Who's Afraid - - - ? I am..

The dog, Missy (our super dog miniature poodle watch dog), was going nutso last night and then I heard some coyotes outside yelping.. and I asked RK if the cat was in the house.. and then I heard the most terrible sound imaginable of an animal screaming... it screamed and screamed for the longest time and my heart literally stopped because it sounded like a cat screaming.. so I rushed downstairs with the dog following and barking frantically.. I turned the lights on in the porch because the top part of the screen is ripped and Penny, the cat can jump up to the top part of the door and get into the porch so I figured she would be there if anywhere .. but she wasn't .. and then I went to the back door and turned the light on, all the while my heart was pounding in my chest.. and then I saw the cat coming towards the door with her ears back and her tail fluffed up in fear.. I opened the door and let her in and the dog was following her around and sniffing at her probably sensing her fear and feeding off mine..

I'm not sure if it was a neighbours cat that was killed or a raccoon but whatever it was I'll never forget that sound.. I know that the coyotes have to feed like any other animal to live but a lot of people are losing their pets because of them and now I'm terrified to let the dog out to use the bathroom at night now in case the coyotes are watching for a chance to get her.. and I'm scared to go out with her too...

Living in the country has it's darker sides too and that is one of them..

Just a side note here: Contrary to the belief of scientists that coyotes and wolves are mortal enemies.. the coyotes in our fair isle are inbred with wolves so they are larger than a normal coyote by about half (scientist have done dna testing on coyotes here and have proven that they have indeed crossed with wolves to make a super coyote).. they say that since there are no natural enemies here (except for the pissed off cattle and sheep farmers that is) and since the largest carnivors here are foxes, the coyote/wolves have really taken over and are at the top of the food chain... Lots of domestic animals and pets have fallen prey to them and the harder the people try to wipe them out with bounties etc, the more they breed and the larger the population becomes.. Interestingly enough we've lived here for three years and this is the first time that I've heard them and I've never seen one yet and I sort of hope I never do...

Third Time a Charm?

I've started this entry two other times this long weekend.. but got sidetracked by the fact that myself and R have fucked up our new high speed network big time..

Used my son's vast computer know-how to fix most of the problems (this while using messenger to talk to him) but one computer is still out of the network and we're too embarassed to call the installers of the high speed to come back and try to fix our mistake.. in addition R's in the market for a new computer and we think that the problem will be solved once that's done and the Dlink is installed on that computer... we'll see... Just a word of advice.. if you get a computer system that works and you think that you can tweek it up to make it work better *and you know fuck all about how computers work*.... just back away from the computer, turn it off, and go bash your head against a brick wall instead.. you'll be happy you did.

Other than that my long weekend was ok.. (after having wasted a full day and a half day on fixer-upper stuff, cursing and trying to prevent R from throwing the computer out the window).. anyone got a spare Vallium?...

It has finally arrived...

Ahhhh.. the head spinning speed of wireless internet... we finally got hooked up out here in the boonies.. and I feel a Zen like calmness settling around me.... my vow to spend less time on the internet once we got off of the mind numbing dial up is but a memory... how could I have been so naive... I still spend the same amount of time in here but it is 99 % productive and 1% waiting as opposed to the other way around.. sort of like the theory that if it's on sale it doesn't matter if you need it or not... it's on sale dam it, why can't you see the logic in that?....
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My son has taken me off of his shun list, at least for now, he's going back out to the west coast from the east and I probably won't see him again until the fall. At least my daughter and her kidlets are nearby.. that girl is a hoot.. I just love her sense of humor and how she can turn any situation into a stand up act.. she should try out for yuck yucks...
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Spring has sprung so early that the dreaded June Bugs are playing a rythmic beat by ramming their nastly little heads against my screens.. I hate to let the dog out at night to do her business because I'm afraid she'll be carrying a few of the gross creatures back in her curly coat.. do you think it would go over well with the vet if I brought her in with big welts where I tried to kill the June bugs with a 2X4?... Didn't think so...
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R is going to be a grandfather again but this time it's one of his son's so if it's a boy it will carry on the family name.. such as it is...

We're into May Already!??!

I can hardly believe it, we're almost half through this year. The older I get the older I get, if you get my drift. I can't seem to be able to relax and enjoy a certain age before I'm on to a new year. This year is the wonderful 55, I remember when I thought 40 was old!!! And that seemed like yesterday. Now even 65, R's age, doesn't seem so old... but I'm a grandmother of a 12 year old arrrrggghhhhh stop the world and let me off.. it's spinning too fast.... I'm afraid that I'll go spinning off into the great beyond before I realise that I'm gone.

As I'm sitting here typing I can hear my little miniate Poodle, Missy, oinking in her sleep.. I swear I'm not lying.. I think she must have been kidnapped by a band of roving pigs when she was a pup..

Did you know that if you pay an extra $70. a month on your mortgage that you can literally drop YEARS off of your end date?... I know, I was shocked too.. we just started doing that last month and will do it again next year and it looks good for it to be paid when I retire in 5-6 years.. ahh the best laid plans of mice and men eh?... At least we can dream. We hope to get a new car in the next year.. I'm hoping for a Toyota Yaris but we're going to start test driving when I start my holidays in August... and we're going to take a note pad along to make pros and cons lists for each one... (did I tell you I was hoping for a Yaris?).