Save the Seals

Hundreds of thousands of baby seals are about to be slaughtered for their fur. The annual hunt might already be underway as I type. In the past few years, millions of seal pups have been killed. You can learn about save the seals and sign the petition to help. The strategy to end the seal hunts is a boycott on all Canadian seafood and I've pledged to do just that.

A Fun Fast Ride!

I LOVED THIS BOOK. Three very late nights of being story-gripped and I'm left with a greater appreciation for the psychology of old age, expanded knowledge of depression-era circus culture and a renewed love for elephants. Great read!

Every Day I Celebrate!

Someone sent me the beautiful glass dishes I was loving in my last post! It was suppose to be a birthday surprise but yesterday's arrival from Sundance catalog with "Fragile" stickers all over it sorta gave it away. Haha! But it was still the perfect surprise because my birthday week starts today! Yikes!!! One more week to be 33! How should I celebrate? So glad I had yesterday's heads-up for some heavy pondering about how to greet my 34th year! Thank you Chad, for making it sweet already! You made my day. You make all my days.

I browsed Sundance catalog yesterday and LOVED this:


The Spring Fling Romantic Reads book collection! Exactly what I'm in the mood for, exactly what I'll be reading throughout my birthday month, hopefully outdoors in beautiful weather! What a great list! Love Story, Anna Karenina, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The End of the Affair, Lolita, Love in the Time of Cholera. I've always wanted to read some of these. Spent a good part of yesterday searching for used copies of some of these books online. Sure wish I could find a good used book store nearby!

I'm mostly anxious to dip into Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. The title alone had me, and then I found this excerpt:

My words rained over you, stroking you.
A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of
your body.
I go so far as to think that you own the universe.
I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains,
bluebells,
dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses.
I want
to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees.

-from "Every Day You Play"

I want these words to rain over me all month long! :)


Just a few more birthday wishes:

a horseback ride
host a spring tea party
eat Hummingbird cake
a little Sundancing
a really good hike
roller skating on the beach
road trip to Boise, or Moab
a big thunderstorm
rain boots

Recycle Bin For Glass FOUND!!!

My little Green Book says that every ten glass bottles recycled saves 3 pounds carbon.

So I've been saving glass bottles for over 2 years. My husband thinks I'm a little crazy, but I just can't throw it away! Our local recycle pick-up doesn't accept glass, so I've been searching for a place that will recycle it in Salt Lake, for over two years. So excited, and grateful for the author of this blog, I waste no time spreading the word!

The collection spot for glass is right by the Hogle Zoo! Just past the zoo in a parking lot on the same side. YAY!!!


Recycled glass dishes from Sundance. Beautiful! Love it!

Write it on your heart...

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Some favorite Irish sayings and proverbs:

Take the world nice and easy, and the world will take you the same.

'Tis better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money!

He is scant of news that speaks ill of his mother.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
Love leaves a memory no one can steal.

A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead the rest of your life.

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last.

Enough and no waste is as good as a feast.

Three best to have in plenty - sunshine, wisdom and generosity.

It's why women marry - the creatures, God bless them, are too shy to say no.

Wide is the door of the little cottage.

God made time, but man made haste.

Get down on your knees and thank God you're still on your feet.

You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

What butter and whiskey won't cure, there is no cure for.

The man who has luck in the morning has luck in the afternoon.

Be they kings, or poets, or farmers,
They're a people of great worth,
They keep company with the angels,
And bring a bit of heaven here to earth

Though not necessarily Irish, this quote sums up the attitude those forever "lucky" friends of mine, have in common. Chad is one of them and I've learned to have a more open spirit from him. I feel like one of these lucky people now! The secret is simple, and perfectly written in this quote.

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wishing you much LUCK, rainbows, magic, and beauty!!!