Baby Buzz commutes to work
By Grammy Hyphen
Beach Bum? Bare feet? Must be Casual Friday!
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Absolutely adorable. 🙂
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I figured Chrissy would have used her skills to post a whole thread about the Dems’ comeuppance in Wisconsin,but if you’ve been asleep the last 18 hours,our faith in Almighty God has been reinforced.
PROSSER NOW UP BY 7,000+ VOTES AFTER ERROR IS CORRECTED
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/conservative-prosser-picks-7381-votes-wisconsin-supreme-court-race_556940.html
KLOPPENBURG’S VICTORY SPEECH WHEN SHE HAD A 200 VOTE LEAD
Nothing like Karma biting libs in the butt
PROSSER:’I SURVIVED A NUCLEAR FIRESTORM’.
OBAMA PROMISED HIGHER ENERGY PRICES-HE WASN’T KIDDING
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2011/04/obama-promised-higher-energy-costs-he-wasnt-kidding
WITH GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN LOOMING,OBAMA PLANS WEEKEND GETAWAY
What a surprise!
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/04/with-government-shutdown-looming-obama-plans-weekend-getaway/
OBAMA ABOVE THE FRAY,HILL DEMS UNDER THE BUS
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/07/obama-fray-hill-dems-bus/
JIM INHOFE TO DEMOCRATS:’GET A LIFE.’
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52592.html
OBAMA PAYS TRIBUTE TO REV. AL AT NYC GALA
He’s still down with his homeys
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bam_gives_sharp_salute_iBXg9i19BtE7UHq1qvBPSP
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Bad time of year to disrupt Williamsburg tourism, and you know they will. The historic areas of Jamestown/W’burg PLUS Busch Gardens just opened, are jam packed on the weekends now. ESPECIALLY since tourists are migrating down from DC’s cherry blossoms.
It’s a freaking campaign stop as Virginia is important in 2012 ! So there will be thousands of adoring fans to photo-op with.
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Yeah, I like it. “Get a Life” and leave Virginia alone – that visit this weekend will not be a plus for the area. In fact, it will probably hurt quite a few businesses around there. That is what happens in downtown Richmond whenever a President, or presidential candidate comes here. Things are shut off and people cannot get to some businesses for hours at a time. Like Denise says, things are in high gear in Williamsburg for the start of the season and they will only disrupt. What else is new?
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Tourists will not spend money and W’burg’s been hurting financially for a few seasons. REALLY bad timing to disrupt businesses there 😦
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I was really sick yesterday. Unplugged the phone and yelled at Dearest to go breathe in some other room. But went to bed at 10pm, didn’t get up until 11:30am and am much better for it.
I just did ALL my stretches … something I only manage on my best days! And Pete has given me easy access to all the best news. I will be busy today! LOL
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Pete’s ao awesome, what a team you make, and Baby buzz’s commute, adorable. Are you sure the one on the right is on his way to work? He doesn’t hang out with Obama, does he, cause that would be golf, not surfing.
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Integ,
I think you’re right. Buzz probably changed into Beach Bum after work and before he headed out to hang those ten cute little piggies! LOL
I’ve already got next Friday’s Mascot pic. Mama Buzz took a Too Cute pic of our boy at their computer.
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One adorable little worker-bee!!!!
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Mr. Spiff Goes to Work! How C.U.T.E.
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Stole this from a friend’s FB page:
“Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money – only for wanting to keep your own money.” ~ Joseph Sobran
E – if you are lurking – you post such good stuff – post here, too! 😀
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I haven’t been keeping up with American Idol since Clay Aiken’s defeat, but why are they always shocked when a popular person’s voted off?
http://www.votefortheworst.com/
heh,heh.
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Stay classy, liberals…
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I bet that Baby Buzz is fun to watch on the beach – the biggest sandbox in the world!
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Stay classy, liberals… http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/07/facebook-event-lets-dump-trash-at-boehners-pad/
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Oh for crying out loud, even Dems are getting sick of the thuggery and bullying tactics. Glad CNN’s giving them free publicity…grrrrr.
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I suppose a group of tea partiers will have to go over and pick it all up, just as they did after liberals trashed the Capitol in Madison. *sigh*
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Why sigh bob … it would provide us with a GORGEOUS teachable moment for the Mushy Middlers. Leftists dump trash; Tea Partiers pick it up. It’s exactly the kind of thing that would’ve made me seriously question the Left and open my mind to the Right.
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The problem is that the media did not report either that the lefty demonstrators had trashed the Capitol, or that the tea partiers went and cleaned it up. Most people in the state of Wisconsin remain completely ignorant of both things. The only folks who know about it are a) those who were involved in either the trashing or the cleanup, and b) oddballs like me who read the alternative news media. But you can bet your life that if tea partiers had done the trashing, it would have been front page news on every paper and the lead story in every newscast.
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This kind of thing works for us. Mushy Middlers are into NICE and THEY are our prime targets.
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BETCHA YOU NEVER HAD A GRAD PARTY LIKE THIS!
We’d been planning to have Tina’s “graduation” party at the church, and have been waiting for the pastor to get back from Chicago…some boring nonsense about a brand-new grandchild, or something. Rolleyes2 It was “on” for this Saturday night, until we found out that one of the church members just found out that his hip is about to collapse, and instead of having a replacement done after lambing season, he was having it done tomorrow. After jiggling the numbers (it’s a small church), it was obvious that it was going to be pretty much just us anyway, so we decided to have it tonight instead. Nothing too exciting. Cake, ice cream, opening the few things that had come to surprise her.
Then she called me, about 7:45PM, on the way from her house to ours to say that one of her dogs had had her 3rd encounter with a porcupine, and this time she’d apparently bitten it, so most of the quills were in her mouth. I was supposed to call the local vet and see if we could bring Anika in for emergency sedation and quill removal. So I called. As it turns out, he’s busy calving and didn’t want to take care of the dog unless we couldn’t get her in to see the Williston ND vet. Bad news, since it was only 26 miles to see him, but 90 miles (one way) to get to Williston. Still, I called. Never let it be said that I’m not a good sport. The Williston vet was very nice, but told me that it would cost $150 for the after-hours emergency fee, plus whatever it cost to actually take care of her. We were talking a minimum of $300, and possibly as much as $500, for a dog with a bladder condition that has made us consider having her put to sleep a number of times before this. I relayed this news to Tina. Happy Graduation Party, my dear.
Soon she arrived with the dog in her arms, her eyes red with tears, the dog’s mouth red with frothy, bloody saliva. I cannot TELL you what a party mood I was in by then, especially after Tina and I wrestled the dog into sufficient submission to get a good look at the quills in her tongue. But, gaddalup, gaddalup, gaddalup——–to the rescue comes Dad the Wonder Hero, who suggested, I think as somewhat of a joke, that we use starter fluid to anesthetize Anika enough to make her quit fighting. It’s not medical-grade ether, but after batting the idea around for a few minutes we decided, “For $300, who cares?” So he came in with an aerosol can of fluid. I sacrificed a weathered dishcloth which now sits in the trash. We shut up all the other dogs, and then my husband saturated the cloth with fluid, and while Tina held the dog tightly, I slapped the cloth over her mouth and nose. And slapped it over her mouth and nose. And again. And again…until she began to slow down. C030While Tina says, “Don’t kill her, Mom. Not so much!” Fd91fsI WAS AN OB NURSE; SEDATING DOGS WAS NOT MY SPECIALTY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cut me some slack!A043
After Anika had relaxed a bit, even though she was still awake, Tina started in on some of the quills around the mouth. Not too bad, although the kitchen smelled so strongly of ether it practically anesthetized US. A little more starter fluid and we pried open her mouth wide so Tina could go after the tongue quills. One of the early ones had apparently gone through a blood vessel, because when she pulled it out, Anika started to bleed. Tina has NEVER wanted to be a nurse. Ever. And yet, while I held those bloody jaws open, and her dad held the dog’s paws, she went back into Anika’s mouth over and over and pulled out one quill after another. Of course, she looked fairly distressed, and I don’t think a REAL nurse would’ve had such red eyes right during the procedure, but she was solid as a rock on the “doing” part, which is what counts. I have never been so impressed with her in my life–and I’m usually pretty doggone impressed with her anyway–especially when the dog started gurgling blood in the back of her throat and we had to turn her to the side to let it drain out she wouldn’t suffocate. I was ready to call “defeat” at that point, but Tina kept diving after quills, so I kept those bloody jaws pried apart…mostly so I wouldn’t get bitten, I think. That was the only quill that bled like that, though, and when Tina was done, we let the dog outside to have some fresh air, cleaned up, and had her party anyway. It didn’t seem to destroy her appetite for cake and ice cream, at any rate.Laugh
Boy, can those Adventists party, or what?
s
P.S. I’m thinking of setting up my own little small-animal clinic now. My husband’s suture kits, a little starter fluid, and we could have our own business, I think. Cute
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Wow…I’m really impressed that you all did this. I think I might have passed out.
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Honest truth? 40 years of nursing have destroyed my fear of blood, per se, at least in labor and delivery, the tongue isn’t the source of the blood, and your patient isn’t usually drowning in it! I would certainly have quit at that point if Tina had suggested it as I expected Miss Non-Nursie to do, but she just kept pulling and plucking, and fortunately that was the only bleeder. I just wish I could believe the stupid dog had learned something, but Tina insists that all she’s learned is that porcupines make humans do mean things to their dogs. Sadly, and probably, true. 8-(
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So true, FtN… the lesson they learn is not the one they really needed to learn. Cats are the same way, although most cats will not pick a fight with a porcupine, but they will do other stupid things over and over, apparently expecting different results. Sigh…
Anyway, tell Tina I’m proud of her. What a woman!
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Yeah, there are several great women in that family!
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FtN, I am goose bumpy! Love the part about how PROUD you are of your dd … must forward to Mama Buzz :o).
On the dumb dog front … I once spent 4 years in a 1-bedroom apt with a roomie and her Irish Setter. I later came across a dog I.Q. report that listed Irish Setters at the very bottom. I was NOT surprised.
Whatever the breed’s natural short-comings were not helped at all by a “discipline is for when I’m in the mood” owner. When I moved in, I had to draw the line at the dog’s FACE being on the table during dinner. He’d park it there, right beside her plate, and drool as his eyes followed each forkful. Yuk.
So, one day, Moron Dog gets hit by a skunk (remember the one-bedroom? Ew).
Not to be deterred in his quest for Dumbest Dog Ever, he turns around a couple months later and does it again.
Did you know that up close, skunk does NOT smell like skunk? That “skunk smell” is a very much diluted version.
The full strength version is enough to make you drive your car into a tree at 90 mph. (I was the one driving the skunked dog home from the nature preserve in a sub-compact, so I can attest to this. )
*My apologies if any of you own and love Irish Setters. His problems no doubt were greatly aggravated by way too little living space for his breeding and an owner who treated him like a toy, not a living creature … you know, sit on the shelf there until I am in the mood to play with you.
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My worst experience with an Irish Setter….were her owners. The night I brought my firstborn home, they decided to lock her outside all night because she chewed up the house and garage. For the first few weeks, she barked constantly ONLY while the baby slept. Right outside his window. No bad dogs, just bad owners. Like the Obamas are in way over their heads with a Portuguese Water Spaniel …. we never see him unless they drag him out for a photo-op.
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I’ve never owned a dog, but my sister had a cocker spaniel for many years who just loved to chew on people’s shoes. They couldn’t break her of this habit, so they just kept all their shoes in their closets with the doors closed so Zooey couldn’t get at them. But one time my brother-in-law’s aunt was visiting, and they forgot to warn her about the shoe situation, and she left a pair of very expensive shoes outside the closet at night, with predictable results. My sister was so embarrassed. She was telling me about all this, and I (being totally ignorant of dogs and dog training) made some lame remark to the effect that there must be some way to teach a dog not to chew shoes. My sister informed me that Zooey was totally hopeless, adding, “She even chewed up our copy of ‘No Bad Dogs’!”
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What an adventure FtN ! You’re an amazing storyteller 😀 No porcupines in our area, but lots of fish hooks between dogs and kids over the years. Congrats to Team Nut !
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After a rehash with Tina today, I found out she was so focused on quill-removal that she never even heard the gurgling that said the dog was trying to drown in its own blood. THAT’S concentration!
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Holy Smokes! What resourceful people you are! I once had a cocker spaniel who went after porcupines and we could never break her of the habit. I hope you don’t have to deal with this any more.
Wish you weren’t so far away – I’d be at the party with bells and confetti – Tina deserves the celebration! Congratulations!!!!
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It’s amazing how resourceful you can be when you’re poor! 😎 Of course, if my husband had still been in CA, I would never have known about the starter fluid. Here’s HER version of the evening:
http://westbylife.blogspot.com
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Well, well, well…..I don’t know if anyone read yesterday on the Sarah Palin thread what I had to say about Donald Trump possibly acting out to help Hillary. Just a crazy thought that had popped into my head. I just finally had a look at the front page of our local paper and read that Trump bought at foreclosure auction yesterday the estate and winery of the Clinton (and Doug Wilder) friend Patricia Kluge and her husband and Trump plans to keep them on to run the place. I believe their wine was served at Chelsea’s wedding.
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Hmmmm…..
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Dearest told me over lunch that Trump is hitting the birth certificate issue. Anybody know anything on that one?
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Trump has private investigators in Hawaii and says he can’t believe what they’re finding.There’s no real record of his birth,his grandparents posted his birth in the local paper a week after he was born among other things.He was on with Meredith Viera and ate her lunch,so to speak.Rush said Trump is showing us the way to defeat these guys is to go right after them and don’t back down.(Of course he doesn’t have to worry about saying the right thing so ‘moderates’ will vote for him.)It remains to be seen if enough people will see him as a viable candidate,(I can only think of Ross Perot) but we’ll see.
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Ross Perot is exactly what comes to mind for me, too, Pete. If only Ross had helped to frame the debate and then gotten out of the race……
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Exactly. Let us pray that The Donald is a true patriot who is using his money and his name to shape the debate, but will fully support whoever we nominate.
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