Smiling Jeffrey

Jeffrey smiling, put a little love in your heart

Good morning friends.

Happy Monday to everyone.  We hope you all had a great weekend.  Let’s give Jeffrey a big round of applause for his first morning post.  I tell Vanessa every night how much i love this boy.  He is so sweet and man is he smart.

I got to Puerto Rico 121 days ago and I can’t begin to tell you how far Jeffrey has come.   It reminds me of a song Annie Lennox and Al Green sang in 1988 ;  ♫♫♫ Put a little love in your heart And the world will be a better place ♫♫♫

Happy Monday friends.

In Loving Memory of Beatrice, Susanne Day’s Mother on Mother’s Day

In loving Memory of Susanne Day's Mother on Mother's day
Good evening friends.
Tonight we pay tribute to Beatrice Day, Susanne Day’s mother.  I could not have said it any better then Susanne.  So lets here about Beatrice from Susanne Day directly.
“Beatrice my mom was an amazing woman. She raised me alone. My dad and my mom separated when I was young. She was a constant inspiration to me and to so many others. As a child she would never fail to stop when seeing someone hungry or poor.
My mother would buy food, purchase medications and/or give them money to help them. In my youth she was diagnosed with Breast cancer. Beatrice was very religious and believed that God would cure her. The nuns from my church and school prayed for her and gave her a special relic of Blessed Elizabeth Ann Seton to apply to her breast and pray. Elizabeth Ann Seton was up for canonization awaiting proof of her miracles.
My mom’s faith was just so powerful. Anyway shortly thereafter the cancerous lump disappeared and her doctors wrote it up as a miracle for the Catholic Church. When she was canonized as a Saint my mother flew me to Rome for the canonization. Mom unfortunately died in December 1999….the Millennium. We had a,terrible time having her buried as it was Y2K. The first date we could bury her was January 4 2000 which turned out to be the feast date of the Saint that cured her. I was blessed to have her as my mother. Blessed to be her child.”
Beautifully written and expressed Susanne.  Sammy & Family is blessed to have you as a friend and to share such a heartfelt story.
Amen.  Scott Smith for Sammy & Family.

Happy Birthday Jess and Happy Mother’s Day

Jessica's Birthday and Mother's Day

Good morning friends.  Let’s wish Jessica a happy 45th birthday.  Today she has been alive for 16,425 days.  Jess my birthday suggestion is to leave the 4 kids with mom and drink heavily today.  Oh yeah, and tell mom I said Happy Mothers day this way i don’t have to get on the phone with her and immediately take 3 Excedrin after.

In all seriousness, Sammy & Family wishes all the mothers out there a wonderful Mother’s day.  After all, without mother’s, there would be No Us.

Happy Sunday Funday friends.

Sammy’s trigger words on Saturday May 9th, 2015

Saturday and Sammy's trigger words

Good morning friends.

Happy Saturday.  I told Vanessa many times never to say the word O-U-T around Sammy in any context.  She just said I have to go “out’ for a while and now look at his face.  Sammy already registered he’s on his way outside, and once he’s triggered he won’t be denied.

Translation, the lazy man has to get up now and take him out.  His main trigger words and terms are; “out, do you want, take, should I, what about Sammy”  – Anything like that and there is no turning back.

And God forbid, I go to put my sneakers or sweatshirt on, he goes into a ballistic barking mode until we are actually outside.  Hey its a day in the life of a 10 pound Pomeranian.  Have a great day.

Mother’s Day and Birthday Weekend

Scott & Jess 1972, two weeks a year we are the same age

Good evening friends.

Friday never fails to amaze me, it always shows up right on time.  We hope everyone had a great week.  For those that didn’t, shrug off it off, the weeks over, you deserve a good weekend.

This Sunday is Mother’s day and my sister Jessica’s 45th birthday as well.  This is the only time of the year we’re the same age, and on May 24th I turn 46 years old, which is the same age my father died in 1984.  I am kind of hoping God has a different plan for me, we’ll see.  Anyway, people refer to Jessica and I as Irish twins, i never understood the reference but heard it my whole life and now i just repeat it.  I was under the impression the prerequisite would be to be Irish, lol.

OK, back to Mother’s day.  So this Sunday we are doing a Mother’s day feature in memory of Susanne Day’s mother.

One tip before we say goodnight. Get your mother flowers on Monday May 11th for 50 percent less.

Signing off from Puerto Rico on Day 118, Scott Smith for Sammy & Family.   #LegendInHisOwnMind  and #TrendingInHisOwnMind

Equal Happiness Opportunities

Equal happiness opportunities

Good morning friends.

Happy Friday.  Another day another gift.  If you had a great day yesterday, hit the replay button.  If you had a lousy day yesterday, you’re not destined to have another bad one today.  Everybody deserves a good day today.

Two quotes for today, the second is a movie quote play off of the first quote.

1. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

2. “You stay alive no matter what occurs. I will find you…no matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you.”   — The Last of the Mohicans —

Have a great day.

Life was good today on May 7th, 2015

Life was good today on May 6th, 2015

Good evening friends.

Hope everyone had a nice day today.  I was looking for some good quotes for a Thursday and the majority of them are messages like “we are almost at the weekend.”  Like Thursday’s don’t count or something.  Didn’t really love any of them.

Life was good today on May 7th, 2015.  It didn’t have to be that way, Thank God that it is.  Over the years we have discussed many topics regarding animal welfare around the world and some of them we hit pretty hard.

The styles of our night posts have changed as you have seen.  They will predominantly be the Thoughts & Prayer posts we usually do including your pets and ours and many other topics as well.  We have decided to distribute the hard topics at different times or makes references to them so you know where to find them.

ELS is a feel good place in the morning and at night.   None of us need to hear such disturbing news right before we got to bed.  We all get enough of that with evening news on the tube, which I can’t even watch anymore.

So let’s close out with a quote from Dr. Seuss; “Today you are you, that is truer than true!  There is no one alive who is you-er than you”

This picture was with  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Puerto-Rico-Therapy-Dogs/153214571538533?pnref=story   They were having some event at the mall.

Signing off from Puerto Rico on day 117, Dr. Harp Seal for Sammy & Family.

Just a boy and a dream

Good morning friends.

A little flashback to the Third Avenue Fair on the Upper East Side.  This is Sammy towards the beginning of our journey. He was just a boy with big dreams and and boy did he fulfill them.

Two tips for the day.

1. Never put your dog down in the middle of the Avenue unless there is a street fair.

2. Lets give today a chance.  Win, lose or draw, let’s give it a chance

Third Avenue Fair