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  Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 3:02am
My plum tree came uprooted during our storm, and is now blocking the garage and front door.  I guess I know what I'll be doing tomorrow.  Hopefully, I can save the tree.  Unhappy
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  Quote PaWolf Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 3:17am
Sounds like one heck of a storm, Thor! Lots of damage around you?
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  Quote Jimbo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 3:35am
Originally posted by Thor

My plum tree came uprooted during our storm, and is now blocking the garage and front door.  I guess I know what I'll be doing tomorrow.  Hopefully, I can save the tree.  Unhappy
 
That's plum awful!!!!!
 
 
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  Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Oct 2009 at 4:20am
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Sounds like one heck of a storm, Thor! Lots of damage around you?
 
From what I understand, there are trees down, blocking roads, and there are branches everywhere.  Seeing as how I can't get my car out of the garage, I can't experience all of that fun.  Just my own.  LOL
 
This storm was what was left of that typhoon in the Pacific that caused all that damage last week.
 
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  Quote HollyRock Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Oct 2009 at 3:47pm
I have a kitten who chose to take a nap on my lap while I was sitting here on the computer.

Now I'm done, have other things to do...but the cat is still here.  And he's comfortable.

So I have to sit here and wait until he's done....

I think both of my legs fell asleep, btw.
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  Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Oct 2009 at 7:32pm
Yeah.  I used to get sucked into that, too, Holly.  With Killer.  What I now do is pick him up gently, and place him down on the nearby couch.  Usually, this'll wake him up and he'll dart off.  But hey, that's his decision.  WinkLOL
 
If you want to, you can give your cat a little kiss on the head in the process.  The kiss does nothing for the cat, but it'll make you feel better.
 
 
 
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  Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Oct 2009 at 7:42pm
Mallory's being a nudge today.  It's raining outside, and he's bored.  He wants me to chase him around the house.  He keeps thinking it's going to happen, but it never does.  I wish he'd just go and watch TV or stare at the air or something.
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  Quote FaithSF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Oct 2009 at 5:38am
Or he can do like TJ and just caterwaul at the wall . . . or a piece of furniture. Unhappy
You're just jealous 'cause the voices only talk to me--and Yutolia!
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  Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Oct 2009 at 3:47pm
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Or he can do like TJ and just caterwaul at the wall . . . or a piece of furniture. Unhappy
 
I've known cats who did that.  Or they'd wail into an open closet door.  What's that all about?
 
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  Quote FaithSF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Oct 2009 at 5:21pm
Thor, he's 18-1/2 now, and has started the decline.  He's on blood pressure meds, but I don't have the money to do a blood panel to find out the "underlying cause."  To me, the underlying cause is old age.  To spend $200 for bloodwork just to find out what else is wrong--and can't afford to treat him for--is ridiculous.  The vet agreed with me that at this point, it's just a question of quality of life.

His vision is being affected, although not to the extent where he can't get around like he used to, and he's wailing at walls, which, the vet tells me, is kind of like senility in people.  Sometimes you just have to call his name and he "snaps" back into now.

It makes me very sad, but I can assure you that he is not suffering.  The minute I think he is, I will do the right thing.  So I'm just enjoying the time we have left.

(He's also become very demanding when he wants attention; it's like he's yelling at me.)

I won't be getting another cat, though.  It's become too expensive, especially since I don't have money for the vet.  As my sister said, it's difficult to picture me not having a cat after 31 years of having one.

(Sorry, has this thread drifted?)
You're just jealous 'cause the voices only talk to me--and Yutolia!
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  Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Oct 2009 at 4:54am
Wow, Faith!  18½!  That's a pretty long life.
 
I don't know what I would do if one of my cats' vision was affected.  Well, "affected" is one thing.  Blind would be something else.  I guess it depends on how stressed it made him.  Same with any illness, for that matter. 
 
Yes, suffering is no good.  At that point, keeping a pet alive does nothing but alleviate some sort of anguish on the owner's part, and delay the inevitable. 
 
My neighb (the one whose cat Sneakers moved into my house) did the math and determined that Sneakers is now 17 (you'd never know it).  At that point, I had to bring up what to do in case the cat gets sick.  He said he will take full responsibility for him. 
 
I was just glad to get that out of the way.  Not that I'll mind helping out, but it was good to determine whose responsibility the cat is, 'cause at this point, he's been living at my house for several years.
 
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  Quote HollyRock Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Oct 2009 at 12:46pm
I couldn't quite tell if Poptart was suffering.  Some days were better than others.  The vet was on the fence about it, as well.  At one point after I'd been treating her with subcutaneous (needle under the scruff of her neck) fluids, the vet did tell me "if you were to consider intervening, I'd support you."

I waited another three months, after that.
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  Quote FaithSF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 Oct 2009 at 10:11pm
TJ is not suffering, although I'm not sure about the stress level.  I promise you, Thor, the minute I think he IS suffering, I will do what I must.
You're just jealous 'cause the voices only talk to me--and Yutolia!
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  Quote Tiz Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Jan 2010 at 6:10pm

It's really bad out here, a foot of snow on the ground and still coming down. The guy plowed the two drives. Grounds guy & me cleared the sidewalks....... you can't tell it was done now.

Walked up to see how the streets look- you can't tell where the edge of the street is.Shocked

Supposed to be sunny & 38 degrees tomorrow, and the fun starts.

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  Quote PaWolf Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Jan 2010 at 7:02pm
LOLTizzer! You're a WIMP!
THAT isn't squat!
Grow some fur, ol'Buddy!
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  Quote Tiz Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Jan 2010 at 8:02pm

When I was up on the main road, I watched a 4wd Explorer in the ditch. Just can't tell where the street is. No thanks, I'll venture out tomorrow.

After the drives were cleared.........

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ConfusedToday is strange...a 'Sunny Magnet Day'.
 
It is beautiful, outside - about 35 (jacket weather) - not a cloud in the sky. Couldn't ask for more.
 
Then there are the people.
 
For some odd reason, everyone wants to 'get close'.
Too close.
 
Got scary enough I ended up zipping my wallet in my jacket pocket, at Barnes & Noble.
I really hate intelligent pocket-pickers; at least that's what I want to believe they were (and not 'innocents wanting to be my best friend' in a bad way, doncha know...).
Just seems like I cannot go out in public without someone trying to pick me up, when MissyDWolf isn't there to protect me...it is beautiful, but really scary out there, today. 
 
 
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  Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 Mar 2010 at 8:50pm
You'd hate the public transit in San Francisco, Pa.  Often, people are squashed in the aisle, and the bus drivers still keep packin' 'em in.  One time, it was such a crush, that I yelled to the bus driver "C'mon, already!  Women are getting pregnant back here."
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  Quote PaWolf Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 Mar 2010 at 8:56pm
No joke, Thor - I HATE cramped busses - and actually have only chosen to ride the bus once, this year (so much for me and my eco-friendly 'travel style').
People you don't know are best enjoyed at arm's length - just out of 'smelling range' - unless they are a target of desire.
 
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  Quote LOL1955 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Mar 2010 at 9:22pm
Did you really, Thor?!  That's priceless.  LOL
Love endures all.
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  Quote PaWolf Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Mar 2010 at 9:42pm
Oh yea....considering where Thor lives, well..ain't much different from (down the way a bit) Buffalo, short the weather.
 
He *could* be preggos after that 'ride', doncha know.

Bet he could do the 'Riverdance'!

(By the way - the show was FANTASTIC! I even got a FREE CHOCKY-CHIP COOKIE and SIERRA MIST (I behaved!))
 
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  Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 1:56am
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Did you really, Thor?!  That's priceless.  LOL
 
Yeah.  I always tried to make the best of those horrendous bus rides.  Hell, I spent two or three hours a day on 'em.
 
 
 
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IT'S A BOY
 
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We're GRUMPYWOLVES!
 
Oldest daughter - 8 pounds, 5 ounces.

MissyDWolf is currently totally useless and out of control.

I need a 'walker'...and alzhemeir's...
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  Quote Tiz Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Mar 2010 at 1:02am
Congrats GrandPa. Molsons on the house.
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Congratylations, Grampaw!

 
 
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