Cyndi from sc/usa

Hi Cyndi. Dropped in to see if you have settled into your page yet, but you've obviously been bust over the holidays. A coffee with some Bailey's would be wonderful thatnk you! Hope you drop in so I can return the hospitality!

Hi Cyndi

Yes, we are here permanently. I love this little town - but like you, I really don't like the snow. My husband, however, loves it - so we stay. My sister lived in Windsor Locks about 6 years ago - and I'm only a hop-skip and a jump away! I actually work (part-time) at the airport. Thanks for introducing yourself.

Happy Easter Cyndi! Hope all is well with you and yours!

Hello Cyndi,

Just dropping by to wish you and your family a Happy Easter

Hi Cyndi! Happy Easter to you, too! How's the weather up there? Still going to be cold for sunrise services? We have our beach house at Fripp for the week of May 6. Sure hope it's much warmer by then. We Floridians need lots of warmth & sunshine!! Could you refresh my memory & tell me again what your connection to the Navy is. Was your husband in the Navy? I forget

Cyndi, yes, I definitely have a Navy connection -was a Navy wife for 23 years!! Rob enlisted in the Navy in '67 after leaving the Univ. of Michigan (where we met) one semester short of graduating. The Navy sent him To Miami Univ. in Ohio through the NESEP program where he graduated with degrees in both Chemistry & Anthropology. He then became an officer & served on both surface ships & nuclear subs as both a weapons officer & later a supply officer. The Navy also sent him to the Univ. of Kansas for a Master's Degree in Petroleum Management. Right before we came to FL he was the fuels officer at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. He retired out of CENTCOM at MacDill AFB in 1990 shortly before the start of Desert Storm. Since then he's held various jobs with the State of FL & now is FULLY retired. Long story but a good life. Even though we moved 17 times in 23 years we look back on them with many fond memories & good friends.

Now I'm in danger of becoming a CPer on your page! But I just had to come make one more comment. Can't believe your Bob & my Rob were both NESEPs! It really IS a small world. Maybe we can meet up in SC sometime. You're from Irmo, right? Would you ever consider coming to pay us a visit at Fripp? We'd love to meet you.

Mt hubby just corrected me -- he did 12 years active and 13 reserve. Time flies when....

Cyndi, many thanks for your Easter wishes. I have two chocolate eggs lined up in my sights ready for demolition.
I do hope you have a Happy Easter as well. Thank you.

Hello Cyndi just stopping by to wish you a very happy Easter, hope the Easter bunny stops by soon! What are peeps by the way? Easter eggs? Take care x

Kathy, Go ahead and post the picture I will not have my pictures ready for a few weeks.

Have a good Easter.

Hello Cyndi I am new at this posting on peoples pages and messed up sent the above message to the wrong person. Where in SC are you? traveled through you state on our way home from Florida in March.
Have a Peaceful Easter.

Hello Cyndi - I just popped in to wish you and your family a Happy Easter and a safe and relaxing weekend.

Hi Cyndi - I'm back! It would be great if we could get together in SC. Bet we would find lots to talk about. I would love to know what ships your husband was on, the different places you lived, etc. We come to Fripp four times a year. We are co-owners (1/13th share) of a beach house there so we get to spend one week in each season (4 of 52 weeks). Our next scheduled week is May 6. If you want to send an e-mail to our postmaster Ed from Lithia, baysbestbev@tampabay.rr.com, he can give you my e-mail address so we can write each other more privately. Will look forward to hearing from you!

Cyndi, Good luck finishing your page. I am looking forward to retiring in either one or two years - from teaching.

Hello and HAppY Easter...!!! Well, Almost!

I actually have free time right now/ I'm working and the lines are slow, so I can take some time to catch up with my friends. Maybe I'll finally play a puzzle! Hope all is well, Take care

utah grettings kathy! thank you for stopping by to meet the family and myself. also for your lovely gifts, i love pecans and poured the baileys in my morning coffee. mmmmmmmmm!!!
ive brought to you some fluffy powered snow from the mountains of utah. drop by again, anytime, maybe we could ski...or swim, depending on the season. thanks again!

Hello Cyndi! Seeing your comment today about how smart old Willie Nelson was (or the arresting officers) made me realize I haven't popped in lately. Hope all goes well for you!

Cyndi - I haven't visited before - but i LOVE your avatar......so cute!

Hiya Cindy
Just a quick flying visit as I jump from page to page. Wanting to thank you very much for your good wishes today. I've had a wonderful day and my sudoku family keeps growing, its so much fun knowing I have friends all over the globe.
Lots of Parties at my house this week, so pop on over and enjoy a drink or take to the floor and dance.

Just dropped by your place, Cyndi, to thank you for listening to my sick cat stories and responding with such kindness. I've brought a bottle of Merlot and a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc so we can toast all of creation together.

hello cyndi, so glad you enjoyed the bodie island lighthouse pix. we also stayed at some motel on the outer banks. didn't go every year, as we traveled to NC on business and found our way to the OB on our way from here to there....LOL..
the last time we stayed at that motel was about 3 years ago and we went back last summer looking for it. i'm terrible with the names of the towns there, but it was just south of Bodie Island lighthouse. there was a long fishing pier there. anyway,,,,the motel was totally gone. no ruins, so lumber, no foundation. just gone..a recent hurricane must have taken it. it was almost like 'do we really have the right place? ' it really made us question our sanity..LOL
now we just take our popup camper and have a great time. there are quite a few new campsites available. wonderful.

did i read that you were a navy wife?

hello cyndi, so glad you enjoyed the bodie island lighthouse pix. we also stayed at some motel on the outer banks. didn't go every year, as we traveled to NC on business and found our way to the OB on our way from here to there....LOL..
the last time we stayed at that motel was about 3 years ago and we went back last summer looking for it. i'm terrible with the names of the towns there, but it was just south of Bodie Island lighthouse. there was a long fishing pier there. anyway,,,,the motel was totally gone. no ruins, so lumber, no foundation. just gone..a recent hurricane must have taken it. it was almost like 'do we really have the right place? ' it really made us question our sanity..LOL
now we just take our camper and have a great time. there are quite a few new campsites available. wonderful.

did i read that you were a navy wife?

yes, Cyndi, i, too, was a navy wife. it feels like a hundred years ago or so, but it's been 30 years since hubby got out. we were married in san diego, then transferred to newport, ri where we stayed until he got out - after several med cruises and shorter cruises. he was gone a lot....you know what i mean. lol. i worked in the navy law center while there. like JAG on tv. what an experience.

we travel between NC and louisiana several times a year due to hubby's work. near greenville, NC and near lafayette, LA. quite different from Indiana, where we both grew up..lol culture shock, for sure.lol

Back for another visit. Yes, whether you're fond of cats, dogs, whatever ... any animal suffering just rips a huge hole in the heart, doesn't it? Technically, Arthur shouldn't have gotten blocked at all, since he and our other two cats eat a certain kind of food provided by our vet to prevent crystal formation. So we're all perplexed. Thankfully, we're starting to wean him off the fluids a little to see if he can continue to pee-pee (!) on his own. So the dreaded needle will appear every second night next week. He's isolated from the other two so we can observe him--I tell you, it's a really serious thing. Male cats, and dogs too, once blocked, have about thirty-six hours to live, so we were lucky. Anyway, thanks again for the hospitality--nice place you have here! Have a super weekend, Cyndi!

Hello Cyndi, I found a really good site to make avatars http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/ It's really simple to use. Hope this helps. And no, snow is not usual in May here but I do live at 3400 feet and this spring has been cold.

Cyndi,
This is the web site I use for shrinking pictures for avatars. Always make sure the avatar size is 50. Have had a couple of pictures that when shrunk are deformed, went and croped them, tried again and they were fine.
http://shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/

Hey Cyndi, sorry for posting what Rena had posted, guess maybe I should look next time.

Hi Cyndi! Just stopped by with a bottle of Niagara ice wine and the latest 'Arthur update.' Just spoke to the vet--we tried (according to the vet's advice) to slowly wean kitty from the fluids, skipping a morning treatment and adminstering last night,after a 36-hour break. He doesn't seem to be doing quite as well (pee-pee wise), so we're going with another round of fluids this evening to give him a boost and see how he does. This is a very serious, tenuous condition so I suppose we can expect little blips along the way. Meanwhile, we've still got two other cats who are isolated from Arthur so we can carefully observe him, meaning we have to make sure they get enough attention as well. It's quite a juggling act, but our vet claims we've saved Arthur's life and are doing better than some doctors she knows. I'll be relieved once the crucial two week time span has passed. What a tale, huh? Thanks for caring, enjoy the ice wine (for dessert, and sparingly--it comes with a heck of a hangover) with those you love. Best to you and yours this weekend. P.S. I'm still perfecting my home page ... just call me a techno-idiot.

Hi Cyndi, Thank you, for the kind compliment on my photography, I am far from being a pro. Just take pictures of things I like, don't even have a GOOD camera. I keep hoping to get more pictures on Flickr but haven't found the time.
You might be interested in this site for finding pictures for avatars, its where I got Elvis.
http://images.ask.com/pictures?q=pictures&o=12506&l= dir&qsrc=121&qid=4B326F7B10564745C59E6BB4B4503FCF&page=20

Hi Cyndi! It's a beautiful Monday morning here, sunny, with the rhododendrons just coming into bloom. On the Arthur front, we're still watching him closely. He's a ton better than he was a week ago, but still licking occasionally which means he's still irritated. Yet he rewarded me with a massive pee this morning (soooo much information!). He's been eating well, too--special canned cat food to dissolve the crystals. We're currently weaning him from his fluids (every 48 hours now, and last night's session was a good one) and giving him his anti-depressant every other day as well. Hopefully once this week is over, he'll be out of the woods. Thanks for the comfy pillow--it has come in handy, that's for sure. Our other two were grateful for your affection--we're doing our very best to see that they don't feel too left out. So ... vet, psychiatrist, urologist ... wonder how many more hats will fit on this head? Still managed yesterday to get to church, power-wash the patio, get the fountain running in the back yard.
Anyway, here's hoping your week will bring you a mountain of fun! I'm sending along a wicker basket full of white tulips to thank you for caring about my critters.

It's me again, and it just occurred to me that I never thanked you for the welcome goodies, especially the key lime pie, my husband's favourite!

Good morning, Cyndi, and no problem about the cat questions! Arthur had a great day and night--perhaps he's truly over the hump now. Struvite crystals occur in male cats, mostly indoor, who are fed a diet of dry food. Arthur's case baffles us because as I mentioned, he's been on a specialty diet to prevent this. His breed, Maine Coon, is no more susceptible than any other. His two 'brothers' were granted visitation rights last night, so it was pretty cute to see all three of them sleeping in various corners of our sunroom while we watched 'Dancing with the Stars.' Luckily, I work from home so I can keep vigil and monitor progress, but my husband has proved to be quite the vet, giving the sub-cue fluids while I grip Arthur and cringe. We've been through similar nursing experiences (minus the needles) with our first cat who died of old age and kidney failure, and another of our beloved pets who developed injection-site cancer. We wrapped the tumour by making a t-shirt out of the leg of some long underwear ... so we're no strangers to going that extra mile for our little guys.
I wish you a week of smiles and delight!

Hi C Y N D I
for your very kind words about my country Egypt and You are to my page 'The Egyptian Gueast House' to enjoy many many other picture I started to put it in my page.See You there.Hope to be of Your interst.

Cyndi, I do not think I ever properly thanked you for the cookies and pecans you left as my Page warming gift. Many thanks , I love key lime! When did you live in Opelika? I have a couple of friends in the Opelika/Auburn area.

I have lived in Alabama all my life, untill the last 10 years, in the Birmingham suburbs. Then we moved to a much more rural area, almost center of the state, about half way between Momtgomery and Birmingham. LOVE the rural setting, no traffic, driving to town through peach orchards, and cow pastures. I did not know I was really a transplanted country girl :>).

Cyndi, just read your question on SA, about avatars. did you ever find some? I use the http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar website to reduce photos, but i search the web for photos, I google whatever subject I am looking for, like Lemons+images+ free ( without free, you get some sites wanting BIG BUCKS for some really beautiful photos). Hope this helps, I got both my avatars this way.

I think you could also take any graphic from something like print shop, save it to your computer photos page in jpg format, and then take that to the create avatar site. there are other ways too, but this is what I have used. Hope this helps. If I can help you some way, leave a message on my page, would be glad to help you hunt, in my spare time.

Cyndi, My brother, Brother in law and hubby were all at Auburn, Brothers in the 60's, hubby was either late 60's or early 70's, I forget, as I did not know him back then.

I am a bit further south and west of your niece in Calera. Both Calera and Pelham are considered bedroom communities for Birmingham, and Calera is in south Shelby county. I am one county further south, Chilton county. I do go to the Wal Mart in Calera often, when I am not going to the one in Clanton. They are about the same distance from me, one north east, one south east.

Check back with me whenever you need help, and hope I can be of assistance. Someone had to show me how to do what I do on the computer, my turn to pass it along.

OK, I am in danger of doing a CP here on your page, let me get out of here.

with the avatars.

Hi Cyndi! From the comments I see on the site today, I thought it would be good to drop in and wish you a Happy Birthday! Do enjoy your day, and celebrate lots more!

Happy un-birthday! I still hope you enjoy your day!

C Y N D I
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All my best wishes to You.