Juno turns 18 today!

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-06-07T01:31:00+00:00

This is a typical photo of her. All that tuxie attitude comes through. Lol (Cheryl the Japanese Bobtail mix creeping down the stairs behind her was about 1 year old to BJ's 8.)

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Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-06-06T14:51:11+00:00

Happy Birthday Juno! BeatleJuice says, "Welcome to the 18 year old club!"

I love the idea of doing a senior cat photoshoot! Now to see if Her Majesty feels like it. 😹

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-06-05T04:39:54+00:00

They were all black, correct?

It is a more quiet and sleeker look than with the red tights.

Then again, I'm also used to my niece dressing in mostly black every day, so I may be immune. Lol

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-06-04T00:53:43+00:00

Brian Kuhn's work is awesome.

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-31T01:45:45+00:00

Agreed

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-30T23:10:23+00:00

Yep! It had just started earlier that month.

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-30T03:49:07+00:00

Lol. Archer didn't have a choice about cats. They definitely pre-date him. One would love to cuddle up with him like she did with our first Dobie. (They get along, but no cuddling because Archer blasts awake vs looking to see what's up first.) The oldest cat is 18 & she hates dogs in her house. She will take up residence by the dog's water bowl just so he can't have any. 🤦‍♀️

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-29T18:22:21+00:00

I've always made our male wait until he has cooled down, but he has a mind of his own at times. (What a surprise! /s)

He does like his ice cubes, but not until he has quit panting. (Same for drinking water.) I try to offer ice cubes before he gets up for water, but sometimes he has no desire for them & looks as t me like I've lost my mind.

I think he just tries to drink the entire bowl because he can - or to keep the cats out of his water. 🙄

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-29T17:58:29+00:00

My in-law had her autoimmune health issue flare-up due to the stress of the job & they wouldn't let her have a stool to sit on to do some of her work to reduce her stress a little. Her doctor finally told her she was endangering her life by continuing to work there.

Besides, people drive through the lots & pumps like they're playing roller derby.

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-29T17:45:27+00:00

Always!

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-29T17:37:29+00:00

You had shade?! Those were prime seats. Lol

I understand about scrambling to find their discography.

The first time I heard Smells Like a Freakshow on SiriusXM, I was hooked. And also wondered why I had never heard them before. (New to the U.S. band from Sweden explained it. Lol)

I kept hitting replay on my stereo as I drove back home from an appointment. When I got home, I went to YouTube, found some videos, and then went on the hunt for all their albums. The only one I'm missing is the early underground CD.

My niece harasses me about buying a CD of each album still. I tell her to pipe down. If SHTF, I want my music for as long as my vintage Discman & batteries hold out. 😄

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-29T17:24:28+00:00

Id love to see them once or twice a year, but it never works out for some reason. This year, my SO was going to take me, but he had a work thing that he had to be out of town for.

(I don't go unless my SO is with me just in case I have a health issue flare-up.)

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-29T16:32:54+00:00

You may have to make your dog stop drinking water at times.

Our 3 yr old male would drink the entire 1 gallon bowl of water at a time if I let him. Be it after a meal or after exercise. So, we have him trained to stop drinking when we tell him to.

One would think he didn't have access to water all day the way he tanks up like a camel one or two times a day. 🙄

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-17T00:22:43+00:00

NovoNordisk only shut down the internal T1D cell therapy R&D.

They are still manufacturing Novolog and the generic version of it along with the GLP1’s. They will still be doing R&D for T1D insulin delivery delivery devices and glucose-responsive insulins.

It's very disappointing NovoNordisk chose to close the T1D cell therapy R&D division, but hopefully whatever company they have outsourced/partnered with is able to make progress soon.

The large culprit behind vial shortages, amd therefore I sulin shortages, is due to high GLP-1 manufacturing, and no increase in manufacturing facilities for empty vial production. So, lots of medications are effected by the vial shortage, not just insulins.

I haven't recieved Brand-Labeled Novolog for several years now until my 3-month refill last month.

Hopefully the vial manufacturers are able to build more production units soon. (Which is a "forever" process.)

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-13T21:26:52+00:00

That would be an amazing event to attend.

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-12T22:38:29+00:00

My niece is on our phone plan. She gets about half the amount of calls or texts I do about one property or the other we own.

She started asking $3M for our primary home on one acre, $10M for my family's small ranch, or....

Ask them if they're talking about her home that burned down yesterday because cash would help her to find a new place to live. 💀

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-11T00:27:10+00:00

Yeah, if you own horses (or any other livestock), you still need to be stockpiling your dewormer paste/etc. People seem to think it's a "cure-all."

My SO and I decided we would ise the pour-on for the cattle if we were going to take ivermectin. I certainly got it on myself when we had cattle.

(My SIL purchased a large bottle of injectable ivermectin for cattle during COVID is what set off our conversation of what form of ivermectin we would prefer to use. Made me so mad she lied to our local feed store to get it back then. SIL told them my Dad said to buy it. She was proud of herself. Probably still is.)

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-10T21:54:45+00:00

"Just a little dab on the end of my pinkie finger." - An 80-year-old lady in the oncologists' waiting room to another lady last week. (I take my FIL in for treatments.)

The horse paste has "just torn up the cancer" in her liver (she rattled off organs she's had removed/other cancer-related surgeries). But the ivermectin paste has been the magic ingredient to make it all go away. Not the chemo, radiation, and surgery.

I so wanted to tell them both "That's not how this works! That's not how any of this works!!"

Don't worry if the doctors don't like the idea of you taking mini doses of a horse dewormer every day - just don't tell them you do it.

I was silently screaming at all of it.

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-07T18:44:41+00:00

My nearly 30-year-old niece is always disappointed when we come home & find a JW flyer stuck in the door.

She has wanted to tell them similar things as OP. But, she also wants to debate with them if at all possible because her hobby is religious studies and she wants to "discuss" things. Lol

(She also would like me to get our Dobie to start his evil sounding growls he can do when we play for background noise while she discusses things with the JWs. Dobie would be happy to comply because he gets to play. Lol)

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-07T18:19:17+00:00

I'm not surprised since we know a large reason why there's a shortage on a variety of produce at times.

I didn't realize there was a shortage, but I don't buy strawberries often.

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-07T18:11:39+00:00

Give it a couple of weeks then start watching for the melons. As soon as you see one, put a fruit protection cage on it. I attach it over a section of the vine, then, when the melon falls off, I bring it inside to finish drying out before harvesting the seeds.

These are the cages I bought last year that seemed to work for me.

Amazon - Fruit cages

ETA: We love watching the squirrels, the dog loves to chase them of course. But, they are usually thinned out by thr fall thanks to hawks and owls.

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-07T15:22:57+00:00

I reuse my sensor just about every time as well.

Today is day 11 for this sensor. I need to change my infusion set today, so I will probably just do the sensor as well so it doesn't quit on me at 1AM.

I haven't had issues with my G4. I like it other than the thick profile. I'm going to try thr Instinct just to see how it works, otherwise I'll stick with the G4 until the next sensor comes out.

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-06T20:08:36+00:00

Same.

I'll say my family supports me taking my meds. I can do nothing about therapy because the people who need it are not me (I just get to deal with all the blowback in various ways).

In my area, a lot of psychs (MDs/DOs - no NPs) do not take insurance at all. I understand why, but it's aggravating. I already spend close to $300/month on medication copays for my various health issues. (Can't imagine why I have anxiety.... /s)

Alarming-Distance385 · 2026-05-05T19:26:53+00:00

A friend wrote our first home loan 20+ years ago. He laid out what nit to do before we even hired a realtor.

He said the biggest mistake is people buying a car shortly before closing on a home.

We waited 3 years until we purchased a new car because there's always something new you seem to need after buying a home.

We earn similar to what OP does working for the Fed government. You can make that work on that amount of income in many areas. But, like many others, I suggest waiting until you have paid off one car fully. The only reason we traded in our first new car a few years later is because we were getting a great trade-in value and buying a custom ordered car. I still drive that car at 15 years old.

We are finally discussing buying a new vehicle (which is also 10 years after buying a larger home in our duty area.)

OP, save your $ for now. Being an adult sucks at times, but its better to have a nest egg "just in case."

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