She's 2 today. :) The cheeseburger is a doggy birthday tradition; Buddy will get his in a week. Later, she'll get some doggy ice cream and hopefully get to go to the dog park with Sebastian, if daddy Chris has time. (I'm laid up doing a project for my writing-intensive class. I do three times more work for that class than any of my others!)
I lacked foresight and only bought one cheeseburger, so felt guilty when I got back home about the other dogs. The solution was to cut it in half. Gretchey got one half and the other dogs shared the other. (It's probably for the best; a 28-lb dog probably shouldn't eat a double cheeseburger by herself anyhow.) I realized I made the right call when she ate the half cheeseburger in one bite. ONE FREAKING BITE.
I snapped exactly three pictures while she ate her half, and was just thankful that she was actually looking at me in one of them, even if it's blurry. :)
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
