Support Groups - Thinking of you COWS today

A big :grouphug: for all my US cow pals today.( And of course for Bagzie!) Keep seeing those human interest stories on CNN like the 63 little babies who never got to see their dads. *sniff*
How depressing.:cry:

Cherry, thank you so much for the beautiful postcard! You are sweet. And you have the most perfect handwriting.


Sugar P

I am going to try this again. I havn't been able to post last few days. Compuserve is a pain in my butt. I am getting over Strep and wasn't told that I had it 2 1/2 months ago. Mmmmm could be why I was sick all summer? I have been reading post and tried to post a few times but wasn't allowed. I am so sorry for all the sadness surrounding this group lately. Love and hugs to you all, Daphne

Hi Daphne! Nice to hear from you again. Maybe your not being able to post has something to do with the server move? I dunno.

Strep is such a bummer. I had it once, thought it was gone and got it again about a month later. My doc said sometimes kids are carriers and just pass it on without getting sick themselves. He said it's good to get the whole family tested.

Yes, this has been a sad couple of weeks. Hope things start looking up soon.:)

No wonder you're name is Sugar! you're so sweet :hyper:

Daphne, sorry to hear you and your 'puter have both been sick lately.

Well, I'm going to go get happy tomorrow. 2 of my guys here and their spouses and I are all leaving for rodeo land tommorrow at 1 o'clock. Yeeeee-haw!!! :cp: If only my jeans weren't so painful. :stress:

158 (still the same)

Hey kids -- Just a quick post here -- Have a great time at the rodeo, Wabbit. Lordy, take some comfortable clothes, girl! Thanks for the kind words, Sugar, today was sure melancholy, especially if you turned on the TV. This morning I was sitting there watching the morning shows, tearing up every 5 minutes. I decided to take a nap instead :hypno2: Then I went to the local commemoration ceremony, really only because DD was playing in the band and singing in the chorus. They did a beautiful job, especially the band playing the national anthem. The rest of the program cured my teariness in good shape -- it was the most boring thing I've ever sat through I think. A bunch of what passes for dignitaries in our town doing a series of speeches, each almost the same as the last. Some of the elected officials could barely speak coherently (and not from being choked up; they were just unlistenable). yeccch. Then as the high school chorus neared the end of God Bless America, the very grey sky finally opened up and rained. A fitting ending to a trying experience.

By the way, I wore my bright red America shirt with the little flag on it. Just a fashion note, y'know.

Hi brat ;) hope you're feeling better and Cherry and all.

Kiwi

Hi there! Daphne, I had strep a few years ago for the first time. I felt like I had been hit by truck.

I don't have much to say. I'm tired. I have Friday off. I can't wait.

I remembeer that last year at this time all the networks were digging out comedies to put on the air just to try to cheer everybody up. The last few days has been round the clock remembrance of sadness and promotion of fear. I'm really tired of it. We need the 3 Stooges! I need the other two anyway.

I wonder what instrument Kiwiette plays in the band. I haven't heard about this.

Bye everyone. It's only 5:02. I don't have to get up for 38 minutes.

hello cows,we had a big wind and rain from Gustav and now all my GORGEOUS ten foot high sunflowers are sagging on the ground---WHO sent that mess up the coast????{peachbat}----my sister is holding up well,work and her three kids keep her so busy it's hard to find time to think---all the sept.11 stuff about dads and their kids really hit home for me---it just made me think of george and what his children will be missing out on----i agree peachers---bring on the laughs!!!Thank you Cherry for your sweet card,and all of you again for your continued good thoughts and wishes-----the fact that funeral food makes you very fat has just made itself apparent in my double apron gut i have sprouted:cbg:

Curly :cb:

Larry :dance:


Mo :jig:


Anyone know a good joke?


Peachy, how is that (mostly) darling, (usually) fabulous man of yours? He is still yours, isn't he?

1.---The Halloween pumpkin on your porch has more teeth than
your spouse.

2.---You let your twelve-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner
table in front of her kids.

3.---You're been married three times and still have the same
in-laws.

4.---You think a woman who is "out-of-your-league" bowls on a
different night.

5.---Jack Daniels makes your list of "most admired people."

6.---You wonder how service stations keep their restrooms so
clean.

7.---Anyone in your family ever died right after saying: "Hey,
watch this."

8.---You think Dom Perignon is a Mafia leader.

9.---Your junior prom had a daycare.

10.---Your wife's hairdo was once ruined by a ceiling fan.

11.---You think the last words of the Star Spangled Banner are:
"Gentlemen, start your engines."

12.---You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded
right off its wheels.

13.---The bluebook value of your truck goes up and down, depending
on how much gas is in it.

14.---You have to go outside to get something from the fridge.

15.---One of your kids was born on a pool table.

16.---You need one more hole punched in your cards to get a freebie
at the House of Tattoos.

17.---You can't get married to your sweetheart because there's a
law against it.

18.---You think "loaded dishwasher" means your wife is drunk.

19.---Your toilet paper has page numbers on it.

20.---Your front porch collapses and kills more than five dogs.

:lol: :hyper:

Kiwi

Oh Kiwi thanks for the great laughs. We all needed it.I hope everyone has a nice night. I am off to Seattle tomorrow for Megans Dentist appointment.
TTFN Daphne

That's the best I can do for cheery greetings.

WARNING: BIG DOWNER

My life is so depressing. This afternoon I took a nap and woke up to a gross smell, to find that the dog had peed right in the middle of the living room floor. Mind you, she is very lame and has to be coaxed outside 3x a day, so it's really my fault, but YUK!

I just can't believe my beautiful doggie has gone downhill so fast. I don't know whether she's really on her last legs (bad pun) or whether this will get better, but it so depressing. Yesterday when I tried to get her up, she didn't want to put any weight on one of her back feet--it's the front one that's lame. I think she just slept on it wrong, but all I could think of is what would happen if she couldn't put weight on 2 feet! Then what do I do? It's not like she looks miserable and I ought to have pity on her and put her down--she's eating well and interacting with me, she'd like to run up the driveway to meet the school bus every morning still, but how many things can we adjust to before I just can't handle her any more? She's deaf, blind in one eye, weak in the back legs and trying to get around on 3 legs -- objectively, it doesn't sound so good!

DH is actually going to stay home this weekend. Instead of doing nothing on his boat, I guess he will do nothing on the couch. Personally I think he picked the wrong weekend to stay home -- his lovely wife is not in the best frame of mind...:halfempty

Aren't you glad you read this diatribe. :tape: me

Kiwi

poor kiwi---even people who are scared of dogs feel bad for you and your baby!!maybe the dh will help you devise a plan for doggie so she can be comfy----it seems there is nothing but bad news lately---i forgot to tell you that the day before george died,his brother's dog [beautiful golden retriever---very sweet] got hit by a truck in front of the rental cottage { on pei}---she went to the vet hospital and luckily {after about twelve hundred dollars and a few days in hosp} she will be okay-----just another part of one hellish vacation----my sister dreamt that her husband was holding her hands and saying 'i am here,can't you feel me--i am here'---needless to say, that had me bawling. Kiwi---i am ordering up some margies for us right now----drink er down babe.

DS was supposed to go to a birthday party today. His best friends would be there. So looking forward. Then Tropical Storm Hanna came and I worried and worried and watched the news and looked at the computer and finally told ds to call the friend and explain that he couldn't go because of tornado warnings and a one-hour drive (one way) and 100 percent chance of rain.

He did so and got a little teary. The friend offered to come get him but withdrew the offer. Yesterday, I called the mom to see if they might cancel but she poopooed my concerns and asked if I was afraid to drive in the weather. She kind of laughed.

Herbie is in California because his brother died. No one is here to tell me I did right. It's so hard being a single mom. I feel terrible.:stress:

FOR GAWD"S SAKE!!!! that stupid woman should know better than to laugh at someone who is voicing concern for the safety of children---WHAT a twit!!! OF COURSE YOU MADE THE RIGHT DECISION PEACHBAG!!!!! I WOULD HAVE HAD NO TROUBLE REACHING THE SAME ONE!!! I however have no say in dd18's comings and goings and am not getting to sleep til after two am, most weekends due to the university night life!!!!!! At least your decisions still mean something----poor herbie,his poor brother---POOR all of us---poor kiwi's doggie---lets go to mars.

Goodness, what a crummy spot to be in. You did the only thing you could do, Peachie.:grouphug: Next hurricane, invite her son over and suggest she drive 2 hours in the :rain: to bring him to your house. ;) I'd like to see her do it... Sorry to hear about Herbie's brother.

Thanks for the margie, Bagz. Just what I needed. DH and I sat around last night watching a movie and discussing who drank the giant bottle of tequila that was in the liquor cabinet for years (we usually go out for our libations, so neither of us could think of the last time we'd used it. :chin: Maybe the time has come to lock up the liquor? Honestly I'd be some surprised if DD drank it. She's still at that "I wouldn't touch that nasty stuff" stage, but who knows?

DD played in the pep band at the football game last night. Our team got creamed, but the band sounded great!:dancer: This was the closest she's gotten to participating in sports in years...

Well, have a great weekend everyone.

Kiwi

i just found out last night that my nephew has been buying booze for dd18 and her friends for the last few years-----now at this point,i can deal with it---BUT IF I KNEW THAT WHEN SHE WAS FIFTEEN,I WOULD HAVE BLOWN A GASKET----what I now realize is that anything is indeed ,unfortunately,possible---call me Miss Downer!!!!{ i had two jumbo margies and a mike's cranberry lemonade and now I have a GIANT headache} ---maybe doggie drank the tequila---or maybe a moose,if there was a salt lick---terrible accident in Maine the other day,KIwi---was that close to you????

i meant that i had the margies LAST NIGHT!!! not right now!!!

That was really bad. It's not that close to us, but then it was on a bridge over the Allagash Waterway, which isn't close to anything. I have been up in that direction before.

(For everyone else, 14 foreign workers (from Guatemala and somewhere else) died when the van they were riding in went off a bridge. One guy survived.) All I could think of was "how do you get 15 people in a van??", but it turns out it was actually a 15 passenger van. I was imagining a van with people squeezed in to the roof. By the way, the workers were all legal, all with families in their home countries, not here with them. Pretty awful, eh?

I'm PMSing and yer not making it any better!:dizzy:

Peachy! You did the RIGHT thing. You need to trust your instincts, which I know you do. That mother wouldn't have had much to laugh about if something had happened to you two on the way, would she?

Kiwi! Your poor dog. You just want to have them around forever, don't you?

Bagzie, darling! I'm dreading the day when my boys start wanting to act grown up. Right now they think alcohol is disgusting, but I know that will change in a hurry. Your poor sister. Was she upset by her dream or did it comfort her a bit? You just keep drinkin' those margies until they come out your ears if it makes you feel better!

Where's that Rodeo Bunny? I think we should start marketing giant WLB shoe horns to help us sausage ourselves into our jeans.


We're invited to a sort of wedding reception (secret wedding was in June) in two weeks and I have nothing to wear, as usual. Was downtown today and of cours the summer stuff is gone and the fall/winter stuff is ugly, ugly, ugly. 'Sides that, with the weather we've been having lately, it could be boiling hot or snowing by then.

Ooh, awful about that accident in Maine. We had two trains crash into each other pretty close to here a couple days ago and one of the trains was carrying chemicals which exploded and sent fumes into the air. First they said it was harmless but now 120 people are experiencing respiratory difficulty and headaches which means they've been poisoned. Hope the wind doesn't blow it this way.

Cheer up, cows! Things can't get any worse, can they?

about 4 pm, when the weather channel lady said it would not rain for a while and we could go out and run errands, I took ds to the party. It was smooth all the way up and downpouring so I couldn't see all the way back.

I am worried now after hearing bagz's news. Ds, Mr. Introvert, has been thrown into a geography class with a bunch of kids he calls "skaters." What is that? Anyway, he thinks they think he's one of them and he seems to like it. Are these drug addicts? Will they be giving him crack at lunchtime?

Sorry for all the doggie concerns, Kiwi. Pets have such pure motives. It's easy to love them.

How do we get to Mars?

i think the russians will take us up if we give them enough cash---do they serve margies on mars???---Sugarbuns,sorry for bringing you down--margo says she felt comforted by her dream---i am the one who started bawling{privately of course,}in a used clothing store,on the cell phone,when she told me about it.

Peaches, my guess is that skaters are like slackers -- don't do anything much, or more likely they are skateboarders. But I will ask DD tomorrow if it means something else. Actually skateboarders aren't the worst people to hang around--at least they are doing something!

DD's geometry class is full of sophomores (not a lot of skateboarding here in the north woods..), meaning that after excelling every year in math and being in advanced classes, now she is in a class of average students. I guess it can't be helped; there weren't enough freshmen who completed algebra to make up a class. Too bad though. Two advanced students she knows have decided to add Algebra II to their schedule (take 2 math classes every day :yikes: ), but she doesn't have room.

I hope Peachboy doesn't change his attitude toward school because of these kids (or god forbid get in with any druggies). It's hard to be your own person in 9th grade I think.

Sugar, that train accident is really scary. This is why every gentleman should carry a handkerchief and every lady should have a purse full of kleenex :lol: -- you never know when you'll need an air filter... :faint:

Here's to better days everyone!

Kiwi

Hi cowsies. I hung out all weekend with ppl who would probably say yes to most of Kiwi's questionaire. :lol: Actually, everybody was really fun and I wish you all could have been there, because for Gawd's sake, you all need it. I fell head over heels for the DH all over again, because he's the sweetest handsomest cowboy at the whole shindig:love: I didn't drink a single margie, but I did drink buckets of a drink called "sex on the beach". Who comes up with these names???

Peachy, I wouldn't worry if DS wants to hang around skaters. My DS was really into skateboarding at that age, and the kids he hung with were really anti-drug. He gave me all kinds of headaches for other reasons, but drugs and drinking were never one of them.

Sugar, I hate the fact that stores never have the clothes for the current season. I'm sure the shopaholic type women shop one season ahead, but since I have to be practically nekid before I will buy clothes for this fat body, I always get the left overs (I just last week finally broke down and bought some new shorts for this summer).

Kiwi, sorry to hear the DDoggie is doing poorly. My Dotty-dog has been having problems with urine leakage (eeeew), she has to be on a medication for the rest of her life for it, and DD is supposed to be in charge of her doctoring, but apparently she's missed a few pills lately. Grrr. I hate being responsible for every little thing.

We're looking at 45 acres to buy and build a house on. If only all the developers who have been after our property would only come through with enough $$$$'s. This place is so cool because it already has an old barn on it, and is fenced and has a well drilled. It's what we've been looking for, so keep your fingers crossed for us.

Bagzie, how sad and comforting at the same time for your sister. A couple gals at the rodeo this weekend had lost their husbands in the previous 2 years and they were telling me how they still felt their presence all the time.

Well, yak at ya later cows. I'm still recovering from the rodeo, and last night I couldn't sleep at all for thinking about buying that property.:tired:

Sounds like you had a great time! :cloud9:

My dog also has that problem with slight incontinence -- When it started years ago, we were able to control it with DES, a hormone replacement, which we could give on and off. A few years ago it got to be a constant thing and we switched to PPA, which totally took care of the problem. Unless of course you forget the pill one day...:halfempty

And to talk endlessly once more about my dog, this morning she had a seizure :( -- it's the first time, in fact the first I've ever seen one. I was a wreck. She got over it pretty soon and seemed exactly like normal. We went to the vet this afternoon and he couldn't tell me much, just that if they continue it may be a tumor, considering her age. Her limp hasn't improved so he took her off etogesic (which might even have been the cause of the seizure) and put her on steroids. So, she'll be hungry and thirsty and probably pee everywhere, but who knows? maybe it will work.:genie:

Wabbit, I hope you get to build that house, that would be exciting -- we can build our houses together! Of course we are still in the planning stage. But then we already have the property--I'm sitting on it. :cb:

I have started an online journal (http://kiwi-kath.diaryland.com), ostensibly to log our house-building project, but the first entry is about the dog. Yes, it's diaryland, shutup. :snooty:

Later gators
Kiwi