Monday September 12th ~

 Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy 
with the beautiful things that make you, you...

Sniff is always there to keep me company.  He wakes 

up when I do.  Gets his brushing and goes right back to sleep.

  Sometimes, like yesterday morning, he stayed close to me.  Other 

times he goes back to the bedroom with his dada.  Depends

 on his mood at that moment.  Whatever makes him happy.

Custard makes me happy especially if it's Andy's custard. 

 To this day I have not tasted anything better than Andy's.  

Not here, not Florida or anywhere else.  Another thing in 

Branson that is superb.  The fact that Arvid is the one 

always saying, "let's go to Andy's" is even better 🍦

It's always the simplest things in life that makes me 

the happiest.  Andy's custard, a little drive around town, 

enough to make any day a better, brighter day.

My daily battle now is to chase away the black birds from

 eating all the bird seeds.  My Fatboys, Daisys and the little ones

 are scared to come when these big ugly black birds are around. 

 There are quite a lot of them and they eat the food really fast.

Of course Arvid says I am nuts, maybe I am but it makes me 

feel better to chase them away.  Keeps me moving a lot 😂

Once again I am awake way to early.  Why I have no idea.

  It's not as if there is that many things that I need to urgently

 do at this hour.  On the other hand, it's nice and quiet.  

It's already getting "cold" in the mornings.  Last year 

we had beautiful warm weather until December.

Soccerwise, it has been some very quiet days for Arvid. 

 Due to the death of Queen Elisabeth, games were postponed.  

Of course Arvid not so happy, on the other hand he said to me,

 "next weekend they will make up for it."  Guessing it will be

 a busy soccer weekend.  Little things make him so happy.

To all a good day.  Find something in each day that

 makes you happy, and makes you smile.

Be happy with what you have. 

 Be excited about what you want...

~Nadiya~

Hello Friday....

Everything beautiful has its moments then passes away...

One of my Facebook friends from Norway lives in a place called Rissa.  Yesterday 

evening he posted a picture of the sun setting.  This was close to 11pm in Norway.  I have

 seen  beautiful sunsets, but this one sure is among the prettiest of recent.

The thing I remember most about my first trip ever to Norway was that it never got

dark in the evenings.  The sky was always bright.  Though very beautiful, it made it 

kind of difficult to want to go to sleep.  You kept thinking that it is still too early to sleep. 

It was a beautiful thing to see.

Not too bad if you ask.  Yesterday we had a beautiful day filled with sunshine.

With quite a few chores to do, the day went by pretty fast.  It seems as if

a day does not go by without me doing loads and loads of laundry.  The happiest 

in this scenario is always Brutus.  Lots of clean, warm laundry to catch a little snooze 

on  Exactly as he was doing as I took the laundry out of the dryer.

Yes, we spoil him :)

The weekend is looking very promising.  Some friends are visiting and

we are looking forward to taking them to another favorite restaurant of ours.

The weather is looking good and what better way to start the weekend than

with a little visit to the mall, one of my fruity umbrella drinks and whatever

else that follows.  Yes, today I am really ready for the weekend!

For now have a happy Friday and join me in my cup of cafe to bring in the day!

Happiness is when what you think, what you say,

and what you do are in harmony...

~Nadiya~