good morning you groovy campers......so i missed a couple weeks...had some stuff going on...like my 9th grandbaby was born!!!  what???!!!   i know...grands are the best!!! spoil them rotten and then leave...ha ha....but while being there for the birth, i also got to catch up with a fabulous author friend from high school...nita sweeney...  i made another link!!!  anyway...she wrote the book "depression hates a moving target"....very good read!....she also has this great blog...bum glue...good stuff!.........well, we used to listen to pink floyd and drink green milk back in the day...didn't everybody?....but anyway,  as we were talking about school i found out that nita had gone through some stuff that i had no idea about....and i was her friend!.....but then i had some stuff that went on and hadn't shared with anyone either.....i guess when you are going through stuff you don't share for a multitude of reasons....embarrassment, shame, guilt, foolishness, you're the evil older sister, etc..........it's like we are these actors giving  this amazing performance on stage ....but behind the scenes, that's where the real drama unfolds, the stuff you don't see, the stuff not everyone shares.......
         ya know i once told a dear friend of mine the she was deep like the ocean, ( very intense, she got things, ya know really understood stuff)....., but i was just shallow bubbles......ya know floating around on top...drifting with the waves....basically not getting too deep... just enjoying life as it came my way....not really searching for any particular meaning ......just going with the flow.........so when i hear all the stuff that went on in school it kind of blows my mind.....ya know you think you should have seen the signs, but people are real good at keeping behind the scenes stuff behind the scenes......
         well.....what nita was getting at was that everyone has a story..ha ha  could be because she's an author....ya know everything's a story...anyway......some might be more upsetting than others, some might be inspiring, (nita has a very inspiring life story!),  but everyone has a story...or in some cases a novel...maybe a set of encyclopedias......or in my case a picture book.......i just love picture books...ya know the ones with the big colourful pictures....they just never get old.....squirrel....but back to old times....
       so a perfect example of behind the scenes stuff is that nita said she remembered me riding her horse....yeah she owned a horse, something that's been on my christmas and birthday list forever....mom..............anyway, so i rode her horse bareback, yeah bareback...... and nita thought i was so brave to do that...and she probably thought "what an idiot....bareback???!!!"...but i don't read minds so i will float along........ she said she was always so nervous about riding her horse ...who knew....well she did.....but i thought she was this fantastic english rider who could jump her horse over these jumps and she really was a good rider!....for myself, i had no idea what i was doing...just a bubbling through the waves (i think there's a song to that)...... but i figured it can't be that hard to ride a horse, over jumps, bareback........so behind the scenes, yeah i had some bruises....alot of bruises....and i didn't have a clue what i was doing, but i got to ride a horse!!!.........................she also told me that the fence was an electric fence, which i promptly grabbed a hold of......yeah.......it was in one ear and out the other before my brain said "DON'T DO IT" (sound effects) as my hand was grabbing ahold.......note to anyone who's around an electric fence....don't touch it, it does zap you, trust me....and not in a good way.....wait, is there a good way to get zapped?...static electricity?....nooooo....static electricity is my nemesis....arrrggghh....ok so don't get zapped, not fun
         but basically, we all go through things that maybe we don't share or are not at a point where we are ready to share, and you can get in trouble in kindergarten for not sharing, i always had to share, i was the middle child...the evil older sister took my things and the bratty baby brother was given my things.....did i tell you i never got a horse?.....anyway... but when we do finally share with someone, we realize that, that (i wonder how many consecutive that's you can put in a sentence before people go what is that, that, that, that, that....ha ha).....anyway....that, that is what made us who we are......and God doesn't make mistakes...He's got a weird sense of humour sometimes, but no mistakes.....all those experiences, all those good times and not so good times, gave us........... us...................be groovy!   
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       howdy do groovy campers.....yes i'm back again, and with a case of 2am possum brain!......you say "why bobbi, i've never heard of 2am possum brain.....what is this disorder you speak of?"........well, let me tell you.......so our dog decided that 2:00 am was a good time to corner a possum on our screen porch......non stop barking is what woke me up.....she's a great pyrenees....don't know if anyone is familiar with the breed, they are quite the show stopper...they're very large with long fluffy white fur....beautiful dogs, but definitely not a labrador....ya know the fabulous people pleasing dogs........she's more of a " i'm gonna do my thing whether or not you like it and you can call me a billion times but until i choose to listen i'm gonna keep on doing my thing".....sweet dog, great with kids, love her to pieces, sheds alot....an awful lot....maybe 30 to 40 dogs worth over the year, could be more than that......but not exactly a do what i tell you to do kind of dog.....could be our lack of sufficient or competent training ...ya know after awhile i get tired chasing that ball, or i have great thigh muscles from showing her how to sit, or trying to get the big white fluffy blob off our bed who just moves her eyes and not her body as if  she lays real still i won't see her, or the numerous times i try the "come" command just to watch her look at me with those eyes again as if to say "you know i'm a great pyrenees, right?", or me trying to get her to get up off the floor to go outside and all i end up doing is cleaning my floor with a big white fuffy blob that just lays back as i drag her toward the door.........i saw a picture once of the different commands you can do with a pyrenees...ya know... sit, stay, come, fetch, lay down, etc....they all showed the same dog doing the same thing...standing there.....that should have been my first clue
        anyway....so the barking continued, because kada (our dog) listens soooo well.....so gary is trying to sweep the possum off the porch from inside the house....tricky to do....while i'm trying to to make sure the possum doesn't run in our house.... kada is still barking at a very mad possum....the possum trying to get away from the broom and kada, it has now overturned the kitty litter which is all over the screen porch along with...well you know....hank the beagle...did you know that beagles love to eat and i mean love, really gross things.....dead animals are a fav along with the buffet from a kitty litter pan....so hank is having a fine time on the porch, not even concerned with the chaos going on....then mac shows up  (next door neighbors dog), cause he woke up his owners to let him out cause kada is barking and something is obviously wrong and he needs to investigate...(we have a gate that stays open between the yards cause kada and mac are best friends)..our cat is just watching the chaos with this smug smile that cats have...... as you can imagine...our neighbors just love us....so after finally corralling all dogs in the house and sending mac home, we leave the possum and cat in peace on the screen porch that has become a huge kitty litter box 
        so my 2 am possum brain is not functioning as it should....of course how should a 2 am possum brain function?....anyway, as i try to do anything today it just all falls apart.....then my bg (business guru) calls me to check in on my progress......yeah....nothing.....but she does get me to make a google business page....she's got alot of patience that one......haven't done much else with it, but hopefully i can clear my head and check it out more....honestly i can't even tell you how to get to it...but it is called bobbi's murals...not sure if that's how you look it up....but that's about the extent of it right now.....ha ha, by the way, i just pulled up that google business app, and it's not even bobbi's murals....its bobbi"s murals.....i gotta fix that, but not real sure how....i will figure it out though!!!...i'll definitely have more to tell next week!!...as long as there's no more possums....be groovy!