The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[TropicalBabies]

@TheDawg , I feel some of your pain ♡
It was tuff navigating a relationship with my mom and I lost her a few years back. I've come to understand that we can't give what we don't have, and that goes for me too. She and I did our best with what we had. I told her I loved her almost everytime we talked and that has to be good enough. No one is perfect ♡
We just burried our last parent 2 Wednesday's ago. That made 4 parents in less than 8 years. Getting old... really bites in some ways. We just gotta keep being and doing our best ♡♡♡ Be gentile with yourself. It takes time to process big complicated things.

I found sewing spent feed bags for nonprofits helped me a lot, as mom my was a quilter and it made me feel closer to her. So, I'd chat with her while I sewed... not out loud though lol
And I just started fish bowls to help with our winter mosquitos. Very therapeutic, inexpensive and easy ♡ Added tranquility is always a plus

 

[N F C]

oh my goodness! So beautiful and professional! What an amazing job!

Leslie is my 1st birth name, TB also works. Feels weird using real names on byc

Good morning all, as it is still morning here. 8:30am and I just made my first cup of Joe. Def got a slow roll going this morning watching cooking on Magnolia Network.

I am in the process of converting my roo/grow out pen into a catio so I can socialize and foster kittens. I want to do a bunch of mosaics on/in/for it. Floor, shelves, boxes and pedestals etc.View attachment 3614988
My step son and hubby poured the concrete floor for me a little over 1 week ago. Hope to start pulling tile out of storage in the next day or so ♡

I'll just call you TB, thanks! Typing TropicalBabies was tiring

Wonderful idea to re-purpose that for a catio! I definitely want to see any cat/kitten pictures (yeah, I'm one of those crazy cat ladies). And your idea to put in mosaic will make it amazing! Keep us posted on how it's coming along.

 

[N F C]

@TheDawg , I feel some of your pain ♡
It was tuff navigating a relationship with my mom and I lost her a few years back. I've come to understand that we can't give what we don't have, and that goes for me too. She and I did our best with what we had. I told her I loved her almost everytime we talked and that has to be good enough. No one is perfect ♡
We just burried our last parent 2 Wednesday's ago. That made 4 parents in less than 8 years. Getting old... really bites in some ways. We just gotta keep being and doing our best ♡♡♡ Be gentile with yourself. It takes time to process big complicated things.

I found sewing spent feed bags for nonprofits helped me a lot, as mom my was a quilter and it made me feel closer to her. So, I'd chat with her while I sewed... not out loud though lol
And I just started fish bowls to help with our winter mosquitos. Very therapeutic, inexpensive and easy ♡ Added tranquility is always a plusView attachment 3615000View attachment 3614998View attachment 3614997

I'm sorry for your losses. Relationships are tough and all we can do is do our best

Love the planters and fish! You must be able to grow stuff outside all year, right?

 

[ShrekDawg]

@TheDawg , I feel some of your pain ♡
It was tuff navigating a relationship with my mom and I lost her a few years back. I've come to understand that we can't give what we don't have, and that goes for me too. She and I did our best with what we had. I told her I loved her almost everytime we talked and that has to be good enough. No one is perfect ♡
We just burried our last parent 2 Wednesday's ago. That made 4 parents in less than 8 years. Getting old... really bites in some ways. We just gotta keep being and doing our best ♡♡♡ Be gentile with yourself. It takes time to process big complicated things.

I found sewing spent feed bags for nonprofits helped me a lot, as mom my was a quilter and it made me feel closer to her. So, I'd chat with her while I sewed... not out loud though lol
And I just started fish bowls to help with our winter mosquitos. Very therapeutic, inexpensive and easy ♡ Added tranquility is always a plusView attachment 3615000View attachment 3614998View attachment 3614997

Thank you, I appreciate that. And sorry for your losses as well most of the time I feel like I should be over it by now but I’m not and that annoys me. I’ve also lost all my grandparents too so that sucks too. I lost two grandparents and a parent all in a year and a half which was definitely rough but yeah. I’m still getting over it all. Lost my dad’s mom 2015 and then my mom’s mom Nov 2020 (which I think made contributed to mom’s demise as they talked every day), mom April 2021 (though it all started in March and was 6 weeks of heck before the loss), then finally her dad last May (2022). I never met my dad’s dad. He died well before I was born. But yeah… lots of losses. I don’t think I’m over any of them. And there’s guilt surrounding most of them too. Sorry to get all depressing though.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Well gang. It is a beautiful Sunday (still morning) here. My Maui refugee is doing well. Done with quarantine and hung out with his brother yesterday. Did him well and I hope he chooses to stick around. Been giving him his space to process and he seems to enjoy my company more when I show up to say 'hi' and then depart.
We have to go to Lihue town this next week to apply for all his necessary paperwork, needed shoes and clothing and maybe a good plate lunch mom stuff♡
I rode up the day b4 and made him a huge bowl of salad, pasta, Zucchini and Korean chicken. Nuff for a small army. Today I'll ride up and maybe make an awesome scramble and whatever else he wants. Koke'e is very healing and I hope it and the chickens are doing their magic. ♡♡♡ He has been a good chicken tender

 

[ShrekDawg]

Well gang. It is a beautiful Sunday (still morning) here. My Maui refugee is doing well. Done with quarantine and hung out with his brother yesterday. Did him well and I hope he chooses to stick around. Been giving him his space to process and he seems to enjoy my company more when I show up to say 'hi' and then depart.
We have to go to Lihue town this next week to apply for all his necessary paperwork, needed shoes and clothing and maybe a good plate lunch mom stuff♡
I rode up the day b4 and made him a huge bowl of salad, pasta, Zucchini and Korean chicken. Nuff for a small army. Today I'll ride up and maybe make an awesome scramble and whatever else he wants. Koke'e is very healing and I hope it and the chickens are doing their magic. ♡♡♡ He has been a good chicken tender

 

[TropicalBabies]

I'm sorry for your losses. Relationships are tough and all we can do is do our best

Love the planters and fish! You must be able to grow stuff outside all year, right?

Yes. It can get pretty warm on my side of isle and the wrong plants will stress in summers. But as a whole, especially in the shade, it is LOVELY

 

[N F C]

Well gang. It is a beautiful Sunday (still morning) here. My Maui refugee is doing well. Done with quarantine and hung out with his brother yesterday. Did him well and I hope he chooses to stick around. Been giving him his space to process and he seems to enjoy my company more when I show up to say 'hi' and then depart.
We have to go to Lihue town this next week to apply for all his necessary paperwork, needed shoes and clothing and maybe a good plate lunch mom stuff♡
I rode up the day b4 and made him a huge bowl of salad, pasta, Zucchini and Korean chicken. Nuff for a small army. Today I'll ride up and maybe make an awesome scramble and whatever else he wants. Koke'e is very healing and I hope it and the chickens are doing their magic. ♡♡♡ He has been a good chicken tender

Glad he's feeling better!

 

[TropicalBabies]

I'll just call you TB, thanks! Typing TropicalBabies was tiring

Wonderful idea to re-purpose that for a catio! I definitely want to see any cat/kitten pictures (yeah, I'm one of those crazy cat ladies). And your idea to put in mosaic will make it amazing! Keep us posted on how it's coming along.

Oh my gosh, kitty photos of my gang?!!!

Forest, or Nahele

My last foster fail. Trapped him up Koke'e a few years ago, could not part with him. Total pal and BEST KITTY EVER! Never leaves my side.

Batman, (sitting with me now) second child ♡ super hero in every way. Dogs found him in our Lauhala tree.

Mochi San and Mango Pieces. Found them near death while shoveling mulch on private property at a green waste dump. The equiptment must have distroyed moms nest. Only 2 survivors

Mochi San, very visually impaired but still manages to have adventures

Mochi's sister, Mango Pieces.

Our old gal Marley. First in command, boss of us all. A tiny kitten, found in a gutter on Maui, 14 years ago.

I have a small slathering of kittens that I have trapped and socialized, or fostered and rehomed. But these are my babies.

 

[janiedoe]

Morning Janie Is your weather getting any more bearable?

No. Today it's 110. It looks like triple digits for the next 10 days.