Post something that makes you happy, hopeful, or positive!

[Liberalynn]

and keep it going.

Nora Roberts' books make me happy especially her Eve and Roarke novels written under her alias J.D. Robb.

Your turn?

[Xyzse]

1. New Dresden Novel coming out soon!

Wahoo!

[Liberalynn]

2. +1

[Xyzse]

5. I think the series is drawing to a close, but can't wait to read it.

[elleng]

3. Being at my cottage

[Liberalynn]

4. So beautiful

[steve2470]

6. bright sunshine when I woke up this am nt

[Liberalynn]

11. that always makes me feel happier

[shenmue]

7. Ducks

We get them near my house.

[pinboy3niner]

8. Rut-roh

[Liberalynn]

13. That's funny

[pipi_k]

22. Did you know

that there's an actual duck phobia?

What Is Anatidaephobia?

Anatidaephobia is defined as a pervasive, irrational fear that one is being watched by a duck. The anatidaephobic individual fears that no matter where they are or what they are doing, a duck watches.

&sg=1

[pinboy3niner]

25. Tell me about it! I thought I was cured...

...until I got the bill.

Maybe that's what Shatner really saw...

[Art_from_Ark]

30. Your posts really quack me up!

[pinboy3niner]

40. It's a mallardy

[Arugula Latte]

66. If you can't get your compulsion under control I might have to teal on you to Skinner.

[Liberalynn]

31. But he's so cute, even if he's

a peeping Drake.

[MissMillie]

43. alright already

these duck puns are getting fowl.

[pinboy3niner]

58. If we stop now, then waddle we do?

[Arugula Latte]

65. Well, you have the rest of the web...

[Liberalynn]

12. We have a pair that hang around with the Canadian Geese

in our back field. It's kind of strange. There's like 20 geese, then a drake and his mate who always show up together.

[A HERETIC I AM]

27. That's MISTER Duck to you!

[pinboy3niner]

28. I pity the fool who tries to mess with Mr. Duck!

[My Good Babushka]

9. painting

making art!

[Liberalynn]

14. +1

[fizzgig]

10. being an hour from places like these

[Liberalynn]

15. How gorgeous!

[elleng]

52. HEY fizz!!!

[fizzgig]

57. hey

[nclib]

16. My son.

He's 13 and I have to hope his generation will make the future a better place.

[Liberalynn]

17. Thank You for raising your son to care about the future!

[femmocrat]

18. My adorable granddaughter.

She is almost two and coming up with new surprises every time I see her! Can't believe how smart she is!

[Liberalynn]

32. +1

Kids are amazing. She is lucky to have you. I lost my grandmothers early. One when I was five, the other at ten. Both my grandfathers were gone before I was born. I would have loved to have that bond.

[Tobin S.]

19. Beer.

[Liberalynn]

33. +1

[HeiressofBickworth]

20. Seattle International Film Festival starts

on Friday. I've picked out 25 movies to go to over the next three weeks. So I'll load up my bus pass and use that to avoid parking problems in Seattle. My movie buddy has selected about 20 films, some that we'll go to together but some not. This is going to be fun!

[Liberalynn]

34. It sounds great.

Seattle is one of the places I have always wanted to visit.

[rug]

21. This is my message to you

[Liberalynn]

35. I love it!

Especially the animated birdies!

[pipi_k]

23. About 25 or 30

dog toys scattered all over my living room rug and two pooped-out German Shepherd sisters napping from a day of fun.

[Liberalynn]

36. That is a good happy!

My five month old GSD Marnie goes to a "dog whisperer" type lady today for her first training session. We are still having issues with her play biting way too hard.

The good news is the trainer comes highly recommended by several different sources, is a certified master trainer and isn't priced so high that we couldn't afford to go. My sis is footing the bill because she really loves the dog.

We already met with her once for a consultation/assessment of Marnie's temperament. The trainer said she is extremely intelligent, determined, and wants her own way but will respond to training and is not at all aggressive just stubborn. She said basically life is just one big funny game to Marnie and she thinks everything and everyone in it are her chew toys.

[pipi_k]

41. Yeah, poor doggies...

a lot of them really don't know the boundaries and are only playing. We got our girls when they were 10 months old and they hadn't had a whole lot of training, so they were doing that play biting thing too and it HURT!

Consistent "ouches" and redirecting fixed the problem, although sometimes when she gets really excited, Lucy will "flea bite" her sister, and, very rarely, us. But it doesn't hurt much.

They also had serious chewing issues (like everything they could get their teeth on). I had to keep a spray bottle of 50/50 water and vinegar handy to spray the items (never them), and, again, redirect to their toys.

Took a while, but it paid off in the end. They only chew on the meaty bones we give them occasionally, and don't even destroy the furry/stuffed toys like their predecessors did.

Many people give up way too soon...

Anyway, Marnie sounds like a delightful girl...I love intelligent animals

[Liberalynn]

48. Your girls sound wonderful too.

In our original meeting with the special trainer she had recommended spraying bitter Apple not in Marnie's mouth but nearby her nose when she started to use her teeth on me in the hope that the yucky smell would distract and discourage her from biting, as a stop gap until we started actual training. It worked twice then Marnie started to try and clamp down on my wrist to get me to drop the bottle. When I told the trainer she laughed and said "of course she did she is a German Shepherd female and they can be hard to outsmart." She says she has had some success with it before though. She said Marnie is just a very strong willed dog and that it isn't necessarily a bad thing and can actually turn out to be a positive thing.

After the session yesterday though things went much better. The trainer got Marnie to respond to the "leave it command, in terms of my hands and legs. She had previously learned leave it when I was holding a treat in my hand, but I couldn't get her progressed beyond that, but knock on wood she seems to be getting it now. I really like this trainer. When Marnie started to catch on she kept kneeling down, hugging her,and kissing her on the snout, and praising her, and Marnie loved it.

[Aristus]

24. This:

[Liberalynn]

37. How adorable!

[Aristus]

42. There's nothing else in the universe quite as magical and delightful as baby-laughter.

[applegrove]

26. Remembering my parents cottage.

[Liberalynn]

38. +1

[Fearless]

29. Sunset on Wakiki Beach

[Liberalynn]

39. Incredible

Beauty!

[patricia92243]

44. My freshly painted living-room. I'm doing it and am not quite through, but what is done sure makes

me happy!

[hunter]

45. Happy: Debian

http://www.debian.org

The first real operating system I used was BSD. Then there was a miserable decade when Microsoft and Apple were crushing the soul of personal computing. That 1984 Macintosh ad was bullshit. Who the fuck cares if Aryan Authoritarian Heroine throws a hammer through Big Brother's television? I didn't.



Then Debian came along like a new spring day.


Hopeful: Seeing my kids do so much better than I did as a young adult.


Positive: The diversity of the community I live in. We live on a major shortcut to the high school and I see kids of all sorts, colors, language spoken at home, sexual orientations, simply getting along with one another. "Cross cultural" dating is entirely unremarkable to these kids. (My own grandfather was upset I was marrying, in his words, "A Mexican girl." Old White Wild West people didn't do that. Much to his credit, he got over it.)

My high school was 99 and 44/100% Ivory Soap White, and kids who were odd were tortured. In the greater community the police regarded writing DWB citations (Driving while Black or Brown) and harassing homosexuals as major sports.

And, of course, as Tobin S. says above, beer. Sometimes I brew my own, sometimes I buy the good stuff. In any sensible economy the unit of currency would be solidly based upon eight pints (4.55 liters) of high quality beer and an hour's honest labor.

[Liberalynn]

50. That is great that you live in such a diverse community.

It is also great that the younger generation "gets it." Maybe not all of them but enough of them. That's hope.

[hunter]

62. Many of these kids would be astonished that there was ever the concept "miscegenation."

Or that Public Displays of Affection between Guys-and-Guys or Girls-and-Girls were ever considered cause for bullying and mayhem.

I grew up in a family that was protective of gay and lesbian relationships. My parents met working in Hollywood. What happened in our house stayed in our house. Women kissing women on the sofa, guys too close, same sex couples sleeping in the double bed guest room, not a word outside the family, ever.

Our kids are miscegenationists like us, themselves disconnected from racist white wild west U.S.A., wrong side of the Alamo apartheid America.

"Wait, what? Great grandpa didn't attend your wedding... why?" Inconceivable to them.

They simply don't get it. It makes no sense to them. And they don't understand why same-sex couples in our family disturb some of the (mostly 70 years plus) "traditional" Catholic and Protestant, slur, "fundy" relatives.

I think our kids are lucky. They had a centurion great-great-Hollywood aunt who'd seen everything. Everything. I have pictures, her stories still make me laugh when I remember them. Whenever she got too radical (in her mind) she'd speak of herself as the third person 'twenties flapper girl. And she was awesome as a third person speak-easy young woman living in Hollywood. She found her true love Italian immigrant dude while working on Cleopatra.

There's no doubt in my mind my great aunt was HOT. Her sister, my grandma, was pretty hot too and she married a crazy rocket scientist, a wizard of titanium. Parts her husband made went to the moon and back and are in the Smithsonian.

I'm solidly connected to U.S.A.

[steve2470]

46. my son and I are in good health ! nt

[Liberalynn]

51. +1

[sakabatou]

47. My girlfriend

[Liberalynn]

53. +1

[elleng]

49. this

[Liberalynn]

54. Those are beautiful.

I really love that rich pink

[elleng]

55. Good, isn't it, lynn?

[pinboy3niner]

56. BACON!

I can't believe no one else posted this.

[bigwillq]

59. Trance music

Makes me happy. It makes me zone out, and it gets me into a very relaxed mood.

[Broken_Hero]

60. ...

[kwassa]

61. Kung Fu

The wine, and the band.

First the wine.



and very happy music from the band. Fabulous jazz-funk.

[NNadir]

63. The memory of waking up next to my future...

...wife 30 years ago in a wonderful little rented cabin in a grove of Redwoods in Big Sur, California.

For the rest of my life, whenever I faced things that made me feel bad, or even terrible, I've thought of that moment, how she looked, the feel of her touch, the taste of her kiss, and am reminded that no matter how bad things get, life is worth living.

[Jamaal510]

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[Skittles]

67. seeing the response to that Spring thing

perked me right up

[Blue_In_AK]

68. Something that makes me happy, hopeful and positive

this time of year are my gardens ... the flowers, the vegetables, they're wonderful after the long winter.

[Rhiannon12866]

69. My dog: