tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61087482260261383142024-02-06T22:06:02.985-08:00Dog Blog by PeachesPeaches the Pink Party Poodle PontificatingJohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-62999213206585693752021-08-15T18:41:00.001-07:002022-02-20T15:39:34.415-08:00<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRPuNiV1KMozDSEt-XTfMGGLgvt7yLBOhE3FJp8fBrLAkJyQl85q-_lKfIX2RYtzxepUPuyXyvYq_0aq7s0SrpbDknVD_JZrOJN0MR6CQKbFDtnxyqps-7MB5iAlkX4Yhpe7Pnn6xNcXXxp3vR536fMJ_s0kyQTxjVDPgOirGKNzAXmzYHF_OQNtsU=s320" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRPuNiV1KMozDSEt-XTfMGGLgvt7yLBOhE3FJp8fBrLAkJyQl85q-_lKfIX2RYtzxepUPuyXyvYq_0aq7s0SrpbDknVD_JZrOJN0MR6CQKbFDtnxyqps-7MB5iAlkX4Yhpe7Pnn6xNcXXxp3vR536fMJ_s0kyQTxjVDPgOirGKNzAXmzYHF_OQNtsU" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Momma!</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m jumping, jumping,
jumping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wait for you but know that I
squish time.</span> One visit on top of another, nap in the middle--like dog pile. Fun time, party time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I am happy dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lick lick. I hop on you—do you feel it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lick Dad and Sister and little
Roman—although he’s not little anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I lick Sweetpea, the puppy I found for you. I lick Laffee, and Obi
Kitty. My family, my loves.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">I’m
the Pink Party Poodle for Peace. That’s my job here. Bear is the big gentle guy
who teaches the puppies how to behave. Some came here before their eyes were
open. They open them to wonderment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Take
care of business on earth. Don’t be in a hurry to join me. I love you, and this
place—green as you like, space to run like all the dogs love. Momma, the horses are here
too, Boots and Duchess. They stand together head to tail and scratch each other’s
backs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Old
friends snuggle together at night. We tell stories of time on earth, and
sometimes we help our earth families. At night—yes, we have day and night, we like sleep and awake, although we nap a lot, same as on earth. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">You
know how Bear, our Newfoundland, loved the water. I saw him this morning
giving puppies swimming lessons.</span></p><br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-6111200881463419112017-08-01T12:13:00.007-07:002023-02-13T21:53:46.151-08:00I Peaches am a Happy Dog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3">
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<span>I Peaches, am a happy dog.<br />
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I was happy on earth, I'm happy here.<br />
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My job is to help others be happy.<br />
<br />
I didn't have an easy life. I had Addison's disease, which meant my
adrenal glands were stuck on low speed. Momma treated me for most of my
10 years on the planet. The last year she gave me fluids
subcutaneously--big word, I learned it from Momma.<br />
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But, whoa, I loved going to the beach and on trips--I went on an eight
state trip once with Bear my Newfoundland house mate, and my sister,
that is Momma's daughter and her baby.<br />
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(And both Bear and I got McDonald's hamburger patties along the route, El Yuno.)<br />
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You wouldn't believe the fun we had.<br />
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We even moved to Hawaii for a year. Yep, Bear and me and the family. And
I agreed to ride in a carrier, didn't like it, but trusted that we
would arrive someplace stupendous.<br />
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In Hawaii, we met a Veterinarian who showed us where to get my
medication on the internet. And when it arrived in the mail, the
package contained a dog biscuit for me.<br />
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That's it. You must seize the day.<br />
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Dog's know it.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Our job is to teach humans how to do it.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I still dream I am sleeping with Momma, and Dad was pretty fun too.</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Here's the pup I picked out for you.<br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-72099175670371080992017-07-17T17:15:00.003-07:002022-01-09T16:09:04.918-08:00It Rains Here Too<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">It’s the sort of rain that makes the air smell like Easter, and you want to run and run, try not to trip on your tongue, fall down, let your tongue droop onto the ground, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">get up, run again.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: medium;">Momma, don’t be in a hurry to get here, you still have work to do on earth, and it is splendid on earth, just know that the other side is even more splendid.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: medium;">I see you published your book <i>A Dog, God, & Me.</i> I’m glad.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: medium;">Gabe’s glad too. Even though the book is fiction, Gabe loves that he is the hero in it when he find’s God’s book.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: medium;">Gabe plays with me every day, hips don’t hurt, and he runs just like me. Tell sister that Aske is like a sentinel watching over everything—we dogs like a job. Play is good, being useful a necessary. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: medium;">Remember</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: medium;"> when I was a puppy and too small to get on the bed? I would jump up on Gabe's back who was lying right next to you on the floor, and then I could pop right up on the bed. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: medium;">He never got on the bed and was never jealous. He lived longer on earth because he could help me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: medium;">Momma, I hope people buy your book. It’s being passed around here, and a lot of fur faces have licked it—I suppose that’s the reason the cover is so shiny. The book that it's about will show up again on earth at another time, in someone else’s hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: medium;">And since it is your conversation with God, (we call it the 'Great Spirit" here) someone else's conversation will be a different story.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">People can find it now, not in the forest, but on Amazon.com. </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-84285730357998635132017-05-18T13:00:00.002-07:002022-01-09T16:09:26.234-08:00You Know What?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I
saw John yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Well,
that John was striding along like a young buck. He carried something that
looked like a tool case, so I followed him. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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came to an area where parts of an airplane were strewn around on the ground. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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Dad. </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">John was building a gyrocopter just like he and Dad had planned.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">See,
it really is as they say as above so below, or in this case as below so above. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Just
because you are on the other side doesn’t mean you don’t have wants and dreams.
<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I’m
going over to say Hi.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He’ll
remember me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">It’ll
be noisy around here when he gets that gyrocopter going, but I won’t have to
worry that he’ll kill himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Momma,
here’ a lick for you. Love you always.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Peaches</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-5950847136138913942017-05-03T12:22:00.002-07:002022-01-09T16:10:49.741-08:00I'm in Heaven<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">I haven't blogged for awhile, but I see that you earth people have been checking in. I intended to write--dictate, whatever I am doing here. I really did, but I've been having so much fun with Silver, and Gabe and Jewell, Momma's other dogs, that time slipped away.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time is a no-thing here. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It seems like only a second ago, Momma, that I was in your arms, and it will only be a second for me--longer for you--until I lick your face again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What fun we will have. And you won't have to give me intravenous fluids daily as you did on earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm well, happy, and running like a year-old pup.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm not rushing you to leave your earthly existence, mind you, just telling you that heaven is heaven, and not to worry, and that life is indeed eternal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I know. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Love,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Peaches</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"A miracle is a shift from fear to love."</i> A quote from a friend Marianne Williamson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">P.S. I'm watching over Sweetpea for you.</span><br />
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-80616430883048949682015-08-28T14:25:00.003-07:002022-01-09T16:13:07.873-08:00I found Mom a Puppy<span style="font-size: medium;">We did it, Mom and I.<br />
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We found a pup.<br />
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On Tuesday morning, her day off, Momma woke up missing Bear and me, so she checked on the Internet and found a couple of Poodle cross puppies in the Portland vicinity. She called one puppy owner and made an appointment. "I will call you from Wilsonville," Momma said, "That will give you about 40 minutes to meet me." (The owner had agreed to meet close by the airport, as she lived in Vancouver across the Columbia river.<br />
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This is beginning to sound like a drug deal. It isn't though, all legal.<br />
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Momma hopped in the car and took off up I-5.<br />
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At the Wilsonville exit Momma had the thought--there's a pet store in Wilsonville, and since I'm here I might as well check it out.<br />
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Vola'. There was her pup.<br />
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Guess who gave her the thought.<br />
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A pup. a purse pup, smaller than she had imagined, but perfect. A <i>Mal-Chi</i>. Part Matise, part Chihauhau. <br />
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I knew Mom would love her.<br />
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Hi everybody. My name is Sweet Pea, and I have a brother now, a Coon Hound, floppy ears, makes a God-awful braying sound. Is adorable. I love him.<br />
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Momma, get a picture!</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-40952849394530397022015-08-12T11:21:00.002-07:002022-01-09T16:11:34.948-08:00All Dogs Go to Heaven<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve been
going with momma to look at puppies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m no
longer of this world. I crossed over, peacefully in Momma’s arms on the front
steps listening to the birds chirping. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was on July
8 ten days before my tenth birthday. Bear, my Newfoundland roommate passed two
weeks before me. He’s cool. I’m cool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now I’m
encouraging momma to get a puppy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The trouble
is we haven’t found many.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I see dogs
all over the place, but then I’m in heaven with Bear, and other dogs momma has
loved. You see, you don’t really lose us. We’re here. We watch you. I tell
Daddy to get his butt out for a walk with Momma so I can walk down the sidewalk
as we used to. (Go to the forest. I love the forest.) I will look out for you. That’s my job. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For the last
nine years I had been treated for Addison’s disease—a condition , not a
disease. My adrenals were not operating properly, thus I required medication.
My pills (cream cheese made them yummy) kept me going and happy all those
years. Hey I traveled with Momma and sister and Bear and Baby Darling on a road
trip across eight states. I slept on Hotel beds. Bear and I stayed in a van in
the shade while Momma and Sister went to Disneyland. At night I slept with
Momma. I flew in an airplane to Hawaii and back. I had a good life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thing that happened after I passed was that Momma received a card from OSU
Veterinary School saying that my Vet had donated to the school in my honor. How
cool is that?!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Momma misses
me, but I will find the perfect next dog for her. Hey, in might even be me in a
new body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The people
in this house and me have discovered a strange phenomenon—I learned that word
from Momma—there are few dogs available for adoption. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh there are
purebreds with prices of $2,000, or $1500, or $600 even. I wasn’t cheap. It is
strange though, that the City Pound, and the shelters have few dogs. (Pit bulls
end up there a lot.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now I don’t
want any dog to be homeless, terrible terrible, people are our pack. We might be one
dog to you, but to us you are our whole world. It just appears that people have
become control freaks in their effort to control dog population. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It appears
that the powers that be have tightened the laws so tight that the only mixed
breeds available are designer dogs made so by breeders. They are trying to mix
the breeds to strengthen the gene pool. Purebreds have developed some
problems—as I did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was a
great dog, a purebred, a poodle, don’t get me wrong. I loved and was loved. I
just had a condition, and for the last year I was stuck daily to give me
subcutaneous fluids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The rules
imposed on people wanting to adopt a dog are as stringent as buying a house. Applications. "How much money are you going to
spend on your dog???" Geesch. Whatever it takes. The dog must be neutered, given
shots and micro- chipped. (I had to be micro- chipped to go to Hawaii. I didn’t
complain. It was wise.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m not a
control freak. I’m a happy dog. Happy happy happy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lighten up
folks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I will talk
more here on this site…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Love,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I can’t believe it. The world is my smell feast.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mom was telling me about dog’s noses. Of course, I know about
smelling, and cute dog noses, but she learned some <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">facts</i>. Human’s like facts. We dogs like to smell.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Okay, here’s the story:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One drug-sniffing dog found 35 pounds of marijuana submerged
in gasoline within a gas tank. Another dog insisted that there was melanoma on
a person’s skin after the doctor declared the person cancer-free. Guess
what a biopsy confirmed. Dog right, doctor wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How do we do it?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">While you, dear humans, can smell a teaspoon of sugar in a
cup of coffee, we dogs—that’s me—can detect a spoonful of sugar in water the
size of two Olympic sized swimming pools.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To put it another way if you delightful, wonderful, but
smelling impaired humans can see one third of a mile, we darling stupendous dogs
could see three thousand miles. It’s an analogy, we can’t see that far,
actually our eye-sight isn’t as good as yours, it’s the smelling I’m talking
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Researchers, that’s those smart humans who like facts, say
that a dog’s smelling ability is 10,000 to 100,000 times better than a human’s.
Gosh you poor humans, how do you function in the world? We dogs smell in each
nostril independently, and move our heads back and forth to tell which
direction the scent is coming from. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
I heard that humans can’t wiggle each nostril independently. Dog’s can. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mom is surprised that I can’t find a hotel room we left a few
minutes earlier. Maybe it’s because I didn’t know she wanted me to find it. I
know a bloodhound would have no trouble. He can follow footprints. Now, how
many molecules fall off the bottom of a shoe? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to follow a specific shoe scent when the
ground is littered with other smells, what a feat. A bloodhound’s big floppy
ears help him, too, they fan odors up into his nose. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When you humans exhale, air goes out the same way it came in.
With dogs it goes out the slits in the sides of the nose, and that helps usher
in new scent. Also a part of inhaled air is shuttled up into special smelling
glands that help us identify molecules, while another portion of the air goes
directly into the lungs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That way we can smell continuously.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">No wonder my dear dog friend Gabe fainted when sprayed in the
face by a skunk.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Talk about overwhelm.<o:p></o:p></span></span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-75412770311441835872013-12-01T14:02:00.002-08:002022-01-09T15:19:01.061-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">Momma gets to keep her hens. The rooster has a new home, free range, they call it, except all the chickens go into their house at night. Raccoon prowl, not if Bear, my house mate, was there. He would tell them a thing or two. He is big. Not me, I wouldn't tangle with a raccoon. Squirrels are more my size, and they don't have hands.<br />
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I'm stuffed on turkey. You wouldn't believe the smells that wafted through the house last Thursday, they kept me salivating for three days. <br />
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Live long, prosper, keep the faith--what does that mean? Whatever you want it to, to not give up, to aim for happiness, to believe in the goodness of life and all the creatures, to follow you dreams, your bliss, and your dog--he/she will not steer you wrong.<br />
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Bye bye, see ya later.</span><br />
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<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-83845518864081856032013-11-23T14:15:00.004-08:002023-01-20T16:50:18.921-08:00Hello again<br />
<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's me, Peaches the supporter for Mom who has been upset over her chickens. A neighbor complained, and she may not get to keep them. Chickens are all right I guess. I like egg yolks--cooked of course. The whites? Yuck! Scrambled eggs are yummy if you mix them up really good.</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'm curious to see if mom gets to keep her chickens. You hear about backyard chickens a lot, and you would think, this being a rather rural community, that chickens would be allowed, but it appears that the city has an ordinance against them. We didn't intend to get a rooster, sorry, but the hens, they ought to stay. </span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Have you seen the little chicken house? It's not offensive.</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Kitchen window view--I saw it once when momma gave me a bath in the sink. Yuck.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Look at this, maybe someday...Wow!</span></span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">P.S. A lady not far away has agreed to see if the rooster will fit into her flock. Crossed paws!</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-52006525152871916292013-11-14T13:12:00.000-08:002015-08-12T11:02:56.746-07:00A Champion of the Animals<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Life is a great big canvas <span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;">and you should <span style="color: lime;">throw <span style="background-color: white;">all
the paint on it</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> you can. --Danny Kaye</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I Peaches am dog, and an anonymous somebody, kind soul that they were, said they
were happy I’m<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>back blogging, so, I owe
it to them to post, to pontificate, to spread my word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We watched a video last night called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dolphins. </i>Did you know that they are the only animals besides
people who call each other by name? And they name themselves—something people
do not do on a regular basis. Oh, I know a few people who do. Little Boy Darling
is Meowy right now, sometimes Meowy is a cat, other times he something else.
Last night he was a spider. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here I am. I choose to come into this life-time as a
poodle dog, and I am colored like a peach, so that fits. I do have a chronic
condition. I don’t know if I knew that when I decided to enter this cute little
body, but we manage. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I choose Momma to
help me. She and Daughter Dear give me fluids every night. I’ve been stuck with
a needle more times than<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Momma washes
dishes, and here I am with a voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe I ought to champion the cause of animals…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I think I could turn
and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;<br />
I stand and look at them long and long.<br />
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;<br />
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;<br />
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;<br />
Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things;<br />
Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some animals are wild—like the dolphins, and people ought to
see that they are protected from fishing nets , and that their ocean stays
pure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some are wild like the horse, and
they ought not to be sold for dog<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>food,
Ugg, Never will my lips touch horse meat. And then there are many many other
wild things, the wild pigs of Hawaii, the mongooses, and here in Oregon there
is a symphony of the wild in the forests. Love, love, love it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And dogs? Well, we love humans, and cars and soft beds, and
while I used to chase the lizards of California, I do not see many here in Oregon. Chasing a frog?
Naugh, why bother. Occasionally a stranger cat will wander into our yard—now that’s
fun.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><o:p>Here is a success story:</o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>Amazing Grace at rescue facility:</o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>Amazing Grace at Parelli Summit:</o:p></span><br />
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-31957579126772774942013-11-01T14:17:00.004-07:002023-01-20T16:52:11.287-08:00I'm Back--Still Meditating<br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Momma told me that bloggers who don’t post regularly are
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Me? Forgotten!</span><br />
<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I can’t let that happen.</span><br />
<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I am Peaches, the Pink Party Poodle for Peace. I have to
speak my word. I would have spoken earlier but my secretary has been asleep at
the switch, and I’ve been asleep on the bed—or in the bookcase. Meditating that
is.</span></span></div>
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more. Don’t stress out. Go with Mom in the truck--my favorite most activity of
the day. Except that yesterday I had a bath first, and I jumped into the truck sopping
wet. The car heater dried me, and then I rode with the wind, listened to
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-40851082884535322062013-06-26T17:32:00.002-07:002023-01-20T16:57:20.844-08:00Peaches' Picks<span style="font-size: medium;">I feel comfortable here now. For awhile I was sad, so sad if mom left in the car without me. After being with her in the truck for four days, going into hotels together, staying in a hotel once we arrived in Eugene, and even staying with Auntie Lisa, for awhile, I believed my place was beside mom. <br />
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Oh, it's when she is gone and the car isn't running. Now I get it. <br />
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Okay, I will stay at home sometimes, but only if I have to.<br />
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I've been pinteresting with the other pinners. Here are some of my favorites:<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">When Mom first got me she had a Rottweiler named Gabe and he laid beside the bed, a foot stool so I could get on the bed. Mom said he lived longer because he had a good job.</span></div>
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but Bear and I settled into the truck, with a cat crawling over us, and Little
Boy Darling strapped into his car seat beside Bear and we made it from
California to Oregon—took us four days. Hotels are fun. We sniff for evidence
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the truck I can nestle down between Daughter Dear, lay my head on Mom’s thigh,
and the world slips by until a McDonald’s sign flashes past my vision and I
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got this information from Jean Huston's book, <i>Mystical Dogs.</i></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in the world today? By any economic or populist standard it is the various
Disney Worlds where archetypal animals – Mickey the Mouse, Donald the Duck,
Goofy the dog – are there to greet us and bring us home again to a land of
wonder and enchantment. The creators of Disneyland and Disney World may not
know it, but they have presented us with modern Platonic forms, and in their
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #1f497d; font-size: 11.5pt;">I once had a conversation at Disneyland in
California with a man who every day and for some time had worn the Mickey Mouse
costume. He had divested himself of costume and mask, and now was permitted to
talk. I asked him what it was like being Mickey Mouse month after month, and he
told me something very strange. He said that sometimes when he looked into the
eyes of wonder of some little child, he felt that he was the great Mouse and
that he also was the essence of the heart and spirit and knowledge of all
animals. Then the parent of the child would tell him to pose for the camera and
it would be gone. But for a moment, he had known the magic and the mystery that
indigenous people know when playing in their totemic incarnation.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-61019640810843413262012-10-18T11:54:00.000-07:002015-08-12T11:00:25.163-07:00"Grandma's Soup"<br />
Mom and I spent the day in bed--no not the day, the afternoon. I was feeling
punk, and had been hopping around on three legs. It was the front leg, don’t
know why, it is usually my hind leg that acts up. The whole idea of food and
water turned my stomach. I did lick water off Mom’s finger though. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<o:p> </o:p>As I said Mom and I spent the afternoon in bed.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<o:p> </o:p>Mom read, that is between sneezing fits. I slept when she wasn’t waking me
with all that sneezing—she called it a head cold.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<o:p> </o:p>That night I got my appetite back, and gobbled up some “Grandma’s Soup.” Wow!
How good was that! I’ve been on a bland diet, (I’m not supposed to have fat—that’s
a bummer.) That soup, though, fixed me up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grandma’s soup is a recipe from Mom’s
mother-in-law. It’s tomato based, has hamburger, onion, celery, carrots, and a
secret ingredient, PIZZA SAUCE. El Yum-o.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<o:p> </o:p>I drank water, and I’m feeling much better, thank you.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<o:p> </o:p>I even went out in the car with Mom yesterday. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<o:p> </o:p>Things are looking up.<o:p></o:p><br />
<br />Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-58664270968783680232012-08-19T11:47:00.002-07:002023-01-20T16:25:59.943-08:00Optimism<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I heard Mom reading to Fuzzy Fur Face, that is Dad, that California—where we live—in the most optimistic place on earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That isn’t to insult any other place; it is just one man (Derek Siver’s) opinion. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Momma and I were walking down the street of Burbank California and met a young woman such as Siver's describes. She was the sort of person that makes you think of champagne--where bubbles tickle your nose. She offered to help, but we didn't hear from her again. Although maybe just meeting her was enough to make us believe anything is possible…and maybe meeting us gave her courage to live her dream. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Maybe.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-49906118762309905752012-08-06T19:39:00.003-07:002023-01-20T16:24:38.557-08:00Don't Worry!<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I Peaches, Party Poodle for Peace, am a happy dog. Don’t worry about the future. Future will take care of itself. Many people don’t know how to be happy, don’t roll in grass, don’t know how to dig for moles and come to house with nose stacked with dirt. Don’t know how to give high-pitched happy bark in greeting, or how to give low bark than tells owner, “Check this out.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I have a job that makes me happy. I look after my people and the house. I go for rides and walks with family. I keep lizards away from the door. I keep Obi Kitty away from my food dish too—cats are so sneaky. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="color: #990000;">An aside from Mom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little Peaches has Addison’s Disease which is not a disease, but a condition. It means her adrenal glands are not working properly. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="color: #990000;">Peaches lives with her chronic health condition. We take care of her, we give her medication, she maintains. She goes about her life in a positive way. If she feels poorly we give her more subcutaneous fluid. She makes a contribution to life. I love her, she loves me, and she pontificates on her blog…<o:p></o:p></span></i></span><br />
<o:p></o:p>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-67805255504176895422012-07-27T12:40:00.000-07:002012-07-27T12:40:21.219-07:00Who Eats Carrots?<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I, Peaches, am sharing information. It is second handed, but Mom told me, and I trust Mom to tell the truth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asked me who eats carrots, and I immediately remembered that horses loooove carrots. Not me, I don’t like carrots. Rabbits do. Rodents do, but polar bears? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes they do.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I wouldn’t have believed it unless Mom saw it with her own two eyes. I didn’t see a polar bear for Mom won’t take me to the Zoo. Don’t know why, just think of all the things I could chase, come to think of it maybe that’s the reason she won’t take me. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Okay, my family stood outside the polar bear area, watching through the glassed-in enclosure, and low and behold, one polar bear had a basket of carrots, and she was pulling them out and munching away on them—not just using like dog raw-hide chewer, but eating them.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The San Diego Zoo has introduced another astounding thing, and that is the pairing of dogs with cheetahs and dogs with wolves. That is one cheetah and one dog. The dog and cheetah are born about the same time. They grow up together, and are Best Buds. They play together, live together, eat together. They take walks together around the Zoo with a keeper. They go on Ambassador Trips, and the dog sets the tone for the wild one. When the dog is relaxed so is the wild one. And we know dogs looove people. I do. I looove my person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">News from me,<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peaches<o:p></o:p></span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-82607908451907807262012-07-09T13:20:00.004-07:002012-07-11T11:50:30.217-07:00Live like someone left the gate open<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKFxdwbsQ9EzETR1a2EVZoAMYSyhqIsGuFAaRJoXoTAAa-4JrwYqH3bfXJcxeWsJfpySuu4Mnnih7xhdd9nVpau45PsxY9ELHVKladLqP8OFs62j8WNHSGs6pqsqFhCUiTAZpoyQE-hg/s1600/Live+like+someone+left+the+gate+open.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKFxdwbsQ9EzETR1a2EVZoAMYSyhqIsGuFAaRJoXoTAAa-4JrwYqH3bfXJcxeWsJfpySuu4Mnnih7xhdd9nVpau45PsxY9ELHVKladLqP8OFs62j8WNHSGs6pqsqFhCUiTAZpoyQE-hg/s400/Live+like+someone+left+the+gate+open.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I Peaches am a happy dog, all dogs are happy unless something terrible happens in which case we are sad dogs. Existential, don’t you think? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Existential—a word I learned from mom, fancy word for being in the moment. Dogs know that—don’t have to be taught. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joy is lying in the sunshine, chasing lizards. You know what? A squirrel sat right outside the patio door the other day teasing me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I yapped my head off until Mom let me out, and then I gave that squirrel a run for her money. I didn’t want to catch the squirrel (well maybe), but the chase gave me goosebumps for half a day.…until a lizard came along, then I started all over again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">“What happened while we were gone Peaches? Sorry I had to leave you, but it was 107 degrees in Las Vegas.”</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">I know Mom, I forgive you. You might think I lay around and slept, but you see, this happened: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was skulking through the garden when I came upon a rodent bigger than a house. It had teeth the size of a T-Rex’s and slobber dripped—it was disgusting. Well, do you think I was scared?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yep, I was, so I called Bear. Now Bear is big. Bear’s a Newfoundland, and they are big, but that rodent was bigger. Maybe it was a T-Rex. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">It was red and yellow, and its eyes shone even in the daytime.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Bear and I hid behind the rose bush and planned what we could do about this invader monster rodent. We couldn’t let it wander around the property, it would scare you when you got home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Did I tell you steam spouted from its nostrils? And it was bigger than Big Rock Candy Mountain across the road?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Bear and I hatched a plan, we would sneak up behind it at night while it was sleeping. We would tie a rope around its feet, and hook it to the truck. When Dad drove away—bye bye monster rodent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Our paws really can’t tie a rope, but we can bark. So we barked as loud as we could. We even barked into a garbage can which made our voices sound like 100 dogs. And you know what? That rodent ran right over the fence into the next yard. Now neighbor dogs have big hairy monster.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yep, that’s what we did while you were gone.</span> </span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-89634958641600398312012-06-16T12:28:00.005-07:002012-06-16T12:38:00.703-07:00The Visit with Breeze<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rats, Mom left me at home when Daughter Darling, Little Boy Darling, and she visited Breeze. She said the car would be too hot for me. Sounds lame as the car always feels good. Mom knows best though. She is always looking out for me. I look out for her too.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">After her surgery she will be good as new.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had surgery once too, and after that I was better than new—maybe that’s how Breeze will be. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">One funny thing, Eric the turkey, followed Monika and Mom and Daughter Darling and Little Boy Darling all around the farm. Mom thought she had a picture of Eric, but somehow it didn't appear. Eric's tail was unfurled during the walk around the farm, and when he waved in under Nitro's nose, (former racehorse) he grabbed Eric’s tail feathers in his teeth. Eric squawked, but did he move his tail? No. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shake head at turkey.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKMAanhR6ezsSeNU6zE6aF2NT87QxRSFhZB5xhFLn7jR23ZK-fi0sqEsLVHDQkq3K7r9hl1rwphtSyw7oWAJpoUu01FFpkuOKfssNVi0bWkLnRd5KENqYRhqw3Srs0JZgRllyMDJdBbio/s1600/052.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKMAanhR6ezsSeNU6zE6aF2NT87QxRSFhZB5xhFLn7jR23ZK-fi0sqEsLVHDQkq3K7r9hl1rwphtSyw7oWAJpoUu01FFpkuOKfssNVi0bWkLnRd5KENqYRhqw3Srs0JZgRllyMDJdBbio/s320/052.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-71321731793543890172012-06-08T12:23:00.000-07:002012-06-08T12:23:34.649-07:00Whatever<span style="font-size: x-small;">I Peaches am cool dog. I love riding in the car--if the car is leaving I ought to be in it. If not--so sad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I try to walk with my people in the grapefruit orchard, but there are so many burrs that they stackup on the hair between my toes. Yesterday I stood stuck to the ground until Mom rescued me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I'm on <em>Pinterest </em>with Mom now--have my own board, and added a couple of pictures I think are cool--would you believe a dog sleeping in a child's seat belt--so funny, but then dog won't fall on the floor, bump chin as I have done when car jerks to a stop. Hey, I just thought, I could probably have my own <em>Pinterest</em>. Hum, consider the possibilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Monday we are going to visit <em>Villa Chardonnay,</em> the Horse Santuary<em>--</em>hope we will see Breeze the horse who needs surgery--or maybe she's already in the hospital. If she needs surgery they better hop to it. Anyway I will post pictures if I can get any.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Thanks for the visit.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Peaches</span>Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13722269142574437763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108748226026138314.post-7098065568377244922012-05-30T13:50:00.002-07:002022-01-09T16:06:52.184-08:00A Horse Named Breeze<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixWff-5biqKOzPG-8JGis6fnPba2r6ldXf8dTodm2IX_X7hIaw4e0VJq8pApdIDVfGZJSyxmXlsPXfqWC0VezFVLcgRB-y_72SMThHghXokuX2zagp7u9WZqlHvqQ4YKqydIMH6zB4WBw/s1600/Jessica+yard-19_2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixWff-5biqKOzPG-8JGis6fnPba2r6ldXf8dTodm2IX_X7hIaw4e0VJq8pApdIDVfGZJSyxmXlsPXfqWC0VezFVLcgRB-y_72SMThHghXokuX2zagp7u9WZqlHvqQ4YKqydIMH6zB4WBw/s1600/Jessica+yard-19_2.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">That's not a horse, that's me waiting anxiously while Mom, Daughter Darling and Baby Darling stopped at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Starbucks</i> for an Arnold Palmer. You know what an Arnold Palmer is? Iced tea and lemonade. Yuck! Doesn’t taste as good as frozen yogurt.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They came out talking about an ad on the wall. A local restaurant, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hana Sushi, </i>is giving some of their profits to help a horse named Breeze </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">have surgery. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Beautiful Breeze has a tumor on her ovary, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Villa Chardonnay, Horses with Wings, Sanctuary</i> is going to see that she gets well, but they are asking for help.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Breeze—isn’t that a pretty name? She’s a pretty horse too, I saw her picture. Mom would post one for me, but couldn’t grab it off <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Villa Chardonnay Horse Rescue’s</i> site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Villa Chardonnay</i> is not called Chardonnay after a wine, but after a horse named Chardonnay. She was the first horse they rescued in California. She had a bad foot and her owners were going to sell her for $400.00 for slaughter. Villa Chardonnay saved her, X-rayed her foot and found it to be fractured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> She lives with them still, and has had some beautiful babies. Her foot seems okay, she was young and growing when they got her, had glucosamine supplements, but no surgery, and now she is even rideable, but they do not do that much. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You guessed it, the next day my family, without me, ate sushi at Hana Sushi where 30% of the proceeds that night went for Breeze.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got some left-over Teriyaki chicken though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yum—even better than frozen yogurt.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I, Peaches am Existential dog. When I’m happy I’m happy, when I’m sad, I’m sad, and when I feel sick—that sucks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Today I felt like running and going places and Mom took me to the Duck Pond—prevented me for chasing a rabbit though—how frustrating. I forgot it pretty soon though, I was happy to be with my people, and on the way home we stopped for frozen yogurt—I love frozen yogurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See why I love going along? We do fun things—more fun that lying in the closet and waiting for my people to get home. But I Peaches am an existential dog. And being in the moment means I am happy to see them even if they leave me at home for a while. No sense holding a grudge—interferes with happiness.</span><br />
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