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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThat UCLA Bruin was a gift from friends many years ago. It has survived Karl, Gus, Bob, Bear and now Auggie and Emmett…<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026 hopefully. Emmett has “borrowed” it from under the tree on I believe I have mentioned that I love my work group and am very grateful for the team that I work with. And am grateful for work that I love that allows me to live in a place that I love and enjoy the outdoors with my pets!<\/p>\n\n\n\n So \u2026 the weather ??? After an early start to Winter \u2026 in September \u2026 some snow, some cold and now it is warm-ish but gray and low cloud deck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So we start the dark mornings with coffee and electric fire …<\/p>\n\n\n\n …and general togetherness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the length of the dark mornings often leads to a bit of pestering play :)<\/p>\n\n\n\n This week, though… a new toy for outside time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although I played softball into my 40’s: third and then first base \u2026 my throwing acumen has seriously degenerated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Emmett LOVES to play fetch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, this launch toy. It is great fun! I’m not sure which of us has more fun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The ring goes a good distance, but it does float! Emmett is still learning about how it goes, compared to a stick or the throw toys we have played with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BIG.FUN!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope to take some video!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, we enjoy some spectacular color: snow up high, dark cloud background and some gold from a sun trying to break through…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good, good times enjoying the work and play routine \u2026 the holiday vibes and just generally being beyond grateful that all has worked out to continue as we were.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good grief \u2026 last week was Thanksgiving weekend and here we are just a wee bit over 2 weeks until Christmas! Life is now back to our normal :) \u2026 as in working, being paid timely (all is caught up and resolved YEA!!!) and we had a scrumptious Thanksgiving dinner of turkey and stuff \u2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auggie","category-emmett","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18534"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18714,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534\/revisions\/18714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Bruin2903.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nseveral<\/del> many occasions. Thankfully, no harm done to the Bruin. I sent a photo to my coworkers who both attended UCLA \u2026 wondering how it had survived all of these years, and received this reply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It has survived because it is \u2018Bruin Strong\u2019.
Go Bruins! Fight! Fight! Fight! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/SunLight2974-881x1024.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
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