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Ah, you know how chevy is!!! Spiders, poles, alleys, anything goes.

The shelter had a tarantula recently. It went up on Petfinder.org and a lady called wanting to adopt it. She had previously owned a tarantula and had housing and everything.

I remember seeing black widows and a tarantula in our yard in Okla. We also had horned toads that we played with. They liked the shade under the strawberries. I guess I'd been warned about black widows because I knew to tell Mom and she killed it.

Did you gals see THAT? She was "with" him for years before! That must mean she SLEPT with him!!!!!!! Hah! Caught you babe! We went together for a year and 9 months before we could afford to get married.... My folks had moved out of State, so I lived with my Grandparents.... No fooling around, at least that's what they thought...... We were just lucky I didn't get pregnant.... Sheri was born a year after we got married..... Not that anyone cared.... Ha again!

Spookie! YOU there in FLORIDA and are scared of bugs? You who live in the whole State of Petri Dish??? It is really hot out today.... So I'm cleaning and organizing our "catch-all" garage. I need a break.... I'll go get a coke, and continue on.......... and not one spider in sight!

Ooooo! I like the dragon.

Here is your post card from Laguna Beach!

Very very cool dragon! What a fun piece that is! Does the dragon have a name?

Hey Chevy, want to hear a funny story. My Grandmother was visiting and she was a very hard working, elegant person, do the right thing old school Swedish Lutheran etc. So we are talking at my parents place and I had finished Grad school, had a tiny apartment in Philly worked in NJ. DH to be, was still in Grad school and had a tiny apartment near Penn. The rents we paid were outrageous. My Grandmother asked how much I paid in rent and how much DH paid. I told her and she just gasped! My goodness she said, "it surly would make more sense if you moved in together, you would save a fortune!" Grandma and my folks all liked DH and he was over lots. My Mother turned around and freaked.."Really she said??" So I told my Mom when we moved in together that I was just being fiscally careful, safer to have a roommate in the big city and saving money to pay off my school loans and following Grandma's recommendation! Ha ha you should have seen the look on her face! Grandma was right!

Everyone said, folks who live together first never stayed married. Not true. We also only spent 350 on our entire wedding, church office affair, family only and a nice lunch out. I have always believed in simplicity and we are firmly on the same page core value wise. I think that matters more in the long run. Most of the folks I knew who spent a zillion bucks on weddings got divorced.

hey ladies. I got home from the hospital on sat and had to return yesterday. Admitted again. Passed out in er floor twice. Got a nice bump on my head. This time I came to our other local hospital hoping for a new set of eyes and brains to figure this out.

All caught up on reading about you guys. I so wanna respond to all but just too tired. I so want to be known as the encourager, the one who is positively happy and driving everyone else crazy with my giddiness. So watch out - sooner or later I am going to get better physically then me mental mood will be back on the upswing. I hate always having bad news - ready for the positive.

Thanks for everyone support. It has been great.

Hootie hoo

Hopeful- George Benson. It was just the best! We were all up and dancing the last hour!

Hugs Patty. I hope they get this figured out soon. In the meantime, how about a helmet? Are you nauseated or having stomach cramps when it happens? Or maybe you've been flat in bed for so long your brain has forgotten where 'up' is? This is so not fun for you and your family!

I am here

God bless You all

Smaarty, I saw this on facebook and it made me think of the pretty things you make. This one says it's called a ZigZag Love Quilt. I never learned to sew, but I think I might try to learn a little this year. My mom wanted to teach me when I was growing up. She was an amazing seamstress. I was stupid to pass up the lessons. It's too bad we aren't smarter about things when we are young.

Do you have one of those special quilting machines or do you use a regular machine?

Can't sleep either Jazzy? I'm up trying to find a travel Scrabble game that's better than the crumby one I have. DH and I play a lot and I want to take it to Hawaii.

Patty--That's bad and funny at the same time. I've come to the conclusion that spell-check can be very dangerous. LOL Years ago, my DH was up very late at night preparing a job resume and cover letter. Since it was so late, his brain became foggy, so he got lazy and pressed "correct all" when he ran the spell check on the cover letter. Just before he licked the envelope shut, he decided to take one last look at his work. Good thing he did. The cover letter, which should have began "Dear Mr. Barney Bagwell" instead read, "Dear Mr. Barf Bagel". Oops!

Thanks--glad you like my poem.

You must be frustrated being stuck at the hospital. I'll be praying that answers and solutions come soon.

As for sleeping peacefully, not so much! LOL But I'm currently pain free thanks to some Vicodin.

Morning gals!

Okay THANKS little miss Spookie for the update... Hah! Yes, that IS perfect temperature...

We've having nice weather today, but it's supposed to get COLD and rainy and that damn snow Thursday & Friday... I know, I KNOW we can use the moisture, but I'm about DONE with that for this year... at least the snow!

Jazzy.... Laguna Beah is beautiful... ANY beach is beautiful.... and peaceful.

Rosie, your Grandma was pretty "Hip".... Man, I remember ONE time, my Brother was on leave from the Navy, and so me and my "boyfriend" who became my Husband, and my Brother, and Linda, who was my boyfriends cousin, all went up to the mountains to stay in this cabin.... ALL night! I mean TOGETHER!!! OVERNIGHT!

We just had the most fun, cooking dinner, etc! A lot of ETC'S, but it was FUN!

But we had this sinking feeling on the way home the next day, that we would be BUSTED!!!!! So we stopped at Mother Cabrini's Shrine on the way home.... (like THAT would do any good!)..... Sure enough, my GRANDMA found out!!!!!!!! Oh Horrors! I was living with them at the time, and I cooked up this "I'm going over to Donna Martinelli's house to stay all night" ..... which I didn't even KNOW a Donna Martinelli! So somehow, she found out....! She must have called HIS Mom, and she must have said HE ISN'T HOME EITHER! Grandma was probably employed by the Secret Service!

Well we survived, but in THOSE days.... it was totally frowned on.... Things finally cooled off, and we finally got married about 6 months later, but MAN I was scared! Hah!

Hopeful.... Our wedding was at a JP... but so nice, and pretty..... My Dad sent Orchids with my Mom, who came from Cali, so it was a special day!

Our honeymoon had to wait a couple days, so we could go pick up my Husband's drivers license! He lost it, because of too many tickets for loud pipes..... Haaaaaah! Then we DID go to another cabin for an overnight honeymoon.... legal this time.

I fixed corned-beef & cabbage that next day.... IN the cabin! I must have been nuts.

And so PEPPERMINT! You are still on the FRITZ??? Just move to the hospital.... family and all. Have them charge you for a suite of rooms, and tell them you give up! And to find out once and for all what is going on!

Tell them your friends can't keep track of you.... and need a permanent address, one in which you will remain for over 2 days! The Hospital is a safe bet....Ha! Who is examining you? The 3 stooges? We need someone with some sort of degree in something, other than how to roll a joint.

Tell THEM you are dwindling down.... that you need ANSWERS..... preferably from THEM and not from us....Although it's a safe bet, answers from US are about as good as THEIRS are!

Smarty.... you are so full of baloney! George? How do you know "dragon language"? That was my next question.... GEORGE is my Husbands name. So who would name a Dragon GEORGE? It should be something like FLAME, or maybe SNARL!!!! Have her change it.

And I still don't know how you DO those designs and quilt stuff! Beautiful anyway.... Your WHOLE family has that genius gene.... Oh wait.... I just made that up..... A "Genius Gene"....

Jazzy! Good for you.... sounds like fun! And LOOKS like fun!

Wren.... that is good.... Peppermint's brain forgot where "up" is.... Hah!

We shouldn't be making jokes..... should we? Okay.... never mind... maybe she will laugh....

Mombie... Love your poem... You are a poet.... and don't know it..... Your FEET know it, they are LONGFELLOWS! That's a joke, although somewhat lame....Remember that? I learned that one in school....

Hi Foots! Welcome back! You doing okay? Just say yes, then I won't keep prodding you.....

Oh wait..... You are into "porn" Peppermint? What's this? Am I to understand you can do that in the hospital? What am I missing here? You bring your own porn movies to the hospital? Aren't YOU the popular one!!!

Something must be wrong with your equilibrium .... and your ability to retain fluids... So stay DOWN, and drink gallons of water... Those guys need to do more than just put their heads together.... they need to figure out what is going ON there! And tell them I SAID so!

Mombie.... that was funny about Mr. Barf Bagel! Hah! GOOD one!