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What do you collect?
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I have three collections.
- Bull Terrier figurines and things. Putting this collection on hold. I have far too many and sort of getting rid of some.
- Tee shirts. One can never have too many.
- And finally Gargoyles, mine range in size from tiny to an outdoor six-foot tall torch holder.
I added a new Gargoyle the other day.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
I didn’t mean YOU when I said bite me!
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Spent the day being pestered by a mosquito determined to give me a record number of bites in one day.
Not to mention flying in my face at odd times doing landings and take offs. Then there were the flits between my eyes and my glasses.
If ever I wanted a mosquito (or probably more, all the bites and pestering couldn’t have come from only one.) dead.
I wanted this one (or those) very dead.
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Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Nice weather we have here…
Posted by doggonedmysteries
It’s so nice to have the weather cool enough to turn of the air conditioners and open the house.
The last few nights were almost cold. Great sleeping weather!
It has both dogs acting feisty and more ornery than normal. Crazy critters. They both bug The Curmudgeon to get him to play. It’s good for him and for them.
It’s a darned shame that hurricane Hermine is heading our way to wreck it.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
One squirrel less
Posted by doggonedmysteries
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Time for the squirrels to leave.
Posted by doggonedmysteries
We’ve set humane traps and hope to catch and move out the entire population before winter.
They ate all my tomatoes and most of my eggplants this year. They even ate the little avocado plant I’d started from a pit.
I do not want to contend with them again next season.
I want to enjoy fresh vegetables from my garden and not pay the prices at the super market.
So, buh bye tree rats. Your chariot to another neighborhood has arrived.
Posted in Death to all squirrels!
Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Thank goodness for clown dogs
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I am so glad we have clowns for dogs. Though they do drive me to distraction most days, they also manage to make me laugh.
I have so many days where I feel exhausted and mentally drained beyond all possibility. Days where I am one thin thread from losing it altogether.
Then one of these two nut balls does something so totally off the wall that it gives me a good giggle, or better yet, there are those moments when they go for the belly laugh.
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Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Darkness returns
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Some days even good company and fun at the mall can’t chase away the darkness.
The Curmudgeon worried me last night. He’d taken his bed time medications and remained downstairs for a half hour afterwards.
I don’t like when he does that. He gets a bit incoherent and slurs his speech. Of course, that’s when he wants to carry on a conversation and gets frustrated with me for not understanding him.
I repeatedly tell him to go to bed.
Once he goes up, well..that’s when the tears start. I mourn him every day and each day it gets harder to watch him fall apart a little more.
Posted in MS related
Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Gavin the great white squirrel scarer
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Yesterday afternoon old Gavin decided to make a vocal round of the yard.
He barked for the sake of barking at each corner of the yard.
When he got to the front, alley side corner he didn’t see the squirrel sitting on the fence, and the squirrel, as is his want, paid no attention to us.
That is until Gavin let loose with a couple of barks at the corner.
The squirrel, startled and panicked, scrambled up the tulip poplar and out of sight in record time.
I laughed so hard I almost fell down.
“Serves you right you tomato and eggplant stealing squirrel!”
Gavin enjoyed all the praise even though he had no idea why I would make such a fuss.
Posted in Death to all squirrels!, Dog related
Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
To boldly go where no…okay, not really…
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I boldly go nowhere. I spend far too much time at home.
Inside.
What if things sounded like this:
I boldly go to the basement and do laundry.
I boldly enter the grocery store and as I subsequently leave, breathe a sigh of relief if I spend less than one hundred dollars.
I boldly take the dogs out.
Yeah, that will never fly.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Yeah, the person who didn’t want a cell phone…
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Has embraced it.
My car is set up so I can use my phone hands free when needed.
I just, last night, downloaded a grocery list app because the last time G and I went to the grocery store, I forgot my list. Shopping by memory doesn’t always work. I missed several items.
The app I am using is a simple grocery list app and, so far, I like it. We’ll see how it works when I actually use it to shop next week.
I am, however, totally addicted to my Zen Koi game.
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Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Great sleeping weather.
Posted by doggonedmysteries
When one gets a good night’s sleep one is a more pleasant person…mostly.
Can I help getting a bit upset when given notice an hour before that The Curmudgeon had a neurologist appointment he’d long forgotten to have me put on my reminder list?
Hell no!
I have to take him.
I had plans.
So much for my plans. Screwed again.
Nothing new. I’m always last.
Today’s Tee shirt
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Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Fabulous break in the weather
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Cool enough last night to turn off the AC, turn on the whole house fan, and open the windows.
Even nicer tonight. Down to 63 degrees–great sleeping weather. This is like the Pennsylvania weather we used to have.
We’re supposed to enjoy this until Tuesday of next week where it will pop back up into the 90s.
Today’s Tee shirt
Posted in Weather related
Tags: Author, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Home, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer














