***Everybody seems so down these days...***

[Suz]

I don't know if it's the seemingly endless winter or what, but everyone seems so down these days here in PE. I've been trying to think of something that might cheer us up and the only thing I can think of is to share one of my Chloe puppy stories.

Honestly, bringing (now 9.5 pounds) Chloe home has just brought a smile to everyone's face when they see her. Cranky neighbors' faces light up, Sweet Chelsea adores her, and even Miss Molly growls at her one minute then whines when Chloe goes off to play with Chelsea instead and ignores Molly. It is just too cute.

But I digress..........this is my story....

....two weekends ago baby Chloe came in the house from the backyard with poop on the top of her head [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/23_34_2.gif[/img]. I had no idea how she had done that (!) but cleaned her up and shampooed her head and she was set to go.

An hour later I let her out and she came in again with poop on top of her head [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/1010hammer.gif[/img]. So I cleaned and shampooed her again!

The next time I let her out I stood at the door to watch what the heck she was doing.

Well....poor sweet Chelsea had tummy troubles that morning and kept having diarrhea. Chloe, in her infinite puppy curiosity, was like a little duck who had imprinted on her Mom and was following Chelsea all around the back yard with her nose practically up Chelsea's backside.......so.....yes, you guessed it......Chloe is curious and Chelsea squatted and Chloe got pooped on! Twice!!!

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Of course I was yelling like a banshee for her to move her head.

....and just this morning she was following Molly around the back yard...

I hope this made you smile and that you have a funny story or happy memory to share with the rest of us...... [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/flower.gif[/img]

Suz

[dreamer]

UG, LOL- on one hand I am LOL so hard, on the other, I am currently not real happpy with my doggie cuz he got poop stuck on him and smeared it all over oldest kids bed and mine before we caught it. YUK! LOL.

Meanwhile our 3 little kittens are becoming quite active and curious and are now ALL OVER and into EVERYTHING! Well, "I" am loving the burst of energy in our house the kittens brought with them, but dh is NOT and the kids? LOL- they go back and forth.depending on just exactly what the kittens have gotten into in the last 10 minutes. LOL.

[Abbey]

Thanks Suz! Yucky, but funny. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img]

Abbey

[antsmom]

ok...so everyone knows I am a spartan person. I am off work once a week and that day things go into a goodwill bag I drop off, and a fire is in the backyard to burn...well whatever I need to get rid of.

my son Nick is a notorious saver (read that pack rat) of every thing....every dang thing. he sleeps days and while he sleeps I am busy tossing stuff from the basement. this guy has so much stuff he never misses stuff being disposed of from years back. it is going to take me a while! he has half of my two car garage piled up!! so last wednesday, I decided to get rid of a big unsightly homemade three tier wooden shelf. I hauled it out and lit it. that dang thing would not burn. I did not want to add gas and have a noisy explosion, and it was sturdier than it looked. frantically~~ while he slept~~ I kept going out and burning boxes around it, paper, whatever sticks I could find in the yard. as the day went on it only burned down one shelf.

my big hope was that nightfall would come before he awoke for his late shift. that way he would not see it out there and I would have one other day to try to burn it. now I could not move it because it was charred.

so, nightfall came. Bf came for dinner. Nick woke up. Bf said in front of Nick...I see you are burning that old shelf!!!

my eyes bugged out to their limits! I was mouthing to Bf...NO NO NO SHHHHH!!

too late. Nick turned on the outdoor floodlights. he said "hey you are burning my stuff!!"

I kept quiet. I think there was smoke coming from Nick's ears.

so...it has lain there a week. today I went out four or five times and it is finally down to a pile of ash. I also burned two boxes of old papers from grade school some old mags and the like to get it burning.

[rejectedmom]

I am enjoying my new kitten's antics also. I told my DH that I haven't laughed this much in a very long time. She attacks my feet and practices her pouncing on my bed until I have to lock her up so I can get some sleep. When I watch TV she sits on my shoulder and nibbles my ear. She is in constant motion when awake and her acrobatics are worthy of Circus Sole. Doing summersaults and high jumps and walking on her hind legs. She is very precocious and the other day her curiosity got the better of her. She must have fallen into the toilet bowl. My son found her soaking wet and curled up on my pillow. He came downstairs and told me that he thought she had peed on my bed. When DH investigated the toilet seat was wet as was kitty's rear legs and of course my pillow. -RM

[Suz]

Kitties or puppies, there is just nothing quite like the exuberant JOY of their sweet young souls, is there? Thanks for sharing your stories, Dreamer and RM. I never tire of animal stories.

Abbey, you've had a rough few months...I'm so glad you smiled. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/flower.gif[/img]

Janet, pretty funny about BF inadvertently busting you. I can imagine your "look". lol

Suz

[Abbey]

Ant'smom...that is too darn funny. I'm visualizing you trying to burn that darn thing. You understand...most of us would have gone to Goodwill. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif[/img]

I am NOT a saver. If I haven't used it in a few months, it's gone. DH... [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/1010hammer.gif[/img]

When I met DH he lived in a single-wide trailer. The first time I went to his place I nearly keeled over. (Maybe that should have been a HUGE hint!) I counted 51 boxes, big ones mind you, of **** laying all over. You couldn't walk down that skinny hallway without stepping/leaping over them. What was in 51 boxes? Junk mail. Honestly. He had kept every piece of junk mail for YEARS. I won't even comment on the kitchen. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/23_34_2.gif[/img]

When we decided to move in together, I told him the boxes could not come along. I don't think I've ever seen him so pained. It was like losing a life time friend.

Fourteen years later, he's somewhat come along. No more junk mail. Now...if I can get him to finish the entertainment center that he started 6 years ago, that would be good. Of course he HAD to build one as it would save so much money. $800 in lumber, unknown number of dollars in tools...6 years later...yeah. It now serves as storage in our garage.

Abbey

[antsmom]

abbey:
Honestly I have given a bag of clothes to goodwill, salvation army or the st vincent de paul box all my married life! I do it every wednesday. every one! you would think I would run out of stuff by now. thing is my three sisters trade around clothes and what nots. they end up here for some reason. then there is keeping nick's collection down...ant's in and outs. the shelf unit was beyond what even the goodwill would want and the dang thing was so heavy...I do not have a truck to haul it and had to drag it to the burnpile.

I am not kidding, nick has moved out three times and back again. he has accumulated a washer, dryer, beer meister, small refrig, a futon, a couch-huge one, a big coffee table, household stuff and not to mention bags and boxes of stuff from cars he sold or traded, fishing gear, oh yeah, a king sized bed is down there including box springs and mattress, humm 4 or 5 coolers, several guitars and musical stuff for them, wow I cannot even think of it all and that is just some of the stuff in the gameroom and garage. he keeps thinking he is moving out and we save all that stuff. I am getting rid of other stuff he had. ugh! I ahve to do it bit by bit. I vow every wednesday to continue my elimination mission!!!!

a funny thing is I went to the St Vincent de Paul box the other day...got there when the truck came to empty it out. the guy driving the truck was there by the box pulling apart the bags people had left and was taking what he wanted for himself then throwing the other stuff in the back of the truck. makes you wanna go.... hmmmm????

[Sue C]

Suz -- Ugh and LOL.

OK, here's a dog poop story that dh and I just had remembered the other day and were having a good laugh over. We used to have anal neighbors that actually stood outside with a shovel in their hands waiting for their dog to poop on the shovel!! They followed the poor thing around waiting for it to poop and then stuck the shovel under its behind. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/23_34_2.gif[/img] I think the dog must have had deep psychological problems as a result.

Sue

[antsmom]

roflmao about the shovel story!