Category: Milestones

De-Lurking Day

Hi Everyone. Once a year a whole handful of bloggers I know get together and we have a day we call De-Lurking Day.

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This is a day when we ask everyone who may be reading our blogs to comment. Just say hi, guten tag, bonjour, hola, ciao, or well, you get the idea.

We all love to get comments, and more than anything we love to know from what part of the world you are commenting from.

So don’t be shy, join the fun and De-Lurk!

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Meanwhile, here is the latest news from New Hampshire. On Saturday night we got 8 inches of fluffy white snow. Oh how pretty!

NOT!

Not when you are the one chiefly responsible for clearing the walk and pathways up. Fortunately we have a man who is plowing our 500 foot driveway while Hubby is not well, but the pathways, stairs and dackel runways, are now my responsibility. All I can say is: WOW! Pass the anti-inflammatory medication! I’ve decided that it’s time to invest in a smaller snow blower just for me to use.

We also had to pull the shades in the family room. Why, you ask? Well because we have 3 dachshunds and a German Shepherd that hop up on the sofa and watch all the snow mobiles on the lake and the barking is enough to cause permanent deafness!

The good news is that Hubby is feeling a bit better. He even got out of his chair today and took a shower and shaved, and despite my aching muscles, that alone made me smile!

Now remember to leave a little comment. It’s De-Lurking Day!!!

Happy Anniversary to Us!

Each year on January 12th I celebrate the day that my dear friend and sister, Uschi and I met each other. What a lucky day that was! This year we are celebrating 8 years of friendship! Two women, from very different backgrounds, who found each other and learned that we are “sisters”. I wish she and I lived closer (she is in Germany and I am in New Hampshire, USA), but we have never allowed those miles to matter to us.

So Happy Anniversary, dearest and may we know many more years together, as friends and sisters in our hearts and souls!

It Was A Thrill!

On a beautiful October day Hubby and I went to the Weirs Beach Boardwalk to hear Governor Sarah Palin speak. She is a breath of fresh air in a campaign that is filled with career politicians. Gov. Palin was speaking and a woman near me turned to me and said, “You know, she is one of us. She knows how hard it is to put food on the table for your family, she knows what it means to be humble”.

Quite true. Unlike the other candidates, Gov. Palin grew up normally. She was your average girl next door, worked hard to get herself through college in Idaho and then went back to the state that she loved (Alaska) and married her High School sweetheart. She worked with him to feed their family, by working on her husband’s fishing boat, as well as taking care of their children.

I know that there are many of you who do not like this woman, but there is one thing you cannot deny, and that is that Gov. Palin has spent all of her life working very hard, for her family, for her state and for her country.

As I listened to her today I had hope. Hope that there is really someone out there in politics that believes in us, the United States Citizens!

She does not believe we need more government. She doesn’t believe that we need to raise taxes. And she certainly doesn’t believe that the government should be telling you how to spend your money.

We already pay too much in taxes!!!

Is she qualified to be president? Well first she isn’t running for president, but if she were I would say this, she actually has more experience in the political world than Barack Obama does, and I’d like to see just how well Sen. Obama would do getting through a winter in a place as challenging as Alaska.

Alaska is one of the most beautiful places I have been to! But it’s beauty is tempered with the vastness of the countryside, and the ruggedness of the glaciers. Winters are long, cold and the snow is deep. Summers are short. You learn early on how to take care of yourself and your family.

So I watched her, I listened to her and to those around me and I felt good. Here are a few photo’s of the event.

I do not write about politics on Dackel Princess nor do I make comments on other blogs because I have felt such a terrible hateful intolerance from so many people. However, when I listen to people make statements against a woman such as Sarah Palin, who is a strong, intelligent, decent, and capable woman, I felt that I had to share with you how I feel. She may not belong to the political party you belong to, but she is one heck of a person.

I wish we had more people like her getting involved in politics today. We need more real people going into that, not professional hacks that are being turned out by Ivy League Colleges and ACORN.

Love

Amber Star over at Serenity Days, gifted me with a wonderful award on Saturday. It’s the

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award.

I was so honored and it made me feel good. You know I sometimes write about the craziest things and I wonder what people will think. Probably that I have totally lost my mind, which of course is always a possibility! LOL!!!

I do love sharing my life and my loves and I hope to be able to continue this for some time.

Now to pass on the Love! I’m sending this gift to some of my favorite reads each day. I hope you will stop in and visit them too.

First to my cousin Janet. I love that we keep in touch this way, and I never know what beautiful picture she will post or what crazy questions she will have on her Friday Fill-Ins!

Next is Heather. She is one of the kindest people I know and also one of the most positive. I also love her little mini poodle Wolfie!

Bernie,at Burnt Offerings is another wonderful read. I so enjoy hearing about his life with his other half, L, and their renovations to their home as well as their travels.

Renny, at RennyBa’s Terella has taught me so much about Norway, it’s people, food and traditions. I have also gotten to know his wonderful wife, Diane, and I also enjoy reading her blog! Diane you get this love award as well!

There is Gattina in Belgium, who travels far and wide, but also owns my secret love, Arthur a handsome white cat!

And last and perhaps the best is my dear Viking,Tor. He is a warm and wonderful man who lives with his lovely wife Anna and their cats and always his posts are full of warmth.

There you have it. Now go out and share the love!!!

Welcome To Our New Pages!!!

After a long time with my old web site skin, I decided that it was time for something new! Heather at Goofy Girl Designs was kind enough to take my disjointed ideas and create this beautiful new space for me. I hope that by having the tabs at the top the page, things will load faster and you will find Dackel Princess a bit easier to navigate!

I cannot begin to thank Heather for all her work. She is truly a design genius and a great friend!

Thank you so much, Heather!!!

My Friend

I wanted to share with the you all the obituary of our friend, Miller Hays. He was quite a man. Hubby leaves in the morning to attend the services and to be a Pall Bearer. Sadly, I cannot go this time, but I know in my heart that Miller knew how I felt about him.

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Miller back when he was a Captain on the 747 for Pan Am.

Miller B. Hays of Kerrville, Texas—airline pilot and world traveler—passed away on January 19, 2008, after a brief illness. Mr. Hays was born in Golden, Colorado on May 15, 1918 to Sarah Bevan Hays and Leon Percival Hays. During his school years, the family moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where Miller attended Classen High School and Oklahoma City University, as well as Central State Teachers’ College in Edmond, Oklahoma. His lifelong fascination with scientific and mechanical knowledge led him into a career in aviation. During World War II, he was responsible for the training of pilots at a base in Ballenger, Texas.
After the war, he went to work for American Overseas Airways; he was one of the pilots who flew daring missions in the Berlin Airlift during 1948-49. He later served as a pilot for Pan American World Airways for nearly thirty years, rising to the rank of Captain. For many of those years, he lived in West Berlin and flew to various European cities, as well as traveling all over the world. In the final five years of his career, he became a Captain piloting 747s on Pan Am’s international routes. He was known among his colleagues not only for the meticulous precision of his flying skills but also for his generosity in mentoring younger pilots.
After his retirement in 1978, Mr. Hays moved to South Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, where he worked at restoring a grand old house and pursued his hobby of tinkering with cars and machinery. Then, in the late 1990s, he purchased a home adjacent to a small airstrip in Pipe Creek, Texas, where he resided until moving into the Plaza on the River senior living community in Kerrville early in 2007.
In 1943 he married Barbara Le Crick of Britton, Oklahoma; the couple was divorced in 1952. He is survived by two sons: Richard B. Hays of Durham, North Carolina, and Lloyd P. W. Hays of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and their wives, Judy and Mary; by four grandchildren: Christopher Hays, Sarah Hays, Kate Hays, and David Hays; by one great-grandchild, Madeleine Mei Hays; and by his sister Marguerite Woods of Bull Shoals, Arkansas, as well as by six nieces and nephews.
The funeral service will be held at 10:00 AM on January 29 at Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery, 13313 N. Kelly Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73131. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012 MRC 321, Washington, DC 20013-7012.

Annual De-Lurking Day

My pal The Cactus asked me to help him, and others declare today De-lurking Day! It’s a day where those far and wide drop a little comment on my blog to say Hi!!!

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So, if you are reading this and haven’t commented in a while, please take a little time to drop me a note and say hello, and if you have a blog, join in the fun!

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