Sunday was Father’s Day and my family made it a great day for me and it was a perfect way to get ready for the upcoming work week. The kids had tickets for the Okotoks Dawgs baseball game Sunday afternoon and for me, it’s pretty hard to beat a sunny afternoon baseball game! And add the kids and it’s perfect.

I’m easy to please with a bottle of root beer and a bag of peanuts compliments of the kids and I sat back and got my sunburn on. We also had one of Olivia’s friends with us and my niece too.

After the game we all went back to the house and Lori had burgers on the BBQ and ice cream sandwiches. I even got a card and a gift from the kids! The card was handmade which was cool because I probably haven’t had a handmade card since the kids were in grade school. And check this gift out from The locked Room . This looks like a lot of fun and we will do this in August! It’s quite an interesting concept that I will be sure to get back to you about after we’ve done it and experienced it.

Hoover the Dog had major surgery on Friday to remove a malignant tumor from her side. It’s a huge ass incision and something along the lines of a Frankenstein scar. The Vet is confident that they took a large enough marker and they got it all. They would send her to a specialist if we wanted to but at this time we don’t want her on any drugs if she doesn’t need them. She’s full of life, acting like a pup half the time and I think she has already for gotten about the trauma that happened at the “bad place”. The place that has all those people who wear white coats who always stick needles in her. It’s going to be impossible to coax her into that office next time. She’s good now though, acting like a pup and running around. She was even smart enough to put her pills in her mouth, lick off the peanut butter and spit them back out. So now Lori is putting the pills in cheese. Hopefully Hoover the Dog is around for many more years.

Call me schmaltzy but I like this speech from Rocky Balboa. I really like it!

Rocky Balboa, is having a heart-to-heart with his son. The advice he gives him: Don’t let your failures or the adversity you face slow you down. Keep. Moving. Forward.

Rocky Balboa (2006)

“You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!”

We have tickets to see Joe Jackson on the 27th so the song this week is a Joe Jackson tune called

Is She Really Going Out With Him

The quote this week is from Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanks for dropping by and I hope I’ll see you next week…………………..