Over the weekend while I was out promoting the engraving of dog tags and custom engraved medical alerts for my web site www.ezpetid.com, Poppy went to stay at grannie Palomas house. As you may recall poppy is my 9 year old australian shepehrd mix who is just a wee bit spoiled. Paloma is my best friend who has 20 wonderful acres in the middle of no where. She has three men and7 dogs living on her property at the moment from small chiwawas to the largest red bull terrier I have ever seen in my life.
There is a understanding that Poppy is not a dog, she is a princess in dogs clothing and she expects to be treated like a princess. She sits in chairs at the dining room table and Paloma talks to her as if she were able to follow every word. I dare say she may follow every word, at times she seems to nod and grunt in just the right places.
Poppy has felt a little put out the last two times she visited Paloma's due to a new potentially permanent addition, a 22 month old foster child that was unceremoniously delivered to Paloma after the mother lost custody overnight. The boy has some moderate special needs that have required many doctors visits and trips out of town to childrens hospital. For several months now there has been a quiet struggle for dominance in the household. Poppy has felt put out by this curious, loud little person who seems to get more of Paloma's attention than she has for the last 8 years.
My girl has come home pouting and takes every moment she can to tell me she is not happy with the changes at grandma's house. After a visit a month ago I became so concerned with her behavior upon her return that I took her to the vet and after a complete physical and $265 lighter, I was informed that I have a very healthy dog besides some arthritis and that she must just feel stressed by the changes in Paloma's house.
So this time I sat poppy down, and we had a talk before we parted company, I told her that she really had to find charity for the child, flirt with the guys and cuddle with her grannie whenever she had time. Most of all i reminded her that she had 20 acres to run on and if she was stressed perhaps she should try pretending she was a dog and go roll in something, sniff things and remark her territory so that all would know that she is the princess.
I was happy to hear that poppy had a wonderful time at palomas this time, however she came home with FLEAS! Clearly they did not get the memo that she is a princess and that the lowly flea dare not land on her....
So here comes the advantage and her anti flea supplements which includes a bit of vinegar in her water daily... We will get those nasty fleas and my princess will live for another day to romp and play...
I wish blessings on my readers and I hope my ramblings are entertaining to you all.
Next time i will share some photos from my summer adventures and more stories from the road. My laptop will be going to the HOP doctor in TEXAS tomorrow! She needs a new fan so my postings might be slight till I get my right arm back! Can you believe how attached we have all gotten to computers in less than 20 years! I cant! HMMM is that a good thing or bad... I remember being in high school oh so many years ago and only the "a" students were allowed to touch the computers... back then the machines filled a room! now they are 17 x 20 x 1 inches sit on your lap! Go figure.
Lovs and kisses.
Kelley
Jul 29, 2009
Jul 28, 2009
Buying local and working events
Recently I set up at a local community wide event . What I love about this event is that the organizers are all volunteers and they use the proceeds to benefit the community. I believe in working at these type of events to give back to my community,while supporting the non profit I run.
I was surprised to see so many vendors coming from other states and cities to sell in Humboldt. Next week I wanted to do an event in another local city. I was told that they already had a engraver and that he was coming from out of the area.
How do we get the message of supporting the local economy to the promoters of these events without offending them, because clearly that is not the intent and most if not all are giving of themselves with the absolute best of intentions. There seems to be a disconnect between local vendors and promoters. Maybe there needs to be more information sharing. I'm not sure I have the answer, I'm just posing the question. Shouldn't local vendors be encouraged to support local events where the proceeds are being used to do good in the community? And should local promoters encourage and support local micro businesses and non profits to participate thus bringing the dollar full circle and keeping it in the community?
And yet I'm a hyprocrite, because I look forward to visiting my favorite silver vendor each year who has the best quality, affordable silver from Taxsco, Mexico I have ever seen. They do not make it themselves but they are supporting the silver smiting enterprises of the people of taxsco. Perhaps Im just posing a moral question to myself about the shop local movement. How do we connect the dots on all levels? Can we?
On another simular note, I know that after tasting fresh vegetables from my local sustainable agriculture farm of which Im a member, I can never again eat produce grown by corporations on massive farms in the central valley.
We talk alot in our county about shopping locally, and keeping humboldt dollars in humboldt, How do we translate that message to event promoters? Do we need to? I know that competing with another vendor at the event I was just at, left me about $500 light from years past where I did the event. And I still needed to pay my employee, materials, advertizing costs and booth fees, add the sales taxes Ill pay and I broke even with no profit, If you dont count what my time was worth.
I recently joined the Humboldt Independent Business Alliance and took their pledge to shop locally whereever I can, I joined because I have begun to see that as a small business - non profit, Alot of business is lost to people and corporations outside the community and as a poor rural county, we need to become more self sustainable in many ways, I frankly do not have the answers but Im hoping to learn from others and the collective.
Blessings to all and I hope this rambling makes some kind of sence to someone.
Kelley
I was surprised to see so many vendors coming from other states and cities to sell in Humboldt. Next week I wanted to do an event in another local city. I was told that they already had a engraver and that he was coming from out of the area.
How do we get the message of supporting the local economy to the promoters of these events without offending them, because clearly that is not the intent and most if not all are giving of themselves with the absolute best of intentions. There seems to be a disconnect between local vendors and promoters. Maybe there needs to be more information sharing. I'm not sure I have the answer, I'm just posing the question. Shouldn't local vendors be encouraged to support local events where the proceeds are being used to do good in the community? And should local promoters encourage and support local micro businesses and non profits to participate thus bringing the dollar full circle and keeping it in the community?
And yet I'm a hyprocrite, because I look forward to visiting my favorite silver vendor each year who has the best quality, affordable silver from Taxsco, Mexico I have ever seen. They do not make it themselves but they are supporting the silver smiting enterprises of the people of taxsco. Perhaps Im just posing a moral question to myself about the shop local movement. How do we connect the dots on all levels? Can we?
On another simular note, I know that after tasting fresh vegetables from my local sustainable agriculture farm of which Im a member, I can never again eat produce grown by corporations on massive farms in the central valley.
We talk alot in our county about shopping locally, and keeping humboldt dollars in humboldt, How do we translate that message to event promoters? Do we need to? I know that competing with another vendor at the event I was just at, left me about $500 light from years past where I did the event. And I still needed to pay my employee, materials, advertizing costs and booth fees, add the sales taxes Ill pay and I broke even with no profit, If you dont count what my time was worth.
I recently joined the Humboldt Independent Business Alliance and took their pledge to shop locally whereever I can, I joined because I have begun to see that as a small business - non profit, Alot of business is lost to people and corporations outside the community and as a poor rural county, we need to become more self sustainable in many ways, I frankly do not have the answers but Im hoping to learn from others and the collective.
Blessings to all and I hope this rambling makes some kind of sence to someone.
Kelley
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