Hey drama chica, scored three $75 tickets for $25 each in the wee morning hours due to an odd week off in Feb.. Seeing Tempest, Comedy of Errors and Sign in S. B.'s Window as Ashland opens its season. Great thing is, there's no bad seat since the indoor venues are so small.
Holy sh#t balls, Sullly!! That is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO awesome!!!
(swear to god, while I read that, my mouth was open but not making noise... gasping for air.) (something is wrong with me... I blame theatre!)
Reminds me of Dancer (who reminds me of 2nd chances)
Dancer is chihuahua. She's cute but only so far as you might think chihuahua cute. She's got wiry short white hair, no fat, very large ears and those big chihuahua eyes.
She was an abandoned dog, left to her own devices out on a country road. She was desperate and dying. She showed up at the farm of a friend of mine, surely looking for food.
On that farm, Bella is queen. And Queen Bella was the first to detect the intruder. My friend Chris first came to notice Dancer because Bella had attacked her and chased her into some small wire enclosure normally used to protect young plants from getting knocked over. It did not offer complete safety and Bella was terrorizing her when Chris came up.
Chris has something of the Outlaw Josey Wales in him. He's a Texas A&M grad and has spent his life creating food. He's worked for big AG in his professional world, crop consultant. He basically sells chemicals to farmers.
I sell big AG chemicals to the big industrial farmers around here. This is for the food you buy at Safeway and Ralphs. I also sell to organic farmers, natural fertilizers and pest control formulas and such. My 3rd big group of customers are pot farmers. They're the worst. Let me tell you, when some bug or fungus invades a pot grow, those people will spray ANYTHING on those plants to save them. ANYTHING. They're the worst.
He thinks there's a market for certified organic pot and I happen to agree with him.
ANYWAY..... (hehe)
I was talking about Wales. Josey Wales. Chris seems to collect strays. I won't go into it because some of the strays are people of course. But just like Josey Wales, he has a fondness for the, ahem, underdog. But he also possesses a farmer's, oh I'd call it, callousness. Farmers can be hard as nails and soft as downy feathers all at once, that's Chris.
He saved Dancer and adopted her. Two yeas later she still cowers when Bella growls. Bella is Queen of the farm and she never let's Dancer forget it. But I've seen their secret... Bella also plays with Dancer when no one is looking.
Dancer was abused, clearly, or simply mistreated in a way that scars dogs for life. And yet, like us all, like humans and dogs both, she NEEDS company and she NEEDS love and to be loved. A dog alone is no dog at all.
So the story ends happily as we might hope in the Enjoy Life thread. Dancer got her 2nd chance and she has a well cared for life. Now this ain't no city life, she's not pampered. But she's well fed and Chris looks after her even though he might spit some juice on her head from time to time. That's just the way it is.
Dancer took a shine to me, on some visit. We're like > X < that now, me and Dancer.
;D
DMT
ps. Last time I saw, Bella was a bit subdued. She was wearing a day-2 dead chicken tied to her collar. She killed a hen. She was wearing the hen. She would wear the hen till it fell off. Stern lessons, on the farm.
Around here you kill the chicken YOU WEAR THE CHICKEN
Credit: Dingus Milktoast
The other day my kid and I stopped in. Here comes Dancer running out to greet us, barking excitedly. She knows my van, she knows its me. She runs up, forgetting herself for a moment of excitement. And then suddenly she realizes she's close to an open car door? And zoom, like a bad memory she is GONE. But seconds later she's back once more, love'll do that to a dog. :)
Later, we were doing something near the garage and her comes Dancer again, with a big fresh dead mouse in her mouth, plump ass sticking out one side of her jaw, head out the other. She looked happy.
So the story ends happily as we might hope in the Enjoy Life thread. Dancer got her 2nd chance and she has a well cared for life. Now this ain't no city life, she's not pampered. But she's well fed and Chris looks after her even though he might spit some juice on her head from time to time. That's just the way it is.
Dancer took a shine to me, on some visit. We're like > X < that now, me and Dancer.
Awesome story, as always, Dingus. I like that Dancer and Bella do have their own special relationship.
Here's to creating this level of JOY in as many lives as we possibly can.
Ultimately, when it's all said and done, all we've got are our memories and checkin' out with even one that is this grand is better than not having felt it or . . . better yet. . . helping somebody else feel it!
Let us know!