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Sunday, December 25th, 2011
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| Sunday, June 12th, 2011
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7:52 am
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So... does anyone out there also have a Facebook account? The dog rescue group that I volunteer with is in the final moments of a big FB contest that could win us $20,000 in pet products! We are neck-and-neck for first place. The amazing thing is, the group we're fighting for first is Villalobos Pit Bull Rescue, the group behind the TV show "Pit Bulls and Parolees". They have their own TV show and more than triple our number of FB fans, but we're not only not getting crushed, we are in the lead!!
Please, please, please, if you have a FB account, take a moment to vote for LBR. You just have to go to Dr. Marty Becker's page, "like" it, and then go to the Shelter/Rescue Giveaway button on the left to vote for Legacy Boxer Rescue.
Here's an idea of the work LBR does. This is my sweet Casey, when he came into LBR's care and now:
 
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| Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
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8:49 pm
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Please vote for Sharon Sleighter, founder of Legacy Boxer Rescue, to win $5,000 for the rescue. And boy do we need it -- Isis just had five puppies, requiring a c-section that ran $2,400, and now she and several of the puppies are showing signs of a respiratory infection. Milky Way is expect six or more puppies within the next week or two. And just today we rescued Trixie and all seven of her three-day-old puppies! Please, please, please, cast your vote for Sharon and LBR, and pass this on to others! Voting lasts through Feb.26th. Only one vote per person, so we have to spread the news far and wide.
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| Monday, October 13th, 2008
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6:44 am - *tosses confetti*
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| Saturday, June 21st, 2008
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11:38 am - Book review
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"Snakes, lions, and every other fantasy vanished. Heat overwhelmed me as I stood, stunned, in the fierce, dry, completely still air. It was unfairly, unbelievably hot, heat like nothing I had ever felt before. Normal thought, in this temperature and blinding light, was suddenly impossible. Mesmerized, I watched shimmering waves float above the dark tar. Beyond the runway fence posts, the flat green scrub seemed frozen behind the wobbling veil of heat. The almost white sky was empty; nothing stirred in the bushes; a few black cows stood motionless, sleeping beside the fence.
Heat was the only thing moving."
--Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood
by Robyn Scott
When I was in Seattle in April, my mom and I killed some time in a little bookstore that wasn't particularly by anything. We happened to meet a blonde woman with a faintly British accent inside and, being my mom and me, we started up a conversation. It turned out that she had written the book we'd seen advertised in the window as we walked up, the very oddly named "Twenty Chickens for a Saddle." It was a story of her childhood growing up in Botswana, the child of a flying bush doctor and a very free-thinking mother determined to home-school her children to avoid squelching their creativity. The excerpt above is when she arrived in Botswana at age 7, after living in New Zealand and England her entire life. She stayed in Botswana until leaving for college.
Her parents, as I said, were something of free-thinkers, getting involved in a variety of odd projects and encouraging their three children in any kind of project that developed their mind and creativity. The title, for example, comes from the twenty rescue chickens Robyn received one Christmas instead of the new saddle she wanted, so she could start a free-range egg business and buy the saddle herself. She tells a tale of the most interesting childhood imaginable, all interspersed with images of typical life in Africa and her father's struggles as a doctor in a country that was about to become the AIDS capital of the world.
As you can see from the excerpt above, Robyn has a beautiful descriptive style, painting such vivid pictures that I almost feel I've been to Africa. Some parts have an almost lyrical beauty, while others are deeply depressing or thigh-slapping hysterical. Her parents, brother, sister, and grandparents -- especially the absolute character of Grandpa Ivor -- are so intriguing you want each of them to have a book of their own by the end. I absolutely recommend this book. Please check it out!
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| Sunday, June 8th, 2008
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9:02 am
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This is just a shout-out post to those of you who are trying to read my LJ but aren't on my friend's list. Due to various annoying circumstances, I have had to make my journal friends-only. But I always love making new friends! So if you would like to be on my flist, just drop a comment to this entry. I almost always friend back (except for those I determine are spammers or trolls). I'm not terribly interesting, but if you want to make the effort, go for it! ;)
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| Monday, October 24th, 2005
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6:22 pm
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Just FYI -- if you're doing a trimming of your friendslist, base your decision about me on whether you read my LJ or not. I never respond to the "reply if you want to stay on my friendslist!" posts, because if you want to cut me, you should cut me. It's nothing personal. *shrug*
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| Thursday, October 7th, 2004
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8:21 pm
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Good LORD! I just found out that some East Coast newspaper published an article on the online response to the Wells College issue, and when publishing quotes from various blogs, they included not just my username, but my FULL name, location, and occupation! I am BEYOND furious about this, and going back now to friendslock all of my old entries. So for the foreseeable future, this journal will be friends only. Let me know if you can't see previous entries and want on the list.
current mood:  infuriated
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