For Older People with Sense

here's hoping for you 3jays.  Folks must already be packing for Sept., and we will all be glad to see pix of the gathering.

BarbA, safe travels, and have a great time on your upcoming jaunt!

That's 9:30 PM here so I hope to "join" you.

Um, I'm assuming you're talking 2:30 PM EDT....

Leah

wish I could r remember where I took this...hmmmm

nice spot to stop and have a rest

now that is nice LC

Men! Don't know if I mentioned it here, but a month or two ago I was at my DS's house. I thought the grass needed cutting, so I asked him where his mower was. He RAN to get it for me, started it and went back inside!!! I was shocked. Then he came out and I thought ahhh, he IS going to do it. But he'd just come out to give me runners to wear instead of my flip flops. Then when I was almost done the front, he came out and said to give him the mower so he could do the old man acros the street and then he'd give it back to me to do his backyard.

Once I gave it up I told him that was enough.Just like his dad. Do stuff for other people so they think you're great, but do nothing at home!! Oh well, I was pleased he was taking care of the old guy. That took some extra break-through pain meds for me!!

My DH basically does nothing if it means getting up off the chair....he does put

the garbage pails in and out..whoppdeedoo..

wish I could

Hello, we might get snow here today. Evidently the last time it snowed was in 1939. The country has been hit by a real polar blast. Yesterday we went out to the west coast to watch the sea - great fun but very cold. Had late lunch then came back to a very cold house.

Miss Bea has just arrived so I had better get myself ready to take her to music this morning.

Also wish I could be there but will see Chrissy on her way home.

Have been MIA for a few days what with a lecture series to attend, as well as going to a Breast Cancer charity auction and fashion parade with some frends and coping with a real LE problem at present.

Will read back later but have little girl on my knee wanting me to do things for her.

LynMichel, you are welcome here though the reason is not one any of us wants!

Barbara, when you told us about today's get-together and "chocolate toast" to Konakat I said I would join you from my end of the world (9:30PM here). I had forgotten that I would be at a wedding and I was thinking of her all evening. I figured you guys would be together for more than a few minutes so I would find a way to join you. So.... dessert was served and I was given a choice of ice cream with strudel or -

chocolate cake.

Guess which I took. And the best part - dessert was served at 9:40 PM.

So I did join you, had my chocolate cake toast to Konakat's memory and shed a few tears, too.

I miss her so much.

Leah

Welcome LynMichel, glad you found us. We are a diverse bunch of seasoned ladies who just get on so well. It is nice to have cyber friends who have gone right thru' this whole experience, and who are all here for one another. You still have a way to go in your journey. Right now your family and friends will be close up to you, but gradually they begin to tire of any problems you encounter, and many fall by the wayside. This is where we come in ....we listen to one anothers moans and groans..check on one another...now and then shake one another up. Just jump in with us and we'll be here for you.

Quite tired tonight. I have found 6 of my dogs have got mange..luckily the good sort, and not the bad sort. BUT it means I have done a mammoth 2 days dog bathing/ dog bedding washing/ kennel power washing/dog bed scrubbing. Just this one w/end when G/son is off to a car show, and I could really have done with him !! Never mind. I feel as if I have run a marathon, and my hands are red raw but have gotten thru 16 dogs, plus 3 puppies who live in the house. I am hoping NOT to have to start bathing the dogs who live outside, been thru' them all with a fine toothcomb, and can't see any problems, so just hoping. The stuff I've been using is pretty potent, and stinks like loo cleaner. I've had it ages, so hoping it still works as it costs a mint! If the smell is anything to go by all dogs will be completely clear by now. The whole house has an air of smelly old public toilets !!  I've even removed cobwebs and cleaned all kennel windows...everywhere is sparkling...and I am pooped ! When I regain my strength I will collect myself and quickly splash some nice crisp white paint wherever I can the kennels, no good doing half a job.

DH managed to call up in the middle of all my dog bathing, no offers of any help forthcoming...that would be too much like hard work. He came to tell me he has had his car stolen, then found 3 days later. He was on his way to the bank, with £2,000... $3,255... on the passenger seat, called in to see a friend of his, left the car unlocked and the bl**dy keys in the ignition, and then came out of his friends house to find his car stolen. I had to send him on his way before I drowned him in all the smelly dog water ! I find words very hard in situations like this. WHO in their right mind leaves an unlocked car, pots of money on the seat, and expects to find it right there waiting for them when they return???? He had really turned up to see if I would drive him to the pound to collect his car.  What? Now? right in the middle of my marathon bathing session ?? Yes sir !!!! IF he'd offered to help me finish up, then I would have, but 'you scratch my back I'll scratch yours ' !!!!!! Best of it was, he had another 'friend' sat there in a car with him, yet he turns up here expecting me to drop everything and send his friend off home !!! Men never cease to amaze me.

I am off to bed right now. A nice long hot shower is on the cards, 2nd today, to get the smell out from my hair, and off my hands and arms. I haven't had time to read back tonight, I am craving my bed !! so hugs to all.

Isabella,

My son's Pit Bull had it as a puppy (big puppy, lol) but we used a potent shampoo to kill the little buggers and she's 6 yrs old now.  What a loveable dog she is.  No one every told her she was supposed to be menacing.  I have 2 toy terriers and they all get along.  When the terriers start to eat her food, she just walks away.