Lori from So Ca

I did NOT find your stories offensive. I can tell you a similar one. Last winter, my fish pond froze over (a frog got into the pump and plugged the intake valve, so the water stopped circulating). My 1 1/2 year old smooth Blue Merle male "Patch" decided he loved to ice skate... getting a running start, then sliding from one end of the pond to the other (20 ft.). I kept ordering him off the ice, but as soon as I would walk away, he'd do it again. One of the other dogs, a 2 year old rough Tricolor girl,"Cindy", a rescue, thought that it looked like a lot of fun, so she imitated "Patch" and went sliding across the ice. And fell through into 4 ft. deep icewater. I pulled her out and brought her into the house to dry her off. When we came back out, "Patch" decided that he was going to show her how it was done, went to sliding, and fell through himself. Dumb dog. "Patch" is a world class clown and keeps me on my toes.

GREAT STORY, Lori. I loved it! I bet that was one proud Weimaraner! I too have a turkey story, though a little gorier. One of my first rescues, "Duke", a Blue Merle rough male, had been starved during his short life. When I got him, he was 1 1/2 years old, was very tall, but weighed less than 30 lbs. The Vet said that he would have been dead in less than a week. I had to slowly build him up to a normal weight, and in a reasonable time, he weighed 85 lbs. But he always thought he was starving. Until the day that one of my turkeys flew over the fence into the yard. This was a BIG bird (he would have dressed out at 30 lbs), and "Duke" grabbed him. He wouldn't let any of the other collies near, and he promptly ate the WHOLE bird, feathers and all. He did not leave anything! He was so full, that he just laid there in the yard for 3 days, with a HUGE grin on his face, belching frequently. It was worth losing that turkey to see him SO happy.

CONGRATS!!! Your avatar is up!!!

The females are all in a 55 gal. group tank, and most of the males are in individual 1 gal. tanks, with a few in larger ones with dividers.

It's been great chatting with you, too. Believe it or not, I don't spend as much time as you think in front of the computer. I have a very bad back, so I do farm work for a short time, come in and rest (in front of the pooter), then go back out for a while, then back in. It just looks like I'm here all the time.

Lori, to answer your question about my personal smilies..
I am embarrassed to tell you I spend waaaay too much time looking for them. But I like hunting them down. I mostly just Google a subject (for example, "cartoon dog". Always use the " "!!) and then wade through the sites that come up. I'm leaving a snack for your beautiful dog (s?)
For that one I Googled "dog bones" If you need help finding something, let me know. I love the challenge!

Lori, your Catalina summer camp must have been fantastic a experience! I'm envious!

Lori, thanks for checking in on my page, and thanks for the brownies!!!

This is how it's done on www.shrinkpictures.com
If you use this site, add it to your favorites. Then you can click on it when you're ready to go.

Find your picture
RIGHT click on picture
click on "save picture as"
give it a File Name (or keep whatever is there)
click "Save"
go to resize site
click "Browse" to choose picture
click on picture
click "Open"
click on "Custom"
change size - up to 100
click on "Good"
click "Resize"
(if you're not satisfied with the size, go back and start again. Experiment with the size you want. i.e. 75,65, etc)
when you are satisfied:
click "Download Picture Now"
click "Save"
enter "File Name" (i.e. Dog - sized)
click "Save"
click "Close"
Your image will be saved in a folder or where ever you put them.
The AVATAR feature on the site is pretty much the same. Just put 50 into the size option. You will get 3 choices to download. Pick the one you like.
I took a picture of your dog and resized it for an avatar yesterday. It hasn't been approved yet, but when it is, I'll post it here on your page. You can use it if you want. He's gorgeous!
Let me know if you run into trouble, I'm happy to help! Lots of people here helped me find my way and I like to "play it forward"

Lori - are you still having problems with your avatar? Or got it all figured out. If you need more help on it, let me know.

Re: the Quilts. The church quilters, make quilts for those in need. Women who have left tough situations (especially with children). Some go to missions and others are sold to get materials for more quilts & donations to assist the needy. The pews were covered with the quilts one Sunday before a Quilt Sale - to bring attention to the beautiful work the quilters do. I bought 2 of them at the sale for gifts.

Lori!
Once your smilie is sized and saved, go to the top right of the page and click on "Update Details"
Scroll down to "Submit a Smilie"
Click on "Browse"
Click on the (saved) picture you want
Click on "Open"
Click on "Submit File"
A SUCCESS! message should pop up. You'll have to wait 1-2 days for approval.To check on approval: next to "Submit a Smilie" is "You have a smilie awaiting review". When it says "You have no smilies pending" that means it is ready to use. Or, you can click on "Manage Smilies" and see if it is there.
To use it in a post, click on "Your Smilies" on the top of the comment box.
Your personal smilies will come up. Click on the one you want to use in your post.
For example,
Hi Lori! Here is the avatar I sized for you Use it if you want.
I typed in the greeting and first sentence, then opened the smilies, clicked on the doggie smilie, closed the smilies box, then continued the message. Let me know how it goes!

Oh, I forgot. If you want to use the avatar above:
RIGHT click on it and save it to a file.
You go through the same process as with the smilies, but you click on "Submit an Avatar"
Gosh, I hope this all makes sense to you!

Lori... help yourself to any of my smilies you like. are recent additions.

I just got 11 new smilies Okayed, and am just waiting for them to be added. All are animals or animal related. You're welcome to use any, if you want. Now I just wish that I could find that website again, where I found that big grin. Or the ones Jerry and Kathy use.

are my new ones. I actually had to resize some of them several times to get the KB down.

The can of worms is for the next time someone brings up politics.

Hey Lori! I live in the Torrance area near the Del Amo Mall. So we may have been neighbors! Ventura is where my hubby bought our first sailboat a Schock 25 thirty years ago. We had progressed greatly from there. Finally retired from racing, my body's too broken for it (but my older son has gone further than us). But not from work, although the mind is going too. Hope to see you often!

10 of the dogs are all mine, and the rest are here for life since I take in the unadoptable geriatrics.

Hi Lori, you're not that far from me! Funny, I always thought that Thousand Oaks was in LA County. Hmm Ventura is closer than I thought!
Oh yes the paintings in the background of the pic you saw were my hubby's. We were in his studio, messing about with his brushes and paint! My grandson loves to bang the brushes on anything,

Lori - Cool! You have more pictures in your gallery...loved it! The fair sounds great. Our litle fair (Nevada County) is in August. It's pretty fun - mostly I like to see the exhibits and eat the fair food...love Gyros!!

PS for not rejecting me as your friend!!!

Hi Lori, I am so remiss in not visiting your page sooner. I have to ask are you in Ventura or Thousand Oaks?? Many years ago [early 80's] when hubby was in the Navy we lived at Pt Mugu. I did know that area fairly well at that time. My husband grew up in Ontario, so the 4 years we lived at Mugu went there many times. We would either go through Thousand Oaks or down the coast through Malibu.
Leaving a little something for your table.

Hi Lori!
I occasionally have the same problem with "missing" smilies. I'm not sure why it happens. I try to remember to click on "Your Smilies" before I post. If they come up, fine. If not, I have the site on my "Favorites" list and I re-open it. Or you could try clicking on "Refresh". But do it after you check your smilies and before you post, because you will lose anything you've written. I'm going to put this question on the 'easy' page to see if anyone has another answer....

Lori, please pass on my congratulations to your hubby for his new work position.
Definitely a WOOHOO moment.

That will have to suffice, there are no Congrats smilies!

Hey Lori, Way to go!!

Congrats Lori and Mr. Lori well done, hope everything goes well in the new job.

Hello Lori - A new job for your hubby! That is exciting. I sure hope all goes well! Congratulations to both of you!

Hi Lori - for the delicious brownies! You must have ESP! I love brownies.

Lori - good to see you up on the pages today! Hope all is well. Just stopping in to say "hi"!
Have a blessed day!

Lori - Saw the new pics you posted - just wonderful. I think the one of the dogs on the beach is very artistic and I hope you submit it for a puzzle. Your kids are just gorgeous! Looks like you guys have lots of fun together.

Lori, just dropped in to see all your new photos in your gallery. How wonderful for your daughter to have that experience, seeing as she is so into swimming.
May I say,your children have the most beautiful eyes.

Hey Lori -
http://www.ivertech.com/freeOnlineImageResizer/freeOnlineImageResizer.aspx
This is a resizer I use. I use it a lot for smilies and for reducing pictures to submit to my gallery...but you have to adjust the pixel size so that there aren't dark lines on the edges of the pictures. I have submitted a few pics for puzzles, but am not very skilled at reducing them either. I've been using the photoshop on my puter...sometimes I get it right...then I can't remember the next time how I did it! Angie from Melbourne is a great help with that stuff. She usually responds if you write her a question.
Hope some of that helps - I'm afraid I'm pretty dense when it comes to this computer stuff!

Hi Stranger! Sorry about not communicating much, I've been spending a larger percentage of my online time on SA 5, instead of Easy. That's Sudokuholics Anonymous 5 in the forum section of the site, if you didn't know.

That photo of the Zony or Zorse is real. No photoshop. Amazing, isn't it?

Congrats on the new laptop! Sometimes I'm in bed chatting in Sudokuland - what a treat having a portable computers!
Yes, so sad about Murphy. I felt so bad for Heidi. She was having a rough enough couple weeks as it was. I'm sure this just broke her heart. She is such a dear girl and so good to her animals. Been keeping her in my prayers and sending her lots of cyber hugs.
Have a good evening...don't stay up all night playing with your new toy!

Hey Lori
Thanks for stopping by. I love your picture of your dog. I miss ours and it has been a while since she passed away.

Anyway, math had to be put on hold this week. My grandma passed away, so helped my mom with all that entails.
I have passed the test but my score is still too low to get into the program I want to get in. So I am back to the studying and scheduled to take the the test again this week. Seems I have the world (literally) supporting me, so there is no question I have to pass this exam. I am not an exam fan of anything. Even in lesson plans I made in school, I never scheduled exams, just evaluations.

I could really get on my soap box about exams. So I think I will stop with that.
How are you doing? There are a few of us avoiding the chat room at the moment so I feel like I am missing everyone. It seemed like I had more time for the easy page when I was in school than I do now when I am staying home all day. So I feel like I am out of touch with everyone.

Hope to chat soon

Merry Christmas, Lori! Long time to visit...
Stopping in with Holiday greetings for you! Wishing you a Christmas full of love and joy ...and blessings throughout the new year!

Lori: MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and your family!

Hope you are well and know that you are being thought of during this holiday season

Lori! Wishing you a great new year!

Happy Valentine's Day dear one! A day of love and hugs to you!

just hopping in to wish you a very Happy Easter and a season full of joy!