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Post by Paws on Aug 26, 2010 3:09:45 GMT 12.75
Claw, crap, whiz, tear down curtains, pull off the table cloth, upset the floor fans, knock down the window fans, steal socks out of the hamper, dump their feed platter on the floor, splash water all over, knock the coffee pot off the counter, steal jewelry out of the drawers, chew up ball point pens, and get hair, snot, and throw up all over the place. Near as bad as a wife, girlfriend or room mate!
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Aug 26, 2010 12:19:48 GMT 12.75
Claw, crap, whiz, tear down curtains, pull off the table cloth, upset the floor fans, knock down the window fans, steal socks out of the hamper, dump their feed platter on the floor, splash water all over, knock the coffee pot off the counter, steal jewelry out of the drawers, chew up ball point pens, and get hair, snot, and throw up all over the place. Near as bad as a wife, girlfriend or room mate! I thought you were describing yourself!!!
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Post by Paws on Sept 5, 2010 10:14:57 GMT 12.75
Claw, crap, whiz, tear down curtains, pull off the table cloth, upset the floor fans, knock down the window fans, steal socks out of the hamper, dump their feed platter on the floor, splash water all over, knock the coffee pot off the counter, steal jewelry out of the drawers, chew up ball point pens, and get hair, snot, and throw up all over the place. Near as bad as a wife, girlfriend or room mate! I thought you were describing yourself!!! Naw, I only do that when I'm having sex!
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Post by Snake Eyes on Sept 5, 2010 21:20:10 GMT 12.75
Paws, So, you are saying your home is perfectly neat at all times!
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Post by Paws on Sept 6, 2010 1:28:41 GMT 12.75
Naw, haven't straightened up since August 4, 2007.
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Post by Paws on Sept 17, 2010 15:11:39 GMT 12.75
Athens got hit pretty heavy by storms and tornados tonight in and around. The Plains just outside the city was hit in a trailer park with lots of damage and injuries. At this minute access to the town is restricted to emergency response vehicles only. The Athens Messenger newspaper building near there lost its roof and the Athens High School lost two roof mounted air conditioners destroying parked cars and sustained aditional damage to the building. On East State street in Athens the Auto Tech repair shop was destroyed as was nearly the Super 8 Motel near Holzier clinic. At present much of the city is without power. Tornado touch downs have been reported from Reedsville to Grove City over an approximate 80 mile distance.
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Post by Snake Eyes on Sept 18, 2010 1:19:55 GMT 12.75
Athens got hit pretty heavy by storms and tornados tonight in and around. The Plains just outside the city was hit in a trailer park with lots of damage and injuries. At this minute access to the town is restricted to emergency response vehicles only. The Athens Messenger newspaper building near there lost its roof and the Athens High School lost two roof mounted air conditioners destroying parked cars and sustained aditional damage to the building. On East State street in Athens the Auto Tech repair shop was destroyed as was nearly the Super 8 Motel near Holzier clinic. At present much of the city is without power. Tornado touch downs have been reported from Reedsville to Grove City over an approximate 80 mile distance. Paws, Kind of wierd the way this storm tracked. Down your way, one minute and North of Columbus thr next....Took the roof off a High School gym in Delaware,OH.
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Post by Paws on Sept 18, 2010 6:32:06 GMT 12.75
Got word that one of the house trailers destroyed on the Plains belongs to a cousin who can not be found. Word is that special SAR teams from the State and Fed Govt were out last night searching for missing folk. Some 200 are homeless and quatered on campus. Sheriff has set up a command post in the high school building and virtually shut down the town. Gas smells and electric lines are the concern at present. 18,600 are out of electric and not expected to be restored before Sunday. In Glouster last night the Police Department declared Martial Law. Heard that Grove City was hit as well. Sure hope my darling wife is OK. I took a ride down State street this morning and there is no power in that section of town. Virtually everything is closed. No traffic signals asre working but the somewhat heavy traffic is cooperating very nicely. As you get further down the street toward Belpre debris is noticeable. Auto Tech building looks like the support structure was blown out from under it and just collapsed on itself. Debris from there is scattered all over. Lots of trees down and limbs . Photos and videos are making their way onto Facebook and YouTube. Here I have power lines tangled up with one of the trees at the far end of the property by the old house. Power lines, phone lines, and the mast drop lines are all engaged. Considering that this site where I sit has already lost one house trailer; I'm lucky.
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Post by brittonfaith on Sept 18, 2010 8:47:54 GMT 12.75
Have been trying to keep up with storm/aftermath details as best as I can from here. Any word yet on your cousin?
Finally got calls around 11:00 last night from the family at Coolville. They said the two main super cells went to the east and west of them. Lots of lightning and wind and they could see power transformers catching fire all around them. No damage there, but nephew spent the night at Little Hocking helping his girlfriends family cleanup their mess.
I saw your Sheriff Kelley on TV. Mom always said the eyes are a window to the soul. Well, that man must be a saint! Instead of confusion, dismay or panic in his eyes like I've seen from others in like situations, I saw a man who is caring and compasionate - not just for his county, but one-on-one for each and every individual affected by the storm.
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Post by Paws on Sept 18, 2010 9:31:41 GMT 12.75
Pat is aces in my book. He is a Vietnam Marine Officer Veteran. His house is on The Plains and got some damage. Here is a daylight picture of The Plains. We have heard nothing from Punk so far. Last night: Here is Pat and his son Joel who was just graduated from the Academy last month. Yep, he is my hero!
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Post by Paws on Sept 19, 2010 13:16:33 GMT 12.75
Missing cousin is OK. In the hospital with some broken ribs but in stable condition. ;D
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Post by brittonfaith on Sept 19, 2010 15:39:59 GMT 12.75
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by brittonfaith on Sept 28, 2010 8:19:24 GMT 12.75
Well....since we're not suppose to be posting to the sub-boards in the recipe box, I'll post my comment here. After the Chicken Chili incident here on the hill, I'm a little skeered of trying any recipe you suggest that contains the word[glow=red,2,300] Blazin'[/glow] I think chewing on wasabi would be a safer bet.
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Post by Paws on Sept 29, 2010 2:05:00 GMT 12.75
You wussie! Wasabi has a totally different kind of heat. It just politely warms your mouth degree by degree until you see flame. That cayenne does like too much black pepper and just grabs your throat like molten lead all at once and scalds off the first twelve layers of dermis, and there are only three, so you can't cry out for help! Wasabi will clear your sinus while cayenne cleans your chitlins! I'm wanting to lay hands on that ghost chile I keep hearing about. They say it is like a hundred times hotter than a Scotch Bonnet. Those are hot but really tasty. As near as I can tell the cayenne has no flavor element to contribute beyond bringing a good chile powder together with the cumin and turmeric and lending the heat. Beyond that, it is just plain mean!
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Post by Paws on Sept 29, 2010 2:11:29 GMT 12.75
By Stephanie Tweito Jacob Sep 27th 2010 4:30PM Categories: Healthy Living, Better Body Better Living Aristotle said fulfillment and contentment are pathways to happiness. Those enjoyable-sounding trails, however, are often muddied by roadblocks, says M.J. Ryan, executive coach and author of "The Happiness Makeover." The good news is you can learn to navigate the obstacles. "Studies show that, on average, around 50 percent of happiness can be cultivated in ourselves and 50 percent is innate," she says. "Some people have a higher or lower set point than others, but everyone can learn to be happier by actions that they take." It does take work -- you're essentially retraining thought processes that have been around as long as you have. "You're not going to change from a pessimist to an optimist over night," cautions Ryan. "But even someone who is chemically depressed can feel less depressed." The first step is to know what may be standing in your way and then learn how to reroute yourself. Here, some of the most common roadblocks to happiness and a guide for getting around them. Expecting the worst all the time. Does the phrase "if I expect the worst, then I won't be let down" cross your mind on a regular basis? Imagining a bad outcome elicits negative emotions like worry and fear that, in turn, ignite the stress response that floods our bodies with cortisone and adrenaline, says Ryan. When that stress response is chronically turned on, it not only wears down your body's immune system, but it also zaps your chance of experiencing a positive feeling, like happiness. "You can't have a negative emotion and a positive emotion simultaneously," says Ryan. "It's physiologically not possible." All you're doing by worrying or anticipating something that isn't happening (and may never happen) "is keeping the stress response turned on way high and not enjoying whatever you could enjoy in that moment," says Ryan. Essentially, you're cheating yourself out of happiness. Passing the buck. If you feel you deserve to be happy and your [insert kid, parent, spouse, job, car or new pair of shoes here] is supposed to make you happy, keep reading. "There's absolutely positive proof that that's just not true," says Ryan. "For a moment something else can actually boost us up, but it's only a matter of time before we're looking for the next thing." It's an insatiable cycle that won't result in long-term happiness. Not convinced? Think of it conversely. "We always used to believe that if terrible things happened, we'd be miserable forever, right? In fact, people who've had terrible things happen dip down for a while, but eventually they return to the level of happiness they had before," Ryan says. "Happiness isn't about our circumstances as much as we think it is." Rather, your happiness is your own responsibility. Try turning your focus within: What are the gifts that I have, who am I and what do I have uniquely to offer, and when I go and offer that, I feel better and happier. "That's essentially what Aristotle meant by fulfillment," says Ryan. "It has nothing to do with anyone else or anything." Thinking life should be perfect -- and yours isn't. For starters, the world isn't perfect. So you're fighting a losing battle if you think yours can be. If you're always in a state of discontent -- reveling in what's wrong with, or missing from or undesirable about your life, you're probably not thinking about what is actually good about it. "Ask yourself three questions at the end of the day," says Ryan. "What am I thankful for today? What did I enjoy today? And what am I satisfied about today? And you can't say 'nothing.' You have to come up with something." The point is to focus on what you do have -- be it pets, relationships, experiences, favorite places -- so you don't have to think about what you don't have. "It shines a flashlight of awareness about what's good and whole and enjoyable in our lives rather than the want, want, want. I want this; I don't have that." Research has even shown that a regular practice of gratitude -- simply asking yourself questions like those above -- has been found to decrease depression, even in severely depressed people. Not thinking of others. Ever. It turns out being generous can make you happier. You don't have to have a million dollars to donate to the charity of your choice to reap the benefits, either. People who simply do five small random acts of kindness -- putting a quarter in someone else's parking meter or opening the door for someone -- have been found to be happier than those who don't, says Ryan. "In doing these things, we activate the part of our brains that give us a little endorphin boost so we feel better." Expecting life to be fair. Life isn't fair. And fretting about the lack of fairness that exists essentially leads to comparing yourself, your life or your situation to someone else's and then feeling worse about yourself, your life or your situation. The trick isn't to stop comparing, says Ryan, because there's a part of the brain that can't help but compare -- it's to compare well. In other words, try what's called a downward comparison. For example, if being treated unfairly by a friend or spouse or boss has you upset, try thinking, "Well, at least I'm not [going hungry]." It helps you understand that, relatively speaking, your situation may not be so bad. "Your brain is going to compare, so you might as well have it compare in the direction that's going to make you happier, rather than miserable," says Ryan. "You will actually feel better." Bonus: It may also make you more giving. "People who downward compare are more generous than others because they recognize their relative well-offness and then want to help others as a result," says Ryan. The bottom line. The trick with all of these is to catch yourself on the negative-thinking road and make a choice to think about it differently instead. "You want to build the positive habits like a road that exists alongside the negative ones," Ryan says. "It's there -- your stress, worry, anger -- whatever it is, but you're building another way of looking at life, approaching life, dealing with people. It's substituting those thoughts for more wholesome thoughts." I was wondering if some kind soul might pass this on to my darling idiot wife.
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Post by Paws on Oct 6, 2010 2:28:08 GMT 12.75
I sure am glad this house has 3 bathrooms! Thank God one is close enough to get to from the kitchen in less than three seconds! I sure am glad I only use it occasionally and don't need to go in there again for at least a week! I mean gee whiz; after chile for brunch yesterday, smoked sausage and beer for dinner last night and chile and scrambled eggs for breakfast this morning.... I sure am glad that bathroom was close by.
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Post by Paws on Oct 11, 2010 10:54:47 GMT 12.75
I'm on the phone here with Elk Hunter (Russ Goddard). Wait until you see what this boy has done now! He'll have the pictures up on facebook soon and I'll link them in here. You gonna love it!
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Post by Paws on Oct 12, 2010 4:50:53 GMT 12.75
My cat Sammy, the diabetic, is at the vets. His eye was swollen up Friday night and I thought maybe he got in a fight, I kicked him getting out of bed, I stuck the rubber broom in it dragging him out from under the dresser, etc... Anyway Doc says it looks like an abscess of some sort and the seepage is mucous rather than pus although he does have a fever. He is getting sedated, examined, X-rayed, probable surgery to clean him up and whatever else he needs. I hope it is not some kind of tumor. Doc suggests this a a possibility but says all the tissue seems to be soft. It may be just a severe sinusitis problem. please. I know he is a pain but he is also my buddy.
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Post by Paws on Oct 12, 2010 5:52:50 GMT 12.75
;D ;D Vet says no tumor, just a serious sinus infection. They got him drained and on antibiotics. Say "Praise God!" They are amazed there was no tumor. I am so thankful.
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Post by Paws on Oct 12, 2010 10:41:25 GMT 12.75
Well the operation was successful but the patient died. Doc just called. She went in to get a glucose sample and Sammy had died.
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