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2008-11-14T17:31:32Z

sadiesmom

+24 raves

*WHEW!!*

See what I have to live with! LOL

2008-11-12T21:10:04Z

sadiesmom

+12 raves

9:20 this morning, my phone rang..I answered it-of course! The conversation went as follows: Me: Hello? Other person: Lady, this is the police, come out with your hands up! Me: (giggle) Sorry, you'll have to come in and get me! OP: Really? Me: Yup! And, good luck buddy getting through my dogs!! OP: Okay, come out and get the cat food, please?? Me: (looks out window) Where are you? (sees him pulling up) OP: I'm just about to get you!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So, this is my world!! Care to share a fun moment with your SO, OP, Spouse?

Mom's wisdom!-Mine, not me!!

2008-11-11T20:34:07Z

sadiesmom

+21 raves

Just received this e-mail from my mother..she is aware that I spend a lot of time on this site..I think she was scared off!! And, I quote: "I looked in--good God, they're all angry politicians ! And some are insane.......... "

The Great, Late, Beardsley..Mr. B...B-Boy

2008-11-07T17:37:19Z

sadiesmom

+14 raves

Beardsley and his brother Gizmo came to us about 5 years ago as 4 week old orphans...they were found with two other siblings under a kitchen sink in a vacant trailer. I went with the intention of bringing just Gizmo home, but when I saw the adorable grey kitten and the way he played with his brother, I decided to bring them both to our home. Beardsley and his brother were too small to eat solid foods, so we purchased Goat's Milk and fed it to them 8 times a day for their first week or so, here. Then they grew large enough for regular kitten food, which we started feeding them softened with the goats milk...after a few more weeks, they could handle the crunchy food on their own. Imagine our surprise, when they both grew into gloriously beautiful and large cats! Beardsley weighed 12 pounds, Gizmo weighs 15 pound. On Election Day, I noticed that B-Boy, wasn't acting normally, and I'd seen the symptoms in another cat about 15 years previously. I knew it was kidney failure...and in most cats, it is fatal. I did not have the massive funds I would need to take him to the vet, and a dear friend of mine offered to send it to me...I could not accept that offer..but, I did call the vet, explained what was happening and he told me to bring him in on Wednesday morning. I just returned from there with Beardsley dying in my arms...The only procedure that would have saved his life was a kidney transplant..however, we are not in an area that has anyone that could perform the surgery, nor do we have the funds for that type of care. The vet has agreed to comp half of the bill that was accrued. Thank you, Dr. Smith! Hubby is terribly broken up, as Beardsley was his favorite...I am crying as I write this, because B-Boy was one of my family and I will miss him...my night-time bed buddy who always laid under the covers with me, moved my hand to his belly and we'd fall asleep together..me rubbing his belly, he enjoying it..... I have to go now...I'll be back sometime next week. Thanks all!

Imagine...

2008-11-05T06:35:17Z

sadiesmom

+13 raves

A skinny guy from South Chicago, with a funny name and a person of color is the President Elect of The United States! Just imagine.....

You can vote however you like!

2008-11-03T16:32:58Z

sadiesmom

0 raves

Bi-Partisan children..our future!!

Obama supporter tired of stolen signs

2008-11-03T05:17:27Z

sadiesmom

+9 raves

McCain has no support on Upper West Side

2008-10-31T23:39:51Z

sadiesmom

+7 raves

This is funny!!! For Obama supporters!

This is why, no matter WHO you are, Voting IS important!!

2008-10-31T15:51:25Z

sadiesmom

+6 raves

Daughter of slave votes for Obama 109-year-old Bastrop woman casts her vote by mail. By Joshunda Sanders AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Monday, October 27, 2008 Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country's first black presidential nominee. The middle child of 13, Jones, who is African American, is part of a family that has lived in Bastrop County for five generations. The family has remained a fixture in Cedar Creek and other parts of the county, even when its members had to eat at segregated barbecue dives and walk through the back door while white customers walked through the front, said Amanda Jones' 68-year-old daughter, Joyce Jones. For at least a decade, Amanda Jones worked as a maid for $20 a month, Joyce Jones said. She was a housewife for 72 years and helped her now-deceased husband, C.L. Jones, manage a store. Amanda Jones, a delicate, thin woman wearing golden-rimmed glasses, giggled as the family discussed this year's presidential election. She is too weak to go the polls, so two of her 10 children — Eloise Baker, 75, and Joyce Jones — helped her fill out a mail-in ballot for Barack Obama, Baker said. "I feel good about voting for him," Amanda Jones said. Jones' father herded sheep as a slave until he was 12, according to the family, and once he was freed, he was a farmer who raised cows, hogs and turkeys on land he owned. Her mother was born right after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Joyce Jones said. The family owned more than 100 acres of land in Cedar Creek at one point, she said. Amanda Jones' father urged her to exercise her right to vote, despite discriminatory practices at the polls and poll taxes meant to keep black and poor people from voting. Those practices were outlawed for federal elections with the 24th Amendment in 1964, but not for state and local races in Texas until 1966. Amanda Jones says she cast her first presidential vote for Franklin Roosevelt, but she doesn't recall which of his four terms that was. When she did vote, she paid a poll tax, her daughters said. That she is able, for the first time, to vote for a black presidential nominee for free fills her with joy, Jones said. One of Amanda Jones' 33 grandchildren, Brenda Baker, 44, said the family is moved by the election's significance to the matriarch. "It's awesome to me that we have such a pillar of our family still with us," Baker said. "It's awesome to see what she's done, and all her hard work, and to see that she may be able to see the results of all that hard work" if Obama is elected, she said. Jones lives in a small gray house with white trim just off Texas 21. These days, a curious white kitten and a sleepy old black dog guard the house. Inside are photographs and relics of a long, full life, including a letter from then-Gov. George Bush in 1998 commemorating her 100th birthday. A black-and-white picture of her in a long flapper-style dress was taken between 1912 and 1918 — no one can remember the exact year, Baker said with a chuckle. Jones is part of a small percentage of active voters above the age of 100 in the state — and the country. Sister Cecilia Gaudette, a 106-year-old nun born in New Hampshire but living in Rome, made recent national headlines as the nation's oldest voter. But if Texas records are any indication, that's hard to validate. Secretary of State spokeswoman Ashley Burton said Texas can't confirm whether Jones is the state's oldest active voter because there is too much voter information to sort through. At the county level, there are other challenges. An election official in Hays County said its records are not searchable by age, and Bastrop County elections administrator Nora Cano said that some counties automatically list voters who were born before the turn of the 20th century with birth dates of January 1900. The oldest active voter in Travis County is 105, officials said, and in Williamson County the oldest is 106 — making Jones the oldest-known active voter in Central Texas. Making it to see the election results on Nov. 5 is important, but Jones is resting up for another milestone: her 110th birthday in December. "God has been good to me," she said. joshundasanders@statesman.com;445-3630

Joe The Opportunist!

2008-10-30T14:37:42Z

sadiesmom

+12 raves

Wow...A monster has been created!!