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Animal cruelty is so sickening!

by Mary Anne

My sister sent me a copy of her local newspaper, and there was a story in it about couple that has been charged with 84 counts of animal cruelty. According to the story the charges claim that they abandoned over a dozen dogs and other animals in their rented house when they moved out.

No one is sure exactly when the tenants vacated the home, but when authorities were notified by the landlord that they house appeared to be deserted with a large number of animals locked inside, the authorities discovered that the house was uninhabitable, had no furniture in it, and no food or water was left for the animals locked inside.

I hope that they throw the book at the perpetrators!  People like that should not be allowed to own any kind of pets.


Run rabbit run!

by Mary Anne

Lately everywhere I drive it appears that I am seeing rabbits running across the road.  Last month the rabbits were still wearing their white winter coats, and now they have changed to their summer coats of brown.  I am glad to see that their coats have changed, because we did not have a lot of snow last month, and their white coats made them “sitting ducks” for any critter out there that was looking for a meal. Now when I drive up to the house instead of seeing a large flash of white hopping across the yard, I see just a little bit of a white cotton tail hopping across the yard. Seeing rabbits or deer in my yard always bring a smile to my face, but it also makes me glad that I’m not a farmer trying to protect my crops from these cute little varmints!


I’m totally losing it!

by Mary Anne

I have to say that I am totally losing it! 

My hubby and I were eating dinner a few nights ago, and he had the NASCAR races on.  I’m not interested in NASCAR, but he is totally into it. 

They showed a commercial that I know was a SuperBowl commercial, and I knew I liked it.  I’ve seen it once before.  It was the Budweiser commercial where Hank the horse was rejected for the wagon team and worked out for a year with a dalmation to become a member of the team for the next year. 

Now for how I know I’m losing it – the commercial gave me goosebumps and brought tears to my eyes!  LOLOL!


Pet Hair Everywhere

by Mary Anne

Today was an important meeting and I grabbed a pair of black pants to wear with a nice shirt and blazer. I found a nice pair of earring, a belt, shoes that weren’t scuffed and I was ready to go when I noticed all the dog hair on my black pants. So I looked in the bathroom for the sticky roller brush to remove dog hair and I couldn’t find it anywhere.

I searched the whole house and never did find it. I couldn’t go to the meeting with all this dog hair on my pants and the roller brush was missing. So I found a roll of duct tape and pulled off a big strip of that to use on my pants. That got it all off but it took a long time.

I grabbed my purse and my laptop and went out to the car, running a tad late now. When I got in the car and checked the glove compartment for the insurance card, I found the sticky roller brush inside the glove box.Who would have put the roller brush in the car? That makes no sense and it almost caused me to be late for my meeting.


Extra wide gates

by Mary Anne

We have a large room in our house that was originally supposed to be the living room of the place that I use as my crafting studio. There are large open doorways on two opposite ends of the room that I would really like to modify with doors some day. Of course that will cost more money than I have available right now, so those doors are on my “wish list” for when “our boat comes in.”

The reason I’d like to put doors in the openings is that from time to time we have too much company to fit all of them in the spare room, so we end up having a few people sleep on air mattresses on the floor in there. We have strung curtains over the openings so that they can have a modicum of privacy, but the curtains do not keep our extra friendly dogs out of there. So I’m thinking that we need to get some baby gates to put in the openings. Obviously we need extra wide gates because of the large openings, and I don’t know if the pressure mount gates are available in extra wide sizes or not. I really want to avoid drilling holes in the walls if it is at all possible.


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