YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread. 2009

[gote]

You are welcome to cme and take my mice Anthony 
Göte

[Maggi Young]

You are welcome to cme and take my mice Anthony 
Göte

I think first he must go to Latvia to help Janis with his rodents!! ( I plan to  negotiate a contract, but neither party has signed yet, so keep this quiet, or I will lose my commission  )

[Maggi Young]

Simple things can give such pleasure............ yesterday at our local SRGC Meeting we were given six big fresh eggs from a friend, Joan  ...... thank you, Joan (and Chris, who told Ian he'd been threatening the hens with dire consequences if they didn't going into decent egg production in the last week or so!!!)   ...... off to scoff yummy eggs for tea! 

[David Shaw]

On the topic of tasty foods our local convenience store leaflet has an advert for Walkers crisps. Flavours include: 'Builders Breakfast', 'Onion Bhaji', 'Fish and Chips' and, especially for Maggie, 'Chilli and CHOCOLATE'!  The mind boggles. We only eat plain salted. Who eats all these ridiculous flavours

[Lesley Cox]

Simple things can give such pleasure............ yesterday at our local SRGC Meeting we were given six big fresh eggs from a friend, Joan  ...... thank you, Joan (and Chris, who told Ian he'd been threatening the hens with dire consequences if they didn't going into decent egg production in the last week or so!!!)   ...... off to scoff yummy eggs for tea! 

Well Maggi, that's a much better use for them than the one they were put to on Tuesday night. This is Orientation Week as students start at or return to Otago University. Being students, they get up to every imaginable prank and idiocy and they consume huge quantities of alcohol, a habit supported to irresponsibility by a few of the local pubs.

Tuesday night was the annual Toga Parade with a couple of thousand students marching along Dunedin's main street, clad in an assortment of sheets, bedspreads etc and mostly sandals. Usually it has been a quiet and even sedate affair but this year they were pelted with eggs from upstairs windows and with other utterly disgusting and unmentionable substances. Shop fronts were smashed, car windows broken and generally, they all behaved like on out of control mob. NOT a good advertisement for our rather nice city! A few arrests were made and the businesses along George St were left to clean up the mess.

[Maggi Young]

Who eats all these ridiculous flavours

Not me! 

Teatime Eggs were quite delicious, as eggspected. 

[Lesley Cox]

Three more of Teddy. Following days of rain ever since he arrived, Teddy is today discovering the great outdoors, specifically, my 6 cubic metre pile of potting mix. It is about 1.3 metres high and he has no trouble climbing to the top, with compost showering down around him. Until this morning he has been a pristine, sparkling white but now, alas, his little legs and tummy are a grubby grey.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I'm sure you'll enjoy giving him a thorough soaking Lesley !

[maggiepie]

Good thing he's not a cat Lesley 
Can see you are going to have a wonderful companion 

[Carol Shaw]

Good thing he's not a cat Lesley 

Our two Siamese girls happily go off playing in the rain, in fact daughter cat comes in and shakes herself like a dog - usually all over David

[Lesley Cox]

Our Springer Spaniel loves to be hosed or leap into any patch of water large or small. I haven't tried it with Teddy yet. He didn't seem to like the rain all that much. As for bathing, that pleasure is yet to come. Coward that I am, I'll leave it to Roger.

[maggiepie]

I was thinking more along the lines of what a cat would be likely to leave behind in the compost pile 
The lady who lives across the road from me has 4 cats which think my yard is their toilet, I am forever finding hidden treasures 

[Lesley Cox]

I know the feeling MAggie - literally. Just one cat across the road from me but the blasted thing uses my potting mix pile and I find the evidence when pressing a little seedling into its new pot. The smell is appalling! Quick trip to the bathroom.

[Carol Shaw]

I was thinking more along the lines of what a cat would be likely to leave behind in the compost pile 
The lady who lives across the road from me has 4 cats which think my yard is their toilet, I am forever finding hidden treasures 

Well the majority of dog owners round here don't seem to have heard that they should clean up behind their pooch... there is a pretty path alongside the burn but it is simply disgusting most of the time. I've had strong words with more than one dog owner who seemed to think it was fine for Fido to poop and that she had no need to scoop 

[maggiepie]

Well the majority of dog owners round here don't seem to have heard that they should clean up behind their pooch... there is a pretty path alongside the burn but it is simply disgusting most of the time. I've had strong words with more than one dog owner who seemed to think it was fine for Fido to poop and that she had no need to scoop 

Carol, I don't think anyone should have to clean up after other people's pets.
What really gets up my nose is that there are laws in place for dog owners to have to clean up after their pets and not even allow them to run free without a leash, whereas cats are allowed to do as they please and being cats they usually choose to do their business in someone else's garden.
It isn't just the poop either, I encourage birds into my garden, and hate to see cats tippytoeing  into my yard each day to lie in wait.
Talking to owners usually gets, 'oh but that is a cat's nature, can't coop them up, they are free spirits' or something along those lines.