Life – Page 5 – Allyson Daniel

August 12, 2014

Help your local animal shelter

This time of year there are always a lot of kittens and puppies at the shelter, but there are also a lot of adult cats and dogs being surrendered by owners and many are abandoned or dropped off because of the economy. People are being evicted and having their homes foreclosed and have no way to take care of the pets any more.

This really bothers me – I just don’t see how anyone in good conscience can abandon a pet. What kind of person leaves an animal locked in an empty house and drives off? What kind of person can drive down a road and just toss kittens out of the window into a stranger’s driveway? People who do that and people who beat their dogs or otherwise abuse their animals should be arrested and put into jail.

If you have a shelter in your community, next time you have the urge to take on a pet, I hope you will go to the shelter and adopt an animal from the shelter. And if you have anything you can donate to the shelter, here’s a list of desired items that can be dropped off and will be put into good use:

Clean, old newspapers to be used for litter and lining cages
Toilet seat covers (cats love to lie on them in their cages)
Any type of cat or dog toy (plastic or washable)
Old bath towels and blankets
Canned cat food, any brand
Bagged, dry dog food (particularly desired is Science Diet but other brands accepted)
Laundry soap
Bleach
Heavy ceramic food and water bowls
Antibacterial hand soap
Candles – citrus or spice
Paper towels

Shelters also need volunteers to come and walk dogs and play with the animals for short periods to give them exercise and socialization skills. If you have a good heart, please help the animals in your local shelter.

July 25, 2014

Do you get Sirius Radio?

I grew up listening to the music of the 70’s since that’s when my mother grew up. She loved that music so that’s what we all had to listen to in the car. No I don’t have Sirius Radio in my car but I do have it on my satellite TV.

I found the Totally 70’s station and I don’t watch TV anymore, I listen to it. I especially love it when they play a selection from the ‘Juke Box from Hell’ and then play something like ‘Dead skunk in the middle of the road’. I find myself dancing around the house like I used to see my mother do when I was little. If I have to sit at the computer and accommodate the family’s request for silence so they can hear their own music, or watch a TV show, I’ll put on a pair of headphones that I bought a few weeks ago from the musiciansfriend.com website and listen to it without bothering them. One way or the other, I am going to listen to MY MUSIC! I LOVE IT!

July 21, 2014

Cooking dinner

Well I am being lazy today. I usually don’t really like frozen dinners, but keep them on hand for lazy days or days when we are way too busy. So tonight we are having Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes, gravy and green beans. Simple and sweet with very little prep time. This day was so very bad, I just don’t have the mind set to cook more than that.

July 16, 2014

Custom printable heat shrink tubing

I don’t know about you, but I never would have thought to buyheatshrink tubing as a marketing tool. But when I was looking at the cool things you can do with customized, printed, heat shrink tubing all kinds of ideas started popping into my brain! My hubby and I were thinking about starting our own bee-keeping and honey business, and selling the honey that we could make. We could use printed heat shrink tubing with our business’s name and logo on it and shrink it onto the bottles and jars that we put honey in! We could use it on little tins, too. How about using it on vases? Lamp bases? Flower pots? Drinking glasses and mugs? I’d wager I could come up with a lot more ideas if given a little bit of time!

July 10, 2014

A Harrowing Sight

Last night I was driving home from my friend Elaine’s house and was very surprised to see three skunks in the middle of the road! The sun had set, and I was driving down one of those narrow country roads that have no stripes down the middle, or sides, and no street lights to improve visibility. There were no houses in sight, and the road was twisting and turning. I had just gone around a very sharp “hairpin” turn and saw the skunks walking, on “my” side, head to tail – like you would see elephants on parade! They all appeared to be the same size, so I couldn’t tell if they were a mother skunk leading her babies across the road or not.

When my headlights hit them, I braked as quick as I could, and started to steer the car away from the direction they were walking. Uttering a silent prayer “please, Lord, don’t let me hit these skunks” I tensed up and held my breath. I was SURE that I was going to hear that horrible “thunk” that would confirm that my evasive actions were inadequate. But no thunk came. And no skunk perfume wafted up at me. I let out a sigh of relief, and looked in my rear view mirror to see if I could see the skunks, but the darkness of the night had already enveloped the threesome. They were gone from sight. I offered up a silent “thank you Lord” and started to breathe normally again. But I kept my eyes sharply peeled for any other wildlife that might decide to cross the road as I continued my journey home. Thankfully that was the most exciting part of the trip.

Although I marveled at seeing the three skunks walking nose-to-tail like that, I hope to never see a sight like that again while driving in a car! And now I can’t get that song “Dead skunk in the middle of the road” out of my head! Maybe after watching this YouTube video about the song will help me get over it quicker!

June 28, 2014

Orange Has No Rhyme

One of my Facebook friends thought he was being clever and asked everyone what word has no rhyme. I knew the answer was orange. We learned that back in elementary school. LOL

Actually, if you do a search on the internet you can find the answer really fast. Plus there are about 22 other words that don’t have a rhyme. So there’s a little trivia for you.

June 22, 2014

I can’t believe people still don’t have health insurance

I am very lucky – I get health insurance from the company that I work with, as a benefit. But a lot of my friends and relatives don’t have that, and they struggle to find affordable health insurance. I can’t believe that so many of them still don’t have any health insurance at all! I’m recommending to them to check out the information I found on the nc health agency web page to see if they can help them get affordable health insurance. Nobody should have to go without medical treatment!

June 16, 2014

Free AntiVirus Messed Up My PC

When I got Comcast for my internet service they bragged about a free antivirus program that comes with the service, so I am supposed to save about $50 a year from not buying the Norton program and my internet will be safe. So my Norton expired and I downloaded the Comcast version. Now my computer is totally messed up. All my passwords and log ins that I had saved are gone. Not happy at all!

June 10, 2014

Social Security verification

With there being so many illegal aliens in our country now, a lot of business owners are beginning to do a Social Security Number Trace to make sure that the number they are supplied with is actually the persons that gave it to them. I think it’s a great tool and can not only help employers but can protect you too from having someone else use your Social Security number.

You know, it might even help employers keep from getting in trouble by hiring illegal aliens. Something needs to be done and this is just one more tool to help.

June 4, 2014

Big Day for Spiders

Had to do some yard work over the weekend and I cannot begin to tell you about all the spiders I saw. There were brown recluse spiders under my trailer tarp, orb spiders in the bushes that I had to trim, tiny brown spiders in the tree that drops low over my driveway now, a black widow in the grass, and even a white spider that crawled out from the retractable dog leash that I picked up. I’m not afraid of spiders but I don’t like them and I am going to call the pest control company or head out to the hardware store to buy some pesticides. It just seems like last weekend was all about spiders.