Winter/winner... dog lessons...

"...as my artist's statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and therefore is full of deep significance..."                     Calvin & Hobbies

" You don't  take a photograph, you make it."     Ansel Adams


The image above is pretty much winter here in Panguitch since the start of the new year... This is a sunrise by the way... looking East out my/the office window, the neighbors houses have been cropped away... as most of you know what a house looks like, except the new doctors Mac mansion to the west of us... i think i told that story a few posts back. Mild winter by Panguitch standards, not much snow, cold but not extreme, and surely not wet, less then an inch of rain, puddles twice after showers. 
Winter lesson: i have been learning/dealing with facebook with the intention of a Red Canyon visitor center page/wall for the coming 2014 season, something on the lines of the twelve current event framed/pages that hang on the wall in the visitor center... i find  facebook a very uncreative space/place... not even a good gossip place just a re-hashing of ideas or other's opinions that some how agree with theirs a little bit, along with a good place to hide and toss out jabs at "friends" and folks whose ideas and opinions you don't agree with... not always a very positive place. Basically post and run... along with "threads" that get beat to death like a horse, lots of "snarks".  Now in all fairness i think a lot of this comes back to whom one accepts as "friends", i have less then one hundred, some folks have thousands plus, and that maybe their"badge"... and maybe i am a social introvert... but i believe you reap what ya sow. Don't open your world to the whole world, and use the un-friend button when needed... along with the hide button when visual and verbal postings become offensive... and get/stay out of the kitchen if it gets too hot... use the OFF switch. Just cause your there don't you put up with it or stay... run.
Just as an aside i found out the Forest Service does not allow facebook pages/walls for any units other then the Service as an Agency under Washington's control... so do not expect to see Red Canyon on facebook period... that is all.

Winter lesson #2: Mr. deeks the family companion and dog has got it figured out, even as a two year old... not in dog years but people years... he has become my life manager this winter season. There may have to be lots of bring the dog to work days this coming season!

This guy, at seven  pounds, can teach a lesson with the best of anyone and can chew away a bone clean as a whistle ! He is not only a teacher but an enforcer... drives a hard bargain... and gets as excited as a whirlwind, and lets you know it! 
The key to his day is lots of naps in between short intense blasts of play with his basket full of toys and me. He does not allow me to sit at the computer for too long a stretch  without getting up to so he can attend to his daily duties. We have to go for at least one drive/ride about town usually the post office and small errands , and he knows what time this must happen. Then there is nap time, usually on the couch me laying down and he laying on top to keep me in place for at least an hour, i really like these "power" naps! The rest of the time he waits patiently for Jolene to get home after work so he can "work" with her... and as soon as its dark outside it's lights out for him...  early to sleep early to rise.

Winter lesson #3: This of season was busy to start, building a storage shed before the weather got here, that's done, the weather is still not here.  Some of the household appliances have started to fail and need replacement, can't be fixed, no one can get parts.
For whatever reason these things never happen at a good time, whenever that might be, when you get it all done and replaced with something new and connected to the existing infrastructure we tend to see/have minor failure's due to new stresses on the old system. All of this teaches patience with all household members, and ya know mr.deeks is again the best teacher and example of how to deal with these issues!

I have also discovered that bring angry at a brick wall, or any other inanimate object, along with people, does not affect the brick wall in anyway... all it does is make me unhappy. I am learning slowly to give that anger to someone who has already suffered that anger for me... and will lift it from me if i choose to give it to Him and follow his example... Jesus Christ wants me and my burdens and will make them light... if i choose to just follow him. So i am learning to read the scriptures every morning in search of answers to the days challenges that come my way. Bottom line i am trying hard to choose not to be angry because it becomes a waste of time and i need that time to get the broken fixed and move on. Soon enough today will come to an end and a new day will be here with more to get done.

Cheers to the daily cycle of life... 
the past is gone with nothing more to change it...
today is here... do the best we can to make it better....
the future is tomorrow... look forward to it and meet the challenge of it...
CHEERS