Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Last Night's Sleep
7 hr 04 min
7 hr 04 min
Today's Forecast
Today: Mainly sunny. Wind west 17 km/h, gusting to 27 km/h. High 0°C. Wind chill minus -5°C.
Tonight: Cloudy. Low minus -6°C. Wind chill minus -11°C.
Air Quality: 3 - Low Risk
Air Quality: 3 - Low Risk
Today's Journal
Happy Valentines Day. AND Happy 4th Birthday to our beautiful Miss Tickles. She's a recued "Potcake". Tickles and her three littermate brothers were abandoned feral pups on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas. They were rescued on April 3rd 2020, when they were about 7 weeks old, by an angel named Claire Cash and her volunteer organization in Nassau called Potcake Puppy Palace. The pups were very thin and very scared. But they were loved and cared for by the volunteers that worked at the shelter and nursed back to health. Due to restrictions caused by the pandemic in early 2020 the rescue organization was not allowed to airlift puppies out of the country so the pups stayed in an outdoor chain-link fenced kennel situation with dozens and dozens of other Potcake pups for the next four months.
After countless hours of hard work, months of planning and fund-raising and coordinating with the Bahamas Humane Society and the Humane Society of Durham Region in Ontario, on August 1st 2020, 90 Potcake puppies were crated and put on a cargo plane. The pups went to four different Humane Societies in Ontario, Canada and all of them had volunteer foster homes within days. Tickles was fostered by two women who owned one of our local Pet Valu stores. She lived with them for nearly a month while they tried to find a forever home for her. That home ended up being ours. I was allowed to bring the puppy home for the weekend. Dennis had NO CLUE this was happening until I walked into the house with 6 month old Tickles. His immediate reaction was, "Ohhhh, she's cute!" I knew then we were doomed, hahaha. We adopted her and she has been living her best life every since.
Today's Daily Affirmations
* I embrace my inner sense of self-worth.
* I deserve to have great things happen to me.
* I go to bed at night with gratitude in my heart.
* I am in control of how I respond to life.
* Everything is okay in this moment.
* I make space for my emotions without acting on them.
* I embrace the fact that emotions can’t last forever.
Wisdom from the Socrates Café
“There will be — or already has been — a last time in your life that you will do something; make a bed, cook a meal, drive a car, mow the lawn, or sing a song. There will be a last time you hear the sound of snow falling, watch the moon rise, smell popcorn, feel the warmth of your furbaby falling asleep on your lap, or going on a hike. You will someday eat your last meal, and soon thereafter you will take your last breadth.”
“We are mortal beings, so one of these days we will die. This logically entails that there will be a last time for everything we do. Reason dictates that we take this fact as a given and act accordingly, by focusing on what we want to do between now and then, which includes savoring those “last time I do x,” if we happen to be conscious of them.”
Today's Exercise
4:26 pm - "Outdoor Walk" @cemetery w/Dennis & Tickles
21 minutes / 1830 steps / 1.19 km
Today's Total Steps:
7380
