My friend Newscoma writes that when you’re feeling down, it sometimes pays to look around and be grateful for what you have.  Some people have problems I wouldn’t want to shake a stick at.

They saved a puppy from the flames that went up 20 feet into the air in the house. I find that to be just wonderful, as I stood in the ice watching the firemen battle the flames despite the cold wet, the family apparently standing under umbrellas watching their home go up in flames with the harsh irony that the ice was coming down and could not save their home. Tongue and groove homes tend to go up fast the fire chief told me as we stood watching it burn.

Since she didn’t have a photo of the puppy, she gave us one of Mabel instead.