I haven't written anything on here for awhile since "the squirrel post" (LOL! Glad you all enjoyed it! I think about weird stuff like that all the time...I just don't always put it to pen!)

Anyways...I seem to have had a rough go of it here lately with my gut problems (IBS/Diverticulosis) but I'm slowly but surely coming to the conclusion that nobody can help me but ME! It is something I guess I will just have to learn to live with the rest of my life and I need...

I am sitting here watching a squirrel run around looking for food in the backyard while it is pouring rain and he is drenched! {Looks like a wet rat!}

I wonder if squirrels get depressed? Do they wake up in the morning and see that it is raining and think "Oh crap! I have to run around in that BS today?"...Or do they just not even think about it and go on about their business?

I would think they run purely on instinct and what God has provided them with....

I posted yesterday that I had been doing so well detaching myself {yet again!} from the problems our family has been having with my Dad now for over 4-years...but I "lied".

I don't think I really detached, persay, but just put it in the back of my mind since I seem to have suddenly had so much on my plate as of lately.

Yesterday hubby and I stopped at my parents house to visit for awhile and set up the new telephone I had gotten them for Christmas.
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I always end my posts and replies with {{HUGS}} and I often think that some are quite annoyed by this simple jesture.

I don't much blame them because I guess it is kind of annoying and silly...but I am sincere and do it with only the best wishes in mind for the recipient.

Hey, who couldn't use a {{HUG}} sometime?? LOL!
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I ended up taking Sammy to an Avian certified vet about 2-hours away yesterday and had to leave him in their care for several days.

The vet who checked him over said she thought it was Pneumonia which is very life threatening for birds!
They gave me a list of all they could do for him and the costs, which total around $1100.00. I never once thought about just having him put to sleep and foregoing the costs but I'll be honest that I had to turn down a few of the tests until...