Iggy

'Fraid not Annabelli, I am not about to adopt a highway and have no say what so ever regarding the louts who befoul it - say like fine them $1K for the first offense and then $1K and make them clean up 100 miles of roadway per each additional offence, when the greater portion of Arizona does not give a rats tail what it's state highways look like. During the summer months there is no way I can even go outside and keep my small area clean that the stinking louts befoul as they drive to the next city and/or reservation. It is too blasted hot, and I can not keep up with them. Now I have druggies living on two sides of me, who toss their garbage outside and let the wind blow it all over. Yes the Enforcement Agencies know about it. No nothing has been done. Like I said too many of these great and wonderful residents of Arizona do not give a rats bottom about the cleanliness of their state. Move out of the State - we are looking, but hubby has not yet retired and we aren't moving until he does. I am doing my best looking for places that border Amish or Mennonite properties. We both have decided that we prefer living next to them! If there is no LDS Meeting house within a 50 mile radius, then we will just go on-line and read from lds.org. That is how serious we are about where we prefer to live. Both of us are sick and tired of the human pigs who befoul their own living areas.

One of my pet peeves in waste is wasting water. Why must you let the water run when you brush your teeth? Wash dishes? I turn my dishes up-side-down in the sink as I wash them. When the sink is full, then I rinse. Turning them up-side-down allows the soap to run OUT of them and not collect inside of them. When I lived in Oregon - every year from the end of September until Feb or March I had precious little to no water. I had to haul it in to my home. This I did in 5 gallon collapsible jugs! What a pain. I saved the water from washing dishes and myself, so I could flush the toilet. Then we got a pump and pumped water from the creek up to our holding tank. We didn't drink or cook with this water as Beavers lived in the creek. Now I had water to flush the toilet with and to wash clothes in. When I washed dishes, I boiled my rinse water and was still very frugal with it. Also during the summer I hung ALL of my wash out on lines. When I put jeans out at 8am and they were still not dry by 4pm - I knew the Solar Drying season was over and I had to go back to the electric dryer. Oh how I wish I could hang my clothes out here in Arizona - but we do NOT have any ground cover and the dirt gets into everything. Why put clean wet clothes out just to bring in dirty dry clothes??? Also in Oregon, we recycled everything - the disposal company picked it all up and took it away for free. Here where I am, there is no such thing! In Oregon there are bottle deposits, $0.05 per bottle. You don't see bottles littering the roads and highways. Here in Arizona - no such thing. I have never seen such a filthy state as Arizona is. They don't even have the Prison/Jail Inmates out cleaning up the highways! Bottles, plastic bags stuck on the beautiful cacti and shredding in the wind, pampers, paper, boxes, tires, grocery shopping carts, all out on the highway and littering up the scenery. When I asked my co-workers where were the Indian Reservations - they told me to just follow the trail of beer and wine bottles that were alongside the highways - that would lead me to the reservations. They were right. How sick! No Yellow Brick road here, more like amber and green bottle road. You see signs in Oregon and Washington stating the fines if you are caught littering. Not any of those signs in Arizona.

Noooo, they aren't evil - not really - they are just . . . . . .CATS

Ignore the beast then. There is only two species on the planet earth who can do Ignore - cats and Human WOMAN. Human Woman is the best at it - so give it a taste of IGNORE. I was just thinking - maybe it could be it just wants attention on it's own terms. Nothing wrong with that - my cat, Ethel is like that. She is determined to have her own way. So I let her. When she want to cuddle, or be petted, she knows where my lap is. Now if I could just get Fred to knock off with the zapping me with electricity! Yep, he rolls around on the carpet or rubs against the furniture to build up the static electricty, then he hunts me down to zap me! The little booger - it sends me to the moon too. I swear I can hear him laughing after he does it too! He does it to Ethel, and she smacks him good once she peels herself off of the ceiling.

My uncle raised rabbits for the food - I could tell the difference sometimes by the stringy meat. Usually Mom would chop it up and make "chicken" and dumplings. Here is something that will get a chuckle out of you. It is a woman selling Pokeman cards on Ebay - scroll down to read her discription: Pokeman Cards For Sale

Nope - they still love chicken. The youngest, Aaron - is sure to tell everone that they only buy the chicken that doesn't have it's coat on. (feathers)

THAT is funny! I can just hear a child saying that and see the expression of disgust on his face. On a trip to the Zoo with my nephews ( 3 of them with the youngest being 5) and my niece (their sister who was 7 at the time), we went by the enclosure for the barnyard fowl. My niece and youngest nephew pointed at the chickens and said in unison - "Whatrthose?". I answered - Chickens. The two kids looked at each other then looked at the chickens then looked up at their Dad with such a betrayed look! Then they looked back at me and said - DAD makes us eat them!?! All four kids absolutely love chicken. Ask them what they want for dinner and it is always Chicken. Never pizza, or hot dogs. Always chicken. Yeah, DAD makes us eat them!

Elphaba - you are just tooooooo funny - Just what kind of a witch are you that you don't like cats? Most of my cats loved to jump in the tub when it was filled with bubble bath. Granted the first time it was an accident - they were just batting at the bubbles. But after that, they did it because they enjoyed it. And they enjoyed getting dried off with a towel and then the blow dry and brush out afterwards. Except for the two cats I have now, I have always bathed my cats from when I first got them. Best way to get rid of the fleas. What cats don't like is to be doused in cold water or to be dunked in anger.

Poor Pity Me ~ ~ I have never been outside of the continental USA! I want so much to go visit Norway - Ireland - Scotland - England - Wales and France.

12 days since Sassy's disappearance - has she come back? How is the wife and children taking this?

It was late at night and Heidi, who was expecting her second child, was home alone with her 3 year old daughter, Katelyn. Heidi started to go into labor and called 911. Due to a power outage at the time, only one paramedic was able to respond to the call. The house was very, very dark, so the paramedic asked Katelyn to hold a flashlight high over her mommy so he could see while he helped deliver the baby. Very diligently, Katelyn did as she was asked. Heidi pushed and pushed, and after a little while Connor was born. The paramedic lifted him by his feet, and spanked him on his bottom. Connor began to cry. The paramedic then thanked Katelyn for her help, and asked the wide-eyed 3 year old Katelyn what she thought about what she had just witnessed. Katelyn quickly responded, "He shouldn't have crawled in there in the first place. Spank him again."

How And When to Get Your Human's Attention Humans often erroneously assume that there are other, more important activities than taking care of your immediate needs, such as conducting business, spending time with their families or even sleeping. Though this is dreadfully inconvenient, you can make this work to your advantage by pestering your human at the moment it is the busiest. It is usually so flustered that it will do whatever you want it to do, just to get you out of its hair. Not coincidentally, human teenagers follow this same practice. Here are some tried and true methods of getting your human to do what you want: Sitting on paper: An oldie but a goodie. If a human has paper in front of it, chances are good it's something they assume is more important than you. They will often offer you a snack to lure you away. Establish your supremacy over this wood pulp product at every opportunity. This practice also works well with computer keyboards, remote controls, car keys and small children. Waking your human at odd hours: A cat's golden time is between 3:30 and 4:30 in the morning. If you paw at your human's sleeping face during this time, you have a better than even chance that it will get up and, in an incoherent haze, do exactly what you want. You may actually have to scratch deep sleepers to get their attention remember to vary the scratch site to keep the human from getting suspicious.

"Vegemite dates back to 1922 when the Fred Walker Company, which became Kraft Walker Foods in 1926 and Kraft Foods Limited in 1950, hired a young chemist to develop a spread from one of the richest known natural sources of the vitamin B group - Brewers Yeast. <<snip>> It was described as "Delicious on sandwiches and toast, and improves the flavour of soups, stews and gravies". However, it took 14 long years of perseverance from Walker before Vegemite finally gained acceptance and recognition with the Australian people." Here is the complete article.

They make your butt look to big, but other than that the color is just right on you!

Nope, I learned it - here!

Only the males!

The link is to Paolo Nutini

I'm sorry - how is Wife and children taking this? Perhaps what you all need is a Puppy??

I like it also. Don't know if they will upgrade at work. The common attitude there is: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. ~ ~ ~ sigh~ ~ ~

Where is Sassy?

Your Welcome When I was working in a grocery store in Oregon, I had a young couple on food stamps trying to figure out how they were going to purchase tp. Food stamps will not pay for bath soap, toothpaste, tp, laundry detergent, personal hygiene, etc. Only food. A bunch of teen aged boys came in and bought nearly a case of the cheapest toliet paper - they were going to tp someones home. This young couple looked at each other and then the husband went outside. After the teenages paid for the tp, the young wife and baby came through and paid for their purchases. I asked if that was all - she smiled and said, well it will be after her husband follows the boys to the house they are going to tp and wait for them to get done, then he is going to remove some for us to use until he gets paid on the following monday! Another added bonus for her was in their haste to get into their car and get to the house to tp it, they lost a package of tp in the parking lot. The box boy who was helping the young mother, saw it - picked it up - looked at her and grinned like a Cheshire Cat and tossed it into her cart. Yes the husband took their car, but they only lived across the street - so the box boy walked her and the baby home!

TP = toliet paper TPing = a great waste of money - IMO.

The Bed Sitting Room

Oh yes I can - beautiful, Thanks El!

Shan, is the smell gone???