Thanks, ladies. Two more days and our beautiful little town will be back. Just an interesting note. I saw a clip on the news a couple of nights ago. At 2 a.m. the clean up crew start in on main street( approx. 6 blocks) and they finish at 7 a.m. Despite what many think our town goes behind every year on the rally. Do to that we have some of the highest taxes in the area. The big thing that I hear all the time is the money it brings to the area and it does for a few but not that many that actually live here. I know it is here to stay. It does make me sad when I see what it has done and continues to do to our town. A few years ago I had a very good friend that worked for the Public Health Office here. She said they gear up every year as they know there will be an influx of young girls, some very young, coming in pregnant. How do you balance that out will all the money it brings in to the area? Ok, I am going to quit complaining. :)

Yes, well, they own a camp ground a couple of miles from town.:tongue_smilie: Their big 'play' now is, 'They are just a good family group.' :001_huh: They are only one group that honor us with their presence though and I guess they really are one of the tamer gangs.

I wanted to do an update. There have been 8 deaths so far. The traffic on our street is really crazy. We live 1 block off one of the main streets through town and many times when the traffic backs up they turn over and come down our street.:tongue_smilie: The sirens went constantly on Monday and were pretty steady on Tuesday but not as bad yesterday and today. It is such a difficult day as my kids are pretty much yard bound. I simply do not let them leave the yard unless they have one of us with them. The good thing is we have our house almost put back together from a very long remodel project and the kids have been very busy getting their rooms where they need to be.:D I really appreciate all of you that have been praying. We have 3 more days.

:D What a sweety!

I think whether this should bother you is irrelevant. You have said it doesn't and that is a blessing. I really do believe it will be a choice for you. You can let them come and have it bother or not. Or you can ask them to let you have another couple weeks. It really should be up to you and your dh.

:grouphug: I am so sorry. I remember well when my mom passed away. It was a very difficult time but there was a peace there also. She truly was ready to leave this world. I remember for months after she was gone I would see something or hear something that I knew she would enjoy and I would think, "Oh, I need to go call mom and tell her about......". Then the reality would hit. I would never again on this earth be able to do that. It did get easier. 25+ yrs later I still miss her though at times. Praying for you.

If your ds doesn't understand it is important that you help him understand but to do it in a way that will be non pushy in any direction. Give him the fact in a manner he can understand, not in a manner in which he will feel you are pushing for the relationship to be broken.

Jen, can you tell me what problems you are having with the one kitty?

It is tuff on police and hospital staff. I don't know what the shifts are at the hospital but the police pull 12 hr shifts for I believe 12 days straight. We live next door to the Chief of police. By the time the rally is over he looks like he is a walking stick. His wife is doing chemo also so they have that added stress. Awesome couple.

Not in our state. My son that has fostered several children would never allow the med. staff to give more than one vaccine at a time either, even with the foster children.

I don't do it any more as I don't have the room for our racks but when I did it was about $60 per month in the gas bill. I always dried the clothes for a couple of minutes to warm them up and helped with the wrinkles and then hung them.

Our library has Lego Club. My kids love it. You might check, they might know something if they don't do it.

Ok, I have one more question. Is it harder to litter train 2 kitties than one. When we got the two pups I thought I would go bonkers as I never knew who did it.:tongue_smilie:

Yes, there are Christian bike gangs. We used to have about 25 of them stay in our yard. I fed them breakfast and sometimes supper. I really enjoyed it most of the time. After our oldest son got hurt it was one of the things I had to drop. Just not enough days in the hour.:D Yes, my sister and her daughter and grand daughters made the mistake of coming here during rally one year. WOW! They had planned on staying in a motel but of course that week you don't just go rent a room and if you could you would have to take out a second morgage. I appreciate your prayers. My dh just told me there has been two rally deaths, both from alcohol and speed. That would have had to be today as they don't count anything other than from Monday through Sunday. It makes my heart hurt.

Ok, You are going to have to stop!:lol::lol::lol: Now I want two kitties for sure. That would be a great idea. It would be secured at both ends? I am thinking this will be a project for my dh and kids.:D

:iagree::iagree::iagree: Each of you are a blessing to our country. :grouphug:

We live in rally town. 1 wk out of the yr our small 6,000 pop. town turns into 100s of thousands of people, mostly on motor cycles. I know that there are a lot of really good people that come. There are also a lot of big name biker gangs come in. The police to a grand job of control but there is always the threat of war.:tongue_smilie: Of course the other thing that goes along with it all is the people that are injured and/or kill this week. My dh and I had to go across town and back. We took interstate back and it looked like there was a bad accident up the road from where we turned off. As we pulled up in front of our home 2 ambulances went by in the opposite direction of interstate so I am thinking there has been another one the other way. This is the first official day of the rally. 6 more to go. Please keep all the officials in prayer, the drivers, both bike and car in prayer, the hospital staff, and the buisnesses in our town. Some make good money. The clerk at the one we went to told us that they loose about 20,000 this week.

More good ideas. Thanks. Making it would definitely be less expensive and could make it for the spot it will go.

Guess I am too protected. I have never heard it before.:confused: Voted 'other'.

Thanks for your input. I am leaning away from declawing. I figure that I will work with the kitty and if it isn't successful we will then look at something else. You have some very good ideas.

Oh, yes, that would really do it. :lol::lol::lol:

Ya, somehow I see putting those on being compared to giving a cat a bath.:lol:

Ok, Thanks. Now can we talk about declawing? I know there are some strong feeling against this. I really do hate having my furniture ripped up though. We don't have anything right now that is extra special but hoping to get new living room in a yr or so. Any time I have seen cats in a house that are not declawed I see the evidence on the furniture. So convince me that I shouldn't get our new kitty, well, if we get a new kitty;), declawed.

I don't know about crazy cat lady but I am thinking we might be called the crazy zoo. My dd came in a couple of hrs ago and asked if we would be able to get 2 kitties, one for her and one for her brother.:tongue_smilie: I told here we needed to convince her daddy that one is a good idea yet.:lol: