MaggieMoose: Dog Days of My Summer Diary

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies and make new friends."

Darell Hammond

lazy lingering days

hunt for insects

practice swimming strokes

make new friends

MaggieMoose: Retro Ride

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"Make new friends,

but keep the old.

One is silver,

the other is gold."

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  Maggie gave me the pitiful look. The look of 'let's shake it up' or in her simple words 'ROAD TRIP'. I put the leash on her and we took off for the MaggieMoose mobile (our 2011 Subaru Forester). Years ago as a kid on road trips my family sang songs like 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat, Gently down the stream...Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.... ' I can still hear my dad's deep voice starting us all off on our 4 person chorus. I asked Maggie what she wanted to sing, but before she could answer we saw the old classic car. 

WOW, what a beauty! We aren't car aficionado folk, but when we saw this magnificently restored car it took our breath away. Love went into that baby. It was then I knew the song for us to sing; Make New Friends. It's about the old and the new, both precious. As I kid I learned this song in Girl Scouts and it stayed with me, like an old friend. Hit it Maggie: Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, and the other gold.... Finally on the open road we saw another classic car. Maggie, have we gone retro? We liked this spiffed up sparkling beauty. Let's go traveling! Retro ride Maggie.

For my old Girl Scout memories of gold, here's some new friends of silver: Troop 970 singing Make New Friends in American Sign Language (ASL). 

Hit it Troop 970!

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Making New Friends

Maggie's pawsability thought for the day:

"Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other is gold." 

  Maggie and I are traveling down a new path. Uncharted territory. We'll be leaving some friends behind as I'm sure we'll making some new friends ahead. It reminds me of the value of friendship. From my old Girl Scout days the simple, but powerful chant comes to mind about making new friends; one is silver and the other gold.... Friends are always with us in our hearts and minds. Some more powerful than others, and both precious like silver and gold. The second line of the chant goes ".... A circle is round, it has no end. That's how long, I will be your friend." As Maggie and I look ahead to new friends; we'll remember the old, because one is silver and the other gold....