When my cousin and I were kids back in the 50’s we would go thru old catalogs and cut out furniture, people and drapes and back them on the heavy paper that came in the boxes of nylons (pre panty hose) using Elmer’s glue. My uncle would bring us home a big cardboard box and he would cut pieces from another box to make walls and floors for our rooms in the do-it-yourself doll house. We would arrange the furniture and people in the rooms along with material that we used for wall paper and cut for rugs. It was great for making a rainy summer day fun. The only thing that had to be bought was the glue everything else was scraps or found items.

I remember the Sears and Wards Christmas wish books as a kid in the country. My 3 brothers and I would make are Christmas list from them. Didn’t get much from the list but it was fun dreaming.

During the long summer days, every once in awhile my brothers would decide that I was a girl and not let me play their games. Then my mother would pull out a new paper doll set for me. Sure enough before long my brothers would be at the table with me cutting out too.

If you remember those ctalogs - do you remember the pages and pages of candy ??? They really were wish books !!

Yup, we used our imaginations and not a computer chip in sight. Same cousin I mentioned before and I would take our dolls out in the buggies and we went house to house asking for old clothes (women’s) so we had “new” stuff to play dress-up with. Oh my, what a haul we made we were given some evening gowns and even a fur stole and lots and lots of jewelry. Wow, we strutted up and down her street dressed fit to kill.

I would play babies but my then baby was a little black and white chihuahua that i pushed around in a baby buggy all day long. Poor thing…I made him wear a bonnet for 1/2 his life and dressed HIM in girl clothes. Still miss him! He was my first pet.

I hope you feel better soon. I’ll be on the look out for you I think I just saw Dorothy and Toto fly by. It is warm here too but the trees still seems to want to kiss the grass.

Well of course you can. Feel free.

My hair’s not that long, it’s only to the about middle of my back. But it’s very very curly and thick. The wind always leaves me looking like Roseanne Rosanadana.

It’s that 1/4 Filipino ! Mine is mostly straight, thick… and it hurts when I close it in the car door !

It just goes to show ya, it’s always somethin’. If it’s not one thing, it’s anotha. Either you’re freezin’ your butt off, the heat has taken ya from zero to b***h in 2.0 seconds, or the wind has blown ya to oblivion. It’s just like that little poem my auntie, Joanna Roseannadanna used to say to me every night when she tucked me into bed….

So talented, Ginny.

I feel the same way you can always put on more clothes to get warm but no matter if you are bare a** naked you can still sweat besides people point at me and laugh.

I’m in Houston Texas, home of WMX7!!

I liked the California weather up to a point while I was there. I’m more of a rainy type person, so California got kinda boring with all that sun after awhile.

I LOVED living in Seattle though - just for the rain.

Chicken and rice are very easily digestable foods. Phoebe’s yum should do the trick, but be sure NO Salt in the broth-no spices at all. They can cause stress on the liver of a sick animal. Poor Perry seems to be in some discomfort. Are his pupils dialated? That is usually a good sign of pain in an animal. If I remember correctly Perry was having some kidney/urinary problems? If so, softly feel his abdomen. Is there a large bulge down toward the hip area? He may be having problems voiding his bladder.

Hey Rosie,
I bet it isn’t easy to find broth w/out salt. I have bought the Organic kind. Been a long time since I bought any…. But I’m sure they put onions in it as well for flavor… *sigh* I will look when I go to the store.
Thanks for your post!

I made my own and then froze it in one cup amounts in Ziploc baggies.

You know what? My oldest baby does the talking meow when he’s about to throw up too. He always waits for me to put newspaper down though. He’s very polite like that. He’s the only one who ever gets sick, and since I started him on Purina One hairball control, he hasn’t been sick once. (He has very long hair that he’s obsessive about grooming. He’s quite vain).

We bought some Blue Spa this weekend for the new baby and she gobbled it right up. I think we read every can in detail before choosing food.

Petey decided to hack up a huge hairball last week right on my bed he was hiding/sleeping under the comforter and sheet. What a surprise I had at bedtime - yuk. It was about the size of kitten.