HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT WEEKEND!

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

FLAGSTAFF FOLK FESTIVAL IS THIS WEEKEND!

Flagstaff Friends of Traditional Music will present the 11th annual two-day Flagstaff Folk Festival Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the grounds of the Coconino Center for the Arts and the Pioneer Museum, 2300 N. Fort Valley Road.
The festival will feature folk and acoustic music performed by more than 150 musicians on four stages. This event is presented through a partnership of three local organizations: Flagstaff Friends of Traditional Music, Flagstaff Cultural Partners and the Arizona Historical Society Pioneer Museum.
The event will include individual and group acts, including fiddlers, folk singers, string bands, jam sessions, a band scramble and more. There will be workshops, open to all festival attendees, covering various instruments (past workshops have covered everything from ukulele to autoharp to lead guitar playing) and such topics as songwriting and instrument care.

Admission is $3 per person or $9 per family. Food vendors will have cold beverages, snacks and meals for sale. Stages are both inside and outside, covered, and seating is provided.


Read more: http://azdailysun.com/news/local/around-the-town-flagstaff-folk-festival-this-weekend/article_1ff07b46-2b90-53f4-b221-e273a04b2afd.html#ixzz1z6RuphIk

BEST BUDS FOREVER!!

A dog has been hailed a "hero" after he saved a Michigan toddler from drowning in his family swimming pool, News 8 reports. Patricia Drauch, 30, said that was walking to her garage to return some gardening tools last weekend when Stanley, her 14-month-old son -- who had been toddling right behind her -- disappeared from sight. “Stanley usually follows us around and I went into the garage to put away some stuff and came back out,” Drauch told ABC 57 News. “Just in a moment, he wasn’t behind me.” Frantically searching around her house for him, Drauch, who lives in Marcellus, Mich., said she found him lying face-up in the family pool. "It was scary. His lips were blue. His eyes were rolled back," Drauch told News 8. "It was the scariest feeling and the image stays in your head for a long time." Incredibly, Stanley was not alone. When Drauch looked closer, she noticed that her black Labrador, Bear, was balancing the little boy on his back, helping him to keep his head above water. "[Bear] wouldn't move in the pool," she said. "He didn't bark. He didn't move. It was like he was afraid to move at all until I got Stanley up out of the pool and that's when [Bear] came up out of the pool with me." According to ABC 57 News, Stanley was unresponsive when his mother pulled him out of the water. Drauch said she immediately tried to call 911 but was unable to get cellphone reception. Gathering up Stanley and her other children, Drauch jumped into her car and headed to the fire department. En route Stanley regained consciousness. When the toddler arrived at the fire department, he was described as "alert and in good condition." Drauch told the Sturgis Journal that she's convinced that Bear saved her little boy's life. "We all believe that if it wasn’t for Bear he would have sunk down,” Drauch said. “It was incredible to see Bear holding him up like that.” Though there were no witnesses to the heroic rescue, Cass County Undersheriff Rick Behnke told News 8 that the vomit found in Drauch's car is evidence that Stanley ingested water before expelling it -- confirming the idea that the toddler nearly drowned before being propped up by Bear. "From the information we have, it seems to pan out," Behnke said. "It's an amazing story. The dog is a lifesaver. That's all I can say." She added that Bear has been trained from a young age to care for her children. “I’ve always told Bear growing up, ever since he was a pup to just watch over his babies,” Drauch said. “I’ve always told him that they were his babies.” Related on HuffPost:

WHAT AN INSPIRATION

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bus-52/recycle-bikes-for-kids_b_1608768.html

Monday..Monday!! Here is to creating a wonderful week for yourself!

Diamondback fan?  Today is Baxter's birthday - -Happy Birthday Baxter!!!!

Fact about Flagstaff

Pioneer filmmaker, Cecil B. DeMille originally traveled to Flagstaff to make his first film but he arrived there in the middle of a storm and decided to move operations further west, to Hollywood. His film, The Squaw Man (1914), went on to be wildly successful, launching the fledgling movie industry and establishing Hollywood as the movie capital of the world.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK-END