It's in the genes

Pinecone

Wake up little pinecone
The rain has fallen and the air is fresh
And someday you will be a tree
The tallest tree in the land

Wake up and see for yourself
The soil is rich and the land grows under your feet
But most of all, my little pinecone
Expect great things from yourself

Wake up and see for yourself
See how the universe plays in the branches
While mountain glaciers melt in sun

Shake the snow from your beautiful head
Wake up from your peaceful nap and see
How this is your destiny.

~Richard Fuerst

Shannon wanted to have a picture taken of herself holding a pinecone. She got the idea from a photo of her aunt that was taken years ago. I guess we just started a new family tradition.



It was a double doggie yard sale find kind of weekend.

My memorial weekend yard sale finds. Even though we got rained out and had to call it an early yard sale day we still found some unique doggie finds! Yes believe it or not I collect anything dog...hehehehe

Someone paid 45 bucks "each" for these!

I paid 6 bucks for "both"...I know I'm the last of the big spenders....LOL

And I love these double doggie glass paper weights :)

Memorial Day...

A reminder to remember and honor all our heroes.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,

the spines of others are often stiffened.
    ~Billy Graham

The tooth fairy Cameth

Well Shannie finally lost her tooth!

Now we don't normally dress her up like the tooth fairy when she loses a tooth...it just so happened she was in a wedding...LOL

She is also now here to stay for the summer.  When she walked in the door right to the piano she went...yep practice makes perfect princess :)

I call this...

 "Walking into eternity with you."

Dirty job…

Girls were you digging in the dirt again?

Yes Mommy…but we have a very good reason…you see a chipmunk blazed a trail across the yard and we was making sure that varmint was gone! 

Dirty job…but somebody's gotta do it.

But no worries we got Jebediah keeping watch now…

But I was good Mommy...

Mom...what's a brown noser...and why they calling me dat?

Our secret weapon in dog rehabilitation

The most powerful healing tool for a broken soul…

 …the gentle, kind, tender spirit of a child. 

mud puppies

To a dog after the rain...

YOU ARE...

                                                                                                                 ~ God

Shannie after spending the day running under the hose....
Let the Summer fun begin!

Just around the corner

The price of loyalty

    Poor Gwenie...she has no idea her loyalty to Shannie is about to get her soaked.

Too much drama!

My hiding place

I'm still a work in progress I guess

I would have a really hard time drinking out of something that looks like a urinal.

After reading this side I guess I wouldn't have been allowed anyway....after my last not so innocent thought.

Well this little guy looks like an innocent heart...have at it pilgrim.

Oh well maybe not...

I took these photos on a visit to Bethlehem Pa this week.

Seems like everywhere I go I find a dog or one finds me. This little fella was out for a stroll with his daddy. I have more pictures of strangers dogs then I know what to do with. I'm just compelled to photograph them.... however I will never be compelled to drink out of that urinal...LOL

Do you speak autocorrect?

I have notice a whole vocabulary is started to form in my life from autocorrect malfunctions. I even gave one of my friends her nickname from a funny autocorrect. The latest word added to my new language is “ ferret” It was the autocorrect for “grrrrrr” which I texted to my husband when I was complaining about something…Yes I complain once in a blue moon.

I mean "snout"....damn you autocorrect...ferret!

Papa said there'd be days like this...

Earlier this year at our church a word came from the Lord through some of the children. It was that this year we were going to have "Days of Joy"  Days so filled with joy we would be overwhelmed. So when I read this scripture today it reminded me of that word. 

 This face is joy to me :)

May this day be the begining of  DAYS OF JOY for you!

I have a dream

Did you ever have a dream so big that you knew it had to come from God alone, so big only God could bring it to pass?  That’s the kind of dream we have.  In fact we even have a name for ours….it’s called Good Land Ranch.  A sanctuary for people to come and get refreshed and work with rescued animals.  We have about 80 acres of farm land adjoining our properly that we are believing God for so we can build our ranch and open it to people and fur friends God would send us.  This dream is going to be fulfilled and one day you will see it on this blog.  Today I use photoshop to dream my dream and the word of God. We got the name for our dream from Deuteronomy 8 which talks about how the Lord was bringing his children the Israelites into a “Good Land”  but also how when they came into this land they were to remember the Lord who brought them there. So that is why we named it Good Land Ranch....to remind us to never forget the Lord when we are in our promise land J

Wild horses couldn't drag us from this dream...it

will be a dream fulfilled!

Tooth fairy on call

How to eat corn on the cob when you’re an 8 year old with a mouth full of loose teeth...

We are all anxiously awaiting for Shannie to lose her first tooth....it's so close that we told the tooth fair she needs to stay on call.

All the dogs sure wanted to help Shannie clean herself up...so we had to send them out in the yard till she was done.

Jebediah was not very happy about the whole thing.

Not by the hair of our corny chinny chin chin!