Conversation – 15

@kittengirl,

I understood every single word. I know you are tired get something to drink and rest. 🙂
You are an angel and you are needed.

@kittengirl,

I am going to congratulate you on being the proud mom to new kittens. ♥ The kittens are so
lucky to have you. ♥ The dog Bull what a Prince. I have never heard any of what you have
written. I am so glad the kittens have you. Thank god you were home and out of the hospital.

I have not seen the bunny but the water and food is gone. My neighbor is back and is keeping
a watch out for the bunny too. I miss the little thing. ♥ Kittengirl you have your hands full I wish
me and Loaf could come and help you. I have been concerned but I knew you were busy.

I get the labs done next week and I am not liking it one bit but such is life. 🙂 Wow let me get
you something to drink we are in the 90’s for the next 9 days. I mean hot and humid too.
I want you to know I think you are an angel. ♥

Some words are missing from my post. It was edited n
by HSN because it was too long I guess. Hope it makes sense. I’m pretty tired.

Cherie,

That movie was made in your backyard almost. LOL! I love the doll my girls have all
the dolls and they collect a lot. I will never give up my dolls.

The Ice Cream looks delish…it will be in the high 90’s today. I am sorry it’s just too
hot this time of year and summer officially starts Thursday. Oh well here is to summer
enjoy these summer daze with your kids. I see a beach trip coming. 🙂 Cherie right now
my daughter’s dog that she has had for 15 years is on the way to the Vet. I will prey for
for Chloe. ♥ Let’s just say she is upset right now I am going to keep my cool and do what I
always do. Thanks for the info on the Marine product by Andrew Lessmen.

Cherie for you and the kids.

Hi Sheba and Ladies!

How have you all been doing? I have been very, very busy but more about that in a minute…

@Sheba, I hope all is well. How did your labs go> How are your sister and father doing? Did you see the bunny? I love that movie To Sir With Love!

@loaf, I saw Grease at the drive-in too! Do they even have drive=in movies anymore> I find myself getting nostalgic for the good old days more and more. I can’t believe Marilyn would be 92 this month! She will always be young.

@Cherie, I hope your family is getting through this difficult time. I know how devastating it is and it takes time, a lot of time. Still sending prayers and hugs your way. Your hubby is a sweetie for singing to you.

@taci, Thank you for your concern about the kittens and cats! I haven’t bought the peridot ring yet, haven’t even had time to do much else but laundry!

NOW FOR THE UPDATE: The kittens are all doing great and mother cat Alejandro returned later and is still here. Alejandra took off apparently because she still had another baby to deliver. She had the 6th kitten next door and did not return to that one either. Miraculously it survived the night alone and wasn’t discovered for about 24 hours! The female pit bull next door cleaned up the kitten and then
carried it in her mouth to the people that live there and then they brought it to me. The kitten was shivering and so cold and hungry. We warmed him up and started feeding him and took him to a specialist vet that deals with babies and small animals because this little one had a foxtail embedded in his nostril that required special tools to take it out. Our vet referred us. Now baby is doing well. Vet was amazed the baby survived. We named that one Bull in tribute to the dog that saved his life. My husband calls him Admiral Bull Halsey (we both love history, especially WWII history).
All 6 kittens are doing great and we are feeding them every 2 hours. It’s like being new parents again only we are not anywhere near the age we were when we had babies (I was 22). We have them in a box in the living room with warmed towels. They are so cute and helpless. I am amazed at the work a mother cat does and all on her own! Did you know that any milk or formula not cleaned off their fur after eating can cause them to lose their fur? Or that they are not able to go without being wiped and stimulated first? Did you know newborn kittens need burping as well? They can’t see, can’t hear and can’t go without help! It is so sad that Alejandra was so frightened and overwhelmed but we are doing everything we can to do as good a job as mommy would have.
We have 3 boys and 3 girls; 3 are white with grey stripes and 3 are black with white paws and bellies. The black kittens look like their mommy and the white/grey ones look like their daddy. I’m excited for them to open their eyes next week but they will have blurred vision up until 8 weeks old. I’m not sure, but I think they can begin to hear at about 2 weeks. The babies are just precious. 😀
The older kittens are doing great but still have a bit of their kitten virus. We thought they were over it and began to socialize them with the other cats until we noticed one of them sneezing again so off to the vet they went. Sure enough, the virus was still hanging on and so they are taking more antibiotics and need to be kept separate for another week so it’s back to the guest room for them! They are so cute and fluffy, not to mention HAPPY as can be and energetic! Their names are Jess, Harper, Laramie and Pumpkin.
Right now babies are sleeping so it’s time for me to get my breakfast and start another load of laundry before feeding time again. Thanks for your prayers everyone! I’ll update as time allows…
Have a great day! 😀

So True Sheba … There is Nothing like Good Health! Cherie takes that collagen powder about every other day for sure. I put some tepid water in a very small glass, add a scoop of powder, stir a bit, and let it sit. about 15 mins later, I stir it up and bottoms up …. it’s easy! I saw My Fair Lady for the first time in my Advanced English Class. It sure beat listening to the teacher or a quiz!! Cherie has the Barbie of Liza among my collections. Take care Sheba♥ … Shout OUT to LOAF, TACI, Kittengirl, & Mcpoopoo!

We are still working on the DQ Cake!!!

A special Good Night to Mcpoopoo from all of us on the Conversation Thread. ♥
You are loved. ♥

Peace Out Peeps. Very hot night stay cool and safe. Shout to all in the Community.

@loaf,

This is a necklace by Audrey Hepburn that was sold right here on HSN. Sorry I missed this
one.

Audrey Hepburn™ Collection “Unforgettable” 25-1/2″ Layered Necklace with Yoke Pin ♥
385-909

@loaf,

♥♥

I Could Have Danced All Night – My Fair Lady

I could have danced all night
I could have danced all night
And still have begged for more
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things
I’d never ever done before
I’ll never know what made it so exciting
But all at once my heart took flight
I only know when she began to dance with me
I could have danced, danced, danced, danced, danced, danced

Bed? I couldn’t go to bed
My head’s too light to try to settle down
Sleep? I couldn’t sleep tonight
Not for all the jewels in the crown!

I’ll never know what made it so exciting
But all at once my heart took flight
I only know when she began to dance with me
I could have danced, danced, danced, danced all night

Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), an arrogant, irascible professor of phonetics, boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), that he can teach any woman to speak so “properly” that he could pass her off as a duchess. The person whom he is shown thus teaching is one Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), a young woman with a horrendous Cockney accent who is selling flowers on the street. After overhearing this, Eliza finds her way to the professor’s house and offers to pay for speech lessons, so that she can work in a flower shop. Pickering is intrigued and wagers that Higgins cannot back up his claim; Higgins takes Eliza on free of charge as a challenge to his skills.

Eliza’s father, Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway), a dustman, arrives three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughter’s virtue, but in reality simply to extract some money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5. Higgins is impressed by the man’s genuineness, natural gift for language and especially his brazen lack of morals (Doolittle explains, “Can’t afford ’em!”).

Eliza goes through many forms of speech training, such as speaking with marbles in her mouth and trying to recite the sentence “In Hertford, Hereford, Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen” without dropping the ‘h’, and to say “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain” rather than “The rine in spine sties minely in the pline”. At first, she makes no progress (due to Higgins’s harsh approach to teaching), but just as she, Higgins, and Pickering are exhausted and about to give up, Higgins softens his attitude and gives an eloquent speech about the beauty and history behind the English language. Eliza tries one more time and finally “gets it”; she instantly begins to speak with an impeccable upper class accent.

Higgins takes her on her first public appearance to Ascot Racecourse, where she makes a good impression with her stilted, but genteel manners, only to shock everyone by a sudden and vulgar lapse into Cockney; “C’mon Dover, move your bloomin’ arse!”. Higgins, who dislikes the pretentiousness of the upper class, partly conceals a grin behind his hand, as if to say “I wish I had said that!”

The bet is won when Eliza successfully poses as a mysterious lady of patently noble rank at an embassy ball, despite the unexpected presence of a Hungarian phonetics expert trained by Higgins. Higgins’s callous treatment of Eliza afterwards, especially his indifference to her future prospects, leads her to walk out on him, leaving him mystified by her ingratitude. When she is gone however, he comes to the horrified realization that he has “grown accustomed to her face.” Putting aside his resentment about the intrusion on his life and toward women in general, Higgins finds Eliza the next day and attempts to talk her into coming back to him. During a testy exchange, Higgins’s ego gets the better of him, and his former student rejects him.

Higgins makes his way home, stubbornly predicting that Eliza will be ruined without him and come crawling back. However, his bravado collapses and he is reduced to playing old phonograph recordings of her voice lessons. To Higgins’ great delight, Eliza chooses that moment to return to him.

I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face
Rex Harrison

! ! ! !
I’ve grown accustomed to her face
She almost makes the day begin
I’ve grown accustomed to the tune that
She whistles night and noon

Her smiles, her frowns
Her ups, her downs
Are second nature to me now
Like breathing out and breathing in

I was serenely independent and content before we met
Surely I could always be that way again
And yet
I’ve grown accustomed to her look
Accustomed to her voice
Accustomed to her face

I can see her now, Mrs. Freddy Eynsford-Hill
In a wretched little flat above a store
I can see her now, not a penny in the till
And a bill collector beating at the door

She’ll try to teach the things I taught her
And end up selling flowers instead
Begging for her bread and water
While her husband has his breakfast in bed.

In a year, or so, when she’s prematurely grey
And the blossom in her cheek has turned to chalk
She’ll come home, and lo, he’ll have upped and run away
With a social-climbing heiress from New York

Poor Eliza. How simply frightful
How humiliating! How delightful
How poignant it’ll be on that inevitable night
When she hammers on my door in tears and rags

Miserable and lonely, repentant and contrite
Will I take her in or hurl her to the walls
Give her kindness or the treatment she deserves
Will I take her back or throw the baggage out

But I’m a most forgiving man
The sort who never could, ever would
Take a position and staunchly never budge
A most forgiving man

But, I shall never take her back
If she were even crawling on her knees
Let her promise to atone
Let her shiver, let her moan
I’ll slam the door and let the -cat freeze

But I’m so used to hear her say
Good morning everyday
Her joys, her woes
Her highs, her lows

Are second nature to me now
Like breathing out and breathing in
I’m very grateful she’s a woman
And so easy to forget

Rather like a habit
One can always break
And yet
I’ve grown accustomed to the trace
Of something in the air
Accustomed to her face