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Diana,

I love your idea about Spot. If you find some thing like that metaboliite let me know.. But I was thinking, maybe Spot just needs a good grooming and some nail polish.

Debbie Pike

04/28/20 07:56 PM

#478

Good grooming??? I'll have you know that Spot is immaculate in his grooming. He takes an ultraviolet bath every morning and is pressure washed at least once per week. As for nail polish, I'll have to get back on that but I don't think he'll go for it. Actually, I probably don't want to mention it as he can be a little testy when annoyed.

04/29/20 09:14 PM

#479

Bill,

You are not making me any more comfortable about flying this summer. Wonder if one of those cute little green guys could give me a lift? And those purple outfits are my best color !

Debbie

04/30/20 04:18 PM

#480

Bill Leggett,

I think I need a tutorial in how to get into :Message forum. I am an old fashioned girl who throws cell phones when they misbehave and kick car tires when they go flat. When I was a Probation officer, I had 6 different programs running at a time and after I retired, I swore that if they are going to be making the idiots that make "user friendly" live up to going to start MAKING USER FRIENDLY for real

tell me what the Message Forman

Debbie

PS DUCK!!!!!!

05/01/20 05:32 PM

#481

Bill,

Yesterday the heading on the opening of the site it said "Message Forum"? I looked every where and then pulled out all my hair trying to figure out what that was. Then I spent all last night glueing my hair back on...the dog got upset when I borrowed some of her hair- frue-frue dogs are so unco-operative!

How are you anyway.? Hope your back is feeling better.

Debbie

05/03/20 02:51 PM

#482

Spot, in his annoying way, has asked me to post pictures of his "adventures" on the high school loop. (I don't know why since he never went to high school.) Anyway, here is one of his favorites from about two years ago when he celebrated St. Patrick's day with some green Roswell beer that really lit him up.

05/04/20 06:29 AM

#483

You go, Spot! Looking good in green!

05/04/20 06:45 AM

#484

Gill Leggett -
I have not suggested in 60'swsongs but friend of my wife's alerted us to a new song on You Tube. Review and determine if you concur it is worth posting here. Social Distancing - by Steve Stewart & Don Stewart. Bill Sloan

05/05/20 01:43 AM

#485

Butch,

Still think Spot needs green nail polish to complete the outfit.

Debbie Pike

05/05/20 01:51 PM

#486

What? Nail polish?? Unfortunately, Spot has declined the hint. He did say that all polish fades rapidly on his nails (although I don't know how he knows that). He mentions something about his "ghostly glow" whatever that is. I, for one, am not brave enough to even try to put polish on his nails. Nice try though.

05/05/20 03:00 PM

#487

FAMILY LIFE MYSTERIES: Butch, It appears to me that Spot is one of your family mysteries and I need everyone's (that's all of you all) help firguring out one of my family life mysteries. When our 4 children were young and we wanted a family outing to the beach, the lake, the pool the Sloans' could look for an hour and find, maybe, 3 beach towels and have to supplement with bath towels. Now all 4 are grown and on their own. With a "little" extra time on my hands I started to straighten out the linen closet. Where did all of the beach towels come from??

05/05/20 08:05 PM

#488

Bill Sloan

Beach towells are members of the sock family! They both disappear and are very sneaky. They tend to make it to the car and secret themselves somewhere like under seat or the fron seats in cars. When you get home you annound to the children to bring the towels. Said instructions are totally disregarded. After every one is in the house, the towels crawl into the attic and live there for 20 + years then suddenly reappear in the laundry to be washed!

Now you know.

Debbie Pike

05/06/20 06:46 AM

#489

Hmmm... And all this time I thought they were breeding in the dark when the door was closed. Thanks for the clarification! We have T-shirts that do the same thing.

05/06/20 01:16 PM

#490

Bill, it is a little know fact that beach towels, like socks, do not require that the rules of the known universe apply to them. Therefore, socks in the laundry can remain hidden to all others by opening a small portal to another dimension until such time as the person looking for them tires of the game and goes on with their life. Beach towels enjoy the same affinity.

05/06/20 03:51 PM

#491

Thanks to all for the specialty clothing elucidation!
I thought socks enjoyed separate vacations to only be reunited every 4 or 5 years when someone finally had enough of the overstuffed "no mate found" sock drawer and attempted to reunite the separated pairs. It may also be that in addition to jinterdimensional travel capabilities there are some socks who really long to grow up to be shoe shine or furniture polish cloths!

05/06/20 11:04 PM

#492

James A "Jim" White

Hey Bill, Butch, Deborah, Diana, et al,

Here is the children's stairs to their loft at the winery I am staying in place at. There is wisdom about socks on the bookcase stairwell.

05/07/20 04:44 PM

#493

Jim - your in-laws have a great organization idea - just a tiny late for me! Bill Leggett -great selection of flowers to post as we get ready to thank all of the mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers we know.

05/08/20 04:09 AM

#494

To All,

Roswell sure did turn out a superior group of positive people who could cure a rainy day. Thanks Guys for making my day HAPPY!!!

Debbie

05/08/20 10:06 AM

#495

Paraprosdokians are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected and is frequently humorous. (Sir Winston Churchill loved them).

If these have been posted before, I apologize....but I just get a kick out of them!!

1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you ...but it's still on my list.

3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.

5. We never really grow up -- we only learn how to act in public.

6. War does not determine who is right, only who is left.

7. Knowledge, is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

8. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

9. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.

10. In filling out an application, where it says, "In case of an emergency, notify..." I answered "a doctor.”

11. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

12. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

13. I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

14. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.

15. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

16. You're never too old to learn something stupid.

17. I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it's getting harder and harder for me to find someone older than me.

05/08/20 01:01 PM

#496

Richard Marcum

Diana, I loved these little witty comments. Where did you find them? If you wrote them, you should write a book. My favorite is number 11. So true! Hope you're doing well! Rick

05/08/20 08:05 PM

#497

Diana,

So funny and TRUE!! Especially number 17

05/08/20 10:09 PM

#498

James A "Jim" White

A BOMB and TOO MUCH SICKNESS: My enticement to encourage our classmates to submit pictures and a little history of themselves by doing it myself ... bombed ... totally! No one did but know you can still post pictures and tell us about your last 55 years,

I know there is a pandemic going on but there is too much sickness without it. Has this happened to you? Does this happen to everyone our age? A short time ago, in a 5-day period, my wife and I got calls from three longterm dear friends and spouses. The calls were from Florida, Connecticut and Michigan and these dear, dear friends, all whom we have seen and been in their homes within the past year (as we travel in a 5th-Wheel), passed along their confidential history -- Liver Cancer, Colon Cancer, Cardio-Myopathy. Then Kathy and I get to the our port-in-the-storm (stay-in-place), the Winery in NW New Mexico. So, what is next? Our brother-in-law and owner of the winery, goes to a doctor's appointment and whoosh .... he is whisked away and immediately flown to the Heart Institute in Albuquerque for emergency open chest, open heart surgery. A few days later, another friend here at the winery (the bookkeeper and a Vietnam Purple Heart recipient) that we have lunch with everyday is diagnosed with cancer of the liver. Another friend here who works the wine festival with us every year had a heart transplant.

Now, you may be thinking I am overlooking COVID-19. Not at all. Today I learned that our dear classmate, Boyce McFarland's, mother-in-law, age 106, was just diagnosed with COVID-19. The world is changing all around me so fast and I am not liking it. Is it changing suddenly for you too?

05/09/20 06:55 AM

#499

Rick, I wish I could say I was the author of these witicisms, but I am only passing along someone else's. Occasionally some come along that must be shared!

Jim, on the health issues, I think we have lived long enough to have to have our poor choices earlier in life come back at us. Or our genetics are catching up with us. When one is young, "nothing can hurt us" is the attitude of life. This allows us to be bold and push the envelope. But, as my mom used to tell me, "When we knew better, we did better." For us, this has meant we made some lifestyle changes to support our bodies better. I wish we had gotten smart sooner, but we're still learning! In the meantime, take care of yourselves and love those around you.

05/09/20 11:03 PM

#500