Celebrating Free Gifts from Houston
July 19, 2014 by margaretsmn
Ruth Ayres invites us the celebrate each week. Click over to her site Discover. Play. Build. to read more celebrations.
Did you miss me? I spent the week at Rice University in Houston attending a Pre-AP training. While I gained a great deal of information on teaching pre-AP, this post is about the wonderful free stuff we experienced in Houston.
On Wednesday night, my colleagues and I joined my friends at the Miller Outdoor Theatre for a free musical performance of “The Best Little W*#rehouse in Texas.” What a great performance! And Reese entertained us with stories about this true history of Texas and how his great uncle frequented the place. Picnic blankets, big dogs, wine, and musical entertainment, it doesn’t get much better than that!
On Thursday evening, we visited the Museum of FIne Art for free. Every Thursday the museum is free all day and open until 9 PM. While we were eating in the cafe, my friend Sarah joined us. Sarah is an artist and gave us a wonderful tour of the museum. While we were visiting, I brought up the puppy that Sarah rescued. She and Reese found a stray puppy along the highway from Galveston. The dog was in rough shape. They cared for her for 2 weeks and decided it was all too much to handle with their older (and perfectly mannered) dog Tilly. Sarah brought her to the poodle rescue. But her heart would not let go. So on Thursday, Marigold (so named because she was beautiful yet stinky) came back home to Sarah. We all turned and looked at Candice who had just been telling us about the loss of her dog in December. Right there in the art museum, a match was made. Before returning to our hotel, Sarah took us to meet Marigold. If I’ve ever seen love at first sight, this was it. Candice has two young daughters. What a surprise for them! We traveled home yesterday with 5 women and all our stuff plus one dog. Marigold was the perfect passenger. Now she has found the perfect home. As my husband likes to say about our rescue animals, “She has found a soft place to land.”
YES, I missed you! 😉 What fun you had, though. I love the pictures!
What beautiful celebrations!!! Marigold’s story of finding her forever home is my favorite!!! So touching! I LOVE the dog’s name. It reminded me of this story that I read this week: http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/marigolds/ Seems like Marigolds are everywhere recently! 🙂
That looks like an incredible venue for a show. Your post is filled with heart-stealing dogs today! That poodle is precious, and I love a story with a happy ending.
A match made in heaven…and so much to enjoy all free! Glad to read that Marigold (cute name) found a perfect home. I hope she and the family will both be happy. You could write a book about this event!
I LOVE happy endings. xoxo
I love dog stories that have a happy ending!
Love those big bows on the girls! I relish time outside in the summer, and to have music along, that’s a treat!