Happy Valentine's Day Current!

beautiful Leen.

Thanks, SFirman. I hope you enjoyed the day as well :)

Do I think ? Most definitely........'mystical knowledge is arising, and it's a pleasure
to foresee, how the spirit wants the loving....... and that's new currency ! '
(above quote from Gogol Bordello aka Eugene Hutz)

Wow. I think he was too, northern.

He probably telling you, that he his doing well.

thanks Brava!

Happy (belated) Valentine's Day to you Plue :)

And to you as well. Hope you and your sweetie are well.

Thanks Plue!

We are :) Thanks for asking.

I thought it was quite moving , thanks for sharing it .

The silver thorn, the bloody rose, upon the snow, upon the clothes. Whatever is broken can
be fixed ......... extend universal peace.

"Shadows are fallen, and I'm runnin' outta breath,
Keep me in your heart for a while,
If I leave you, it doesn't mean I love you any less.
Keep me in your heart for a while." ~ ~ Warren Zevon

Way cool photo, remanns!

Whoa! This one too - I've never heard of this photographer - going to google him. Thanks for turning me on to a new (to me) artist.

Well Now !

It's in the eyes..... they reflect back the beauty he sees about him. He makes for quite
a self-portrait photo himself!

Lovely !

Das a lot of good-byes....... at least a kiss is thrown in. Good one.

Oh, those are your pretty babies!
Is the little one still the boss?
You are so lucky to have such beautiful and loving companions.

Yes he is and yes I am. They bring me joy every day. Whenever I start to feel down all I have to do is give one of them a hug.

By the way, I love your new avatar. How long have you been married, if you don't mind me asking?

Your dogs are so cute!

Thank you. I'm so lucky to have them. They are my Valentines today.

Thanks:) We've been married 7, together for 8.

Awww. That's nice :)

I have a cat, DLH, white with orange markings, Cairo. On his back is an orange heart !
Your two here are the epitomy of how animals/pets give us unconditional love.

Does that mean you've passed the 7 year itch, since you've been together for 8?

Aw, you have a Valentine Kitty!

Cairo displays love too with that orange heart marking. If I can find friend w/scanner,
I will post his photo.

Love to see him.

One can just see in the white furred friends' eyes and from his expression that
he is the boss. The larger bud is like, "I'm just here to protect him, even tho
he doesn't think so." lol

I'll go over to my friend's house (lives in neighborhood) with a scanner that
works and photo of my Cairo and get it done tomorrow. It's 2:20 a.m. here and
my eyes are blurring, so gotta tear myself off this consarnit contraption and
catch some z-z-z's.

You got them pegged.

That would be nice. I'm heading off to bed too. It's 1:30am here.

They are so cute!!! I would love to be their valentine.

Dug throu 100's of 'loose' photos as well as pix in albums. Naturally, can't
find Cairo, but will post a photo of Tonto, an all white, DSH, as a kitten. In
the photo he looks just like one of those Hallmark card model kitties.
Heartbreaker.

Love to see him if you are able to scan the picture and post it.

Yes, I'll be doing that today, and who knows, I may still find Cairo's perfect shot digital of
him with his orange shaped heart marking on his furred back.

Tonto's photoo is right here and ready to go, as well as Skye < ( recently passed to
Rainbow Bridge, impromtu, when an inoperable tumor was discovered in her stomach.
I say 'inoperable' as I was advised that due to her advanced age, the vet said he
'wouldn't put her through all that and end up with a dead cat anyway.'

My scanner's been on the fritz for over a year and, albeit I tried to get it repaired, I
could never seem to scrape up the cash for it. Thus, the friend I have who will lend
me his scanner, rebuilds PC's and has an extra scanner that works ! His surprisingly
charitable nature will give me a new rebuilt PC with a workable scanner !

I was touched, people are unpredictable as is life, and this guy's nature is proof
that there are still good people out in this, at times, wretched society.

What a sweetheart! She looks all innocent. By the way, is Laurie your sister?

She is beautiful too. Looks like she has a little calico in her with her coloring. I've never been real fond of pure Siamese cats myself as they are so mean, so being only half Siamese probably improved her disposition. I very much prefer mix-breeds to pure-breeds because with pure breed they can be so inbred that they have health and disposition problems. Besides there enough dogs and cats in shelters that need rescue and love to serve everyone in the world these days.

Skye was acquired thru some old hippies that had an unspayed mom hangin'
around their property. They'd feed and water her, but when she became preggo,
the dimbulbs would let her have the kittens in their garage. OH yay, how charitble
of them.
She was all cream color as kitten, but as she few,her little colored patches started
growing in. She had one striped stocking, which means there was some kinda
tabby mixed in there.

Siamese - where did u get the idea that they're 'so mean?' They are very '
vocal, and one must like cats that talk a lot if considering a Siamese, either
one found from the 'street', a shelter, a hideous pro breeders, or whatever.

I had a friend who had two pure-bred Siamese cats that were so mean. If you sat on her couch they would hide under it and attack your ankles. So, it may just be my experience with Siamese, that has given me that idea. Also, remember in 'The Lady and The Tramp' those Siamese cats were snobs and viscious.

Thanks, she be a sweetie.

As per your question, why yes. Lawrencia, now passed away, was my
youngest sister. I have an older sister, Melanie. In birth order, I was the
'pickle in the middle.' lol

I thought I had told you that when we were both PM'ing when I first joined.
We were telling each other of our family heritage and all.

Yes, it must be. The first 8 weeks of a kitten's life, and what it experienced, no matter
what breed, even DSH, determines how they will react as they become
'socialized.'

Lady & the Tramp? This was fantasy. This was an animated feature based on
a script and story. U can't take away from that that all Siamese cats are snobby
and 'catty.' LOL

I guess you did, I'd forgotten and only remembered Melanie since she and I are so alike according to you. I was the pickle of the three youngest in the family, as my older brother and sister were born before WWII and the rest of us were born after WWII with a seven year difference between my sister (the second child) and my other brother (the third child, who is a year older than me). My older brother married when I was 7 and I became and Aunt when I was 11 and my sister went to University when I was 10. So from 10 on there were only the three of us at home.

I was being satirical. Although, since I saw 'Lady and the Tramp' when I was young it could have unduly influenced me without me knowing it.

They are absolutely gorgeous.

Oh, okey. And just like u could've been influenced when younger by viewing
that animated cartoon, it's just like with kittens.

Whatever they experience in the first 8 weeks of their life, can affect their
personality later.

Now, of course, u weren't 8 weeks old when you saw Lady & the Tramp,
but kittens in human years are about the same age you were when you
went to see that movie.

Thank you. They are both pound dogs. I cannot understand how anyone could have thrown these two beautiful boys away. I'm the lucky one to have found them.

According to me? Naw, it's fact/reality.

And you had a large family....... it was just us three sisters. Melanie who is 3 years
my senior and Lawrencia was a 10 years diff between her and myself.

Between me and before Laurie, my mom experienced a miscarriage, who'd
been male, six months into her pregnancy. I the 50's, preemies didn't have as
good a chance at surviving as they do now.
So I would've had a brother had it been later in the 20th century.

Same here, my mom had a miscarriage between my older sister and my brother who is just a year older than me. I always figure I was the accident because the rest of my brothers and sister are spaced out by a few years. My baby sister is 3-1/2 years younger than me. My older sister is 5 years younger than my older brother and 7 years older then my other brother. If my mom hadn't had the miscarriage I would have had another bother who was about 5 years older than me.

Spontaneous termination of a pregnancy is never a happy thing. It's agonizing.

Thing is, I have no brothers at all.......you have some living ones.

I agree about a miscarriage not being a happy event. I had two and ended up having to have my tubes tied to prevent another miscarriage. This really effects your hormones and is very hard on you emotionally. I would have loved to have had a boy, although I wouldn't trade my two daughters for anything.

My condolences on all this u tell me. It's the father's sperm that determines what
gender the offspring will be.
One does not always need a 'token' son, but like my dad, he would've given
anything to see his miscarried boy, and maybe he did. We weren't told of such
things as children and he never talked about it.
But I feel that he loved his 3 daughters as best as any father could..... plus
treated my mom like a queen.

There are reasons for everything........ we are 'born into this'....... as Charles
Bukowski would say. Our siblings or children are pre-determined by a Higher
Power.

Thank you. I know that my husband also loved his daughters very much. However, since we never had a son, he would tell people that anyone can make a boy but it takes a special man to make a girl.

Now there's an original. And it makes sense..... you know as they always say,
the female is God's improvement on His first experiment. lol

Look below, I finally found the pic of Cairo with the marking I wuz talkin' about.
The longer you look at it, the heart comes through. It also depends on how
he's laying..... it 's more distinctive, if he's in a different position.

Cairo is almost 21 ~ Good shape for a 'codger kitty', eh? lol

Aw! Yes I can see the heart. She is beautiful.

Cairo is a 'he'.......... no biggie. Thanx, I 'tink he's beautiful too....... many a year
with this DLH furred friend........ he's doin' good aside from the aging process, but
with daily infusions of 150 mg. of saline, administered at home, his kidneys are
assisted.

With the IV line hook-up and a fresh 6 gauge needle every treatment, he feels
so much better afterward and still grooms like a champ, eats like a Shetland,
and is alert, lovin' and purring.

How are your little canine sweeties doin' ?

Sorry, you even said 'he' in your comment. I just immediately said she without thinking. I can understand you doing everything you can to keep your guy alive. People that don't have pets can not understand how much they means to us and that they are just like our children. My guys are doing fine. The vet told me last month that Jack is living on borrowed time as he is now 13 and big dogs have a shorter lifespan of around 10-11 years. But, except for his cataracts and arthritis, he's doing well. Knock on wood.

I said 'no biggie' to your saying Cairo's gender w/o thinking. Dohn worry gal.

The big 'ting is that, tak, responsible, loving peeps who have pets, will give or get
them the medical attention they need.......I mean, don't humans want/need that
very type of thing?

I found from being around animals, knowing people who have domestics all
their life, or even briefly; their buds will stick around as long as possible with
their uncanny sense that they know LOVE.
Love can make anything possible. The big rule around here is 'no suffering'.

If the cat's/dog's time has come ( just as in humans) there shouldn't be any untold
suffering to try and keep them alive in a selfish sense. Of course, we'd rather
not let them go, but if their time is up........nothing we or anyone else try to do,
will prolong it.

I hope u feel this way because I also believe we will see all our previous buds
that have crossed to the Rainbow Bridge one fine day, when our time in this
passage is up. What a joyful reunion then, hey? Ya-hey. lol

I'm with you there. I had to put down my Siberian Husky because he had cancer and also my cat Topaz because she had kidney failure. They were the hardest things I have ever had to do, but I knew they were suffering and it would be selfish to keep them alive.

Oopsie Daisy. Did someone forget to change their sockies?

Too late. I already copied it. Oh what a tangled web we weave....

It is the hardest thing to do..... we know as their days number, and don't want to
know, so we don't think about it.

But you're right, it would be selfish to keep them longer than intended. The 'no
suffering' rule is wot I enforce here. Just as any human would not want to be
hooked up to life support systems, an animal friend bud needs to be told, 'it's
okay to leave now.'

ROFL - you should send that to our resident troll.

He's too busy right now - in the midst of an obsessive posting marathon, same as every holiday. It's almost like the happier people are, the more agitated he becomes - frantic to disrupt the joy of others.

I've been keeping him busy all day. Giving the rest of you a respite.

gotta just luv that cat! such-a-face!

HATE&FEAR is the very life-blood of the right-wing-corporate-FASCIST-troll. Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns head DE-flates when he does a good deed, and he immediately does a bad thing to RE-flate it, realizes it's his hate that keeps him alive.

Oh yeah - I never get tired of Grumpy Cat.

Exactly!

HAHA - I saw this same photo of cat on Twitter......he's called 'Extra Grumpy Cat.'
Still cute though..... it's like he's saying: "You picked the wrong day to mess with me."

Yeps, that's Extra Grumpy Cat..... saw him on Twitter.

Very common narcissistic thing to do .... The happiness of others INFURIATES them .

Narcissist .

You ARE noble ... happy V day !