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It’s out of my control. I just hope this big storm that’s been thrown on me, will pass soon. I’ll come back, when it has.

Purple Heart uses a separate company called Green Drop for curbside pickup charitable donations. They have been 95% successful (despite one unsuccessful pickup). Much easier than hauling things to Goodwill.

I just need to vent. Thanks in advance, for listening.

I’m having such hard time. It’ll get better I know. But right now, it’s hard. I’ll need some luck to come my way.

I'm with you there doggie momma, I love purging, just brought 2 bags of clothes to good will this am

I am tag teaming with my mother (she is a cleaning machine even at 76) to clean out the rooms Mark's family were in and it is so gross. We had to clean up a sticky floor from his nephew throwing soda cans on the floor (thank God the roaches haven't invaded!). I spent my day picking up cigarette butts (with gloves and old clothes) that Dustin (Robert's errand boy more or less) so kindly threw all over my garage and the side of my house. Yuck. I will be so glad to move to New Mexico and have a hard and fast rule: No smoking! I do not smoke and HATE smoking. I have asthma so that stuff sticks in my chest and really hurts.

My late sister was a smoker, like at least two packs a day. My grandmother smoked. Sister died of lung cancer and grandma of pancreatic cancer. I hate how smoke smells, sticks on the walls, just everything! Luckily, my family are not smokers and hate it as much as I do. Anyway, it is nice how cleaning and getting rid of so many things makes you feel. I love the feel of being rid of so much junk.

Peace at last doggiemomma! ❤️🙂‍↕️, there is nothing better.
A lot of people talk about finding there happiness, but I think finding you peace is the most important!

I forgot how much I missed quiet and the house is so quiet now and it is so nice! My dogs are calmed down so much more. I am a quiet person in general, so it's nice to be at my house at my pace lol

DH and I downloaded a real estate app on our phones because we are looking to downsize to a ranch home in 55 and over. We use this to look at listings and then send them to our realtor when we want her to schedule a showing . It’s a popular app , I will not name it here as I can not know for sure if the following is due to them selling phone numbers or not .

However , now DH has been getting calls from some guy from some “ real estate firm” asking him if he wants to sell our house to them and stating they will pay us in cash . DH told him “ No and not to call again “
They keep calling . They just called now and DH told them “ fine , the address is 1600 Pennsylvania Ave . “ ( The White House ) . 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I ordered a pair of shoes from New Balance and finally got fed up waiting so I checked the order status - it's listed as being cancelled on the same day I placed the order 🤔
Sister and hubbie were at an appointment downtown in the city and had to pay for parking through an app or scan a QR code, neither of which they could figure out. They went inside to ask and came back out to find a $60 ticket 😖

Don't you love modern technology?

It is a short trip, about an hour, not long at all.

How long is the trip, DoggieMom?

That works out well that you have mom to help so you won't have to purchase a separate seat for the other dog.

I forgot to mention both will be in cabin with me. My mother will keep one and I will keep the other, so they will not be in cargo. That is the good thing both are under 15 lbs.

DoggieMom here is something for United Airlines website about flying with pets. I would call whichever carrier you are using and ask them. Basically you have to purchase an additional seat, etc, etc.

Also NEVER let them put the carrier in the overhead baggage compartment. They did that to a pug on a flight once (not sure which carrier) and the dog suffocated to death.

https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/travel/traveling-with-pets.html

Doggiemom,
Speak with the vet. Let him know how long trip is (often a moot point given airports and delays today). Check with airport if there is a doggie room; some have them where dog can get out, do his business and etc. Also important to know how long the trip is. Wish there was another way for the two of them. I think you can only keep one small with you and I don't trust when they are not with you. Alas. Talk with the vet. My own dog Abby, long past now, didn't do well on tranquilizers of any kind. Almost like they made her sleepy but her loss of control made her MORE anxious. So I recommend trying a dose before the move.

So, weird question, when I move I will be flying with my two small dogs. Should they be medicated? My youngest, Sky is a whiner.

It was beautiful and eerie at the same time. I was at work (I am a school librarian) and we had really good totality.

I saw Dallas go dark on the news doggiemom, it looked like a lot of fun. My son is in Austin, haven't heard from him yet, but I'm sure he saw it too.

I got to see the eclipse here in Dallas, TX. It was totality and was dark for a good three minutes. It was beautiful and reaffirms my faith in the Lord even though I am going through a rough time ATM.

I thought it was pretty cool too, I had my husbands welding Googles on. Wish it got a little darker , but it was pretty darn cool 😎

Okay that was really cool, and I'm nowhere close to the totality zone.

It was rainy here this morning and there's still heavy cloud cover, eclipse watchers may be starting to get a little anxious (I know I would be). Even though they live and work right in the zone Nephew #1 told me they have decided to watch on NASA and my good friend who also lives in the zone said she has to be at work, but Nephew #2 has his day off today and has plans to go for a little drive south to take it in - fingers crossed the skies clear!

Dollarama had no owls but they did have crows and I was wondering why anyone would buy those outside of Halloween, now I know!

cwillie, a robin kept pecking my young daughter’s bedroom window so I bought a plastic crow from the $ store and put it on her window ledge, anchored by a rock. Problem solved.

A blustery storm blew the crow off the ledge. My daughter didn’t notice until I’d had time to scribble a note to take the crow’s place. ‘I got the crow. You’re next!’, signed with a drawing of a robin. She laughed! I recently noticed she keeps that note in her memory box.

🍀🍀🤞

CW,

I planted my bell peppers. Wish me luck.

Thanks for all the ideas, I taped up a plastic drop sheet that I had on hand and so far that seems to be working, it lets in the light too.

Golden, there are plenty of cats that traverse my yard, maybe I should leave them treats! As for the meringue - I think I've tried all the things commonly recommended 🤷‍♀️

cw - get a cat I had a few years of bird trouble between losing Toonie and acquiring Rocky. I never had trouble when I had Toonie. Once I got Rocky the bird trouble decreased to almost nothing

re meringue - do you use cream of tartar? It helps.

Cwillie I have the same issue with a cardinal. I put a stuffed monkey hanging on the inside of the window and it keeps the bird away.

I don't have much faith in the idea of owls or snakes because from past experience using them in the strawberry patch the fear wears off in about a day or two, but I'm willing to give it another try. Or I may just drape the area with netting, at this point I don't care anymore if the bird gets tangled.