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Steady, am counting on Friskie getting so well this will become a distant dull memory for you and him both. I turned my 12-year old kid (raised him from a 4-week old feral eyes-barely-open, unweaned state) into 100% indoor kid ast year after 1) he VERY nearly got run over by a neighbor/coworker, got chased and cornered by a never-seen-before duo of bassett and border collie against my back door on a Sunday 5am (I heard the baying in a dream, woke up when they came zipping by under the bedroom window and realized it was real), and THEN got told by neighbor/coworker that HIS neighbor (unknown element) was trapping cats for unknown intentions. I love my kid too much to see him end up any of those ways. 3x was the charm for me. Keep the faith, guy. He's worth it. Mine probably saved my sanity a few years ago when I went through an extended rough patch.
 
That's how I feel about my boyz...

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WOW!! I'm speechless....Thank you so much.

Friskie is one of a kind. If he wants attention and you blow him off he'd go after ya. He ran and jumped on my mother in law's back when she walked away from him; will stay on top of the van quite a bit and wait for Ann to go somewhere and when she gets in the van he comes up real quick and swats her head; my daughter's friends will come in the house "real excited" telling me how Friskie attacked them. Out of the blue he comes out of nowhere - grabs their ankle and may give them a little bite; and most recently my daughter comes in telling me "I was just sitting there and Friskie grabbed my arm and bit me" - but folks it's always as an acknowledgement never to really hurt. So I immediately respond by saying, "Well Emily, you must have been ignoring him - brushing him off when he trying to befriend you and have some quality time". Then the truth comes out and she let me know - she ignored him and basically pushed him away with her elbow. Well Friskie doesn't take crap from anyone, and he doesn't care who it is.

It's amazing because I can grab and squeeze his stomach after I lay him back on my left arm - and he just stretches way out and moves his head around like he's on top of the world. But I know when he's had enough - you can take him to a certain point but if you take him beyond it he'll fight you with everything he has. Anyway cats must have an Alpha (new word I learned) as well.

But once again - THANK YOU VERY MUCH - he'll be home when I get home tonight and we'll hope for the best.

I really appreciate your heart felt messages - all of them.
 
Steady,

Good luck with Friskie. You will be surprised with how much better he will do just to try to please you. It makes me remember my little Ticia, who I finally had to put to sleep with kidney failure seven years ago. I can't tell you how much money I spent over the years on her - in addition to kidney failure, she was allergic to fleas and she was in and out of the vet's hospital numerous times. Like Frisky, she was also a "dumped" cat that I adopted. I found her as a kitten living under cars in a parking lot in my apartment building and I just couldn't leave her there to perish. I was able to bring her out of kidney failure once and with my love and attention, she lived another four happy years. It was worth it to me!

Buster - thanks for sharing the photos of your boys! They're adorable!

Steadygain said:
WOW!! I'm speechless....Thank you so much.

Friskie is one of a kind. If he wants attention and you blow him off he'd go after ya. He ran and jumped on my mother in law's back when she walked away from him; will stay on top of the van quite a bit and wait for Ann to go somewhere and when she gets in the van he comes up real quick and swats her head; my daughter's friends will come in the house "real excited" telling me how Friskie attacked them. Out of the blue he comes out of nowhere - grabs their ankle and may give them a little bite; and most recently my daughter comes in telling me "I was just sitting there and Friskie grabbed my arm and bit me" - but folks it's always as an acknowledgement never to really hurt. So I immediately respond by saying, "Well Emily, you must have been ignoring him - brushing him off when he trying to befriend you and have some quality time". Then the truth comes out and she let me know - she ignored him and basically pushed him away with her elbow. Well Friskie doesn't take crap from anyone, and he doesn't care who it is.

It's amazing because I can grab and squeeze his stomach after I lay him back on my left arm - and he just stretches way out and moves his head around like he's on top of the world. But I know when he's had enough - you can take him to a certain point but if you take him beyond it he'll fight you with everything he has. Anyway cats must have an Alpha (new word I learned) as well.

But once again - THANK YOU VERY MUCH - he'll be home when I get home tonight and we'll hope for the best.

I really appreciate your heart felt messages - all of them.
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Buster, your boyz are terrific. Hope things are going better with the repair jobs, sounds like you had a rough time last weekend.
 
Thanks Alevin and Mamikin...the Rascal is Buster and the gray and white is Bear:D

repairs are about all done...get new Crown today at 4 and roof repaired Sat at 8 am..Fingers crossed the "comes in threes" is all over with now:worried:
 
WOW - I really love the Spirit here today​

Whoaa ohh whooa...I'vee got sunshine​

On a cloudy day​

When it's cool outside ​

I've got the month of May​

Well now I guess you say​

What could make me feel this way​

Buster..Buster..talk about Buster.. BUSTER​


REPEAT THEN SUBSTITUE​

Show-me, Birchtree, Lady, Mamikin, Luv2read, Alevin, Frixxx, SqualeBear, Kar Crazy.....and everyone else on the entire MB. ​
 
Me three!:laugh:

Im pickin up good vibrations
You're giving me excitations
Im pickin up good vibrations
You're giving me excitations
Good good good good vibrations

Gotta keep those lovin good vibrations
A happenin with you all!

 
Steadygain said:
So that gives us about 1.75% of playing room to work with.
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Oil dropped to about $120 (which I believe is EXCELLENT)

Seems most have been convinced that the rising price of Oil - especially to above $140 was hugely the basis of Market Conditions.

That doesn't appear to be the case, though may be somewhat connected.

I'm more thrilled with today's action since we were already 1.75% ahead of the game. So let's hope things stay about the same for awhile - STAMP down a good foundation and finally get out of this slump.

BIRCH - I'm glad I'm not the only one in a fairly good mood
 
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Economic Theory​

I usually use the Charts to determine "Trends" ​

Looking at the 1 month chart of S&P 500 (C Fund) and DJ Wilshire 4500 ( S Fund): ​

There is a definate "leveling off" with the middle dominating. ​

I take this as a very good signal - if not the best in a long time. It previously appeared the downward spiral that started on 6/5 would break and continue to go down - now that is doubtful.​

Does anyone else see this apparent stabilization as a good sign??​

If it is, then the daily (weekly) ups and downs are more significant than they appear. Would be far better for everyone if we reach a point of sustained stabilization and I only now realized we may be a full month into it. ​

August typically isn't that great of a month - but if we remain in this patten then an upward trend is way more likely than a downward one. ​

Does that sound right?? If it does then today was excellent and let's hope the subsequent highs and lows keep us about where we are. ​
 
Friskles (as I called him the most) also had a knee blown out in addition to the dislocated hip. Despite however this injury occured he made it all the way home. When Ann took him to the Vet she put him in a laundry basket which was placed in a deep well in the very back of our van. (We have the stow and go). Ann tried talking to him when they took off to keep his spirits up but he didn't like the abandoned feel - so he jumped out of the laundry basket and over the back seat - came closer to where she was and layed down on a seat. When the Vet found his knee was non-functioning she put him down. I'm very glad for that - and that's what he would have wanted but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I just could not see him being in a small crate for a full month - then as soon as he finally got out he would most certainly push the envelope and the hip would pop out over and over. So I'm glad for him to not have to deal with it. But he was unique - and I doubt anyone could have appreciated that little rascal more than me. So amazingly I'm way more at peace about the whole thing - and relieved - than sad or distrought.
 
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