{"id":16689,"date":"2013-09-20T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=16689"},"modified":"2020-01-19T23:33:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T04:33:30","slug":"remembering-what-happiness-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/remembering-what-happiness-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering&#8230;. What Happiness Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Smittie the kitty with shells\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Smittie-with-shells.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2869\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/seashell-kitty\/smittie-with-shells\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Smittie-with-shells.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"225,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D2X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1210756009&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;45&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Smittie the kitty with shells\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Smittie the kitty with shells&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Smittie-with-shells.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2869 aligncenter\" title=\"Smittie the kitty with shells\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Smittie-with-shells-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Smittie the kitty with shells\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Smittie-with-shells-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Smittie-with-shells.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happiness is being surrounded by what you love&#8230;. the seashore, seashells, art, wildlife, sealife and of course friends and family. There are times when life gets tough when you lose one of them. Clark and I lost our pretty Smittie the kittie this week so our world has been tilted.&nbsp;We don&#8217;t have 2 legged children, our children are furry with four legs. She was part of our family and we loved our sweet girl beyond words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"smittie seashell displays\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/smittie-seashell-displays.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10288\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/shelling-out-for-a-camera\/smittie-seashell-displays\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/smittie-seashell-displays.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,428\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON 1 J1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1334564407&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;30&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.1&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"smittie seashell displays\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;smittie seashell displays&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;smittie seashell displays&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/smittie-seashell-displays.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10288 aligncenter\" title=\"smittie seashell displays\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/smittie-seashell-displays-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"smittie seashell displays\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/smittie-seashell-displays-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/smittie-seashell-displays.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, I know this post isn&#8217;t about shelling but <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?s=smittie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I introduced Smittie<\/a><\/strong> to you several years ago so I felt you might remember. Now you know why I haven&#8217;t been out on the beaches giving you&nbsp;up-to-date shelling info on the islands this week. &nbsp;But we will be back on the beaches this weekend to get back into our groove &#8230; and giving lots of love to our little fluff ball Dustie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"dustie seashells\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dustie-seashells.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10290\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/shelling-out-for-a-camera\/dustie-seashells\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dustie-seashells.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,429\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON 1 J1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1334328079&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.04&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dustie seashells\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;dustie seashells&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;dustie seashells&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dustie-seashells.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10290 aligncenter\" title=\"dustie seashells\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dustie-seashells-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"dustie seashells\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dustie-seashells-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dustie-seashells.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happiness is also gathering 25 awesome shellers and spending 4 days on a great shelling adventure together sharing stories and friendships. Announcing Shellabaloo 4 January 6-9, 2014 this week came at a perfect time to make for happiness again. Join us for lots of happy shelling! For more info <strong><a title=\"Shellabaloo Shelling Adventure Date!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/19\/shellabaloo-shelling-adventure-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE<\/a>&nbsp;&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"shellabaloo 4 shell trip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/19\/shellabaloo-shelling-adventure-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16691\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/remembering-what-happiness-is\/shellabaloo-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shellabaloo-4.png\" data-orig-size=\"600,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"shellabaloo 4 shell trip\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;shellabaloo 4 shell trip&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;shellabaloo 4 shell trip&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shellabaloo-4.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16691 aligncenter\" title=\"shellabaloo 4 shell trip\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shellabaloo-4-300x150.png\" alt=\"shellabaloo 4 shell trip\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shellabaloo-4-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/shellabaloo-4.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness is being surrounded by what you love&#8230;. the seashore, seashells, art, wildlife, sealife and of course friends and family. There are times when life gets tough when you lose one of them. Clark and I lost our pretty Smittie the kittie this week so our world has been tilted.&nbsp;We don&#8217;t have 2 legged children, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-znone","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Smittie-with-shells.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-4lb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29202,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689\/revisions\/29202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}