57 thoughts on “Happy Birthday Filly!”

    1. Oh, my, Pat! An entire open just for ME??!!?? You rock, GF!!! Sending my love backatcha, SweetCheeks….and your wonderful hubby, too! 73 years today that I’ve been on this planet – sometimes I feel 63 and sometimes I feel 83….it is what it is! LOL

      26 here this morning w/clear skies – Wheezer came during the night and ate the remaining dry food – time for a fill up! Supposed to hit 59 today with clear skies and not too much wind so I’ll probably make a run to Norfolk later. I’m not into the woo-woo books these days so I’m returning the Preston & Childs books to Michael and will pick up some real-life books to read instead. I’m thinking some Patricia Cornwell would do nicely.

      Hope you got the meat back safely and had a good trip.

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      1. Good Morning Birthday Girl!

        watch your mail–I sent a card last Saturday, but with the storm that went thru, you may not get it till next month…LOL

        We did get the meat back safely and it’s currently in the basement freezer!

        While we were at Mo’s, my aunt called and told her my uncle had a heart attack and in the hospital they couldn’t control his blood pressure. (he had throat cancer a while ago but he found out it returned and he decided not to try any more treatment and she was depressed about that…now this.)

        So we stayed longer than we thought we would and made her laugh for a while. I’ll see how she’s doing when i call her later this morning.

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          1. we took her cookies and chocolate covered marshmallow easter eggs and 2 bags of peppermints. and she hid everything in her little cabinet by her chair. and she explained that when she had the cookie can sitting ON her stand–the aides would always coyly ask what’s in there and she felt compelled to offer them a cookie–but they always took 2 or 3…and soon she had none. so now she hides them…LOL

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    1. You may remember…..I bought this t-shirt. I’ve had people stop me at WM to tell me they like my shirt – mine is long-sleeved with the pic on the back:

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  11. So this kind of blew my mind yesterday. my DIL ‘s surgery…my son was posting updates (by phone) to all of us…BUT…he was getting updates from a hospital ap. He was sitting in the waiting room after DIL was admitted whereupon she was issued a patient id number. In the waiting room there was a large screen and every time her id was swiped (for a procedure for example) it showed up on the big screen in the waiting room. He said it was by patient id of course–no names.

    but he knew when she was prepped, when she got anesthesia, when her surgery was through, etc….

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        1. No, they don’t – at least they don’t have them around here anymore – every time I went to Faith Regional Hospital in Norfolk, it took me back to when I was a candy striper there in my early teens. My adopted Mom’s family used to own the land where the hospital was built and donated it as well as a bunch of $$$ so the last name is up on the walls in various places. Same with the museum.

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  13. EXCERPT: “Solidly Democratic states are coming to the realization that excluding foster-care applicants based on their refusal to treat children as the opposite sex may not be a wise choice.

    Vermont gave up its policy of scrutinizing would-be and current foster parents’ religious beliefs for inconsistency with gender ideology to settle two First Amendment lawsuits before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could rule, issuing sweeping new guidance last week that protects applicants from violating their conscience to foster children.

    It’s a big win for two public interest law firms representing three sets of parents, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and the Center for American Liberty (CAL), founded by Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon.

    Last summer, a split 9th Circuit panel blocked Oregon’s denial of widow Jessica Bates’s application to adopt the five siblings she’s already fostering based on her refusal to honor the asserted gender identity of “hypothetical adopted children” in speech or actions, including facilitation of medicalized transitions.

    Outside of courtrooms, the issue got a harsh spotlight Tuesday night in President Trump’s State of the Union address, which tore into legal systems that take children away from their homes, or refuse to return runaways, for failure to affirm their gender identity.

    Detransitioner Sage Blair and her grandmother, Michele, who with her husband adopted the girl from foster care at age 2, attended the address at Trump’s invitation. They are represented by the Child and Parental Rights Campaign (CPRC).

    A split 4th Circuit panel reinstated Michele Blair’s “deliberate indifference” claims against Virginia’s Appomattox School District last summer for socially transitioning 14-year-old Sage without telling the Blairs, doing little to stop the resulting harassment she faced from male students and pressuring Sage to recant her harassment claims. 

    The girl ran away as a result, kidnapped and sex-trafficked, rescued by the FBI and then, owing to public defender Aneesa Khan’s complaint that the Blairs wouldn’t treat Sage as a boy, placed in a group home with teenage boys where Sage was assaulted again. (Senior Judge Norman Moon dismissed Khan as a defendant two years ago.)

    Trump marveled that “we’re even speaking about things like this,” blaming “numerous states” for hiding social transitions from parents. “But surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents’ arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents’ will. … We must ban it, and we must ban it immediately.”

    Michele Blair told Fox News she was “so grateful that a light has been shown on this dark topic because it’s happening to so many children like Sage.” If the school had told her Sage was being “horribly bullied,” rather than “glorified the fact” that she identified as a boy, “I could have saved her a lifetime of nightmares.”…….

    https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/deep-blue-state-stops-forcing-foster-parents-affirm-trans-identity-trump

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  15. OK, progress for Mom – she’s found an assisted living apartment in Beatrice and is scheduled to move the week-end of March 14. A friend of hers – the hubby of her friend Jenny who recently died – can get a 16′ closed trailer for free and will help her move south. He came over and had supper with her a few days ago so at least they have each other for company. Neither of my brothers can come out so Terry will help Mom’s cousin Linda and 2 of her kids, who will be there to load everything up for her. She’s found one with a kitchen big enough for her freezer, thankfully. She also sold her car and has gotten used to using the publicly available services to go to Norfolk for shopping. Major progress!!!

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  19. Hear, hear!!!! I agree 100%!!!

    “I know it’s not a new thing, but it seems like every day I see more and more people using their phones to pay for shit. Whether it’s Apple Pay or Samsung Pay or some specific app, it seems to be more and more ubiquitous (explain to Gavin Newsome that that means ‘commonplace’ or ‘ordinary’) every day.

    It’s ponderous (tell Gavin that means ‘something ya’ gotta think about’) that so many people are so willing to blindly trust a technology that’s so far over their friggin’ heads with so much of their personal information. Maybe it’s me. Maybe I have drifted slowly in to old fart territory, but I think putting your personal and financial information in the hands of some motherfucker half-way around the world ain’t such a great idea. Juss’ sayin’…”

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    1. THAT reminds me…
      we stopped at a McD’s to grab a quick lunch yesterday. the bill was incredibly $16.60 and i handed the guy a twenty. he gave me back 3 ones…I said what about the 40 cents…oh we rounded it up.
      i said i can see rounding up a few pennies–but 40 cents?
      he said it was their new policy.

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  20. “Maybe it’s me, but doesn’t it seems to you that from the very first SOTU that Trump did way back, that they get more and more contentious (tell Gavin that means like ‘angry’) every year to the point now where it’s almost a wasted effort? It does seem that the Democrats especially are angrier and more obnoxious than any time that I can remember…”

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  21. “That’s pretty wild. Guy was being sought by police and he was hiding in the garbage can, but the garbage guy came by and was gettin’ ready to dump the can when he popped out and ran away. Then you see the cops on foot going after the guy. They did eventually snag the guy…“

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  22. “And, again, here I am thinking this shit only happens in Florida, right? The incident happened on Tuesday afternoon in a trendy section of the midwest city, when a sport utility vehicle and a pickup truck waiting at a traffic light dropped into a hole several feet deep as the pavement under them suddenly gave way. Neither driver was injured, police said.

    The driver of the truck was able to get out of the sinkhole on his own, then joined other bystanders who helped the SUV driver out of the hole, police said.”

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  26. just talked to my mom, my uncle passed away. While we were visiting yesterday, she got a call from my aunt that he went into the hospital–possible heart attack, uncontrolable blood pressure. Mom was crying so hard…I felt terrible for not being there so I could hold her.

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    1. Aw, man – that sucks! But at least he didn’t hang on for days and days….it know, it’s a cliché but still….🙄😯

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