Family

Pet Emergency

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Laura

I got a notification on Facebook the other day about what to do in case of a pet emergency.

I thought that it was very useful, but I also thought I really better get the dogs familiarized with riding a motorcycle because this is my only means of transportation.  I am about a year late with this.  Honey is a no go, so too is Imp; both of them are far too nervous even to be put in the carry bag.  So, I hope that friends and neighbours will be able to assist me, as Liisa did last year when Phyllis died from her long ago abuse (she was rescued from a crack house and had severe injuries).

Minnie and Rudigrrr Wolf are A-OK with the bike.  The neighbours and friends who saw her  and the Wolf had a good laugh.

This is what a Emergency Preparedness for pets looks like at Tiny House Ontario.

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Happy Canada Day!

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Laura

It is Canada Day here, which is the National Holiday.  The Saint John’s Wort is blooming now too.  I did not make any specific plans because I thought I would be putting up siding… Oops!

With nothing planned instead I weeded the garden, organized the bedroom and the bathroom and went to have a shower.  I also put on some half decent clothes for a change and drove to town with my husband.  We are at Wendy’s now having a baked potato.  Nothing fancy!

Quiet holidays like this always make me feel like I should be doing something.  They also make me think about people who mean a lot to me.  I am going to see if I can talk Hj into seeing the movie, Rock of Ages at the Cineplex, because I heard that it is hilarious from my cousin Tracey, who laughs at similar things to me.  She, Liisa and Hj are the people who I laugh with the most.  Kirk also makes me laugh but I don’t see him often enough.

For me, laughter is not a prerequisite for friendship.  Generally speaking, kindness is about the only absolute that must exist in the people who I love.

Anyway… I am off on another topic now when basically I wanted to just pop in and wish you all a happy day and to let my readers from other locations know why we are all red and white here today.

I am not really a nationalist, but rather I appreciate that I live in a country that has seen a lot of priviledge.  Just should you never have had the chance to visit us here in Ontario Canada, below is a photo of our parliament and the peace tower.  I chose to show you this because my great great great grandpa James, drew the stone up the Rideau Canal in his ship to build this.  My people have been here an awfully long time.

Have a safe and wonderful day!

Update: I have seen the film now.  I did not find it particularly funny, but I did think it was entertaining and worth seeing.  I left the cinema feeling like I did not waste my money and that I saw a film.  I think that the actors did a good job.  I would say that this is the best role that Tom Cruise has had, since Risky Business and I might be a little in love with him again.  ;-P

 

 

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Tiny Violet

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Laura

Someone wonderful and tiny came to visit her Aunt at her Tiny House today.

Tiny lovely Violet!

It was nice to spend the morning with her and her mom.

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Beautiful Death

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Laura

I have loved ones buried at the Sandhill cemetery on Montreal Street North of Kingston.  I go there to visit their graves very frequently.  I can’t forget them.  As a matter of fact, I want to remember them, and miss talking with them so I go frequently and catch my people up with the community news.  I am not sure if the dead can hear, but what I am sure of is that the dead and their visitors are treated daily to glorious skies.  The cemetery is built high and the view from there is always beautiful.

 

I have come to feel that our late loved ones were given the best spot in the province.  Even most locals do not know that part of the property was donated to the community from an immigrant named George Masoud who came to Canada from Mount Lebanon in Syria.  This area is the Christian Heartland of the currently troubled country.

When Mr. Masoud lived in Syria the area of Mt. Lebanon would have looked somewhat like this.  (The photo is from 1914 where he donated the property to our community a few years before this.)

This is what he left to us and relatively, this is an ordinary sunset from Sandhill.  Our graveyard is a beautiful spot to be alive.  Wouldn’t you agree?

For the most part, I think we all leave behind something beautiful when we die.  I hope, when my time comes, that I will be no exception.

Jane Orr and her husband George Masoud
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Two Little Showers

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Laura

There was a little rain last night which brought cooler air with it.  The comfy rainy morning sleep made me stay in bed just a little longer.  Rudigrrrr Wolf woke me by barking and jumping on my head.  I knew that he had to go badly to the bathroom, so I pushed my groggy head up and off the pillow.  Pulled myself up, shuffled over to the stairs and leaned to pick him up and carry him downstairs.  When I lifted him up, he started to pee.  He peed over the floor, the stairs, the other dogs and me.  Poor Bad Little Wolf waited a bit to long to wake me up.

So, I had to wash the dogs a little, and because I was already bugging them I decided I would clip their nails and put on their Sentinal since these are things that they hate and I thought I would bug them once large instead of three times small.  I also put my jammies and towels into a laundry bag and bring them to be washed.  I decided to throw them in at Liisa’s.  She is at work.  When I arrived there, two nice juicy piles of cat vomit where there waiting for me, one on the entryway mat and one on the way to the laundry room.  So I cleaned that up.  Well, I picked up the vomit off the door mat and floor and threw the mat outside for Liisa to deal with.

Then I drove to town to get dog food.  I  arrived at 9:30 am to do a bit of on line stuff, check my bank account and found that $400 was taken for a “loan payment” from my account.  FFS!  What a morning!

Visibly freaked out, I ran to the bank only to find that the money that I thought had been stolen was simply a little extra transfer that I had made to the mortgage and they changed the way that they code it.  Nothing missing but my pride, since I went in there at about a billion miles an hour with my freak on – heart pacing…

So what I am saying is that it is not yet noon, and I have been yelled at, jumped on, peed on, vomited for, robbed and humiliated.  I wonder how the rest of the day will unfold?

Too funny to keep to myself.

Here are the rainy lovely morning trees.  Peace out…

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