Happy Birthday B.J.

Today (Aug. 8th) is B.J.'s aka Barry Baynard 31th birthday, my oldest son. I can't believe how fast the years have gone by and yet they seem to go by even faster now that I'm older. I'm not laughing. I can still see him as a little boy, playing with his toys or friends. B. J. was a beautiful a little boy, if I do say so myself and now he is a beautiful and handsome young man. Happy Birthday B.J. Love & Kisses MOM

Bear & Benji

Meet Bear and Benji, my babies, since all my children are grown and gone. I have two pet Shih Tzu. I'm not sure how to pronounce their breed w/o it sounding like a curse word. LOL My animal health book says the correct pronoucation is "sheed-zoo" but where's the "d" in Shih, hmm, anyway, it means Lion in Chinese. Their faces do resemble the likeness of a lion though. Bear, the lovely golden color dog at the top will be 6 yrs old Aug. 30th. I got him as a puppy in 2003 and he still poops and pees in the house, if your not watching, he very sneaky that way. BAD DOGGIES. I wonder, if I had hard wood floors if he'd still piss on my floors. Other than that bad habit, he's a pretty good dog, who loves to play ball. Marty, my husband taught him that trick as a puppy, and every opportunity Bear gets he will bring you a ball to throw. Bear is a 24/7 ball playing dog. He really don't know when to quit. When I wake up in the mornings, Bear is in my face with a ball in his mouth ready to play and he never gets tired ever. All in all, Bear is an alert, though arrogant and very affectionate, big dog in a small package. His barks bites.

Now, Benji, my black and white dog on the other hand has a totally different personally all together. I found him on the internet, hoping to find a friend for Bear, a friend not a mate. I'm not having any of that crazy humpey hump going on in my house. O' hell no! LOL Anyway, Benji was rescued from a pet farm by Rescue Farm Inc. of Poland, Indiana, the owner of the Pet Farm, I was told was closing. I just happened to spot him when I was surfing the net and fell in love. Benji was 2 yrs old May 19th. It's hard to believe we only had him alittle over a year, it seems like he had always been apart of this family. At first, Benji was a very sickly, shy and nervous puppy when we brought him home and he did't trust anyone. I believe it was Bear who finally cure him of these elements. Now Benji is a loving, sweet, cuddy dog, who loves to have his tummy rubbed. Although, he not must into playing ball, his favorite interaction with the ball is to hide it from Bear. LOL Benji is just a carefree type of dog who love to run and jump when he let loose outside. Another thing interesting about Benji is that at 10p.m. on the dot he's ready to go to bed. He will come and get you and bark, like hey put me to bed already and if you forget to close and lock his crate, he'll come and get you again. LOL funny dog. Poor Bear though hates to go to bed and he will definitately let you know about. He'll growl at you and I not having any of that. So I just approach him calmly, place the leach on and lead him to his crate and lock his ,./.,ss in. LOL. Then he pursue to bark all night, til he tires and falls asleep, that something he has done since he was a pup. If I could afford it, I have the famous Dog Whisper, Mr. Cesaur put a spell on him. For more info on rescuing animals, http://www.rescuefarm.org/

This Blogging Stuff is Challenging

Boy, I never knew how dumb I was until I try to blog , put I'm slowly getting some SMARTS if that's what you call it LOL. I try all day and I mean aaallll day Sat. to add a link to my posting ( I was up til 3p). I highlighted the word that I chosed( "here" the word I pick) that would directly take the reader to another place within my blog, that I was making reference too. I clicked on the Green bogg in the toolbar area that kinda looks like a "C" and this BLUE box opens up. It's the Hyperlink box that you put the web-site info. in, that links to another place, within my blog. Leaving the http:// where it is, you then add the web-site address after the http:// click on OKAY to save the info in the hyperlink box, click on Publish the Post (that's the paragraph I just wrote) click on Preview. When I click on the word "here" in that paragraph that I just wrote the highlighted word took me to a page that said No Page Found. CRAP!!! I was so GGrrrr that I turn the color of the DEVIL himself, when hell freezes over. So I decided to go to the page that I'm wanting, write it down, the web-site page , log-out of my Blog page, log-in to the Yahoo page, type in the all the writing of that web-site and see if it takes me to my Blog page, which I knew was there, but my stupid computer said there is NO PAGE. And vo'lot. There's my page. It was a human ERROR. I kept typing in achive instead of archive OMG! O' well, you live and learn and some times somethings take longer, way to long for me to learn LOL, But I got through it, this time. How many more challenging optical am I going to have to cross. I dare not think of it, for my brain is over load now, compounding all the links that I can now add without thinking fifty million times about it. I'm smiling now!

How long did it take, to take out the SL's?

It took 9 grueling days and night to take out these 575 braids of locs in my hair and I still feel the pain in my scapula, but was worth it in the end though. And I have my curls and length somewhat. I'm hopful that by next July my hair will be twice the length. It could happen. Look at what I begin with just one year ago. Here

Tak'n them Down!

As some of you may know I decided in June of "09" to take down my Sisterloc (SL). It was a very personal decision for me and all I can say is that I had a love and hate affair with them. During my 10th month my hair became very very dry and brittle and I lost 2 locs, they literally shredded from the root. And I know from others sites and other SL bloggers that this may happen, one loses a loc or two, with 400 plus or more locs that not really a lost, but for me it was devastating and the ends begin to explode, OMG, which again, is what the hair is suppose to do. I think if all of these things had of happened at the begin stage, like all of the pics of SL that I seen then I might have felt differently. Who really knows? Well it done! And I love, love, love my hair, after all of the years and now at 50, I don't mine saying my age "50" I love my hair. It feels healthy, it looks healthy, and I'm astatic about my hair. I am at PEACE with my HAIR. Wwwoooooo!