Hamish Macbeth
Photo A.M. Moscoso
September 2014
When I brought Hamish home, he was about 12 weeks old, he was a serious puppy but as the months went on and I came out of my depression ( probably had a lot to do with Hamish ) his personality just went super Nova.
He LOVED meeting new dogs and cats, he loved to meet and greet people on our walks, at the dog parks and at family gatherings.
He loves the 4th of July-fireworks and all because he gets a lot of attention and snacks…oh so many snacks. No matter how loud and how sudden the explosions go off around us- he is totally nonplussed. On the other hand his Mom and Dad ( the canine ones ) were champion award winning hunting dogs so he may have just been wired for that.
Hamish on the Halloween Trail.
October 12 2025
A.M. Moscoso
Hamish and Stitch
Photo Pualani K
Oh. And he loves his trip to the vets because there are people to meet, dogs and cats and he gets treats. Some people have to carry or pull their dogs into the Vets office, Hamish runs in and sometimes he won’t leave and I have to ease him out.
And there was the time he hurt his paw and he had to wear the Cone of Shame and he liked it. When he sees it in the closet, he won’t walk away until I put it on him.
Hamish Macbeth
Fall of 2020
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Hamish is 12 years old now and he may have frost on his muzzle and paws, but none on his heart and soul.
I don’t know how he got to be this outgoing creature that loves the world without reservation, but I am glad he’s in my life. I think he makes me a better person every single day.
WP Prompt: Share a photo of your pet and tell us one thing that makes them uniquely them.
Color Image of Mercury from NASA’s MESSENGER Satellite
I’ve told this story a few times, but I am going to tell it again because stupid never dies.
I was friends with a person who was probably only hanging out with me because I was such an emotional wreck and suffering from depression and she had known me before and at that time ( in the before ) she was far more interested in being friends with my husband then me.
She was doing a little grave dancing and I probably made her feel better about herself, you know?
Well, we were out one evening meeting up with the rest of our ‘group’ when she says to me, all very superior like, ‘ Make sure you unplug your computer and update your phone because Mercury is in retrograde. ”
I was not exactly the sharpest tack in the box at the time, so I thought I had missed something. What exactly did Mercury have to do with my phone? Did she mean the planet was going to crash into a satellite and kill our phones or the chemical and if she meant the chemical how the Hell was it going to get into my electronics?
I asked her what she meant and she said that when Mercury was in retrograde it stopped orbiting the Sun and then it started to move backwards.” When that happens” she said as if I was suffering from brain damage, but she was there to help me out of the forest of stupidity I had been lost in until she showed up, ” electronics freak out until it stops again and moves forward.
It only happens for a few minutes, I was informed. Then everything goes back to normal.
All I could think to say was, ” There’s ice on Mercury. Chunks of it inside of it’s craters at it’s poles. ”
She laughed so hard tears came out of her eyes, ” Oh Anita, oh wow…Ice on the planet closest to th Sun. SCIENCE lady! You need to get some! ”
The yellow spots in this image show the areas of Mercury that scientists think have water ice.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
This is the Sun. Can you find Mercury?
Mercury in true color (by MESSENGER in 2008)
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Arizona State University/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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