily close by.   I did not get an actual photo, I was too quick to place baby back in her nest, but I found the below photo on the Internet.  This is what the baby looked like that was tossed from its nest into the yard during Gracie's bunny hunt:

This is what our naughty, defeated, bunny obsessed dog looks like being confined on a lead that stops her yards away from the bunny nest.

This.  Is no way to treat a dog.  ~ Gracie.

Note:  To my knowledge, there were no bunnies hurt in the above showdown.  When bunny nest is empty Gracie will have her freedom returned.

"Uh-Oh, Bye-Bye"

Reminiscing to October when we 'fell backwards' into short, dreary days and looked ahead to gray skies, cold temps, and a long hard winter.  

Now here we are entering into the month of March and I ask myself, 

What do you think?  Looks like one of those Wizard of Oz - Come
alive with eyes, nose and mouth trees that can talk, right?

"WHAT WINTER?"

 Typical of all days, months and years in my mid 60's...  time is racing ahead of where I wish to stay a while and savor.  Yea.  Kind, treasured days are just miniscule when speeding down the road of life and all its happenings.  Here today, gone tomorrow.

In the words of a very wise, sweet 2-yr old of days gone by, 

(yea, Summer)

"Uh Oh - Bye Bye"

Today I invited one of my customers to bring his sweet Shih Tzu in from the car so I could see him.  A sweet doggie.  But when he suggested I take the pup from his arms and hold it, sweet little guy attacked me.  I was heartbroken.  The only dog ever who did not love me.  We concluded that his recent vet visit/experience likely made him apprehensive with strangers such as myself.

"That's what ya get.  Pay more attention to your own dog and stop with trying to win over every other dog in the world and maybe things like this won't happen."  ~ Gracie

*Picture's Worth A Thousand Words*

It was a place alive 

~with Christmas lights~ decorations~ customers~ and good times~

  

There were cookies and laughter, camaraderie, and

talk of future plans.  There were goals

to be met and each day promised new hope.

  

Now it sits silent and empty.

Beautiful faces of customers lined the walls 

and work was exciting, fun and productive back then.

Now faces are torn away leaving tattered empty gray walls without purpose. 

*Goodbye Sears*