@SamBrown wrote:
@FancyPhillyshopper wrote:
Well, I love hearing all those ideas, and yes, if I had the money and the time, and a full-time pet sitter, I would certainly be off and enjoying more great trips and activities. Once can certainly be as busy as one chooses to be. (Yes, I did just run up and down my steps six times in ten minutes chasing two of my cats.)
It is now Fall, and we usually try to go to Lancaster this month to buy pumpkins, mums, cornstalks and straw bales from an Amish farm to decorate our house, and also we plan a Halloween activity, such as going to a haunted house, or something similar. (There is now a new hayride where you can shoot zombies with paintball guns!) On those days I wear some warm casual clothes/boots.
This weekend we have tickets to the ballet, so I have to dress up a bit.
There are two great charity events this month, both of which I really want to attend, but they are very big bucks, so I am going to pass. One requires cocktail dresses, and the other gowns and tuxedos (Laurel Hill Cemetery Gravedigger's Ball).
Husband usually starts skiing around Thanksgiving, and he has an annual pass for a ski resort in the Poconos.
I am already planning a cruise for next Summer.
However, the truth is I really do not need any more clothes, as my collection is quite sufficient.
Life if short, and there is so much to see, do, and enjoy!
@FancyPhillyshopper While your at that Amish Farm take a look at the puppy mill down back. Would never support the Amish.
Your statement sounds ridiculous to me. The Amish are a different culture, with different ways of living and doing things. When I am [grammar check--your should be you're] at the farm, (the same one I have been going to for decades), I like to look at all the sheep strolling around, and the acres of mum flowers.
Yes, puppy mills are terrible, and PA continues to advocate against them. One of the reason that there were issues with Amish puppy breeding is that they viewed many dogs as livestock, the same as cows, sheep, etc. One Amish lady told me they have inside dogs and outside dogs--just a different way of looking at the breeds!
However, our state is educating everybody about the rights of animals, and how to improve animal breeding and lives. They have many laws and have conducted lots of investigations. It is a learning process!
When I young all the women wanted to buy fur coats, and hardly anyone does anymore. Our entire country is learning!
By the way, I actually purchased my border collie from an Amish dairy farm (not a puppy mill.) His mother herds all the cows into the barn every night. My collie can run for miles, and miles; he is just full of energy like his mother.
I am sorry to say that I live in a big city and here they breed pitbulls, sometimes for fighting, which is terrible. There was even a famous football player who did this. Those are the main dogs available for adoption in all of our city shelters. Because they are known to attack cats, I would never adopt a pit bull.
I am an animal advocate, but I am not a person who makes silly blanket statements about others.
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