Sweet Josie came into heat for the second time of her life....and brother Jon Snow was sent off to Camp for the most important week of Jo's heat. He came home Tuesday and life has become a little complicated...sort of like living with a teenage boy going through puberty but not hiding his feelings. He wants to play with Josie......but he's torn between tug and doctor! Josie, thank God, wants to kill him. In typical boy fashion...Jon does not care! He comes back with the coolest of moves he can muster with his long gangly legs and serious lack of body awareness. The whole pack is sick of him being in trouble all the time. This too shall pass......
Crazy hot weather has hit Rocking Dog Ranch.......the air feels like August. We've got the meanest of yellow jackets and bald faced hornets that I can't figure out how to trap. I'm off to buy some fried chicken (second attempt as hubby ate the first round for dinner two nights ago) to lure the jackets to their deaths. It is just so early for this......and another week of high 90's is predicted. I'm hunkering down......digging deep.....but to be honest, I'm struggling this year. I see fires in Colorado, temps over 100 on the east coast, friends with sheep dying from pneumonia and I know I need to keep to my gratitude....but man my joy cup is dry!
These are the days where the rubber meets the road, so to speak. I think when the weather is to my liking, the grass is growing and green, the sheep are healthy and the dogs are worked every day, it's easy to live my convictions. It's when the going gets a little tough that I find myself being reminded that it only works if I work it. In the heat and dry of summer, it might not be the best of times to re-evaluate my life goals. I have to admit to fantasizing about selling it all and moving to town....traveling when the weather gets to me......getting massages and spending hours at the gym...maybe get a face lift and a boob job. I'm reminded by good friends that happiness is an inside job, not some change in circumstances. So I dig a little deeper and work a good program....things like sugar and Facebook abstinence leave me rough around the edges as I detox....but just like Josie's heat....this too shall pass. I've learned to ride these waves.....
My 2018 mantra is: I keep my eyes open for the tiniest of miracles. Those miracles are everywhere if I look for them. I'm keeping a daily list........
Here's to a cool and rainy August!
Seize the Day
