wordpress-social-login domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home1/ernestlo/public_html/grace/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121Journal entries Grace and I were on our way to India for an extended visit. We stopped at my mother’s ranch before leaving, and the docs told her she had pancreatic cancer. Success Valley in Tulare County became our India. This is how Grace experienced life there. Vairgen was our copper colored Siberian Husky. Harry, my brother, Kate, his wife.<\/p>\n Sept 22, 1982<\/p>\n Vairgen to obedience training 14 dogs & nervous owners.\u00a0 Mostly Shepherds & 2 Dalmatians – 1 Bouvier and mutts & us.<\/p>\n Vairgen went crazy!\u00a0 He had been walking & heeling the country road just fine.\u00a0 But all the smells drove him crazy.\u00a0 He sniffed & pulled.\u00a0 I pulled & snapped.\u00a0 Can you picture 14 of assorted breeds, the yups, whines & barks in a circle or marching across the field with shouts of no! heel! good dog!\u00a0 What a sight.\u00a0 To teach this weeks lesson \u2013stay! The teacher asked for a consensus of the group as to which dog would be the most difficult and everyone pointed at Vairgen.\u00a0 She said – oh, this probably won’t work.\u00a0 Then he went right along with the drill and did it perfectly.\u00a0 By the end of the hour I was sweaty, exhausted and had a sore back.\u00a0 When we got back home I asked Vairgen if he still loved me and he gave a lick on the cheek.<\/p>\n Its warmed up again.\u00a0 Back up to 90 today but fall is coming soon.\u00a0 Grandma – in Sta. Barbara for 3 weeks with more to go according to the Doc in Berkeley at the rad lab\u00a0 – Liver only functioning at 1\/4 it’s capacity.\u00a0 Jeanne & Ron say they see only 2 more months of this for her.\u00a0 Maybe she can change and regain her will to live.\u00a0 Harry says Kate keeps her cheerful and bright.\u00a0\u00a0 Harry won’t look at me when I talk to him.<\/p>\n I’ve been alone for a week now.\u00a0 Finally sleeping upstairs listening to every sound – Cats fighting, owls outside the window, cans banging, horses kicking their water troughs.\u00a0 Cows & bulls singing to the moon.<\/p>\n Crescent moon – wondrous starry sky last night.\u00a0 Really nothing to fear.\u00a0 Aggie called.\u00a0 She wants to go to Carmel for a night owl walk.<\/p>\n First day of Fall!<\/p>\n Looks like rain. There is a new feeling in the air. Vairgen lifts his nose to smell and I do too. A light breeze rustles the trees. Birds know its going to rain, rustling around in the trees, looking for a place to settle. Much earlier than usual. Mama cat who always looks so skinny and emaciated looks now full & sleek with her belly full of kittens.<\/p>\n The following is a note to a friend who edited the Growing Native newsletter<\/p>\n Dear Louise,<\/p>\n When I was 6 and newly arrived in California from South Dakota the school I went to had a \u201cvictory garden\u201d.\u00a0 While waiting for veggies to grow I became fascinated with pill bugs.\u00a0 Daily I would collect one to take home in my sweaty little fist only to discover the creature crawling across my hand that so delighted me was curled up in a tight ball. Thinking it dead I would bury it in the flower bed.\u00a0 This went on all year, after which I pretty much forgot these little bugs.<\/p>\n Recently, in a Sue Hubbell book I\u2019m reading , I found a whole chapter devoted to pill bugs and their kin.\u00a0 Seems they are isopod crustaceans related to crabs and shrimps and eons ago crawled out of the sea, shook themselves off and began a new life on land.\u00a0 Sue agrees with me that they are appealing little animals.\u00a0 They do a good job processing dead leaves and waste material into soil.\u00a0 They do no harm, cause no disease and are quoted as being amiable companions to mankind.<\/p>\n Grace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Journal entries Grace and I were on our way to India for an extended visit. We stopped at my mother’s ranch before leaving, and the docs told her she had pancreatic cancer. Success Valley in Tulare County became our India. This is how Grace experienced life there. Vairgen was our copper colored Siberian Husky. Harry, … Continue reading Grace’s letters and journals<\/span>
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