Pawrents Prater

Good morning everyone Happy Thursday
Well Anick I am sure your shawl will be the perfect size. I guess I do put too much tension on my yarn for it to be smaller. The second ball of burgundy due on the 28th so I will work on the baby blanket till the yarn comes in will only need a little of it have 2 rows of border done only have 1 more to do. I am glad you had some cooler weather and enjoyed agility
Carol it surprised me too that she wants to be a mortician or that she was even thinking about a future. I told her don't let any guy keep you from your goal get to it then get involved with a guy. At least it would be a secure job people are always dying and they get good money for funerals.
Lisa I like to hear about woman in non traditional roles too. Is that book that you said good for a teenager to read I will get it for her to read.
I pray if any of our members are in that path of the hurricane they are safe I heard it made landfall last night with winds of 150 miles. also for the fires in California glad to hear they are 90 percent contained I was told yesterday California is expecting a 10 or higher earthquake they are due for one. I don't think I would want to live in California they have been having a lot of disaster.
We know Marty safe from fires but hope if there is an earthquake it is not near them.
Leslie I am sorry your eyes swell up so you cannot be doing crochet like you enjoy.
Today I am playing games with Rosemarie when done we are going grocery shopping then. Jerry bringing Chloe over for me to dog sit and some of their fresh eggs from their hens so I won't buy eggs from the grocery store. They are going where they usually go since they have their camper parked there.
Laura your namesake has hit shore last night
Hugs Dee & Tori

Lisa, I had a friend telling me she had heard one estimate that we will be wearing masks for the next four years. I sure hope that isn't right.

Part of me wishes I was getting together with my ukulele buddies in person, but it's still a little warmer outside than what I want for playing. You should join us. Heck you can play the spoons, the kazoo or whatever.

This Saturday is international Play Music On Your Porch Day. Last year I had a lot of fun with it. My next door neighbor and I got a little group together and played maybe for about an hour. We had her on fiddle, me on my banjolele, her dad on guitar, another neighbor on viola for a song or two and then on guitar, and a couple of others singing. We even had another lady from up the street that stopped to listen. It was a lot of fun. I had been looking forward to it again this year, but looks like I will be playing by myself on my porch. The next door neighbor and her parents are going to be at the beach, and the other neighbor now has three kids (the oldest 3 years old) and no one to help watch her kids so she can play. At the start of the year I had thought of sticking notes in paper boxes on the street inviting everyone to join in, but then the pandemic hit. I may try to plan something for next year. Thought I could have links to music online so everyone that wanted to participate could print out the songs and be practicing them if they wanted. Guess I can look at the pandemic as a way to have more time to plan for next year and get organized - pick out music and make it available online, etc.

Dee, I had to laugh. Someone told me there was a petition to rename my namesake hurricane to Polo ... since Marco just hit. BOL On a more serious note, hope everyone is safe and has no damage from the storm.

I am pooped! Yesterday I went over to cut up a large limb that had fallen at my parents house. They have a battery powered chain saw that I used for the first time earlier this year. When we headed out mom and dad came with me. Thought dad was just going to supervise, but he picked up the chain saw and got started on it. It actually made me very nervous. First, we were on a hillside, and his balance since his fall a couple of years ago just hasn't been good. Then, I don't think he seems as aware and careful as he used to me. The way he was standing to cut had his legs too close. Scared me to death. I was happy when he couldn't get to something because of branches in his way and he handed over the chain saw to me. I did the rest of it and didn't give it back to him. I am glad he felt well enough to get started on it, and wanted to do something and not just sit in his recliner, but I want everyone to be safe. How do you let him keep active and feeling useful, but keep him safe?

Today I worked on my yard. Both yesterday and today have felt very humid. At this point I wouldn't mind a hurricane coming up through here so it could get the air moving better. hehe. I may have to eat my words. We had a lot of wind damage one year where hurricane made a path up this way and still had plenty of bluster left when it got here.

- Laura (Pippi, Cheeky, Inky and Nimbus)

I have not been around yesterday because my old Teddy had some kind of a seizure the night before. We are not sure what it really was because it was over when we got the vet and he did something like that last year too. Now he is tired, doesn't eat a lot but he is starting to walk on his own again so we are hopeful.

Dee, I was looking at pictures from LA and the hurricane damage as well. I can't imagine having to deal with some of the overwhelming clean up. Did you ever have any hurricanes hit in your area when you lived in FL?

I hope the zoom Bingo goes well and everyone has a good time. Not the same as being there in person, but still nice to connect with others and have some fun.

Anick, sending some gentle for Teddy. I sure hate to hear that. I know it can be frustrating when you don't know what's going on for sure. Hope it won't happen again any time soon, and hope Teddy will bounce back well. Please keep us posted.

I have not looked at the weather to see if the remnants of Laura are still supposed to bring me some rain and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow. I won't be surprised if we do get some weather out of it. The wind has picked up and the barometric pressure has dropped quite a bit and boy can my arthritis feel it. The wind isn't bad, and it's nice to get the air moving a little. Yesterday seemed so humid and stuffy. I'll have to see if I can find the thundershirt for Pip. She has never been a big fan of thunderstorms, but the last few she has been shaking like a leaf. Hate to see her so upset by it. Me, I love a good thunderstorm.

I treated myself to a new music book. It's one that I think will be good for the bluegrass group at the library when we can meet again. It has two fiddle parts and mandolin tabs. What I like about it though is it comes with music you can download and play along with. Wish it had audio of all the parts together, but I can at least play along with either a fiddle or mandolin. I like that because even if I don't know the song I can hear how it goes. So I will be enjoying that this weekend.

- Laura (Pippi, Cheeky, Inky and Nimbus)

Good morning everyone Happy Saturday
Anick we are for Teddy sorry to hear he had a seizure we hope he doesn't have any more
Carol glad all your pups are doing well and congratulations on getting a new mower
Laura when I lived in Florida I lived in the central part not on the coast line. I lived in Ocala Fl but my boss had told me if a hurricane every hit Daytona Beach head on we would feel more than just winds to knock down trees and overturn cars and we were an hour from Daytona Beach. I remember in 2004 I was watching my niece Amber who was 6 months old her parents both in the army were deployed to Iraq. We had 4 hurricanes hit in one month time one a week I bought her a shirt that said I survived and listed each hurricane. Whenever one was predicted I fixed our walk in closet in the bedroom for me, Ward, Amber and the 2 dogs at that time with their kennel and food and drink supplies just in case but watched the news since I had someone else kid if it was coming to Florida Ward and I took them went to a Georgie hotel stayed there watched the news but when it switched and was heading to Georgie then we drove back to Ocala. If it was just me and Ward we would have just made it to the closet there are no basements in Florida said to seek shelter in an inner room away outside walls. We were blessed our power went out for a couple hours then back on and no damager to our house and no flooding on our street but road going to work were flooded they were pumping water from them. But again Ocala just got heavy winds and rain or spin off tornado from hurricanes not hit directly with a hurricane.
Our weather man told us we will be getting heavy rains the next couple days due to the hurricane
Toby hoping mommy's eye doctor appointment goes well
Tori goes to the vet for blood work on Monday
Hugs
Dee & Tori

Anick, prayers and much Love for Teddy. For all also.
Carol and Molly and Pooks

Good morning everyone Happy Sunday
Anick we are for Teddy with my girls and their health I am glad they did not have seizures but will have to keep an eye on Tori as the support group for Cushings a lot talk about how cushings causes their dogs to have seizures and tumors.
Laura i believe it is her yearly blood work she doesn't get the Cushing blood work till November to determine if she is still taking the right dosage for her cushings. I made it to check her anals as she keeps smelling them but they told me she is due for her blood work and why not do it while I have her there and I said fine. I have to get her dog food too down to one cane. Today or should I say this evening Jerry will be picking up Chloe so far I have had not problems with her attacking Tori now that I make sure their food dish is on opposite sides of the kitchen.
Carol you get your new self propelled mower and soon it will be time you don't need to cut grass anymore
Leslie I am your eye doctor can help with your eyes so you can get back to enjoying doing your crafts.
Lisa the book The Stiff you recommended for Devan came the other day will give it to Jerry when he picks Chloe up this evening.
The yarn hasn't come yet and they told me I can either cancel or get a replacement when I tried doing it told me could not for me to contact customer service I did that last night at 8:30 pm they asked if it was about the yarn I said Yes they asked has it come yet I said No so they said you are due for a replacement do you want a replacement i said yes so he said it will ship out but in the meantime if your yarn arrives then you can tell them this replacement you don't accept or ship it back. He said I should get it in a couple days. I have been working on the baby blanket I started before while waiting for the yarn. This is the first time ever ordering from Amazon my order did not come within 2 days. It shipped on the 24th so today will be 6 days.
Hugs Dee & Tori