52 Photos - Gallery 21 - Star

This is Chloe the Smelly Basset.  She came to the family in the usual way.  Well, not really.  My daughter was angry at the world and she had moved out of our house after graduating from high shcool.  We bought a condo apartment near LSU so I always knew she had a roof over her head.  We also paid for a lot of things for her, but she was in her Angry Phase.

She was dating the Boyfriend From Hell.  And she tried breaking up with him a couple of times and always ended up going back.  She said she was through for good and he brought her this pup.

Chloe was cute.  And she held them together for just a short time longer.  And the BFH was angry when they were no longer together.  She ended up placing Chloe with us for safekeeping for a while until things passed over.

She fell in love with Frank!  And Frank fell in love with her!  for 10 years now, they have not been parted! And Carrie now has Hugeaux the Cavalier King Charles, which she implicily states is HERS AND WILL BE GOING HOME WITH HER when he stays here with his grandma for a few days!

Back to Chloe. she wouldn't look at me.  (She was kinda grouchy I made her get out of bed to take this picture of her.)  She has an attitude in her old age.

Here is Frank's little girl, Chloe the Smelly Basset AKA Star!

52 Photos Gallery 21 - My Wish That Came True

One of my favorite songs is Garth Brooks when he says he thanks god for unanswered prayers.  Often I find the things I wanted so much, really didn't make me all that happy in the long run.  Choose your wishes carefully, I guess.  Look at what you are wishing for and know try to know if that is really what you want.

But that is hard, I know.  There have been times when I thought I knew myself enough to really want that.  How can we really know.  And what is a life like that has no wishes to look for?  I might not want that either.

Right now, my wishes are small.  And practical.  Like I wish Frank will get home safely from Mississippi.  And that my new bed will be delivered soon.  I really wish that one!!  Last week I wished that the mattresses be delivered, and I got those.  Now I want the vibrating bed to put them on to come.  Always wanting more.

Not long ago I wished that I could walk without my knee hurting.  After the surgery in July I am almost getting that wish to come true.  Not quite yet, but I am working on it!

That brings up a pet peeve of mine.  I hear people often say they prayed for their team to win or for something they should be working toward doing.  I have never put stock in praying for something rather than working for it.  You make your life what it is.  Only you.

So here is my current immediate wish.  I want to get the vibrating bed base and I wish it would cool off so when I open the windows to dissipate the off gassing of my new mattresses I could be cooler and my head wouldn't hurt so.