WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2016
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2 quick things.... Michele - you'd have to open the binding up to get behind it and do some re-inforcing... this is a big project but worth it if the piece is a memory item.
and its cold here (55degrees) and I was wanting soup for lunch at I am going out for mexican for dinner and wanted to save up calories... but low and behold the jar of soup in the freezer when I actually pulled it out was not soup... it was lemonade mix.. so I pulled out a zip bag of roasted tomatoes dumped them in a saucepan with some bell pepper - whirled it with my stick blender, added 2 tablespoons of cream, basil oregano... warmed though and Lunch ! very few calories and filling!
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Michelle ~ I cook boiled eggs in the pressure cooker but I have an insert that rises above the water (2 cups). I cook them for 7 minutes and they come out perfectly.
Joyce ~ Congrats on your bathroom. Can you paint the walls to give it some color?
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Karen in VA - The fire was way to the south of me, so no danger here. Now Rori was close to the Green Mountain fire last night. Maybe she can tell us something about it.
I thought I was done Christmas shopping and could spend the day in the quilting room. That did not turn out to be the case. DD tried on some new blue jeans she had asked for and found (goodness sakes!!!) she no longer could wear the size she had told me, it had become too small.
I just let my smile stay on the inside when she told me that. I had noticed she has picked up grazing habits and was getting into the pantry after dinner. However because I had bought them (jeans via mail) and paid for them with a credit card, only I could return them. The closest store was 25 miles away (hence why I mail order), so I drove down and got a credit for the returned jeans. This weekend we will have to go out and hunt for a new brand of jeans and get her to try them on for size. She is difficult to shop for and shop with. So most of my day is shot and I have to clear my head in order to start on a quilting project.
Tomorrow I will pack my sewing machine and go to a friend's house for a day of gossip and quilting. I get quite a bit done on the sew days we do together. Maybe it will make up for the loss of quilting today. I have my Christmas tree skirt back from the long arm quilter and I want to get the binding on it so I can actually use it this year. It's a real beauty, once it's done I will post a picture.
Charleen in Colorado (cold, windy and cloudy, a good day to stay inside)1 -
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Charlene cute story!1
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But the counter top is white, no pretty veins in it and the commode is stark white. So if it weren't for the flooring, it would be a very white kitchen. So Michelle and I will go out and buy some things that will brighten it up.
Joyce, Indiana
Joyce - A commode in the kitchen! What a great idea!
Mary from Minnesota3 -
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Karen - Oh dear! I think I'm going to expire from my son's Facebook posts. Like "Which starship would you choose?" etc. Gaaarrrr! He is 40 tomorrow.
My difficult friend has rung me to organise a lunch on Thursday. She has to come to my village to pick up some books, so she wants to meet up. I have managed to avoid her for a whole year.
I will grit my teeth and amble down to the local hostelry with her. Hope to keep my temper. Wish me luck!
I will get my brother's lamb shanks out of the freezer tonight so I can cook them tomorrow. Might have to pop out to buy cheese, veg and salad for the lunch as I won't have time on Thursday.
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heather - will it be just the 2 of you at lunch on Thursday? Would be perhaps a good time to talk to her about the things you value in your friendship and the things that make you a bit crazy?
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Joyce - I know you "misspoke" when you said a white kitchen. After seeing Mary's comment it brought to mind that I used to tease DH that he would put a commode in the living room to make it "convenient" to potty during a tv football game! He likes to keep items on counter tops rather than in drawers and cabinets "to make it easier" to get to things. He can do that in his bathroom all he wants but that is as far as it goes. Everything has its place - and its not out all over the place making a nice room look messy.
Watching the news reports about the fires in East Tennessee. So sad and so dangerous. Rain is supposed to be here tomorrow.
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fanncy0626 wrote: »But the counter top is white, no pretty veins in it and the commode is stark white. So if it weren't for the flooring, it would be a very white kitchen. So Michelle and I will go out and buy some things that will brighten it up.
Joyce, Indiana
Joyce - A commode in the kitchen! What a great idea!
Mary from Minnesota
Too funny!!! I just read that to Jack and told him I was going to post exactly what you just did.
Janetr okc
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Heather - because I've often had to do it, you can "unfollow" someone on Facebook without unfriending them. It can save enormous heartache, headaches and general nausea! At the right hand top of any one of his posts, there is a dropdown arrow. When you select it, one of the choices will be "unfollow" with his name.
This doesn't mean you can't see his stuff, or visit his page, just by selecting him in your friends list. Just means you won't see anything he posts unless he specifically tags you.
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Kim: Thanks for the good thoughts about DH's eye issues. We'll know more about it tomorrow morning.
Michele: I've had a facebook account for years and log into it regularly. I'm not one of the people who always has it open in a window on their computer. It is a great place for me to see how my daughter is doing & how several long time friends are doing. My son doesn't post there regularly but he turns up once in a while. I see several dear cousins & friends there regularly.
Charleen in CO: I'm happy that the fires are not near you. I envy you being almost done with Christmas shopping. I haven't even started.
Heather: Re: your son's facebook posts, I would choose the Enterprise. I'm well beyond 40 & still an original Star Trek fan. I love the new movies but don't care for "...the next Generation." My forty-year old son is a Doctor Who fan & I bought him Whovian Christmas Ornaments.
Joyce: DMIL had a bathroom door that was right next to her stove for decades. It worked for her & might work for Charlie. DSIL lives there now and remodeled. She walled off that door and made her kitchen more functional. The bathroom can be accessed from a bedroom. In fact, it always had a door into the bedroom. Eliminating one door improved the bathroom, too.
Toni: I hope you're safe from the Tennessee fires. :sad:
DH has an eye doctor appointment tomorrow. He's been experiencing cloudy vision in his right eye. She told him he was developing cataracts in the past & I wonder if that is what is causing his trouble. I hope there is good news &/or a good action plan.
Christmas shopping has not happened at our house and I'm worried about it. DD always wants things that push our financial limits. DS doesn't ask for much, but he appreciates thoughtful gifts. Maybe we can fold a bit of Christmas shopping into tomorrow's eye doctor appt.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison
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Michele – I like Heather’s suggestion about inviting the parents (in-laws of children) to come for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I don’t see why they would not agree to it (maybe if they have younger children at home that could be an issue). I’d go ahead and extend the invitation now, so they have 25 days to get ready to come. Praying that they will be receptive. If not, maybe they will invite you and Vince there. I know some people just don’t like the pack up and go somewhere. When our DSs were little we basically went to parents and in-laws (or they were invited to our house). I grew up Baptist; but, became a Catholic when I married DH, because he wanted to bring them up in the Catholic Church. We invited my parents to attend Midnight Mass with us. While my Daddy had read books on the Catholic faith; he had never been inside a Catholic Cathedral. It was like a ‘kid in the candy store’, he looked at every nook and cranny and I thought he was going to talk the ears off the priest. Going with us and having read books on the Catholic faith … he realized it had become so important to me (and again to Louis). DOS won’t attend another church; but, DDnL#2 and DGD#4 have gotten DYS to attend church with them. Like I said, the two of them can get him to do just about anything. He is really enjoying it; but, hunting season makes it impossible for him to go, unless none of his bosses are down.
We went to DDnL#1’s mother’s house. It was a ‘crew’ of them there. Unfortunately, they had to call Hospice early in the day to come give Grannie something to calm her down. Patsy was telling us that when they came in the Wednesday before (to keep her until Sunday) while they went shopping; the guy picked her up and carried outside because they could not get the gurney inside. She said that he picked her up as if she was a baby and did not even act like it was anything at all. My Mother was heavy most of her life (after my 3rd birthday) due to injuries sustain on a Christmas Day accident and she had to wear a neck brace that kept her head up at a 45° angle and she got to the point she could not do any type of exercise; so the ‘only’ person who could come pick her up was my BF’s father (who worked part-time as an EMT). If he was not working they’d call him at home and he’d come over and pick her up. He’d get her into a sitting position then squat down behind her and put his arms under her armpits and lift her up with no problem. But, I know it embarrassed her to have to have this done. My Mother was only 5’2” and I swear she had to weight 350lb or more at one point in her life.
For some reason I am missing 3 pieces that were a part of my Mother’s manger scene that Daddy gave her the first Christmas they were married. I cannot even imagine where they could possibly be. I’ve always packed them in the same little box. I am just heart-broken. But, tomorrow I will go out into my studio to see if I can find any more boxes with Christmas ornaments. It is over 70 years old. I sure hope I can find it.
Have you thought about maybe having a clock made that would have its insides, inside a waterproof housing; maybe like one that you needed to wind up? Maybe making some sort of metal box; hang the pendulum down, or even painting a ceramic face for it? Maybe check with someone who is a welder.
That “Light of God” post is a little prayer that one of my former HS friends say to her grandchildren when she is there … she said it to the parents of the children as well. I had never heard it before … I had the “Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep” prayer at our house. It is better if they learn more than the first verse (which can be a little scary for little children). The part about ‘if I should die before I wake, I pray thee, Lord, my soul to take’. I'd always ask my Mother if I'd ever see her again, if I died before I woke.
Cary – I have a friend who has Nystagmus (where her eyes dart back and forth involuntarily). She has to use drops all the time, several times in a few hours. She has had to give up her drawing because it is so bad, that the only way she can do so, she has to turn her head to one side, so they will be still long enough to work on something. Thankfully she really loves her ‘eye MD’ and ‘trusts’ him … he’s had to operate on them a couple of times. She says it is awful. Whenever I happen to move, I sometimes have this same feeling. It does go away (dizzy). She said it is awful!
Carol – We had cloudy skies; but, just a smattering of rain
Pip – I saw something a friend sent me; it was a way to store your bikes. You put the front tire into the groove like thing and as soon as the front of the tire hits the wall; it went up (same sort of track) and kept your bikes perpendicular to the ground (like the tires were on the walls). I thought about y’all when I saw it. I should have sent you the link.
Katla – I have 3 crockpots; all but 1 has a removable pot; then I have a little one just big enough for 2 people. One of them I don’t really like because it is all one piece and hard to deal with.
As of last night, was still having issues with it. It sort of ‘comes and goes’ so I hope I am not ‘asked’ to ‘duplicate what happens’. It is like taking a car into the shop (by a woman) and the car ‘never’ makes the same sound, until you drive away.
Charleen – That was a ‘funny story’. LOL!!!!! Thanks!
Karen in Virginia and Heather – I have not done any of my ‘main’ Christmas shopping; but, it will be easy enough; just ‘gift cards’ so they can go out and buy what they like and want. I do have a ‘few’ things I can wrap up for the girls.
Michele (again) – A friend of mine sent me a ‘fool-proof’ way of cooking a ‘hard boiled eggs’; but on the stove, not in a pressure cooker. At this point, I follow ‘most’ of it; but, not sure I actually do it correctly. I’ll look for the directions. It is for ‘hard boiled’ eggs; but, also tells you what to do for ‘soft boiled’ eggs; which I won’t eat. I know you put you eggs in cold water with a little salt, covering them by 2” and then bring them to boil, turn off the heat and wait a certain number of minutes; I want to say I think it is 10; then run them under cold water. Doing it the ‘correct’ way is supposed to cook them through by not have that ‘green’ circle or layer on the yellow part of the egg that you do if you over cook them. I’ve never heard of making hard boiled eggs in a pressure cooker. You are probably not cooking them as long, if they are ‘mushy’. That’d be my thought on it. My luck with a pressure cooker would be 'it would explode with all the eggs' and my house would forever smell like a huge 'fart'. I've never used one. Mother did every Sunday; until one Sunday it blew its top. Could have killed someone.
Toni – You’re welcome. I like it when I can write something that others enjoy reading.
Lisa – I am just going to ‘ignore’ some friend requests on FB that I know will have all sorts of things posted, that shouldn’t be. Some just have way too much 'drama' in their lives and I don't want to be a 'forced' participant.
DDnL#1 DID actually go to her OB/GYN and was put on Wellbutrin and some kind of medication to 'curb her appetite and a B12 shot. Something she was spending $90 for back when she was 'on her diet'. I hope it all works out for her. At least she has admitted she has a problem and she has taken he first step towards trying to get a 'handle' on it. I'm proud of her for doing this for herself. Maybe if she can calm down, everybody around her can, too.
Lenora
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So, my very first goal is to track food and exercise every day for the next 13 months and 1 day (we are a day ahead here so tomorrow is the last day of November.
I've always been 'all or nothing' when it comes to diets and exercise which has lead to lots of crazy, extreme diets and exercise programs throughout my adult life.
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I'm now coming to terms with creating long term, sustainable healthy habits and, for me, that starts here with staying conscious about my choices...and their consequences.
I hope to share the journey so lets connect and be a cheer squad for each other!
Welcome! Just a heads up - there will be a new thread at the beginning of December. Barbie will post a link at the end of this thread.
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I'm making chicken soup for dinner. I love homemade soup, but I'm not a fan of the canned stuff. :noway:
I'm with you. I cannot eat the canned stuff anymore. I do occasionally buy the organic kind that comes in a carton. In my old age, my taste buds have gotten really sensitive. I can taste the metal from the can, not to mention all that sodium! It is easy enough to throw together some homemade.
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I got a Facebook account a few years ago for two reasons---first, Michele had posted videos of her outdoor decorations and I wanted to see them.....second, a good friend kept telling me to ask Jake to show me the pictures of her dogs that she'd posted on Facebook and I didn't like the idea of having to ask my husband to show me something that I was certainly capable of finding for myself. I don't accept all the friend requests I get, I follow almost nobody. and I check Facebook very rarely.
I stayed up too late twice in the last week and have been dragging....I took a nap this afternoon and it turned me into a new woman. Tomorrow is the last day of the month, so I'll be planning the kick-off for the thread for December....be watching for it. Barbie from chilly NW Washington 1 -
Thanks everyone!
We just signed a contract on our OHIO home! Well below market value but we had no success since June when we put it on the market. Fingers will remain crossed until the Dec 18th closing. It is a cash buyer with no home to sell. Inspection should be fine. May have radon issues, which we mitigated when we purchased the house in August 2013. This will be a load off our mines never mind to our wallets!
All this talk about Christmas shopping has me thinking about Hanukkah. This year the first night (of 8) happens to be Christmas Eve. Hanukkah is a minor holiday in our faith made major by its association to the Christmas season. I will send all my great nieces and nephews each a book thru Amazon Prime as I do with all their birthdays. All 9 of them now ages 6 mos to 6 years! I've been asking my 2 kids what they would like. Usually we deposit a sum of $$ in their accounts for future purchases. We don't exchange with our siblings and in-laws. My husband and I usually come up with something that we both want. Debating whether or not to put out my snowman collection this year. That box is accessible in the storage bedroom!
Sending well wishes to all in need of healthful prayers and kudos to all those experiencing successes!
Cheri
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Oh wow, I did a boo boo didn't I. The commode is in the rest of the bathroom and not in the kitchen. Glad I could give you all a laugh. Yes, we will paint it. He wants a cream color which is what the rest of the house is unless Michelle and I have painted a non common room. And we have painted them bold colors. I think that is why he hasn't let us pick out a paint color for his room. We call the rest of the house Guthrie May white. Guthrie May was the builder way back when we had our house built in 1978. We just the house plans looked just the most wonderful thing ever. But he met code only, not exceeded them. We have found all that out through the years.
I agree about the 'unfollow' on face book. I have some in-laws that are pretty repulsive at times. I do like to see their grand kids but I just don't want to read anything about them. So we are friends and if I want to go to their page I just put their name in the search and read. I never see anything they post and that is fine with me.
Joyce, Indiana1 -
stats for the day:
ide hm 2 gym- 11.25min, 15.5amph, 150mhr, 2.9mi= 116c
fitbit- 149mhr, 86c
LATERAL MACHINE 40min, lvl6-12, lat10, 124 ahr, 143mhr, 5690str, 71fl, 4.72mi = 328c
fitbit- 140mhr, 294c
ride gym 2 dome- 6.45min, 12.7amph, 135amhr, 1.4mi = 65c
fitbit- 139mhr, 34c
jog station 2 wk 4.21min, 9.23ap, 146mhr, .4mi = 53c
fitbit- 144mhr, 48c
jog wk 2 sta- 4min est, 150mhr, .4mi = 50c
fitbit- 150mhr, 48c
ride dome 2 hm-18.03min, 8.6amph, didn't record right, says 121mhr, 2.5mi = 159c
fitbit- 143mhr, 120c
total cal 771
grits, - i think i know what you're talking about, they are cool3 -
YEAH!!!!! It's raining!5
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Joyce: A few years ago I "unfollowed" one friend who was posting very nasty comments on facebook about enthinc minorities while he was visiting TX. He was supporting his nasty opinions by claiming himself to be a Christian. He thought or thinks I'm an atheist, but that isn't true & I know my Bible. I posted some very pertinent bible quotations that opposed his opinions. After that I unfollowed his comments. He and & his wife were dear friends of ours for years. I am still friends with his wife and we talk on the phone every few weeks. We haven't seen them in person since they moved to Montana. I miss her. 1
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tngram2seven wrote: »YEAH!!!!! It's raining!
Thank God. Praying that you get as much as we just got in southeast Missouri, that would definitely help those fires.
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It seems it is all I can do to catch up. All finished decorating and have cards on table to work on. Not doing a lot of shopping because the DisneyWorld trip with family is suppose to be Christmas. We drew names to fill stockings.
Have weigh-in tomorrow. Hope it isn't too bad.
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Carol/Peach - I usually cook my eggs in the pressure cooker for 7 minutes, too. But sometimes one or two will be "mushy" (as if it wasn't cooked) when I go to peel it. For the most part this doesn't happen, just once in a while
katla - I had to get "the trouble with tribbles" Christmas ornament. I know that somewhere I have a stuffed tribble. I think we got it at a Star Trek convention years ago.
Lenora - I probably won't extend the invitation to Pete's parents until next year at the wedding. Really, we can't go up there for Christmas. Vince does A LOT of decorating. You remember the pictures I posted of the Halloween social? Well, Halloween is the warm-up to Christmas. He has one computer totally dedicated to christmas. He's been doing updates on that Computer for a while now. Since it hasn't been used in a year, there are a lot of updates. Hope you find the missing pieces to the manger scene. The quilt I'm making has the saying "Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep, thy love stay with me thru the night and wake me with the morning light". I always had the kids say that (not that they do now). When I worked in the home ec area of the school, I learned that you cover the eggs for 20 minutes in order to hard boil them. I just find that doing them in the pressure cooker is faster
The less I eat salt, the more sensitive I am to it.
barbie - I'm glad you got Facebook. In order to post a video on here, I seem to think that first I'd have to upload it to uTube. What a hassle!!!
Cheri - so happy for you. Will keep fingers crossed until the 18th.
Michele in NC
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Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding .
Good Evening Ladies,
Cheri, congrats on the sale of your home.
Allie, glad to hear you are thinking of moving forward with at least getting some information. I know it can’t be easy to get anything out of Tom, so good luck.
Barbie, glad the PT is working.
Joyce, congrats on getting "almost" finished with the bathroom, kitchen?, no, bathroom.
I got very far behind but did read nearly all the posts. I only responded to a few as I didn’t take notes. Congrats to all with victories!!! (((Hugs))) to those that need them. I’ll really miss you while I’m on the cruise next week.
I’ve enjoyed reading about everyone’s Thanksgiving and prep for Christmas. I wanted to get my decorations up before I leave on the cruise this Friday so I’ve been working hard at it since Thanksgiving. The tree turned out beautiful and seemed to go faster than usual. DH helps bring it down and set it up and I do the rest. I had it finished in a few hours. We did our outside decorations different this year and that is all done. Just finished it today. I’ve done most of my Christmas shopping and it is all wrapped and under the tree. *I love gift bags* I only today started setting out a few of the things that I’ll take on the cruise. Tomorrow night I have a meeting at the Moose and then Thursday will get packed.
Yesterday and before it was in the mid 30’s each night and 50’s during the days. Today it got into the mid to upper 70’s. When I went out to finish my decorating I thought it was summer! Should be close to the same tomorrow before it turns cooler again. Time to hit the hay.
to any Newbies that I missed. Come often and join in the chat. This thing works!! Please sign your post with what you want to be called. It makes it easier for us to respond to you. Also a location is great, be it specific or general. We are happy to have you join us.
Sending love, good thoughts and sunshine to all of you and I hope you all have a Happy and Healthy Day!
I Love you,
DJ
Myrtle Beach, SC
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Barbie – I think FB has been ‘trouble’ for a lot of people, especially couples. Seems like one or the other or both of them ‘escape’ to that world. It isn’t ‘make believe’ and it isn’t the place to post some things because you never know who might be friends of friends. It is so wide-spread and with some who ‘friend’ anybody and like and ‘follow’ anything just gets them deeper and deeper in trouble. And, it’s out there and some people will always ‘bring it back up’ long after the two have gotten over it and ‘try’ to ‘move on’.
Joyce – LOL! Someone might need it to be in the ‘kitchen’ … grazing right though their body. I know WTMI!
Michele – As an adult I learned there were more verses to “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep”; but, parents did not instill that in us to remember; but, I knew it ended more upbeat, for sure.
Pip – Cracker is an ‘inside’ dog; but, starting this past Friday, she has found her way down the road to a neighbor’s house to ‘play with their dog(s)’ and, I had to go get her this AM. DH had to bring her home last Friday when she would not respond to us calling for her. She doesn’t go anywhere if he is ‘out in the yard’ with her. Should I start going outside with her until she gets it through her head that we don’t want her to go outside of the yard? She had to walk up our driveway … easily 1/8th of a mile, down the dirt road past 2 large properties (we’re out in the country). I don’t know these people (the man is the step-son of the owner of the house). I don’t know if his wife is a stay-at-home woman or a working woman. I just don’t want someone to ride through and pick Cracker up (either to turn her in, or to take her as their pet) and I certainly do NOT want her to get killed out there. The son of our neighbors to our left is vindictive (not sure that is the word, we’ve never had problems); but, we were following him home and a ‘fox squirrel’ (big beautiful squirrel, not the fuzzy city rats) came out in the street and he purposefully swerved to hit it! I was furious; but, the dirty deed had already been committed … and there wasn’t anything I could have done or said that would have brought the squirrel back. They just a very view and far between and we had enjoyed watching him for weeks. I bought a stob and a lead; but, now we are trying to figure out where to put it and ‘if’ she will only be worse if we put her on it, to keep her home. It is certainly not like we have ever mistreated her. She is the 2nd best ‘love of my life’ (here in the house). My DYS had already ‘hit’ her with his truck when we first got her. Actually, she must have run into the side of the wheel/tire. He came in and said, “Mom, I ran over your dog.” About the same time DH comes in holding her. I about freaked out, thinking he was bringing in a ‘dead’ puppy.
Lenora – PS – anybody can answer my question to PIP. We live ‘out in the country’; but, there still is a ‘leash law in this county, just not really enforced’.
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