Monday, February 26, 2007

Save the animals


Wendy I remeber the cat our moms would'nt let us
keep we wrote this poem and put the cat in some ones porch with the poem ,rang
their bell and ran.

 

Please take me in and keep me safe & warm all
through the mid day storm. and in the morning bright and gay, keep me safe all
through the day.

If you can't keep me give me to a friend, Please
don't throw me out again. ( Author's  Wendy & Lynn )

 

 

I can't belive that I remember that it was written
at least 40yrs ago.   Lov ya Bud

76 comments:

laurie19540 MSN said...

Hi Levis - you and Wendy  sounded like you must have been real little hellions in those days !!! I remember being desperate for an animal  when I was about six years old  and  NO was always the answer. So  I  stole the neighbours cat  and called it  Rosie  and kept it in our  newly built enclosed  back porch for one whole day and night  until the next morning   when my mother went out. Apparently Rosie was a male cat  who sprayed  all over the  porch.    Rosie got the boot.   Laurie

les__f MSN said...

Hilarious story,.........Laurie540,...............I love that old expression          "Got the Boot"..............hahahahahahah Seems that was part of the reward system at school,.as I rec'vd that award several times...........             hahahahahah    

wendythepool MSN said...

Lynn, I can't believe you remembered that after all these yrs. I did'nt until I read it. What a laugh. Wasn't a bad poem.Wonder what happened to the kitten.
Wendy (LYT)

les__f MSN said...

That was a long time ago ,hope it wasn't this guy................................................. ...................................I just post 'em,.I wasn't driving the car.......................

wendythepool MSN said...

Speaking of saving the animals, Lynn and Glo do you remember that Easter Sunday when Billy found a chic or duckling hopping down the back lane with a box over it's head.You guys kept it as a pet for a long time til it got too big.It used to answer the door at the top of the stairs with your mother. How cute.
Wendy

wendythepool MSN said...

Hi Les, my husband just walked in a had a good laugh at your pic of the free cat. I thought it was just sad.
Wendy

beeaired MSN said...

Here is one fer ya. AS have MS and cant walk my dog, a scottish terrier who was a runner.(gate open off he went), was returned to the breeder. I knew I needed a pet. So saw an ad in local paper for a bluefronted amazon and bought her. That was 1998.  As I aged I put an ad in the local paper(buy and sell) and it read,..handicapped gent, retired will to take in parrots, will pay if need be. When the calls came in they were told..these will not be sold. Today I have 8 birds here..6 parrots, one finch, one cockatiel. Sorta a family of females..haha.  

les__f MSN said...

Hi beeaired  ,.that's alot of newspaper .......................................               I like those Parrots,...............when in Costa Rica ,I got to see many Macaws,.as well as baby Toucan's ,........... I couldn't believe that as a chick a Macaw is almost completely grey(ish) with small blurbs of colour literally only on the very tips of some feathers,.... and I mean like a pinpoint size,..Yet they grow into such fantasticly colourful birds,,,,,,,,,,,,,(as do the Toucans.).......... the whole Central America region is filled with some really beautiful birds,of all linds,.......as well of course with many other wild species,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,   ......Beeaired my guess is you don't throw out many of those 'flyers' from the newspapers either,.as they could be handy in the bottom of those cages.....??

levisjeans7 MSN said...

Wendy  I do remember the little male chick
that my brother found jumping in the garbage in the back lane. It turned out to
be a rooster !  We kept it near the old oil stove with a lamp light over it
to keep the little chick warm. as it got bigger a little red comb develpped on
top of it's head. hence rooster.It followed Mom everywere. We could'nt keep it,
and My folks never did tell me what happened to it! I hope it made it to the
farm . Not the big farm I hope.
 
  Garbage night in Verdun was the best . All
the treasures we brought home!  Boy Wendy did we have
fun.

mom1945-linda MSN said...

Levisjeans ~  Did you happen to have bar-b-q for supper that night?  Naaa....perish that thought, eh?

levisjeans7 MSN said...

Mom1945-Linda   No Bar-b-q for the little
boy chick. however My brother also brought home a turtle from Rawdon one
week-end. The thing grew and grew we kept it in the bath tub. Turned out it was
a snaper.
 
I don't know what happened to him but we did have a
pretty good soup. 

happydi2 MSN said...

Here I am when I was a 2 year old hugging one of my granddads chickens. This was taken in Laurel, Quebec about 1948. The girl with me is my aunt Shirley.        

rainy day man MSN said...

LMAO..   garbage night..   haven't heard that expression in years..   i have to admit..   i furnished my first apartment with some items i snatched on garbage night...   by the way..   my frind kevin murray and i were sophisticated garbage nighters...   we went to westmount on their garbage night..   high class garbage...   better than what verdunites could offer...

maggiemck MSN said...

Now-a-days they call it recycling!

mom1945-linda MSN said...

Cute Dianne.  Tell me, did the chicken live after that hug, or did you have a B-B-Q?

happydi2 MSN said...

Linda...LOL!! I don't know what happened to the chicken, but it looks like I have a strangle hold on it!!!   Dianne  

happydi2 MSN said...

It's amazing what people throw out, it really bothers me. In the Halifax area, like all other cities and towns in the country there are organizations that take donations to help the less fortunate...last summer I took a car load of items to my local food bank. They sell househoold goods to make money to buy food to stock their shelves.   dianne

rainy day man MSN said...

i hear ya di   people throw lots of good stuff..   what's that saying...   one man's garbage ... is another man's treasure...

rainy day man MSN said...

happy di   help me out here..   i keep wanting to spell 'throw' = through...   are you able to phsycoanalyse(sp) this?

happydi2 MSN said...

That's the saying...and I have found some treasures at yard sales and flea markets, too!   Dianne

rainy day man MSN said...

you go to flea markets...   so i'm to assume..   you have a basement...or a shed...or an attic...   full of absolutely useless stuff...   stuff you'll never use...       and am i to assume..   one day it'll all be out on your driveway...     with little price tags on them???

happydi2 MSN said...

LMAO!!! I have way too much junk.....but to me it isn't junk..basement, shed, garage and every nook and cranny is full....but I use it all.....and I give stuff away too and then buy more....refinish furniture etc...lots of fun!!! I don't know what to make of your wanting to spell throw = through ?!? Dianne        

rainy day man MSN said...

di   you're in denial about all that 'junk'...   and please if we ever cross paths..   dont give any of it to me as a gift..   i have no storage space left..   LMAO!!

happydi2 MSN said...

My husband says I have to get rid of some of it....we are having hardwood floors installed in the next month or so and we have too much furniture etc....where will it go while all this work is being done?   dianne

mom1945-linda MSN said...

Sky-hooks, Dianne, that's what my dad always said.   hehehe

happydi2 MSN said...

LOL!!...sounds like someone in your family is a collector of treasures too! and can't part with any of it!   di

rainy day man MSN said...

LMAO..   i went through that..   so here's what you do...   you put all the furniture etc..   in one corner...     as you finish sections of the floor you move pieces on it...   by the time you get near the corner where you piled everything........   it's empty....

happydi2 MSN said...

Sky hooks? that might be the answer...I was looking at bungy ropes today, some really big ones...Paul thought 'Woman you really are loosing it " but I see I am not alone in my thinking!   Dianne

rainy day man MSN said...

sky hooks..   mmmmmm....   that brings up some ideas...LOL

happydi2 MSN said...

We had an installer come over the other day and he said 'All this your stuff?" Like what did he think , I'm  a storeage place for people?   di

rainy day man MSN said...

oh yes you are alone in your thinking...   i can assure you...   nobody thinks like you...LOL

mom1945-linda MSN said...

Funny, true story.  Once my dad needed a bunch of renovation stuff from the hardware. Well he sent my mom to pick up a bunch of stuff he had written on a list.  Of course, you guessed it, one of the items was a sky hook.   The fella (at Pilon's hardware on Monk Blvd.) just about pissed his pants.  I think my mom never went on errands for him again.

happydi2 MSN said...

RDM...I am not sure i like your ideas...I can hear the wheels turning!   Dianne

rainy day man MSN said...

di   usually when people are in shock..   they ask dumb questions..   give the guy a break..

rainy day man MSN said...

LMAO Linda

happydi2 MSN said...

Well, I had a hard time keeping a straight face!!! It was kind of funny the way he said it!   Di

happydi2 MSN said...

Linda...that is funny.....I can just picture it!!   dianne

rainy day man MSN said...

so do you put on yard sales?  

rainy day man MSN said...

ok monk bld...   i think delalos was on monk...   but in the 50's there was a place that sold the best steamies around...   either of you 2 remember this place?

rainy day man MSN said...

they had the tastiest cabbage...the best ...

happydi2 MSN said...

Are you asking me or Linda or both of us?   Yes, I have had yard sales and have participated in several neighbourhood ones....but what happens with those is you end up buying each others junk and you don't make any money.   Di

rainy day man MSN said...

is would be late 50's early 60's..

rainy day man MSN said...

i was asking both of you..cause i think linda is here..   maybe in and out...   but she's here...

happydi2 MSN said...

I remember Dilalo's ...great tasting greasy hamburgers! I am not sure of any other places in Ville Emard...on the corner of Jolicoeur and Monk there is the Green Stop....good food and you get tons of it. Di

mom1945-linda MSN said...

We used to go to a little place on the corner of Monk near Springland.  Really just a hole in the wall, no place to sit, only take out.  Had the best fries and steamies on the block.  Just can't remember the name, though.....old timer's disease dont cha know.

happydi2 MSN said...

Well guys...this is it for me...if I don't get some sleep my husband will be looking for a sky hook...yikes....   See you all tomorrow....God willing!   Dianne

rainy day man MSN said...

that's the place linda...   great greasy spoon...

mom1945-linda MSN said...

Did you live in Ville Emard, or just hang around there?  

rainy day man MSN said...

ya same here..   bedtime...   fortunately i got back from montreal late ..   so i can take it easy tomorrow..   or should i say today..   and tomorrow   or should i say today...   i'm winning the 'million a year for life'....   and it scares me...   sure enough if i win it...   i'll be dead within the year..   LOL...   sweet dreams linda and di...

rainy day man MSN said...

actually i was born there..   my parents boarded with the 'hendersons'   we moved to verdun 2 years after i was born...   also my dad was good friends with norm mcElvoy..   so i used to be at there place playing with the kids..   the girls..LMAO..   i'm just exagerating..   i tried to get them to play doctor..   but they never cooperated...

rainy day man MSN said...

i lived on angers street...

les__f MSN said...

There was no Green Spot or Stop restaurant in the fifties in Ville Emard....         also RDM I know ofd the pool room which was immediadtely before the train bridge/Wellingtom went under it,.......... and the Olympic was almost across the street........................... I think Dom Polski Hall was close by ,if not part of it./////////////    Did this not get torn down a few years back,..........???? I can see the whole area,...........and yet I still question the memory banks,due to so much time passing ,...but there weren't many bars ./////or hangouts in the Point that I didn't get into at some Point or other,.............My oldman & my family have a long history from griffintown/Point/Verdun..............not to mention most of the Montreal Waterfront,...............and met many a character many of which frequented my oldmans shop in the Point ...after it was expropriated by the Ciy of Montreal from Griffintown,.........where I use to play as a kid,......................  Lot's of intersting places around there weren't there,....my godparents lived right around the corner basically from your spot of referance................................I'll come up with a picture ,I hope shortly,. ...................

mom1945-linda MSN said...

Ahhhh......go to bed!!!!!    

rainy day man MSN said...

ok mom...    

rainy day man MSN said...

les   i was aware of your connections ..   point/verdun/griffintown...   i have them also..   that's why i thought you maight remember the place...     but i have to go to bed now..   mom told me to...   night

mom1945-linda MSN said...

Okay, everybody, if you ever believed in the power of  rayer.....please....please....get down on those knees and pray for us up here in Courtenay.......it's snowing ~ mind you ever so lightly ~ but ya never know could turn into a blizzard.   hehehe

les__f MSN said...

Hi Mom45............I do beleive in the power of  'Rayer'     as it rayer that it snows here at all............................hahahahahahaha   ............................................................................................................................... .............hope it doesn't continue too long for you,............but MtWashington can always use the Extra..................................

mom1945-linda MSN said...

The power of rayer......what is that.....some kind of kinky practice???

les__f MSN said...

Even more 'Rayer' was the 'Rayer' Asprin.................................good for headaches & apprently helps with staving off heart attacks........................   .............................................Say a little 'Rayer' for me..........................wasn't that a song?

mom1945-linda MSN said...

That commercial "Head On"....well I wonder if you can get an overdose of that stuff the way the guy is rubbing and rubbing and rubbing it on.   Personally I like the "Slugskis".....Don and his wife Sharon.  They don't do fast, not a word in their vocabulary, nope, they don't like fast.

levisjeans7 MSN said...

HAPPYdI2
 
That is a great picture . I can see that you love
animals too!
but oh Love Hurts. !!!

laurie19540 MSN said...

Hi Levis   Where is the picture of HappyDi ?   It would be nice to see pictures of people we communicate with.  Laurie

happydi2 MSN said...

Les...I know the Green Spot or Stop wasn't there in the 50's. I had fast forwarded to the present...sorry...I thought you could keep up with me....HAHAHA!!   Anyway, if anyone is around that corner in the present it's a good place to go for a meal...huge portions which appeal to the men...not the ladies....but you can get a doggie bag and eat another load of food later at home.   Dianne

happydi2 MSN said...

HI RDM.....We were friends with the McAvoys. They had 9 kids...Eileene, Norma or Norrie, Ramona, Donald, Diane, Norman, Nancy, Susan and Debbie...not sure if I got them in the right order. Both Mr. and Mrs McAvoy have passed on and the oldest daughter died about 25 years ago. I haven't seen any of them for years. the last time must have been around 1988 or so and we drove around Angers Street and we were standing on the sidewalk talking to my old neighbours and Diane McAvoy arrived with ther parents. Mr McAvoy had Alzheimers and didn't remember us but Mrs. McAvoy did and we had a long chat with her.   So when you were over there trying to play doctor you don't remember a dark haired girl? All the McAvoys were either blond or had red hair.....LOL!!!   Dianne

levisjeans7 MSN said...

rainy day man
 
We would stach all the good stuff we found from
grabage night in our back shead. My brother Bill would find the best stuff. A
manger or what looked like one that my sister Gloria still put's under her
Christman tree.
 
Did Kevin Murray have a brother
Ross?

rainy day man MSN said...

i'm not sure if he had a brother, but i think he might have and if so he would have been quite a bit older than us...i do remember he had an older sister...

rainy day man MSN said...

and levis if you know wendy rinder and debbie elkin you must know my sister Mo

levisjeans7 MSN said...

rainy day man   Yes I do Maureen . Wendy
knows her more than I but I do know her

rainy day man MSN said...

well i'm not sure who you are but maybe we knew each other then...   i was good friends with charlie elkin at one time..

edbro68 MSN said...

This thread started on cats. Well I have one here at the Church that some one dumped on us. It's a holy terror. It empties my kleenex boxes and tears them to shreds. I swear he has a confetti factory somewhere. He has hidden my wristwatch and spread four bran muffins all over the hall. He has pooped under the Altar (Thank goodness we use incense.) and destroyed my easy chair. When I look at him I think about Scotty Stevenson at the Blue Angel. He used to sing "The cat came back the very next. The cat came back. They thought he was a goner but the cat came back cause he wouldn't stay away. A+nybody want a cat?                       Ed

rainy day man MSN said...

that sounds like the reincarnation of a kitten i once had...LOL

wendythepool MSN said...

Here's a bird story for you.2 yrs.ago I was at a garage sale and there was a parakeet including cage free to good home. Being the animal lover I am and wanting to add to my menagery,I took the 8yr old bird.My kids loved him so we bought a flight cage and have added 3 more birds. He remains the boss bird.
Wendy

wendythepool MSN said...

Better late than never, as the saying goes, I've incorported garage sales and animals in this thread.
Wendy

les__f MSN said...

Are Garage sales a big thing,.i had never seen themuntil about 20 years ago out here they started popping up everywhere,...... Someone told me that in Montreal ,..you have to have a permit or license?? Anything to get their hands in your pocket,,,,,hahahahaha

wendythepool MSN said...

Hi Les,yes garage sales are a big thing especilly in Fl.where you can have them yr.round.I love them and have gotten some real nice pieces of furniture for next to nothing and alot of other things.You don't need a permit down here.Most people put up signs in the neighborhood but the city code inforcers come around and take them down so it is best to advertise in the paper.
Wendy

levisjeans7 MSN said...

 Hey Wendy We should have saved all the stuff
we found on garbage night in Verdun & soled them in garage sales we could
have been so ver very rich>  HeHE HE