That is one adorable monkey

such a cute puppy dog

You are very fortunate to have realized the value of your connection with your sister. I have seen other families that are not so fortunate.

so sorry to hear you are having so much trouble with your dogs. Have you tried going back to the beginning, so to speak. What I mean is have you tried going back to as if they were new pups that needed training, either by crating them (if you are a crate user which I am) or confining them to just one room or even just a play pen within the room. And then just let them out to go potty and then put them back in, basically starting all over. But since they are older they should catch on faster than pups. I have had to do this a time or two when stress put one of my dogs off kilter and then the bad behavior seemed to escalate, until I went back to the beginning. I hope you can find a solution that does not involve you having to give up your pets.

This is a lovely photo.

Those inversion machines/tables can be very dangerous. So sorry to hear how sore you ended up I hope you continue to get better. I love the flower that Something Else Too identified as a Rose of Sharon. I love the close up of it.

okay going to try the links one more time to save you having to email me. http://voxdiaspora.wordpress.com http://voxdiaspora.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/welcome-fellow-dispossessed-voxers/ http://exvox.informe.com/forum/

Okay I tried to write a nice long comment telling you about all the ways that everyone is keeping up with all of their former Vox neighbors, not matter which platform they are on, but I had lots of trouble getting it to post. So I am starting over and I am just going to share the links that I was trying to explain in the previous attempt. if this work and you have any questions about the links just let me know. okay it still will not let me add the links, so if you would like to know about all the different blog posts and group pages that are being created to help ex-voxers keep in touch, contact me. you can email me at country.cinderellas.blog{at]hotmail[dot)com

what a lovely flower, and you caught it very well in this photo

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this is very nice

There are some folks from vox trying out livecloud.com, they seem to like it because it has many privacy settings similar to Vox. There are also many people choosing to go to wordpress. It does not have the ability to create a friend list and thus 'friend only' posts, but it does have the ability to have a private blog that you can give certain people the password to see (the free version only allows 35 'allowed' readers, for unlimited there is a fee). Or you can just make certain posts private, for those you would also have to give a password to the people you want to allow to read the post.

Hi Laurie, I tried to add your blog address to my 'Google Reader' but it keeps telling me that it can not find the feed. However I can just open the blog address in a separate window. I am thinking that you may have to allow feeds somewhere in your settings. I think it is in the Dashboard under settings, then under feeds, then you can choose which kind of feed to allow. At least that is what I think.

Did you also move here from VOX, like Raymond and I did? I actually went ahead and moved my blog to here and to wordpress so that I could try to keep up with everyone that is moving, now I just have to learn how to use the both and then I guess eventually decide which one that I like the most. Good luck with your new blog. ps the pictures are wonderful