Critters and Happy

Welcome to my November 1st post (what happened to July?) 

I'm posting to 

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS 

Smiling happy Karina in the doggie bed!

 this post includes City Daily Photo and our theme this month is

Happy

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

Dalai Lama

Happy smiling Rusty

I'm incredibly happy to make my grandson's football games.

Beware Happy Halloween photos below! 

My granddaughter Lyra, at her work which they were hosting a Roaring Twenties Murder Mystery. She's a lovely "Roaring Twenties" server!

Yep, I'm a Pig this year!

From Friday night at the Farmington Halloween Walk! 

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." Robert A. Heinlein

Our spot at the Halloween Walk

Woody is Happy!

Happy is as happy does.

Happy girl!

You can tell he's happy!

I got happy licks from this adorable pup!

and after Friday night Halloween arrived right on schedule Saturday.

Lucky (happy) me handing out the candy to the kiddos at my son's house. With me is my granddaughter Karina who doesn't really go trick or treating any more. They have house parties now.

But she used to go door to door! Photo below is her last door to door trick or treating! (You'll never guess how many Targets I went to in order to track this costume down!) This year it's not so popular. 

Dressing up and costume decisions is a major deal you know. I chose the Barnyard Pig for warmth this year. 

I was going to be a witch again, but it's a bit scary for the little ones.

I love being a Mime, but the whiteface is a bit scary for little ones.

I do miss the actual trick or treating walks and seeing all the decorations and lights aglow everywhere.

Trust me every chance I could I've been out and about locating as many as possible.

Being on the water is like my "happy" place so I'm including a few photos from a 3-hour cruise on the mighty Mississippi River. It's been a blissful October. 

"I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories, and water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom."

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Thanks for stopping by and gifting 

me happily with your comments.

"Remember time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

Marthe Troly-Curtain 

Take good care of you.

City Daily Photo - October theme

 Welcome to my post for City Daily Photo our theme for October is soft.

Where do I begin with soft? The softness of the moon? Or soft music? Absolutely soft feathers, and a soft whisper in your ear? Don't forget the tender softness inside of a finely roasted marshmallow!

Inside one of my favorite shops in Stillwater, Minnesota showing off their latest in soft and inviting bedding and other fine artistic creations all made by local artists. 

How many soft blankets do you need? 

Snuggle up all comfy and cozy!

Sleep well girls! 

How about soft pillows!

Soft fur of a kitty with her adorable soft green colored eyes!

Artemis has a heart of gold so soft it will melt your heart with love.

"Sometimes life is hard, so we have to squeeze it, touch it, play with it, and make it soft like a dough! Now it's soft enough to be shaped in any way we want! Keep moving, touching life, as this will keep it smooth and fun!" 

Karina Fonseca Azevedo

Thank you for stopping in!

Take good care of you.

 

Places and Critters

Welcome to my post for 

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS 

and City Daily Photo 

White Bear Lake, Minnesota

"It is a serious thing to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world." Mary Oliver 

K-9 Officer Smoke, Farmington PD.

Charleston, South Carolina.

"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image." Joan Didion 

Lake City, Minnesota

"Still, what I want in my life is to be willing, to be dazzled, to cast aside the weight of facts." Mary Oliver

 

Hastings, Minnesota with the Hastings High Bridge.

If you know me or follow my blog you know I'm a fan of quotes so when something pulls me inward, I have the desire to share it.

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

Joan Didion (American writer and journalist)

I met an interesting writer David McNally (a member of the Speakers Hall of Fame) and I had the privilege of having him autograph his book for me.

David McNally was a keynote speaker for the Lions International Mid-Winter Convention January 2025.

Remember this, your mission on Earth isn't finished.

Being a (dog) fan, these three pups below are my oldest son's dogs, and he created this Chat GPT photo for me.

Aren't they adorable and busy little chefs too!

Huntsville, Alabama

These next photos are from Mackinac Island, Michigan

Can you see The Round Island Lighthouse off in the distance?

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. 

Joan Didion

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." Joan Didion

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

"And that is just the point, how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?" Mary Oliver

Thank you so much for stopping by and gifting me with your comments!