Divine Bovines
 

Well, that's all I could come up with. I was going to go with something about Cow Tipping, but I couldn't get it right.

NMP is Not My Problem.

Well, I finished watching my recording of the Oscars. And I must have missed at least an hour of it! I didn't see best actor or actress, best song, or best movie. I am p-o'ed. How the heck long did it go??

Oh, and I also missed my favorite part, all the movie stars who died last year. The Morbid Roll Call, you know.

Grr.

Our snow is melting. It's in the low 30s and sunny. We have some bare lawn. Next to the 6 foot drifts. :shrug: Guess I'd better get outside and do something snow-y before it turns into a skating rink.

Oh yeah, DH finally called around 10 pm. He was on one of those flights where they load you on and make you wait in the plane for some undetermined length of time. Turned out to be around 2 hours. I would have lost my **** by that time. I am not good with being confined. I can't believe they are making that standard airline procedure. I wonder how long before they have a case of "tarmac rage".

Kiwi

Well, geez, you're just going to let me dangle out here all by myself??? Do you realize I am on my own for 2 weeks and anything could happen??

For instance, on Monday my eye doctor swiped my reading glasses to replace the lenses (yes, I get lovely Calvin Klein prescription reading glasses because I am spoiled) and I can't read a thing? I had to up the text size on my browser. How embarrassing. Fortunately there is nobody here but Jet to laugh at me, and she is the soul of understanding.

And then today, I went to my regular doctor and he gave me a nasty steroid shot in my elbow. Apparently I have reached the end of the road for "conservative measures". It hurt. "This is going to sting a little" Yeah. Fooled me, actually -- the first little pinprick of the needle was barely noticeable, and I thought Oh this isn't so bad. Then he started grinding it around inside my elbow. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggghhhh.

You know, I wouldn't have written that quite so graphically if there was anyone else here to read it...

So anyway my arm's kind of sore, but for the first time in months, I can straighten my arm completely, without excruciating pain!! Amazing. I'm going to baby it for a while, but I have hopes.

Kiwi

hi kiwonk---let's take row call----cowpernia-absent,shatzi--absent,sugar--absent,wabby-absent.painty-absent,cherry-absent,WHO ELSE IS MISSING????? OH YES,LUSHIOUS---SHE IS A TRUANT FOR SURE-----also -------JUNE seems to be absent as well---i will call dusty rose on anyone who doesn't appear in the pasture PRONTO!!!---AND PAINTY AND SHATZI HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S IN FOR THEM IF THEY DON'T SHOW UP!!!---- okay,so POOR KIWI!!!--- THAT ELBOW SHOT SOUNDED TERRIBLE--- but being able to move your arm sounded nice!!!----you and jet all alone with the kitty kats for awhile----sounds like FUN!!!-----on a sad note,i just got an email from my friend's daughter----my friend who passed away unexpectedly a few weeks ago---she is sooooooooo sad----she is 20 years old---she said " i miss my mommy,she was my best friend"-----breaks my heart----i guess these kids really do need us no matter how old they are---i am trying to keep in contact with her cause i don't want her to feel alone,but she said "everyone is moving on,and i feel worse every day"------man,life sucks sometimes.sorry to end on a downer---let me see,if i make fun of someone i can bring the level back up-----how about----PEACHERS FOUND HER GREEN SHOE!!!! no,that won't work---anyone want to buy some period sponges-grosssssssssssssssss

Kiwi--NMP either. Great new thread title. I don't think they DID a morbid roll call. Or if they did, I missed it, too. It seems prematurely warm here. The tulips are pointing their little shoots up, the grape hyacinths are actually blooming as are the neighbors narcissus and daffodils. Glad your DH didn't make the news with length of tarmac tarrying OR rage response. He must be a good guy. DD is in Miami this week… hope all is calm for her. Sorry about the elbow grinding. That sounds horrid. perhaps you could grind the MD's instep next time? But I'm sure your tennis elbow will be fit as a fiddle when the snow melts.

Baggz… I hate feeling helpless when somebody else feels bad. I'm sure your friend's daughter will come through her grief… but in her own good time. I no longer have ANY need for period sponges… which is a GOOD thing about getting old. I wonder if you can paint with them?!!

I'm crabby. but I showed up.

sheepish grin
 

I am not absent, just cranky and lurking! It's the annual Birthday Extravaganza - three birthdays in the course of two weeks (my baby just turned 14!! How old does that make me???) and I must organize stuff.

Sug--
Just wait till your baby is 25! That'll make you even older! Hope the extravaganza has some fun places.

Hey, y'all: What do you eat for breakfast?
I've been up for hours and I'm afraid to eat anything.:p

Wow, I feel so bad for your friend's daughter, Bagz. That's heartbreaking. Is she in college? One of DD's friends lost her mom last summer shortly after graduation. The girl had tons of support from her mother's friends and friends' mothers and so on, and she seems to be doing quite well. Can't be easy, though. For a while I thought her father was going to pull a whiny selfish how can you leave me alone with your little brothers bull****, but there were so many people keeping an eye on them that that didn't happen.

How lovely! It's prematurely warm here too: 31 degrees! :rolleyes:
Well, he's certainly more even tempered than I am. Case in point: I am about to email the daily newspaper a scathing letter to the editor about this very prominent woman who I think is vile. DH would never do such a thing. I will thoroughly enjoy it.
Oo! good idea! On second thought, nah, he did me a favor, I'm sure. Even though it still gives the heebiejeebies when I think about the shot, the elbow is more flexible which is wonderful.
This week I've been eating Banana Nut Crunch with skim milk, and pomegranite juice cocktail. Truth be told, I don't usually eat breakfast; I just sip coffee all day and then pig out all evening. Very bad. I'd like to get into the habit of eating oatmeal at least a few times a week, but we'll see about that. I must improve my routine while DH is gone, or I will never do it.

Today something weird happened to the furnace; there were buckets of black smoke billowing out of the chimney. When I called the furnace people, they said Turn it off! We'll be out! Guy's here right now.

Something horrible always happens in this house when DH is gone. Last summer he missed the week of the multiple bats. Now the furnace goes blooey and we're due for a giant winter storm tomorrow. Oh well so it goes. It took 3 whole days for the house to think up something evil to do. I wonder what's next...

:bday2you: Best Wishes to the young Sugar Plum guy! He's a cutie -- love that photo on your blog.

Kiwi

Oooh, Kiwi... sorry about your furnace... Even at a "warm" 31 (ha!) you'll need it.
I thought maybe if I ate something for breakfast I wouldn't eat all night, myself. Anybody else with SUCCESS stories?

I've been here, keeping an eye on you all :mag: I just feel bad posting when all my news is bad news..... but to h*ll with it, here it is.... Grandpa Jim is in the hospital. Yesterday morning he started to get out of bed, got dizzy and fell down. He spent the day dragging himself to the phone and at 3 pm managed to call 911. DS and I got there at about the same time as the ambulance, Grandpa arguing that he was fine, he didn't want to go to the hospital. Anyway, he has some kind of internal bleeding going on, they gave him 4! units of blood and today will be doing tests to figure out why he's bleeding. I'd been worried about him and I'd made a Dr.'s appt for this afternoon. I was just a day late and a dollar short on that one.

Bagzie, my heart goes out to your friend's daughter. My DD has expressed the same feeling about how all her friend's lives are going on and her's has changed forever and no one seems to understand. You still need both your parents when you're in your 20's. My kids tell me all the time how often that urge to "ask Dad about it" hits.

DD is in southern CA for 2 weeks (with the BF), b/c her boyfriend's dad uses a walker (some kind of back injury) and now broke his leg so he needs help, plus BF's step mom has terminal cancer. I have sole custody of the weiner dog while they're gone. Aarrrgh. It's a yapper, runs away from me, & if you do manage to pick it up, it pees in the floor b/c it's so excited. This dog has no redeeming qualities, and yet I have nightmares about something happening to her b/c she's DD's baby. Actually, being pissed about the dog helps keep my mind off being alone. DS will be staying here part of the time anyway, I think he needs the company as much as I do.

And there is your cheery morning update.

Well, I'm glad to hear what's going on, I don't need cheery. Sorry to hear about Grampa Jim, I hope he'll be okay. Too bad he didn't have one of those emergency buttons. But he's probably too stubborn for that, eh? Well, hopefully he's too stubborn to let this get the better of him too.

We are in the midst of a big snowstorm. :snowglo: I've shovelled the steps twice already just since about noon (don't worry, not overdoing). I drove into town too. The driving wasn't bad, certainly not blizzard conditions, but it's still coming down. They say we might get 9-15 inches. Decided to go in the woods for a little snowshoeing when I got back from town. The trail we've broken in there is quite nice. It now has 3 or 4 inches of fresh snow on top of it, but that's no problem. It is so pretty in the woods -- this is the kind of snow that sticks to the branches of fir trees and weighs them down. I forgot to take my camera with me, durn it. Maybe tomorrow. I did have my cellphone with me, so I called DD. The foolish girl hopped on the bus today because her bf couldn't get out of Portland due to the storm. It's just raining in Boston, so the buses are running. However something tells me that at some point between Boston and Portland, they will run into something pretty yucky. BF says it is hailing on top of the snow where he is. DD might get stranded at the bus station, wouldn't that be a fun way to spend the weekend?

DH on the other hand is soaking in the sun in Fla., gloating no doubt. I really think he is due some consequences, don't you think? :devil:

Kiwi

You have to go read these. They're hilarious.

Have you all seen the latest images of Saturn? They're awesome. Here's the page about the Cassini Huygens mission. Wow.

My yard and driveway have been plowed out. My dinner is marinating. My DD arrived safely in Portland. All is right with the world.

Kiwi

Kiwi-- Thanks for the laughs. And the role modeling: plowed but not inebriated, dinner in progress and daughter close by. Way to go.
I'm off to forage. There's hockey in progress and I'm REALLY hungry. DH must be really sleepy... or something. Haven't heard from him in hours. Not so good.

we are snowed in too kiwonk!!! WABBY!!!!-please come here and tell us your news!!! you know we are all ears and hearts!!!---please do not refrain from saying anything you like----we love you and miss you!!!!! poor grandpa jim!!!! man,those old folks are all the same--my friend's 83 year old mother HAD one of those things around her neck,but even though she fell in the middle of the night between the bed and the dresser,SHE DIDNT' PRESS THE BUTTON CAUSE SHE DIDN'T WANT TO BOTHER ANYONE IN THE NIGHT!!!!- she just did not understand that a call centre thousands of miles away would take the call and alert the local authorities---she thought she would be GETTING SOMEONE OUT OF BED!!!!!----so ,there you go!!

That's really cute. But we want them to be safe! I know, it's hard to convince a lot of people to accept help. Ourselves included, huh? I'm thinking of scraping my own roof instead of hiring someone to do it. It's a beautiful day and I should be outside in the sunshine, right? Well, if it doesn't hurt my elbow, I'm going to do it.

I wrote a letter to the editor of the daily newspaper. Then I wrote on the same subject in the online forum of the newspaper. I know I'm right and what I have to say is worth saying, but the idea of people reading it and arguing or whatever makes me sick to my stomach. I did it anyway. Surprisingly, DD followed up on my online message. I'm proud of her. But I'm still a little nauseous. What a wimp I am, huh?

Gotta go drink more coffee.

Kiwi

Wow, isn't this annoying?

hey!!! where is the link to your online letter!!! i want to READ it ~!!!!!

Well, the letter to the ed. hasn't been published yet, don't know if it will be. But the online discussion is here.

I really did rake the snow off the roof. I took a picture.

Way to go... interesting thread of posts. If the Dept. of the Interior weren't blackmailed by corporate interests, maybe we'd have a better public lands policy. I understand that even Nature Conservancy is deemed to be corrupted in some circles. I wish that people just had to sit down and talk until they came to agreements. Instead of the person with the sleaziest lawyer, most money, or biggest gun (or best blackmail secrets) winning.

Trippytext IS pretty annoying. I'm going to go see what I can concoct. :-)

Hello! I'm here, behind on schoolwork, haven't exercised in a month, and am currently obsessed with knitting. Wabby, hope Grandpa Jim is doing better. Bagzie, I feel for your friend's DD.

Kiwi, darling, please straighten your arm. Then come clean my bathroom.

Bagzie I'm glad the dd is reaching out to you. So sad. The other day we had terrible tornadoes here and the roof was blown off an Alabama school and eight kids were killed when the walls fell on them. They keep showing those beautiful faces on tv and telling that they were on the baseball team, played trumpet, was a cheerleader, etc. Young people are so beautiful and you just want to scoop them up and take care of them.

If I keep the tv on I will soon hear of this guy's 90-minute visit to Heaven after his car was hit by a truck and he was killed. I keep thinking of Gilligan's 3-hour tour. Why were all those people on the tour without a companion? I want to vacation with my Cal friend but AS ALWAYS am so broke. Cheap ideas?

I don't know how to multiquote. I clicked on the button but nothing happened.

I am stressed out by work. I love my afternoon class. I look so forward to it and even the worst kids are wonderful. But they've (temporarily .. lol) given me a morning class that is ****. ****. ****. In many ways it is ****.

That is so true. When it comes down to people talking to each other, almost anything can be worked out. I suppose that's the reason for all the lawyers and lobbyists and so on -- everyone wants to get their own way and avoid having to "see the other person's side" of things.
I am so confused. :dizzy: Perhaps I should go look at the news. DH is on the right coast for another week and a half, want to go vacation with our friends at the marina? I hear they may have a vacancy on the RV that they park for the winter while they live on the boat. There. Now I've confused you.
The multiquote button is sort of like a marker. When you click it, wait for a moment and it should turn orange and the little + should turn into a -. Then when you are ready to do your reply, hit the regular Quote button on any of the posts you have marked and your message box should contain all of the quotes that you marked. Make sense? If the button doesn't turn orange, click it again once or twice.

Gotta go retrieve my puppy from the front steps. She like to just sit out there. Even when it's cold. She has a very furry butt.

I'm not coming to clean your bathroom. I suggest you just turn a high pressure hose on it.

Kiwi

I only see one opportunity to get this quitie things. What else do I need to know to multi-do-it.

Stop confusing me.

1. Guy on church show went to heaven to 90 minutes. Wrote a book called 90 minute visit to heaven .. or something like that.

2. Gilligan got shipwrecked on a 3-hour tour.

Is that better?

Okay now you're just confusing me on purpose. What?

So the guy says he went to heaven for 90 minutes. Why didn't he stay there? Who told him it was 90 minutes or did he come up with that himself? Will there be a sitcom? Will they call it 90 minutes and will it last for 30 minutes? If it lasts for 30 minutes, will there only be 3 episodes?

I went out snowshoeing and now I can't type. I'm exhausted. And I'm horrified to find that there are no snow or ski pants in this house that fit me. I have a lovely pair of Columbia pants that are Men's size Medium that used to fit me. I couldn't drag them over my hips for gods sake. So anyway I went out and tried to break a trail down the hill into woods to find the big play ball that Jet lost over the hill a couple of weeks ago. Well, the snow was so deep I gave up after about 50 yards. I was making holes in the snow over 2 feet deep. That's exhausting. So then I went on the good trail, the nice already-broken trail, but I didn't get far there either because I was TAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRD. So taaaaaaahhhhhhhhrrrrddd.

I think I'll put up a new avatar and then change my signature again. Then I will need a nap...

Kiwi

When I am tired and I see "Originally Posted by Cowpernia" it looks like "Originally Composted". It's nothing personal...

please change that kiwi nightmare sign.

the guy didn't stay in heaven because people HERE ON EARTH were praying that he'd stay alive. So, he started singing some hymn along with a guy praying over his body which was trapped in the car, and the guy yelled," He's alive" and quickly left him to deal with his squashed leg, broken ribs, etc. But now he's ok. It was 90 minutes after the wreck that he started singing.

I like the wolf in the snow. What happened to your puppy?

I saw on tv that for $400+ you can buy some CDs that are guarnateed to exercise you back into your pants. Want me to look them up for you? ORRRRRR. while everyone is gone, eat tv dinners. I met a guy in the supermarket who lost 37 lbs in 2 months doing that. They are portion sized. Only eat one per meal.

I changed it. Who knew it could be worse?

The wolf ate my puppy. She's sorry; you can tell by looking at her eyes. See? "I'm sorry I ate your puppy. And all the kleenex in the trash can." That's not snow, by the way, that's a quilt. I know you live in Florida, but I'm sure you've seen quilts before.

Wow, I could easily live on TV dinners. I like easy processed food. I wonder if you could eat a can of Chef Boyardee at every meal and lose weight? Before you die of malnutrition, I mean.

What would I do for my 18 snacks a day, though?

I must go make something healthy for dinner. I had a cheese and onion omelet for lunch. I think salad for dinner. Oo, maybe some brown rice.

Kiwi

Here is why I am thankful....
 

that I am not a celebrity. If this could happen to Sally Kirkland, it could happen to anyone. Caption says it was taken at the Oscars in 2002.

I have never heard of Sally Kirkland but on reading about her at Wikipedia, this is not how a health enthusiast should look. What does it mean that she performed a spiritual marriage as a last request of Shelley Winters? Who got married? And what else does it mean?

I've seen quilts. Been a long time since I've seen snow. My confusion is natural.

I watched some old movies that were recorded eons ago by Herbie and kept around by me for rainy afternoons. At the end was a newscast of the breaking of the Clinton/Lewinski story. Was the presidency to be hurt by these allegations? Would they proven untrue? They played Clinton denying the whole thing and reminded the audience that he also denied a 12-year affair with the blonde woman and explained that he denied the 12-year part. It could've been 11 years.

Not liking the bubble gum sign much either. Are you going wild with dh gone?

Yes.

Wow, you wanna know something weird? While DH is out of town, we are emailing back and forth now and then as well as talking on the phone every couple of days. I swear these emails are being written by someone I've never met. Very strange. Anyone ever have this experience, someone you know really well, sounds like a whole other person in writing?

Then again, look at my sig. Maybe we've both gone mad.

kiwi

I Agree---you Have Both Gone Completely Maaaaaaaaaad ,mad I Tell You,simply Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!!!!!!!

WHY IS kiwi's 21 days progress marked off in minutes?

That is a secret known only to Sally Kirkland and Halim El-Dabh (who has the very cutest quote on his website).

Brown rice and salad turned into RiceaRoni and carrot sticks and cucumber slices.

I'm going to go watch Witness for the Prosecution. The lovely one with Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. And Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power.

Perhaps I will make myself a Sidecar.

:lol: I don't even know what that is.

Kiwi

I have no idea what you all are talking about.

Gpa Jim is doing better - his Dr. thinks it may be an esophogeal (sp?) cancer, though. They stopped the bleeding, but will need to do an upper GI scope again next week. In the mean time, he will get discharged today to a rehab facility, where they will get him a little stronger and up and walking around before they send him home. I just out and out told them I couldn't take care of him. So far, no other family member is stepping up. They all just tell me whatever I decide will be fine w/ them. Which means "you handle it".

I am tired.

I did manage a movie and dinner w/ my sisters and a friend on Friday and a glass of wine and a heap of whining on Sunday w/ a friend. Spent most of Saturday either visiting Gpa Jim or having a gigantic crying jag. Some days are like that.

Not to worry, neither do we. Mostly we are just babbling.

Sorry to hear about Gpa Jim. I supposed it's better to know what you're dealing with, but still. Good grief, it's so unfair for you to have to shoulder all of the work and worry! You should just assigning jobs to people. You'll still have to make all the decisions though, won't you?

Wine and whining are a great combo. We should all do more of it. ;)

I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure out this sign project I took on. I just keep staring at the pages of stuff I should be doing and can't make any sense of it all. I thought if I put down all the particulars in a spreadsheet it would help me organize it, which it doesn't seem to have. So I printed it all out on separate sheets of paper so I could jot down notes, but I didn't get anywhere with that. So then I thought if I hashed it over with the person who's going to help me make the signs, that would help, which it didn't. Then I thought
I would make DH drive around town and we would see where I had to put up the signs, that would help (we did that a week ago). Well, that helped a little, now I have more pages of notes, some ideas of how to do some of it, but I'm still so disorganized. I think I've become a drooling idiot.

Kiwi

i wonder if the mental pause we are experiencing is the main cause of our adhd behaviour---i have had the same problems kiwonk---i can't figure out where to start anything {like tax slips for the staff---or paying bills or painting an eastercat card} so instead--- I DO NOTHING BUT EAT AND LOOK ON THE COMPUTER------ WABBY!!!! HOW RIDICULOUS THAT YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH ANYTHING AT ALL~~~!!!!! everyone STILL expects you to do everything---amazing how people can be so thoughtless----no wonder you feel so sad-----people should be doing EVERYthing they can to make you feel better-=----this makes us cows sick-----xoxoxoxox to you xoxoxoxo

Well, your group seems like it's been around for a while (?) and that you all know each other pretty well. Might there be a space for me? I've floated around the website for about a week and a half, now, and this feels like a good fit. I'm sixty. (Auuuurggghhh! How did THAT happen?) My kids are all grown - youngest, my only boy, moved out to the west coast about a year and a half ago, and HE was the most dependent, if you know what I mean, so I've been a little loose-ended ever since. I was divorced ten years ago and remarried five years ago to a sweetheart of a guy, so life is pretty decent. I live in central MA, work about 40 miles away in Boston (HE works in Manchester, NH, so we BOTH have major commutes) and on weekends, he paints, I do a little sculpting, and sometimes we manage to find a nice old piece of furniture that needs refinishing, and we do that together for "fun". In short, life has become WAY more comfortable than it was when I was struggling on my own and trying to pay college tuitions on top of the mortgage and everything else. TOO comfortable. (although we are by no means even CLOSE to being wealthy...we pay our bills and have a little left over. Period.) SO comfortable, though,that I've managed to gain 40 pounds, and he's gained at least 20. ENOUGH! I'm not ready to "grow old ungracefully! At the same time, I'm not going to be frantic about the whole thing, either. I do hope you'll let me squeeze in here - and do a little "grazing". :)

Ella

Welcome to the herd, Ellabella. You're most welcome, although you've probably surmised that weight loss isn't usually the main topic around here. Which doesn't mean that every once in a while we pick up steam in that regard.

I got Gpa Jim all settle in the "rehab facility", which we all know is a nursing home, we just don't want to admit it. He should be out in a week or so if everything goes well. He insists that he's just fine, but when they were getting him settled in the bed, he was too weak to scoot himself up into a comfortable position and they had to get 2 nurses aides to move him. You're right about the rest of the family, Bagzie, but they just make excuses. No amount of me telling them what is going on with their Dad seems to motivate them to help. Besides, in a way, I feel it's something I can do for DH. If he were here he'd be taking care of his Dad.

My sister has been a lifesaver for me. She stops by every day or so, and calls me daily. I don't know what I'd do without her. It sometimes surprises me who is there for me and who isn't. She is just totally there.

ADHD behaviour or mental pause - I went to get in my car at a restaurant the other day and I kept punching the unlock button on my key, getting frustrated b/c the battery seemed to need replacing, when I realized I was standing next to someone else's car. It was silver but it was the wrong make. My car was sitting patiently next to it. :?:

ohhhhhhhhhhh wabby!!! i did that with the car too!!! every second car is a tan coloured toyota{i should have looked for the rust} I was getting so mad i almost broke the key in someone else's lock!!!} good for old grandpa J--i know exactly how you feel---you are doing it for your darling so that is adorable----do you remember that when we lost bil,my sister had his parents living at THEIR home---one had a stroke and the other was on oxygen AND NONE OF HIS FAMILY WANTED TO DEAL WITH IT!!! SO THE WIDOW WITH THE THREE KIDS GOT TO DO IT UNTIL SHE NEARLY CRACKED!!!!--- needless to say they are nicely ensconced in a nursing home at the present!!!! ELLABELLA!!!! how lovely that you have found a pasture to your liking---the only problem with this cowpatch is ---WE ONLY COMPLAIN ABOUT BEING FAT!!!! OR TRY TO THINK OF LOVELY WAYS TO TALK ABOUT IT----APRON GUT,SAUSAGE LEGS,ETC------ maybe you are our personal messiah sent to save us from our ROLLS!!!!! post away~~~~!!!!!!----OKAY,SO HERE IS A QUESTION FOR THE HERD------------WHERE THE BLAZES IS SHATZI????????----kiwi---i am freezing up here-----stop the arctic air!!!!----

my new pic is of a lonely tree up the hill from my house---it's in a park that overlooks the Bay of Fundy--Atlantic Ocean---it's on my walk when i actually GO---------------which hasn't been for AGES!!! i hate snow and ice and i refuse to buy boots---i guess i can't lose weight til the snow leaves.