{"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=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Smittie-with-shells.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2869 aligncenter\" title=\"Smittie the kitty with shells\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/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=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/smittie-seashell-displays.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10288 aligncenter\" title=\"smittie seashell displays\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/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=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dustie-seashells.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10290 aligncenter\" title=\"dustie seashells\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/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\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16691 aligncenter\" title=\"shellabaloo 4 shell trip\" src=\"https:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/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":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"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"],"_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":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689\/revisions"}],"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}]}}