Archive for December, 2008

Christmas In The Desert.
December 27, 2008

With so many people making merry, please be extra careful on the roads. Stay safe, keep warm, be careful and have fun.
Happy Holidays! 
May 2009 be the best year ever.
Silent Night, Holy Night,
All is calm, All is bright.
 Christmas Eve, 2008.

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 
The Terriers on Christmas Day, 2008.
 

 

 
The day after Christmas, 2008.
 

 

 

 

 

  

 
Day is done, gone the sun
From the lake, [...]

This Little Piggy Stayed Home.
December 17, 2008

 
it’s the best present I could take.
how do you get me to throw
tennis balls
for hours on end?
 
your eyes may as well be
convincing sentences –
I love you good enough
says your delighted, entitled bark.
I love you more than good enough.
 

 
(the end)  
Poem and photos by Emily Murdoch.

Heart-Shaped Rocks.
December 16, 2008

 
People get all different things, but I get heart-shaped rocks.
I’ll be going about my day at the ranch, performing my horse and dog chores, happen to look down, and there they are, winking at me and stopping me in my tracks.  
It’s as if they’d been shaped and placed there just for me. 
If I went looking for heart-shaped rocks, I’d find [...]

Amazing Art — Mural Mosaic.
December 16, 2008

I just had to share some of the most amazing pieces of art I’ve ever seen — breathtaking, really. They’re mural mosaics with an active grid — you can click on each separate square of the mosaic to see what is essentially many paintings within a painting.
Click here: Mural Mosaic

Not all of the murals are [...]

uShip’s Charitable Efforts For Rescue Horses — Highway To Help.
December 15, 2008

Below is a guest post from Leslie Hsu of uShip, a great company with a user-friendly way to ship merchandise and even horses!
I used uShip personally, when I shipped my slaughter-bound draft horse, Mr. Bean, from South Dakota to Arizona. I’m very grateful to uShip for making such an undertaking easy and cost-effective.
Recently, I was delighted to hear that [...]