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Halloween should be a National Holiday!!

10/26/2018

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Hello All.
Hope you like the above picture of my brother Kira.

Our family spent so many Halloweens going out
TRICK OR TREATING

I mean my MAMA
loves this holiday.


TRICK OR TREATING
meant
DRESSING UP,
RUNNING AROUND IN THE DARK,
THE SMELL OF DRIED MAPLE AND OAK LEAVES,
WAFTING UP
AS SHE AND HER BROTHERS
RAN AROUND KICKING
LEAVES UP EVERYWHERE.
GOING TO NEIGHBORS AND BEGGING AT THE DOOR FOR CANDY
(very cool)
.

Then she spent the next week
DIGGING FOR TREASURE,
AS SHE
DUG THROUGH HER BAG
AND
ATE
EVERY
SINGLE
PIECE.


I mean she loved it.

She told me that she would start
with the
BEST OF THE BEST IN HER BAG.

That would
OF COURSE
be the
CHOCOLATE,
THEN THE
CHOCOLATE,
THEN THE
WELL,
YOU GET IT.
It was like
GRAZING IN THE GRASS.


I mean, she would collect a brown paper shopping bag
full of candy.
And then spend the next week,
EVERY SINGLE DAY,
grazing through that bag.

It was sublime.

And when she became a grammie,
well, she and PAPA
would go with
Auntie Kelly and take the
grand kids out into the
DARK NIGHT OF A OCTOBER SKY
AND SHE LOVED
EVERY
SINGLE
BIT OF THOSE EXPERIENCES.


They would go trick or treating
IN THE SNOW,
IN THE RAIN,
ON BEAUTIFUL NIGHTS
AND THOSE
WHERE WINTER WAS SCREAMING,
JUST AROUND THE CORNER,
I AM HERE,
I AM HERE.


She told me more than once that as a child
there would be snowstorms
BEFORE HALLOWEEN,
I MEAN,
ARE YOU KIDDING?
And that in order to
GO
TRICK OR TREATING
AT HER AUNTS NEXT DOOR,
SHE AND HER BROTHERS
WOULD HAVE TO SHOVEL A FOOT OR TWO OF SNOW,
DOWN THIS LONG, LONG PATH
DOWN THE BACK OF THE YARD,
JUST TO GET TO HER AUNT ANNA'S HOUSE.
YOWZA.


Perhaps it was because of those
MANY
MANY
MANY
HALLOWEENS RUNNING AROUND IN THE DARK,
THAT OCTOBER REMAINS,
Mama's
ABSOLUTE FAVORITE MONTH.

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Mama and Kira when he was young.
October 1995

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And so I hope you all have enjoyed my story.
Dharma Dharma


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Auntie Michele and Maestro Leesha!

10/21/2018

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Hello Everybody!
Thanks for checking in with my BLOG.

This week we are getting ready for a trip to Philadelphia.
Papa is going to see the
GRAND MASTER OF CIVIL WAR BUDDIES, ED BEARS.

Anyway, Mama and I and Merlie will be camping while
PAPA IS DOING HIS

VERY BEST
CIVIL WAR DUTY.

In May Mama and Papa and O'l Jim, our recording guy
went to our local elementary school and we recorded
KIDO'S SINGING DHARMA DOXIE
AND PLAYING
GUITARS AND UKULELES AT THE SAME TIME.
HOW COOL IS THAT!

Maestro Leesha
on the right
 is from
the
MONT VERNON VILLAGE SCHOOL.
She was such a pro
getting all of those guitars
and
uke's ready
to support
all of those kido's
LIKE CAROLYN
singing my song.
I am going to try to put the song on my website.
And so, keep checking for it.
And of course
SING A LONG!
We hope to have it out in a couple of days.


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Here's Uncle Jim McClure
from
Bets's Folly Studios,
our
RECORDING GUY!
We never met him
before we started
working together on my song.
But it turns out,
Mrs. McClure and Mama worked together when
Mama taught Law in High School.
Small world, huh?

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Here is  Mont Vernon Elementary School.

Hope you enjoy the story and pictures. Dharma Hugs! Dharma Dharma
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      Here I am on the swing.
Summer is over.
The fall is here and we spend much time, swinging, and swinging
and enjoying the beautiful yellow maple tree that our swing is under.
The air has chilled, the light is waning from the leaves, the geese fly over heading south,
or over to the farm for a late night snack out in the field.
Fall is here, and the chill has only begun to wave into our living.
The leaves crunch when we walk through, mold and other woodland spores waffle up into our smelling, letting us know that the death of leaves is upon us.
The leaves are thrown aside, as if to say,
it is time,
it is time,
we are falling,
let us go.
We hate to have the fall, leave us.
We hate to say goodby to the glorious color
that fall in New England gives us.
But each day,
that we get to swing, and swing, and swing,
and watch,
one leaf at a time,
falling, falling, falling,
we are grateful for the gifts that are before us. 
Blessings. Blessings.
Below, Mama's beloved birch trees.
Her picture from Maine.

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October 20th, 2018

10/20/2018

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Lincoln Laughs!

10/15/2018

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These folks came
 ALL THE WAY FROM GEORGIA.
 CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?


 Here we are at the Lincoln Craft Fair
in
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

This is Fred and Mrs. Fred who
were

SO EXCITED TO SEE MY BOOK!

When they realized that

I WAS BORN IN GEORGIA,

it was like

THE CHERRY ON TOP OF A ICE CREAM SUNDAY.
YUM, YUM .


SWEET!!

We met so many happy people at our little booth.
We listened to my song.
Read my book!

YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE
CAME TO VISIT
AND
STAYED
FOR A WHILE!!


It was fun.

HEY FRED AND MRS. FRED,
DON'T FORGET TO EMAIL US
AND LET US KNOW
HOW YOUR TRIP BACK HOME WAS.


Anyway,
the days were not terribly warm there in Lincoln.
On Saturday Mama bundled me
in a sweater of hers,
that she put on me like a doggie sweater,
then she put on
a wool plaid blanket from Scotland
that old friend Victoria
gave to Mama at one time,
and finally I was wrapped
in a insulated blanket that was like a jacket.

It took me a while to get warm.

MY TOES WERE CHATTERING.

I was so bundled, people thought

MAMA WAS HOLDING A BABY.
HA.

Once they saw my little nose sticking out,
they were always interested in visiting.


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What a great picture this is.
This is Patrice,
LITTLE STELLA,
and Marc.

Stella is four years old,
JUST A BABY.
Patrice is a retired teacher,
JUST LIKE MAMA.

They are all from
Walden Vermont,
part of the
North East Kingdom.

We had a great visit.

And don't we all make a great picture.
Thank you
to
STELLA  AND HER FAMILY
FOR CHECKING OUT
OUR LITTLE BOOK.


Stella  made me think
about my o'l bro Stoney Wall.
COUCH POTATOES THAT WE WERE.
All the times that
he and I and Mama
slept on the couch.
Mama would line up on her left hip,
Stoney Wall would lay across her right hip,
and

LITTLE OLD ME
WOULD CRAM MY WIGGLY BODY
BETWEEN MAMA'S BUTT
AND
THE BACK OF THE COUCH.
JUST THE WAY I LIKED IT.


THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!

And so,
many  little kids came by
and read my entire book
while listening
to my song
which was
JUST
SO PRECIOUS.


So many wanted to pat me
and well
I guess
I never
got so much attention

IN THE WHOLE OF MY LIFE.


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We finished our time in Lincoln camping at the Hancock camp site at the White Mountains National Forest. It was such fun. Brother Merlie really enjoyed hanging out by the fire, as did I. You can see just my ear sticking out here. The second picture was of our back yard at the camp site. It is the Swift River. WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME.

HOPE EVERYONE IS WELL.
DHARMA HUGS.
DHARMA DHARMA

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Rocky Mountain High!

10/9/2018

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Hello all!
 Well, not actually Rocky Mountain High.
I mean Mama is a very old
  FRIEND OF JOHN DENVER,
the Rocky Mountain king.
But this mountain,
I mean the mountain was very high!
Like 6,285 feet,
or some
crazy number,
and very rocky.

I have never had such a


NATURAL HIGH
IN
MY
ENTIRE LIFE.


First Merlin and I got to run around in the mountain meadow
at the bottom of the mountain.
You can see
that


EVERYONE IS PANTING
IN THIS PICTURE TAKEN BY PAPA.


Then
Mama,
she drove up,
and up,
and up
and
yikes
I mean I was getting dizzy.
I thought it would


NEVER END!!

But it did.
The trees were so
beautifully decked
in
yellow, and orange and red

LIKE THEY WERE GOING TO THE PROM
OR SOMETHING.


I DON'T KNOW.

Anyway,
we watched the trees change,
and the little green fuzzy stuff
I think they were called
LICHENS OR SOMETHING,
take over the mountain
and then

ALL OF A SUDDEN
OUT OF THE BLUE,
THE SKY BURST FORTH
LIKE LIGHT
THAT WAS FLOODING
OUR LITTLE HEARTS.


It was so blue the sky this day.

And once we were no longer

SHELTERED,
AND
I MEAN
SHELTERED,


by forest on either side of this

LONG AND WINDING ROAD,

the expanse into the eastern horizon
OPENED UP
LIKE A BREATH
OF
FRESH AIR.


It was as if

LIGHT AND JOY
WAS A THING
THAT  COULD BE TOUCHED

AS IT FLOODED IN,
SURROUNDING US


and all we could do

IS
STOP,
PAUSE,
LOOK,
AND BE PRESENT IN THIS
INCREDIBLE PLACE.


It seemed like hours to the top
but in reality only one half hour had passed.

We got out of our truck
pulled out the sitting chairs,
faced the eastern horizon mountain range that was glorious 
it its palette of every shade of gold, red, yellow, orange
and we all sat down
and had our picnic.

DID YOU KNOW THAT MAMA LOVES PICNICS?

She could tell you about
a few interesting places
that she and Papa
have had picnics.

Her personal favorite is having a picnic
in Baltimore Maryland
in the cemetery
where
Edgar Allen Poe
is buried.
Ask her to tell the story some day.

Anyway,
once we were done with lunch we went

EXPLORING UP TO  THE VERY TOP.

It was very cool and we met some really nice people.


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Now the first person who approached us, because of course
Mama was carrying

LITTLE O'L ME

up the last flight of stairs to the top was Chris.

You can see him with me here.
He told us all about his girlfriend
who had a doxie
who was a short haired red.
He was originally from Connecticut
but currently lives in Boston.
He said it was one of the things about doxies,
that once you pick them up they just melt in your
arms. They are so sweet.

It was so

VERY COOL

how many people talked to us about their dogs this day.
So many of them had such great stories about their doxies.

What is it about dogs that no matter who you are,


COMPLETE STRANGERS,
I MEAN
COMPLETE STRANGERS
WILL
WALK RIGHT UP AND TALK TO YOU
LIKE YOU ARE A LONG LOST RELATIVE,
AND IN SOME WAYS,
I GUESS
ALL DOG OWNERS
ARE RELATED.


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Here is a picture of me and Danny.
He was so cute and was only two years old. .
I wanted to
KISS HIM ALL OVER.

I AM DEFINITELY GIVING HIM
THE EYE!


His parents said he
LOVED DOGS

and the keys hanging from
Mama's lanyard.

Chris and his family were from Rhode Island.

We were truly
having a

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH
EXPERIENCE!


And so,
Dharma's Do's?

Do know
that
DOG LOVER'S
ARE
EVERYWHERE!!


EMBRACE THE LOVE!

Special thanks to Danny and his family
and Chris for letting us use their pictures.

Have a great day and thanks for checking in!!


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Me and Mama and the Mt. Washington Train.                                     Here is little old windswept me. Just enjoying the breeze.
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DHARMA HUGS!!
DHARMA DHARMA

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MAX AND ME!

10/3/2018

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MEET MAX!!
You can see that he is a
RED SOX FAN.
I met him at the
LAMSON FARM DAY
just last Saturday.


He reminded me so much of Stoney Wall.
For
JUST A MOMENT
I THOUGHT IT WAS HIM.

But I digress.

Let me start over.

Mama lived in Germany decades,
I MEAN DECADES AGO,
(ha, that tells you how old she is, don't tell her I told you).


Anyway,
when she was living in Augsburg, Germany
she had her

VERY FIRST DOXIE!

Now Mama had never
SEEN,
I MEAN SEEN IN PERSON

a dachshund before.

She had only seen pictures of them in books.

But then, she was living

IN THE LAND OF DOXIES!

This is where she learned
ALL ABOUT THEM.

Did you know that doxies
are known as BADGER DOGS?
This is because they will
 dig into the ground  with their very strong front legs
and pull the dirt out with their very strong back legs
as they are digging in a hole

TRYING TO GRAB A BADGER.


Once they catch up to that wiggly creature
they would grab it and drag it out by

BACKING UP.

CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE?


Here is a doxie
grabbing the badger,
dirt flying everywhere,
and you can only see the doxie's but, 

YES I MEAN DEIRIERE
hanging out of the hole
and those back legs, well they are working hard.


Anyway, you can just hear it,
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP
as the
DOXIE BACKS UP.


So Mama learned about doxies
after flying across that
big blue ocean,
landing in Frankfurt Germany,
taking a drive south,
where she eventually ending up in Augsburg.


And this is where she saw her first
VERY FIRST

WIRE HAIRED  STANDARD SIZED DAUSHUNDS.

IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.

THEY WERE SO CUTE,

AND SO
OF COURSE
SHE HAD TO GET ONE.

MAMAS FIRST DOXIE

WAS A WIREHAIRED STANDARD SIZED
NAMED
TINA PUP.


After Tina Pup
Mama had no doxies in her life
for a very long time.


CAN YOU IMAGINE?
I MEAN LIKE,
HOW IS THAT EVEN RIGHT?


But one day after visiting a friend she met a couple who was holding one

RIGHT IN THEIR ARMS.

Which totally amazed MAMA because of course
standard sized doxies are not little dogs.

That is when she found out about
MINIATURE DOXIES
and of course

THIS IS HOW THEY CAME TO HAVE

 Stoney and Me.


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Back to Max.
Here are his folks from Florida with the
BIG BOY.


I had spent
Lamson Farm Day
day barking at every dog that came by.
Bark Bark!
Who are you?
Get away from my
MAMA AND PAPA.


You know the drill.
I am still in
SOCIALIZATION SCHOOL
because of course
AFTER MY YEARS OF BEING A COUCH POTATO
I really do not know how to do the

MEET AND GREET.

So I am barking here and barking there and
Mama she is telling me "no bark, no bark",
and gently holding my nose.


But when MAX skipped over, I was like
AMAZED,
CONFOUNDED,
CONFUSED?

Who is this
MASKED MA
N
I thought?


Oh sorry,
I am getting my
SUPERHEROES
mixed up.
I mean he did have a mask
but it was all
dapple grey.


Any way this doxie was the
same size and coloring
of my old brother
STONEY WALL.


Except of course
Max
had that very dramatic,
handsome,
dapple head.

I MEAN
I could not stop
KISSING HIM,
SMELLING HIM,
MUGGING HIS FACE
ALL OVER.

Wow, for a moment I thought he
WAS
STONEY WALL.


My little heart
TWISTED
JUST FOR A MOMENT

and then I realized,
no he was not my brother.


But that was okay
BECAUSE
HE WAS THE NEXT BEST THING.


And so his folks
Terry and Paul from Florida,
came by with Max to visit
TWICE.
I MEAN TWICE.
AND WASN'T THAT SPECIAL?
I DID HATE TO SEE HIM LEAVE.

Before they left they promised to
check us out on
FACEBOOK
once they get back home.

WHICH IS JUST GRAND TO ME.


And so, thanks for checking in!
Dharma Hugs!
Dharma Dharma

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ME AND MAX
MUGGING ON EACH OTHER.

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