Being Content

Yesterday morning in church the preacher talked to us about money. Of course with the economy right now in ruin and being a college student and daughter of a business owner, money is a very high on the list of topics we talk about in my hosehold and also I think about. But the preacher madde me think that, even if I had all the money in the world, would I be content? NO! Stuff, is stuff, when we die, we don't take stuff with us. Like one of my favorite songs by George Strait, it's says they don't make herst with luggage racks.
So, how does a person become content, without tons of money? I asked myself this, do I have food?
Yep.
Clothes?
Yep.
Someplace to live?
Yep.
A means of getting to where I need to go?
Yep.
So why have I been bitchin? Cause something I ate didn't taste good, when there are people somewhere else in this world who would love to eat what I just threw out? Or my truck's tailpipe rattles and makes this god awful sound when I drive, when there are people who have to walk everywhere in all sorts of weather.
Reflecting on all I have, why am I not content with what I have? When it should be that I'm not content with what I'm doing? That I'm not doing enough to care for my dogs, to help around the house, or to even take care of myself.
No more worrying about my stuff for me now, now it's time for me to worry about what I do with my time, and actions.

What is a Whippet?

When people ask me my hobbies, I always say that I show dogs. The next question is always the same: What kind of dogs? I then reply by saying that I show whippets. And then eighty percent of the time I get this question: What's a whippet? Regretfully I always respond by saying, they are a small greyhound, but in reality, they aren't completly like a greyhound at all.
A whippet is a small sighthound. Sighthounds are dogs that hunt by sight, and chase their game down. Because of this, sighthounds are among the fastest dogs in the world. The size of the sighthound depends on what they hunted, for example the Scottish Deerhound is a 85 to 110 pound dog, that hunts deer, where a Whippet that ranges from 18 up to 30 pounds hunts rabbits.
Like there are differences between sighthounds, like the deerhound and the saluki, there are differences between the greyhound and the whippet. They do look more alike than the other sighthounds, but the gryhound is much larger, and has a flatter topline. Also, whippets have longer necks for their size and a whippet's color in immaterial, where there are standards for the greyhound.
This is only a small amount of imformation on what a whippet is, but you can see why I don't go into complete detail when someone asks me, what they are.