Life Observation # 42
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays, it insists on it. Ice
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Fantasy and Reality
Why can’t the reality of something, just once , measure up to my fantasy expectations of it? I am so tired of disappointments. I’m an old man with not many vital (makes it sound better doesn’t it?) years remaining to me. My fantasies are about all I’ve got left to live for and I’m tired of seeing them lying crushed and broken at my feet. What happened you ask? Well . . . Last week as my wife and I are lying in bed waiting for our great Select Comfort™ * bed’s ‘soothing sleep’ to kick in she asks me, “Honey, I’ve got to get a new bra. Would you like to go shopping with me this weekend to pick one up? We could go out afterwards and have a nice dinner.” Dear readers, words simply can not convey how quickly a thousand and one Arabian night’s fantasies flashed through my hot and feverish brain. The wheels started turning and pictures with many ideas going off like a slide show inside my head . . . In my very best not wishing . . . to appear . . . too eager . . . voice I repli...
I’m sure glad with . . .
Winter in Alaska we don’t have the need for this product. Like other places Alaskans love their dogs. They are staples of everyday life here in the far north as many people not only use them as ‘man’s (or woman’s) best friend but also as working members of the family. Dogs are used for transportation by many people in winter mushing their way from village to village. It sometimes seems that dogs are sometimes treated better than other members of the family. Watching the Iditarod Dog sled race every year I often hear from people not familiar with the sport of mushing that the competitors care totally for all of their dogs before seeing after their own needs of food, drink, and rest. There are several smaller races that have been going on recently as qualifiers and ‘warm up’ runs for the upcoming Iditarod race in March. You can see training going on most everyday in rural areas or side roads in Wasilla. Before the snow fell it was not uncommon to see a team ...