We had Goldens, other than the endless job of cleaning up hair they are fantastic dogs---they even loved me. Whenever we had company, the female would run and grab a present to offer to our guest---most often she would return, tail wagging, with a pair of my wife's undies in her mouth
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis