M&M Monday

Maggie's Dots

Maggie has such an expressive face. And my daily entertainment is to watch the dots over her eyes move up and down.

See? Right up.

Left up.

Right up.

Here she is out in the shaggy-looking labyrinth:

Left up.

Neutral.

Right up. So SWEET. :-)

Day of Rest

Dripping wet.

Here you go, Mum: flood pix from this a.m.

Floating Dock is still safe.

Water is up another coupla rungs on the gate.
Still not going anywhere. Stop Laughing!

Another one???

Besides being a choclately brown, the river looked a bit . . . fast this morning. So I walked down to check it out:

*Sigh*

No venturing out into civilization today for me!

Another flood.

Life's a Sitch

I started this post off with: Everything happens for a reason. I think that has been a useful belief for me in the past because it took the sting out of a few situations. It has also encouraged me to look for the lessons. The conundrum comes when I spend my time searching for the reasons why a thing happened. There's a line between finding a lesson and going in circles.

I've been listening to Caroline Myss who says that searching for why something happened is looking to attach blame to someone else. It also keeps us in the victim role. So then I amended it to: Everything happens for a reason, but I don't need to know why. Because I may never know and some things are so horrible that no amount of human reasoning can make it a good thing. This is useful because it promotes acceptance of a situation. Acceptance is helpful in being able to move on.

Why is close sisters to whine. You can't whine and change your situation. One is a mind-loop, and the other requires action. One is waiting, and one is movement. And then I had a conversation with John Morgan, and he said:

Everything happens. And then you attach a meaning to it.

In other words: Reality happens, then the reason. Ah-ha!

Dave Dobson was anti-why as well. Why doesn't change the circumstances & it keeps you stuck where you are. Dave gave a simple exercise when something happens: take a deep breath. Trust your Other-than-conscious to create a solution.

There are all sorts of situations. There's the Situation Room with Wolf Whatshisname, and apparently there's a guy named The Situation on some New Jersey reality show. There are situations all around us. In short, life's a sitch. Now what? Remember those old bumperstickers from the 80's? Life's a bitch, then you die? Here's one for the 21st century:

Quote of the Day: Spring Cleaning

There’s a lot to be said for someone telling you to spread your wings and fly high, but I found you can fly an awful lot higher and faster sooner if, instead of adding energy and flapping harder, you look around and just get rid of the excess baggage that you don’t need and is weighing you down. ~Justin Locke

Oh, it's ON!

The last coupla days have been springish & warm. I noticed that the bird seed was going down faster than usual & I thought it was because there were more birds around. After all, it couldn't be the squirrels. They couldn't get up to the feeder. I watched them try. The birdseed was safe from squirrels. Hahahaha Stupid squirrels.

Sneaky squirrels. So smart. *sigh*

Until they cracked the code. Now the squirrels will be telling all the other squirrels, and my back porch will be the cool place for squirrels to hang out.

Spring

Spring is springing. So in celebration of the sunshine, I'm giving you a cake, a la Cakewrecks:

Is that a border, or a green sea of goo the sun is sinking into?

With its Medusa-like rays and skin-disorder sprinkles, here's a cake that says, "Goodbye Winter!"

And for some total randomness:

Is this what you gals are driving these days? Wee ha and pass me a gluten-free brewski. Back tomorrow. :-)