Hi Everyone!

[judy]

Birds are great pets Diana! (Sorry Janet!) You will really enjoy the cockatoo! They are smart and really cute! I had a parakeet who learned to open his cage the first day!

Take pictures! I wonder what Reuger will do!

[judy]

What a storm last night! It was magnificent! The skies lit up, the lightening was beautiful and startling, and the thunder was right over us! I don't remember ever hearing it rain so hard!

It passed after about an hour, but poor Max was really nervous, running back and forth barking. I couldn't get him to settle down with me. I don't think he has ever been so close to lightening. The smell must have been strange to him too. Annie didn't care much at all! I put some Rescue Remedy on his ears, and he seemed to calm down.

As far as I can see, we had no damage nearby. I hope the same is true for everyone else around the region! We have our own generator. I hope there weren't electrical problems for the community, and that nobody got hurt or has to clean up fallen trees!

[DianaB]

That must have been a beautiful storm!!! I like when they're at a distance and not right over me. Like Max, storms make me a little nervouse.......but then again, I live in Kansas!!!! I'm glad that there's not any damage.

I've never heard of Rescue Remedy......what does it do?

[judy]

It's a holistic liquid that comes from a variety of flowers (I think). Supposedly, it works on a number of things. I wouldn't take it instead of medicine if I were sick, but I recently dropped a curling iron on my chest. It was a weird thing...I immediately put the Rescue Remedy on the burn, and I never felt any pain! It took at least 2 weeks to heal up, and there's still a scar there. It's supposed to be good for stressed out animals.

[DianaB]

Hmmm......that sounds like interesting stuff!!!

[Blueyes]

We are at the beach this week, ladies! My brother and sil have their camper here, so we came to join them for a few days. We are at Surfside, just west of Galveston. The guys fish, and we just stay down on the beach. The campsite is right by the water, we just walk over the dunes and there we are I'll take pics

[paula1961]

Sounds wonderful Betsi!! That is exactly how we camp at the beach. The closer to the ocean.....the better!! Have fun!!

[DianaB]

It sounds so nice, Betsi, to be right next to the ocean!!!! I love to walk on the beach, pick up shells and feel the waves lap my feet!!! Sigh.......wish that I was there too!!!

[Janet]

I use to love the beach...well sorta...I use to like to go to the lake to water ski. We don't have too many clean beaches anymore.

[DianaB]

I went to the doctor this morning. I had gotten a couple of messages from her office that I needed to come in but when I got there I found out that I really didn't need to. That was fustrating but the good news is.........I lost 11 pounds!!!! I was so excited!!!! I knew that I had lost 7 or 8 but not that much!!! I've been swimming a lot and I move A LOT when I'm in the water so it's true exercise and Glen and I have been trying to watch what we eat!!!! My blood sugar was still a little high and I need to work on that.......it's probably from eating too much fruit!!! I'm so proud of myself!!!! ........................11 pounds........WOW!!!!!

[paula1961]

Wow Diana!!! That is wonderful!! I'm so proud of you!!

[Lindsey]

Way to go Diana! Soon you'll be buying new clothes

Judy, we've been having nightly thunderstorms for the past couple of weeks. I just love them! Except for the one that leaked in the house though lol.

I worked late last night and am working late again tonight. Gotta love these last minute things! The old project manager told our new part time drafter this project was due in September, and the new project manager told me it's due tomorrow at noon I think we have some communication issues. Anyways, I am doing my part and showing that I am willing to stay late to a certain point but I'm definitely not going to spend my whole night here.

Tomorrow I get to go back to the opthamologist, get my eyeballs frozen and poked with a bingo dabber and my eyelids turned inside out! Good times Depending on how sore and dilated my eyes are, I'm not sure if I'll stay at work for the whole afternoon. Later in the evening, I'm going to a movie with my old friend. It's the same one who invited me last time and my old roommate invited herself along at the last minute This time we've both kept quiet about it so I'm pretty excited to hang out with her and REALLY catch up this time! We're going to see Inception.

As soon as I leave work tonight I'm meeting my brother at a store to pick up the last half of Scott's birthday present His birthday is next week but we drive in to the city together so often that I can't really sneak out and get it! But today he had to work overtime too so hopefully I can be home before him and sneak it in the house first. I'm not even going to tell you what it is here because of the tiny chance he might come to this forum and read it lol!

[gja1000]

Howdy Folks!
I just got through eating fresh okra out of my garden. I grilled it and MMMMMMM was it ever GOOOOOOD!

I'm finished with school for this week (my classes are Mondays and Wednesdays). It's always a relief to be done for the week and now I can relax a bit. I have a few things to do tomorrow, but I'm taking Friday OFF!!! We had a very busy weekend and I think I'm still tired. I told Gary I was not going to do a THING this weekend. That probably isn't entirely true. The truth is that I'll probably only do what I WANT to this weekend.

[judy]

They're freezing your eyeballs? Hmmph! I really hope they get a diagnosis (and cure) once and for all! I hope it is an easy test, and that you enjoy your friend and the movie. I can't wait t hear what you bought Scott!

Betsi....Have a wonderful time at the beach! Smelling that ocean air and feeling the breezes is WOW!!!

Diana....you are doing great! 11 pounds!!!

[judy]

Gayle....school began early, or is this summer session? It's a good thing you love your work!!!