As expressed in my prior post, these are replies to some of your welcome posts from the 1st few days after I started this thread. Regrettably I'm a bit late in posting these. I was compiling one large posts with all of the together (in another window), but then I got carried away on dreams of yesterday and all my past animal adventures. Anyhow, please know that I very much appreciate that each of you came here to welcome me on board. I think I can get a few of my longer replies together here...
AnnaZ:
If they had shot the techs, they would never have gotten out of the Paleolithic time warp and made it back to the year 2016. (It was like a scifi flick over there for a while.) I, too, am shocked. I'm shocked that a company, a reasonably successful company at that, would buy a very good product and then pay people to screw it up so badly. It does leave one scratching ones head in bewilderment. It also smacks of pure arrogance to take something as successful as DG was and make radical changes believing you know how to make it better. It takes even more arrogance, verging on insanity, to continue on the same demented path even after finding that your initial changes have made the product worse.
I must confess that I spent some time over there over the weekend just watching the drama play out. I couldn't help it. The situation is so completely messed up now and they are down to so few remaining members that it's like watching a train wreck play out in very slow motion but without all of the blood and gore. You don't want to watch but you just can't seem to turn away. I no longer feel any investment in that system, sadly, and thus no longer care what they do, but it's still interesting to stop in and watch now and then. Kind of like a soap opra now.
MissingRosie:
I like that you 'got' my screen name. Yes, I am continually dreaming of spring with all its new life and abundant energy, with all the little critters playing 'chase' and with the plethora of blooms set amidst an endless sea of verdant green. Most people seem to think erroneously that I'm somehow labeling myself a dream. Not. I just dropped the 'ing' in an effort to shrink the name a bit. On that note, I should add (to all) that I'm very comfortable with abbreviations like Dos, Dream, Dreams, etc anything that saves you keystrokes.
Incidentally, I'm enjoying reading the comments and quotes people have associated with themselves. I love your 'odometer' line. Oh, and I liked the crowd here from the moment I signed on. They look very familiar, very much like the group I was part of once before.
stillwood:
Good to see you. Yes, Cocoa is right. You must have a fabulous memory (like Sharon) to keep up with all of their names that way. The pets and I have been somewhat on the 'outs' of late. For most of February I was on an ever decreasing dose of HRT, trying to stretch the stuff until I could get more. As a result, I spent last month in pain and feeling very lethargic. When you don't feel like moving a muscle, the demands of 3 pets can get to be a bit much. Widget, my little Maltese, is 11 now and has his problems from chronic eye infections to periodic seizures and moments of incontinence, all of which add to my work load.
The weather has been quite lovely here for months now, so I finally decided to put the cats outside for a while. They don't exactly love this new plan, but it has made things easier on me, and with such lovely, warm weather there isn't any reason they can't stay outside for a while. Ms Kitty, who had been staying indoors pretty much 24/7 had become very bad about trying to rearrange things to her liking. The 1st year or so she slept quietly on a chair or chaise lounge and never seemed to bother anything, but lately she had started 'redecorating'. It started pretty innocently with the same decorative pillows being tossed onto the floor every time I put them back on their respective chairs/sofa. Then 1 day she actually removed a spindle from the upstairs banister and tossed it down into the great room below. I was in the kitchen cooking when the spindle came sailing down to the great room floor. I saw it with amazement. After that she just kept climbing, knocking things over, and pulling things down. So I sent her outside...
I finally got more HRT and am beginning to feel better and better each day now, but I think I'm going to leave the cats out as long as the weather remains so lovely. I still let Cocoa in occasionally only because he sits in my lap for a while, doesn't climb or break things, and then goes back out again.
Big thanks to all of you for your welcoming posts!
