Posted on 04/06/2010 4:19:52 PM PDT by Ms. Petite
Weird stuff seems to go with major comets. When a comet appeared in A.D. 60, the people of Rome assumed it meant the impending death of their still new emperor, Nero. He responded by exiling a potential rival. When another comet turned up just 4 years later, ancient historians say he ordered the execution of dozens of nobles. It is said that Moctezuma II saw a comet in 1517 that foreshadowed the downfall of Aztec empire. In 1910, a wave of hysteria swept over the United States amid reports that Earth was about to pass through Halley's tail.
You’re welcome. You can imagine what life was like in our house when Anoreth was at home, with all the towering Opinions in violent competition. Just good family fun, as rrrod says ...
Once we were visiting my parents, and my cousin the airline pilot was there, too. We were having a lively discussion about gun control, iirc, when there was a knock at the door. My husband (the only one not conversing at the time - he wasn’t used to it yet) answered it, and there was a pizza deliveryman. “Did you order pizza?” DP asks. “No, you remember we ate ....”
The pizza man looked at his order and said, “Oh, it’s supposed to be Number X (up the row a few houses). I heard all the shouting and I was sure this was where they were having the party!”
I’ll be waiting to see who does what of the two older byos.
Bill might want to spend some time here, in Vegas, to see if a resort is really up his alley. Sorta.
As for Ash, too much fat of any kind can cause an imbalance in a dog’s liver. If her stools are the color of clay (gray-yellow) it’s time to give her lean meat or just plain old dog food.
Usually, mixing people food with dog food can cause gastric distress in the dog which may make the pipples glad the dog is in the crate downstairs!!!
We mix some plain yogurt in the dog food for her digestion ... and we usually don’t give her much meat, let alone fat! But it’s a holiday, and she doesn’t want to go out because it’s raining.
She’s been barking in the morning the last couple of days. I think the catz are telling her, “Make some noise, we want to go out!”
LOL!
Sounds like when my two brothers and I get together. One is never prepared enough for what passes as polite conversation when encountering the ‘Face Clan! Add one or two of the kids and those old enough to know better should have on an industrial strength pair of Depends!
LOL!
Maybe she’s just tired of her crate and wants to be out. It’s bad enough that Frank figured out the catches on the door...if he does it often enough, Ash may think, “Hmmm...if a funny-looking puppy can do it, why can’t I?”
People who don’t have vigorous opinions on all kinds of stuff are boring people, imo. If you can’t have a good shouting match about the Civil War, there’s nothing to do but watch TV.
Speaking of which, I’ve got “Reilly, Ace of Spies” on DVD. Zo-WIE! Sam Neill was gorgeous in 1980. The character is a sociopath, but he’s still nice to look at, and well dressed, too, since it’s like 1903.
Sam Niell, Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot...ahhhhh...sweet dreams are made of this!!
I miss the family reunions, but I try to get to Mesa on the first weekend after Christmas, to exchange gifts and get caught up on the new additions to the families. There are only three (of 10) kids in AZ, but the last time I was there, (three years ago) the group was about 39 people.
I wasn’t able to go for last year (no SSA raise, thanks to Zero) but I’m hoping I can do it this year. Basically, all it costs me is gas, but depending on the cost, it could be more than I can spare.
Since this is also the year I’m supposed to go to Arkansas for my grandson’s birthday in December, a trip to AZ may be out of the question.
Of course, my trip to AR will depend on whether my son is still ugly or not. I would hate to think I had to break a promise to my grandson because my son suffers from Cranial-Rectal Inversion. We shall see!
Sam Neill still looks good today, but 30 years ago (dang, I’m old!), Woof!
I’ll pray about your travel and for your son to shape up. Has he had his cancer exam yet?
I don’t know whether my son has had his MRI. He’s avoiding me. My daughter thanked me (email) for her birthday card, and “by the way,” she has congestive heart failure.
So I’m just going to play the hand the way it was dealt to me.
Some days, when CFIDS really gets to me, I wonder: Was I REALLY that bad of a mother?
Surely not. You all went through a lot of stuff.
Sean Connery is one of those actors who improve with age. I liked him in the Bond movies, but the older he got, the better he looked!! LOL!
I’d like to see his son, today... *slurp*
That’s just on my bad days. On my good days, I realize that once my kids reached the age of 14, they were pretty much responsible for their own actions. As adults, they are beyond my ability to influence, and I realize that.
Which is why I don’t nag them or call them names or threaten them with disownership. They are who they are in spite of what I could do.
I rose above some really nasty circumstances to become the person that I am today, and I LIKE me!!
Dogs, cats and most kids like me too, so life is good!
Are you doing ribs, today? It’s 96 right now. No breeze to speak of but the barometer is dropping again.
Tomorrow, I get to look at another house. The owner said it had originally been four bedrooms, but “someone” had made it into two bedrooms. I told him that’s all I needed!
The outside needs a good paint job and the landscaping leaves something to be desired, but I think it has potential. It’s in the area I wanted, but I’ll have to see the inside before I even think of buying.
It may be “the place!” Like the others, it’s on about a half acre, with an RV gate in the back, so that’s good. In case someone visits who has an RV...
They both have heart problems?
It must be genes from their father’s side.
I hope you are having a good Memorial Day.
Same to everyone.
Good luck! You could do desert landscaping.
Pouring rain most of the day here, but we didn’t have any plans in particular. DP is making something with pork, and Ash is helping.
My son was born with a heart murmur, but my daughter inherited her heart problem from her birth mother, who died at the age of 33. My daughter is 43, and has outlived her mother, which seems to be no consolation at all. I suspect her years of using speed have more to do with it than anything congenital.
My son’s murmur disappeared by the time he was 17, so he was able to enlist in the army. He tried to OD while smoking coke on my 45th birthday, and it was enough to scare him straight. Now he has a mass in his left breast.
Me? My mother and father both had heart problems, and I had a murmur when I was a teen. It progressed, as I aged, to a circulation problem, which means I have had to carry a vial of Nitroglycerin with me for at least 40 years.
Yep. I want to do desert landscaping as well as the Rolladen shutters on all orifices. It has a carport, a storage shed, an enclosed laundry room (most here are outside, and folks turn off the water heaters in June, July and August...) and a patio slab with no cover.
A semi-enclosed patio would be good, and with the program I’m qualifying under, I get $30,000 for upgrades, so I think all of the above will qualify. It has a chain link fence surrounding the property, but it may have to be restrung.
Anyway, I’m hoping. It may be that I will still have to wait, but I won’t quit looking. That $1500 down/closing has to be out there SOMEwhere!!!
We’re having to pay cash on some fees to refinance our house, too.
WHAT A STORY!
I LOVE IT. LOL.
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