I am lying here in the hammock and can’t resist including the profiles of both of the new arrivals that I can see from here! Coco is as fond of lying in the hammock and looking at the flowers as I am. (She, by the way, is the other new arrival.)
For Cee’s FOTD
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
cute puppy
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Wonderful new arrivals 😀 😀
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Oh,, Gee Whiz she is getting LARGE, how much do they each weigh now~! Tami has gained a little over one pound in the past five years and she eats treats all day. She has learned to ask for a treat by coming to me and doing several “roll overs”~! I taught her by giving her a treat when she rolled over, now she has taught me to give her a treat by rolling over. I never know which one of us has been trained~!
I am in the process of upgrading my SPA, the new one will be to give special attention to a herniated disk in my neck which has been bothering me lately. At the same time it will be a smaller unit, (I no longer need to have SIX PEOPLE in the spa I have any longer, no fun anymore anyway…) This one has a special neck pillow with jets that hit the neck area, and the smaller size will make a little more space in my “MAN CAVE” for more orchids, Bromeliads and other moisture loving plants as well as for me to get into the door of my sauna easier.
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Sam, I love how you never give up on either your environment or your life but just alter it to serve your present needs. Any chance you could get your former househelpers back? So sad that Covid wreaked that damage.
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INSIDE EACH PERSON YOU THINK THAT YOU KNOW MAY BE ANOTHER PERSON YOU REALLY DON’T KNOW~! I treated those ladies very well. Each week I strip my bed, and always put my clothes in the washer and dryer, hanging my shirts so they will dry with no ironing. I also wash all dishes and put up everything that they will hide in drawers.. I also paid them well above the going rate and each week gave them part of the fruit and things that I over buy at CostCo. So I did my best to treat them kinder than most of the “white surpeamist” would. But they just did not understand that a man of my age would die if he got covid and seem to have had their feelings hurt that I asked them to be careful.
The new ones are working out much better now that I have made it clear that either they would clean the hand prints off my door windows or I would find someone who would.
My friend Ginny is back at her job in Minneapolis, but she too has a back problem so my new spa will come in handy for her too.. We use the old spa and the Sauna right now, but the spa does not reach up to my neck unless I slide way down in it and I do not much use the sauna in the summer when it is so hot.
She will be back for a couple of weeks in December, but I will still be waiting for that “crown” to be fixed and do not want to travel with a “temp”.
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Is temp a temporary or a temperature?
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I believe Zoe is 11 lbs. and Coco 12 lbs. but I don’t want to disturb to go look at the records I keep in the bathroom as Coco is sleeping on my lap.
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So both of your newer dogs are about the same as Tami’s 11 pounds 8 ounces.
Both new dogs are beautiful and I am jealous~! If you must part with Coco I wish I could get her, she could bark her heart out here.
Temp is temporary, they put that on while the new cap or crown is being made which takes almost a month. I just want to be near the dentist if that plastic thing does not stay put.
I will take photos of my new improved “Man Cave” when I start redoing it. The temperature has been getting into the 40’s at night so I had to take all of my delicate plants into the Man Cave and Sun Porch in case it freezes. A chore I do not like to do.. I put them in a wheelbarrow and wheel them through the house onto the Sun Porch, but when I set one of the plumeria down I broke the beautiful pot.. I usually take them out of the pot and prune the branches, and wrap roots as well as the trunk in an old blanket or shower curtain for the winter, then I replant them in the spring. This has worked for years without loosing any of them and the pruned cuttings make great gifts in the spring when the cut has healed over.
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What patience. Coco just cannot stand to not be right with you–preferably in your lap. If I have to give her up I would be heartbroken. She’s a very good girl otherwise. I will have to find someone who meets her exacting demands, but then Zoe will be heartbroken as well. This is so hard.
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You do know that I have a “Coco” too. She is a rough Siamese that the other animals do not get along with. She was mistreated as a kitten before she came to live with me and her brain is messed up, so she just yells a lot…
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My three are all in bed with me now. I started worrying about Morrie being alone so much so he’s sleeping in bed with us for the first time tonight. Coco over my head, Zoe on my knees, Morrie along my right side..We’ll see how this goes.
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Ha, you are learning~! Mine each has their station. They all come up for my attention then go to their separate places. Eppie actually sleeps on the blanket chest at the foot of the bed, Coco at my feet and Tami at my hip. but in the morning, Eppie comes up to get her morning “pet down”, and then runs into the sitting room where she sits on the coffee table, for her segondos when I am on my way for my first cup of coffee. If it gets cold Tami tunnels between the top sheet and a throw blanket I keep over my feet which are always cold.
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I am heartsick today but I’m really afraid that I have been so sick for the past ten days because I am allergic to Coco. She wants to be near all day long and to sleep as close to me as possible. Today I woke up worse than before after being better all day yesterday up until the time all three dogs jumped up on the bed. After a few hours I put Morrie out but the two small ones were with me all night and I woke up coughing and horribly congested. I again took allergy, not cold meds and put all the dogs outside and I now feel okay again. I don’t know what to do if I actually am allergic to them. I can’t stand to lose Coco but have been miserable for 10 days. What to do. Need to ask my dr. if I can get a test here for allergies or if I need to go to Guad to do so.
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Some times it is not the animal per–se, but rather where they have been.. Maybe a good bath (for them) will tell you if this is the problem. I use “Main and Tail” (horse) shampoo on Tami then a little of my own shampoo to make her smell better. I actually bathe Tami myself because it is such fun when she is finished and tears the house up, running around when she feels so good after her bath.
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I hope hope hope that it isn’t true or that I can perhaps get injections for allergies? Spending a day away from her and having Y change all my bedding to see for sure. Will also try to find a lab that can test me…i’ve just gotta find a solution, as I can’t spend the rest of my life coughing and flat out!!!
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I forgot. What is the new fuzzy one’s name?
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Morrie is the Scottie. Coco is the new one of indeterminate breed. Chihuahua and ?, Zoe is the littlest beige monster.
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I knew Morrie and Zoe. It was Coco I lost (hole in the brain).
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Charming new arrivals
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So you’ve kept her. Great company for you and Zoe
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It is usually a forgone conclusion that I will. Haven’t returned one yet. She’s lying on my lap as I type this.
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Aww, sweetie
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She is adorable!
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She is a real sweetie.
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Yes, that’s how she trapped me, Aletta!
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I can imagine that.
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I read your thread with Sam. I hope you find a solution too!
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