There’s our Sean! We were worried!!! You were probably just hours away from a Bruce phone call.....I would have had no problem siccing him after you to find out what's going on. Hope you’re now “over the weather”. (Katie euphemism - she figured that if “under the weather” means “sick” then it stands to reason you’d be “over the weather” when you’re feeling better - 6 year old logic.)
Jae, you live in a paradise!! Love all your photos, and that perky little Fantail made me grin!!
@sharron - no offense to your bil, but the only good thing I can say about Mississippi is that the same rads that led in, led out! Only place I’ve ever lived where I sat at a stoplight, laid my head on the steering wheel and cried because I was so miserably hot! My show dogs blew coat and it never fully came back until we moved up to South Dakota. They didn’t need that much coat living down there. And the smell of the pogie and paper plants on a 100+ degree day with 90% humidity is the stuff of nightmares! Giant cockroaches so big you could see their antennae before you saw them when they appeared over the edge of a cabinet, fiddler crabs scurrying across the living room floor, Kamakazi mockingbirds divebombing us when we’d go outside. I know every place has its pluses and minuses, and there were things we enjoyed.....waking Kenny up at midnight to go to the Biloxi Pier to do some shrimping, seeing a thunderstorm roll in over the Gulf.....but not enough to negate being so uncomfortable. I learned the language pretty well. Can’t speak it but did get to the point where I could understand it. And every sentence is a question. “We decided to go to the beach? So we packed up some sodas and a blanket? Then we stopped by Cetus Earl’s place and carried him to the beach with us?” Glad hubby is feeling better. Ride herd on him, though. Men never seem to realize that taking it easy isn’t a crime against nature!
I’m so glad that I’m not the only one with more fabric sensitivities than food allergies! My derm says it’s because my skin is exceptionally dry so the skin cells don’t lay flat. It’s caused by my Sjogren’s Syndrome so we know what it is. Not a soap on the market that I haven’t tried or a lotion either. It just is what it is. The dry mouth is treated with Biotene, the dry eyes with Retayne, but the skin has defeated us so far. I just got a bar of Sally Sunshine’s goat milk soap, so I’m anxious to try it when it comes. I tried the olive oil soap. It did exactly as I expected....left me feeling dirty and greasy, like a badly dressed salad. We keep an eye out for signs of Sjogren’s in my connective tissues and joints, but so far it seems to just be symptomatic in a couple of places. Sure makes me picky about what touches my skin, though!
Debby, you need to make a trip to Cabela’s! I buy my flannel lined jeans there. Come on up and I’ll take ya with me!
Ah, Christmas! We’ll spend Christmas Eve at Tammy’s new house. You should see how beautifully decorated she has it! It’ll just be Ken and me, Kenny, Jenny, Katie, Kendra, Evan and Tam. That is, unless Little Diane and Pete decide to join us again. I usually decorate to the rafters, but not this year. I don’t trust Fee with a Christmas tree in this little house! It takes forever for a signal in her brain to reach the rest of her. Her brain says, “Stand up.” Then that rattles around in there for a few minutes while the signal strengthens. After that her front legs start moving so they can prepare to change positions. That signal, however, takes forever to reach her back end. Finally everything is properly warned of the change and, in slo mo, she begins to stand up. But her tail.....poor girl never knows what to do with that. She is the epitome of clumsy in a giant package. I’ll try to get it on video....it’s hilarious! The thought of putting up a tree and trying to deal with her clumsiness at the same time is intimidating!
Christmas Day everyone comes over here for “Pie Day”. Funny how important that relatively new tradition has become to everyone. We just love it!
Jae, you live in a paradise!! Love all your photos, and that perky little Fantail made me grin!!
@sharron - no offense to your bil, but the only good thing I can say about Mississippi is that the same rads that led in, led out! Only place I’ve ever lived where I sat at a stoplight, laid my head on the steering wheel and cried because I was so miserably hot! My show dogs blew coat and it never fully came back until we moved up to South Dakota. They didn’t need that much coat living down there. And the smell of the pogie and paper plants on a 100+ degree day with 90% humidity is the stuff of nightmares! Giant cockroaches so big you could see their antennae before you saw them when they appeared over the edge of a cabinet, fiddler crabs scurrying across the living room floor, Kamakazi mockingbirds divebombing us when we’d go outside. I know every place has its pluses and minuses, and there were things we enjoyed.....waking Kenny up at midnight to go to the Biloxi Pier to do some shrimping, seeing a thunderstorm roll in over the Gulf.....but not enough to negate being so uncomfortable. I learned the language pretty well. Can’t speak it but did get to the point where I could understand it. And every sentence is a question. “We decided to go to the beach? So we packed up some sodas and a blanket? Then we stopped by Cetus Earl’s place and carried him to the beach with us?” Glad hubby is feeling better. Ride herd on him, though. Men never seem to realize that taking it easy isn’t a crime against nature!
I’m so glad that I’m not the only one with more fabric sensitivities than food allergies! My derm says it’s because my skin is exceptionally dry so the skin cells don’t lay flat. It’s caused by my Sjogren’s Syndrome so we know what it is. Not a soap on the market that I haven’t tried or a lotion either. It just is what it is. The dry mouth is treated with Biotene, the dry eyes with Retayne, but the skin has defeated us so far. I just got a bar of Sally Sunshine’s goat milk soap, so I’m anxious to try it when it comes. I tried the olive oil soap. It did exactly as I expected....left me feeling dirty and greasy, like a badly dressed salad. We keep an eye out for signs of Sjogren’s in my connective tissues and joints, but so far it seems to just be symptomatic in a couple of places. Sure makes me picky about what touches my skin, though!
Debby, you need to make a trip to Cabela’s! I buy my flannel lined jeans there. Come on up and I’ll take ya with me!
Ah, Christmas! We’ll spend Christmas Eve at Tammy’s new house. You should see how beautifully decorated she has it! It’ll just be Ken and me, Kenny, Jenny, Katie, Kendra, Evan and Tam. That is, unless Little Diane and Pete decide to join us again. I usually decorate to the rafters, but not this year. I don’t trust Fee with a Christmas tree in this little house! It takes forever for a signal in her brain to reach the rest of her. Her brain says, “Stand up.” Then that rattles around in there for a few minutes while the signal strengthens. After that her front legs start moving so they can prepare to change positions. That signal, however, takes forever to reach her back end. Finally everything is properly warned of the change and, in slo mo, she begins to stand up. But her tail.....poor girl never knows what to do with that. She is the epitome of clumsy in a giant package. I’ll try to get it on video....it’s hilarious! The thought of putting up a tree and trying to deal with her clumsiness at the same time is intimidating!
Christmas Day everyone comes over here for “Pie Day”. Funny how important that relatively new tradition has become to everyone. We just love it!
the look on their faces was priceless, when they found themselves in their precieved dire circumstances.
