BS: So. How's everybody these days?

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: SharonA
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 03:29 AM

Poor little doggie! Hope her recovery ges well and quickly, Scoville. We do suffer right along with our pets when they're ill, don't we?

As for me, I'm going crazy from going nowhere fast! I have an audition coming up on Sunday, for a 15-minute singer/songwriter showcase slot at the Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) Musikfest. Doesn't sound like much to the world at large, I guess, but it's got some prestige locally. There are 14 acts in all, competing for 4 of these showcases, and I'm up against some stiff competition.

What's driving me crazy (or rather, who's driving me crazy) are the side men accompanying me at this audition, a dobro player and a blues harmonica player. None of the three of us are pros, just friends who like to play music together, but I'm having trouble getting them together to rehearse! When we do, I have trouble getting them to relax and enjoy the songs -- they're too nervous about their performance to let the music flow out of them. I have confidence that they can do it, so I hope they gain confidence in themselves over the next few days!

Whatever happens, the 14 auditions are going to make for a great show on Sunday. But any good thoughts that anyone would care to aim toward my side men and me would be much appreciated!!

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 01:57 AM

Poor puppy.... hope she recovers well and that you've spent the time investing in a racoon proof garbage can. If a racoon can't get in, neither can the dog!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 12:48 AM

{{{{{Scoville & puppy & family}}}}} Sending good thoughts to you all.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: GUEST,Scoville at Dad's
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 12:31 AM

We were fine last week but Sunday night my dog got into the garbage and chewed up a rancid turkey carcass, and now she's in the hospital with the worst case of pancreatitis the vet has ever seen, bacterial gastroenteritis, peritonitis, and had surgery this afternoon to remove a foreign body. It looked like a turkey bone sliver on the x-ray but it turned out to be an old piece of wire, ingested a long time ago, that had worked its way through her stomach lining and into her abdominal cavity. Not the cause of the current problems but probably an aggravator. Her pancreas and peritoneum looked so bad that the vet took biopsies to be screened for cancer (our first dog, unrelated but of the same breed, developed cancer at the same age. Diamond's about thirteen), just in case.

She is one sick little dog. I went by to visit her once she was awake and she was medically OK (well, as OK as she was going to be, considering) but looked as though she wished she were anywhere but here. The vet seems to think she'll come out OK but we're pretty damned worried about her.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:25 PM

Sins -- do you think you will like this job? Are the hours sympathetic......you could always be a realto you know......

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:12 PM

But sheep have other problems, I've heard.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:08 PM

Arnie, and furthermore, they don't get "fleeced" at the dentists office.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:01 PM

Human teeth are a compelling argument against the idea of "intelligent design". If we humans were "designed" by some intelligent deity, why do we have such crappy teeth?

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: GUEST,Arnie at work
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 06:45 PM

Hey Liz, I had a tooth infection in April, antibiotics for a week, root canal treatment in May, tooth out in June!! Would have been easier to have it out back in April and would have cost less. Alright, I've got a gap where an upper pre-molar used to be, but it certainly is a lot less painful these days!! Still, I hope your treatment works better than mine did and you keep the tooth. We should be like sheep - they grow their teeth back and never have to visit the dentist.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 05:46 PM

I was doing quite well today until I got home from choir practice 40 mins ago, hoping to watch the last CSI in the series, which Limpit and Manitas said they'd record... only to find they hadn't recorded it!

GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 04:21 PM

The last time I bet on a horse, it came in so late they left the light on in the $2.00 window.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 03:56 PM

Fifteen comebacks and I daren't use a one!

Well, I start tomorrow night at the Mutual Window at the local trotting track. In September, a Senior Teller position opens and I will be training for it.

Drawbacks? I can neither bet nor drink on the job. Go figure.

Should be fun, at least.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 12:34 PM

Turkey basters! Ye gods! How am I going to look one in the face without laughing now?

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 12:33 PM

I always wondered about that.... thought that maybe there was a way of doing it that was a) less messy and b) less fun but did involve turkey basters.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 12:21 PM

"Got herself pregnant" maybe she's a Newt?

That was a common saying back home. It always makes me chuckle.
They also used to say "They took him out and got him drunk".

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 12:15 PM

Clove oil didn't touch this one - the root has been "killed" now so it's just got to settle down and then have the permanent filling put in. I know it's already better, my glasses aren't crooked!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: Diva
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 12:13 PM

oik of cloves for the toothache, bored waiting to start job...still got a festival to go to on Friday so that'll help!!! Hope it dries up a bit

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 12:08 PM

Thank you Liz - how about doing a long distance rain dance for us! Seems to have worked here for Housecat.

I hope the tooth gets better fast.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 11:58 AM

The toothache is better, apart from a twinge or two which (hopefully) will settle down, after the root canal treatment this morning. The sky is an incredible variety of shades fo grey, there's a fantastic thunderhead moving in from the west and you can almost see the cloud swelling with rain.

Wish it would piss off to Kendall's house. He needs it.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: GUEST,Bob
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 11:28 AM

It's nice to see someone caring to ask how people are.

This comes to mind.


Around the corner I have a friend,


In this great city that has no end,


Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,


And before I know it, a year is gone.


And I never see my old friends face,


For life is a swift and terrible race,


He knows I like him just as well,


As in the days when I rang his bell.


And he rang mine but we were younger then,


And now we are busy, older men.


Tired of playing a foolish game,


Tired of trying to make a name.


"Tomorrow" I say! "I will call on Jim,


Just to show that I'm thinking of him."


But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,


And distance between us grows and grows.


Around the corner, yet miles away,


"Here's a telegram sir," "Jim died today."


And that's what we get and deserve in the end.


Around the corner, a vanished friend.


Remember to always say what you mean.


If you love someone, tell them.


Don't be afraid to express yourself.


Reach out and tell someone what they mean to you.


Because when you decide that it is the right time it might


be too late.


Seize the day. Never have regrets.


And most importantly, stay close to your friends

and family, for they have helped

make you the person that you are today.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: HouseCat
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 11:17 AM

Hope it works out well, SINS. Good thoughts your way.
Off to my family reunion today. Lucky me, an unwed thirtysomething cousin has, to quote one of the elderly aunties, "Gotten HERSELF pregnant, and she's HAPPY about it.". (The TomCat is anxious to inquire as to how a woman might get HERSELF pregnant, he's been laboring under the delusion that some sperm was needed from some source. He gives the aunties the devil at every turn.) This should provide a nice distraction away from the subject of my excess poundage, and I think Cousin will make a lovely Mommy.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:52 AM

I have a job interview today. Good thoughts, please, that I can make a decent living at it and that it be interesting enough for me to stick with it.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:49 AM

So glad it worked Housecat. See what the power of positive thinking can do.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:42 AM

Kendall doesn't know his own strength. That burn on his arm is from a lightening bolt which came with the rain.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: HouseCat
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:27 AM

Kendall's rain dance worked!!!!!! WE GOT RAIN!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: JennieG
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 11:52 PM

I am well (as is Himself), life is good, the sun is shining, I am on holidays and spending time at the sewing machine when I'm not on the computer. Except for a very sore inflamed ring finger on my right hand - typing hurts and I can't get a ring on it. But everything else is working well considering its age.

And it's only 11 weeks and 4 days until we go to Canada to see our wandering son, and meet his lovely Canadian girlfriend for the first time, and meet our little black grandcat.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 10:48 PM

Thy-y-y-yme is on my side
Yes it is


Now it's a music thread.

Scooter Libby is out courtesy of his comrade in crime baby bush. What a f**kin' joke. I am pissy!

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: kendall
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 08:50 PM

Cutting your grass when it is so dry could kill it.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 05:37 PM

I mowed my lawn today. It hasn't rained here for at least 11 days. The bad news is that I'm living in a dust bowl. The good news is that although my nice grass appears to be mostly dormant or dead, so is all the crab grass, and the thyme plucked from F.J. Child's grave is thriving in the crap soil. Now if I could get it to take over the whole front yard, I'd be happy!

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 05:11 PM

I was waiting for someone to catch that miswording. Thought it would be Kendall. Thought Miss Kitty was too nice to say anything that catty. HARUMPH!
Earrings were mail order. Tooth was home grown.
Some of us have forgotten the six cartons of unsold yard sale debris in my shed just aching for a home!

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 04:47 PM

Sinsdarlin'...if ya buy yer teeth by mail-order it's no wonder they fall out and get lost. Try a real dentist, honey!**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 04:24 PM

My entire street is paved with brown lawns. Every rain storm has missed us. But after a foot of water in the basement I am not anout to complain.

Good news! With a gift certificate and a rebate card I purchased an air conditioner for all of $40 from Lowe's. WHOO WHoo

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: kendall
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 04:12 PM

My lawn is dying from lack of rain. Dry as a Baptist picnic.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 03:56 PM

heavy rain flooded again bailed out this afternoon 54 full buckets of water from the garden but no real damage , unlike the rest of my street which is houses under water again-still smiling faces though ,and everywhere is SO GREEN-rehearsed with Hazel for Cleckheaton this morning back to work tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: GUEST,Beetle Bailey
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 03:41 PM

the Saturday night gig went okay but it's hard to sit on a stool all night with this growing pimple on my right cheek.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 03:25 PM

Second degree burn on your arm, Kendall? Gosh, yer knees must be in bad shape!. Yer not a kid anymore.... surely you can confine yourself to the bed... or the lawn, on a warm rainy night....

Ah memories, long ago and far away.......

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 03:02 PM

Stapled my little finger with a power stapler. Didn't hurt but pulling it out was kinda gross.

I have a 55 foot whale in our swimming pool \ but it can only be seen clearly from under water. I painted it with pool epoxy paint.
The water is always 88 degrees and with the 360* light system I made I find swimming at night is more visually stunning than by day.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 01:41 PM

SINS - how about making an earring from the broken tooth?

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: kendall
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 01:01 PM

I have a second degree burn on my arm that is quite painful, but it could be worse. Might be a THIRD degree burn.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 11:03 AM

Found the part of the tooth that broke off but not the earring. I bought it thru a mail order catalogue so maybe it can be replaced and I will have a spare for when I lose another one.

Meantime, I put a bunch of excess crap up on freecycle. By Wednesday I may be able to walk in the sunroom without stubbing a toe. Life is good.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 08:01 AM

Just got back from baby massage classes....absolutley wonderful and Harry really enjoyed it too. It's a wonderful bonding experience and we'll be going again next week. The midwife who ran my antenatal classes was there too and has asked if Paul and I would go along to her new class to talk about our experiences and show off Harry...we might just do that!!

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 08:43 AM

Kathy, I hope no 3 son heals well and is back home soon.

Had a good evening last night. We did a Full Moon Ritual and some necessary workings. The energy was wonderful and we both finished feeling alot more positive and energised.

Today we are visiting Harry's Grandparents, all we need now is for the weather to dry out and the sun to appear!

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 12:18 AM

Won't ber there on the 4th but will be for David Jones.... am always losing pet earrings -- coming up my birthday so gave an earring to my oldest daughter and said --match that for my birthday. Love being the parent of young adults with more than just hormones going for them.......

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 09:01 PM

"Never make eye content" - the first rule of riding the NYC subway.
How am I? I broke a tooth! And I did it flossing! Life is cruel.
SINS, bitching

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: kendall
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 07:36 PM

It doesn't matter if your ear rings are different, just don't look at anyone directly.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 04:35 PM

OK SINS - who gets the champagne?

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 04:23 PM

Tsk. Tsk.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 04:14 PM

Jacqui - I think gnu's referring to Kendall's alcohol consumption. heh heh

Well, my day started with a missing earring - my favorite one. Big Surprise! So I tore the house apart and found nothing. It seems that one of the kitties pinged it out of the little dish I kept them in and now it's gone walkies. So I grabbed a yardstick to see if it was under the refrigerator or stove. That led to Part II of the saga. I thought the refrigerator coils were on the back and always meant to pull it out and vacuum...they're not. So the next hour involved removing a blanket of cat hair from under the fridge. I found multiple cat toys, champagne corks, straws, etc. but no earring. And of course as soon as my aged knees hit the floor the phone rang and I had to abandon the search temporarily. Getting down is worse than getting up.

In comparison to the leaky roof, falling tree, broken fence and wet basement complete with washing machine fire, this is nothing but it is the uppermost in my mind at the moment. Wonder if anyone would notice if I wore two mismatched earrings?

Good news? A Bar-B-Que on the Fourth of July complete with sparklers. And July 17th is Baby Fred's sixth birthday. Alice and I will celebrate with Temptations and champagne.

Life is good.

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 03:46 PM

Thank you dear!

Subject: RE: BS: So. How's everybody these days?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 07 - 03:28 PM

Well, it's to be expected Jac....... after all, it's in his genes.