Happy New Year to all my friends!!!

I miss that beautiful girl so much!!!
We are going to bed before the new year comes!!!
Happy New Year to you all!!!

Love coming your way, Fern

Eye is a littler better

I am not seeing as blurry as I was but still not seeing good. 

One of these days I will have to give up blogging just b/c I can not read your blogs any more!!!   Without being able to drive b/c I can not pass the eye test it will make a very lonely life for me.  If I had all your phone ## I could keep up with you that way, but most of you don't like to talk on the phone---even my own daughter-in law and my grand-daughter hate the phone!!!  They use the computer instead!!!  I have the writing as large as it will go.  But still!!!!
So I will not probably be to everybodies blog but I'll be wishing I could!!!

Love coming your way!!!  Fern

Too much too long --- can not see

Well I have done it!!!  been on the computer way too much and i can not see at all!!!   Happy new Year dear friends!!

Happy Birthday to me--- tomorrow

It is Hell to have a birthday 3 days before Christmas!!!!   REALLY!!!!!
Everybody --everybody just says happy birthday to me at Christmas time!!
It gos like this  Happy birthday -- Merry Christmas always together!!!  It is almost as bad as being born on Christmas.....  I never had a birthday party in my life!!! I have had very few gifts for  just my birthday in my life!!  It has always been combined.  Sadly I have lived on this earth now 78 years tomorrow and IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER ANY MORE!!!!

I use to be sick so much of my life.  I didn't have a good start in life.  My first husband beat me every so often!!!  I drank to forget!!!  My diet was awful!!!  I never dreamed I would live this long!!! I was married to a bad husband for 25 years!!!  The only good thing that came out of that marriage was two boys.  They are both complaining of getting old now!!!  LOL 

Then Tom came into my life and I knew right away things could be different!!   They are so very different now--- thank GOD!!!!!   Thank Tom too!!!  I stopped drinking-- cold turkey!!! It took a long time for Tom to see I really needed a diet change but he did see it and for 8 years now we eat super healthy!!!  

This is me now at 78 tomorrow!!!!
Merry Merry Christmas to all out there in Blogvile!!!
Love coming your way,  Fern

The last instalment on Joker

Joker hardly ever barked!!!   All my 3 sight hounds hardly ever barked!!  Do amy of you know of a barking sight hound????  They are such quiet dogs!!!! Joker was real friendly too.  When we were out walking if someone would come up to me he would wag his tail and be friendly unless you touched me----- then if he could get to you he would bite you.  He didn't want any stranger touching me!!!!!  Joker did bite two people!!!!!
My oldest son came one day out of the blue to see his Mom and he didn't call first.  I didn't have the time to prepare Joker for the visit!!  He came to the gate and we went out to let him in and so fast he came to me to kiss me hello and Joker bit him!!   It was only a nip, didn't even brake the skin but it happened.  Joker had never seen this man before and that man come right up to his Mama and kissed her!!!!  Only Daddy can do that!!!!

The other man Joker bit was a repair man.  I don't even remember what he came to repair now!!  So long ago!!!  This man was here for a couple of hours I remember that!!!  Everything was fine until the end.  He gave me the bill and I wrote a check out for him and gave it to him. He was standing there talking to me and then he reached out to touch me and Joker bit him so fast!!!  He bit him good too.  We saw blood!!! He said he was only going to shake my hand but I am not sure about that!!!  He was being very friendly!!!!  Too friendly as far as Joker was concerned!!!  He was not mad at Joker or me thank goodness!!!  We doctored his hand with Joker just inches away from him... He said it was his fault!!  That Joker seemed so friendly  that he didn't think anything about shaking my hand!!!  Said he knew better and that it was his fault.
He left and thank God we never heard from him again!!!
Joker loved his home and his mom so very much and nobody should touch his Mom but our Daddy.  I was so safe with him around!!!
Joker developed kidney failure at a very old age for a big dog!!!  We had to help him to the bridge in 91.  I saw so lonely with out him!!!   He was so much company for me.   I was without a dog for 3 months after Joker left.
I adopted Amanda in 91..... She was a Whippet who was 4 and a half years old again from Ga...

Love coming your way,  Fern

Trying to walk Joker on leash

Joker had not spent a lot of time on leash!!!  That turned out to be so very evident!!!!!  He pulled me something awful!!!  He really hurt my shoulder.  At first we just walked around the yard for about a month.  Then on leash for a few days in the yard.  THEN REST my poor shoulder!!!  On a new week we tried walking on leash out back in a path to a dirt road.  He loved it but he still pulled me way too much.  But it was a good start!!!  We started slowing walking out back every morning.  At first it was short walks.  As time went by everyday we tried to walk just a little further.
By the time we had walked a year we were up to 3 miles a day.   By the end of Jokers life life we had gotten up to 5 miles a day. He still pulled me too much tho!!!  He loved it, those walks, so much and I think it helped him live a very long life.  My shoulder suffered a lot in those years and is still in bad shape b/c  of those years of pulling on me.   I never got him to stop pulling on me!!!!
I have one more post about Joker that I will post sometime this week. 

Love coming your way, Fern