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[TsPoet]

what a strange problem. Would he eat ice cubes?

what a great idea, where were you 8 years ago when I needed you?
Murphy was ~2 when I got him and was on his way to being put to sleep for a slew of fearful and aggressive behaviors. He'd been terribly abused, had broken bones and was 14 lbs. He's now 20 lbs (and should be 19), he's under 8" at the shoulders. Took me nearly 2 days before I could touch him without being bitten. First walk I took him on, we rounded a corner in the park to find one of those barrel garbage cans - he viciously attacked it. I can't believe he didn't break a tooth on it.
Later that same week, while walking him in the neighborhood, a sprinkler popped up, and he attacked that - Lots of Murphy stories. I absolutely adore him. Eight years down the road and he's infinitely better. I still can't take my eyes off him for fear of what/who he might attack.
This last week, we ran into a snowman on a walk.


and last year, we ran into a porcupine

[TsPoet]

{{{{{shudder....}}}}}} I remember that ice from a few weeks ago! no power for a couple of days....hundreds of $ of tree damage in our back yard....1/2" if ice on everything.....ACK!!
It's hard to believe we are still just in the beginning of winter- the weather has been so lousy!
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It has been in the single digits around here with constant light snow for the last 3 weeks. It warmed up amazingly today and I've been enjoying being warm.
Until I saw those pictures, now I have a permanent chill. Thanks, Zen!

[Zen]

now I have a permanent chill. Thanks, Zen!

Not a problem

Poor pup!
How did you get those out?
Don't they have barbs on them?

[Pax]

TsPoet - Murphy sounds like a hoot and a half, sorry he had such a rotten start in life, thanks for giving him a good life.

[Aggie_Ama]

We spent last night watching "Armageddon Week" on the History channel. DH asked if the end is so close should we just quit our jobs and just do nothing until it gets here?

[OakLeaf]

Wow TSPoet, thanks for giving Murphy a second chance! I don't think most shelters would even allow him to be adopted out, would they? He's a cutie.

Hope those porcupine quills came out without too much trouble. When I was a kid our 105# black Lab got into a porcupine. That was farm country and you wouldn't have a dog anesthetized for a thing like that... even if there was money for a vet visit, which there wasn't. My dad held the dog and my uncle held the pliers, or the other way around, I don't remember.

Zen, hope there wasn't too much damage. Ice sure is beautiful! but it sure can be destructive.

DH asked if the end is so close should we just quit our jobs and just do nothing until it gets here?

Honestly, I think maybe you're too young, but back in the day I didn't know a soul who thought they'd live to see the year 2000. Everyone my age thought the world was going to end in the '80s. I was just talking about that with someone else who's about 20 years older than I am, and she said her generation was the same thing. I think maybe that's part of why the Y2K bug got so over-hyped. I don't mean to imply that it wasn't an amazing amount of necessary work for hundreds or maybe thousands of programmers - because obviously it was. But you recall there was a large segment of the population in the summer of '99 who thought the programmers wouldn't get the work done. They planted wheat in their little home gardens, installed hand pumps in their wells, etc. I didn't really connect it up at the time, but I wonder how much of that apocalyptic thinking came from a conviction that the world had already overstayed its welcome.

[Aggie_Ama]

We had a friend stock pile bullets, batteries, gas for his generator and non-perishable food on his ranch. He looked a little silly come 1/1/00.

The Mayan calendar coming to an abrupt end is fascinating but I wonder as we get closers to 12/21/12 will we see an increase in fear that the end is coming and we can't do a thing about it?

Isn't there a cycle of ever so often people thinking the end is near? This is way too much deep pondering for the morning hours!

[redrhodie]

We had a friend stock pile bullets, batteries, gas for his generator and non-perishable food on his ranch. He looked a little silly come 1/1/00.

The Mayan calendar coming to an abrupt end is fascinating but I wonder as we get closers to 12/21/12 will we see an increase in fear that the end is coming and we can't do a thing about it?

Isn't there a cycle of ever so often people thinking the end is near? This is way too much deep pondering for the morning hours!

I've seen so many dooms-days go by, it should be an annual holiday.

[Biciclista]

humans predicting the end of the world are constant proof of the hubris and presumptuousness of humanity. Who do they think they are? Do they ReALLY think God is talking to them ABOVE the other few trillion of us?

[OakLeaf]

humans predicting the end of the world are constant proof of the hubris and presumptuousness of humanity. Who do they think they are? Do they ReALLY think God is talking to them ABOVE the other few trillion of us?

Actually in the 80s, we figured that the humans who were (very realistically) on the path to destroying the world for everyone, were the ones who weren't listening very hard to God, or to whomever.

[Biciclista]

Actually in the 80s, we figured that the humans who were (very realistically) on the path to destroying the world for everyone, were the ones who weren't listening very hard to God, or to whomever.

++++++++ yeah, really.

[TsPoet]

I've seen so many dooms-days go by, it should be an annual holiday.

Oh, and it needs to be in March, to break up the middle of the long holiday-free dry spell we have between New Years and July 4th.
I love it. Only maybe it should only be on leap years to let the doomsday sayers have time to recalibrate

[jobob]

The Mayan calendar coming to an abrupt end is fascinating but I wonder as we get closers to 12/21/12 will we see an increase in fear that the end is coming and we can't do a thing about it?

It would help with retirement planning, at least.

[Aggie_Ama]

It would help with retirement planning, at least.

Maybe I should stop contributing to mine and buy more bikes.

There were some very smart and slightly odd people on the show that really buy into the idea that our planet will align with the sun and some black hole in the Milky Way, the poles will shift and all chaos would break lose. My mind was doing sommersaults trying to process that! Then of course they had the skeptic saying doomsday has been near so many times so who cares about this one. All quite interesting points of view and I just decided to stay on the fence, too much for me to process.

February 29th should be doomsday, it really is a weird day.

[snapdragen]

Oh, and it needs to be in March, to break up the middle of the long holiday-free dry spell we have between New Years and July 4th.

Noooooo! My birthday is in March, I don't want the world to end on my birthday!