The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

Afternoon, all. Got the baby quilt bound this morning, took the dog for a relatively dry walk, and am now waiting (not so patiently) for the delivery and set up man who said "after noon"... at 1201 I ran to the window... he wasn't there.

Ripley is excited, too, she's very slobbery today and can't wait to slime a new person. I changed the couch blankets out so they weren't so slobbery, kinda like a slobbertrap. Although it's been about 90 minutes and there are some definite slobber streaks on it. I think she slimed it within 30 seconds of putting it on there.

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Again quilted with bear/moose/pine tree/buttcrack.
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I like the blue moose and bear quilt a lot!

 

[1muttsfan]

SCG how on Earth do you work with all that fabric and have it not covered with drool and hair? My 3 dogs and 1 cat leave unbelievable accounts of hair on every surface.

 

[microchick]

Morning all you old folk!

I had a busy day yesterday. On the road most of the day. Final stop, Orscheln's where we gave them 200 dollars and came home with a car full of bargains that were on sale. One of the items was a folding heavy duty shelf unit that went into my utility room to hold linens. Which meant I had to clean out the utility room. I think I quit about 6, made supper and was in bed by 9:30. Pretty worn out today.

 

[pennyJo1960]

My DH failed the driving test last week. But, the are giving him another try! Found out they give them 3 or 4 tries! Good grief..he does have his good days, but he really shouldn't be driving. I do drive. I don't like going far anymore. My health problems are different. Won't get into them..lol, I will drive when I'm feeling well, problem is, I don't know how my day will be until I am up and around for a bit. Will see..I did just drive him to the city that is right next to where she will be, yesterday for his EEG. Our freeway have gotten so congested now days, I just don't care for driving it. Anyway...off to the vet today.. In town..lol..for a puppy wellness check. They did give Wison his shot there where I got him. Vet may want to give him another when he finds out. He does need to be deformed. Going to ask about getting those dew claws taken off while he is being fixed down the road, and getting him micro chipped.

Vaccines need to be every three weeks a total of three I am surprised they did not remove dew claws at 3 days now it is major surgery to it like cutting off one our fingers
sorry to be so blunt about it

Afternoon, all. Got the baby quilt bound this morning, took the dog for a relatively dry walk, and am now waiting (not so patiently) for the delivery and set up man who said "after noon"... at 1201 I ran to the window... he wasn't there.

Ripley is excited, too, she's very slobbery today and can't wait to slime a new person. I changed the couch blankets out so they weren't so slobbery, kinda like a slobbertrap. Although it's been about 90 minutes and there are some definite slobber streaks on it. I think she slimed it within 30 seconds of putting it on there.

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Again quilted with bear/moose/pine tree/buttcrack.
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You and your machine are amazing

 

[bruceha2000]

He does need to be deformed.

You mean if they aren't deformed when they are born, the vet has to deform them????

I hear you on the interstates. But in some places traffic is better at some times than others, maybe you can choose to visit your sister during the "quiet" times? Though if it is like the Los Angeles area, the "quiet" time is 3 AM and even then there is more traffic than we usually have on the interstate in Vermont other than the "rush hour" going to or from Burlington.

Again quilted with bear/moose/pine tree/buttcrack.

Um, buttcrack?? OK, I didn't look REAL hard but I don't see that in the quilt.

My DWs Grandma did that too. She gave up driving and then moved herself to assisted living

Wow, must have taken a lot of trips to carry all that without a car

No one in our family has had to deal with that as yet. DW's aunt, who will be 101 on Monday chose to stop driving earlier this year. I don't believe she was even up to the "should we figure out how to get her out of the car" stage. FIL is still a good driver at 93 as is my Dad at 90 (today).

MIL, FIL and DW's aunt (FIL's sister) live in a retirement community here in Vermont. Dad lives in one in So. Cal.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Mine was taken from me as I lost all vision in my right eye still think I could be safer than many on the road we stay off the freeways as much as possible

 

[superchemicalgirl]

SCG how on Earth do you work with all that fabric and have it not covered with drool and hair? My 3 dogs and 1 cat leave unbelievable accounts of hair on every surface.

The animals are not allowed in the sewing room. Sometimes one sneaks in but mostly they sit in the doorframe and just stare at me. That's where they can be safely and not get yelling, clapping or stomping in their general direction

Cyn, the buttcracks were the clouds. I couldn't unsee them once I had seen them.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I do not let cats around my machines either never have goes back to how my Ma treated her machines but we never had cats in the house either

 

[microchick]

Good point @bruceha2000. I had a doberman pinscher once, a huge blue, just a sweetheart of a dog. His tail had been docked as per normal with them but when we had taken him into the vet for a round of shots and mentioned doing Aramis's ears, the vet looked at us and said, you mean you can make him more beautiful than God already did? Urp......Needless to say, Ari kept his big floppy hound dog ears. Kept people from reacting to him with that 'OH MY GOD IT'S A DOBERMAN! HIDE THE CHILDREN!' mentality.

Spent much of the day house cleaning. The local rural trash pick up company raised their fees to 125$ a quarter. When we started pick up 4 years ago it was 78$. I told DH that if they were going to charge us an arm and a leg for pick up, we were going to get our money's worth out of them. Which means I've been doing sorting and pitching. I'll probably pay for it tomorrow. I overdid it yesterday and have been one big ache today so tomorrow should be memorable. Hopefully the MTX will kick in tomorrow.....I hope.

 

[ronott1]

Good point @bruceha2000. I had a doberman pinscher once, a huge blue, just a sweetheart of a dog. His tail had been docked as per normal with them but when we had taken him into the vet for a round of shots and mentioned doing Aramis's ears, the vet looked at us and said, you mean you can make him more beautiful than God already did? Urp......Needless to say, Ari kept his big floppy hound dog ears. Kept people from reacting to him with that 'OH MY GOD IT'S A DOBERMAN! HIDE THE CHILDREN!' mentality.

Spent much of the day house cleaning. The local rural trash pick up company raised their fees to 125$ a quarter. When we started pick up 4 years ago it was 78$. I told DH that if they were going to charge us an arm and a leg for pick up, we were going to get our money's worth out of them. Which means I've been doing sorting and pitching. I'll probably pay for it tomorrow. I overdid it yesterday and have been one big ache today so tomorrow should be memorable. Hopefully the MTX will kick in tomorrow.....I hope.

We pay 70$ every two months here.