Life @ RuffHaven

WOYWW # 139

First. Let me thank ALL of you for your comments and emails

after my previous post. I love blogland and I am sorry I stayed

away so long. I am sure you all understand .

It's hard to connect with the outside world, when you are drowning in your own.

So in an effort to get back into the swing of things I am going to

start participating in my favorite link up parties.

Today is Wednesday and that means WOYWW.

as I said yesterday, I am on vacation and I did not

bring crafty projects with me.

But I did bring a few organizing projects.

I brought this:

years and years of photos that never made it into scrapbooks.

I can't seem to be able to part with them ....so

this is on my table today

Although neatly organized in boxes, they take up too much space

so, through the scanner they go

and they will be stored on this teeeeny tiny disk:

technology is amazing.

yes, that is a US Quarter that the disk is sitting upon.

So I will be here for a few days working on this fun organizing

project while taking a trip though the past.

In the meantime......

Here's a closeup of a common item....

What is it?

after you leave your answer in a comment here

be sure to go to Julia's to see what
everyone else is sharing today.

happy to be back in blogland !

Just posting this here so I can find it later....yeah, I'm old.
Are you old too?
Well if you haven't already seen this floating around the web you might enjoy reading it too.
Thanks for stopping by....I'll be back soon

OH HOW TRUE THIS IS!!!!!

Subject: Growing up without a cell phone--VERY FUNNY!

If you are 36, or older, you might think this is hilarious!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning....

Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!  And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen!  Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
6) We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MYGOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen.. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!

      And car seats - oh, please!    If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970   or any time before!

Regards,
The Over 40 Crowd

like I said ....I found this I did not write it. Original author unknown.

self portrait

paper and paint collage on canvas

I am fighting the urge to crawl under a big fluffy blanket for the winter.

I've been working on a few paper and paint collages.

This one is my latest attempt at a self portrait.

I've been a bit blue lately.

I am a Gemini

The line down the center of my face represents my two inner voices.

Those voices are always in constant battle.

One of my Gemini Superpowers is the ability to equally balance pros and cons...

but this also makes the decision process very hard for me.

I have had a lot on my mind.

We recently made the decision to not bring anymore dogs to RuffHaven.

It was a heart wrenching debate for us.

You see....we've been reminded again of how short life is

and how we do not know how long we have on this earth.

Since RuffHaven is small and private and not supported by public donations,

we knew that at some point we would need to stop.

We did the math and realized that this is the right thing to do.

The dogs that are here now will stay here for the rest of their lives.

Penny's Status has been changed from "Resident" to "Pet"

We are down to five.

But that doesn't mean I will stop saving dogs

I contacted the local shelter and had our home added to the list of foster homes in this area.

I know fostering will be hard, since I fall in love so easily....

but I will be able to help more dogs this way.


Bosley

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Eleven Eleven Eleven

(Remember my ten ten ten post from last year?)

MORE RANDOM

Marianne...

1. is happy

2. was adopted

3. loves sunsets.

If the sunset is especially beautiful she will call everyone

she knows and tells them to go look at the sunset

4. started to watch TV again...big mistake

don't bother her at all on Thursday nights

5. loves to travel

6. is still married to a Lifeguard

(but it was tough this year)

7. does not like shopping malls and thinks they

should all be turned into homeless shelters

8. got six speeding tickets this year...

driving too fast past a speed camera that she knows is there

so now she just doesn't drive through that town anymore...she takes another route

9. wants to raise chickens

10. loves RollerCoasters

her favorite vacation was one she took with her kids when they were 16 1nd 17.

They hopped from amusement park to amusement park

and rode 32 different roller coasters in one week.

11. used to bite her fingernails. But she doesn't remember when or how she stopped doing it.

One day about ten years ago,

she looked at her nails and they were long...

she remembers smiling about that.

MORE FAVORITES

Marianne had a hard time choosing these:

1. Color - Buttercream Yellow

2. Wild Animal -Elephant

3. Food - Mushrooms

4. Drink - Apple Cider

5. Movie - Dances With Wolves

6. Song - In Your Eyes

7. State - Utah

8. Hobby - Sewing

9. Flower - Daisy

10. Shape - Circle

11. Game - Scrabble

WOYWW # 139

the funny truth

self portrait

Be Loyal

Be nurturing

Be Comforting

be positive

be wise

be gentle

be playful

be understanding

be sweet

be shy sometimes

and when neccessary...

be a pain in the ass

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