I truly believe I've got the best husband on earth. :smile: Today, he spent a half an hour, calling around for information, on getting a new stove for me. He is also planning on putting a space heater, in my cat barn, so the cats won't be cold this winter. It's going to run off of natural gas cylinders, which are quite expensive to run. Probably $ 80 or more a month. He would do, or pay for anything my cats need. I don't know any man, that would do, and pay for the things my husband does. He really is one of a kind. :yes: I'm soo happy that we met, and there is nobody else, I would want to spend my life with. We truly are soul mates. Every night, I pray that when our time comes, we die together, because I'm not sure, we could make it without each other. I truly am the luckiest girl in the world. :biggrin: :smitten:
Quote from: Dexter Morgan on September 08, 2007, 12:51:23 PM
I truly believe I've got the best husband on earth. :smile: Today, he spent a half an hour, calling around for information, on getting a new stove for me. He is also planning on putting a space heater, in my cat barn, so the cats won't be cold this winter. It's going to run off of natural gas cylinders, which are quite expensive to run. Probably $ 80 or more a month. He would do, or pay for anything my cats need. I don't know any man, that would do, and pay for the things my husband does. He really is one of a kind. :yes: I'm soo happy that we met, and there is nobody else, I would want to spend my life with. We truly are soul mates. Every night, I pray that when our time comes, we die together, because I'm not sure, we could make it without each other. I truly am the luckiest girl in the world. :biggrin: :smitten:
You are truly blessed Dexter. He sounds like a peach... :smitten:
Quote from: me on September 08, 2007, 12:55:05 PM
You are truly blessed Dexter. He sounds like a peach... :smitten:
He really is. :yes: I'm soo blessed to have him. Our 18 year anniversary will be next May. It seems like it was yesterday. The time really flys. We had a whirlwind courtship. We got pre engaged at 2 months, engaged at 4 months,and married at 6 months. :yes:
He would do, or pay for anything my cats need
He just doesn't want you to leave him and turn into the strange cat lady down the street! :razz:
Kidding!
I want to be able to brag about my husband some day! Wiccy, I keep meditating on it. So far so good!
Well, I hate to break it to ya Dex but I have got the best hubby in the world!!
Why, do you ask?
Because he DESPISES cats, yet he helped me give my baby a bath the other night wearing his welder gloves so the cat wouldn't Freddie Kruger him.
Kitty has been sooooooooooo flea infested--no matter what I do! So I decided the best thing to do was to bathe him (his second bath in 5 years--hey--he's a country cat--what can I do?) in a good flea and tick shampoo and put a super-strong flea and tick collar on him and then dose him with the flea and tick medicine that you put between their shoulder blades and THEN hose him down with flea and tick spray.
Let's just say that kitty is very clean, smells great and is happy as can be. After the bath he even went up to hubby purring and rubbing on his legs to say, "Thanks, Dad."
:meow:
PS Your hubby ain't half-bad, either! :salute:
Quote from: kimmi on September 08, 2007, 02:00:52 PM
He would do, or pay for anything my cats need
He just doesn't want you to leave him and turn into the strange cat lady down the street! :razz:
Kidding!
I want to be able to brag about my husband some day! Wiccy, I keep meditating on it. So far so good!
LMAO!!! I already am that strange cat lady. :biggrin: I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you. :yes:
Quote from: tallulahdahling on September 08, 2007, 03:46:04 PM
Well, I hate to break it to ya Dex but I have got the best hubby in the world!!
Why, do you ask?
Because he DESPISES cats, yet he helped me give my baby a bath the other night wearing his welder gloves so the cat wouldn't Freddie Kruger him.
Kitty has been sooooooooooo flea infested--no matter what I do! So I decided the best thing to do was to bathe him (his second bath in 5 years--hey--he's a country cat--what can I do?) in a good flea and tick shampoo and put a super-strong flea and tick collar on him and then dose him with the flea and tick medicine that you put between their shoulder blades and THEN hose him down with flea and tick spray.
Let's just say that kitty is very clean, smells great and is happy as can be. After the bath he even went up to hubby purring and rubbing on his legs to say, "Thanks, Dad."
:meow:
PS Your hubby ain't half-bad, either! :salute:
My husband doesn't do allot of hands on stuff with the cats, but if I ask him to help me with them, he always does. Last Summer, we had to cut a chunk out of our deck, because a kitten got his leg, all the way to the shoulder, stuck between the slats in the deck. He went out and got the circular saw, and didn't even think twice about cutting the deck. This morning when he came home from work, he woke me up and said " I hate to tell you this, but I found one of the cats dead in the road." I said "ok I'll go get it." He said he had gotten it already. So, we went out and I looked it over and I said "It isn't one of ours." He says"Its got to be." It wasn't one of ours, we think somebody dumped it, and it didn't know to stay off the road. :'(
People like to drop off unwanted animals in the country for some reason. They did that when I was a kid. At one point, I had a dozen stray dogs. Mom didn't care, because all dogs were outside dogs and eventually, they'd wander off. I think that's about the cruelest thing. Especially with the resources available now, there's no reason for it.
I think, in happy relationships, each person should find ways to show interest in the things their partner is doing. It probably seems like a small thing to them, but the feeling equates to ... "they care about me, because the care about what's important to me." I'm sure both of your husbands brag about you ladies and how happy you make them too.
Quote from: PIYA on September 09, 2007, 06:49:32 AM
I'm sure both of your husbands brag about you ladies and how happy you make them too.
If he's bragging about hotflashes then you're right on the money, PIYA--- :rotfl:
I know what you mean about abandoning animals in the country or at dumpster sites. There is a very popular dump site near my community and myself and these nice people who feed the animals dumped there held a stakeout earlier this spring and caught TWELVE of these buttwipes.
They had to pay $500 fines--Man I love it when the law works in your favor, don't you? :busted:
Quote from: PIYA on September 09, 2007, 06:49:32 AM
People like to drop off unwanted animals in the country for some reason. They did that when I was a kid. At one point, I had a dozen stray dogs. Mom didn't care, because all dogs were outside dogs and eventually, they'd wander off. I think that's about the cruelest thing. Especially with the resources available now, there's no reason for it.
I think, in happy relationships, each person should find ways to show interest in the things their partner is doing. It probably seems like a small thing to them, but the feeling equates to ... "they care about me, because the care about what's important to me." I'm sure both of your husbands brag about you ladies and how happy you make them too.
I try to be involved in his hobbies as much as I can. He flys r/c helicopters, so we go to fly ins, swap meets, club meetings, and mall shows, when we have time. My hobby is my cats. :biggrin:
Quote from: tallulahdahling on September 09, 2007, 09:42:45 AM
If he's bragging about hotflashes then you're right on the money, PIYA--- :rotfl:
I know what you mean about abandoning animals in the country or at dumpster sites. There is a very popular dump site near my community and myself and these nice people who feed the animals dumped there held a stakeout earlier this spring and caught TWELVE of these buttwipes.
They had to pay $500 fines--Man I love it when the law works in your favor, don't you? :busted:
Cool!!!! You're like a feline swat team LOL!!! They ought to have to pay. A lady at Walmart told me, she lives out in the country, and one day she heard a vehicle pull up, and got there just in time, to see a truck taking off, in the road was 2 chickens, a cat, a dog, and a pot bellied pig. :spooked: The guy got away, and she ended up keeping all of them. She said she didn't really need the pig, but it was soo cute, she didn't want to take it to the shelter. Just when you think you've heard everything LOL!!! :spooked:
I always wanted a pot bellied pig, then I found out how large they can get, so we settled for a guinea pig. :biggrin:
Quote from: PIYA on September 10, 2007, 01:41:08 PM
I always wanted a pot bellied pig, then I found out how large they can get, so we settled for a guinea pig. :biggrin:
Pot bellied pigs are cool. :yes: I worked at an orchard that had a petting zoo. They had 2 of them, it always amazed me how much, and what they ate. The boss told us to feed them the rotten produce, when we did our daily quality control check. They ate everything, but peppers. They wouldn't touch the peppers. One morning, I had some peaches that were just soft enough that we couldn't sell them, so I was cutting the pits out of them, and my boss says "give them to them whole". :spooked: I said "With the pits in them?" She said "yeah". To my amazement they ate the pit and all. :spooked: Man, that would have to hurt comming out. :spooked: A friend of mine bought what they thought was a pot bellied pig. They kept it in the house. As it got older it grew in to a full sized regular pig LOL!!! They let it stay in the house. They had 22 dogs, 35 cats, rabbits, a miniature pony,and the pig, all in the house. One night they went out, and the house caught fire. :yes: They were lucky to have that pig, because it freaked out, and crashed through the door, and most of the animals got out. It was pretty chaotic, from what I've heard. People who saw it said, when the pig crashed through the door, it kept on running,and somebody across town got it,and took it back. I can only imagine that pig running aimlessly through town LMAO!!!! :rotfl: :rotfl:
Oh no! The pig saved the day...
I have a pig story. Growing up on a farm, we were taught not to befriend the animals. Everything there except the dogs, cats, geese, ducks and dairy cow was food. Anyway, we had a female hog w/a piglet die and he was too little to take care of himself, so we became his mother. Mom put him on our enclosed back porch and he became a pet, to me anyway.
He grew really big and mom put him outside, but he thought he could still come in the house and would take the legs out from under anybody trying to come in through the back. LOL
Anyway, one of my jobs was to feed the animals. I noticed that he hadn't cleaned up his slop for a couple days, so I mentioned it to mom. He had been closer than I thought. Parts of him had been on my plate. To this day...I don't care for pork. She could have told me, but she thought it was in my best interest to learn the lesson the hard way.
Quote from: PIYA on September 11, 2007, 01:31:22 AM
Oh no! The pig saved the day...
I have a pig story. Growing up on a farm, we were taught not to befriend the animals. Everything there except the dogs, cats, geese, ducks and dairy cow was food. Anyway, we had a female hog w/a piglet die and he was too little to take care of himself, so we became his mother. Mom put him on our enclosed back porch and he became a pet, to me anyway.
He grew really big and mom put him outside, but he thought he could still come in the house and would take the legs out from under anybody trying to come in through the back. LOL
Anyway, one of my jobs was to feed the animals. I noticed that he hadn't cleaned up his slop for a couple days, so I mentioned it to mom. He had been closer than I thought. Parts of him had been on my plate. To this day...I don't care for pork. She could have told me, but she thought it was in my best interest to learn the lesson the hard way.
:cry: What a hard lesson to learn. When I was little we had a pet cow, we called him Sambo. We watched Dad load him into the truck one day,and he said he found a home, where he'd have everything his heart desired. A few months later we told our Grandma (Dad's mom) that Dad found a great home for Sambo. She says "Yeah that steak and hamburger you've been eating." :spooked: She was a very cruel woman. My sister and I cried all the way home. My Mom was soo pissed, she didn't talk to Grandma for months. She didn't have to tell us that, we were little kids. I wouldn't eat meat for a long time after that. :no:
Well, and that was a fact of life for us. We knew that the animals were food w/exception to the ones listed. I shouldn't have been surprised that Pigley met the same end, but because we were allowed to treat him as a pet, I let my guard down. She meant well. She didn't know that I'd grow up and know anything else. I guess she thought I'd be living on a farm too.
Well, as some of you that read my threads know, my Hubby has been real sick. He's still feeling pretty awful, and waiting for his next CT scan is killing us. The worst part is not knowing if it's cancer. He goes Nov. 10th for the scan, a COPD, and Asthma tests. His next appointment with the Pulmonary specialist is Nov. 17 th. I'm trying to be optimistic, and I'm trying to keep him from losing hope. It's pretty miserable for him trying to work with his lungs like they are. His breathing medicine is helping a little but not much. It's cold in Chicago at night when he's working the docks. It seems like I can never say the right thing to him so, I don't say much at all. There's a big white elephant in the corner of our living room, and everyday we work hard to avoid it. I'll try to keep this thread updated for anybody that cares to read it.
Oh my! Dex, I just saw this.
How is he holding up? What a difficult position for you both to be in. I've been in a similar situation and the range of emotions involved is honestly like an emotional landmine and rollercoaster all at the same time and many of them were difficult to understand, much less deal with.
You and Mr. Morgan are in my thoughts. Hang in there.
Quote from: Sandy Eggo on November 01, 2008, 02:56:15 PM
Oh my! Dex, I just saw this.
How is he holding up? What a difficult position for you both to be in. I've been in a similar situation and the range of emotions involved is honestly like an emotional landmine and rollercoaster all at the same time and many of them were difficult to understand, much less deal with.
You and Mr. Morgan are in my thoughts. Hang in there.
He's feeling a little better, and is finally eating again. He lost some weight, but he's starting to recover. The breathing medicine is working.... so far. Nov. 10 he has his lung scan done, and his Asthma, and COPD test. We're trying to stay positive, and aren't discussing anything about it. I will be extremely glad when Nov. 17th gets here. That's the day we talk to the Pulmonary specialist, and get the results back. At first I had a REAL bad feeling about this but, now I'm very calm, and feeling very peaceful. I think it's gonna be alright. Damn me if I'm wrong. :yes:
I'll be sending positive thoughts your way Dexter.
Quote from: me on November 01, 2008, 11:10:05 PM
I'll be sending positive thoughts your way Dexter.
Thanks me!!!! We need all we can get. Today, he's is actually feeling well enough to fly his R/C helicopter. He hasn't felt like doing much of that so, that is a very good sign. We've decided if his tests come out good, we're going all out for Christmas this year. We're gonna decorate the outside of the house to the max, for all our neighbors, and ourselves to enjoy. I'm gonna work on the plans today, about what I want where, and what color scheme I'm going with. It's good to stay positive, and not give in to despair. :yes:
This is an update about my husband... he had his second CT scan a week ago, and yesterday we saw the pulmonary specialist. The nodule hasn't grown, which is really good news. Next Monday he is having a PET scan. It checks the nodule for live activity, which basically means cancer. The following Monday, we go back to the pulmonary specialist to get the results. If there is no live activity, we've decided that that's it for testing. We don't want to keep taking tests that aren't necessary. Those tests are extremely expensive. We have damn good insurance but, we don't want to be "played" by the doctor. Sometimes, they test you for no other reason than to make a buck$. I'll post when I have more news.
That's encouraging, Dexter! I'll keep my fingers crossed that everything goes smoothly on your next visit.
That is encouraging Dexter. Sending lots of positive thoughts your way.
Thanks guys. :smile: Just a few more days until the next scan. I'm hoping everything will be alright by Christmas. Hopefully, we will have something to really celebrate for the holidays. :yes: