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Recently, officials closed down a local illegal puppy mill and rescued 147 dogs living in atrocious conditions. The public response has been amazing, and I just wanted to get the word out, in case anyone reading this would like to help in some way…. Most of the dog can’t be adopted as of now, but the Animal Shelter would definitely appreciate more donations of money, food, blankets, etc. To reach Second Chance Animal Rescue, call (831) 623-2337. You can reach Hollister Animal Control at (831) 636-4320. Mail checks to the City of Hollister, 375 Fifth Street, Hollister, CA, 95023. We got our dog Merlin from the Hollister Animal Shelter (years ago) when he was a puppy, and he’s part Queensland Heeler, one of the breeds they rescued.

Well, today we went to pick up the rental car to use while the Honda’s getting repaired. We were scheduled to pick up a Ford Escort sized car, but they didn’t have any left, so they gave us a free upgrade to a MINIVAN! It’s rather cool looking, as far as minivans go – a silver Dodge Ram with a rather stylish looking front end. It even tells you what direction you’re pointing! A great plus about this is that we can use the minivan to do a massive recycling and dump run. The Honda Civic is a great little car, but there are some things that just WON’T fit in it – LOL. AND the BEST thing is that we were still getting FM radio reception when we got to our front door! And yes, this is unusual – completely unheard of actually. Most stations, in the Honda, have faded out before we even get to the top of our road, twelve miles away. Woo Hoo! {doing the dance of joy}

I was looking up some information for a friend (no, really! *grin*) and ran across this page at the Art Bell web site. It’s a bunch of drawings of what they call “shadow people” but what we have just been calling “black things”. The people on the site seem a tad more negative about their experiences on the whole, but mostly I tend to think of the beings or black things as “neutral”. Anyway, the drawings are pretty interesting – but don’t go if you think the drawings might freak you out. 😉

The magic word today is SPACE, namely, space to be fully ME. This translates into imaginings of having huge amounts of space in the house, on the desk, on the computer, in the area… etc., and how that FEELS. What’s interesting is that we’ve recently switched this domain to servers that offer us five times more space than we had (we had filled our last space allotment and were spilling over, in fact.) And many times it seems that when we put energy into creating something for the web, it’s kind of a framework for creating a similar thing (in feel) in physical reality. Ahhhh, SPACE! 🙂

There’s a beekeeper who keeps box hives of bees at a few locations along our country road (in exchange, he gives the ranchers who own the land honey.) In the spring, on sunny mornings when you go outside, there’s a omnipresent BUZZING that makes you think you must be hearing things. Luckily, the bees are MOSTLY concentrated in the tops of the live oak trees, so we’re not bothered much by them. But it IS a bit disconcerting – I keep looking around for a ‘sound quality’ knob I can adjust or whacking and shaking my head. LOL.