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My day started horribly. I called to talk to Mrs. Kiefer, the friend of my grandmother's this morning. The number was disconnected. I googled on my phone to find her obituary. She died March 4th. She was 97 years old. Bill & I saw her last June and I had promised her I would come back this summer and visit her again. She died at a hospice. I wasn't friendly with her 2 kids so I don't have their numbers to call them and offer condolences and find out any of the details. She was at Pearl Harbor and spoke about all the smoke coming off the boats. Her husband was on one of the ships that was hit and got out to get onto another ship...
She was a childhood idol to me. She had a bay mare called Smokey that she would ride when bringing in the cattle off the fields. My grandmother who was raising me was 15 years older than Mrs. Kiefer. Grandma used to wear only dresses and didn't drive when I was a kid, so to see an adult woman driving, and riding and being a cowboy, this opened up all possibilities for me.
I took the dogs to the park for the walk but it was just us there. Everyone else was at an Agility show with their dogs. For myself I train the dogs in agility as it has greatly expanded the communication and relationships with the animals. Just by using body language and working out the results are so much fun. I don't go to shows frequently because of the politics. People are bloody crazy. But I am not competitive in nature, I don't like to see people try to top one another, I prefer to see growth where one's own self is the measuring stick. How can beating another person mean all that much? Apples and oranges is what I see. Improving your own self measurably, that is a far more fair assessment. So we get home from DM and there are tons of crap tossing from people who were out showing agility this weekend. WTF, why is it always politics? I don't need a little silk ribbon THAT BADLY.
The DM show went very well. The Unicorn attacked the party because they all looked like Goblins. Oh crap it is nearly 3am and I have to be up and out by 7. Shuzbutt.
She was a childhood idol to me. She had a bay mare called Smokey that she would ride when bringing in the cattle off the fields. My grandmother who was raising me was 15 years older than Mrs. Kiefer. Grandma used to wear only dresses and didn't drive when I was a kid, so to see an adult woman driving, and riding and being a cowboy, this opened up all possibilities for me.
I took the dogs to the park for the walk but it was just us there. Everyone else was at an Agility show with their dogs. For myself I train the dogs in agility as it has greatly expanded the communication and relationships with the animals. Just by using body language and working out the results are so much fun. I don't go to shows frequently because of the politics. People are bloody crazy. But I am not competitive in nature, I don't like to see people try to top one another, I prefer to see growth where one's own self is the measuring stick. How can beating another person mean all that much? Apples and oranges is what I see. Improving your own self measurably, that is a far more fair assessment. So we get home from DM and there are tons of crap tossing from people who were out showing agility this weekend. WTF, why is it always politics? I don't need a little silk ribbon THAT BADLY.
The DM show went very well. The Unicorn attacked the party because they all looked like Goblins. Oh crap it is nearly 3am and I have to be up and out by 7. Shuzbutt.