BREAKING NEWS!!

YIPPEE!!
OWEN HAS BEEN FOUND!

I don't know all the details yet, Kathy called while I was walking Braxton & Lulu when the call came in :-)

Mr. B took the call and Kathy & Gerri were on their way back to Gerri's to look him over -

Full of stickers and I'll bet a lot of good stories to tell..

I'll let you know in tonight's post..but for now all I can say is.....

THANK YOU ALL!

Your prayers, your concern, you karma, your good-will..it all matters..

THANK YOU GOD..

More information as news comes in..

-me

Thanks everyone of you..

No news to report.

They've put up a ton of flyers and offered a reward, but I hesitate to call - I don't want to make it worse..

I may take a few days off posting..I will read and comment, you always make me smile, want to cook or craft or laugh out loud!

Thanks for that..

-me

No news....

We're still holding out hope..

In the meantime, I just can't be flippant..

Sorry. Hopefully the new day will bring good news.

Heavenly Father -

We ask you to help us find Owen,
our dear pet who is now lost.

We know that you placed animals on the earth
for many reasons, including companionship for man.

We therefore ask you to help us find our lost companion,
and pray that You will keep him safe
and protect him from harm until he is found.

We join our prayers with St. Francis,
St. Anthony of Padua, and all the saints,
and pray in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen

Hear our humble prayer, O God,
for our friends the animals,
especially for animals who are suffering;
for animals that are overworked,
underfed and cruelly treated;
for all wistful creatures in captivity
that beat their wings against bars;
for any that are hunted or lost or deserted
or frightened or hungry;
for all that must be put death.
We entreat for them all Thy mercy and pity,
and for those who deal with them
we ask a heart of compassion
and gentle hands and kindly words.
Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to animals,
and so to share the blessings of the merciful.

Author - Albert Schweitzer

-me

Doggie prayers needed..

While my sister Kathy is in Arivaca, Arizona with my sister Gerri, and visiting our brother, her little dog, Owen J is missing.

He goes everywhere with her. She is totally in love with him and the feeling is obviously mutual.


Every day while Kathy was there, Molly (Gerri's dog) and Owen have been best buds..going outside to play (Gerri has several acres in which they can play, romp and investigate)


..And all has been great..

Until this morning..

Owen & Molly went out with Gerri to feed..a horse came up behind Owen and spooked him..he ran full force..

...out the fence..

...down the dirt road..

And they can't find him.


Gerri has most of her neighbors and friends searching, but we're talking a LOT of acres to cover..with scrub brush and mesquite trees and out buildings where a little dog could hide.


It's dark now and the search will have to wait until morning.


Please pray, speak to whatever higher power you know..call in your good deeds and help Owen get back to Kathy..

Her heart is broken, Molly is worried and Gerri is beside herself.


I believe in the power of prayer, thoughts, karma and guardian Angels..

...and I know if you could, you'd be right there helping in the search..

But you can help..please pray.

And hug your furbabies tight tonight..

-me

Dean Martin..

remember him?

I do. But I never really thought much about him or his music when I was younger.

However, since one of my most favorite-est movies is Return to Me..and his music was featured in this movie, I have had a new liking for his voice.


I think it may be because the movie and the music remind me of Mother & Daddy when I was growing up.

The whole Irish-older people and the little dances they were doing..the good-natured kidding..


Yes, it was just like I remembered.

Ehh ....probably not.

I mean, my folks never had a circle of close friends, or bowled, or ran an Irish-Italian restaurant..

And yet, I do associate my family with the characters in this movie.

I do ramble on, don't I?


OK, OK, this is actually about Dean Martin, remember? And how I like his voice?

Especially his Christmas songs..


So for the next month or so, I will listen to Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, the Carpenters and Brenda Lee sing all the Christmas songs I love.



How about you? Who do you hear that takes you back to when you were a little kid and the whole Christmas season was....magic??


OK, I'm done...you can wake up now..

..seriously..stop reading..

-me

Hello my friends...

And so, Arizona was.......... fun...

and sad.


and exhausting..

and invigorating..



It was the hardest trip I've ever taken..

and the easiest one to decide to go on.


I didn't want it to end..

..but I couldn't wait to get back home..

and try to pretend it will be OK if I just don't think about it.


Yet it's all I think about.

Did I say the right things..

Did I say too much??


Will he remember what I whispered in his ear..did he hear me?

How lucky am I to have gone at all..

I rode horse..


I rode in the back of a pick-up truck..


I had lunch with my very first sister-in-law.

I was 12 again when everything was fun..


and nothing would change.


But we know that things change.

And we have to say goodbye.

But it's hard..


and painful..

and I am sooo lucky to have been given this chance...

to tell him once again what an honor it is to be his sister.

before it's too late..


And I am soo thankful..

And I an mad as hell.

-me

So, tommorrow I'm headin' for...

To visit with...

and..... actually I flying in to..

Because one of them...
..lives out there....somewhere...near the bottom...sort of...


..which is very close to...

..so ... "see" you all on Monday..

As I let my inner-Arizonian out...

.....have fun and miss me 'cos I'll be missing all of you :-(

-me aka Coyote-Colleen