We almost lost him....

We almost lost this one. My daughter wanted to get him neutered and we agreed becuase it is part of being a responsible pet owner. Well she took him in on a wednesday and I went up thrusday to see how he was doing. I looked around and he did not come running to me. I ask where Taters was and she said, "Did you come to see me or the Cat?" I said the cat and she told me he was still at the vets. I asked why.

She started to cry and told me he had a reaction to the anesthic and they did not know if he was going to live or not. When we went to see him he would not awaken and we tried to get him to stand but he was like a limp rag. He was there a week and it ended up costing alot more than we had planned but he is such a sweety and my daughter loves him so.

Now he is afraid though. Each time she opens the door, he runs and hides. He will stay hidden too for quite some time. We have to coax him out but I hope he gets over this.

Posies

I am bored tonight and could not think of anything to do so I uploaded the pics of some of my posies. The top one is of my day lilies and the bottom one is where I was playing around the other night and took one of some sun flowers by my back porch when it was dark. I liked the way this one turned out.

Is it just me?

I picked up the paper this morning and saw where Isreal bombed the beirut airport and I thought what the hell are they doing? More of our soldiers were killed. Others were accused of rape and murder of an entire family. North Korea is lobbing bombs towards Japan and perhaps our western coast if it would reach that far. Do these people have any clue as to the amount of pain, sorrow and suffering they are causing?

And, I mean the man in the white house when I say 'these people'. He is causing much pain and sorrow through out the world by his actions.

That is why I wonder if it is just me who is afraid to read the news any more? I purposely refuse to listen to some of our news cause it is all so bad it seems. Children killing children, rape, murder and a war that seems to be a never ending conflict as well as our own little war in iraq.

Sometimes I feel like the whole world has gone crazy and I am one of the few sane ones left in it.

Why does anyone have to kill for any reason? It is just pointless to me. Some might think the end justifys the means but I it seems to me like there is no end of men wanting to kill other men just because they want to be king of the mountain. How many of you remember that childhood game where someone goes on top of the mountain so to speak and he stays there til someone pulls him off. If no one pulls him off he is declared king. Some of these world leaders remind me of young boys playing that game.

Is it a flower?

Last year I had a weed growing in my flower garden. Not just any weed but one that was huge. I marched right out there and yanked it out. My husband came home and started screaming about me pulling his flower out. I said it is not a flower, it is a damned weed. "It's a flower. If if comes up again let it go." Well I looked out this year and saw this thing growing in my garden again. My husband glared at me and said don't touch that flower. "It's a weed, " I hissed. "It's a flower," he said.

I asked my friend who knows about flowers. Was she any help. She says 'It is a thistle." I said, 'It's a weed." She said, "Well, it all depends on how you look at it. I would leave in the garden with the flowers cause when it blooms, that weed will draw in all kinds of butterflies and hummingbirds."

So the weed will stay. I guess flowers, like beauty is all in the eye of the beholder. *s*

34 years

Hubby and I celebrated our anniversary by going to dinner at our favorite Italian restaurant then to see the movie Cars. It was a cute movie but not one you think you would like to spend your anniversary watching but we enjoyed it.

Funny, the night I met him, I did not think I would marry him. We had what you call a whirlwind relationship. We dated five months and he proposed then we got married three months later. Who would have thunk it would have lasted this long. I mean, he is a virgo and I am an aries and every thing about us is opposite.

He is a neatnik and I am laid back and like the 'lived in' look. He is a day person, up at dawn most days and I am a night person. He is trim and I am not. He is not exactly skinny but he is smaller than me. I believe we are together because we both had to learn to compromise. We both stopped trying to change each other years ago and just accepted the fact that we married someone we could not change and it was either adjust or drive each other crazy. Love won over and we have been happily married for 34 years but it takes work and compromising on both sides.