Sunday, April 27, 2008
Another Great weekend!
This is my fantasy-----A kazillionaire will read this post & find the Tupelo-Lee Humane Society & write a big FAT check to built the shelter of the director's dream.
Fantasy over.
A bit of money was raised to add to the fund but they are a long way away from the goal. Most people think shelters are just for taking in unwanted & stray pets but they are also in the business of adoptions. If you ever think of adopting please try your local shelter first. It just breaks my heart to walk through to the cage areas. The sad barks just begging for homes.
When we were locking up we checked the 2 pregnant cats & one was delivering while we were there. New baby life making an appearance. Can't wait to get an update tomorrow to see how she did. The sad part is mom & babies do really bad in a shelter. Don't get me wrong they are taken really good care of but having a home & family is so different for them. Before the door was locked someone drove up to drop off a kitten in the cage outside. It couldn't have been but a couple of weeks old. They said the mother cat just left it behind in their yard & they couldn't keep it. The director took it inside to see if another of the mother cats would accept it. It just cried & cried because it was so hungry. Before we left the mother was letting it try & latch on. I hope it got fed. She had 4 kittens already near the same age. Poor little hungry baby.
Get that image in your mind when you refuse to spay or neuter.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
New Patch
The other day, I needed to go to the emergency room.
Not wanting to sit there for four hours, I put on my old Army fatigues and stuck on a patch that I had downloaded off the Internet onto the front of my shirt.
When I went into the E.R., I noticed that 3/4 of the people got up and left. I guess they decided that they weren't that sick after all.
Here's the patch. Feel free to use it the next time you're in need of quicker Emergency service.
Parents Needed - Job Description
POSITION : Mom, Mommy, Mama, Mami, Ma - Dad, Daddy, Papi, Pop
JOB DESCRIPTION : Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an, often chaotic environment.
Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call.
Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away cities!
Travel expenses not reimbursed.
Extensive courier duties also required.
RESPONSIBILITIES : The rest of your life.
Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5.
Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly.
Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf.
Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers.
Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects.
Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks.
Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next.
Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices.
Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.
Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product.
Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.
POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION : None.
Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE : None required, unfortunately.
On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.
WAGES AND COMPENSATION :
Get this! You pay them! Offering frequent raises and bonuses.
A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent.
When you die, you give them whatever is left.
The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.
BENEFITS :
While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth and free hugs and kisses for life if you play your cards right.
Forward this on to all the PARENTS you know, in appreciation for everything they do on a daily basis, letting them know they are appreciated for the fabulous job they do...or forward with love to anyone thinking of applying for the job.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Go team Go!
Chris had his first baseball game Tuesday. We have some really good hitters on the team. We did win! Chris does great in practice but once a game comes up he freezes at the plate. Should I share that with you? We cheered him on all the way though. It always takes a game or two to get over that nervous feeling. We hope to have a really good year. I was over talking at the side one day at practice & seen the group of boys huddled together tight. The coach had them in a prayer group. I love to have the coach prayer for the boys. That is a real coach.
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Matthew starts T-ball games soon. They start later than regular baseball. He just can't wait. They are so fun to watch play. Score is not kept. That makes it all the better. They are just learning. At practice they sort of just run all over the field. This is Matthew's 2nd year of T-ball. If you need a good laugh...watch a T-ball game!(Click on pic for larger view)
I had Wednesday night kindergarden mission's class last night at church. I love coming up with crafts for the kids. We worked on Mother's day cards. If you are one of my mom's "Do not read this or look at the picture". I had found a craft on an internet site I go to alot.You use your thumb to make thumb print cards. "Thumbbody says, Thumbody loves you & that Thumbody is me! Inie is a thumb print flower & butterfly. So cute! They have colored bookmarks that I will laminate at church & enclose in the card. Only 4 more Wednesday's left. The M&M's year is about over. (M & M stands for Music & Mission's)
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My neice is getting ready to graduate high school next month. Boy where did the time go? Her mail labels came in & guess what? They had moved & the address was WRONG for mailing. I got her some cute one's made up & got them in the mail yesterday. All is well in the graduation world today. Graduation will be special. She will receive her diploma with a National Honor Society sash around her neck. She has the world at her feet, the brains to be anything she wants & the choose of any college that tries to get her.
Well I need to get ready & go. The Humane Society here in town is having a yard sale Friday & Saturday & I need to go see what help they need.Tuesday, April 22, 2008
How to tell you are getting older!
Monday, April 21, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
What a weekend!
After a long soak in the tub I believe the boys are back to being clean for now.
Sunday. The day of rest. We got ready for church & went. After church the boys were still holding us to SKATING. Can we go, Can we go, Can we go? Well, eat lunch & went. That was about the longest 2 and a half hours in all my afternoons. I had woke up with my back hurting from pulling weeds the day before & having a few chest pains from my current stuff. The boys come first. After we got home we tried to finish a couple of projects. I drug the tent out of the attic & glued some Boy Scouts patches on for camping that is coming up soon. Jeff finally took our screen door off the play room door to the outside & cut the side down to finally fit the opening. Of course it didn't go as easy as it should have. Does anything go easy?
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Being loved
"A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart." ~Author Unknown
My mother has a very good friend that lives in Kentucky. "Judy". I got the chance to take my mother back in January before the weather turned for the bad there. Since then they have been snowed in several times. We had a great visit. We were given the royal treatment, home cooked meals, visiting a dairy farm (I have a new respect for my milk now), touring the town & great friends to be with. They even live in one of my favorite spots.....the country. Beautiful area. In Judy's spare time that she catches here & there she was making my mother a quilt. I made a comment of how beautiful it was. The next thing I hear is she is making me one. Well....it came in mail yesterday. It is absolutly gorgous. It is all hand made. I love country items. I should have been raised in the pioneer days. OH NO on second thought I don't believe they had internet connection. Well you can take the girl out the country but you can't take the country out of the girl.
I wanted to attach a couple of pics of my quilt & the dairy farm but blogger is having some problems right now. Maybe tomorrow.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Totally flipped my lid...
I have had way tooooo much rest. I have totally flipped my lid. One of the songs playing on my list at the bottom of this page is "I Can Hear Music" by Kathy Troccoli. I got up, starting spinning & dancing & noticed my blind is wide open in my front office at home. Well the neighborhood show is now over. Thank you, Thank you very much for coming! See 'ya next show!
Listen to the song & see what you do. Please tell me it is just not me that does this!
The answer to the Christian Cross puzzle!
Grounded
That word (grounded) should not be in an adults vocabulary for themselves.
Cause of pain:Chest trauma of any type can cause chest pain by causing rib fracture or muscle strain or contusion. Not infrequently, seemingly mild chest trauma (sliding into second base during a weekend softball game) can be forgotten when the chest pain becomes apparent a day or two later.
Characteristics of pain:Chest pain caused by trauma is almost invariably localized, is often described as a soreness or a sharp pain. It usually worsens with breathing, and often the chest wall is tender to touch or to pressure.
Evaluation:Chest pain caused by trauma usually becomes quite apparent after the doctor takes a complete medical history, and performs a physical examination. Sometimes a chest x-ray helps in making the diagnosis.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
WHY PARENTS GO OFF THE DEEP END....
"Hello? "
"Is your daddy home?" he asked.
" Yes ," whispered the small voice.
May I talk with him?"
The child whispered, " No ."
Surprised and wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked,
"Is your Mommy there?"
"Yes."
"May I talk with her?"
Again the small voice whispered,
"No ."
Hoping there was somebody with whom he could leave a message, the boss asked, "Is anybody else there?"
" Yes ," whispered the child, " a policeman.
Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee's home, the boss asked,
"May I speak with the policeman?"
" No, he's busy ", whispered the child.
"Busy doing what?"
" Talking to Daddy and Mommy and the Fireman ," came the whispered answer.
Growing more worried as he heard a loud noise in the background through the earpiece on the phone, the boss asked, "What is that noise?"
" A helicopter " answered the whispering voice.
"What is going on there?" demanded the boss, now truly apprehensive.
Again, whispering, the child answered, " The search team just landed a helicopter ."
Alarmed, concerned and a little frustrated the boss asked,
"What are they searching for?"
Still whispering, the young voice replied with a muffled giggle......" ME ."
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
53 died - 55 came in - Throw away pets
What can I do to help reduce companion animal overpopulation? Get your animal spayed or neutered. Yes, even the males. After all, it takes two to tango.
"I think this is the worst day I have had in a long time. It started with pulling up at work looking at 12 pups that were dumped sometime in the middle of the night as if that wasn't bad enough I walked around the corner found 10 pups crammed in cages and 2 adult dogs. I shook my head went on in being off the past two days not knowing what all was inside what was inside was just as depressing 173 puppies and cats. Walking round and round in circles looking for just one cage to put all those outside in. Not a single cage open, dogs crammed in carriers (pet taxi's) geeze We are only able to really house 90 cats and dogs and have all these in pet taxis so unfair. I walk in circles more and more looking at each of the animals. Who will live, who will die. I think to myself, hmmm a whole litter of black pups and another litter of black pups. Oh great that one is part pit, Can't adopt that one out. By 12pm I have picked 53 puppies that had to die. Finally got some cages to move the ones outside in. People started bringing in animals left & right. By 4:30 we brought in the 55th animal for the day. 53 died and 55 came in. It's a circle that never ends. Tonight when I go to lay down and sleep I get to not think of what tomorrow holds but instead I will be thinking which ones will have to die tomorrow. Sorry for venting I'm just so disgusted at people."
Animal overpopulation statistics from the Humane Society of the United States
Number of cats and dogs entering shelters each year: 6-8 million (HSUS estimate)
Number of cats and dogs euthanized by shelters each year: 4-5 million (HSUS estimate)
Average number of litters a fertile cat can produce in one year: 3
Average number of kittens in a feline litter: 4-6
In seven years, one female cat and her offspring can theoretically produce 420,000 cats.
The Tea Party
Monday, April 7, 2008
Little Creatures
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It is always so much fun to walk through the woods & see the creatures or critters as my husband calls them. Sunday after church we went to the land to clear some small trees & briar's on a point by the water that my boys have staked out for their own. Jeff & Chris fished a bit & Matthew & I cleared a little. Right before Jeff joined me again on land I happened upon something on the ground just walking around. At first it startled me but then something else caught my eye. It wasn't that scared of me. I thought maybe my swing blade had maybe caught it or I had cut some little tree it was in . I really still don't think so. There is a nest in some briar vines but it looks like an old one. I feed it a crushed snack cracker we had there. (Never go off without bringing snacks for the kids) It was/is a really pretty bird. We came home & looked on Flickr for pictures of one like it. It is a cockatiel. I went back today to take some chairs over there & looked for it again. My plans were to bring it home for a pet. In the wild there or in the wild of my home. Same difference, better food here. I have plans to go back tomorrow & look while I work. It would fly up to a tree branch & watch me work then back down to the ground & visit. I am guessing it had to have been someones pet.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Have I accomplished anything?
The boys are great. Both had dentist appointments yesterday. Both had no cavities. Chris had to have a capped molar tooth pulled. It had been loss for a bit & the stubborn thing would not come out. While there the dentist did it for us. Boy that saved alot of whining & complaining around here not to mention what Chris would have done. When I was leaving to get them back to school I told them they would not have to go back for another 6 months now. My 6 year old shouted "Praise the Lord". The funny thing is he really meant that to the Lord.
My Wednesday night church Missions (w/Crafts) class----I have had so much fun taking over the roll this year. I always come up with a good craft I think. I want it to be something that is somewhat useful. You know the kind you usually get. You go to pick up your child from their room & they have made something that as soon as they are in the door it is thrown on the counter & as soon as they are out of the room you bury it deep in the trash so it is NEVER seen again. This past week we worked on a 5 peice puzzle that has to be put in the shape of a cross. Quite difficult. Even grownups have trouble. Our talk was even though life can be puzzleing in the end God has been in each piece of it." The Cross". I have attached a picture you can print it, cut it out & see if you can put it together. I will post the answer in my next post. I promise it is not a joke. It can be done.
The boys now have both of their baseball team assignments. Both coaches seem to be really nice over the phone. Practice starts Saturday. Can't believe the season is upon us. While fitting their games in I also play softball each season for the church league. We all have so much fun.
I got an e-mail a couple of days ago. I have found out what Russian Volunteered is. I believe it has to do with having a gun at your head & being told you will be doing something against your will. Part of it is true for me except the "against your will" part & the gun also. My youngest son will begin in Cub Scouts this summer. He will start as the rank of Tiger Scout. They haven't found a cub leader & have asked if I would be interested in doing it. I beleive I will. Tiger parents have to be present at each meeting so I might as well. I do like leading the younger ones & sharing the things I know. They are just young enough to not know the difference if I am just totally lost. We will be going camping this summer. Thank goodness my Webelo 2 will be sleeping on the ground in tents with his group but my husband & I will have a cabin with the Tigers. Me & the ground just do not go together.
Pray that the Lord will give me an answer if I should do this. I need the brick to the head answer.
Back to my Kindergartener missionaries. We have done several little mission projects this year. We collected food for the Sanctuary Hospice House, change for LeBonheur Childrens Hospital & still collecting Pop Tabs for LeBonheur. Our next project before we finish out our year next month is going to be the Humane Society here in Tupleo. Before you go out to ever buy your next pet please visit a shelter & save a life. The shelters all around are never for profit. They have a really low budget so they have to rely on the public to help. Our kindergarteners are so excited to get to help on this one. They have such giving hearts. We sent home a wish list to the parents & hope to collect alot in the next 7 weeks we have left. http://www.tupelo-leehumane.org/
---I had to throw this in. I am really not much of an April Fool's person. In other words I don't pull any major one's. Well we all got up to start our day & while the boys were eating breakfast I got on my laptop in the office to check my e-mail. I read a friends (C.P.) April Fool. So funny. She got alot of us. Well it hit me to try one. I went back to the breakfast room & told the boys because of the really bad storm weather that school had been delayed a couple of hours. You should have seen the cheers & jumps. How cruel---I had to tell them April Fools. They did not laugh as I did. Now to look back it was cruel (but so fun).
And after all of this we hope to get our house SOLD. Pray for a buyer for us.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
9 Words Women Use
1. Fine:
This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.
2. Five Minutes:
If she is getting dressed, this means a half hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping her.
3. Nothing:
This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in Fine.
4. Go Ahead:
This is a dare....NOT permission...Don't Do It!!!!
5. Loud Sigh:
This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)
6. That's Okay:
This is one of the most dangerous statements a woman can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.
7. Thanks:
A woman is thanking you. Do not question or faint. Just say you're welcome!!!!
8. Whatever:
Is a woman's way of saying @#$% YOU!!!
9. Don't worry about it, I got it:
Another dangerous statement meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking, "What's wrong?" For the woman's response refer to #3.
Copy & send this to the men you know to warn them about arguments they can avoid if they remember the terminology.
Send this to all the women you know to give them a good laugh, cause they know it's true