~cattleman cafe~ & another 24...

[abcowboy]

Good to hear it's not Covid Jude, but hope you get over it soon so you can enjoy your vacation.

Yes, that's Bubba sitting beside me Slo, she gets along very well with the Bruce's lol. Sounds like you had a very enjoyable time with the family.

You must be mostly packed and ready to hit the road tomorrow Ginger, a couple of days travel I presume?

Glad your visit with your granddaughter went so well Rava, won't be long till you're seeing all the family again.

Is Mr D still pumping water dill, or has he got enough in the pond now?

I'm surprise Mulburry that with the amount of alcohol I was drinking that I didn't have any physical withdrawal symptoms, just lucky I guess.

[Ginger999]

Jude, I'm just reading you're sick. I hope it's a short lived bug! Like Rava said, sit out and let that sun burn it out of you

ABC, Bruce is spectacular and looks like a real sweetie. Did he give you puppy fever? I've found that feeling has passed for hubby and me. Besides, Cyrus is all the "dog" we need. Lol

Rava, it's an exodus around here! Too many of our Canadian friends are talking of not coming back or outright selling their places. Too much uncertainties with the relationship with US and the exchange rate really hurts them. Sad...

Slo, nothing like a good snuggle. Glad you were able to do that.

Hey, Dil and Mul!

We are 90% packed and leaving tomorrow. Can't wait to get home and see my family. I'll take another day

[Slo]

Slo, I applaud you getting out and enjoying life as best you can while dealing with your illness.

Thank you for this, Dill! It is getting hard to live normally and do much.

Cowboy, was that your real breakfast that you posted? I spot pierogies on the plate.

Yes, hopefully some time resting out in the Florida weather can help heal you, Jude.

Ginger, I’m not surprised to hear that your Canadian Winter neighbors may not be returning. I wonder if the same will happen in your condo community next year, Rava.

All we can do now is embrace our freedom from that toxic substance that kept us chained, Mulberry. It is a hard crutch and pleasure to let go of though. Although, the “need” for it made it no longer a pleasure for us. It had turned on us. So now we turn away from it. We have the upper hand now.

Rava, nice that your granddaughter is old enough that you could have time alone with her, with none of your kids around.

I am going to try to swim today.

[Mulburry]

I'm surprise Mulburry that with the amount of alcohol I was drinking that I didn't have any physical withdrawal symptoms, just lucky I guess.

I'm surprised too sometimes when I hear other people say how much they were drinking and didn't seem to develop a physical dependence, I guess a lot of it is genetics and just how our body responds/adapts. I think another part of it is in drinking patterns, and ironically not drinking every day regularly can actually make it worse. If you're sucseptible to it, there's a process called kindling, so that every time you go through some sort of withdrawal (even very minor) it becomes a little bit worse the next time, which eventually makes your brain hyper responsive over time. For the longest time, I delluded myself by thinking that as long as I didn't drink every day, I wasn't an alcoholic, so what started out as just heavy weekend drinking, then a few days during the week etc. And I remember earl on in my drinking career I could still drink every day sometimes for a stretch of a few weeks, and then cut back down pretty easily. But over time, all these swings, added up, and the tiny almost imperceptible withdrawal symptoms gradually got more pronounced over time. At one point, I was drinking every second day (which is fine, cause it's not every day, right? haha), swingiing between mild hangover and mild withdrawal every day. In hindsight, this is clearly the point where I should have quit for good, but instead I took the easy way out and just started drinking every day and then didn't stop for close to 10 years.

[abcowboy]

4:56am in Alberta, 24 more for me please, and thanks...

In the last 24 hours, these friends have joined in for 24 hours of wellness:
Jude58 dill Rava Ginger999 Slo Mulburry

Today is going to be a darn good day not to drink!

[Rava]

Good morning Cafe. Ginger, safe travels tomorrow. Yes our Canadian friends are feeling worried about their places and the new rules coming. Some are already gone. I hope they don't sell. We have a lot of Canadians here and would miss them very much. Jude, I hope you are on the mend now. Slo, hope your swimming helps with your pain. Cowboy, Bruce will be a nice visitor now that Amanda is closeby. He is a brute! Dill, hope all is well with you. Mul, the drinking life is nothing but lying to ourself and others. It’s a tricky and sneaky way to live with devastating health effects. Yet we do it over and over. Breaking free from this is definitely not for the weak. I hope everyone has a great and sober day. Off to my volunteer job today. 24 more please and thank you.

[abcowboy]

No, it was just a breakfast I picked from the internet Slo, we usually don't have perogies for breakfast but do have kubasa with eggs sometimes. We do eat perogies on a weekly basis though lol.

Bruce's visits will satisfy our puppy fever Ginger lol, we'll even get to dogsit him a few times from the sounds of things. Have a safe trip home!

I was drinking everyday from morning till night Mulburry, and not just a lttle. Sure glad those days are behind me.

[dill]

Cowboy, Mr. D had to give up pumping from the creek because the water level went down too low. We need and good, solid rain to get those creeks filled up again. So, we wait. The pond is still down by 2 feet.

Hope you're feeling better, Jude.

Ginger and Rava, I can't believe the season is over either! But it is, and each day brings more light. Yesterday was SO windy though! It made me glad we got that tree down.

Greetings Slo and Mul.

24 more for all of us here, please.

[Slo]

I ended up kindling too, Mul, as I struggled to quit over a period of 6-7 years. The kindling that made everything so much worse makes me wish that I could’ve / would’ve kept my first quit in 2012. I had quietly quit when I knew I had a problem, but others didn’t know yet. I had made it 66 days. I made a good plan to bring a bottle of AF wine to an event to sub in for the real thing. Then ex-HB wouldn’t let me bring it, saying they would have it there -that they have everything. So I asked for de-alcoholized red wine. They said they only had it in white. I accepted, but it turns out it was the real thing, and it scuttled my quit.

I’m hurting from trying to do too much (just normal things) yesterday. Today I will have an opportunity to see some grandkids for a bit!

Safe travels, Ginger. Wishing a good day for all!

[Jude58]

Good morning cafe! Feeling a bit better today, but now my sister has it.I feel really bad about that, but we have been in close proximity to each other for several days. Florida is beautiful, but the area that we are staying in is quite "peopley" for my taste. There are a lot of families here on Spring break and it gets pretty noisy around here. The area is still trying to rebuild after hurricane Ian wiped out the town that we are staying in. Lots of construction going on, but some people decided not to rebuild so there are a lot of ocean front lots for sale if any of you want.

24 more please...

[Ginger999]

Jude, ocean front property in a devastated area would be a hard sale for sure! Sorry about the darn illness making its rounds.

Waves to all! Gotta get going. I'll take another

[Jude58]

24 more for all of us please...

[dill]

Good to see you up and posting early, Jude. You must be feeling a lot better. Hope your sister gets better soon too.
Interesting thought about buying ocean front property in the devastated area. If I were much, much younger and had some money to invest, I believe I would look into it.

Hi, Rava! You are so right about the drinking life.

Ginger, are you travelling today? Safe travels to you when you fly back northward.

Mul and Slo, I never heard of 'kindling'. If it's not one thing, it's another! Geez. Addiction is awful.

Bruce is a lot of dog, Cowboy! How old is he? He is so beautiful.

24 more for all of us here, please and thank you.

[abcowboy]

5:24am in Alberta, I'll have another 24 please, and thanks...

In the last 24 hours, these friends have joined in for 24 hours of wellness:
Rava dill Slo Jude58 Ginger999

Today is going to be a darn good day not to drink!

[abcowboy]

If I remember correctly dill, Bruce turned 5 not too long ago. They got him as a rescue dog so they're not exactly sure how old he is, just going by what the vet estimated him to be. They use the day they got him as his birthday lol.

When I read your post Jude, I thought of the George Strait song "Oceanfront Property" lol. Glad to hear you're feeling better, hope your sister gets over it quickly as well.

We have a winter storm warning in effect starting tonight, all day tomorrow, and lasting into Friday. Supposed to be lots of snow and blowing snow. I'm supposed to go back to the dentist Thursday morning to get the impressions done but may have to reschedule that depending on the storm as the dentist is in another town 1/2 hour drive away. He didn't take the impressions yesterday because he pulled my last wisdom tooth after doing 4 fillings so he decided to wait on the impressions.