A Journey Through a Different Way - Funny Story Pg. 69

[ruth]

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You guys are just too kind. I'm not sure I would call standing in muck shoes, shoveling chicken poop, while swatting gnats and flies in sweltering heat particularly inspiring. But then maybe you guys don't get out too much.

Just kidding - love you all - you keep me going.

I am, however, finding that I'm having awful allergic reactions to the gnat bites (or "noseeums"). My entire eye swelled shut after two bit me on the side of the eye and I looked like a cyclops. Then they got me on the elbow and back of arm and the entire upper arm and elbow swelled till I couldn't bend it. Every night I'm itching all over and practically bathing in alchohol. I've never been allergic to anything in my life but hey, welcome to 50, per my doctor - and he only charged me a little over $1,000 to tell me that.

So now I'm working on my farm and in my garden wearing long pants, socks, gloves and long sleeve shirts. Did I mention it is nearly 100 degrees with 100% humidity. I have to change clothes two and three times a day I get so soaked. Now I know that's an inspiring image if ever I heard one.

I'm starting to ask myself "What the heck am I doing? I could be laying on a beach somewhere, snapping my fingers for Jose to bring me another margaritta.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Man I need a Jose LOL.

Well lets see I had 3 litters in 1 month. Total of 15 pups and they are all in great homes so I am happy. I work hard to give these pups a great start so that they can be their best. I love doing it, everyone one pulls at your heart string but it wouldn't be fair to try to keep them all. Not to me and not to them. It is really rewarding. So many of them stand out in my mind but my favorite story is the pup who went to the little girl who wouldn't talk.

She was 7 and had never spoken to anyone but her daddy and her Grandma and very limited to them. He decided to get her a pup and came out to visit. He didn't tell her or her little sister he was going to get a pup. They were to little to leave yet. I had him bring her out and just visit and one pup picked her, a little girl.

The next week he took his little girl to a specialist who after the exam found out that they were going to get a puppy. Doc said lets bribe her. Brought her back in and told the girl that after talking to her daddy they argeed that if she started to talk to everyone and kept it up then she could get one of my puppies. This was on a Thursday. Saturday his girl friend of 3 years took her for a hair cut and was talking to the hair dresser when the little girl said Katie can we call Miss Jean and go see my puppy. Well it has been 2 years and that little girl is still talking can't shut her up. And little miss Rosita Margareta comes and visits me when ever the family goes out of town, about 4 times a year.

That is how I keep the strengh to give them up, knowing that the love they can give keeps their family going. And most come and see me or send me an update every few month with pics.

I also do rescue, those are really hard because they give so much and some come so abused. But it is worth the heart ache.


Glad to hear ya are keeping busy, won't give ya much time to worry about a little old number like 50, just remember that life isn't passing ya by because your to busy for it to catch up to you. And besides the good only gets better with age. So that means that all the good things are just coming to ya. So enjoy them.

I'll be 46 in June I am the baby by 1 minute. I love being the baby LOL but funny how as we climb the ladder of life old just doesn't look so old. My neice just got married this month and only 2 of us 13 kids were missing, it was nice to see them, the funny thing is that when they start talking age it is hard to believe that some of them are in their middle 60's, where did those years go. I came to the decission that I am just going to enjoy everyone of my years. I earned them and I deserve to enjoy them.

Now in a few years ask me what I thought of 50 LOL.

 

[ruth]

Oh Jean - that is such a touching story about the little girl who wouldn't talk. Did they ever know why she wouldn't talk since obviously she could?

I have a funny story about Rex. When I first got him I had read so much about how GSD's needed to be well socialized that I took him to obedience training, out in public, on rides, introduced him to anyone and everyone, even took him on a trip with us when we went to see my son graduate boot camp. We stayed at a doggie-friendly hotel. Entire family, including ex and his family were all there. We came back from the graduation and our keys would not work in our room door. DH goes to desk to get new keys. New keys will not work. Repeats process. That's when it hit me - Rex had locked the deadbolt from inside the room.

At our home we had lever handle door "knobs" so that he could open and close them and come and go at will. Sure enough he had tried to open the door and hit the deadbolt. Only problem was that there was only one desk guy on duty and he did not know how to override the computer door lock. So we all sat outside on the floor while he called some technician to come decode the door and let us in. The ex and his family still haven't stopped making fun of us.

 

[ruth]

Hey, whata ya know - I just became a "True BYC Addict" - that was my 2,500th post.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Girl that is too funny, I know dogs can think outside of the box, LOL.

The Doc told Joe that sometimes they just shut down and don't trust. Guess his ex is a mess and the child paid the price for it. Hence him having full custody of those 2 little girls. Some people take a while to get that mothering gene. Some never get it, sad really because I know being a mother completes me.

Boy it has been one month to test me as far as mothering goes. My son broke his ankle the day before his 17th Bday. My daughter put a nail thru her foot on Mothers day. There is something about Mothers day and nails with her, when she was 12 she had an accident on mother's day and ended up with 47 staples up the back of her leg due to nails, and now at 25 one thru her foot, and she was in her own home. Her hubby never cleans up his mess and he is doing some remodeling and she missed a basement step and came down on the nail. Fun Fun, man life just drives too fast LOL.

Well girl don't work too hard today, enjoy that garden. Here in the UP of MI we can't even plant till after June, no sense in it, we would be out there covering everything every night LOL. The gardening season is short here but I sure love it.

 

[ruth]

Tonight, for the first time in my 50 years on this earth, I had a dinner that I completely raised myself. A huge salad from all my "pickins" yesterday and fresh milk from my goat that I milked myself - and yes, I drank it straight from the Mason jar, southern girl style. I could have added some chicken from the freezer but DH was out of town and I sooooo crave just vegetables in the summer - Something about working in the hot sun all day long - Last thing I want to do is cook.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

Not sure how old the birthday part of this thread is but Happy Birthday Ruth!!! 50 is not the end of the world after all, although I thought it was going to be last year when it happened to me, soon to be 51 and really, it's just another year you are grateful to be here...so hope yours is/was awesome

Hey, whata ya know - I just became a "True BYC Addict" - that was my 2,500th post.


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as long as you've been around!! You need to catch up with your chatty friends here, lol!! You make a mean looking salad too girl!!

 

[ruth]

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as long as you've been around!! You need to catch up with your chatty friends here, lol!! You make a mean looking salad too girl!!

Thanks - the big 50 was Monday. The number is nothing more than a number but in this case it seems to be the start of a new decade for me in more ways than one. Last night's dinner all came from a garden I planted and raised myself - that's a first for me. I look around and find myself on a farm, surrounded by animals I've hatched and raised or birthed and bottled fed and I'm amazed at were the journey has taken me. As my daughter kept saying "....never in a million years..."

These were my first "pickins" and I'm still enjoying them.

 

[speckledhen]

That looks like an awesome supper, Monique! Yummo! Congrats on your harvest.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Ya all are toooooo funny I look at those veggies that ya all are pulling out of your gardens and I am so jealous, then I shake my head and laugh. Yesterday was a high of 45 degrees with a strong cold wind and very damp. It even snowed a little. We went to rummage sales in this LOL.


No garden here till June 1st and then we will still be running to cover because of late frost for about 2 or 3 weeks LOL. Too funny if we get 3 months for are gardens we are soooooooooooooo lucky LOL.

That is the bad up here, such short gardening time. But it is worth it that we don't have posinous snakes, allagators or grizzlie bears LOL. But we have lions (mountain lions) even though are DNR says no.