Happy Mother's day early

Happy Mother's day early.

My mom is gone. This is my mom She was only 64 when she passed. I miss her so much.
The bottom picture is my mother-in law Lillian. My mother-in-law just passed away this Jan. 2017. She was 89. I loved her like my own mom. When she was still living here in MN we went  to garage sales all the time. Many times we were out so late that I didn't have time to make supper so she took us all out to eat. and many times we would have "a drink" after all we weren't driving any more hubby was. She shared with me one of the recipes that she made all the time that my hubby loved so I asked if she would teach me how to make it. She did. Between these two woman I learned so much. One who gave me life and one who gave me my husband. And they both loved me.  I have no one to celebrate Mother's day with. So I say to you all if your mom is still here with you GO....GO SPEND TIME WITH HER.....YOU DO NOT KNOW WHEN IT WILL BE THE LAST MOTHER'S DAY.
Love you mom and mom I miss you both. 💗💗💗💗💗

I must be crazy because I won't pay the price

I want a dog. But I want to go to the Animal Humane Society and "adopt" a dog. BUT LORD they want so much for these dogs that you would think they are made of gold. I understand they want some money back for the food and so forth while they have had the dog in their care. But $300.+ and $400+ for a dog is getting down right stupid. Yes I know that they have put chips in some of these animals and also have spade or neutered them as well but still that seems to be too high of a price to "adopt" a fur-baby. So then I hear of another place you can look for available animals to "adopt" and they are cheaper than AHS. Yeah they want to "visit your home" before agreeing to let you adopt a pet. WHAT? My home is my privet place I don't need you to come here to
see if I pass as a pet owner" I've owned pets since I was 2 yrs old and I think I know how to take care of my pets. First off they aren't "pets" they are family - Kids if you prefer. Hubby thinks they come to "case your place to rob it later" while I don't think that is true in all of the cases it could be true in some. So I really won't be going through them even though it's much cheaper than AHS. So for now I will not be getting a dog. What kind you say? Well I'm bouncing back and forth between a Yorkie and a Shih tzu.  When I find the right one (out of those 2) I will know which one I will be getting.

I guess the Beavers were right again

So our winter here in MN has been pretty darn mild. Now there will be several that will say are ya nuts? Did you forget the minus below temps we had? Well yeah because when you all had the minus degree weather here I was in Fl enjoying 87 degree weather. I was out on the beaches enjoying the sun, laughing (yes laughing) at all those back here in MN freezing their asses off. But low and behold when we came back to MN the week before Christmas the weather wasn't that cold any more and then we only had a few days that were back down below zero. So yes the beavers were right once again.
I know many farmers check the Farmer Almanac's and pretty much live by it. But my dad said the Beaver's are a good way to see what our weather will truly be like because they are here living it. So I always go check out the beavers, to see just where they have built their huts. Close to the shore mild winter. Out in the middle bad winter. and so far they have been right. My money will be on the Beavers. I have yet to see them wrong.

Happy New Year Welcome 2017 and hang on to your seats

Merry Christmas .....Happy New Year
Welcome to 2017
and everyone here in the US of A hang on to your seats because I'm not sure how this is all gonna work out for us but I see a very bumpy ride coming.
Scared? HELL YES!
Donald Trump won the election. I am glad only that it's not Hillary. He claims he will make America great again. Well baby if he can do that with out starting WW3 Then he will at least keep one of his promises. I am all for getting America great again. But some of the things that has to happen is prices have to come down, wages need to stay were they are and insurance needs to be for every one not just the ones who can buy it.
So lets all hang on to our seats and pray and hope like Hell that this is not the beginning of the end.

Well we did it

With a sad heart, I sold my families farm...well my half anyways. In return I saved our home of 40+ years. A house I hated from day 1 but cry every time I thought we might loose it. It was sold back in May of this year Sheriff's sale. We had till Nov 25th to either redeem it or be out of the house. Our plans had been but another house in South Dakota then one in Florida. Live in Fl during the winter months and SD in the summer months. But we couldn't find a house. We did find one in Fl but didn't have the money yet. (at that point the farm hadn't sold yet) So after the farm sold and we looked at one last house (which needed more work than it was worth) We drove back home almost in tears (both of us) and decided to buy our house back. SO we now own our house again. No one can ever take it unless we don't pay our taxes or some darn thing. We have a few dollars to still go and possibly buy a home in Fl. So we are taking off again in Dec to go house hunting in Fl.


This just in ................My sister in law has just informed us that my husbands mom's cancer is back and there is nothing more they can do for her. They don't know how much longer she has. She will be 89 on Dec 28 if she lives that long. Our trip is more urgent now. Please pray

Canada has banned Pit Bulls?

I was listening to my grandson talk about this new ban that Canada has. No Pit bulls allowed. He was so upset because it seems that they were gonna put to sleep the pit bulls that were already in Canada. I asked him why. (oops my mistake as he was talking with someone on the phone) So I sat quietly and listened to his side of the conversation to see if I could figure out anything. Grandson: Any dog that is put on a chain or left in a kennel and ignored when it finally gets out and is with some one will get a little over excited and will bite someone not knowing that they are hurting that person they are just so glad to have attention that they go over board. Silence for a min then Grandson: it's not just Pit Bulls it all dogs any dogs so we should ban them all. Yeah I'm at work now catch ya later.

I said my good byes to him told him have a good night (noticed he had a wet cheek but said nothing as I know how this affects him)

Then I thought about what he said. He is right. A dog who does not get attention will go a little over board when it finally gets attention and while it doesn't mean to bite you hard its trying to play with you because it craves attention.

I've had many dogs though out my life childhood into adulthood and not one has ever bit anyone (and trust me some of the breeds of dogs Ive had could be considered more dangerous than the Pit Bull).

One of my greatest memories of our dogs is our dog Rex. I had him when we first got married. Then he had to go live with my parents for a year because we were in an apartment and they didn't allow dogs.
After 1 year in that apartment we were ready for our own house and found one bought it and moved in and brought our dog Rex home. At the time our oldest son was just a little over a year old. But I took him out to Rex and said "this is your kid take care of him" When I came home from the hospital with our daughter and she was just barely a week old I did the same I took her out to Rex and said this is your kid take care of her. I repeated it with our youngest son. And trust me when a kid made any one of those kids cry Rex was there growling at them like ok leave my kid alone. He really did look out for his kids. And when he was 20 years old and could no longer make it up and down the basement stairs and the vet said it was time we had to let him go, with tears in our eyes we did the only thing we could possibly do. Turned him over to God. And every dog after Rex has been in charge of our family. We have had Lab/Doberman mixed, which many think Doberman's are a dangerous breed. And we had a Collie with who knows what and everyone who seen her thought she was a coyote, and keep her away from the kids. (she was the biggest chicken of all our dogs). But any one of our dogs these ones included could have bite anyone at any time even Rex when we told him take care of your kids and someone did something to the kids. But he would just growl and make himself known to the kids who were bothering our kids. They always backed away because they didnt know for sure what he would do and they didnt want to find out.  SO Canada it's not just the Pit Bulls who bite people I guess I just dont understand why you are banning the breed? ANYONE?

Pet Whisper

People are amazed at how long some of my pets live.
Oh yeah some die way before their time because of stupid vets, not because I haven't done everything in my power to save them.
But let start with 2 of our cats who live 16 yrs.
Mister and Frisky. Those two were so spoiled yet not as spoiled as our Lucky is now. They both slept with us. They were our biggest babies, when I took a nap on the couch one would lay on my chest then the other would lay below that one down my legs. so I would be covered in cats. and we would sleep like that.
only reason why Mister left our world when he did was his back got broken by a kitten we were baby sitting. We didn't see it to begin with otherwise we would have stopped it. But by the time we seen what was happening his back was broke. He lived about 2 years with a broken back (vet said it would healed) but it got worse and soon he couldn't walk with out crying nor go potty with out crying.
and Frisky was 15 when she got a bladder/liver infection that they couldn't do anything about other than make her comfortable with a shot every day at $200. a shot. So we let her be till she just couldn't do it any more and we didn't want her to suffer any more and put her to sleep. She had just turned 16. Mister went 6 months later and in between those two our dog Rex who was 19 also was put to sleep as he was suffering as well. He no longer could walk and we had to carry him out side to go potty but when he could stand to go potty outside we knew it was time. That was our hardest year and we said NO MORE PETS.
Didn't last long we soon had more cats and more dogs.
Now including cats and dogs we also have fish.
Now most goldfish live for about 2-3 year although we have seen where there have been some who have lived 12 years.
The gold fish we have now we call "fish-stick" he/she was so little when we got him from a church carnival down the street. This little fishy was no more than 1/4" big I mean if you blinked you missed him. But I would talk to him every day and feed him a few flakes every day and soon he grew to be about 4" big. I would go over to the tank and ask him to dance for momma. I can even go to the side of the tank and ask for a kiss and he will come over by me like he is giving me a kiss. My baby is 6 years old. and I'm not sure how much longer he will be with me but as long as I have him I will kept talking to him. I am so happy to talk to my pets because they aren't just my pets they are my babies.