My (perhaps controversial) thoughts as a "newbie" to CA.
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MelissaDallas-- Such a cute remembrance of swimming and diving into a huge pool as a kid....I watch those guys and girls on that incredibly high platform and shiver...and then on top of everything they do a HANDSTAND UP THERE! I mean, come on! Do shame us down here with our pantyhose in a bunch!
I'm so excited about the Olympics!! I watch them oh so faithfully....stay up all night to watch more....my days are wrecked during those two weeks....when I lived in Salisbury on the Eastern Shore, I missed the 2000 and 2004 games because DINKY SALISBURY DIDN'T CARRY NBC! Do you believe in this age of communications spanning the globe, etc that a town on the super busy Mid-Atlantic coast would not carry NBC??! I was so depressed I ignored everything going on--just buried my head under my pillow...thus I missed the news of Michael Phelps and his achievements. Finally I was able to catch up to him when I moved to Baltimore in 2007. I'd never heard of him! I hope he's in these games and does well again...
Anybody excited about the games and planning to watch till you drop??
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MelissaDallas-- Have you heard about Texit? Would you go along with them and vote to secede from the US?
Wait. Didn't part of the country already, um, want to do this and the idea backfired into a small skirmish called the Civil War?
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Trill, no secession for me! And have the out-holy-the-holies governing my life and teaching "creation science" in our schools? Mmmm, I don't think so.
My mom is a D.A.R. and Daughters of the Republic of Texas member, so I have real Native Texan credentials
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Good on you, MelissaDallas!
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HI all---
OK, major goof today.... time to 'fess up....
Pantaloon was acting weird all while I was in the living room grappling with two big ole shutters I'm painting. She was acting what I call slump-y--almost with her tail between her legs (no mean feat as her tail is the width of both of her legs combined...).
And there was a pout in her meow.
What's up, Panty?
Then it hit me!
IT'S HER BIRTHDAY! SHE WAS BORN JUNE 26, 2011!
SHE'S FIVE YEARS OLD!
YAY, PANTY!
I'M SORRY!
How could I have forgotten????
After sharing a piece of birthday "cake"--kibbles on her side, strawberries on mine, I felt I had to give her a little talking-to--in a loving way, of course. I told her that we ladies tend to, um, put on a few pounds as we get older.....metabolism slows--nothing we have a lot of control over....and we tend to swallow more things--well within our power to control, if, that is, we happen to have this power in the first place. Which is why when she tried to slip into one of my baskets she found the sides way closer to her than they'd been back when she was four months old......(I thought it was all fur but when I gave her a birthday hug I found a very nice little firm solid kitty under there....)
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Happy birthday to Pantaloon!
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Molly--Pantaloon gives you two slow eye blinks as her way of saying thanks!
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Happy 5th Birthday Pantaloon! That basket looks great on you!!
🎂🎂🎂
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Trill, my surgery is on 7/6 at 11:30 am. I'll be there at least over night and I hope not a day longer lol
You will definetly be in my pocket on that day... Well kinda sorta 😜
One other thing I need to pack is someone my Mom-in-law gave to me today. It is a cancer bear and will bring great love during my recovery!
He/she needs a name! Any suggestions?
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Good -Luck Wench Lori!
Trill - you have hit that proverbial nail on the head. Plain tofu does look what we rubbed out from between our toes in the summer many years ago. Eww. But - it doesn't smell like it.
I never liked the stuff nor plain quinoa either and I was a vegetarian for 19 years 2 of them being a vegan. Trill- you've got it right.
Now though but for some Critter Chow I would have lovely unbroken nails, luxurious locks and bright shiny eyes. I'm in! Toss on a little Worcestershire sauce a dob of sour cream and a titch of dill and I'm all over that healthy diet craze. Yum!
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Happy Birthday Miss. Pantaloon!
and many more..............🎉🍰😽
Zaky and diamond send you their love and just a wee little woof as well.
Thanks MelissaDallas - oh Chows are nice dogs at home. My librarian friend years ago used to have Chows and I loved watching them pant because of their black tongues. Funny how dogs and cats weave their way into our lives so completely
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JBeans, my how you can make the most ordinary critter chow sound delish! I'd even add a few jalapeño peppers for a little kick! Anyone else? Yummy
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Lori-- Once Panty got herself out of that basket she was fine...she told me it gave her gas pains...and she sorta does look like a baby with gas pains, doesn't she?
I'll be certainly thinking of you on July 6th. This is reconstruction, right? I love your little bear and what a sweet gift from your mom-in-law. I'm terrible with names...need to be drunk to do anywhere near an OK job at it. I see HA in his lettering...I also see a couple of AH's--one upside-down--which leads, of course, to "AH-HA"......as in "AH-HA my surgery's done!" What you'll be saying on July 7th!
But you're great at names! You'll find the perfect one!
JBeans--Hmmmm....Critter Chow with Worcestershire sauce? Dole me out a dish!
I love chows too! My friend Sue had two--Doc and Tilly, brother and sister. Or was it mom and son? She saved their fur and knitted scarves with it....
Wait a minute. Where is my mind? (That was one of my mom's favorite statements: "Where is your mind?" That's what we should have put on her gravestone! Not the blah blah usual stuff, just, "Where is your mind?") (Said often to me.)(Especially in the 80's.) (See below.)
Sue didn't have chows!
She had two hot dog dogs--dachshunds.
Why did I think she had chows? She certainly didn't make her scarves from dachshund fur, did she? Dachshund fur is, like, very short and shiny, like them. The worst in the world for knitting--even I know that and I'm not even a knitter!
(The only thing I ever knitted was an orange scarf about six feet long for a beau. But I was making it when my brother Skip was in Vietnam and I screwed up many rows because he was shot. The telegram that came came via a Yellow Cab sent out from Annapolis--they called and said they had a telegram to deliver and my dear father walked the 600 yards up our long hill to the highway and waited there for the cab. It looked like a Norman Rockwell painting: a man with a son in Vietnam standing alone at the end of a driveway waiting for a cab to come with a telegram.
He tipped the cabbie. He came down the hill. Mom was half ill on the sofa. When he came in the room he handed the unopened telegram to ME! Why me? Oh, because...
Skip was alive and in a hospital in Japan, but the latter half of the telegram was scrambled (there are those eggs again, Lori) and we thought the scrambling was because the news was too dire to actually write out, which made me mess up that six-foot scarf which Wayne never wore--and why should he? It was orange and it would have choked him.
Skip's war was over, but not his war with---sorry for this rough transition--constipation. He needed so much morphine that it led to serious constipation--ladies, we can relate, right? When he could get out of bed he'd go in the toilet stall and the little Japanese nurses in their elegant kimonos would hand him some rubber gloves and, as they giggled on the other side--he could see all their fascinated feet--leaned down and hand-signaled to him what to do--Dig it out! Dig it out! So that's what he did. Dug it out.)
Hold on.
Gotta check my closet.
Two of Sue's scarves are in there...
They're white--and fluffy!
WHAT HAVE I BEEN ROLLING AROUND MY NECK FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS?????
Scarves made using fluffy white--dachshund fur ???
Sue praised her dachshunds, came to work with a bag full of this fluffy white fur she'd combed and prepared and said she was saving it from Doc and Tilly and knitted furiously during her dinner breaks.
I loved the scarves she wafted my way, but didn't connect the fur type and her dachshunds....
I was mostly unconscious during the 80's, so wasn't tuning in details of life like fur and breeds of dogs, etc. I was too busy with things like "rediscovering my lost innocence and fleeting youth" by locating broke, car-free guys and being ga-ga over one who owned a Glock and said it was for "target practice on strays..." I think he meant animals but to my knowledge he never actually shot anything as he was the worst shot since Hamilton, had too much hand shaking going on from too much vino and bar fights. He got into a terrible fight with a guy who he thought ordered "Stand up," when the guy had really said, "Shut up," and proceeded to beat the poop out of him. In keeping with the emotional/psychological logic operating at the time, I chose Ben because of his jock name, that's how shallow I was, determined to live the last of my relatively youthful years before maturity hit--I was a slow and reluctant maturer--being as asinine as possible. After Ben I met Bill, who got me pregnant and when I told him about it hung his head and wailed, "Why do these things happen to me?" then asked if I'd drop him off at a bar on my way home. He, of course, in keeping with the standards imposed by my delayed maturity, had no car. Plenty of other stuff, though, but no car. I miscarried, which was OK, even though I cried very hard about it, as did my parents. Those dear people vowed to stand with me the whole way but what a thing to land on them! We loved each other better after that--so good did emerge, including that I was finally introduced to adulthood and all it meant. So no more poop-y guys.
No, I wasn't tuned in back then.
But I loved the scarves Sue gave me....
What was she up to?
Did she fib?
Did she really use cat fur?
But Panty would have sniffed her little non-existent nose off every time I put one of them on if they were cat fur.....
Sue passed away so I can't ask her.
I need to get this checked out.....
But right now it's just too hot to research fur.
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Good morning All!
Trill, maybe Sue was pulling your leg about the cat fur scarves and they were made of angora yarn? It could happen. You enjoyed the scarves your friend made and that's what's important.
I like the name Ah-Ha, now is it a girl or boy?
My surgery on 7/6 is actually my DMX. Finally! My surgery last month was canceled due to my BS's visa (not her credit card) ran out. She's from Canada so she had to get it taken care of. I've forgiven her and we are back on track. She better not cancel again or I'll have to find me another BS! It took my insurance 3 months to approve her, I don't want to go thru that again!
DH will be up soon so off to the kitchen I go to fix his lunch. Then he'll tell me "Gotta go, see ya later, love ya, bye" really really fast. We've been saying those words for over 30 years now (with some pretty rough years in between) I never get tiired of hearing them... Still kids at heart!
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Oh my goodness, Trill you really spin a great story!! I am so glad your brother was okay. How dreadful to get a telegram like that!
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Happy birthday to Panty! Which reminded me: today (our 45th anniv.) is Happy’s 9th birthday! Extra catnip for him tonight. Bob the Cat is the spit & image (the original expression) of our dear, departed Matthew, whom we lost to kidney failure and several strokes at 19.
The birthday boy (what is it with cats & shoeboxes?):
As a kitten:
Studying for his entrance exam to the School of the Seven Bells:
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Sandy, Happy Anniversary and wishing you many more years of happiness!
Happy is a beautiful boy! Happy Birthday Happy!
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Lori--- To me your bear's a boy.... and I think that, yes, Sue was teasing me. I think she probably waited and waited for me to "get it" and laugh--and I never did....!!
Wow--you had to postpone over your BS? That would have been really hard...hope it never happens again. I thought the postponement was like for a medical reason or that they were finishing up the construction of the operating room or something. (And when I read those details below our posts I always skim them and thought your BMX was LAST July...I was reading July 2015....you can see I don't read them too closely!) So sweet that your DH sends those words your way as he departs. You sound like a gal still in love and still very excited about it. Am happy things are working out for you.
Molly--Yes, that was one rough telegram. Skip, of my three brothers, is the least aggressive and it was so hard for him to go. But his best friend Rusty was in Vietnam and Skip decided that flying to Canada--rather, hitchhiking there--was not for him. But then two days before he was due to ship out he learned that Rusty had been killed. Skip was devastated. But somehow he mustered the strength to go. After he healed at Walter Reed they skipped him to Ft Hood and he spent the rest of his time stoned on grass or AWOL.....really rough time all around...Have you ever been to the Vietnam War Memorial? Black and sunken....I cried the whole length....found Rusty's name finally....
Sandy--I love your photos! Happy Anniversary! And Happy Birthday to your golden boy.... (my nephew's birthday is today also--what is it with late June birthdays??) Happy is so sweet--love the markings. And the little paw in your purse... Yes, cats do love shoe boxes--and the crinkly paper too. When I get home from Walmart and have like twenty of their plastic bags, I take each one and blow into it and send it across the room, and she chases it. Then she lies in the whole pile and doesn't move for about an hour....
Here she is at four months.....her black "mask" has yet to come in...
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Happy Anniversary, Sandy!! Your kitty's so beautiful. I've never seen the Vietnam Memorial though I would love to. Our neighbor when I was young, her husband was a MIA.
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Oh Trill your poor brother - he must have felt so conflicted and you and your parents so worried
Wow - those 80's were wild, I remember wearing a lot of fluorescent head bands and leg warmers then
Happy anniversary Sandy
I love the animal pics Here is one of my girl Diamond from this past spring. She is a bit of a princess.
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Molly-- I got one of those steel MIA-POW bracelets engraved with the name of a missing guy....how awful to not know???? Wouldn't that be the worst? Try to see the Memorial if you can...it's well worth it..the most moving public monument I've ever seen.....so subtle and yet so powerful...... When they had the contest to decide how the memorial would look they invited any and all to send in their ideas/drawings, etc. Skip's a very good graphic artist and yet not a sculptor or designer of this type of thing. Anyway, his idea was this humongous generic military cap. Around the "band" would be carved all the names of the dead... I'm glad he went for it but I thought it was a bit corny--wouldn't have let him know this for the world of course. When Maya Linn's was announced as the winner and then when i visited it with my sister, the overwhelming sophistication and power of it made any overt and un-subtle design seem pretty lame...
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JBeans---Love your doggie! And the ball right there between her legs!--it looks like she's just DARING you to try to take it from her...The snow looks so inviting on this hot evening since one of my my diehard fans died hard on me a few hours ago.....
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Wild (wild, wild, wild) Seventies here. We were sneaking into the bars by the college at 15 or 16.
JBeans, I love your cattle dog. I see what you mean about looking like my dog now
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I found these 2 babies curled up on my living room window sill napping. The flash from my camera woke them up. I wonder how long they've been there? Cutie patoties! 30 mins later they are still there asleep.
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Beautiful dog Jean's! Oh Lori, those raccoons are adorable! It's is so hot and muggy here today. I just took the trash out and it's so thick you can see the air.
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Lori--Wow, what a shot!!!! You are so lucky! They are wonderful....
Melissa--Those 70's were indeed wild! Remember elephant pants? In the 60's I had some Cher pants--hip-hugging paisley purple and white bells with wide white eyelet border, zip up the back. They were too commercial and establishment for the hippie life I was living, also too pretty. In the 70's remember tight striped knit sweaters gathered weirdly at the shoulders or yoke...sorta a punk/girly/athletic look rolled into one indicating all kinds of identity issues in the wearer? They'd be paired with big floppy pants that ran over the tops of patent leather platforms..... When I was living in NY I found a pair of shoes that to this day I sorta regret taking to the Goodwill: three inch platforms with the burnt orange suede top running around over the bottom as well... I never wore them but every now and then took them out and smelled them, they were so beautifully made and smelled so great. But I was afraid I'd kill myself on icy sidewalks. Plus they would have made me 6'3" and I knew that would either intimidate into dullness or inflame into falsely and stupidly macho behavior by my much shorter date to compensate for our height difference...never wore them....never wore the Dr Scholl's Exercise Sandals either because I kept falling out of them--hadn't yet learned the trick of spitting on my palms and wiping them over my bare feet before putting on sandals....My favorites were Pappagallo gillies--or was it Bandolino's--French-y and black with tiny heels and lace-up fronts and lined with hot pink leather....I wore them with short skirts and wild printed pantyhose that came in all kinds of designs and colors. I also had three pairs of ankle-strapped black flats I wore with all the fancy leggings I could afford...I was also 120 pounds so could wear anything...
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Molly-- "so thick you can see the air..." Great image! I think I'm gonna steal your description...
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In one of my songs (“Fog”), I wrote:
"Past the river levees and abandoned Chevies and the gang-graffiti-ed walls,
City sky breathes so hot & heavy you could swear the air had balls."
Or in “Quarter Rat:”
"12 a.m. on Friday, down by Jackson Square,
It takes a chainsaw to cut that midnight air...."
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ChiSandy --Wow...excellent! Would love to hear the rest of these songs--didn't know you wrote!
Right now it's six thirty a.m. and it's 85 in my living room so that means it's at least upper 80's in here. I roll up my t-shirt--my cutaway t-shirt-- cause I can't stand to get it sweaty and then try to sleep on it but now I'm gazing down at my belly and the fact that my boobs are gone makes it look all the more rotund....My chest area and underarm where they took the node may be numb but the skin there still sweats like a pig...didn't affect that any!
A few years back I bought a thing called a Chillow...saw it advertised on TV for something like $29 but found it in Bed Bath and Beyond for $13. I went ahead and bought it and liked it sorta...Panty liked sleeping on it..I see they have cooling-type beds for dogs........wonder if they sell a gel-type cooling pillow? I say that because I always feared the Chillow would burst or something like while I was asleep and I'd wake up to a soaked bed. But it held up. Last summer I bought a new bed and again had that concern--no way I wanted to wreck my $1300 bed with a burst Chillow!
Today it was over on the corner of my bed and I gave it a toss onto a chair and then proceeded to toss my pillows on top while I shifted my bed around and put on new sheets. Then I put the pillows back and picked up the Chillow and noticed the woven chair bottom was darkish. I touched it and it was soaked through! The Chillow had sprung a leak! Probably those stacked pillows did it... I was so thankful this hadn't happened while I was sleeping on the Chillow through the night!!! Wow!!! That was close.....
So the Chillow got tossed....now I need to find a gel-filled thing to tuck into my pillow...maybe a couple of those gel packs for sore muscles you can buy. I love a cool pillow....
I told myself I'd not turn on the a/c until at least July 4th.....have no idea how energy bills will be with this new system we have...and don't especially want to find out....
Is everybody out there as hot as I am?
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Trill, I bought a cooling gel pillow from Target for my DS. It cools on both sides so it can be flipped over. Best purchase for a pillow I have made.
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