She's Got To Run

Out of 40 dogs, Boodini was 6th overall, with bib number 4, shes was 4th, 10 sec. behind 3rd in 6 years and up, she is 8. All 6 and up placed 1-6, 6 and under filled in the rest of the overall top 6 places. Looks like the older dogs are the running vets. Boodini pulled my old ass to a 1st in that aged category. Time to work on speed work if we want to win the dog price money. Boodini was dog to show.

Just This Side of Brooklyn

We're supposed to be standing upright and moving persistently forward, so why is everything horizontal. We are destined to fall, despite every intention, resolution, or goal, sometimes we fall right out of the saddle. The sheer displeasure of losing and being a loser, beating the hell out of the dead horse gets very old. Things escalate into a biplane spin out downward spiral, a crash landing affair. Once we crawl from the wreckage, dust off,  we might be broken, but anything can be fixed. All the wonderful sayings like your not out till the fat lady sings, get up and get with it again,  the dark cloud is just before dawn, yes, does anyone have a better idea? As long as you are above the ground, it is another day in paradise. We can get up and we will win this dog race. Boodini said so! We will suffer, just learn to take it with a smile. Hang on and Go with the Flow! One more mountain and several valleys, how far do we want to go. Just make up your mind, and whatever happens look directly ahead. Even if we don't get where we planned we got somewhere. Now do it again.

Just Enough for the City

We all have hopes, alone with our hopes is the mix of actually having those hopes happen. Some say if you wish on a star, your dream will come true. Others might add if you have a strong conviction of thought that hope or wish will actually take place. Still many actually believe that faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually come true. There are others that just don't buy into that at all. As the days have passed there are writings and accounts of people and events that have taken place. Many of this phenomenon are about things we cannot see. spirits bad or good, miracles of healing, dimensions of a world outside of our own eyes to see. Mankind celebrates Halloween, Christmas, Easter, and mold those festivities to fit their believes. Across the earth some have a faith in these events, while others shun such thoughts, fact or fiction, real and unreal, true story or just another leprechaun story. It is admirable to have an open mind on many things, and yet, be unaware that we are actually closed to things we  don't understand and in a quick moment erase them as nonsense. If you have faith you have assurance of your dream, so when we flip the coin and do not, are our hopes dashed. Are the only promises that are not a given the one's we turn are backs on. Maybe all the events unseen  or we find unreal just don't fit in our world because it's just not convenient to the way we live. Maybe not.

Bullet Catcher

It was certain it would rain, and with that we all hope and depend, and for some the lack of has already ended their dreams. The Pace Bend 30K had a dry course, no rain, and it even got hot, Tracy and I poured ice water over their heads and filled their bottles. We were Mark's servants, it all got done. Mack Brown got the win at OU and is keeping his deal with UT another week. Some were highlighted as the happiest fans. ACL jammed on. After midnight though, Boodini alerted me of the storm, another all night party with her, and the rain poured, so much so that 12.5 inches hit the greenbelt at 360. I thought about Rick and how like that night of horror the water ripped thru the creek bed and rushed on. Sunday didn't disappoint with getting a call from work about how the rain messed up someone's floor, and how put out they really were. A few million dollars was probally not made with ACL being cancelled. It will rain some more, how much we will see. But at the end of day, I am glad that other's plans worked out really fun and exciting. Another great day to be alive, might even grow a fu manchu, and make some homemade soup.

Have Ya Ate Yet?

Plenty to do all around, there's intense work but it's going be Friday 5:30 somewhere. Music happenings, Pace Bend festivities, most of all, good rain! So we will act like it's all good.
It's a great day to be alive, the sun still shines when I close my eyes. There's still trouble in the neighbor hood, but why can't everyday be just this good. Now be a good Dog and eat yer dinner!

Open for Lunch

The closed and open sign, the shutdown, is a wonderful way to take something off the "do list". Things that are not necessarily needed to be done become part of some schedule, and there you have it, one more piece of a puzzle you think is necessary.  A week ago the shutdown closed Lake Georgetown, and I was signed up to do the Dare to Ascend marathon, so that got cancelled until our US is taking calls again. When it is rescheduled I probably will not be able to make the new date, and am prepared for the loss. I also did not jump into vigilante mode and run the mileage and instead attempted to do the "honey list". I decided to respond to a facebook Political comment from a friend from Virginia, and his friends are probably the old funks, using shit this and that about the Prez. That in itself might be understandable, we can see shortcomings( and using that adj. would immediately start various party sides to just have to make things right). But I stated it was something both sides of the Congress should meet in the middle, and did he really not agree? Mistake,  then began his slamming. Whatever! At 16.7 trillion dollars in doubt, maybe they realize we will never make this up. Tensions are high, and everyone hangs tightly in their bubble. It is easy to get things tangled, what you interpret sometimes is nowhere close to what is stated, knee jerk reaction takes hold, and it's a good time to hang up. That is wrong. Our social background has shaped us into a facade, maybe shutdown gives things a break, but it surely will never solve anything for discussion.

Shutdown

Like many cancellations and shutdowns without any reason,this blog is shutdown indefinitely. Boodini will not be reached for comment.