Digitalis

CowGirl, The snow is already here in Alaska ........ We just all got together and breathed real heavy all at once and sent it down to you so you could enjoy the snow too. Our temps are the same it seems it must have worked. I am happy for you and Goey, enjoy your winter ......... I like the fireplace, we have a wood stove in our cabin ... but I like it too. Digi

Happy Birthday Digi

DM I am polish and just to let you know I can keep my pants on while counting HMMmmmm Hmmmm :P Digi one two three four uhh uhh hold on five six seven hmmm eight ..... oh yah regenerate ok on two ...

Thanks Ron, This means alot to me. My husband is a war vet, my dad, my uncles and grand uncles and my grandfather. Not to mention my cousin Anne our first female in the military and my stepdaughter who is the second and is in Germany presently. My son is in basic at Ft. Benning and has an airborne contract to train on Sand Hill when basic is finished. He should be coming home for Christmas Exodus at Ft. Benning. I think about our veterans everyday ......... I still have an uncle who is a disabled war vet from WWII who is barely hanging on to life as we speak. He has stopped all his meds even his nitro patch. God bless is heart. Thank you Thank you Thank you Ron Digi

I believe The Way Credit Union Stopped loaning money in 1995 ...... that was when craigers (with a little c, hee hee) was really teaching on debt. If I recall correctly you also had to be an advance class grad of craigers first new advance class to keep an account there or open one up at this time. Probably a tactic to get people to take the class or get to the level of taking it, to be able to keep their acounts open. The reason I am recalling this is because it was the year we were confronted on our stock, considered gambling at the time and we ending up having to sell it ........ boy were we stupid to do that ... but TWI got their ABS from it ........... although we chose not to open an account in their credit union and deposit the money from the sell there..... that of course was optional .... we had free choice of where to do our banking. Digi

OMG The only person looking this topless woman in the face is the other woman ....... All the men are staring at her bare breasts. Camaras are even pointed downwards for closeups. Tsssk Tsssk Tsssk Digi

I miss Dahlila ...... That was the Sharpai my husband showed up with at my shop many years ago. She was never a good dog to have in the shop she was over protective and uncontrollable with strangers. She was an excellent dog at hom with our children and friends though. She really latched onto my daughter as her favorite person in the house. She died young at the age of 7. They don't have long life spans. She stayed super wrinkly her whole life and petite. She was beautiful. Dobermans are intelligent dogs and very agile. Duke is my third one in my lifetime and will be the first one I actually breed with when I can find him a female. He can jump a six foot fence with ease. Whenever we return home we run him on the half mile road we have that dead ends at our property, and then we have a 300plus foot driveway in addition. We clock Duke running steady at 28 miles the whole way. In fact we can't beat him in the truck because we have to slow down for the bend in our road and he doesn't LOL Duke has been raised to protect me and I do have a feeling that has something to do with his possessiveness. I have had some injuries and am not as agile as I once was and we also live in the middle of no where and he gaurds home while husband is at work. When he is on leash with me I have to introduce him to anyone we might meet along the our walk, if I want him to relax around them. If I don't introduce him, he lets people know not to come within a 4ft radius of me. He truly is very friendly, has never bitten anyone, but he won't let you pass onto our property without an invitation. Its his job and he does do it well, yet he is just as playful as protective, he does have a nice balance to him. I might have to see if I can find a picture of a Border Terrier running with fox hounds now that I know what a Border Terrier is. That would be a picture to have. Although I don't know how to post a pic. LOL We have lots of fox up here. I have seen fox hounds before. To often people up here trap instead of hunt. Digi

Belle She is beautiful. My husband loves Terriers has for years, although we have never owned one. I was almost ready to start acting like Galens dog ... after watching hubby salivate over Vixen LOL. Her pose is magnificient. This is probably a dumb question, but because I have always been a doby person minus my husbands one sharpai, I must ask. Is her tail slightly cropped? One more question . Are Border Terriers known for herding cattle? or is that the Border Collie? Digi

Hey ........ I want a coat of fur like that ........ Its cold up here. Digi

Shellon its under the free jewelry thread ..... for Wacky that is Digi

Seriously addictive .... emailed it to my father ......... he is getting addicted ...... Digi

Linda, thanks its great to be back here. At least I am not the only one who is going through this here and others here have experience in this category of life they can share to help. Galen, your "jealousy" situation I find really interesting. Duke my Doberman is also 90lbs and is jealous of other male dogs, but only if they have not been nutured. I can't pet another non nutured male dog if Duke is around. I would have to tel Duke to get in the truck or stay in another room and actually close him up or he comes out all teeth bared ready to do battle with the offending male. DMiller ........ I have been working on voice command with Duke and he is responding well but not well enough for me to be able to walk with him unleashed. In our town laws if a dog is under complete voice command by the owner at all times they are considered leashed and under control. Belle ..... sounds like Vixen is the cream of the crop. What breed is Vixen? I understand the importance of consistency ..... it seems in that category teaching a dog is similar to teaching children. Of course our dogs become like our children. I think I need to work on the reward system better. Instead of just always giving him his doggy bones whenever he would like one for the most par ......... give them as rewards ... Duke does listens and adheres "Stay" "Come" "Go to bed" "Sit" "Get in the truck" and of course "Easy." He is a very intelligent dog he just needs to stop obsessing over me. We are looking for a female to breed him with for just one litter of puppies and are going to donate a pup or two to our local police department so they can start a K9 unit and keep one for ourselves. This way we have our country property guarded. Duke doesn't cling to my husband or son like he does me. He obeys my husband but not always my 12 year old son. I think he might think my son like a sibling and play mate ....... on equal standing with him ... I know it sounds funny but if you could see the two together you would swear they were brothers and not boy and dog LOL. Thanks all for the great ideas, looking forward for more food for thought. I've read books on the subject and even on my particular breed of dog but hearing from other dog owners is great and more personal. Digi

Act2 ......... business for yourself can be fun especially in the craft business. I am a retired florist, sold my shop a few years back. I sold Yankee candles .... very popular, but not homemade. I used to buy smokeless driplesss candles for floral arrangments so I obtained a small bit of information about the candle industry. I also purchased large pillar candles and decorated the bases, sold them on the gift stands in my shop. Great deco tip is to take flower petals and greens and ModgePodge them right onto the candle. You can pick petals and press them from your own garden i.e. pansies are great for this. ModgePodge is an adhesive you can purchase in Walmart or any craft store. They were great decorator pieces and sold like mad for gifts and home deco pieces. Even custom made them in colors to match dining tables for holidays etc.. Triple your money easy. WACKY my dear ole friend ...... I have seen your website and showed it to my husband. Truly amazed. I crouchet but you my friend have a heavenly touch. I would love to talk to you about a full length shawl with hood or maybe a cloak for up here in the winters. Something real soft. I will email you after I have thoroughly disected all the fine material on your website. Digi

Do I still operate anything I learned in TWI ........ Yeah ... I still hide my dirty pots and pans in the oven when company shows up unexpected. Difference is the company I hide my dishes from is no longer the LC. Digi

My dog seems a bit obsessed with me at times. I will lay down and he will come lay down so close to me he lays his big ol head on my chest or shoulder and always on the left side, weird. If I am reading, writing a letter, correcting papers, using my laptop .... basically just doing anything with my hands he will lick my hands to death or push my hands away with his nose until I stop whatever it is I am doing. At first I thought he just wanted attention and I would try to pet him or play with him but he won't have that either. He just simply seems as if he wants me to lay down and do nothing but be his pillow at times. He is a healthy, active two year old Doberman. I love him dearly, he is like my kid, my friend and my protector but sometime I need the use of my hands and can't seem to break him of this. Its been happening daily lately. Any ideas? Anyone else have possessive pets?

Dmiller What a cool numbers game. I home school and thought my son would enjoy it, but first, the teacher most be able to complete it. 10 minutes on easy and filled in only 5 succesful rows. I will keep working at it. Thanks for the game. Digi

I agree with Tcat .... I also think they should just leave the time alone. Daylight savings time doesn't exist for me at this time of year anyway. I live in Alaska and setting my clock back hasn not saved me any daylight at all, in fact its still getting darker. We should be like Arizona and just leave our clocks alone. LOL Digi

All this sickness ......... it has got me plum worried. I am going to have to put my laptop up an wake my husband and take his temperature. He is feeling a bit hot and I need to make sure he doesn't have the flu... hmm hmm

Congratulations Groucho ........ is that just hear at GS ...... If I recall correctly you posted at WD as well and came over here and stayed faithful. you should receive double the prize. SUDO !!! I tried to hit cancel, I thought I had a virus on my computer because of your "... don't give a damn..." ............. LOL Digi

Superb Shellon ................ absolutely brilliant Digi

This is why we left and what we felt happened in our lives. This is just in part for it is far to deep to cover in one post. We left TWI because my family was in bondage. My children were being hurt. I was in bondage by TWI. Our lives were not lived but dictated. Our beliefs were dictated. The more classes we took, the more responsibility, the deeper our enslavement. The lingo changed over the years but the crap was the same and getting deeper. It started out think for yourself, "know that you know that you know" . Later we felt it was simply just follow your orders from headquarters and our LC. Our twig, latter family fellowship was no longer self governing but dictated enslavement. Even though we coordinated it we noticed we weren't in charge of those people we knew most personally. We were teaching three times a week in the end from tapes that we had not even had time to make our own. Had not had time to study for ourselves. I am ashamed but I feel we became mini me's for LCM or whomever was on the Sunday Service Video. Don't question the MOG just do as told. We found ourselves repeating the MOG after the years passed. Using the same inuendos. This is humiliating even to admit, but I must. I knew this was wrong but things were moving so fastly, it felt as if I were on a merry-go-round and the bully pushing it wouldn't stop. I was getting sick and needed to puke. I had to stop. I had to get off. Had to do the right thing in my heart. We visited people who had been marked and avoided, had to find the truth, had to help. This sent my family thru the ringer. We were ostricized in front of our peers, accused of things we had not even done, words twisted and perverted into lies. Accused of questioning the MOG which I did do, but how dare I, who the He!! was I? Well my husband and I truly believe if one sheep is lost, it needed to be found. We had a responsibility to do all we could to find them and bring them back into the fold. We finally came to the belief that TWI was not the fold that God had intended at least not in our area. We would no longer teach, repeat the inuendos of the day or enslave Gods children. We walked away humilated in front of our peers. We knew this would happen because we had been on the other side of the table. Sometimes I wonder why we even went to that meeting, we had already decided to walk away before we were given the choice to conform or walk. Gods kids deserved to be free of fear and we were not going to be the ones who helped them live in fear of speaking their mind because their words would be twisted and perverted. We would no longer believe accusations that were unfounded or be part of trying to put cases against people who might possibly disable TWI. We made a free will choice to be FREE and no longer be afraid for ourselves, or afraid for our brothers and sisters in Christ because of our involvement. We truly wanted to help our brothers and sisters in Christ and our choice to leave and not conform I would like to believe sent a bigger message than our staying. We left for all the above and so much more. What once I believed beautiful became an ugly beast that reared its head, bared its teeth and growled like a true beast. We are sorry to those lives we assisted in invading, and did it so ignorantly because we believed that only the goodness of trying to help them was at stake. We now know they knew things we didn't. There was no excuse for our ignorance we should have seen through what I now truly whole heartedly believe was manipulation for other reasons than the word. I am glad we are no longer part of TWI. Digi

Hello SunnyFla, Greetings. Its nice to be able to meet new people. I hear Florida is truly beautiful when it isn't in the midst of a hurricane. I had a respitory therapist work with me at one time. Fascinating Job. I bet you find it rewarding. I truly hail from the north I am from Alaska and the little red line on my thermometer outside didn't make it above 10 today. I stayed inside and viewed the snowy trees from my window. I hope you enjoy Grease Spots and its posters. Digi

Gas in Alaska is $2.54 gal of regular near Anchorage and its central area. If you live in the Valley it is running a few cents higher and in the bush I think they reverted back to using Dog Sled only. Some find that the dogs are very plush and definately warmer than leather seats. Digi

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 2027 Digi

Radar said TWI ws a different Animal in the 90s, I would have said a different Beast. Radar ... thanks for the explanation you gave, you tried. I for one appreciated your loving intention in trying to help. Personally, I would not spend another dime on these books. I believe that TWI is running up the prices on their published books so they themselves might earn a dollar or two on that warehouse full of crud they can't sell. Thus raise up the price during LCMs years so maybe someday they will be able to get rid of his personally writings/books and get their money back. Just my opinion Digi