These girls make my day. Their laughter is contagious. Allyssa is showing me, in the first pic, her blowing a bubble with her gum, woo-hoo. Dakota is trying to hide from me and giggling like crazy in the next photo and the next two are of my baby girls almost relaxing! Sometimes they are the only ones who bring me out of my blues which here lately have been daily. Between hot weather, bills, a satan co-worker, and just plain out being tired, tired, tired, I can't get a break. By the time I get home from work, I don't feel like doing anything or going anywhere. I usually get them on Wednesdays and Fridays after I get off of work. Friday is one of Natasha's late nights so it is usually 7:15 before she gets here to pick them up, and let me tell you I am really worn out by then! But then when they are gone, I miss them like crazy. We have not really have any rain to amount to anything in a week or so. We have had little sprinkles every now and then, but that is all.

I am proud to announce that Miss Kitty is 110% better. The local Animal Shelter announced last week that there had been an outbreak of feline distemper running rapidly through Greenville County and another nearby county. Miss Kitty is not an outdoor cat, but occassionally we let her out for about 30 minutes to "get a breath of fresh air". Well, that one time we let her out, she got sick. I thought she might have been biten by some other animal, (snake, oppossum) but then when I found out the symptoms of the distemper, she had all of them. Of course, she had it 3 weeks before they announced it, hmmmmmmm????!!!!!! Why did the vet not suspect it? Don't know, but she is so much better and back to her old self. I thought we were going to loose her for a while. Of course, she is happier too b/c I switched her food from Friskies (could it have been the food?) back to her Iams with hairball control. She loves that food!

Hanzo is 4 1/2 months old now, growing like a week, ALL PUPPY. We have a kiddy pool in his kennel so when he goes out for the afternoon, (after I get home) he can cool off. He also have a 3 gal. galvanized bucket for his drinking water that I refresh every day. He sits there and "digs at the water" in the bucket until there is no more DRINKING WATER. We are trying to train him not to do that, if he empties the bucket there is no more drinking water. Does he care, apparently not, b/c he still does it. Crazy dog! He stays in his inside kennel during the day when we are at work and at night. I put him out in the morning in his 10x10 kennel until Vincent gets ready to leave for work, then his brings him in. Pretty lucky dog actually, he stays in the house with the air conditioning!

Well, guess I had better go for now, will try to post again tomorrow and get back into a more consistent pattern again. It is just so hard when you are tired!!!!!!!

Nothing going on....

Nothing going on here right now. On the even kil other than it is hot. We had a sudden storm and when I say sudden, I mean like within minutes, the wind started blowing HARD, yes the scary kind of wind, I looked out the window and was going out to get Hanzo, the pup, and as I opened the back glass door, I thought for a second I was in Kansas with Dorothy!!!!! I seen the corner of Hanzo's fence/pen come up, I ran faster and as I got to the pen to open the gate the whole pen (10x10) came down on both of us. If I had not been home and he was in the pen he probably would have been killed. Of course, he was none-for-the-wear b/c I took the blunt of the pen trying to hold it off of him and trying to soothe him down b/c he was panicking big time. I have a bruise/knot on my left forearm and my upper body is sore, but I survived. (super-woman!!!!). Called for more of it today, but it passed up by, thank goodness. Picked up the granddaughters today until Natasha got off of work. Took some pics, but have not downloaded them yet, some of Allyssa blowing a bubble with her bubble gum for the first time, Dakota trying to hide from me so I could not take her picture, some close up pics of an oriental lily we have, a red dianthus, some phlox and a "green" bug on my trumpet tree (Bush). Well, gotta go get ready for bed. Haven't been sleeping well the last couple of days. Have had a bad cough, congestion, sore throat and plain ole' not feeling good. Holla back tomorrow!