Katie and David visit santa. These are too cute.
My work this weekend is complete!
We missed our family and friends on Thanksgiving....but more turkey for us! And it tasted as good as it looked!
Ok, maybe they aren't ready to be hung yet but step one is complete. They are cut out. (...there's hope they'll be done by Christmas!) This is my project for Thanksgiving weekend. I am making stockings for my sister's family. The small one is the original pattern. I decided it was too small so I improvised to make them larger. Karlie needs a stocking big enough to fit all kinds of toys and fun stuff as she gets older.
A fellow dog lover shared this story with me.
DRUM WAS A HOUND dog. He was brown and skinny with floppy ears and tearful eyes. His special joy came when his owner, Charles Burden, slung a shotgun under his shoulder and took to the fields around Warrensburg, MO., to flush small game and birds.
The dog was so good that Burden lent him to neighbors. Leonidas Hornsby was one. Hornsby raised sheep. He borrowed Drum and used him with gratitude.
But he told Burden that two of his sheep had been killed, and he suspected a loose dog. Drum paid a visit to Mr. Hornsby's house one night. A shotgun blast tore his hide. Drum twitched on the ground and died.
Burden sued his pal, Hornsby. Two undying friends became undying enemies. Burden retained Sen. George Vest, a spellbinder, as his attorney. Little is recalled except the senator's summation to the jury.
"The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful."
"The money that a man has, he may lose. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads."
"The one absolutely unshelfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness."
"He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world."
"If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than of accompanying him to guard against the danger and fight against his enemies, and, when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death."
SEN. VEST concluded by asking the jury to bring in a verdict for "Old Drum". He mopped his brow with a florid kerchief and sat. There was no applause, no recognition from the bench or the court stenographer that the man had, in effect, immortalized all dogs in a few paragraphs.
The jury brought in a verdict for the dog. Hornsby stood and shook his fist. He said he would fight the verdict to the state supreme court. And so, at great cost to Burden and Hornsby, the case moved to the court of appeals and, eventually, to the Missouri state supreme court.
Hornsby's appeal was denied. The judges found that Drum "was only paying a courtesy call on his old friend, Leonidas Hornsby".
Just another EXCITING Football Sunday. I'm getting exhausted just watching the excitement!
From Mike's perspective.
The local businesses sponsor Halloween around the Lakeyard. I helped some 4Her's hand out candy. I was dressed as a tourist.
