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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited August 2017

    Damn machine

    beatsmom is in Oklahoma, littlegoats told me. She.p told me Jwoo is in Texas. I have her address, but not phone.

    Yay Patty MIL good.

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited August 2017

    Dog spotted carrying large bag of food in wake of Hurricane Harvey ...

    Smartest dog ever. Left with grandpa. He got out of the porch. Was eventual reunited with family? Dog left the porch carrying his dog food.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2017

    Sassy ~ I just found the best news article about that clever doggie. What a character! There's much more to the story - a must read 😉

    Dog carrying food goes viral

    Happy you found his pic and shared the story - I'm still smiling 🐶

    Hoping Jwoo and Eeyore are safe n' dry. 🙏


    Waving "hello" to all ~ bbl


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  • Eeyore07
    Eeyore07 Member Posts: 113
    edited August 2017

    ShepK, thanks for checking on Eeyore07.I am fine in south central Texas. Texas is really huge, I am 160 miles north from Rockport, the landing of Harvey, and 160 miles east of Houston. Basically right at the very west edge of the rain and wind coverage. We only got 2 days rain. But what happened to south Texas coast and Houston area are heart broken. It is worse than Katrina! Watch out for the next storm forming in the area north of Florida coast. It may affect where you are.

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited August 2017

    Oh Shep, what fun, Otis is an amazing sensation. The story will go on for years. I thought he was a golden retriever from the rear. I just loved he was caring his food. Totally amazing how the dog knew this. AMAZING

    The DAMN machine. I inadvertently hit the n key and it worked. Then hit the B key to see what it would do. It worked. GRHHHH. No clue why they started working because my IT folks couldn't get them yo work. Plus, if I did a space and a p, it wouldn't work. The p wouldn't appear... p, now it does.

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited August 2017

    This is a Donnie story. He went last Wed. to Ohio for a weekend family reunion. I said to him on the phone possibly Thursday that I missed him. He didn 't say it back. Next time I said Donnie, I said I missed you and you didn't say any thing back. Today, I said Donnie I missed you and he said I miss you too, followed by "Is that what I'm supposed to say?" "Yes dear". You'd have to know Donnie to know how much that meant.

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited August 2017

    If anything is forming in the Atlantic, I hope it goes right out to sea.

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited August 2017

    Hang on, Ireland is on the other side of the Atlantic. We get quite enough of your blown over American ex-hurricanes thank you

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited August 2017

    Flood on the Pacific side also.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/23/three-d...


    https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/world/asia/f...://www.google.com/


    Friends from Nepal sent us photos of the devastation. I don't think it's appropriate to post here.

    Eeyore, so glad to hear you are safe, but so sad for those who have lost everything.

    I thought about Goats and Jwoo also and hope they are ok.

    I am not surprised to hear about a particular mega church in Houston. So many are blind. Hope they now see the truth.

    Thank you Ms. Sas and Shep for the sweet story of Otis....what a character! How can you not love that face and his determination?

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited August 2017

    Feline, thank you for your words of encouragement Boy....you both went through so much!


    Kath, DD started school last week and her job yesterday. She was so happy she got into the Anatomy and Physiology class. She was 16th on the waiting list! Seventeen people didn't show up for the class so he gave the spots to those on the waiting list who came to lecture . He did warn the people who were enrolled that he would drop them if they didn't show up on the first day. DD must have spent at least 3 hours listening to the online lecture (and taking notes) that the professor sent out a few days before class started. I am glad she listened to her mama and persevere. She needs to work hard in this class though as there are a lot of materials to cover. The body is such a complex and amazing thing. How could we come from nothing?

    DD2 of course loves having her sister home and so is Mitzy.

    Patty, thank you

    Mari, thanks

    Hello to my other Friends.

    Oh...it's Wacky Wednesday!

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited August 2017

    Loverly. Love the wacky wed pic


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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited September 2017

    Shep, I've reread Otis's story several times. Such a character. He's like Tramp from "Lady and the Tramp". Tramp being the dog with a route that everyone knew and fed.

    If O'le Roy dog food doesn't take and make a commercial with him they are foolish. Their treats are the best except discontinued, but I don't shop at Walmart much.

    Eeeyor YAY. Glad you are okay, sorry for everyone else. Flooding is the worst. At least with the wind when it's gone it's gone. Here very often the water that landed is dried out by the wind.

    Plus, when we moved here it was different lot's of flooding. But our county is very very active on identifying flood areas and correcting drainage. We also, have a division known as "Surface Water Management". They develop swale systems. The difference is a swale is designed to take X amount of water with the earth able to absorb so much, with the wind able to pick up the rest, with the plan it's gone in 48-72 hours. A retention pond dug too deep doesn't allow for the evaproration.

    The county north of us is Volusia.....always flood stories. They aren't as proactive with contractors and no surface water management. Obviously, Harvey wouldn't have been managed. But I am happy with the stuff that has been done here.

    I do however carry flood insurance which isn't required. It's now $450.00 per year. I figure it's a weekend away, with the trade off of peace of mind. 75% of all flooded home are not insured.

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited September 2017

    Sas. Defiantly worth the price for piece of mine

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited September 2017

    Just had a call from and extended niece--my Dh Greg's sister's step daughter. In Baytown Texas, We are fb friends. She was in a shelter . I told her to call. She got a great rate for 3 days on expedia. 89$ per day. I said I pay for it if she got double beds and took three friends. Her real family offered no help and and close family in Memphis offered no lodging.

    Littlegoats told me about a child that was already enrolled in her local school. She figures they had family in the area

    My sister in Michigan put her name on a list to take in for an extended period for a family.

    This isn't going to be over for years.

    DUh, I could offer, but there isn't a room that isn't destroyed by the bathroom make over.

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited September 2017

    MammaRay, well suppossin it's a true kindness, wishing her family stepped in. But having a clean bed and shower is so important. Not sure what they will do after the 3 days. But it's certainly better than nothing. I give kudos to expedia and Hampton that they didn't gauge on prices. There have been reports of awful gauging.

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

    *Owlettes*

    May everyone have a fun Labor Day weekend............last call for Summer!

    A neighbor posted the following bale of old hay pic on Facebook.

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited September 2017

    All relaxed and ready for the first football game of the college season for the University of Wisconsin!!!!

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

    Tonight?

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited September 2017

    our school first real game - not scrimmage - ds2 went with friends I'll wait in the highlights. Those bleachers way to hard on my hiney

    HOOTIE hoo

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  • Tappermom383
    Tappermom383 Member Posts: 643
    edited September 2017

    Go, Badgers! My daughter got her MA from UW; my son-in-law got his BA and MBA from there. We're all big fans!

    MJ

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  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited September 2017

    Sadly, Lita57 (former member on this thread) has public posted on the (thread for middle age to older Christian women.) the following........................

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    Thomascrop

    9 hours ago Lita57 wrote:

    I will be signing off soon...literally.

    Got the mri results...worse than I ever could have possibly thought. My family is devatated, but I am surprisingly calm and at peace.

    Over 20 LARGE brain mets. Some bleeding, too. The dr is absolutely shocked that I am still here under the circumstances. I said it's not me...we all know WHO it is.

    I am signing up for hospice on Tuesday, after consulting with MO. Gees, i thought I would have at least another year or two left, but our Lord wants me now. Sheesh, and I'm only in my 50s.

    It's been nice knowing you all. Ive given my dh my contact and pword so he can let you all know when I transition.

    Mo says I only have weeks left.

    Please pray that I go VERY quickly and that my family doesnt have to watch me suffer too much.

    Happy trails...

    Stage IV Occult, Amorphic right from the gate. I've been dragged into an arranged marriage that I didn't agree to, & divorce is totally off the table now that I'm married to Mr. Cancer until death do us part. STAGE IV LIVES MATTER! Dx 4/14/2016, IDC, Left, Stage IV, metastasized to bone/liver/other, ER+/PR+, HER2- Radiation Therapy 4/26/2016 External: Bone Targeted Therapy 5/15/2016 Chemotherapy 5/22/2016 Xeloda (capecitabine) Radiation Therapy 4/20/2017 External: Bone

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited September 2017

    Teka thank you for posting re Lita. Sad.

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited September 2017

    Hey ladies. Hope all are celebrating the holiday with friends and family.

    Hootie hoo


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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited September 2017

    Morning Patty!


    Very sorry to hear the news of Lita's illness. May God bless and strengthen Lita and her loved ones.

    Thank you for letting us know Teka.

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  • PattyPeppermint
    PattyPeppermint Member Posts: 11,162
    edited September 2017

    morning Feline. Having coffee ?


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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited September 2017

    Great big one!

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited September 2017

    Oh no!!!!

    Was so pleased to see the Badgers had won!!! I recorded most of the game. Went to see my family Saturday. My niece loved the Paddington Bear book. Tried to get her two of them, but could only find one so I got her a My Little Pony book for the second book. Also got to see my step-grandad. I try to see him as much as I can.


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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited September 2017

    specially for yoo hoo


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  • JWoo
    JWoo Member Posts: 1,171
    edited September 2017

    my Florida sisters, please evacuate if you can. My family in east Texas luckily left early, or we would be planning funerals with the cleanup we are doing. Don't wait.

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  • marijen
    marijen Member Posts: 3,731
    edited September 2017

    imageHurricane Irma pic at www.drudgereport.com.

    As of 11 p.m. Monday, hurricane warnings were in effect for Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts, Nevis, Saba, St. Eustatius, and Sint Maarten, Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Vieques, and Culebra. The storm was about 410 miles east of the islands.

    A warning is usually issued within 36 hours of anticipated impact. More hurricane and tropical storm watches may be issued.

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