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Once all the dogs had their monthly injections

they settled down knowing the coast is clear.

 

Overall they do real good when it comes

time for their injections and oral meds.

 

Yo-Yo, who is Rockys jailbait girlfriend

is racing around unable to curb her

enthusiasm. Little Stubby is real

angry at her for jumping up

on her porch and causing

a way big disturbance.

This stuff never ends.

 

No# 1 and the nuns jabbered away for

an hour or more then we had to go.

 

FYI,

May 28th is the one hundredth day

sense Mr Kind Monk passed away.

Thai tradition calls 4 a celebration

honoring his life while on earth.

 

After that his ashes will be spread on the ocean.

Yes we will of course be there helping the nuns.

 

Thank you for all your support

and for leaving your comments.

  

Thank You.

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...taken on the streets of Soho...

  

London, United Kingdom...

Back in her puppy days, summer 2021.

Sorry haven't been on Flickr lately, been working 3 jobs now down to 1.5 jobs, things are improving with hard work, 7 days a week. It's New Year Day and finally a day off, slept 14 hours with my babies :) I missed all the fireworks and celebration as my boss and I was stuck in the kitchen getting slammed with orders, got home at 1am :(

 

This was better than 2018 New Year's Eve, a feral cat attack, infections and high fevers, struggling to find a good paying job. Never give up! Love, Gratitude, Appreciation. I was meant to go through hardships, that woke me up taking nothing for granted.

 

Have a Happy 2020! Time to shine and be successful in life! Take care and be good to one another, Aloha!

Spiritually concerned people at a Medicine Buddha Havan ceremoni in Northern India, praying for good health for a group of ill people.

Again the results after, where amazing and unexplainable..

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Abandoned Abused Street Dogs.

 

Alright here's a heads up on changed plans.

 

Everything was prepared for today's temple plan.

 

I was to stop at the dog clinic and pick up medication.

They open at 9AM so I was dragging my feet while waiting.

 

Four syringes would be prepared full of medication

and packed in ice for transport out to the temple.

 

At 8:30 AM I had a funny feeling, so no# 1 wife

was asked to call the nuns and make sure they

are there to help me. No one answered !

The calendar was checked and we

found-out today is a Buddha

day and the nuns are

at another temple.

 

It will be late afternoon before they return.

So in that case the plans for today have

been rescheduled for tomorrow. I'm

glad that was resolved before it

was to late. This is the jungle

and things here have a

rhythm all it's own.

 

Anyway now you know what I know.

  

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Thank You.

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Abandoned Abused Street Dogs.

 

Rocky sharing a tender moment.

 

Still looks like a couple weeks of

down time before I can return to

see all the temple dogs. Supplies

are being sent to them regularly.

 

Appreciate all your support .......;-)

 

Thank You.

Jon&Crew....;-)

 

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Abandoned Abused Street Dogs.

 

Mama saying thank you for all the support

so many have sent over time.

Supplies, food, medicines and on going

medical bills for all the temple dogs.

 

Yesterday there was 37,200 views which was

quite a surprise indeed ............... ;-)

 

I don't recall ever getting that kind of response

in the past. I believe Tinker Bells photo going

into "explore" had a lot to do with that.

 

Recently you've heard me describe a situation

here in Thailand that's gone from epidemic to a

rabies virus endemic alert ! We are under attack.

The province we live in is one of the hot spots as

is other provinces that surround us, this is not good!

6 people have died of rabies sense the first of the year.

3 more people were bitten Friday which was 2 days ago.

 

Now along with Mama, her crew, The Hooligans and BTP

I must get down on bended knee and grovel for help too.

Not for me, but for all the temple dogs who are right now

in need of their rabies updates.Each must be taken into the

dog doctor separately . That means a double round trip to

The Monkey Temple each time a dog goes in.A long process.

 

Of the 37,200 viewers not one helped with a donation ?

So I'm reaching out to you now, "Hello", "Help !"

Paul Allen, Bill Gates, Anybody !

 

Our cupboards are empty, everything we do here

depends on your help through donations, without

them the dogs suffer greatly.

 

Stand By Me.

youtu.be/oiPzU75P9FA

 

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Bella and Mel (the best friends) - sleep, eat, play, always together ...

Bella e Mel (melhores amigas) - dormem, comem, brincam, sempre juntas...

Bella i Mel (najbolje prijateljice) - spavaju, jedu, igraju se, uvijek zajedno ...

 

PS - are female:-))

 

29.000+ views

~Mother Teresa

 

one of my favorite quotes ever

 

HSS!

 

30/366

[Reposting .... and best on black!]

Here and there and everywhere in Venice as one walks through the ancient streets of this fascinating cultural treasure - now a World Heritage Site - one sees these little shrines. Amid cell phones ringing, appointments to make, responsibilities to take care of, daily challenges, the fast pace and extraordinary complexity of modern life...these precious shrines are like little oases of peace.

 

While making ones way through the complex maze that is Venice one comes around a corner and in a split second one is invited to enter another dimension: a gentle vast realm speaking silently to us through the ages in a symbolic language soaked with meaning. These special gestures that invoke the human heart of healing across time and space.....so nourishing!

 

[Note on the photo: I added a layer from Borealnz to the photo. It had been taken early on a winter morning. The Madonna was on a north wall, in the shade, so the light was slightly blue. I decided to add a layer with a soft glow and make the scene more true to how I felt looking at her. See the original shot below.]

King Charles Spaniel, beautiful Bella

Still defying the odds. A CT scan in June showed she was born with a severely deformed liver, full of shunts and no gall bladder. The internal medicine specialist was astonished that she could seem so radiantly healthy, but expects her quality of life to diminish rapidly. Every day with her is a gift. The most wonderful, fun and quirky little girl.

Moved up in my stream per the request of a fellow Flickr friend :) Thanks!

 

Happy Birthday Daddy!!!! I love you :) (Today is Nathan's B-day 8/8/08)

 

Definately BEST when Viewed On Black

 

For my friends & family a must see in Large

 

Made the most interesting for the "Black & White: The Colors Of My Life" group: www.flickriver.com/groups/609190@N25/pool/interesting/

 

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Dedicated to my cousin Diana, 8 months pregnant, gone forever in the South Tower September 11, 2001...I miss you so much. I love you

  

BillyLlama, Cheyenne and me, on the lawn, with the 18th Century barn in the background.

 

Photographed by, author and photographer, Jane Sobel-Klonsky.

 

Thank you so much, Jane!

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Abandoned Abused Street Dogs.

 

Handed no# 1 wife the camera so

Mama could crawl onto my lap...;-)

 

Long day. No# 1 wife and I took

Legs The Zoomer into the dog

doctors clinic.Things went pretty

good with a couple of hick-ups.

Tomorrow Thailand starts in on

celebrating "Songkran."

Thai New Year's national holiday.

The dog clinic will be closed until

April 16. The Zoomer will return on

the morning of the 16th for a ck-up.

 

Had to make an executive decision.

Wait until after Songkran is over to

start fixing The Zoomer or start now

and keep a close eye on her for a

number of days at the nuns place.

 

As CEO of Abandoned Abused Street Dogs

I told them to start now and she'll be watched

over by the nuns and myself then returned on

the morning of the 16th for a ck up, easy deal.

 

Dead meat was trimmed off around the open

hole in her belly close to her belly-button.

Then noninvasive probing took place

where a lump was located close by.

X'ray reveled some swelling and

bruising but no actual tearing.

She's rapped, strapped and

stitched for the moment .

I feel comfortable with

that decision ........;-)

 

While no# 1 and I were waiting at the clinic

they came out with a thick folder and started

naming off all the dogs they have seen over

the last 7 years that I've brought in to be saved.

The ones no longer with us were culled from the

file and laughed at the new addition, "Baby Mickey."

 

So there ya go.

 

Songkran is considered the most

deadly 7 days on all the Thai roads !

Tomorrow I stay home and off the roads.

But Saturday I will be making a run out to

The Monkey Temple for the monthly meds.

And yes of course The Zoomer will be ck on.

 

From all the temple dogs, Thank You .........;-)

  

Thank You.

Jon&Crew.

 

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Because today is today, yesterday was yesterday and tomorrow will be tomorrow :)

 

Te seguiré...

 

Porque hoy es hoy, ayer fue ayer y mañana será mañana :)

MY BlUE HAWAII was taken on our trip to Hawaii many years ago..Not the dream vacation but still full of memories.........this picture was a side trip down a path we should not have been on ..but oh look what we found

 

**Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. ©...

 

..** if you have any ideas of different camera settings or angles ..please feel free to comment **.

Why, Friend of course....honestly, probably one of the best/sweetest photos I have ever taken of my baby boy, Fozzie. This makes my heart soar...........

Unconditional Love. Monochrome.

Nellie Vin ©Photography

 

A dog will teach you, unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.( Robert Wagner)

For Valentine's Day, why not a little bambino for my Flickr friends! And a celebration of unconditional love....

 

This photo was part of a one person show called "Italian Treasures - Icons of Venice and Florence" www.flickr.com/photos/44548980@N00/1476638355/in/set-7215... . This photo is also part of my set on Trees and Gardens. (Follow the link in the side bar to the right to see those).

 

Just a few minutes walking distance from the Convent of San Marco in Florence, there are several gardens that are part of the University of Florence. I couldn't go inside as they were closed that day, but this charming scene was visible from the ancient garden gate. To spend a few peaceful moments enjoying this garden and the Giardini di Simplici (one of the oldest botanical gardens in the Western world) nearby was special, given that the historic part of Florence is densely crowded with one amazing building after another, as it was in the Middle Ages....with narrow streets and no room for nature. In this dense urban landscape, to come across a garden and trees!! What a treasure!

 

I was in a trance in any case, after spending several hours at the Convent of San Marco experiencing the exquisitely moving frescoes there, by Fra Angelico. Maybe that is why the trees looked ... well ... kind of indigo. :o) I truly recommend visiting the San Marco Museum. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marco,_Florence

and paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Italian Images/Montages/Firenze/San Marco.htm

 

and here is a link to Fra Angelico: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Angelico

 

Below are two more sculptures celebrating nature, beauty, and love, found in a garden along the French Riviera, for those who haven't yet seen them.

Gazing wistfully towards summer.

I don't know what I'd do without him these days.

King Charles spaniel, Beautiful Bella

"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."

~ Pablo Casals

  

today was a good day.. i managed to get him to take a nap and i got my 365 shot done the process.. as difficult as this 'terrible 2s' period is..i still feel like i am the luckiest.. most blessed mommy in the whole world to have my incredible golden child

:)

<3 <3 <3

 

a special thanks to moosebite

for the killer background texture

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Abused, Abandoned Jungle Dogs.

 

Pumpkin with her many monkey scars.

Now she's safe living at our place....;-)

 

Boney Baloney & Pumpkin Bumpkin

play and race around till they're

dead tired, then they start

all over an do it again.

 

When I return home from The Monkey Temple

Pumpkin spends a lot of time sniffing my body.

I'm sure she missis the nuns, and Little Stubby

but there's a lot of danger she doesn't miss at all.

At night, she sleeps on her soft pink blanket in

the house right next to our bed safe and sound.

Mr WeeNee BeeNee The Pig Man also sleeps

next to our bed on a soft blue blanket while

Mr Boney Baloney insists on sleeping out-

side right next to the door on guard for

anything that goes bump in the dark !

 

Pumpkin The Bumpkin is a funny talking dog.

She yawns out words in a deep dog voice.

Mostly "wow, woow, woooow" and so on.

While doing this she dances around

while raising one of her paws to

emphasis the importance of

our funny conversation.

She's a silly girl..;-)

 

But don't be fooled as she too can be very

aggressive if she feels our safety is in peril.

 

For example, few days back somebody that

I didn't know or even know he had come into

our compound walked up onto our porch while

the door was wide open and I was real busy on

the computer. Pumpkin, Boney & WeeNee were

all sound asleep on the floor right next to me....

Stranger half stepped in the door talking in Thai

when Pumpkin exploded on him forcing the man

backwards and off the porch. I think he peed his

pants, for real ! Boney and WeeNee followed suit.

Now I know he peed his pants cuz I could see it !

 

Poor guy was looking for scrap and plastic bottles.

No# 1 and her crew were in town otherwise she

would have seen him coming and handled it.

Don't think he'll come back here again !!!

 

Here's another FYI: ---

 

Pumpkin hangs out on the berm that encompasses

the large pond behind our house for a specific reason.

 

She feels it's her responsibility to guard against any an

all of the poisonous snakes that also hangout there.

She is part Thai Bangkaew and they are known for

the following --------------------

 

"This is an intelligent, athletic, agile and robust breed. It will be a loyal and protective family companion as well as an excellent watchdog. The Thai Bangkaew Dog is a loving, intelligent and alert dog that makes an excellent and devoted family companion as well as a good working and hunting dog. This breed will be affectionate with its family, will get along well with children and a properly socialized dog will be very gentle with smaller children.

 

The Thai Bangkaew Dog is not an aggressive breed but can be aloof with strangers and is very territorial and protective. However, this breed is more likely to threaten than bite and attack. It makes a great guardian and watchdog that will loudly announce arrival of any visitor (friend or stranger).

 

The Thai Bangkaew Dog is a breed that is known to be very aggressive towards other dogs. With other animals your dog will get along well if you start socialization from a very young age. This breed is definitely for an experienced owner.

 

The Thai Bangkaew Dog is an intelligent breed, but is independent and can be stubborn. Therefore, it's not always easy to train. This breed need consistent and short training with a lot of positive methods like treats or praise. Avoid repetitive tasks, as this dog gets bored quickly.

 

The Thai Bangkaew Dog needs a confident and experienced owner who can earn the dog’s trust and respect. Socialization must start from a very young age. "

 

So there's your dog history lesson for today. A google search

will get you a lot more information about the origin of this dog.

 

Thanks goes out to everyone who supports this project.

Without your help these dogs would suffer greatly.

As the photos show the ones I care for live a

healthy life even with their monkey scars.

It's through your donations that this

is made possible - Thank You -

 

ps: when pumpkin the puppy was thrown away

here in the jungle she was suffering from a bad

case of mange. everyday the nuns gave her a

special medicine that I refilled every week like

clock work.her fur now feels smooth as silk .;-)

  

Thank You.

Jon&Crew.

 

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Abused & Abandoned Street Dogs.

 

Mr Lover Boy isn't hanging around

his two blond girlfriends any more.

Apparently they kicked him out or

maybe he just plain got bored ;-)

 

Just after 6AM The Bingo Room

is opened and The Tube is filled.

 

A few minutes later Rocky & Mama

escort me down to the nuns place.

 

Small package is handed off then

away we go to The Spirit House .

 

Bunches of monkeys were racing

around causing all kids of chaos.

 

At one point a big monkey bit

Baby Mickey on his baby butt.

 

All hell broke loose as both

Mama & Rocky exploded an

took off chasing said monkey.

 

Little Baby Mickey took off

for the nuns place scared

2 death, never looking back.

 

The Tube is repacked and I too

take off for the nuns place in

order to do a checkup on

Baby Mickey. Small hole

is located an treated.

 

Mama walks with me down to the boundary

line that makes up the south section of

The Hooligans Turf where it touches

the north section of Mamas Turf.

 

I proceed on now escorted by DJ, Angel Eyes,

2-Tone and Mr Boo Boo. All singing & dancing.

All 4 dogs are checked over for medical issues

while being fed. Mr Ed receives six fresh carrots.

Mr Pig got some carrots too. Guppies are also fed.

 

Picked up Mama at the line where Rocky also

was waiting my arrival. Took our time heading

over to The Dog Palace to shed all my gear.

 

Everything is left in The Bingo Room so I can

return without Mama & Rocky and feed while

caring for Mr Little Larry, Molly and Mr Blondie.

 

With Mama in the lead and I'm on the scooter

we race back over to the nuns where the dogs

are brushed. Then it's my field bath in their water

bucket. It's been nearly two hours now so I mount

the scooter and exit reappearing at The Dog Palace

to care for Molly and Crew. They all look pretty good.

 

Once home I figured I'd lay down for a couple of

minutes just to catch my second wind. Four hours

later a wet black nose woke me up. Apparently a nap

was needed more than I thought. No# 1 brought tea ;-)

 

Hope to do the same same in 2 or 3 days time.

 

Thank you for your comments and donations.

 

Thank You.

Jon&Crew.

 

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My dear old Grandma and my daughter holding hands.

 

There are two generations and 31870 days between them. They are at opposite ends of their lives. But with a mutual respect for each other, each hand touch is a declaration of love.

 

9 days after this photo was captured my grandma passed away peacefully.

Don’t let these tumultuous times tear at your dreams

You are a deep reservoir of possibility and outcome

Your thoughts and adorations are pillars within you

Reach for the Mystery out of which you came

Even in your mother’s womb the connection pulsated

Stay connected there where the breath rises and falls

Where aching questions reach out to the Unknown

Reach upward with invisible arms and take flight

Re-establish the kingdoms you once built in the sand

when life was still a long hot day at the beach

See with eyes that enhance your view with hope

Even if your world feels broken and dry

The children of the world need us to stay connected

Because they still trust in the law of giving and receiving

It cannot be taught

Only remembered

It cannot be taken

Only activated

From the depth of a mind in balance

From the heart of a child still believing

From the womb of a world in dark and fragile conception

It bursts forth with audacious expectation

Reaching for a kind of Love it has never felt before

 

GF/08/06/2020

  

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