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  1. Foolardi

    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don't like talkin' sickness.Even with pets.
    What involved such super costly Vet bills.?
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No we don't.Nor how pets,especially dogs have a certain sense.
    If one studies the number of Dogs being reported as Lost in the
    newspapers,there is a remarkable huge rise in that number Prior
    to an Earthquake.It's been studied.And Confirmed.Has something to
    to do with shock waves under the surface of the ground.Electrical
    force fields er something.
    I think Scummy once did a Thesis paper for his Doctoral degree on
    a similar topic.
     
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    Feline stomatitis. Didn't know what it was initially, so several emergency trips to the vet racked up the bills. It was one of those improve-relapse situations. Until it was more relapse then improve.
     
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    Dropping a big tree limb.. I have tho't about it a lot.. since I had to take my chainsaw in the be repaired.. had even more time to think about it. I have to miss some oleander bushes sitting under it (as well as the house) I know that unexpected things can happen, think I'll have somebody standing by with 911 predialed!
     
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    daisydotell Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I can choose my friends, not my relatives, and I can also choose to avoid them.;)
     
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    daisydotell Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    People that haven't had a Vet. related ER call can not imagine how the rates jump. When you love something and care for it money becomes less of an object. When the response is I can put him/her down for XXX number of dollars or operate for XXXX number of dollars. Live or dead comes into play rather quickly.
     
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    Putting him down wasn't even considered when it all started, and it isn't part of the equation when it comes to money. It's all about the pet, and to be honest, we should have let him go months before he left on his own. The vet thought there was improvement until there wasn't. That boy was just miserable.
     
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    It is never about the money because what price can you put on love?
     
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    Been roofing for a while now. I got the purlins on one side of the roof and metal around the electrical mast. That was tin that had to be cut. I also had some rot on the top of the soffit area and I used a piece of old siding to make a solid place to attach the metal. You would have to see it but it worked. There was a place where the 1/2 inch plywood bowed up on one side and down on the other. I just cut it out. A good place for a vent. Got plywood over the hole to keep the rain from pouring in.
     
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    Gee that ain't the impression most movies portray.And since I'm
    a movie guy,that is the best universal context I need.
    How many Movies have as a plot Relatives or some loony Uncle
    stopping over for a visit.
    Kinda like when a stray beagel { dog } likes to traverse the neighborhood
    and find suitable lodgings.Until it gets bored or the Eats are better
    elsewhere.
     
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    Mornin' Weebles.

    Lots of yard and garden work on Sunday, feeling productive, making up for the cloudy, breezy and rainy Saturday. OK, I'll admit to a nap too on Saturday....
     
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    Smartmouthwoman Bless your heart Past Donor

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    Geesh and to think I called Dominos last night when I could of made it from scratch.

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    Smartmouthwoman Bless your heart Past Donor

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    Howdy y'all. The computer gods have been messing with me but hopefully I won. Time will tell.

    One for Daisy... good year for bluebonnets!

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    Ahahahha! You don't have one Italian marker in your dna?
    Dominos are tiles with black dots on them.
    No Dominos pizza and never sauce in a jar. If I ate either, I'd have to turn in my cornicello.
     
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    Being a mostly Irish boy I have been trying for years to make a good marinara sauce to no avail.
     
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    Why don't you like the sauce you make?
    If you like a sweeter sauce use San Marzano tomatoes. If you like a more acidic type sauce use Roma tomatoes. My (ma-din-ahd) marinara sauce is just virgin olive oil, garlic, onion, tomato, basil, salt and pepper. I sautee the onion, then the garlic. Ill add the tomato with a little water. Then salt and pepper. Then fresh or frozen basil. Never dried basil. I don't like the flavor dried and I don't use oregano. Im not big on it and it gives the sauce a pizza sauce taste. Ill bring that up to a boil and turn the heat down to simmer and cover the pan leaving it uncovered slightly. Ill cook it for an hour or more until its less watery and thicker.
    If I make gravy, which is sauce with meat, Ill fry the sausage or pork country ribs or whatever first in the same pan I'm making the gravy in. Not meatballs. Meatballs I fry separate. Then Ill add the ingredients the same as the marinara. That gravy I slow cook for a few hours. I make the marinara and gravy like my grandma and mom made it. You know whats really good too? Fry some pepperoni first, then throw in some garlic, tomatoes, salt, pepper and a little water. Cook that down for a while and add some chick peas. Cook that for a little while and have it over Mafalda pasta. Ceci e pasta (chi chi de pah-st). Its like pasta fazool but better.
     
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    I'm a big chick pea fan but I've never had them with pasta.
    I'm going to try that.
    It's really hard to get good tomatoes here though so it will have to be tinned.
     
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    I use canned tomatoes and tomatoes from the garden. The canned tomatoes aren't bad. Some canned tomatoes are roma tomatoes and some are san marzano. It normally will say it on the label here.
    At the house I grew up at we had a big garden. My great uncle would teach us about planting and how important organic gardening was. He showed me how to seed save and we would pick tomatoes out of the garden and sit under the patio with the salt shaker and eat those sun warmed tomatoes. Nothing could ever compare to the flavor.
    Good times back then and the gift of learning from a truly wonderful man. I actually named the stray cat who wandered inside this fall and never left all winter after that uncle. My uncle would have loved it.
     
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    Generally just says plum tomatoes on tins here.
    Fresh tend to be hard unripe Dutch or Spanish greenhouse tomatoes.
     
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    I am going to try your way.
     
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    Ya just had to go and bring up My * Edie.The sexiest toots of the
    Andy Warhola stable.Dreamy eyes and a special carefree attitude
    bordering on dangerous.However hooked on her lifestyle of
    drugs { usually a poke of high power amphetamine } and of course \
    the ever-present cigarette.But she gilded thru the section of N.Y.city
    around the Chelsea Hotel as if she owned it.I guess that was her charm.
    Cute little Groovy dancer and dresser,she never appeared to understand
    life past a continuum of 15 minutes of Warhola Fame.
    Her type was never seen before in that section of Midtown Manhattan
    and probably never will again.She was one of a kind.Bob Dylan saw it.
    But she was deeply flawed.Never grew up past a teenagers constant whims.
    But she was outrageously interesting.Plus dangerously careless.
    Like a magnificent Muse.But her Muse faded and so did she.
    I guess it's better to be a Magnificent Muse for a few years than
    to be a boring old fart.

    * Edie Sedgwick
     
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    Man! Oleander bushes are tough.. and I had no one standing by with 911, tho' wifey did help me down out of the tree... Anyway.. it's down and on the brush pile (which is getting quite large... mmm)
     
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    I'll bring the marshmallows. :)
     
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    Oleander bushes are very toxic and burning them can give off toxic fumes so be very careful when handling them. Dry or live they deserve to be carefully handled. Just be careful!!
     
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    Talkin like a Cub Scout.At least bring some nice Thick N.Y. Strips.
    Like what Old Burlesque offered.Not necessarily Gypsy Rose Lee
    but close.
     
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