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Teila said:
Goood Monday Morning!
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[Testing the power of positive thinking
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I have a good job which I enjoy doing but for some reason I just do not feel like it today.]

Predicted max today is only 88F but the current relative humidity is 90%.

N F C I thought it was just me but yep, posts have intermittently been slow to submit for a couple of days now; even the ones that are just text, no images.

It is my sister’s birthday on the 20th and Australia Day on the 26th.

Speaking of my sister, her foster Greyhound rescue Freddie is going well but still needs to put on a little weight. Apparently he had fun trying to get the peanut butter out of his Kong toy
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The closing of the Circus made the news here in Aus also; heard it on the radio yesterday.
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My mom's b-day falls between your 2 dates...her's is on the 25th.

Glad Freddie is doing well. Do you think your sister will end up keeping him? I always thought that would be hard to foster an animal then give them up.

The thing about the circus...can you imagine, it won't be many years from now that kids will only know about them from pictures or tv, never having gone to one.
 
N F C said:
Glad Freddie is doing well. Do you think your sister will end up keeping him? I always thought that would be hard to foster an animal then give them up.

The thing about the circus...can you imagine, it won't be many years from now that kids will only know about them from pictures or tv, never having gone to one.
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It is a long story but my sister has a husband and a dog of her own living in another State [trial separation is probably the best way to describe it] Amy, her dog, does not play well with others so, depending on how things work out, Amy might be in the picture again. So, it is hard to say depending on what happens. However, knowing my sister, she will find it really difficult to part with Freddie even though she is constantly reminding herself that he is a foster only. The longer he stays with her the more chance that she will not want to let him go.

Re: the Circus. My estranged father is a Greanie and actually was behind one of our water parks closing down [another long story]. However, we had many arguments about zoos, parks, circuses etc .. while I agreed that they can, in some circumstances, be cruel, he was not prepared to agree with me that they can also be educational. If a child or adult is able to see the animal up close and personal, I believe it helps them to learn that they need to be protected and not slaughtered. Real life encounters, in my opinion, go a lot deeper than pictures on FB or Animal Planet.
 
I agree with you Teila about the animals in zoos, parks, etc. As long as the animals are treated properly, they can stir the imagination and interest in people that otherwise would never have a chance to see them.
 
N F C said:
So it's 19* out with humidity at 96% (that's really high here) and it looks like a winter wonderland, everything frosted and hazy out. If you look real close at the last one, in the center you can see the arched sign that goes over the road to the golf course. A neighbor drove by while I was in the yard taking pictures and wanted to know what was so special to be taking pictures. I think it's pretty, she just thinks I'm nuts.
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Beautiful and your not nuts as that would make me nuts as I would do it too!
 
N F C said:
This is kind of sad...

"...[COLOR=333333]come May, after almost a century and a half of spectacular revels, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will vanish, like a big, colorful, improbably long dream."[/COLOR]
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...inal-days-of-the-circus/ar-AAlT5yM?li=BBnb7Kz

When I was a kid, I used to love going to the circus that would visit our town every year. Once my boys came along, they enjoyed it too. 
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I think we had them in Appleton when the boys were young. They did a nice job and the boys got to ride an elephant.
 
I feel that there is a great difference between well run zoos and circuses. I have a friend (old WW II vet) who actually ran away from home at 12 and joined the circus. He eventually had a trained dog act, but told me that the wild animal trainers were extremely abusive to the animals.
 

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