Just splashing through to start the day by leaving a little ~something~ for you dear {{Elfina}} I will get back and respond to your post but I see today is your special day so wanted to leave this for you {{{hugs}}}



It will be a different birthday without your {{beloved Scooter}}} but I do hope you can enjoy your day {{{more hugs}}}

much love to you dear friend

always

mermaid..xxx

Back again and better late than never to respond more fully to your post dear {{Diana}} {smile}

I don’t know where the time flies to as it is also nearly a year since dear {{chakhotay}} left us in November 2014. Interestingly my next door neighbour (that we don’t have that much to do with unlike the ones on the other side of us) said to me yesterday “didn’t you lose one of your dogs recently?” I said “Yes it is nearly a year ago now” so he didn’t quite know what to say to that one! {chuckle}

Yes it would be lovely to really sit round a table with a nice pot of coffee or glass of wine (depending on the time of day) and have a good ole chin wag wouldn’t it? {smile} It is hard to believe that so many years have passed since we all first met and chatted – firstly in AC and then in the different incarnations of this message board. It is still lovely when there are messages left in here though our numbers are now sadly much reduced. Mind you I keep the site open if anyone does want to pop in a leave a post so it is not coming to any harm here.

How are you and Ed doing with both your health issues? Hopefully they are being managed fairly well sweetie. With our advancing years here Paul is getting fairly crippled up with gout and arthritis so a lot more is left to me to do outside with animals and garden etc but I do have a very good osteopath who keeps me going bless her! {smile} Paul has gone to see a specialist this afternoon to try and resolve the gout problems so hopefully he can make a start on that sooner rather than later as he is not the world’s best patient bless him! {smile}

Aww I know exactly what you mean about the empty space with {{Lakota}} as even though we still have Shula and Nelson I sometimes look around the garden to see where Chakotay is. It also doesn’t matter what size our fourleggeds are (whether canine or feline) the empty space is still just as large is it not? It’s quite comforting to know that one day we will see them all again as I believe we will so there is that to look forward to when it is our time to leave Planet Earth and in the meantime we just carry on don’t we? {smile}

Sounds as though Khaleesi was the perfect birthday present for you and am sure she is very happy with her new family. Nelson is a Gemini Sun (though I don’t know any of his other placements though I could look them up I guess as I do have his birthday) and he really is such a puppy minded dog! Mind you Shula keeps him in some sort of check as she is now the Boss {chuckle}

Well looking at the time I think Paul will be back shortly and I need to take the dogs out for a quick run before it starts to get dark – I do hate it when the clocks change and we now have it getting darker earlier. The poor fish have suffered this past week or so as I kept forgetting to feed them when it was light as I always fed them after feeing the dogs only now it is dark then. I will go and feed them when I have posted this into the board.

I hope that you and dear Ed are both keeping well and that it is not too long before you post again here {smile}

{{elfina}} I hope you are having a lovely birthday dear friend and will respond to your post in a separate one either later today or in the morning as Paul has now arrived home. {Smile}

Sending Love and {{warm hugs}}} across the Sea to you both {smile}

Mermaid…xxx

PS am not going to proof this so excuse typos/grammar etc in advance {smile}

Stopping in to wish Elfina and Liz (and anyone reading along) a very Merry Christmas.

Ours will be a peaceful, quiet one with just the two of us and Khaleesi.

I'm making a bone in ham with a maple, apple, and brown sugar glaze, twice-baked potatoes, corn, and cheese bomb bread with apple roses for desert. We're giving out plates of food to some of our disabled neighbors who don't have family nearby to celebrate the day with, so the food won't go to waste, that s for sure {chuckle}

The weather has been so nice and mild here. We've even seen some lows in the thirties, which is quite brisk and a wonderful change to the 100+ temps of the summer.

Anyways, best get a move on here with my day.

Liz and Elfina, thinking of you both and sending outnlts of love.

Diana