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Are you a bully?
As a youngster I could never understand it when people were nasty to each other. I couldn’t see the point in it. That’s probably why even one of my own sisters had a habit of bullying me for a long time.
One day, in junior high, I had enough of being bullied by a couple of girls in school and stood up to them with great success. It felt good. The next time my sister tried to bully me, I stood up to her. Success! She quit bullying me and tried to go after the baby sister. I wouldn’t allow that.
I do not tolerate bullying. I understand it even less now than I did as a child. How and why do certain adults think that bullying is acceptable?
Bullying comes in all forms. If you are reading this and wondering if I am writing about you, you may just be a bully.
Summer road trip anyone?
I found out today while taking a survey on Facebook that I am four states short of hitting all fifty states. Those four are probably not the ones you think they are.
I missed Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. My Mother missed Rhode Island. If I manage to hit those four states this summer I’ll break my mother’s record.
Wish she could be with me. She would have been thrilled to make her final state. We had planned to make that trip one day but that day never did get here. That’s why I made a promise to myself last night.
I am going to see my four remaining states.
You all have a good one!
I think Hecuba would enjoy a road trip. Don’t you?
We had more snow
It wasn’t much really, just very stick to everything fluffy, one of those great packing snows. Ideal for snowball fights and snowmen.
I let Patty out without the leash (since the pond is frozen I felt safe) She tore around the yard like a gazelle being chased by a cheetah. She’s quite the lovely sight when she cuts loose like that.
Gavin walked out, peed, and walked back in, he wasn’t impressed.
Once inside, he was the bouncy one and she was ready to take a snooze on the couch under her soft and fluffy blanket.
You all have a good one!
They say bad things come in threes…Maybe I’ll stay in bed tomorrow.
Whenever things get going too smoothly around here, I know the other shoe is gonna drop, hard.
The Curmudgeon has had a bad couple of days. Yesterday being the worse he’s had in a while. Bad enough that he had to resort to using his walker in the afternoon. Not fun for him or for the rest of us.
The vet called and said that Patty’s kidneys are not looking great. Her BUN and Creatinine levels are off. We are going to try to get her levels better with diet. If that doesn’t work then we have to go to medication.
We lost two of our Bullys to renal failure years ago and we’re hoping we can give Patty a few more good years yet.
You all have a good one!
A foggy night…I love it!
When I took the garbage out, I had to stop and take in the sight of the heavy fog blocking out anything half a block away. I do love when the fog cloaks the cemetery. Shades of Bela Lugosi! You almost expect him to walk up and tap you on the shoulder.
Two a.m. and the temperature is up to fifty-seven degrees, the warmest it has been all day…um …well, night. Strange weather we’re having for sure.
Yesterday afternoon the fog wasn’t as dense but still had us pretty well socked in.
Soft bully, warm bully….
Patty discovered the new throw. It is very soft, furry, and warm. She likes it. She never sits on the couch with me and yet, when she discovered this fabulous new throw, she leapt upon the couch and somersaulted into the throw rolling herself into doggy burrito.
Gavin’s green-eyed-monster raised its head and he joined us on the couch.
You all have a good one!
What crawled up his butt?
As I sit here at the computer I am giggling. Why am I giggling? Because Gavin, the foolish old dog, has barked at me all night. He claims I am not paying him enough attention, or something along that line.
This is not your average bark coming from him either. It’s a higher pitch scolding bark with the stink-eye to go with it. All I can do is laugh, which makes him scold me all the more.
It’s not like I didn’t spend a few hours snuggling with him on the couch after dinner or scratching his belly off and on all afternoon.
Him spoiled? No…um…well… not much.
Don’t worry, Patty gets her share of attention around here, but she insists on her Daddy doing it. 😉
You all have a good one!
Have I run out of wall space yet?
Not on your life.
I put the third picture up on the wall and I still have room for more. 
If you can’t see it well enough…
Here it is.
This one is my absolute favorite picture…a water color by Maggie Burns. What a fabulous talent she is.
Honoring my Father
My father died on this day in 1995 after spending 15 years in a nursing home. He’d suffered a major stroke that took away his power of speech and some of his reason.
Not a day goes by where I don’t think of him and miss him terribly. I have few pictures of him, the ones I do have, I treasure.
4/8/1915-11/27/1995
I love you Pop.
No, we don’t stuff ourselves and watch football.
Thursday, I’ll throw together a dinner for two. Nothing special… some ham, green beans, and canned yams. Maybe I’ll defrost two pieces of cheesecake for our dessert. We aren’t big into holidays after Halloween passes.
Once this week is FINALLY over with, I can get back to a somewhat normal life. Although, going shopping for normal, every-day items will become more difficult with idiot Xmas shoppers crowding the stores and parking lots.
I really hate this nonsense. When we did ‘celebrate’ the holiday I had all my shopping done by July or August. Screw getting a bargain. It’s no bargain if you have to deal with fools.
You all have a good one!
Whole green beans in a carton. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Not my favorite time of year.
I truly do hate the months of November and December. I find them depressing and way over rated. My Dad died in November and we buried him in December.
I hate that a simple trip to the grocery store turns into hell on wheels because so many people are idiots. You had an entire year to shop for gifts, why did you wait until the last-minute?
Can I please just skip ahead to January? And not the first of it either since that is when my Mother died and with her the last of my immediate family.
So maybe February would be better. I could easily hibernate until then.
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