helen says…

on this Monday, day of giggles, Helen has one important thing to say…

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(barks translated below!)

“HAPPY LABOR DAY

TO ALL THE DOG-LOVERS (AND OTHERS) OUT THERE

WORKING EXTRA HARD

TO MAKE OUR COUNTRY GREAT!!”

(plus a few more of her “barking-tips” for this labor-day holiday to “chew” on!)

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“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”  ~Confuscious

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“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud.  And I don’t want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes.  I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear red shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now.  I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want everyday to make God’s belly laugh, because He’s glad that He gave life to someone who loves the gift!!”  ~Shawn Neiquest

“Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.”   ~author unknown

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“Lord on this Labor Day, we thank You for the blessing of work.  We ask for strength to compete each day.  We ask for rest when we are weary.  We ask Your guidance for everyone seeking employment, and we ask that You be with those whose faces we might never see but who work tirelessly each day for the good of us all.  Amen.” ~Our Sunday Visitor

and because it IS Monday Helen leaves you with this labor day giggle:

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hugs n’ blessings to all the hard working teachers, factory & construction workers, police, firefighters, truck drivers and ALL other workers who have made this country great!!

wash me clean, (but set me free,) please!

Create in me a clean heart, O God.  Psalm 51.

they were dirty. they needed cleaned. and there was only one place to heigh-ho and go.

the laundromat.

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“Wait, what?  I do not like this very much! At. All.  ‘Be Brave’ my fun-stuffed friends!!”

could it be? that she.

would not understand.

“I am in no way comfortable with this.”

and so there needed to be a plan…

“Stay calm, and stick together everyone! I, the best golden-retreiver-in-the-universe, will save you!”

round & round & round they’ll go…

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where they’ll stop, wait…

nobody….

knows, where is Helen?

uh, oh. nice try Helen. (miss distraction-ator!)

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“Want to play catch? Or fetch?”

 we know you do not like

baseball.

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“But I couldn’t find a tennis ball.”

now this was very clever indeed.

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“You cannot see me but I am resting on the floor near the red-headed lady’s prayer books.”

but morning prayer is finished. (and it’s already noon too.)

only one thing to do.

wash you too!!

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“This is NOT how I saw this going…”

at last they’re (all) dry!

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“Don’t worry! I will get the red-headed lady to look the other way!  And then at last, I will rescue you!”
“SQUIRREL!!!”

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and now that

THAT

is over…

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“we will never get dirty again!”

hugs n’ sudsy blessings!

Cleanse me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

~ Psalm 51:7