YAY! An addition! Now .... where did that sale code go ............
That's even better than a trailer, you could open a mobile vaping lounge.
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Just got back from our vet visit. Everything checked out fine and she even got her nails clipped (something I can't do myself). Maggy was especially happy to have the vet recommend she get mostly wet food rather than dry - totally opposite of what the previous vet told me - and since that's her all-time favorite she is quite pleased. Now we can both relax and enjoy the next 9 days off 
Just got back from our vet visit. Everything checked out fine and she even got her nails clipped (something I can't do myself). Maggy was especially happy to have the vet recommend she get mostly wet food rather than dry - totally opposite of what the previous vet told me - and since that's her all-time favorite she is quite pleased. Now we can both relax and enjoy the next 9 days off
Glad it went well. Pets become parts of our lives and when they get sick it drives us crazy simply because there's no way to know for certain what's wrong. Enjoy your vacation!
... Maggy was especially happy to have the vet recommend she get mostly wet food rather than dry - totally opposite of what the previous vet told me - and since that's her all-time favorite she is quite pleased. Now we can both relax and enjoy the next 9 days off
Great news about and for Maggy - but for you?? Canned foods definitely are more expensive - but being fond of felines, as all of us lions are, I have to agree on the wet food suggestion.
That was the old me back before 6/8/2009 the day I almost cashed in my chips at the race track, now days I have little old blue haired lady's blowing the horn behind me to speed up (no offense intended to those with blue hair or those as old as dirt like me). I also wanna know what the deal with Rave is? I even went on a shopping spree this morning as three of my favorite suppliers sent me coupon codes for 22%, 25% and 30% so I figured I would share the wealth and buy something from all of them. Rave, you have been my role model since I first saw that/those pictures of your collection, do you need a hug?
I know! It's just not right. I guess ... I'm just ... content! What's that all about? I'm concerned that SI may have to lay off workers - The world economy could subsequently fail. Scary. Yeah - I think I need a hug. *sniff* 
Thanks! I used it for the wildlife theme for Rave, and decided I liked it so much that I'd keep it.
Maggy is the sweetest cat in the world, a Snowshoe Siamese.
Sweet until she is at the Vet's where she morphs into Evil Hellcat. They have her red-tagged as vicious.
I swear she is NOTHING like that at home, the complete opposite. So it stresses me out to take her in almost as much as it stresses her out. sigh.
Good morning, Volties! At least it is here for another 20 minutes. I slept in waaaay late, though it probably didn't help that I didn't go to sleep until the early hours of the morning instead of last night.
Kico, if that happens - and I sincerely hope it does not - then we'll find another way. Many places are using direct account transfers now. My credit card companies actually require a direct checking/savings account transfer instead of debit card payments or other card payments when using online payments. They want their money instead of going through another credit transaction with another company. If we have to go back to letting go of instant gratification and sending in checks or money orders, it will be what we do. No one, least of all the FDA, Big Tobacco, and Big Pharma with their "enforcer" and false advertising scare tactics, is going to keep me from a product proven to me to work when theirs did not - or even tried to kill me instead! Period.
Which also brings up a point with what I'm planning to do with the Labor Day sale from SI. If one more piece falls into place (it should tonight), my order will become a big "Pay It Forward" order. It will not be anything for myself, but will be used in a contest for newbies (hopefully) to help them leave tobacco behind. It's going to be an awesome order!
yup - where there's a will there's a way! For the past 10 years we've just had debit card 'attached' to an account used strictly for that & PayPal. When it get's used money is deposited into it. I pay my health insurance thru it. When I order on-line, my brother let's me use his if I don't have the immediate cash on hand. I just thot I'd mention the problem to let people know we may be making changes and take that into account while keeping an eye on our supplies!
Starsong: glad to hear Maggy made it home safe and sound!
Well - the herd is now down to 6 horses. 2 are now ours - Molly - hubby's 8 month old "puppy" and I went with the 20 yr old fella. Tonight will get him wormed and see how he does with far less competition for food! He certainly liked the 2 small Apple flavored vitamin treats I gave him! Molly hasn't caught on to that yet ... She spit it out. Will try again tomorrow ...
I don't have a Hug emoticon so just pretend I sent one anyway. You would think with all the flippin ones they have a hug would be at the top of the list. Imagine just commented the other day that SI had hired a bunch of new help and my guess is at least two of them were in anticipation of you ordering a truckload of stuff during the sale. Oh well I guess there will be a couple of pink slips in their paychecks this week but don't let it bother you...
I don't have a Hug emoticon so just pretend I sent one anyway. You would think with all the flippin ones they have a hug would be at the top of the list. Imagine just commented the other day that SI had hired a bunch of new help and my guess is at least two of them were in anticipation of you ordering a truckload of stuff during the sale. Oh well I guess there will be a couple of pink slips in their paychecks this week but don't let it bother you...
I'll try to make it up for both me and Rave.
Good morning Volties and happy holiday!!
Starsong does catnip work with Maggy ... Glad to hear that that she's alright.
Haha i can really see it- Rave's mobile vape lounge!!! Brilliant!
Kico you must be thrilled! Such great news too!
Kia your PIF sounds wonderful!!
Best i get some brew on and outta bed , the sun is out and its fathers day. I taking my dads car and going to the local car wash and going to pretty it up for him.
Be safe volties and have a good day and an especially great one to those that have to work today. It sucks to work on holidays but i hope u get to enjoy another day real soon
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Starsong does catnip work with Maggy ... Glad to hear that that she's alright.
Haha i can really see it- Rave's mobile vape lounge!!! Brilliant!
Kico you must be thrilled! Such great news too!
Kia your PIF sounds wonderful!!
Best i get some brew on and outta bed , the sun is out and its fathers day. I taking my dads car and going to the local car wash and going to pretty it up for him.
Be safe volties and have a good day and an especially great one to those that have to work today. It sucks to work on holidays but i hope u get to enjoy another day real soon
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Sandy, my Grandfather was big on safety. Your always safer on the ground with a horse than you are on their back. Horses are going to spook its their nature they are prey animals. Knowing this is half the battle. Teaching them to spook in place is the best you can do,that's where "sacking out" comes into play but there is a right way and a wrong way to do it.
To be honest I cannot stand Pat Parelli a lot of folks like him.I don't like those knotted halters for one thing they hurt for they are centered on very sensitive pressure points. I tried one on one of mine and he reared straight up and this was a very well trained horse and I didn't apply a lot of pressure, but the MAIN reason I don't like his techniques is he uses a carrot stick with a plastic bag tied on the end of it on young green horses. I have two friends one is a draft horse trainer and she uses Parelli techniques my other friend had a young Belgian filly she wanted Janice to train. Liz took her filly over there left her for 6mos with Janice.
Liz was cleaning out her stalls one day using her mare and a wagon,small puff of wind came up and blew that plastic bag into the mare and the mare and wagon ran over Liz and hurt her pretty badly.
To me those aren't good safe training practices. I think their cruel. When you go to train a horse ask yourself these two questions (1) Is what I am wanting to do safe for me? (2) Is it safe for my horse?
Liz ended up having to sale her much beloved mare one sound loving horse ruined by a so called public professional trainer. IMO you trained Penny 100,000 times better than any other trainer ever could have b/c you bonded. Remember to ask yourself those two questions when your in doubt, I can't say they will keep you or Penny safe but I have been living with horses all my life,was allowed to start serious riding at 9yrs,started training when I was 15yrs (even trained a cow to ride once lol),and never got hurt until I was 50. I figure those two questions have saved my hide a few times don't you?
You did GREAT your still doing GREAT--enjoy the ride
About those plastic bags -- How Penny learned to like them was that I used to bring carrots to the barn in them. As soon as Penny heard a plastic bag rustling, she'd get all eager, looking for something good to eat.
Later, I did try some Parelli stuff, and Penny doesn't mind a plastic bag on the end of a stick. The only place I couldn't touch her with it is her head. She's very defensive about her head.
She learned to walk over a tarp one day when the barn owner had laid one out on the grass to dry. I led Penny from the pasture to the barn, and there was the tarp, so I made a slight detour and we walked across the tarp just as if it was the grass. Penny never even gave it a suspicious look.
Penny shies at birds, though. She thinks they are very dangerous rustling in a bush we are riding past, and remember the time that swallow flew past her head? She got used to the barn swallows going by, but not before she landed on my foot that time.
She also is very leery of anything like a boulder or big log sticking up out of a field of grass. We can ride by it and go sniff it, but the next time she sees it, it's just as scary. I think that's because horses are hard-wired to think a lump in the grass could be a predator crouched and ready to spring. Another scary thing to her is a horse pulling a carriage. I wonder if she's better about that now, since Amish people go by the farm where she lives now, and she must have seen it a lot by now. Still that's happening at a safe distance. Once, I was at a barn where someone hitched up a horse and left. Luckily, I had Penny on a lead as they were leaving, and we followed them down the driveway. It always feels safer to a horse to be chasing something scary than to have it coming at them. Unfortunately, i couldn't work with the person driving the carriage, she just left. I wish I could have a chance to get Penny used to it to prevent panic if we ever meet one on the road. In the past, when we've seen the occasional Amish person driving a carriage, I get Penny in a safe place at a safe distance and let it go by.
I've heard some horses are scared of mules, but Penny treats them just as if they were horses. She's met a couple in her life and never even looked at them oddly. Same with ponies. And she loves goats. Once one decided to share her stall and adjoining pasture, and Penny treated that goat as if it were her foal. (If you want to see a picture, go to Penny & Katie | Flickr - Photo Sharing!) Cows are still a little scary, but Penny learned once years ago that if she chases them, they run from her. I was riding with a friend on a very green Arabian mare. We were crossing a huge cow pasture where the friend would dismount to open and close the gates when we were entering and leaving the pasture. At one gate, as the friend was off the horse with the gate open, a herd of cows appeared over the hill, curious to see what we were doing. The Arabian freaked, and she was leaping around dangerously close to the bared-wire fence. My friend shouted to me, "Sandy, get those cows away from here!" I aimed Penny at the herd, and she paused, asking, "Are you sure this is a wise move?" She was still sort of scared of cows then. I answered, "Yes, just go get 'em, Penny!" So she trotted in the direction of the cows, who turned tail and trotted off, away from us. Immediately, Penny seemed to grow much taller. She was proud of herself, I think. She loved the idea that she had chased those scary things away and protected the less experienced mare!
Penny is very motherly, and she loves protecting the weak. The barn owner once weaned a colt, and to separate him from his mother, she put him in a pasture Penny shared with a gelding. This other horse was very gentle, but he was competitive about other geldings, and he thought Penny was "his mare." I guess the barn owner thought the colt wouldn't be a threat, being so young, but the gelding, who Penny usually deferred to, charged the colt. Penny walked into the path of the charge. She didn't act threatening to the gelding, just constantly blocked his path when he tried to attack the colt. Finally, he gave up and accepted the colt. I stood watching all this, because I love to watch horses interact. Better than a soap opera! About a week later, the colt, who Penny spoiled enormously, started taking liberties and getting fresh with Penny, mostly rearing up and putting his feet on her back. Then Penny put her foot down, and for the first time, she laid her ears back at the colt and used threat gestures to put him in his place. I guess she began to realize that spoiling him was creating a monster. That colt grew up to be a sweet, gentle horse. I was always very fond of him. I think Penny would love that job in her retirement years -- or even before: to be a nanny to weanlings. She would love to be a mother, but she has some serious conformation faults, so she's not breeding material, and I don't need another horse, either.
Anyway, I guess i strayed from the point, but now you know a bit more about Penny's personality and why she's so easy to love.
I never heard of it, either, and I, too, would like to know if it works. I read in a cookbook once to add a dash of ginger to your beans to prevent gas, but I tried it and it didn't work. Maybe I needed to add more or to use fresh ginger instead of powdered?
Come on, gas is part of the magic of beans, especially good beans! It just wouldn't be beans if there's no "chuck wagon" scene like in Blazing Saddles! A guy thing, I know, shuffling off head bowed (but laughing).
I did find out why none of my liquids tasted right the other day, and still don't for that matter. For the first time in a very long time I've got a summer cold. I may have to make an emergency run to Costco and get more tissues at the rate I'm sneezing and blowing.
I always do the baking soda thing. I think it really works. Definitely rinse them and then cook them. A little salt while cooking will keep the beans from tasting soapy.
I just looked it up. Something about softening the outer skin so that more sugar can come out of the beans during soaking...and unfortunately a lot of the nutrients too. I think I'm just gonna try soaking them overnight, and yay, I also found out that I can just cook them in my rice cooker! Plus, I just got a book from the library too, called "Laurel's Kitchen" that has a chart for how much water to put in and how long to cook different kinds of beans. Read somewhere too that really, the only way to lessen the gas is to keep eating them and let your digestive system get used to dealing with it.
Sorry - I get overly excited about cooking now, because it's all so really new and amazing to me! And being a vegetarian and all, gotta get more into beans now.
...but tonight it's all about breaded zucchini! Baking in the oven now...mmm, smells so good!
I just looked it up. Something about softening the outer skin so that more sugar can come out of the beans during soaking...and unfortunately a lot of the nutrients too. I think I'm just gonna try soaking them overnight, and yay, I also found out that I can just cook them in my rice cooker! Plus, I just got a book from the library too, called "Laurel's Kitchen" that has a chart for how much water to put in and how long to cook different kinds of beans. Read somewhere too that really, the only way to lessen the gas is to keep eating them and let your digestive system get used to dealing with it.
Sorry - I get overly excited about cooking now, because it's all so really new and amazing to me! And being a vegetarian and all, gotta get more into beans now.
...but tonight it's all about breaded zucchini! Baking in the oven now...mmm, smells so good!
One good thing to keep in mind is to have rice with your beans. The proteins in each make a complete protein, so they are more nutritious together.
Cindy, I'm not really vegetarian, but most of my meals are meatless. I had a Mediterranean sandwich from Domino's today that was delicious...spinach, tomato, onion, banana pepper, roasted red pepper and provolone. Rather, I had HALF of it...I'll have the rest later. It is so good.
I get most of my protein from nuts and beans and I have chicken and rice soup a couple of times a week.
Sandy, I like black beans and brown rice...with a couple of fresh chopped veggies added.
I get most of my protein from nuts and beans and I have chicken and rice soup a couple of times a week.
Sandy, I like black beans and brown rice...with a couple of fresh chopped veggies added.
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