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I'm home. Plane came in early so I have Bailey back!:D:D:DI am still with cold and cough. Addy-room was very nice. I've been up 24 hours straight now after only 3 hours of sleep. I will see you after many, many hours of sleep with my Bailey!:D:D
Love,
Sus
sleep tight with Miss Bailey, nighty night, welcome home:):)
Welcome home! Sounds like a good plan to snuggle up and sleep with Bailey.
hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin
Hello! I have survived! It is now Sunday. I have finally gotten well. I went to the doc again on Friday as this sickness was turning worse again. She could not Rx anything but told me to take Mucinex which helped a lot. Lots of rest. Now feel like myself for the first time in four weeks.
Trip was a disappointment except for the last day. I had problems with two cameras. I was sick. It was cold, VERY cold. It was a LOT of walking most of it on cobblestone which meant I spent most of my time looking down to be sure I didn't twist a foot or an ankle or an knee. Zero time to go shopping. Zero time to take pictures except on tulip day. It was a tour every morning, back to the ship for lunch and then a different tour each afternoon. I really liked the ship and the staff and the room and the food. I just didn't like the touring part. It is not how Bob and I like to tour. We prefer to get out among the "natives" and mingle and enjoy their food and their shops and their culture. Now we know river cruises are not our bag.
About 1/2 the pictures I took are disasters. Now I have to figure out if it's the camera or the lenses. Ryan is helping me with this. He's also going to try to salvage some of the pictures. If it can be done, he can do it. It was very frustrating and very unfortunate.
We're home now and life should slow down. My hot tub should be working on Tuesday. The grass is growing. There are signs of spring around. I do think warmer weather may arrive one day. Bailey survived her stay at camp very well. Her skin issues seem to have cleared up. She will get groomed on Tuesday. She looks like a butterball now so she sure needs it!~
I will catch up on all youse guys threads as quickly as I can. Take care of yourselves.
Love,
Susan
Loved, loved LOVED the videos:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
The mucinex helped me a lot as well, extra strength. So glad you are feeling better. It night get warmer here next week. I have huge spots of dead grass I have to figure out how to fix. Has never happened before, that is how bad our winter was.
How are your hostas? Mine are just peeking out. They said we are 4 weeks behind normal, no leaves on the trees yet.:(:(
Hope Bailey is cuddle bunny with you. She must be so happy mama is home.
Have a great weekend!!
thanks for your words on Zoe's loving memory thread.
maybe I am too sensitive too. :o:o:o
but i dont think so in that case:(
so your words meant a lot:):):)
I was told today of controversy about using Frontline Plus for flea & tick preventative. Does anyone know anything about this?
Thanks.
Susan
hmm, I don't know, but some of the others might know Susan. I use Revolution, flea, tick, heartworm preventive that I get from the vet.
How are things going being back home? Enjoying some nice days now?
hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin
Hi Susan
I don't know either, but I would also be interested to hear. I have to swap Flynn's flea treatment from the Conformis he is on and it is due now. He has been on Frontline previously and I was considering going back to it. But I really, really want something natural. I am considering keep him off the spot-on-the-neck types. We do not have a problem with ticks so it is just fleas to get rid of. I have been putting citrus leaves and rosemary under his mattress in his bed but this is one thing I really need to research this weekend. With his liver issues I would like to keep him off as many chemicals as I can. xx
me too as I dont want to have ticks with Koko again. I used Frontline on Zoe and I swear it made her neck growth bigger. I purchased some natural tick spray last year. I was using Heartguard with Koko but after the third dose he starts having tummy issues. It has happened consistently the last 3 years.
Maybe I should look at what Sharlene is using.
Good question Sus
Susan, this may be a starting place for you -- it's the EPA's report regarding concerns with all spot-on flea and tick applications:
http://www2.epa.gov/pets/epa-evaluat...armful-effects
Marianne
I'm taking a look at the link Marianne just posted.
Evolution is also a spot on treatment. I use for small dogs and molly has never seemed to have a problem or reaction to it. I also and I know this is not what they want to us to do but I tend to go longer than every 30 days, and end up using no more than 4 during the 6 months supply. Molly has never had a tick or a flea or heartworm problem.
Weight seems to be the main issue, make sure the appropriate dosage for your dogs weight is administered. Looks like the US and Canada will be working together on this issue.
Sharlene and molly muffin
I guess I better read the dang link instead of being lazy. I'm just paranoid of all this stuff after Zoe's journey.
Update on my flea research!! Flynny and I had a visit to the pet store today. I wanted natural flea repellent and think I have found it. It is called "Washbar 100% natural Flea Repellant". You get a bar of soap and wash him in that... ohhh Flynny something to look forward to tomorrow. Then there are drops you put on his cloth collar and it contains Sunflower oil, neem oil, essential oils of cedarwood, rosemary, lemongrass, thyme and peppermint. It said to do this monthly but increase to weekly during flea season and but it is not toxic so can be applied daily. You can put it on the skin but I am doing it on the collar first to make sure he does not react to it.
Plus a powder for his food which has brewers yeast, garlic, vit c. 1 tsp a day.
I will also put the crushed fresh rosemary stems and citrus leaves under his mattress and also just under the couch beside where he lies. Hopefully that should do it and I won't have to give him the chemical drops again. He has been so much perkier the last few days apart from his itching and the scabby bits around his tail. So once I get that under control, with the cooler weather he might get some relief as the fleas die off. I am wondering if he is perkier because those flea chemicals are getting out of his system. Seems to be trembling less.
If anyone has knowledge if any of these things are potentially bad for him do let me know, it looks a lot safer than the alternative. Hope it works! x
Well I'm not the herbal expert, that would be Leslie, who knows more about that sort of thing than anyone else I know.
I do think that Flynn and your home is going to be smelling pretty wonderful with all those herbs! Awesome.
hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin
Koko's Furfume has distilled water, lemon grass, eucalyptus, pepermint, cedarwood, rosemary, cloves,coconut oil and porprietary soap- avoid the eyes
Says may use daily or as needed:confused::confused::confused::confused::con fused:
Oh that's interesting Addy, they seem to contain many of the same things. If this does not work I am going to try apple cider vinegar. You can put it in their water and also spray it on them with a mix of water, baking soda and salt.
I sprinkled the brewers yeast/garlic powder on his food this morning and he gobbled it up as usual so at least he likes it. Waiting for it to warm up a bit before giving him his shower.
He does smell nice Sharlene even with just the drops on his collar. Main smell is the lemon grass. He's smells a little like a little fragrant thai curry :D
don't you just love typing on a phone NOT, this Should read
yum and i love a thai curry, so that would work for me, except for making me hunrgy all the time. LOL
hehe, love thai curry too... especially in Thailand. Last holiday there we stayed in this little hotel on the beach and the food was out of this world, I wish I could make the chili squid dish I must have had it every day along with coconut milkshakes!
I just really like the idea of not giving him those chemicals. Hmm I have not talked this through with Mike, but will see what he says next week when we catch up sometime.
Oh it must be blissful not to be a picky eater!! Both Bailey and I are picky eaters, but Bailey is the champ. I used to worry myself about how little she ate, but I always have dry food available within reach for her and I decided when she decides she is hungry enough I guess she will do something about it. She is not a fan of any of the wet foods we have tried and I cannot get her to eat the dry food at a specified time. She does not graze. She just does not eat much at all. So for me to add things to her food to get them into her system is a no-go right from the start. She gets at least one antihistamine a day and in order to do that, it has to be hidden in peanut butter. I put it inside a rolled up piece of turkey meat today and petewie...out it came and down went the turkey.:eek:
Thank you Trish for that "formula." We have never had any ticks or fleas. Nor have I been aware of any reactions to the Frontline on any of our doggies. In my subsequent reading online, what I found seemed to indicate that Frontline is one of the better of the evils when it comes to these medications and that the important thing is to be very careful to use the proper dosing for the size of your pet. Also they warned strongly about using copycat products......not true manufacturer products. The quality of those other products is highly questionable. Not worth trying to save a few bucks.
Thanks for everybody's input! :):D
-Susan
Well for better for worse I have always used Frontline until we swapped to the Comfortis last year. The Frontline was not holding the fleas back and he was still getting itchy hence the change. Lucky you guys with no ticks or fleas.
Flynn is not a grazer either... he is a scoffer! If I left a bowl of anything down I don't think it would last very long. :D
I hope you had a wonderful Mom's Day!!!!! Did Ryan and his better half come to see you? Was the weather good?
I took a lesson from my sister-in-law's play book: I had the family here but hardly any work- I ordered everything made at the local market, hubby picked it all up and we plopped it all down hot on the dining table.
Ir was better than going out to eat because we got to sit at the dining table and talk and laugh for hours, Mom was here and so was my Koko.
No stress:D:D:D:D:D:D
Happy M day!
That sounds like a wonderful day Addy.
I hope you had a wonderful day too Susan!
Hubs and family made breakfast for me this morning and then we basically relaxed the rest of the day away. This evening we worked on getting started opening the pool. Over all it was a good day. :)
Hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin
Happy Mommy's Day to you, Addy!! I had a very relaxing day. Ryan was down to visit last weekend, as it had been his first chance to come down and visit since Christmas. We sort of celebrated Mother's Day last weekend. He and Ellen are coming down for Memorial Day weekend, which I am looking forward to. We've not seen Ellen since Thanksgiving.
The weather today was absolutely ideal. Totally blue skies, very low 80s and low humidity. Tons of pollen, but other than all that yellow everywhere, I don't seem to be bothered by pollen, ever since I gave birth to Ryan. Weird, huh?
Bob cooked some steaks on the grill, Ryan called twice and he posted a couple of pictures to my Facebook timeline-ones of the two of us when he was a little boy. I'm going over to VA on Tuesday and we'll have dinner together and he promised he has saved a hug for me! (Plus some other gift.) Somebody sure did a good job raising that kid!!:D:D
You asked-my hostas are all mostly up and looking fine. Some of the younger ones are lagging behind, but we're supposed to have a pretty decent week this week, so I think they'll catch up. My irrigation is running and everything has been fed, so I just need some warm weather and some sunshine to move things along. I just planted some French Vanilla marigold seeds which I hope will take so I can put then outside in another month. I can never find them anywhere. I meant to sow the seeds right when we came back from FL, but the illness got in the way. I think I lost 4 of my 5 roses and I don't plan to replace them. Hybrid Ts just don't do well here. I grew 31 of them in Arlington very successfully. Not here.
Have a good Monday, Addy! Woof, woof to Koko.
Finally my hostas are coming up and we may have leaves on our trees by next week. I cant plant my window boxes yet as it was own to 37 the other night so I still have frost worries.
I hope you are having good weather. we have had horrible rain day after day this week but today the sun is shining. It is hard to believe it is almost Memorial Day. Did you open the hot tub? We still have not opened the pool.
I do hope you visit with Ryan is tons of fun. I know you will enjoy it. Sounds like a wonderful weekend plan:):):):)
have to run, love you
addy
My little hostas are still coming up. My established ones are full. We have had a nice day here and there....total of three I think. The hot tub is open and running, after going through replacement of parts that broke through the winter cold. Thank goodness we paid to have it shut down and to have it opened. At least the parts and labor on the repairs were covered.....although it costs an arm and a leg for them to shut it down and to open it. Then it took several filter cycles changes to catch all the goop that was produced during this process, but it's nice and clean now.
You're on my mind every day, Addy. I wish I could help. Wasn't the race exciting yesterday? I thought of you then, too. As they rounded the third "corner" I said to Bob-he's got it, he's gonna win!
Love,
Sus
My hostas are up and full too, except for the two "blue" hostas the big leaf ones, those are just coming up.
Oh the hot tub sounds like exactly what I need today. Gardening is killing my back. :) The pool isn't heated up all the way yet. Too cold for me anyway.
I know I was telling Addy our pool looked horrible this year when we went to open it. blech!
hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin
We pulled out all the plants that decided to grow in the gravel path leading to the bridge. It already looks so much better. I lost quite a few pachysandra- I think from the salt we put down so I would not fall again carrying Zoe.
We spoke to a Realtor yesterday. She feels if we can wait one more year yo sell the house, it would be better.
We still have quite a few trees without leaves and the Emerald Ash borer is hitting our are hard:mad: Do you have problems with that in your area?
Did you decide on a tick medicine? I was going to look into the Advantage Lori is using.
I lost a lot of pachysandra but it was because I had to kill it in order to get rid of a weed that was running rampant. I can't remember the name of it now....but the only way to get rid of it is RoundUp. It looks like I was successful, but now I need to replant pachysandra. I have no idea how the weed got here....I'd never seen it anywhere before.....but it's nasty, nasty, nasty.
I've not heard tales of the Emerald Ash borer. We are almost entirely pines here. There are some deciduous trees, but they are in the minority. Actually-there are about 6 outside the two windows I have right here to look out of. I like that. I love the changing colors.
Regarding tick medicine, I had just purchased a year's supply from the vet. They said nothing about the warning. If you bought one year's worth you got $50 back plus three free doses. From what I was able to read about it, so far I'm sticking with it. The only adverse affect I've noticed from it is that it will remove my nail polish from my nails if I touch the applied area before it has had a chance to dry thoroughly.:eek: Maybe that should scare me enough!! Bob puts it on now.
I did plant a bunch of new astilbe, reds and whites and I had to replace two paniculata hydrangea. Look those up. They are wonderful. They look a little like butterfly bushes but are hydrangeas. Gorgeous. I got Limelight....either lime green or white flowers.....depending on where you read about them. I'll let you know. A neighbor let me take a bunch of her daisies so I could expand my daisy bed into where the roses were. Now I just need to thin out and spread out my black eyed Susan's on the other side. I think for next year I'd like to plant some iris out front. I don't have anything for color like that out there. I do have a bunch of daylillies...they're just not blooming yet. And I do have 4 lantana coming along, but they're so tiny right now.
That's it for the Spengler gardening report!:D
Love,
Sus
Glad to hear the gardens are coming along ladies!! Eek that tick stuff sounds toxic if it takes off nail polish :eek::eek:
Sus- did you purchase the Frontline?
Yes-I purchased Frontline Plus about one month before I ever got wind of any controversy. I'm "banking" on right dosage for right weight and Bailey is right at the top of the weight range for her strength. If she were near the bottom of the range, I would be rethinking this. I agree with Sharlene, it is upsetting to know it removes nail polish. I've been using Frontline for more than 30 years. Sometimes I have to trust.
Sus
I planted 10, which became 15 pachysandra today before a tornado ran near here. Home Depot is becoming my go to nursery. The nursery situation around here is really sad. They just don't stock much and they charge an arm and a leg for what they do have. I don't know how much rain we got, but it was in the inches range.
Ellen and Ryan come tomorrow. Really looking forward to that. We're supposed to have a pretty nice weekend, weather wise. I do think spring has finally arrived. HOORAY!!!!!
Hugs,
Sus
:eek::eek::eek: You sound so calm saying that, the hairs rose on the back of my neck!! Hmmm was it just a wee one and nothing to be alarmed about?? xQuote:
Originally Posted by Bailey's Mom
Home Depot has some good buys on plants. Ours is fairly far away so I don't go as often.
Have a great weekend with Ryan and Ellen. Happy Memorial Day!!!!
It came and went so fast, I didn't have a chance to get alarmed. We don't usually see them here. It was just a bit to the north of us and it squashed at least one house. We had next to no warning. I don't want ever to experience one of those! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Trish
-S
Dang Susan. That is fast. If they are going to come in, then I would hope to have some warning at least. :( Maybe the midwest has gotten better about that than the east coast, since they have more of them. We don't get them in my area of town that often either, but have had a couple north of us a bit. The sky looks so weird when they come in.
In the summers here the grocery's all have plant areas set up outside. Usually reasonable prices and decent plants too. I get a lot from them. Harder to find specific things I have to go to the nursery for, but then I always love browsing around those kind of places anyway, so it's not a hardship to go. LOL
Have a good long weekend
hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin
Happy Memorial Day!!!!
I hope your visit with Ellen and Ryan was great and no more tornado warnings.;) I need a full report on their visit. Any wedding bells ringing??
I am gardened out, my sinus issues are flaring from being outside with all the pollen. It is very warm and sticky today, high humidity with chance of storms.
I hope you have had a great Memorial Day weekend. We took Koko to the cemetery and I think he ate some geese poop:eek::eek::eek:
Rabbit poop, Goose poop, goodness and if you add Flynn to the mix, horse poop!!!
Hope you are having a poop free (no not constipation!!) Memorial Day weekend and having tons of fun!
hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin
Well......since you ask...........Ryan will be proposing. That is no longer a secret. On the other hand it's not public knowledge either. Ryan is the champion of procrastinators. He and Ellen went out looking for rings a couple of weeks ago. Then she decided she did not want to be a part of the process. I have offered Ryan a solitaire that has some family history to it. I think he will be taking that and putting it into a setting. Ellen is working, putting in XX hours to get her certification for her job qualifications. She will have those hours sometime in July or August. While she is working, she is 1.5 hours away from Ryan and is living out there. She is anxious to move back in-it will have been one year. She wants to be engaged before she moves in with him-she does not want to sign a separate lease. This is almost June. Ryan and I went ring setting looking that trip a couple of weeks ago when I went to VA. It was after that trip that Ellen changed her mind about taking part in the process. What Ryan and I learned is that it takes 6-8 weeks to order a setting. Ellen has very tiny fingers.......her whole body is very tiny......so a ring would need to be ordered. Resizing a ring that is in stock is not an option. It would be taking it down too many sizes. Ryan has said he will not propose without the actual ring. Once Ellen told him she wanted not to participate-she wanted to be surprised-he just dropped the ball. Also-it is important to Ellen that Ryan ask her father for her hand. That has to happen before he proposes. He's put that off as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by addy
So everybody knows it's going to happen. Everybody is waiting for it to happen. It's just not happening. I told Ryan to let me know if there was anything I could do to help regarding the engagement or the wedding. Other than that, I'm hanging back. I have the solitaire so I figure he has to let me know sooner or later that he wants the stone. I'm not going to take the ring apart until he has something specific in mind.
As for the weekend...it was very pleasant and laid back. We just hung around the house, played some dominoes and went to the beach today. Ryan and Ellen actually went in the 58 degree water. Bob and I went in up to our calves, brave souls that we are.:D Ellen's Mom is the person who had the knee surgery recently and Ellen made up a double batch of chocolate chip cookies to send some out to her and to give us some and give Ryan some. Ellen is very easy to be around. We put up a hammock, which hasn't been up in a number of years and she really liked that. Bailey threw up all over Ryan. All in all it was a fun visit.:rolleyes:
Hugs,
Sus