Scott's Blog

How do you start a blog about friends?  How about “take another step”, or “take each day, one at a time”, or”celebrate each moment, every day”.  I guess we could go on and on, as far as realizing the importance of each moment of every day.  Every body has their own experience to express.  I just did.  The state that has a lot of trouble right now, Colorado, with fires as I write this, is where I visited this past weekend.  A friend of mine whom I’ve known for 40 years, is where I went.  We did plan this several months ago, by the way.  I just tried to live…

Do you ever think about your dreams?  Do you remember your dreams?  I never really did, until recently.  My sleep is going way overboard, but now I do remember my dreams; and some of them are WAY out there.  With that info, some of them are right in there with rest the my life.  Lots of times, actually most of the times, the people in the dreams are people I know. Maybe that’s the way it goes, I really don’t know.   What I do know, though, is there’s a lot of strange stuff going on in my half-brain these days.  Good, bad… I really don’t know, but I do remember them, and THAT, my…

Ok, who juiced this morning?  I think everyone knows that I did.  Carrots, apple, broccoli, ginger, beets, kale, lemon, orange; I think that’s pretty much it.  Top that with oatmeal, (a six-grain oatmeal), which has bananas, blueberries, and cinnamon.  I love my breakfast.  That’s every day.  I hate to get full on that, it’s so good.  Takes 15-20 minutes to make; if you haven’t noticed, I like to make things in a hurry, because I WILL then , go through the effort to make something healthy, and VERY tasty. The juicing thing is very important.  Do you know that a LOT of cancer, different types of cancer, sometimes up to…

Well, it’s been a while since I last wrote.  Lots to tell, short time to tell it.  As I last wrote, I got a new dog, a male when my eye was on a female, that’s a whole different story!  It’s been good, though.  I know that I have a lot of work in the next year, but it’s fun, and challenging.  His personality is a lot like my first dog, Brando; which can be a lot of silliness!  So be it, in all of my time! How about fitness?  What did you do today, yesterday, and what about tomorrow?  Do you have something planned?  Give a shout if there…

OK; OK.  Almost a month.  Seems like a long time, but it seems so much longer.  Lola passed away 3/26/12; my heart still misses her.  I really thought that it would be months before I thought about getting another dog.  There, that’s the truth.  I said it.  Guess what?  I’ve already got another one.  That even surprises me.  I had these feelings of lonliness, with no dog.  That first night, that Lola wasn’t here, was SO quiet, so the next day I called some rescue organizations, and looked at petfinder.com, to find another Jindo.  I really wanted to “replace” Lola.  Of course you can’t do that, but I tried.  I went…

Hasn’t even been a week; but it feels like months.  I really felt that I wouldn’t be in the hunt for another dog, for a long time; but the day after she passed, I called the Rosalind at the Jindo Rescue.  I’ve never had that type of lonliness, even when Brando died, because at that time, I had Lola, and that helped the situation.  This time, I didn’t have anything like that.  I knew that I wanted another Jindo, they are a hard breed to get used to, but after you do, it’s like an addiction to a breed. It’s hard, especially if you’re not a dog person, or even…

Yesterday was rough.  How many times have you all heard me say, “Enjoy the moment”, “things change”, “something positive comes out of everything”?  In all of that, I still believe.  Why wouldn’t I?  I’ve always said, God has plans, and lots of times that differs from OUR plans.  I STILL  believe in that.  I saw my dog getting old.  I saw her go from jumping on the bed, to only jumping on the couch, because it’s lower.  Then I saw her not able to jump that distance, so she would lay on her “doggie” bed.  Then she couldn’t get up.  Then she couldn’t lift her beautiful head.  Heartbreaking.  You see…

GOODNIGHT, LOLA…

My dog is my day.  When I think of anything about my dog, it is my day; and when I think about my day, it involves my dog.  That’s coming to an end.  It kills me; I mean, it’s part of the plan, but it kills me.  I have a dog that went with me 75%-85% of my time; working, pleasure, doesn’t matter, she went with me.  Lola, “she gets what she wants”.  That comes from a song, and I’m sure that we all know that, but it’s true.  We all get attached to our animals, and I’m one of the biggest partners of that circus.  I’ve always been a dog…

Smile.  Nice word, actually, a GREAT word; “to assume a facial expression usually indictating pleasure, favor or amusement”, “to regard with favor”; “to express by a smile”.  It can be a powerful word.  Most people, whether they know it or not, don’ t think what this word can do.  It can be wonderful, and yet it also seems to be such as effort for some.  We all have a life, good times and what some call “bad” times.  Bad is only a perception by the individual.  As I’ve written before, smile at someone, and over time, they will usually start that smile towards you.  This is, by my opinion, one of…