INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Guess what I am going to learn this summer? On my bucket list, the STEEL DRUM! Taking a class in June from the local jazz workshop.

Ya mon! Oh maybe some dreadlocks too?

Jazzy! I have seen those played somewhere! My little Brother is mostly into percussion, and has made money by being with his "friends" and not going out alone....

http://www.hand-drumming.com/ More like a studio musician.... Taught at the Naval School of Music....

http://www.hand-drumming.com/bio.html

http://www.cowboyjackclement.com/news/niles/120315...

But I can grow flowers.... Ha!

Chevy- if you have spent any time in the Caribbean, this is where you will hear the steel drums the most. Although there is more of it interwoven into some of the latin jazz songs around now (big fan/player of latin jazz).

This is my dream song to be able to play. I just need to find the great back up band to go with it (and fortunately, I have a lot of music peeps here!)

Ray Obiedo and St. Lucia

Magdalene.. Sorry.. I know exactly how your feeling.. We lost our malestese on Boxing Day.. :-(

Thinking of you and praying that I Rose and Nacho will be fine.

Have you bought new treats? Are they from China

Ladies, what a night last night. Again thankfully my county was spared most of the damage last night. The towns of Bridgeport and Runaway Bay suffered the most damage. Bridgeport is 23 miles NW of me. I did hospice nursing there for a year in 2008. But the most amazing thing is I think no major injuries and no deaths for sure. Another tornado on the county line SW of me. We had minimal rain last night thru it all. Texas/Oklahoma need to dry out for a bit though TX will never turn down water in the long run.

Mags - praying for your Nacho and Rose. I would do like Sassy says and save their old food but change it for the moment.

Sassy - congrats on DS's accomplishments. Proud mama bear.

Rose - HaHa I feed our dog salmon/potato from Blue. I made her chicken free last year. Read chicken might aggravate skin conditions. Which reminds me I need to call the vet. She has never had a flea problem but by golly we've got one this year. I need something to treat her but it will have to be something gentle with all her skin problems. DH has stuff to spray the yard but no need to spray yet when it rains daily or floods regularly. His job is also a problem. With his crazy hours (12p-9p) doesn't leave much time to do stuff b4 work. So if it doesn't get done on his days off it doesn't get done.

Amazingly the 2 puny fruit trees are holding on to what they had. The peach tree seems to have lost some but the tiny plums are abundant. They are good but only about a 2-bite size at best.

Lucy - lol Blue Lagoon and blue teeth. Now you all have me looking up drink recipes. Naughty. My favorite used to be a Colorado Bulldog - vodka, Kahlua, coke and cream/milk. Of course it had no calories, right??

Spent the day cleaning house. DD coming out Friday. Sad to say that's what got my lazy hiney up to clean.

Luvmygoats- we even have the cats on salmon and sweet potatoe. Our one cat has severe allergies; years of prednisone and she would itch herself to death over one flea bite, bloody bald spots. We now use something new called Revolution, topical flea/ mite/heartworm med. This is great stuff! My cat Zoey has never looked better! Between the food and revolution she's needed no steroids. Works wonders on the dogs as well. I use a spray called Knock-out on kennel bedding and dog beds. Never a flea issue, need ventillation and it has to dry. The stuff is toxic and 18$ a can at the vets, but it lasts and it works. Vets use it and recommended it to us.

Both of the kiddos are spending the night at the vet's. I don't know how I'm going to sleep without that warm lump to cuddle. I wish I could shake this sense of impending doom. We still have no clue what is causing the problem, but either it is contagious or they both got into something. Our yard is a jungle, neither of us has been up to doing anything out there, and the cottonwood has been fierce this year and we are both so allergic to it. I guess I will put a mask on and brave the wilderness tomorrow. I'm supposed to call at 10 for an update.

You are all so great to be so supportive and caring. Thank you all.

I have Activyl waiting at the vet for dog's flea problem. Tried to give me a pill good for 3 months which I declined. This dog is 8, barfs on cue. Can't see giving her a long acting oral drug. If she reacts what the heck would I do. Activyl is a topical. I read lots of comments. Seems Frontline is not working so great. Will give it a try. Parts of her allergic skin look better but she's chewing/licking on the tops of her paws something awful. Not sure if that's grass allergy or fleas; think odd place for flea problem. Would hardly let me look at them and usually she's OK, not pleased but lets me look. DH bathed her Tuesday. Guess it's my turn tomorrow. I just manage to sit on bathtub edge and get it done. May need a hearty cocktail or more likely a 2nd round of Advil afterward.

She's already on Heartguard for heartworms but I think that works differently, internal if they ingest a flea.

Praying you get good news Mags.

Love - adore the wedgie cartoon. Not surprised on the Keflex. Hope you are soonest finished with it. Got up to pee about 4 am. Couldn't decide if it was my tinnitus or thunder. Finally saw some lightening out the window. Bingo. Big storms rolled thru about 5:30-6 with heavy rain. Parts of north Ft. Worth are heavily flooded. All parts of TX are out of exceptional or extreme drought. Gosh would have thought most all would be out of all but the least but not quite yet. May get that next week.

Oh? Lucy is still in bed I'll bet... Yes Lilgoats.... We have had cloudy, stormy weather for the past WEEK! Just ain't any fun McGee!

Hope all you guys pets are doing better today.... It's just such a worry when they have something wrong with them!

Went to see my friend Carol yesterday.... I really don't think she will ever get back to the way she was... Too much time went by before her Son found her after that stroke... She is maybe going home next Wednesday... They have her trying a walker, but she can't move her right leg yet... Right arm just a little... but it's her speech... Can only say a couple words still.... I know she IS getting better, but man, it is really going slow...

Her Son emailed that they have 24 hour care in place, because she HAS to be able to use a walker... not just the wheel chair... I think our age, plus so much time went by after the stroke before she got any help....

And my friend Theresa is doing VERY good! She has started playing Bingo at that place now! Just won 2 more dollars! One gal told her GO home Theresa, you won yesterday! Hah! Altogether, this past week she has won $8! That little gambler! But she sounds so good, and is coming out of that long worry/mourning process she has been under for about 6 months! So it's fun to talk to her.... she calls every night after her Dinner, and we talk and laugh and just act silly.... I know you guys find that hard to believe.... But she is 90! Spookie I know you find that hard to believe, that ANYbody is older than I, but it's true... So Hah on you!

Going to lunch at our friend Rosie's house.... Loverly, she is the one from Viet Nam....!!! She is making "wraps" again for Janie and I. She is the Chef at one of the King Soopers here.... really a great cook! So despite this cooler, damp weather, we will have fun!

Chevy- I hope your friend, Carol, does okay at home. The sooner she gets out of rehab, the better. Will she continue to get PT, etc. at home?

Just got off the phone with vet. She says they are their mystery patients. They had no more vomiting and diarrhea yesterday, so had breakfast this morning and being watched to see how that goes. If no more symptoms they can come home.

Cousin and I were talking about it this morning and we think Rose's symptoms might have been just anxiety. She only threw up once and had just a few little spot of diarrhea on the carpet, and nothing since she got there.

Thanks for all the good wishes etc., y'all know about that special bond.

Can we just have a boring weekend now? Maybe even followed by a boring week? The next week we head out to spend a long weekend with our Missouri friends and we are both so looking forward to that! (They are the ones who made an 8 hour drive each way to spend 24 hours with us when I was going through chemo, and we just sat on the couch and yanked and watched movies.)