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1st was the easy task, grooming the yorkie. Then my mother wanted a haircut, so I did that. Then I had to groom the female miniature schnauzer. She looked like a lamb, but is as stubborn as a goat. It took 2 hours on the table, and I know I missed some areas. The male miniature schnauzer will have to wait for another day.
Thank God I don't have to groom my bearded dragon!
Thank God I don't have to groom my bearded dragon!
Mine is not used to being handled. The previous owner mishandled her and was forced to give her up when she was just a juvenile. She still gets scared if either I or the hubby try to pick her up. I clean her terrarium when she is on the tree I built fo her.
I love lizards. As a kid we had an above ground pool. When nobody used it after several yrs my parents let me turn it into a lizard enclosure. I had rocks and branches in it. I kept two big blue tongues, a stumpy tail, one of our Aussie dragon lizards that look very much like yours and several large skinks. I kept them for a few yrs until I started working then let them go. My Mum was terrified of the big blue tongues. But she put up with them
Peep. 
Now, y'all read a peep out of me. Y'all can run 'er slow and figure us here be doing the like. Still no news is good news.
Now, y'all read a peep out of me. Y'all can run 'er slow and figure us here be doing the like. Still no news is good news.
Morning!
Well, we have some work to do today. Daughter & her hubby are moving back, we have to clean their house. Just vac, dust, sweep & mop, wipe down counters, tub, etc. And sanitize everything, of course. House has been locked up for 2 years, needs the work. I'm going to take my time!
Jessie is supervising Hubby, she's a good guard cat. She loves the new drapes - they open all the way to the sides, she can see through the whole windows! Birds, cars, people, dogs on leashes!
I'm having Caff withdrawal. Anyone heard from him?
Stay safe and healthy
Well, we have some work to do today. Daughter & her hubby are moving back, we have to clean their house. Just vac, dust, sweep & mop, wipe down counters, tub, etc. And sanitize everything, of course. House has been locked up for 2 years, needs the work. I'm going to take my time!
Jessie is supervising Hubby, she's a good guard cat. She loves the new drapes - they open all the way to the sides, she can see through the whole windows! Birds, cars, people, dogs on leashes!
I'm having Caff withdrawal. Anyone heard from him?
Stay safe and healthy
Peep.
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I have been meaning to talk about this a little here for a while, and just never think of it at the right time.
We live out in the boonies, and our place is well behind another small neighborhood where there are people coming and going much more than there are back here.
It's been so quiet out here, the animals are starting to venture out more. My husband regularly sees groups of up to seven deer in our back yard, calm as you please, eating grass and the green onions that have sprouted up in one section of the yard. The possums have become so bold that they'll come right up onto the porch and eat our cats' food, so he has set traps for them and has relocated about eight possums now and has released one cat that was unfamiliar to us, and so hostile that we think it may be feral.
This morning there were birds on our porch, pecking at small bits of cat food and drinking the cats' water. I have heard more birds singing all winter and now especially that it's turning spring - they are just like a bird symphony out there at times.
Amazing how quickly the earth would change if people would/could just quiet down. It's absolutely lovely.
We live out in the boonies, and our place is well behind another small neighborhood where there are people coming and going much more than there are back here.
It's been so quiet out here, the animals are starting to venture out more. My husband regularly sees groups of up to seven deer in our back yard, calm as you please, eating grass and the green onions that have sprouted up in one section of the yard. The possums have become so bold that they'll come right up onto the porch and eat our cats' food, so he has set traps for them and has relocated about eight possums now and has released one cat that was unfamiliar to us, and so hostile that we think it may be feral.
This morning there were birds on our porch, pecking at small bits of cat food and drinking the cats' water. I have heard more birds singing all winter and now especially that it's turning spring - they are just like a bird symphony out there at times.
Amazing how quickly the earth would change if people would/could just quiet down. It's absolutely lovely.
Same here. Although we live within spitting distance of the beach, and are currently being constantly reminded of Spring Break 2021 - our family has adapted to the boonies quite well.
We have Raccoons and Opossums (or Coons and Possums as they are called round chere) constantly eating our dog/cat food. I love sitting out on the porch and just listening to the quiet calm of nature. The birds are quite glorious. And serenity is easy to achieve on those lazy late afternoons, with your cell phone turned off (as if!) and it's just you and what nature has to provide.
If you would of told this city boy only a few years ago that he would end up falling in love with "country life" I would have balked at the statement. But I am not by far the only one who has. Great post @nadalama
It is surprising how many people on the net wonder how people can live outside of the big cities. I can't stand them.
I like it here on the outside edge of my town of just under 2500 people. It got bad when folks dropped off cats they didn't want, and I had to set traps. In 2 weeks, I caught 6 big toms and had animal control get rid of them. I don't worry about possums unless they get in the fenced in back yard with the dogs. In all the years I been living here, only once have I had to put down a possum the dogs cornered.
We got lots of rabbits running around. Once, we had one in the back yard, and the yorkie damn near ripped its leg off trying to pull it back through the fence when it tried to get away.
I wouldn't give up life like this for big city life ever.
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When we lived in Savannah for about 2.5 years, we lived in a neighborhood that had a Homeowners' Association. It didn't take me long to figure out that I am not civilized enough for an HOA.
The first letter we got was to tell us that we could not park vehicles anywhere but on the paved driveway. Well, there were three adults living in the house and only two cars would fit in the driveway, and there was a perfectly good place to the right of the driveway for the third of us to park, so we'd been parking there. But NOOOOOOOOOO....the ladies that cruised the neighborhood in their little white Ford Escort wagon could just not put up with that, so they sent us a nasty letter, and one of us had to start parking on the f'n street.
The next letter was to tell us we needed to paint our garage door. WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A GARAGE DOOR. The garage had been enclosed well before we got there to make a fourth bedroom. We threw the letter in the garbage.
Then we got a letter telling us to mow the grass. I measured the grass - it was 4" tall. We mowed the f'n grass.
The final straw came with the fifth letter. This one was to tell us we needed to weed the flower bed. Note that the flower bed was about 2.5 feet from the front door. You'd have to park, get out of your car, and come all the way up to the door to even SEE the flower bed. There were maybe a half dozen little weeds in there, NO FLOWERS, hell it was mostly just dirt. For god's sake.
I told my husband, I wast to live in the country where, by god, if I wanna put a f;n refrigerator on the front porch, I can do it. If I want a couch in my front yard, I'll have a goddamn couch in the front yard. I'll have cars up on blocks and a stack of unused building materials and as many damn dogs as I want.
I don't have any of those things, but that isn't the damn point.
After the fifth letter, we started looking for land in places where it wasn't 90 degrees outside clear into November. And where nobody was appointed as the fascists of the neighborhood whose main purpose in life was to send nastygrams to the residents. I could not WAIT to get out of that friggin neighborhood.
The town I lived in before we moved here was run like that HOA. We even put up an 8 foot tall privacy fence around the property. I caught a little rich looking bitch standing up on the tailgate of her SUV to look over the top of the fence and write down notes. She did not like me asking "what the fuck do you think you're doing?" and she refused to answer.
Even after we sold that place and moved, they still sent letters to our new address telling us we had to go clean up the property, mow the lawn, trim the trees, etc... I went to their city hall with some of the letters, and gave them a piece of my mind. They stopped bothering me. That property has been sold 2 more times since. Someone has burned down 3 mobile homes on that property in the last 15 years as well. I can't prove it, but I think someone in that city govt wants the property for free. That city has a population of around 6000, and is getting weirder by the day.
A ban on political talk prevents me from discussing what's going in in that city.
Happy Easter everyone.
All is well with family and the wife and I.
California; San Diego specifically is on pace to drop into the Orange tier by the end of the month.
This is good news, and sad at the same time; traffic- crowds.
I got so used to areas not being busy and with the tier change we recently moved into I can see a major change in how busy things are.... I know it’s selfish, but I sort of hate crowds
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All is well with family and the wife and I.
California; San Diego specifically is on pace to drop into the Orange tier by the end of the month.
This is good news, and sad at the same time; traffic- crowds.
I got so used to areas not being busy and with the tier change we recently moved into I can see a major change in how busy things are.... I know it’s selfish, but I sort of hate crowds
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I get what you are saying. Our small town has been swamped in the past couple of months with out of towners. It used to be easy parking anywhere. Now I park two streets up from where I used to for any given shop I want to go to. Lots of strange new faces too as they exited Melbourne to live elsewhere. Rental availability here is now zero. It used to be ok.Happy Easter everyone.
All is well with family and the wife and I.
California; San Diego specifically is on pace to drop into the Orange tier by the end of the month.
This is good news, and sad at the same time; traffic- crowds.
I got so used to areas not being busy and with the tier change we recently moved into I can see a major change in how busy things are.... I know it’s selfish, but I sort of hate crowds
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Monday morning thunderstorm - but could be worse
Kitties super playful in the house and some super yummy leftovers from Easter, so we have nothing to complain about for sure
Hope everyone is well
Kitties super playful in the house and some super yummy leftovers from Easter, so we have nothing to complain about for sure
Hope everyone is well
Glad to hear Hubby and Jessie are doing well, sorry for worrying ya. Just need a sanity break from the Internet sometimes.Morning!
Well, we have some work to do today. Daughter & her hubby are moving back, we have to clean their house. Just vac, dust, sweep & mop, wipe down counters, tub, etc. And sanitize everything, of course. House has been locked up for 2 years, needs the work. I'm going to take my time!
Jessie is supervising Hubby, she's a good guard cat. She loves the new drapes - they open all the way to the sides, she can see through the whole windows! Birds, cars, people, dogs on leashes!
I'm having Caff withdrawal. Anyone heard from him?
Stay safe and healthy
Milly and I are enjoying the warm weather and being back in the Living Room again, it's like 75F in here.
So, a nice day today, with a nice kitteh.
GO ZAGS FTW!!!!!!
Got that classic GU hoody for $3 at thrift just in time for the Final Four game...and we know what happened then eh?
Two hours until The Finals with Baylor...aieeeeeeeee!!! We just GOTTA win this one.
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Morning!
Glad to see you back, Caff! You & Milly were missed.
Hubby has to go in to see if he can renew his driver's license. He's being grumpy about not being able to do it online. I think he's worried about the vision test, his allergies are making his eyes water.
We are supposed to hit 90* today! Not sure if I'm ready for that. I love the sunshine but not too much heat. Jessie is loving the sun on the carpet to snooze in.
Stay safe and healthy
Glad to see you back, Caff! You & Milly were missed.
Hubby has to go in to see if he can renew his driver's license. He's being grumpy about not being able to do it online. I think he's worried about the vision test, his allergies are making his eyes water.
We are supposed to hit 90* today! Not sure if I'm ready for that. I love the sunshine but not too much heat. Jessie is loving the sun on the carpet to snooze in.
Stay safe and healthy
Good day everyone!
Same same.
No colored tier system by then and full on life as normal soft target date
We move to the orange tier tomorrow.
Upside we will have this again
We reserved the hotel in January that has the bay view... maybe my sis and family will come again this 4th of July and get to see it.
Two years in a row they missed it, 2 years ago due to travel plans to be up in Northern Cali and last year it was cancelled due to Rona...
But there will be about a million people across Coronado Island and the harbors
Ogles... no crowds for this guy and view it from the comfort of the hotel
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Same same.
No colored tier system by then and full on life as normal soft target date
We move to the orange tier tomorrow.
Upside we will have this again
We reserved the hotel in January that has the bay view... maybe my sis and family will come again this 4th of July and get to see it.
Two years in a row they missed it, 2 years ago due to travel plans to be up in Northern Cali and last year it was cancelled due to Rona...
But there will be about a million people across Coronado Island and the harbors
Ogles... no crowds for this guy and view it from the comfort of the hotel
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Morning!
All is well here. We're off to the lumber yard. Hubby needs to make some wheelchair ramps, again, for daughter's house. Some jerks thought they needed them more than daughter, or they wanted the wood. Did you guys know that thick plywood is $50 a sheet? Wow! Anyway. it's going to be a sawdust day.
Jessie is still loving her fishie. I do replenish the catnip for her. She is loving the warm weather so much! Spends a lot of time on the deck, watching the world go by.
Stay safe and healthy
All is well here. We're off to the lumber yard. Hubby needs to make some wheelchair ramps, again, for daughter's house. Some jerks thought they needed them more than daughter, or they wanted the wood. Did you guys know that thick plywood is $50 a sheet? Wow! Anyway. it's going to be a sawdust day.
Jessie is still loving her fishie. I do replenish the catnip for her. She is loving the warm weather so much! Spends a lot of time on the deck, watching the world go by.
Stay safe and healthy
Someone stole the wheelchair ramps!? For crying out loud anyone knows ramps at a house are for disability access.Morning!
All is well here. We're off to the lumber yard. Hubby needs to make some wheelchair ramps, again, for daughter's house. Some jerks thought they needed them more than daughter, or they wanted the wood. Did you guys know that thick plywood is $50 a sheet? Wow! Anyway. it's going to be a sawdust day.
Jessie is still loving her fishie. I do replenish the catnip for her. She is loving the warm weather so much! Spends a lot of time on the deck, watching the world go by.
Stay safe and healthy
Hard to fathom the minds of people who do things like that. Very dark, no light in them.
You stay safe over there too.
Astrazenica vax has been unapproved for people under 50 here
Our government pretty much had all their eggs in the astrazenica basket. So they are frantically trying to sort out licensing type stuff with novavax etc
Have 20 million Pfizer doses for 25 million population. Massive portions of whom it is not feasible to transport and store at minus 70 for the Pfizer
Trying to limit any political content in this. Sorry if it violates rules. Just frustrating
Our government pretty much had all their eggs in the astrazenica basket. So they are frantically trying to sort out licensing type stuff with novavax etc
Have 20 million Pfizer doses for 25 million population. Massive portions of whom it is not feasible to transport and store at minus 70 for the Pfizer
Trying to limit any political content in this. Sorry if it violates rules. Just frustrating
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Nothing political that I can see. Imo, you're good.
I think most everyone in my immediate area is getting the Moderna vaccine. It is almost time for our second shot.
There's a cover up going on here with the true side effects of the Astra vaccine. What I hear first hand from hospital workers at the hospital where I go and what the powers to be say on our TV are in direct conflict. Lots of people in our small town have been made very ill from it and not recovered yet. The vaccine here in our town is causing more health issues than covid.
My husband and I have both got fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine and have had no side effects other than mild soreness at the injection site for 2 days from the 1st shot.
People we know that got other vaccines have got adverse reactions. Not saying you can't get a bad reaction from a Pfizer vaccine, but we are noticing more reactions from others.
People we know that got other vaccines have got adverse reactions. Not saying you can't get a bad reaction from a Pfizer vaccine, but we are noticing more reactions from others.
Chilly/windy day today, so my butt is staying in and watching stuff.
The NASCAR Xfinity series race got rained out last night so is postponed until Sunday, but there is the Cup race tonight. And, I got local college football on OTA-TV:
The EWU field is famously known for being RED. It is named The Inferno.
Trippy , eh?
The NASCAR Xfinity series race got rained out last night so is postponed until Sunday, but there is the Cup race tonight. And, I got local college football on OTA-TV:
The EWU field is famously known for being RED. It is named The Inferno.
Trippy , eh?
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Morning!
We are doing well, Jessie is watching Hubby build a little expansion to her deck. No, of course she's not spoiled! Might get it finished today.
Tomorrow is lunch with my out of town friend, then I have a doctor appointment. Shouldn't the reward come after the PITA?
Stay safe and healthy
We are doing well, Jessie is watching Hubby build a little expansion to her deck. No, of course she's not spoiled! Might get it finished today.
Tomorrow is lunch with my out of town friend, then I have a doctor appointment. Shouldn't the reward come after the PITA?
Stay safe and healthy
(warning: geek shit ahead!)
One reason I'm backing off buying vape stuff is there's more to life than vaping and I wanted this:
OFC, I ain't paying retail...I paid $120 for one locally in brand new condition. That is at least $40 off retail.
It's an investment in my lifestyle. And, they hold their value very well.
No more fighting with Samba or Windoze Networking between Android, Windows and Linux = Winning.
One reason I'm backing off buying vape stuff is there's more to life than vaping and I wanted this:
Amazon.com: Synology 2 bay NAS DiskStation DS220j (Diskless), 2-bay; 512MB DDR4: Computers & Accessories
Amazon.com: Synology 2 bay NAS DiskStation DS220j (Diskless), 2-bay; 512MB DDR4: Computers & Accessories
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OFC, I ain't paying retail...I paid $120 for one locally in brand new condition. That is at least $40 off retail.
It's an investment in my lifestyle. And, they hold their value very well.
No more fighting with Samba or Windoze Networking between Android, Windows and Linux = Winning.
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Morning!
It's going to be a little cooler today, good for doing laundry. Gotta be done! Jessie likes to help me fold the warm stuff, lol.
Hubby finished the little addition to Jessie's deck. She had a great time exploring, sniffing everything. She even got to go in Hubby's shop! And she discovered the sun-warmed cement, loved it.
Ok, time to get busy.
Stay safe and healthy
It's going to be a little cooler today, good for doing laundry. Gotta be done! Jessie likes to help me fold the warm stuff, lol.
Hubby finished the little addition to Jessie's deck. She had a great time exploring, sniffing everything. She even got to go in Hubby's shop! And she discovered the sun-warmed cement, loved it.
Ok, time to get busy.
Stay safe and healthy
migraines appointment today. Ugggh! They barely work anymore. I'm hoping the doc can find a better solution my insurance will pay for.
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A bit warmer today, but with wind warnings...bleh. Milly freaks the hell out with high winds.
Waiting on AMZ to deliver me a 4TB hard drive for the new NAS I got, probably on Friday. I hate waiting to set up new gear!
My huge bag of Puff's Cotton order should be in tomorrow though.
Made another big 2lb batch of Milly's food today. That new grinder is a life-saver.
Mmm, meat 4 kitteh.
Work done, time to chill and watch the dbl-headers going on in MLB today. Caveat: they are 7-inning games.
There are two of them, bonus is that one is for our Mariners.
Who apparently ain't sucking too bad this year.
Waiting on AMZ to deliver me a 4TB hard drive for the new NAS I got, probably on Friday. I hate waiting to set up new gear!
My huge bag of Puff's Cotton order should be in tomorrow though.
Made another big 2lb batch of Milly's food today. That new grinder is a life-saver.
Mmm, meat 4 kitteh.
Work done, time to chill and watch the dbl-headers going on in MLB today. Caveat: they are 7-inning games.
There are two of them, bonus is that one is for our Mariners.
Who apparently ain't sucking too bad this year.
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Made another big 2lb batch of Milly's food today. That new grinder is a life-saver.
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Mmm, meat 4 kitteh.
wow! She eats out of a bowl with a spoon.Now that's one well trained and very civilised cat!
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The doc is going submit to my insurance to see if the bastards will pay for Aimovig. Then I will just be giving myself a shot once a month instead of driving 2 hours to get I am a spammer ban me injections every 3 months.
The doc is going submit to my insurance to see if the bastards will pay for Aimovig. Then I will just be giving myself a shot once a month instead of driving 2 hours to get I am a spammer ban me injections every 3 months.
Nah, she has her own glass plates (ez to clean, no whisker stress like a bowl, and safe for her) and eats like this...
Now that's one well trained and very civilised cat!
Full posting is here: https://vapingunderground.com/threads/we-love-cats.245599/post-3036058
Ya don't wanna get in the way.
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Morning, doing well as can. Got work tonight at an elementary
school. Will be on the same shift with a lady that's retiring.
Worked all last week on nights at the high school. Seems obvious people involved are nudging me to step into the retiring lady's place. Tonight I'll have a chance to discuss that with her.
Will see how it goes.
school. Will be on the same shift with a lady that's retiring.
Worked all last week on nights at the high school. Seems obvious people involved are nudging me to step into the retiring lady's place. Tonight I'll have a chance to discuss that with her.
Will see how it goes.
Try eating two pounds of milk chocolate. Yes, in one setting. When I was around 14 to 15 I had migraines severely. The doctor I saw for them prescribed basically ******* (snow blindness) in gel pill form.
We found this out by my great aunt coming in, opening one, drawing up the powder in a line and snorting it. At the time she had just gotten sober from an addiction to that. She knew it for what it was. Her solution for me was the chocolate.
Not been bothered with them since. If I do feel a bad tension headache what may go that way coming on, I grab a candy bar. Clears out the headache pretty quick. Not that I'm actually promoting bad dietary choices, just something which seems to work for me.
OK, so you seem to found an excuse to dislike me for some reason. Now if you would kindly go fuck yourself.
My apologies, how did you read that in what I posted? I sincerely did not intend to convey any such thing. What I posted was in good faith as sincere and genuine advice as a fellow human being. In no way was I intending to convey dislike of you.
Think from herein I'll simply avoid conversation with you, about you. I did not have an opinion of you before. Now my opinion is simply you're someone I don't engage at all. Why? You seem to misunderstand. So, I'll just not engage. Still no real opinion of you, only that I'll stay farther away.
When you changed what I posted in the 'quote' when you responded to my post, calling me a spammer... got on my nerves. If you wanna call someone a spammer, go after some anti-vaping jackass like coupon92123.
So, it seems you are not allowed to mention b o t o x on here. Some filter calls me a spammer for mentioning a medical treatment. My apologies to magicmist.