One Lane But Not Nation

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Woke up this morning to more "snow sludge" and took this photo out of Paros' window. Headline News said that EVERY state in the US has snow on the ground right now except for Hawaii and that 68% of it has snow (some area in a state won't have snow). I don't mind snow so much but when it's rain mixed with snow to produce this 'snow sludge'...yuk! And Paros has to be walked on the pavement to avoid all the muddy areas...lol...that he creates! He saw 3 does hanging out by the trees seen here and had a fit to go play with them. He really wants a large animal, whether it's the labs next door or the deer around here, to run with. The Shih Tzu is just a fun thing to taunt and doesn't keep up with him outside too much. I can't imagine what he'll be like when we expand the fence area out an acre this spring.

It can be pretty in the winter and we can see the lake through the bare trees (shot below). The pic didn't come out too bad since it was shot through the glass pane of the window but the very last shot below of the front yard was captured from standing on the outside balcony. You can see the one lane that runs up here and after receiving an email from church about us not being 'one nation under God' this morning with a link to it's message...I couldn't help but feel a little down. I hope they are just getting this. We've had the freedom of expression through  prayer removed from us since the 60's. It was 20 years to hit me about the silence in school and I can remeber I was in the second grade when prayer stopped. It was that each separate religion could keep their faith through saying the prayer to God so Jews could join but Atheiasts would sit whereas a Muslim girl would sit and pray in silence. It opened my mind to the different religions in which I persued heavily in boarding school as well as today. I go to a protestant church with my catholic bible and have several different ones (including the Noble Quran) along with a tolerence of everyones preference. Mine is no longer tolerated though nor are we "One Nation, Under God". I guess we should utilize National Prayer Day while we still have it (1st Thurday in May...fixed from floating by Reagan).

Nuff depressing stuff for now.

LOVER'S LANE

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Whew! The dogs are clean, it's a beautiful day with the high of 51, valentines greetings are sent, and steaks are to be put on the grill so we can enjoy the weather before snow hits again tonight. They are calling for 1-3". I can see me locked in the den or computer room...frozen. Maybe I'lll create some snowflakes in Photoshop or something. The one posted here with all the hearts was sent out to friends and I created one with a poem I sent to the ones I feel close enough to share something crazy and corny like that from the heart (hehe...pun intended!). I'm no poet but well...ya tend to get all mushy when you think of the ones that you feel really close too. This one was done in a wallpaper too on the next page (wallpaper link above) and created with layer styles in PS along with my new dreamsuite 1 filter.

With all that out of the way...the only thing left for me to do is to clean the bedroom. It's 70% settled in...just have to hang the TV, art, and valances. Jim says our bed looks like a 'doggie day care center' most of the time but everytime I put their toys in their cages or on P's new pillow by the window...they just drag them back up to us in bed so we have to keep a blanket down ontop of our comforter for protection. LOL...they even have a you tube song and video called "There's Dog Hair In Everything I Do" and she mentions thinking about shaving her dog. OMG I wanted to immediately email her to let her know it doesn't work!!! Probably why I got a commercia vacuum for Cmas for col.

Well I'm off to play outside and prep the cages for a pass to lover's lane so to the one's out there I forgot...here ya go. Post it, print it, email it, call it your own...it's 4 U ;)

BLACK ICE

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How ironic things come into play and seem to cross paths. The news today mentioned all the black ice about and in my email was a link to my breeder who had an appearance on a Greek animal TV program with Paros' sister, Ice (who is black btw)! Although she was speaking in her native tongue, it made me want to pull my language kit down and studying so I can catch future shows. It reminded me of some they air on the animal planet here in the states but this particular program showed them training cats to sounds (opening food, clanking bowls). She is at 16:02 for anyone interested and the link is above. Woo Hoo, Evi and Ice!!

Although it has been nice and sunny here today with the high of 49...we are expecting more snow tomorrow and Atlanta got 4" of the stuff yesterday. Some of it was to hit us but we lucked out so OMG...what's a dog to do?!? It looks like bath time as scheduled (dog art font below with another layer style).

Well lol I bet my friends and family will NEVER try and get me to join another one of those gimicky web spots again! It kept showing whatever I was doing so the wall filled up with me adding links, joining charities I already donate to, interchanging my igoogle and yahoo pages (you can get facebook on igoogle) and adding widgets that I find too tacky to place here, although I have some on the bottom right. I have a bible quote of the day above my horoscope which is above a swear word trying to get "The Dog Whisperer" widget to work!! How incongruent. I did find a couple of cool widgets, the Saints for a friend, Tarot readings for a daughter, Mardi Gras countdown and Afghan Hound one I posted here...then discovered I could make my own widget for this site! LOL...I did just that but didn't make it available to the gallery. The link to Dogstar where Cesar Millan's dog "Daddy" has a dog diary spot also contains pet food recalls, games, pics, ask a vet, and other interactive and informative pages. Really liked this site and want to check it out in detail since I'm through 'widgeting' lol! 

Well, even though I should be studying CSS and start working on the .com, .net, and .org sites I had fun. Pat Gilbert from the Afghan Hound group sends the best jokes and has a K9 Seminar I think our club could benefit from. I would like to help with the monies to get her here...or maybe me there? I do plan to see my girl in California by next summer.

Just like last time, I'll delete the widgets after playing with them but it's been a fun 2 dog days with them, the links, and even watching black ice on the net and not the road ;)