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dang pixie cuts..dang dorothy hamill hair.. and then there is the 1970's embarassing "at home perm fros" my Mom liked to torture me..I think that is why one day I said "Never cutting it again..no stylist..no salon..no no" That and an unfortunate cut given to me by Paul Mitchell at a style show once My hair was waist length and his handler people convinced me to let him cut my hair onstage at a show..which resulted in my having three colored..hair so effed I had to get a crew to even it out .. have only been in a salon like twice since then.. I just don't like pictures of me unless I am looking cute.. (which explains lack of my picture in any highschool /school yearbook ever..) I will hide behind my husband..menus..hold up a grandkid..etc.. unless I look good for the pic.. it aint happening

My mom sent me several photo albums and in with them was a surprise I also got some very old pictures from a distant aunt from part of the family that has "written me off" I cannot believe the petty vindictive old farts..they CUT all the pics of my deceased granddad out of all the pictures and took out all the pics of my dad/grandad from that side of the family.. wackadoos..I mean it is bad enough the screwed me out of any money(from estates in the millions.. but to not give me a single picture of either of them "Because you are adopted we do not consider you "family" and have decided against including you in our family history here are some of your pictures from childhood we found in your father's possesions" I don't know when my mom got the album but I can see why she never gave it to me or mentioned it before.. Anyway, there are heaps of pictures of me opening presents at Christmas,birthdays etc..I had some keen toys.. Unfortunately, I had really stupid hair as a kid and well I just won't post them BUT it did help me decide against cutting my hair ..looking at pics of myself with bangs..short haircuts..dorothy hamill hair ..and pixies..etc..I decided that I will continue my over 30 yr tradition of NOT getting my hair cut.. it's the uncut..(although I do trim it if it get's past my calves or at any point I step on it) Pics of myself with Megos ..Super heros,Star Trek, playsets...batmobile..Wonder Woman..and all those Star Wars toys...makes me really.. wish my mom hadn't given them away.. In one pic I have a NIB barbie I know retails for about $700 NIB..why did I open it oh yeah I played with it ..duh..

Heya Hepcat! My mom sent me an old photo album and here is a picture of my Dad's first "Plummerville" train set up around 1980ish..This was before he put in the mountains (you can see the white forms of the mountain range on the back end of the second sheet of wood this pic was in progress) he has probably broken down and rebuilt it every 3-4 yrs since then..shame really he tosses out the entire thing and starts from scratch. I think after this one he built the one with the "Cape Canaveral" style town with a space center and rocket..now he is working on an HO scale old fashioned town with a mountain that the train goes through and a tressle bridge..Then he did a few Nscale sets and now he is back to HO on his 2or third since switching back..he hasn't done much since my brother passed away in Nov but I am hoping he starts back again soon. He has a lot of carnival stuff for an N scale set..I am dying to get him to make a small layout for the great grandkids..but I am not sure he is up to doing the N scale anymore. Someone gave him a ton of cool amusement park rides tilt a whirl..one of those "tunnel of love" rides..a ferris wheel..one of the old time "social mixer" rides, swinging chairs..funhouse..etc..they look so cool..I think it would be awesome with a small circus type train..may be a set up with a lot of people and some "sideshow" panels on one side and maybe a cordoned off area with an elephant ride..maybe a tent like for a circus..I think it would be neato.. I saw an album the other day that made me think of ya..I cannot remember the title but it had "ratfink" style art and it was a comedy/parody type album from the early 70's..but it was not an artist I recognized..I probably should have gotten it anyway..my husband bought some Donald Duck albums and stuff .. anyway..

I nearly bought the most interesting book today..it was a museum book from some sort of archeological museum in Mexico..it had pictures and descriptions of artifacts like a catalog and in the back it had sheets of slides of the objects. But they wanted $7 for it..and we were short of cash. When my husband saw the entire text was in Spanish we decided against it. But honestly it was a HUGE book in a fancy slipcover about 4.5 inches thick. And I have a slide viewer. I would have bought it just to look at all the artifacts. It had to have been something purchased at a museum ... I did get some interesting dime paperbacks but haven't started on them..with my arm not being good right now it is uncomfortable to position myself they way I normally like to read..because I can't put weight on my shoulder much.

I say performance art because he recites it while artful dancing around my legs and looking at his food bowl then falling into purrs when I finally give him the skritches.. Of course on the other hand I think he weaves in and out around my legs and sort of mocks me like "yeah see..I could kill you..you want to go downstairs?? remember no food in my bowl I will not be the one "trippin'"

My cat wrote a poem well actually it was more performance art..it sort of went like this squeak meyow squeak squeaky squeak mesqueak squeak mesqueak me..ie..squeak squeakity sqawk squeak epmesqueak squeap *purrrrrrr purrrrrrrr purrrrrrrr rumbling purrr* I think it is something to do with dejected "Oh opposible thumbs how you mock me with your ability opening cans opening cans The reason why I need "the man" well and the skirtches content

Works with one exception.. you forgot to post a picture of a cat looking at his fantasy football grid

Party at Hep's for Christmas.. woot look at all the fur we know it will be warm there... note to self don't forget to bring catnip and a can opener ...

wow hep pretty cool..I am not home right now..my brother passed away last week..but I was thinking of you when I was looking at my dads trains set up..and pictures of his trains maybe I will take some pics of them before I leave..

are you really ? I have been working on one too..cool.. There are several writers on the board..

I just bought a bunch of books today the thrift shop had them priced hardcovers 3/$1 paperback 10 cents.. But amazingly, 8 of the books were comic book related although not comics..so does that count? Those were "special ones" I had to pay a whopping .79 each for.. Cannot believe there was a sour-faced lady in that store trying to complain that the books were too expensive..ridiculous..they are $1.79 each at Goodwill (aka hoodwinks)$2.99 each at the DAV or $2.49 each at Salvation Army regular store and 1/3 of cover price at the Salvation Army "boutique"..considering 3 of the books I got today were hardcovers with original prices of $26.99 I got a bargain. I did not mind one bit paying .79 each for books with all the Batman covers or Superman covers etc in them. I got some doubles so if you are on my Christmas list..just forget how much I said I paid .

yeah me too it really doesn't matter it is cake.that is a lucky cat

I wonder if it was vanilla or chocolate inside and if that is buttercreme frosting..*drool*

I am strangely jealous of that darn cat eating the cake tho..hmmmm cake..*drool*

Then came the landing and the miffed "Yeah well I meant to do that" look..

We should go back to complimenting Hep we are hijacking his thread Soooo Yeah Hep has some cool stuff..and is creative beyond words I like it

Mine just looks at me like I should KNOW what he wants? "squeak squeak" only makes sense to me in certain situations.. if he is standing in front of an empty bowl..that means "feed me slave" "sqeekie squeak mesqueak" while standing in the bathroom usually means "human bring the scoop my litter must be cleaned" "Squeak me squeakiity squeak" while scratching at the sliding glass door usually stands for "The squirrel is mocking me chuck a rock at the furry infidel or let me out so I may dispatch the scoundrel" We have a squirrel in the tree in our itsy backyard who will come down out of the tree and antagonize the cat. It makes a barking/whistling sound and mocks the cat. The squirrel will get on the swing or bird feeder..just out of the cats reach and chatter angrily at him until the cat just says "squeak" and comes inside. Wish I had a video of the day the squirrel goaded him into trying to balance on the swing's seat to get to the critter..of course the second the cat hops on the swing it started moving and the cat was soon upside down claws dug in trying to save face it ended badly..in a funny sort of way..

Scroungie is king here..he is so funny. He sees a free hand he is like "AHAH you are not using that hand..so it can be petting me" So if I am on one couch and my husband the other..I can dangle one hand off the couch and he will rush over..I put my hand in my pocket..and he will wait..then my husband puts a hand on the arm of the couch..Scroungie will rush over..my husband will shove his hand back into his pocket..then Scroungie will look..and he will just rush to anyone with a free hand showing..back and forth it is hilarious.. That darn cat talked to me all night long and I have no idea what he was trying to say just squeaking away (he does not meow he makes squeaky peep noise) I am like "what is it boy?Timmy in the well?" "squeak peep squeakie squeak" Sometimes I wish I could speak cat..

You must go through a lot of lint rollers Wish I could have more than one pet..there would be many kittahs in mah house.. but they only allow me one..of course he eats like 3 or 4 and is uber demanding

I know right so awesome..don't you just want to send Hep a box of pounce treats for Christmas..or a model mouse.. I think I used to have a model rat but it wouldn't be the same..plus he'd get glue all over his fur trying to put it together.. Of course I am sure that is the only reason why he keeps the man around ..you know opposible thumbs and all..

My husband actually got into the mood..he took my costume and ran with it wearing the Bellvue hospital gown even to the restaurant to pick me up some dinner ..then he put on a funny wig..I think he was trying to cheer me up since lately I have been prone to crying jags. Eventually,I put out the "flame pots" fake iron looking kettles with fake fire coming out of them and set up a witches broom by the door. I did not dress up as much as a wig this year no makeup etc..so I probably scared a lot of kids . My goal is next year to out do my neighbors on the corner..and extend my display to include the two neighbor's yards. They wanted me to this year..but when I found out both immedieate neighbors were sending their kids elsewhere and my grandkids were not coming..well I just said ..no..

That is because this is the view most of us at her eye level were seeing Socks is sort of stuck up Casper is cool he howls and hisses at everyone and weighs about 27 pounds Freckles is the newbie he likes naps..they all want to live far away from there and frequently beg me to take them to my house where the litter boxes are clean and there is a never ending food buffet..not to mention skritches for all kitties...

You can see how the cats were definitely more photogenic than their person..

at the horrid Halloween sham of a party I went to Saturday here were the best pics..of my friends cats I tried to get my kitty into the Halloween spirit..but he did not want any part of his Chupacabra costume..

NIIIICCCEE..I will be sure to set out some milkbones and kibble just in case they come by for treats.. Naw there isn't an ordinance or anything..I just had big halloween plans and they did not pan out..my neighbor kids are going to their dad's for halloween my grandkids are not in town for halloween.. My husband was difficult when I was trying to work on my master plan for halloween.. My friend's halloween party sucked ..see the water cooler for pics of that fiasco and my brother is really really sick and I could have to drop everything and try to figure out a way to get there tonight or tomorrow (his oxygen level was 13% yesterday) just a serious of suck events have made my halloween so far mostly blow.. the highpoints have been 1) your posts 2)winning a costume contest with no effort on my part just that everyone else was uber lame So thanks so much Hepcat..because I really thought your pictures were awesome I just want to give you skritches.. and get your help burying those pesky idjuts who came by wanting me to look at a copy of something called "The Watchtower"