Rufus

He actually showed up at my sisters door first but she couldn't keep him. He was such a personable cat you couldn't help but love him. Everywhere you'd go there he'd be.

He's a cat of few words, he'll give you one meow and you'd best figure it out from there. He and I have a routine when he's outside he comes to the door wanting me to come out as well. When I'm sitting in the garage he comes up and sits in his chair next to mine.

He's a cat that thinks he's a dog. I will walk out into the yard while he watches me but if I stop and sit on the ground he'll come running to attack me. He and I are buds!

Here's Rufus, enjoy...

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas one and all! Yea there I said it Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Good Yule Tidings, Happy Kwanzaa and Hannakah...to one and all and a Happy New Year...

  







Enjoy...

Kroger. Are they really looking out for you?

Now granted my view of Kroger Company grocers and really most of your big mega conglomerate super stores is tainted due to my being a vendor and calling on most of them in my life time. These markets have an entirely different attitudes when it comes to the people who deliver wholesale merchandise to them than they do customer relations but I feel that once you hear my story I'm sure you'll agree something doesn't sound right.

To give you some background, my wife is having oral surgery is a few weeks and due to some infection in her gums our dentist prescribed penicillin for her, as he has done in the past. Now in the past we have gone to Walgreen pharmacy and paid $10.00 for a prescription however because Walgreen and my wife's insurance provider couldn't come to some kind of terms, we can no longer get them filled at Walgreen. So we went to the local Kroger store.

After turning the prescription over to Kroger my wife came home and at the appointed time she went back to the store to pick up her penicillin at which time they told her that her doctor had switched her prescription and it would now cost her $30.00. There was no mention of why it was changed so my wife, believing the doctor knows best, brought them home. After taking them for a day or two she noticed they were upsetting her stomach so we called her doctor to see if she could get them changed back. It was then that we were told that the pharmacy had called to request the change claiming my wife had told them she was allergic to penicillin.My wife told them no such thing.

Now there are so many things that disturb me about this first and foremost was why would they call  her doctor and not us to confirm if she was in fact allergic? This was the first time she ever turned a prescription like this, in to them. Walgreen had it before and she took those pills with no problem. Why would she turn in a prescription for something she was allergic to and why would she tell them she was allergic to them? It doesn't add up.

They didn't mention anything about an allergy when my wife questioned the change. As far as she knew it was something the doctor decided, instead it was the pharmacy. Then there's the price thing. This whole thing cost us $20.00 more than what we had budgeted now I'm wondering how many other times this has happened and knowing how business works, I can't help but wonder  how many others they've done this too after all it's about profit now not doing whats right for the consumer.

As I've said I've dealt with these people on a business level I know how they think. When you take the human element out of it, when you make it about money then you have things like this and you can't help but wonder. Is it about our health or is it about their profit?

Now, last but not least we have my wife, who was taking medication for a problem. They switched her to something that upset her system. My wife has been suffering from pancreatitis for years. That in itself upsets her system on a regular basis. She doesn't need someone doing it on purpose. This is medication it's not like they put the wrong seat covers on your new car this is something for your health and if this was just a mistake? Well that opens up a whole other bank of concerns.

This is an on going saga and updates will follow. Stay Tuned.

Attention WalMart shoppers

My wife recently purchased this cute little Christmas tea-candle holder from our local WalMart. In a weak moment she had gone down to cash a check and decided to buy something. Here is a picture of the bottom with the upc code and description. Note the WalMart made in China proudly displayed on the bottom. Sam Walton would be rolling in his grave about now.

Note the charred edges around the top and how the beads have melted down.

Yes she bought a cute little candle holder which could have ruined our Christmas. She lit the candle and dozed off on the couch. Shortly there after she smelled something and when she woke the candle holder was ablaze. Had this been sitting close to something flammable my lawyers would be knocking on WalMarts door right now. As it is I'm going to be seeking legal advice.

This is a warning to anyone who has purchased these candle holders do not light them and leave the room. In fact I wouldn't light them at all.

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Some Gardening advice

Thanks to Mizbehavin;

Weed perennial beds with special care to avoid pulling up precious self-sown seedlings. When you can tell for sure what's what, pull the weeds and top-dress the plants with compost or rich soil -- just before a rain, if possible.

Provide support for flowers that need it before they start to fall over. Try twiggy prunings or pea stakes for sweet peas and ramblers. Put Grow-thru rings in place for bushier plants such as peonies, balloon flower, and globe thistle.

Spread a little lime or wood ashes around delphiniums and peonies.

Divide late-summer or autumn-flowering perennials. If necessary, go after phlox and artemisia with a sharp spade or even an ax. If delphiniums need to be divided, remove and replant the new little plants growing around the outside of the clump. Discard the hard old heart.

Trim climbing roses and attach securely to fences or trellises.

Scatter crushed eggshells in a thick ring around roses to deter slugs.

Sow annual poppies and baby's breath in borders for midsummer bloom by scattering them between the other plants, covering with fine soil, and tamping down gently.

Prune s**kers from fruit trees now before they become established.

Melons often benefit from supplemental warming, such as that provided by growing under plastic. Wait until the transplanted seedlings are established, as they cannot take up moisture very well at first and can easily get dehydrated.

Plant aboveground crops in the light of the moon.

Thin beets and lettuce and use the tiny thinnings to fill in spaces in the row or to start additional plantings elsewhere.

For a crop in two years, plant year-old asparagus roots about eight inches deep in trenches lined with rich compost. Fan out the roots and space two feet apart. Cover gently with good soil.

When potato plants come through the soil, hill them up by pulling several inches of soil around their stems with a hoe to encourage deep roots and keep young potatoes from exposure to light.

Mulch between rows and keep the garden weeded to give emerging seedlings a fair chance.

Get that herb garden started by putting in plants. If you include mint, plant it in a large plastic tub (the kind drywall joint compound or birdseed comes in) with its bottom removed. This will help keep it from invading the rest of the garden.

An established asparagus bed will be ready to harvest. Patrol daily and select spears of about the same size (which will require the same cooking time). If you had trouble locating those first spears, mark the bed with stakes so that you can find them next year.

Watch for signs of drought in plants transplanted from containers. Apply water (not much, but often) close to each plant's stem, where it will percolate down to the root ball. The larger the plant, the longer the recovery period, and the more diligently you need to water. Poke a pointed metal rod into the soil above the root ball. If the rod doesn't penetrate easily, the soil is too dry. If it moves around and feels squishy, the soil is too wet.

Moles generally come calling this month. They're searching for mates and also grubs in your lawn. To get rid of the grubs, apply milky spore disease (Bacillus popilliae or Bacillis lentimorbus), a dust you can buy at your local garden center. Or try a new product called Mole-Med, which has castor oil as its active ingredient. Moles don't like the taste of this any more than you do.

Prune late-flowering shrubs, evergreens, and hedges.

Don't be in a rush to plant tomato, eggplant, pepper, and other heat-loving seedlings if you live where late-May frosts are common. Old-timers will surely wait until after Memorial Day.

Don't cut the leaves off spent spring-flowering bulbs. Dying and yellowing foliage may look unsightly, but leave it in place (and don't tie it up) to help the bulbs ripen for next year's show.

If you have crocuses growing in your lawn, don't mow until their leaves have died down.

Don't force clematis to climb a lamppost or fan trellis. Instead, give it a chance to climb trees, scramble over shrubs, or romp over the ground.

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