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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited October 2014

    Oh you GUYS!  Remember when I was "fooling around with Vinnie?"  Hah!  Now THAT was something to write home about!  And yes Cammi!  Well Cammi is like my other HALF!  She  and I would not know what to do if we couldn't tease each other....!  MAN, I hope no-one ever takes us serious..... I mean serious about ANYthing we say.

    See Cammi used to be a stripper in her olden days.... She worked on the streets, under street lights, while I was inside!  I was inside an establishment where they have Pole dancing, and loud music, and slinky clothes....  None of which I did, or had...

    Getting back to my ramble.....   I actually fell whilst walking in the alley with my Husband....  We did that a lot.... looking for vittles and things we can use....   But I accidentally  stepped on a rock the size of a cast-iron stove!  I twisted my ankle, and went down with a THUD..... More like a SPLAT!    And I could not MOVE....!  I could have made that commercial!  "Help, I've fallen, and I can't get UP!"..... But I tried, and whined.... and DH was trying to lift me, but I was dead weight!  Can you IMMAGINE?  I tried pulling myself up on his pants legs.... pulled his pants right off..... right there in the alley.

    But I finally got upright....  Then a miracle happened!  "Steve" came driving by.... we had been visiting his Mom.... His Dad was in the car with him.... And here we were just STANDING there.... Me holding on to DH for dear life...... He had his pants on by this time..... So he took his Dad in, got the wheel chair out of the car, and wheeled me home, into my car, and to the damn Hospital!  

    Now I am fine and dandy again....  But Cammi isn't.... She has these things going wrong, and I swear she needs to buy a lifetime supply of Immodium AD....  That will fix her. 

    But she goes to a lot of parties!  Party animal!..... More later.....!  xoxoxo

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited October 2014

    That's half the story, and she's stickin' to it!

    It's a fun thread, stick around, you'll see.

  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,951
    edited October 2014

    so no side trip to Orlando, maybe next year.

    Going to class tomorrow to learn how to embellish quilts with beads. Should be interesting.

    Hope you all have a nice weekend.

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2014

    trying to catch up

    In the meantime, wonderful video:

    http://blog.thebreastcancersite.com/lookinmirror/?...

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2014

    keeping the talk about Ebola going:

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  • Alive4Five
    Alive4Five Member Posts: 2,394
    edited October 2014

    Hey! :)  All! ~  Just dropping in for a word. Ok, well maybe a question... has there ever been an owlet encrusted in the rocks somewhere and is now a fossil???

    Well, Yes! And I'm so glad you asked! The New Zealand Owlet-NightJar... aka laughing owl . Albeit they are extinct. And by true definition, only their droppings were ever found..... as a Fossil! 

    I, for one, am thrilled to be a stone cold fossil! 

    Thanks for all the info. regarding the Ebola thing Sass ~ Can't wait for this to be contained and Over!

  • Rosevalley
    Rosevalley Member Posts: 3,061
    edited October 2014

    Wow the news sent me down memory lane. It was 25 years ago the SF/Oakland earthquake. We were newly married and living in the Oakland hills. My husband was in downtown San Fran on I think the 14th floor of an office building. My cat turned into an instant persian hair on end, bird cage swinging and all the rocks on the roof made a roaring sound like a jet taking off. I heard that roaring before the whole building began to shake - no clue what it was. There was a bank of picture windows 20 feet long and I was standing near them- foolish but I didn't know better. The apt homes were terraced down the hillside like stairs. Wonder the retaining walls above each didn't fall over and squash us like bugs. That quake scared the crap out of me. Then there were zillions of after shocks.. rockin and rolling for days. I could see small fires from our apt windows that over looked the city of SF. 

    I told my husband when he got back late that night taking a ferry across the bay, that when they open the airport I 'm heading back to Philly! Taking the cat and going home..Yikes... Our neighbors were from Germantown and she was equally terrified.  For literally months after that quake every time we were on the bridges or elevated freeways my heart rate would zip. Seeing all those photos from the past.. hmm Glad I don't live there any more. They think they're due for another "big one." Wish I bought the tee shirt I saw in a shop window in SF - it said - "Shift Happens!" Too funny. It wasn't funny all the folks who died. Weird to see it on the news again.

    Have a great weekend ya'll. The rain is supposed to stop here and sun for the weekend! Yahoo. Sleep well Owlettes

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited October 2014

    Had to read that twice.  It is funny! And my glasses are clean, before anybody says anything. I am as old as dirt remember.

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2014

    Yeah,  Chevy!  You guys should be nice to me.  😇 Yes, I've had a bitch of a time. ......probably because i started out as a bitch and never got over it? Everyone here has a story and most are more interesting than mine.   Especially that weird crap that Chevy told about her alley cat exploits. Interesting cover story for being caught in the alley with her husband's pants down around her ankles.

    I love the owl coprolites!  Laughing owl poop. Amazing that it can even be identified.  

    Okay,  I'm going to sit on my branch and turn my head around backwards. ...and blink a lot.

    P

  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited October 2014

    Rosevalley - I think everyone in Northern California remembers where they were during the Loma Prieta quake. 

    I was living about 3 hours south of SF, but my dad lived in Fremont. I remember him telling me he had a meeting in Oakland the day of the quake, and I knew he would have taken the 880 to get there.

    Around 5 pm (?) I was watching the news, when my rocking chair started rocking by itself. Then the pictures started coming in on the TV.... as soon as I saw the freeway collapsed on itself, I tried to call my dad.  Couldn't get through. Finally, he called me late that night. He'd gone to Oakland earlier in the day, and was already back in the office in Fremont when the quake hit. I started bawling like an idiot.

    Hard to believe it's been 25 years.

  • Pawprint
    Pawprint Member Posts: 464
    edited October 2014

    Hi all,

    My gosh I'll never catch up. Sorry for those of you feeling sick. Sorry to hear about your sister Enerva. Sending her hugs, you too. Tang I hope your husband is doing ok, can't believe he has been ok'd to return to work. It must be crazy hearing about the schools shutting down. This Ebola stuff is scary. 

    I've been busy. I've been involved with a dog rescue group and transported a shelter dog from Arizona to Southern CA. The week previous I had water pump go out in my car and had to get a car rental so I can make my long commute to work. Had my yearly liver CT scan with contrast dye this morning. Don't know if I mentioned I adopted my temp foster wire terrier. She has abuse history and she attached to me and stole my heart. 

    We are getting cooler weather finally...Edison playing with the electricity tomorrow and planning an outage from 8-5. 

    Good night Owls...

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited October 2014

    Well OBviously I'm not the ONLY rinky-tink ON here! Ha, ha!

    Phyllionthebranch....YOU were a bitch? question-mark,
    question-mark???

    His pants weren't down around MY ankles, they were around HIS.... along
    with ME! So then I had nothing to hang on to!

    We should have been on candid-camera... And there was this old man at the
    end of the alley just standing there looking at us! I mean a lot of help HE
    would have been, anyway! I was still laying there, like a beached flounder....
    Husband was wringing his hands! I didn't know whether to be pissed, or cry!

    Morning Alive, and 222222222! ROSE! My folks were in Richmond that awful
    time, and my Mom called me just hysterical! (And you wonder where I get it?)
    She was just so afraid! I had the game on also... I can't imagine being
    there!

    I have that commemorative book about the Earthquake that came out
    afterwards.... And they took me around to see the damage, even a few months
    later.

    Morning Blessings! You were there too? I love that you have a new little
    dog... "she stole your heart"..... Yes, they do... Thank you for taking
    her!

    So I suppose Cammi is either mortified, or taking the morning off?
    Figures.

    This "job" quote, unquote, of hers, is just taking up all her spare
    time!

    She isn't spending as much time meandering up and down the boulevard, as we
    exPECT! Oh wait.... She's probably at one of those never-ending make-believe
    parties she attends... with her mile-hi stiletto's and that Poodle-skirt! I
    TOLD her to wear saddle-oxfords, but, well, you know Cammi....  

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited October 2014


    Alive nice to see you hereHappy. I took my own advice and haven't looked at Ebola stuff since I posted about taking a break from it. Nice.

    Rose and Paws, I was sitting on a couch watching the football game when the announcers booth started shaking. Michaels was announcing. I was in Akron.

    Paws, sweet about your new furbaby. Furbaby so lucky to find you.

    Philly, :)

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited October 2014

    222222222nd!  That was a beautiful video!  I shared it on FB!  Thank you!

  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited October 2014

    I was in my Freshman year of high school when the SF quake happened. We were getting ready to watch the World Series when the news of the quake came. Immediately following the news report, my stepdad called his parents because we had relatives at that time lived in the SF/Oakland area. I don't think I slept very well until we heard from my relatives that they were okay.

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 34,614
    edited October 2014

    hi owls, checking in after a while away.  Had computer probs, no internet.  The ISP and phone co couldn't figure out why it went kaput or why it came back after more than a week.  I'm kinda sorta caught up here, well OK the last ten pages.    Love to all!

  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited October 2014

    My BIL lived in San Mateo and worked for the highway department. He had the presence of mind to change his phone answering message to say that he was OK and out checking on bridges. I think it took almost 3 days to get thru. All our supplies are in the basement, which doesn't make sense. If we can get to the basement, the house is probably OK and we don't need the supplies. But there's no where else to keep them. We used to backpack, so we have all the tents, sleeping bags, stove, etc.

  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited October 2014

    My relatives that lived in the SF area still get an earthquake now and then on the minor scale where they are in southern Oregon. We had a chance to experience a small quake a few years ago when the one in Virginia occured. I had just finished folding laundry and had sat down and got to feel a slight shaking. Didn't know what to make of it until I heard about it on the news!

  • Blessings2011
    Blessings2011 Member Posts: 4,276
    edited October 2014

    Chevy! It's nice you thought I adopted a new little dog, but the one who had the big heart was Pawprint. No pets for us... DH is allergic... Bawling

    ~ ~ ~ 

    In 1948, when my sweet Kentucky Mama was getting ready to marry her California soldier and move out here with him, all her relatives tried to convince her that she'd be squashed flat as a pancake in an earthquake within days. 

    Funny... look at Kentucky weather over the past decades... tornadoes, torrential rains, epic floods..... but the ONE thing they were afraid of was earthquakes! Mama finally admitted that she was safer in California.

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited October 2014


    Chevy, I felt my back relaxing as the cat massaged. Chevy Please, double post stuff on W&F's(here and there)for those kind of links and pics :) .  Now to business, I got in trouble with Rosevalley b/c she thought I was being harsh by calling you a FOSSIL. Girl, you bypassed all the posts. What the cowcakes, if I give you an absolutely beautifulul lead in line and you ignore it OMD. Then what has meaning? Why post? How would Neichtz(whatever his name is) define this?

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited October 2014


    Blessings when I was doing disaster stuff with the EMS stuff in Akron Ohio, an administrator came to me and said a couple both R.N.'s moved from California  to be away from quakes. This administrator knew I was developing earthquake preparedness plans and thought they would have be good sources of information.  Within a short time we had a quake with the epicenter far enough away that we felt it but wasn't a big deal. That couple left.................Another story that predates that story,  sat on a committee that was developing plans for inter-hospital cooperation for a hospital need to evacuate all patients to another facility. Early morning meeting, blah, blah, and then I say we need to plan for an earthquake. Someone says "Like the one we had last night". Me" What?". Multiple (paraphrase b/c they all responded) "Yeah we had an earthquake last night". Me "Well, I'm right then!".  LOL, I slept through it.

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited October 2014

    Sass, did I ignore something?  Again?  WTH???  And I figure everyone sees everything on both threads, so I hate to copy it, because then everyone will think I have lost my mind!   Just go to all the threads gals!  I love to look at pictures, so I copy them.... in other words it's called ....  what's it called.... wait.... It's plagiarized!  

    So I can't do that...  And what was that last part?  And you KNOW I don't pay any attention to the fossil part!  Ha, ha!  Did you get straightened out?   Fossil's are skinny, and I am not that....  aren't fossil's just bones?  

    Okay Blessings!  I got cha!  See how much I pay attention?  I just KNEW someone did....  And allergic to dogs?    I thought you could only be allergic to cats?  And fish, like I was.

  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited October 2014
  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited October 2014

    And Sass, that name is wrong!  I couldn't find "him" anywhere!    You mean Neightshlitz? Or Nightslidder?  WTH?

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited October 2014


    Spookie, weather is superlative SUPERLATIVE.... doors open.  Shats lays half way in the door half way out. Dini being a lab mix, is always searching. I think a really stupid squirrel has built a nest in the only tree I have in the backyard. Two hunters and he dares to cross the ground multiple times a day. May get away many a time. But ripe for a mistake.. The nice part, keeps Dini and Shats mentally active. :)  What's really stupid is lot's of trees and yards without hunters, why choose a tree with hunters beneath?

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited October 2014

    yeah, it's picture perfect tourist weather here too.  And they are coming! Traffic is getting worse. Same for you?

    Most times my 2 are sprawled on the deck watching the squirrels. Kris will chase it, but prefers lizzards.  The diva can't be bothered.

    Going to meet Fl Warrior, if anybody remembers her, at Starbucks tonite.  Good weather for coffee!

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2014

    do you mean Friedrich Nietzsche?

    I remember the 1989 earthquake as well as 1994 Northridge earthquake. My first instinct is to run. Even 9 months pregnant. 

    Now, need to get back to a couple pages of posts

  • luvmygoats
    luvmygoats Member Posts: 2,942
    edited October 2014

    Blessings - to say nothing of the New Madrid fault in W. KY. DH's sister lives in Paducah. They did when she was working in surgery (she's in her early 70s now) have regular earthquake drills. I cringe when I see one there or in Montana.

    She meant Nietzsche not that I've ever read anything by him. I've done good to read today's newspaper. But I think I'm on my 3rd football game TCU vs OK State. Might be time for some wine.

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited October 2014

    Our DAWGS are winning against Ark!

    WOOF WOOF

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