Saturday July 18th~

Beauty does not reserve itself for

 special elite moments or instances; it does

 not wait for perfection but is present

 already secretly in everything...

 Everywhere I go, I find beauty and something 

good to always carry with me.  I love to travel, but 

only on short trips.  My most favorite times.  Unless 

of course there at times when one stays a little 

 longer in a certain place because that place 

is where the ones you love are.

That being said after all the journeys, all the 

destinations my most favorite place of all is being

 home with Sniff and Arvid.  I have been away for 

some days now from Sniff.  I sure miss that little 

rascal and can't wait to see him.  Don't want to think 

of having to leave him for weeks soon.  For now I 

am happy that soon I will see my Sniff Sniff.

I had been told that the training 

procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. 

Mine had me trained in two days...

~Nadiya~

Halloween 2022, Monday October 31st ~ 💕

Please park all brooms at the door...

Breast Cancer is a journey I never planned or asked for. But I 

choose to love life, hate the disease and  fight.  The only way.

Halloween is a great time to be creepily creative!  What do 

you plan on doing today?  Who do you plan on "scaring"

Halloween was so much fun when we were little.  We 

would go out trick or treating with my mom and/or our dad.

  The always said, "you can't be too careful."  The tradition

 continued with my nieces, nephews and granddaughters.

Even though Halloween has become more  commercialized, 

it is still a time kids look forward to.  Unfortunately in the society

 we now live in, it's also become quite dangerous for kids.  

Too many weirdos/sickos out there with bad intentions.

Today in Norway our youngest granddaughter, Amelia

 turns one year old.  I have not seen her nor held her as yet 😭 

Looking so very forward to doing so this summer 🎃

Last year we were in Puerto Rico.  Early in the mornings I

 would be out feeding my 14 kitties. I think of them quite often.  

I also miss my wildlife friends in Branson.  There is a lot of things I

 miss both in PR and Branson.  Arvid said to me the other day, "maybe 

we need to take a trip back to Branson and have some good food."  

The good thing about being in Florida is that when we

 leave to go back to Branson there is absolutely nothing I really

will miss.  We have never grown attached to anything here. 

 It is beautiful, but it is also beautiful in every place we 

have been.  Beauty as they say is in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Life suddenly got a little more complicated for me, but I 

did it before and I will do it again.  I am after all, my mother's 

daughter, and she is the strongest woman I know.  Her five 💞

 girls took after her and my dad.  Nothing will keep us down.

Even in a world with much sadness, 

at its essence, life is beautiful.

~Nadiya~