WOW, It's been a LONG time!

I completly forgot about this blog in the past 10 years. A LOT has happened, a LOT has changed, a LOT of Loved ones have been lost and gained.

A trip to the Vet's

Ani had her 1st visit with the Vet today, we took her to the Babylon Animal Hospital on Montalk Highway in Lindenhurst (the Hempstead Animal Shelter had given us a list of vets that would wave the office visit fee for the 1st visit and we picked this one). The doctor gave took some blood to run some tests and other wise she has a clean bill of health! We also got her some shampoo so we could give her a bath tonight. After the tests and some medicines for heartworm and the coughing and sneezing and the shampoo the total bill came to $240.00; a lot of money for us right now, but very well spent! So here are some pictures of a CLEAN Ani trying to get herself dry on her blanket...

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone; we have chosen a name for out baby girl and it is Ani! Here are some pictures of Ani, as you can see she is fitting right in and feeling right at home with us...

Our newest Family Member

We still haven't picked out a name, but some of the ones in the running are:
Ani - an ancient Armenian city; also means wisdom and beauty
Anoush - Armenian for sweet
Joy - after Scott's mom
Shirley or Surley - as in Sherlock so that she can be called Surley Lock Holmes (I know you think it's corney, but it's cute)
Lucielle - Scott said it's after the song and BB King's guitar
Trixie - which just reminds me of the Honeymooners and I don't want her going to the moon :)

We Got A Dog

Scott called me from work yesterday and told me to check out this dog on Suffolk Unleashed (www.suffolkcountyunleashed.com)



We all thought that she was cute and we went to the Hempstead Shelter today to take a look at her and fell in love with her! They let us have her and she is all ours, YIPPIE !!!!

She didn't have a name and we are open to suggestions, but I say we need to let her show us who she is personality and trait wise before we actually settle on a name for her.

So here is our newest family member frolicing in the snow...

Well we got between 10 and 12 inches of snow last night, depending on where I stuck the yard stick, so I went out to take a few pictures! This is the neighborhood stray, we call her fluffernutter, she was born the spring that we moved into the house and is the kitten of my next door neighbors cat, but they do not believe that they should spay their cat or that they are responsible for any of her kittens.



And this is another kitten from the neighbors cat, almost a year old, we call him socks and shoes.



As you can see I try to make sure that they have something warm in their tummies, that's warm milk that I put out for them.

And here are the snow pictures...



This is Stephanie's house, across the street...



This is out house...



You can see that the snow is half way up my 4 foot fence...



And some of the trees...

Anthony's Yankee's Hat

Well, after MANY knit-ups and rip-outs Anthony has FINALLY gotten his Christmas Hat! It isn't what I had originally planed it to be, originally I had the NY circling the hat done in Fair Isle, but because I am such a tight knitter I had to settle on duplicate stitching it in; and because I was so depressed about being robbed instead of circling the hat it only has the NY on it once. So here is Anthony wearing his hat.



After taking a really good look at these pictures I think I'll make him another hat, when I'm not so shaken up about robberies, that is longer so that he can cuff it up if he wants and a bit less tight on the top.

Trip to the Police Station

Scott and I took a trip to the police station today to try and get a copy of the police report and a reciept for my candlestick phone. The officer on duty there said that they should have left a slip of paper with us and it should have had the report number on it. I told him that they didn't and that the detective also took my candlestick phone and didn't give me anything saying that he had taken it. The officer said that they don't do that and wrote down the detectives name and phone number as well as the case number on a piece of paper for us so the we at least have that.

So now it's just a waiting process to see if I will be getting my phone back.

Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you last night the detective told us that they are looking for two white guys in a Gold Ford Explorer that have been going up and down Route 112 and stealing ladies pocketbooks out of their shopping carts as they are loading the groceries into their cars and that they think that these two guys are the same two that robbed not only us but some other houses over here. All the houses that have been robbed only had their cash taken and nothing else. The detective said that it's probably because of the rise in Hirone (sorry about the spelling) addiction in this area.

Welcome to Patchogue...Brookhaven Town's Own Toilet Bowl!!!

We've been here three years and we've been robbed three times,(1st year they stole Joseph from my Nativity scene[who steals a religous item, what kind of asses are these people], 2nd year they came right up to the house and stole my gasing ball [not the stand mind you, just the ball] and now they break into the house and steal my state dollars, 1/2 dollars and dollar coins) each time a bit closer; what's next?

I HATE THIS TOWN THERE ISN'T ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT IT!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID!

Today is my best friend, David's, 64th Birthday! So Happy Birthday to you David; my birthday wish is that you live longer than your children and even longer than me!