Ahhh, how I love a lazy Sunday!  Ice cooked breakfast for me this morning while I checked on puppies and gave Peanut his medicine (and Colo, I didn't have to tell him either, lol).  Then I tackled the flowerbed (that Ice worked so hard cleaning out for me yesterday) and planted red Salvia from one end to the other.  I expect brilliant red flowers all summer and can't wait til they grow and produce lots and lots of gorgeous flowers.  Since then, the most I've done is sweep the kitchen floor and blog, blog, blog! lol 

Funny how the stream is like a small neighborhood where everybody knows everybody and shares in each other's lives.  It reminds me of the Kincaid print that Ice bought me three years ago of the "hometown" series.  All of you are there in your homes and out in your front yards, waving at me as I pass by and I stop to visit with this one and that one over the fences, or even sit on your porches for a while and enjoy the feel of the community.  It's such a nice neighborhood, so I hope you're all enjoying your Sunday.  I think I'll stroll a while longer and visit some more.....

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"Hometown Memories", the Kincaid print that Ice bought me.

 

Flowers!  Thank you, Iceman!

 

I've had a wonderful birthday. I got two dogs groomed, got to spend quite a bit of time on the "stream", got lots of birthday cards in the mail and one really nice one from Ice that I found by the coffee pot this morning. (He knows me pretty well, lol) He also worked his butt off getting my new flower bed ready so I made a bee line to wally world to get some flowers to plant tomorrow. Then he took me out to eat and we went by the casino for a short while (doesn't take long to lose $20) and spent most of our time watching and listening to the country and western band that was playing. It's only the second time we've been there since it opened two or three years ago. But it was nice to stroll thru and try our luck, then we came home and we're listening to a great playlist....Eddie Arnold is presently crooning "Make the World Go Away". Awww, what a smooth voice. Ice is having a beer and I'm drinking coffee and blogging. He's working on his next edition of "The Rag", so maybe he will get it posted tonight. So I've had a wonderful birthday and the best part is being able to spend it with the love of my life. Life is good here on Schnauzer Lane. Thanks to everybody that stopped by and wished me a happy birthday. Hugs and love to all of ya!!

I've been in the kennel most of the day giving Junior a scalping and LaQuinta (his mother) a much needed haircut.  I've never featured her on my blog, so as usual, I dragged out the camera and went to town taking pictures of our other little beauty.  So here she is folks without any further ado:

You can't live with em....

You can't live without em.

This is the card my Dad sent me from Alaska.  I thought it was so cute, I had to scan it and post it.  He said it reminded him of me when I was little.  When I looked at my hairdo this morning right out of bed, I could definitely see the resemblance, lol.  Thanks to all for the birthday wishes on my previous post!  You guys are wonderful! 

And Happy Birthday to Six!!! 

Thanks to everybody also for all the suggestions for naming our new puppy.  I have them all listed, but I'm gonna wait til she's older and see what her personality is before I decide for sure.  Prissy and all the puppies are doing great.  And Peanut will back to normal in a matter of a couple of weeks.  Doc said not to bring him back unless he has some kind of problems, so that was great to hear!

I'll probably spend most of my birthday trimming Junior and maybe LaQuinta.  I feel bad because Junior's hair on his legs and chest mat very easily and with everything going on the last couple of months, I haven't taken the time to keep him brushed.  So I trimmed his hair short in those areas last night with the scissors, so he's looking pretty funny right now.  I'll get him out in the kennel in a little while and use the clippers to even him out.  I just hate that I have to trim him so short because he has such a beautiful soft coat.  But it will grow very fast and I've learned my lesson about not brushing him, so he will be Mr. Gorgeous again real soon.  Thankfully, he still loves me anyway.

Ice is taking me out to eat tonight, so I'll ponder where I want to go while I'm snippin and clippin today.  You guys have a great day and thanks again for all the birthday wishes.  I've already got a nice case of warm fuzzies. lol

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Well, it's finally Friday and I'm ready for a nice weekend with Handsome and the dogs.  It's been a very busy week and I feel old!!! lol  Peanut went for his last checkup with the vet today....Doc said he's doing great, still calling him the Miracle Dog and says give him the medicine til it runs out, which is about a week's worth and he won't need any more.  He's healing so fast and doing so well and I'm so thankful.  It's been a long haul and he still has a way to go, but he's 90% there.  Next step is to get him a well needed haircut. 

Now, I gotta get something off my chest!

I read an article the other day on yahoo that has been on my mind ever since.  It was about the fact that the life expectancy of people is expanding and some of us could live to be 120.  WOW, I thought.  But something else in the article really got my attention.  It said that the scientific community says the person has already been born that with gene therapy and stem cell therapy, etc., that will have the potential to live indefinitely.  Think about it.......

INDEFINITELY!!!!

Well, needless to say, that totally blew me away and like someone who just won the lottery, I was thinking of all the benefits I would reap from such rapidly advancing medical technology.  I mean gee, I could run out on my lunch hour and get me some DNA and go back to work with no more back problems.....or no more high blood pressure.  Or if I had a heart attack, just take a pill full of the right genes and grow a whole new heart.  Better yet, just grow a new one every five years so there will be no heart attacks.  I could get an IV full of cancer potential therapy to erase all possibility of getting it.  Possibilities bounced around like visions of sugar plums in my head.

But.......

Then I started thinking about living indefinitely....I mean REALLY thinking about what that would mean.  I could see me still working at age 500 (talk about burnout!) and the great great great great grandkids calling me to babysit their great grandkids on my day off.  EEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!

Then what about the economic and political implications of such a thing.  Heck they're already blaming us baby boomers for breaking social security, right?  What do you think would happen if we never "kicked the bucket"?  Life insurance companies would go belly up. 

And have you noticed that the older you get, the less excited things seem?  It's like "been there, done that", so what would we have to get excited about if we've lived so long that we've been everywhere and done everything?

These are just a few things I've thought about since I read that article.  What do you guys think?