Squirt - my Queen has crossed The Bridge

Leslie;
So happy to hear good news from you about the fridge and especially about Squirt doing well. It is cool here again this morning. It is getting dark so early at nite that Tipper is going to sleep too early and waking before dawn. I need to keep her up later and get this straightened out. I am desperately trying to get this weight off her by walking her more etc. and it is not budging. She is as round as a barrel. I am making home made wedding soup today and the dogs have their noses in the air. Hope to get most of my outside stuff done this week in case the rainy oeriod of October starts. Blessings
Patti

Love the good news! Keep it coming. When my frig goes out, I know who to call!;) Great work Leslie! You are AMAZING!:) xxxxx

Leslie,
It is all your fault I'm still up at 1:10 in the morning.:eek::eek: I had two dead flashlights that I was about ready to toss. The problem wasn't with the batteries. Even I can figure that out!:D The problem had to do with the bulbs, coils and connectors. I knew nothing about flashlights except you put batteries in them and push a button and they're supposed to work. When they don't work, you buy a new flashlight. That plan has served me well up until now. Well now I know someone who fixes refrigerators, so I should be able to fix a dang flashlight.:D Four hours later, I did manage to get them working. ;) They were cheap flashlights and I'm not so sure they were worth four hours of my time and aggravation, but I did fix them myself and it's all due to your example. Seriously, it's not you fault that I stayed up playing with broken flashlights of course, but I thought you would enjoy this story. ;):) xxxxx

Leslie:
Hope you are busily gathering anything from outside as I see the high next Friday is only 45 here. Squirt is amazing in so much as she just keeps on going like the energizer bunny. Do you have a place to go underground when the tornado siren goes off? I sure hope so, as I know you have no basement to run to. I have to gather up all my babies to be with me, I would never leave any of them in the house. Blessings
Patti

LOL Kathy! I'm sorry I led you down the "fix it!" path! :D Now to tell on myself concerning flashlights - I bought a new one when I moved in here, one of those big ones that uses the big square battery. Well genius here couldn't figure out how to open the flashlight to put the battery in! I messed with it for several days and finally went to a neighbor, frustrated to no end. He looked at it, turned it over a few times and pressed this little button - POOF! it popped open right a way! :o:rolleyes::o A little button defeated me soundly! :p

There will be no outdoor activities for several days, I doubt. The rain and storms came in this morning, catching me unprepared so all three dogs are shaking and panicked at the moment since their meds came after the thunder started. Squirt won't eat so I had to syringe her meds in. She's pressed against me now, trembling still but not as bad as she was. There's one long squall line moving across the state this morning and I haven't heard yet how fast it's moving but I hope pretty quickly. And this is supposed to continue off and on til the middle of next week, getting worse Sun and Mon.

Power has been coming and going this morning so if I disappear that'll be why! It sometimes takes quite a bit for me to recover the connection.

It worries me when she gets scared of the storms because I fear the terrors will come back and take over again. As in the storm phobia will open that door. It's getting lighter outside and the thunder is further away so I hope this line is moving out of our area now and we will have a bit of calm so she will eat.

Hugs,
Leslie and Squirt

Leslie:
Sorry about those nasty storms. I am praying that Squirt does not revert back to what was happening before. maybe they will be out of there soon, and the babies will come around. That is why I can't wait for winter here. Tipper can sleep and she does not have that worry of having to run for her life into the closet. I am getting nervous about her US on Tuesday. I don't think I will be able to keep myself together if this tumor has grown. It will just kill me. I have prayed so much I am worn out. I am trying to keep busy to keep it off my mind. I made 9 quarts of vegetable soup today and I am going to freeze most of them. When I have one of those days that I don't want to cook, I can just eat soup. Tipper had a good day today and really played hard with and beat up her toys. Some days she just has more energy, but I am noticing her wanting to sleep more often. I am hoping the rest of your day is good and the bad weather is gone. Blessings
Patti

Yikes, sorry your weather sucks. I certainly hope you get no tornadoes. Gosh the weather over there has such extremes, seems like only yesterday you were all sweltering! Poor pups in the storms, do not do well. Hope it has settled and Squirty had eaten her brekky! I am about to make bacon and avocado on toast so no doubt Flynn will be lining up for a bit of bacon but alas he cannot have any right now. Hope the weekend settles down for you guys and you can get out at some stage! xx

Leslie:
I am hoping that all went well yesterday after the storms??? I thought of you and Squirt last nite when I could not sleep, and prayed that she did well. I am trying to keep busy. I am concerned about all the testing for Tipper this week. It is so much to expect from her 2 days in a row. I pray to God there is no growth in her tumor, and that her ACTH and blood work come back good. Yesterday when I was washing my face and looking in the mirror, I cannot believe how much this had aged me. I saw an old woman looking back at me. It is ready to pour here so I just hope no thunder. Blessings
Patti

We lucked out with the storms - that line moved out and there weren't any more after it. The forecast now is good for the next few days then they come back...so they say! In Arkansas we never really know what the weather is doing until we walk outside! :D Our weathermen are really simple gamblers, trying to see who can get the closest to reality. :p Can't tell you the number of times I've heard one of them predict a 20% chance of rain while I'm sitting in the midst of thunder, lightening and heavy downpour. I always think - "In that case, I do NOT want to be around when you say it's gonna be a 100% chance!"

As for somewhere to go when the tornadoes come, we have a closet in the hall that is the most central place to get in this house so I empty it out, put a crate, meds, food, flashlight and water in there and we sit in the closet til danger is passed. There isn't a storm cellar available that will allow my babies, and I will not go anywhere they can't during those storms, I simply will NOT leave them in danger so I can be safer. If they take the Wizard of Oz ride, I'm going with them. ;) And to be perfectly honest, those shelters give me the willies. I've gone down in them before but stood on the stair holding the door open so I could beat a hasty retreat if a spider showed up down there! :p Rather defeats the purpose of the thing, huh? :eek::D We had a really bad tornado year a while back and three in one night went right through the area my brother lives in, destroying everything around him but leaving his house and his neighbors untouched. One of the storm cellars was found days later that had been pulled up out of the ground and carried miles away then dropped. That didn't help endear them to me, either! Saw some really bizarre things after that night! Like 1000's of green pine needles stuck tip first in a piece of plywood like quills on a porcupine and a car set in the top of a tree without a scratch on it!

Because she was doped, Squirt slept most of the day then wanted to get up and play around midnight! And we did, even went for a walk in the field under the stars and she really seemed to enjoy herself. She slept well the rest of the night after we came in.

It's supposed to be a nice day today and I plan to make some herbal salves - something I really like doing. Not sure why - it's probably the messiest of herbal preparations and takes a long time to get the consistency right at times but I do love doing them. I just hope my oils that were in the fridge are still ok....if not, I'll have to start all over and no salves for a long time.

Hope you all have a good day!
Hugs,
Leslie and Squirty

Hope your oils are still good and you can make the salves. Everyone has their soothing things that they just love to do. I think for you it is herbal medicines, collection and knowledge. That is really great to have the ability and yearning to do, passion would be the best word I think.

Tornados scare the bejebees out of me!!!!

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin