Monday, June 18, 2007

It has happend!

It has happened I think I have found my ninch in life. I do not know yet but i believe that I know what i want to do with the rest of my life. How did it happen you might ask and what the heck are you talking about could be your next question. How I am not sure except to say that the Lord puts angels on earth in the guise of people, and Darlene and her family seem to be a whole passel of them !
What is my ninch well lets just say that I have only been this happy and satisfied in life once, and that was the birth of my son almost 16 years ago.
Canine Partners For Life happened!!!
Here I was in my own little world in prison when I heard on the radio about a program at Jessup where the women inmates got to train and raise puppies for the seeing eye people in Ohio. Wow what an opportunity, but alas it was not to be for me because the Lord was not ready for me to meet his special angel (Darlene).
I left Patuxent just knowing that I was going to be a puppy raiser, and that no one was going to stand in my way! However, we all know the saying "man plans God laughs", and boy did He! It was 1998 when I heard that program on the radio it would not be until 2002 until I actually got to raise a puppy. More Tomorrow

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Long Lost Relatives

Okay so here I am looking in my SPAM folder for some work i sent myself (which of coarse I did not find) when out of the cyber space low and behold a voice I had never heard before greeted me. Yes I am talking about a long lost relative, my cousin Nancy. Very cool I might add. :)
I was very pleased to here from her, because in all this time I do not ever remember even seeing her.
Of coarse I am ecstatic to have another long lost relative to talk too and get to know. I know there are others of you out there who are related to the Moore side of the family, and not my brother side either. I mean those of you out there that are my cousins from my uncle Bill, and Uncle Fenton. Hey guess what we do not bite (hard) :) We want to get to know you also. So I guess what I am asking is: Where are YOU?
How many more relatives are out there?
Due to the wonderful internet you should not have to hide. Drop someone a line who knows, someone, who knows someone.....
Don't be a stranger, who knows you might find that all those stories you heard about our side of the family are actually TRUE !! :)

Monday, June 11, 2007

People Change

I have learned throughout the years that people change. They change either to better themselves or not. As people grow they tend to look at things a little differently, due to the fact that we as a race are always growing, always finding a new way, always looking for the right answer.
When I was a kid in school I grew up learning the ABC's of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Our kids have grown up knowing the ABC's of computers, and stuff I can't even begin to imagine. However, as smart as our kids are now, they still make the same stupid mistakes we did when we were kids.
Is it our jobs to keep them from making those same stupid mistakes? To some extent I say yes, because if we let our kids make some of the mistakes we made, they too will learn from them and change.
As they grow older their changes will reflect on the decisions they make. We should trust those changes. We should embrace those changes.
I have changed!!
Where there was much anger is now peace.
Where there was distrust is now trust.
Where there was faithlessness is now faith.
Where there was hatred is now forgiveness and love.
Where there was sadness and depression is now quiet and life.
If I can change, then so too can others, and I for one want to give them the benefit of doubt that they deserve.

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Puppies!































We can do something!

Okay now I know I have not been driving long, but I have been watching the news the last few years, and I have to say I am disappointed in the way people have let the price of fuel go up.
You whine and cry about the fuel prices, but you do nothing to help it. We are in America people, we repelled the British with Minute Men! We have done great things for a great many people, and have sacrificed a lot. Yet we sit day in and day out watching and whining about how much the price of fuel has gone up. While the people who raise the fuel prices, (and know we will pay that price) just sit back.
So this is what I propose: For you employers, listen, for you school teachers, listen, for the rich who do not watch every penny, listen, for the working stiff who day in and day out work, sweat, and live listen.
Stop!!!
Throw the tea back in to the harbor!
For two full days nobody in the United States of America buy any fuel.
For two full days just stop. Stop going to the beach, stop going to the movies, stop doing anything that will put money in peoples pocket who think that raising the price of fuel is necessary.
Because if we as Americans, of all races, stop purchasing, then maybe just maybe we will once again be able to say that we are Americans and we did something about it.

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Sometimes I cry.

Being positive all the time is great but,
sometimes I cry
Laughing at myself makes me feel wonderful but,
sometimes I cry.
I cry sometimes because the sky is so blue or the sun is so bright.
I cry sometimes because the puppy is so frisky or so gosh darn cute.
I cry sometimes because when I walk outside the steel fortress is gone.
I cry sometimes because the kindness of people blows me away and takes me by surprise.
And sometimes I cry because it just feels great.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

TFTD - June 6, 2007

Today I learned a lesson the extreme hard way!!

I have a very unique job at any given time I could be working in the kennel or filing or cleaning the training barn ect. ect. ect...

Well today I happened to be cleaning the training barn and for those of you who are ignorant about what the training barn is, it is a large barn like structure that we train the dogs in. Hence the name training barn.

Well outside of the training barn was a very large trashcan full to the top with water, and dog feces. Even though, I had asked for assistance earlier in the morning because I just knew that that trashcan was much more then I could handle. I decided to be impatient and do it myself (well mostly), because gravity helped me the rest of the way or weight or circumference or whatever, ( I am not a scientist here).All I know is that very full, very grody trash can fell over and a title wave of very grody crap covered me from head to foot LITERALLY !!!

So what is the very valuable lesson I learned today.Well it could be to stand very far back when a very grody trashcan falls over. Nahh!

Or it could be put off tomorrow what you could do today. I don't think so!!

No friends the lesson I learned today is that when someone says they will help you do something WAIT FOR THEM TO COME AND HELP YOU !!!!! :-[