This is the doggy Kamille adopted. Apparently Amanda wanted a pug, so Kamille looked into rescues in the area and found one named the Thyme & Sage Ranch. When they went in, they met a few pugs and this little girl seemed like a sweetie. She's about 3 years old and was used at a puppy mill for breeding. She had a collar pretty much embedded into her neck and was skinny, and also her puppies had been taken away from her too early. Not sure how they tell that, but I guess 'cause she was bleeding still and her puppies were gone? She looks like she's overcome the weight problem. ;)
She has a pretty sad little face, I think, but she's doing quite well there. She's playful and loves Kamille's family. Amanda sleeps on the couch so she can be close to her crate at night, which apparently Sofie has gotten used to; when Amanda wasn't there, she cried until Kamille went and slept next to her. (She doesn't get to sleep in the bed yet 'cause she's not fully housetrained.)
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!"
