Warm puppy happiness

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.” (Charles M. Schulz)

Life sometimes needs a little seasoning. (Blue Heron Farms)

Molly Malamute is grumpy today and blames me as I seemed to have kept her up a good part of the night.

After yesterday’s dutiful flu shot, I just couldn’t get comfortable. Despite what they say, flu shots always whacks me back with chills, fever, sore arm and aching. Why is it blood dawdles when samples are needed, but just poke a flu shot in my arm and blood drips everywhere?  Freaks people out. Sigh.

We tend to stay away from crowds during flu season, but after standing in line for almost 2 hours for early voting, we felt a little germy.

Join the dance? But I slept through the rehearsals (Blue Heron Farm)

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong.’ 

Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.” 

(Charles Schultz)

Easy to get in over your head in a prickly situation.(Blue Heron farms)

Are you tired of all the drama, too?

Celebrity, sport figures – even local anchors – oversharing. Please don’t tell me about your operations or mental issues during what passes as prime time news shows. Restrain yourselves. Leave a little mystery.

And for the segments where the anchor desk discusses the plots of their network’s nighttime lineup or what the show’s characters are up to…it’s imaginary – fiction – not news!

Of even less interest is the anchors, looking thrilled, reading viewers’ tweets and comments. As if I should care what those people say.

Networks trying for relevance in an age of hypersensitivity, inciting audiences for ratings, offering hysteria  – always making something out of nothing.

Remember Letterman’s “Is this anything” segments on late night? Or Leno’s “Headlines” segment?  (video) Now those were actually funny – Back when people had a sense of humor and we could all laugh at ourselves and with others.

Doesn’t take Carnac the Magnificent to figure out why audiences are turning off tv – even those wrapped in a blanket with fake flu.

A Breakfast Club is a great way to start the day. Foster dog Harriet’s puppies (Blue Heron Farms).

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, “Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?” …Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, “We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.” (Charles M. Schulz)

Talk about a snow job.(Blue Heron Farm)

But sometimes puppies will do…even if a temporary distraction.

It all started with Little Chicken who went missing….Lisa and Christian, owners of Blue Heron Farm, searched making numerous trips to the county shelter trying to find their missing dog – only to return home dejected.

“I came back one day and told Lisa, ‘We gotta get some of those dogs out of that jail,’ ” Christian says, adding, “The shelter employees and volunteers do an amazing job, but they are overwhelmed and, at the end of the day, it’s like living in a maximum-security prison.”

After first they fostered dogs, then eventually switched to pregnant dog moms and puppies.””Everybody wants adorable fluffy puppies,” Lisa says. “Plus, they don’t do well in a shelter environment because they don’t have an immune system yet.”

It was a successful move with Lisa creating adorable pictures of the pups.

Goat farmers’ land goes to the dogs as they wait permanent homes.”

You just never know what nuts are out there. Undercover squirrel trapper? (Blue Heron Farm)

At times the world is just too much with us and we need a break.

As Carnac there Magnificent said, “It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.”

So, Happiness is a Warm Puppy. Great book and great reality.

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge.

Super puppy. Saving the world is so exhausting (Blue Heron Farm)

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