Obsessive Rep Point Checkers Club (Volume IV)

parumpdragon said:

It's really close. THeir neighbors can't be happy about it. The first house built for an 'unobstructed view', and now their neighbors are going to be right in part of it. Ah 'getting to know the people next to you' *snerk.

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Their neighbors forgot a very important rule about building for an unobstructed view... you have to also own the property that is between you and the view.

Well it won't be too bad - they still have about 120 degrees unobstructed, just lost the last 60

And it's still snowing. We've gotten another inch or so overnight. Not much. The roads are still clear, though.

Girlchild has a camera in her phone and took a picture of my Peke being a foo bat:



No flippers, but hopefully you can see him in his happy foo bat state

definite happiness

Cute, lol!

He loves to lay so he can hang his head over the edge. He's a weird dog. So very mine. LOL!

Weird dogs are the best! My puppy had so many random little quirks that made him awesome. I miss him a lot. Best dog ever.

sorry Lil.

No worries, he passed on almost two years ago now. The cowboy hat picture is only one of many dress-up times we had. One time he wore the Energizer Bunny Ears. How that poor dog didn't hate me I'll never know.

Brian_G said:

Their neighbors forgot a very important rule about building for an unobstructed view... you have to also own the property that is between you and the view.

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Words of wisdom.

Only reason my parents house still has an unobstructed view is because they were at the top of the hill, and all the neighbors were down the slope.

Of course, some of the neighborhood trees have kind of grown up in the meantime, but it's still not a bad view.

Oh, and....

Morning Reppers!



*just snuck that in there while it is still morning here*

@Lil - My mom got this cat when I was 4yrs old and it loved me from the very first day. Totally my cat. Eventhough I would wrap it up like a baby and stick it in my baby buggy - rolling it around the house as it fussed.

She loved me for 21 years, that cat did. She died 2 summers ago. *sighs*

DeleyanLee said:

And it's still snowing. We've gotten another inch or so overnight. Not much. The roads are still clear, though.

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Our roads up north *sucked* yesterday. I swear, not only does everyone forget how to drive in it, but the road crews forget how to deal with it. So glad I don't have to go anywhere today.

Though I shoveled out my drive anyway, lest it build up. We've got more than an inch or so and it's still snowing.

DeleyanLee said:

Girlchild has a camera in her phone and took a picture of my Peke being a foo bat:

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For a moment I though a "foo bat" was something like a "Fu dog," which would have been appropriate of course, but then I realized that probably isn't what you meant.

It's hard to lose a pet. But at least we have lots of memories and pictures of them!

LilGreenBookworm said:

It's hard to lose a pet. But at least we have lots of memories and pictures of them!

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Or you can be like one of the people on the new Animal Planet show and have them stuffed by a professional taxidermist and keep them around forever and ever.


... A concept which I find both ghastly and extraordinarily creepy.

@ Lil - Yes.

parumpdragon said:

Yes.

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"Ask Again Soon."



Or are we not doing the Magic 8-Ball thing?

slcboston said:

Or you can be like one of the people on the new Animal Planet show and have them stuffed by a professional taxidermist and keep them around forever and ever.


... A concept which I find both ghastly and extraordinarily creepy.

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I can understand the sentiment behind doing something like that, but it isn't for me. My puppy was never still in life, it would be weird to see him frozen like that.

Really?

You understand the motivation to put a dead loved one on the mantle?

*backs away slowly from LGB*

My wife has joked that should I die, she might have me stuffed and put me in my recliner so she can pretend I'm still with her.

She's kidding of course.

I'm pretty sure.

Whenever we've lost a dog, since married, my wife has me dig a hole in the backyard and we bury them back there. I had to do the same for my SIL's dog and my MIL's dog. They didn't have yards at the time. So right now I have 4 dogs (2 are mine) buried back there. (3 boxers, 1 collie.)Plus a bird. And whatever frogs my kids have pulled out of the pool.

Now my SIL has her own yard, so when either of her 2 pass, she can bury them there.

My MIL doesn't. However, she has small dogs now. While I would never get a small dog, nothing smaller than a bulldog which I've never had, but would love, I'm glad she has small ones.

My wife grew up loving boxers, so we'll always have one.

I will never not have a dog in the house.

A) We love them too much and

B) when there's no dog, my wife makes me get up and check the house in the middle of the night every time she hears a noise. Any noise. Even if she's the one who made it.

BTW, I'm back for now. I just got home a little bit ago. Took child # 2 to ice skating & did the grocery shopping.

Will be leaving in an hour to take child #1 to basketball, then probably out to eat with everyone.

Thought this was funny.
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My puppy was the only one I have had that I remember. He was part of our family for 15 years. We haven't had a dog since, and I definitely miss the companionship, especially with the hubby away all the time.

Love the part B, Vince, sounds like my mom and dad.

Vince524 said:

Thought this was funny.
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LOL