Miracle On Snowy Moose Lane

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"

Henry David Thoreau

  MaggieMoose is all about the moose family since she's part moose and a connoisseur of twigs like her moose family. A dear friend sent us an email with some snowy moose photos. Woo Hoo! We were loving these images. A miracle indeed to see an albino moose in nature. The email stated these moose photos were taken north of the Wisconsin border near Marenisco, MI. No credit (that we could see) was given for the photographer, but we thank them whoever they are. WOOF! WOOF! 

Maggie appreciates other's uniqueness since she is precious herself. She loves to look through another's eyes and step into their hooves or paws. Maggie thinks it improves one's vision on life and shows all the pawsabilities! After all, Maggie is a little snowy and a little brown. Her coat has both colors. For me, Miss Maggie is my miracle as I look through her eyes to see what I have never seen before. Maggie recommends trying this, just for an instant, you might be surprised when two snowy moose show up! MaggieMoose calls it living with moose size pawsabilities! WOOF! WOOF!

Raining Gale Storm Roses

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true."

Ray Evans

  Maggie and I spent a wild weekend of gale storm wind and rain. One of the biggest storms of late. We hunkered down. It started with the big football game on Friday night. Stanford football played UCLA football for the Pac-12 Championship. Stanford came out victorious through the raindrops to win a spot in the Rose Bowl on New Years Day. It rained roses for Stanford. 

Stanford

On Saturday Wisconsin played Nebraska in their Pac-10 Championship game. Wisconsin came up smelling roses. The Rose Bowl will host our home team Stanford against Wisconsin. Meanwhile, Saturday it rained again. Maggie and I took our morning walk with raincoats on. The powerful wind picked up right before we finished our walk. We spent time in the warm, coziness of our home complete with the glow from the Christmas tree lights. Some folks might play board games, but Maggie spent her time chewing things over. 

On Sunday the storm was at its worst. It was so windy we had to take our new bird feeder down for fear it might go whipping around and do some damage. The winds were so powerful visions of Dorothy in Kansas being swept away to Oz came to mind. Maggie and I were sure our bird friends were holding on tight somewhere in the protection of their nest. We couldn't take our morning walk it was so stormy. For any drivers out there it was white knuckle driving. Fortunately, later in the day the sun came out as if nothing had happened. Even though streets were lined with tree debris, the sky was pure blue without a cloud. In our area, rain means green grass. It's akin to how the corn grows in Iowa-you can see it grow! Sure enough, the grass had sprouted enough for the cattle to come back and graze. The sunshine before the sunset was a beautiful ending of our stormy, gale force rainy and rosey weekend. We hung the bird feeder back up. A minute later our little Junco bird was back cracking the seeds. The promise of celebration was before us all.

Election Day: VOTE For Lucky Or Wash

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."

Robert Frost

"Lucky" girl

  Today is Election Day in America. While the humans are out voting, Maggie thinks people might want to vote for her Springer friends Lucky or Wash who are waiting in shelters. All across America's shores from East to West the English Springer Rescue America, Inc. (ESRA) has many wonderful dogs waiting for a forever home. Lucky is a 9 year old Liver & White female in Ohio that's had some tough breaks. Like Maggie, she's a cuddle bug. Maggie votes that a human looking for some cuddles and licks takes her home ASAP. Then there's Wash from Wisconsin. He's a 4 year old Black & White boy who loves to talk it up. They say he sounds like he's gurgling! Maggie can relate. Ask her about her tennis ball and she'll talk up a storm. Wash is looking for someone to have some fun with! Is it you? Maggie hopes so. Think about it. Tell some friends. Then VOTE by casting your ballot for the the best shelter dog for you! WOOF WOOF 

"Wash" boy