Messages between Sylviag and Marmie
Hai Marmie! definiely have enuff avos to make lots of guac :) I am so excited for u to hve ur garden idea come to fruitiion. Emayo me pics when it is finished. I'm all about the here and now so glad u are doing it and it will give u many years of pleasure. We have done a lot of stuff in ur yard this Spring too. The niggest thing was moving my whole veg garaden to three new raisd beds Bryan built for me where it gets a lot more sun and much easier for me to work in it. He even put in a sprinkler system for all the beds so easy to water. Enjoy ur weekend. Hugz
Ohai! Fanks fur avo's most presheated! Very exciting garden news.....20 years ago I planned out some pads in a cottage garden, have been killing the weeds in them ever since, waiting for the time and money when I hire someone to do the masonry. Groundcloth and bark being laid today, I will be able to enjoy my chairs in the sun. Not what I envisioned, but I could have had this workable version and enjoyed my garden for years. Sometimes I amaze myself with stupidity waiting and planning for the perfect future instead of living in the now.
Hai and happy Chewsday. Ai sended u ripe abocados tu make ur speshul gwakamolly. They came from various frens to include jlandis, ihazbirdienotkitty, Mac_Man and likely some more. Stuff was coming in and I could not always keep track of it. hugz
Oh Marmie, what a horrible thing to happen and so much shame on that peep for her neglect and negligence. One thing I definitely would do is let ur fren know what the house sitter did so that she never recommends that person to anyone else. Please do not give up on ur memorial garden. Don't look at the whole picture - pick out a small area to refurbish and replant and enjoy. If ur up for it down the road u may want to expand it. And if u don't u will have a lovely scaled down garden to honor ur husband. I think it might be important for u to do that. lub an hugz
I keep hoping I can get beyond this house sitting disaster but I keep finding awful things. She didn't water as promised and many things are dead. I spent thousands of hours over the last 2 years and several hundred dollars making a memorial place for my husband with ground cover outside the kitchen window. I planted over a thousand plants, weeded for two years, it was a labor of love for we had always hoped to finish it before he passed. It was the only thing that got me out of the house and showed me that there was a little joy (gardening) even when everyone I loved was gone. Now it is dead and I'll never have the energy to do it again. My gardening friends who came weekends said there was never water outside for Toa and that Emmy was always dying for water when they let her out of the crate. At least two of my cars have been driven and scratched. I'm afraid to even look for what is missing, I just keep feeling so sick and violated with every new discovery. I haven't been happy so I haven't been on much.
I will admit I am overprotective o four kittehs and think like I would if I had kids. We keep the pullstrings for the blinds coiled on a hook way high up the window wall so they don't accidentally get their necks tangled up :) Both those people were irresponsible but at least the neighbor was just being foolish - u do not let indoor kittehs out no matter how much they whine. You tell them to suck it up and shut up :) Isn't that weird - u were wired in somehow to ur kittehs and could tell something wasn't right. The other gal - hope she never sits for anyone else again.
I don't think I'm overly protective of my furrbabies (well ok, I am) but this girl was terrible. My tub and bathroom floor are filled with 2 weeks of kitteh poo, there is a half inch of solid clay in the litter box, no litter!. I found a wonderful lady when I went to Hawaii last year but she couldn't do it this year. This girl was the friend of who usually sits for a friend. I just texted her that I want at least some of my money back but don't hold out much hope. I was really sick and tired and I paid her before I checked out the animals and house. Everyone is still alive, so I'm sure I'll be chalking this one up to experience. I did have my neighbors look after the pets one trip but the cats "spoke" to her and told her they wanted to go outside, so she let them. We had a very strange feeling that something was wrong an returned 2 days early from Oregon and found them in a tree. Doubt they would have lasted the night with the coyotes.
Aaak - I just EDd that u have to retrain Emmy again (: It's always so hard when u have to leave the furry ones with someone and u just hope they are responsible. We are very lucky and have a widower fren who loves staying at our house cuz he lives in a small apt and the cats love him and he loves them. We are blessed indeed
Catwheels intu ur profile - nao dat wud be a site to see LOL Sew glad u home and bak here. We all haz a misses for u. Get urselb all cached up an ai see u later. lub an hugz
Hai fren! Ai finks mai puter nao wurking an ai iz hoam. Going aut to mow teh grass, er weedz. Ai haz sew much to catch up wiff (hear especially!)
Hai. More avocados for guacamole courtesy of jlanids.
Sorry to hear u have not been feeling well. Glad to hear Emmie is doing great. I bet she is adorable.Have u been taking some pics for us ? Ur welcom for the avocads. Will likely have some more for u befre the 15th. Hugz
oh sew cute video! nao ai needz sum ragdoll kittehs to go with mai GSDs. Emmie is growing so quickly, she is up to 20 pounds now, finally larger than the cats. I've been just wiped out with a cold for over a week now so haven't been keeping up with puppy training or pictures or ICHC. Thanks so much for all those avocadoes you've been sending my way! Nom nom nom.
Ai thot ai sees u den u gonez. Ai thot u mite like dis vid cuz has German Shephard in it. How iz Emmie? http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/tv/Too-Cute!/175022/2215888360/Kittens-Befriend-German-Shepherd/videos?cmpid=FCST_hero_tv
Marmie, sending u Avercaders as long as promise to make me guacamole when I see u this Sep :)
LOL - luv u analogy. U are so right about that. Some peeps come on and do LOL after LOL afer LOL, fave some, hardly ever chat and they're gone. I lean more towards the social aspect so sometimes forget to make LOLs :) Although I really love doing them and am reasoanbly decent, I am not prolific. Some peeps hardly make LOLs but appreciate and fave others creativity. Some were only into the collecties. Some just talk I do not think I will join FB ither although Bryan would like me to. Nor will I set up some kind of black hole account anywhere just to make comments. Yeah, Dexter is kind of in limbo right now.
I think everyone's ICHC experience is different and we all value parts of it more than others. Just because they are taking away my fabric softener doesn't mean I'm going to quit washing clothes here. I'm just not willing to pay the facebook price to have my old experience back. I totally get how hurt people are, it is a rough wake-up call to find that ICHC is big business, not family. I'll have to talk to PK about the future of Dexter after things shake out. hugz.
Hai Marmie, wasnt Poohdece cleber :) It really all depends on what ICHC means to peeps as to whether they leave or stay. To me it's place to meet my frens and make a few LOLs to spread some laughter and to fave tose of others and to be there for peeps who need a hand or hug and know there will be there for me if I need it. I have had peeps who have been here a long time tell me they didn't even have the advance builder, comix and so many features we had (and will have again) and they did just fine. They had fun, made and shared LOLs, had little parties. The loss of the ability to comment on LOLs without FB or something else just doesn't freak me out as much. If I am being honest, once the event is over, I don't continually look back at older LOLs to see what someone said in the comments. I treasure personal msgs that peeps leave me on my DB and special ones live in my memory. I never could make the comments work right for me anyway. I either couldn't post or it posted elebenty times so I never used it much. However I can see where something like Dexter will be an issue because of the ability to post updates on things like court cases. So not real sure how to get around that without getting some kind of "black hole" account with minimal information just in order to be able to post comments.
Hai Sylviag! Ai iz sew plzed that teh Yaris culd do sum gud (member when a gibben awl myne away an nowun wants dem...nao iz gold!). I'm having a big sad over the facebook comments, that will ruin a large part of ICHC for me. I hope it is not set in stone but reading Bens verbage, he believes that everyone who doesn"t complain is good with it, so I doubt that there is any way to get through to him how much that will change the ICHC experience. He also seems to take criticism as a disgruntled minority rather than a representative sampling. We say sorry on peeps LOLs when they lose furbabies. We comment on specific LOLs for events, like Christmas cards. We have events and share LOLs for them in comments like Hmph's pool party. All of Dexter's links are in comments. Peeps introduce their furrbabies and place the story in the comments. I can deal with other changes but not that one. Removing or restricting a previous feature like this would send all customers running to the competition in real life.
Marmie, Poohdence gotz monies. But u an Nikado no kan party anymore (for awile - maybe a week :) http://cheezburger.com/6027171840
Hai Marmie - so good to see u. Computer OK? And how is Emmie?
Aaaak and Oh Noes on the puter. I hope u didn't lose majorly important stuff. Keep us posted and keep in touch by emayo lub an hugz
WooHo!. Ember (mmie) haz arribed! What a darlin baby gurl :). Got ur emayo from PK and sended u emayo. Big bg hugz to u Toa and Ember.
Hai Marmie - we iz habbin fun nao :) http://cheezburger.com/View/5960574464
Hai. We've supported Best Friends for years and watched them grow. I just really admire them, not only for their Sanctuary, but also for their outreach efforts to help other organizations help themselves since they cannot take all the homeless ones in the country :) They have started working with groups in other countries where they don't value animal companions like we do to help them get started. And they give homes to anything if they can from white ratws to horses! They have the space to do so which is cool. animal Planet has a show called Dog World which is filmed at Best Friends.
jugz, hugz whatever LOL
Finally did sunnyhuckle's Gabe'story in comix. I dropped the URl off at Dexter too but don't know how often u get in there so want to alert u it's there. jugz http://cheezburger.com/View/5944781312
Mornin. It looks like a beautiful old Spanish style town for sure. We'll work something out. I'll check with PK to get ur emayo addy. How far away is Santa Brarbara from Santa Monica?
I am so unfamiliar with So Cal. I had to look up Santa Brarbara and crap you are right on the way in to Santa Monica on 101. We absolutely must manage to meet. Bryan will roll his eyes as I add another cheez fren to the itinerary. We'll be coming through 24 Sep and already have accommodations booked in Santa Monica for 24-27 Sep. We will work something out for sure. Hugz
Yeppers. Have an elder auntie (87) of Bryan's at Pismo Beach we want to visit. Just gonna stop for brunch there. She already told us that would be "enough to time to catch up" LOL Gotta love the elders. Going to try and squeeze in everything we can plus of course any disc golf coures along the way. Some peeps have a lifetime list of birds - we have a ist of different courses we've played :)
