Hi My Friend,

My neighbor mentioned selling my vehicle due to the problems.  I have come to the solution to keep the battery charger in the car & if needed in the future have the hydraulic system changed to a regular system.  It is a 2022 S 430 Mercedes Benz with only 47.287 miles & I have had the car for 11 years. It is Black Pearl with Black Leather seats.  It looks new because I am the only one that drives it.  The dealer offered me $500 for the car.  I politely said no thanks.  They know it can be fixed & want to fix it and keep the car for themselves.  After researching changing the suspension in a few years if needed would solve the problem. I’m sure other things may pop up & I’ll fix them.  Better than to have car payments & higher insurance.

My neighbor called me this morning and asked if I knew who to call because someone hit a large opossum in front of his house.  He said this thing is so big I don’t know what to do.  I told him to give me a few minutes and I would come and get it.  I laughed so hard because he had those work horse cutting props on each side of the poor baby in the middle of the road.. I put on a glove & picked it up and took it into the woods.  I laughed so hard because it was probably only 3 months old. I took his props & put them back in his garage & hosed off the road.  He said the blood made him sick. He is also the one I got the snake out of his garage & took into the woods.  It was alive, only a black snake.

I hope you are having a nice day.  The weather here is 69 & cozy. My babies are doing well & I need to clean the house except not in the mood.  Too much on my mind.

Have a great day & will be thinking of you my friend.

Shookie~

Hi Anita,

Hope you are doing well.  The war is heart-breaking & the hostages which are being held are terrible.

I am glad my opportunity of traveling was years ago.  I lived in many places including Taiwan & wouldn’t go back.

Egypt & Japan are 2 countries I would enjoy seeing again except with so much conflict I would probably be disappointed as

to what they would look like now.  Egypt especially since so much building has been going on around all of the places I would like to visit.

I’ll have a place in my head where I see them as they used to be. So sad sacred places being surrounded by restaurants & stores.

Have a nice day.

Your Friend,

Shookie~

Good Evening Anita,

My day hasn’t been a pleasant one.  Many things have been happening, a stalker which won’t stop coming by and this has been going on for a couple of weeks.  I called the Sheriffs Department and was told there wasn’t anything they could do for me to call my Sheriff’s Department because we live in different counties.

I was recommended by a neighbor of a man which was supposed to be a good worker &  I had to leave the garage door open so he could get the products I purchased to do the jobs. He rang the doorbell leading into the house asking to use the restroom & I was sick so I asked him to use the restroom in the back of the house which he urinated on the seat & floor.  I locked the door behind him and he got irate.  I went back to bed and the doorbell rings again and he asked me if I would pick him up some lunch/drink and stop by the store and pick him up some toiletries so he could take a shower before he left. I told him he was “NOT”coming back in the house for anything.

I told him I was sick & not going to drive.  He got angry again and left without finishing the job after I purchased over $600 of supplies.

I went back to bed and at 11:00 at night he pulled into my driveway, he was back ringing the bell again & I went to the door and told him if he didn’t leave I was calling the police.  He said he had left something in my garage, screaming for me to let him in.  I spoke in a soft voice & told him he had 3 seconds to get off my property and he did.  Have not heard from him since.

I know Lowe’s Hardware & Home Depot recommend contractors which I don’t trust due to having work done by one of their workers & it was horrible.

Being single & not knowing but a handful of people I am at a standstill.  My house needs so many repairs which I can no longer do with the sight in my eye being so bad.  If the sun comes out it blinds me & all I see are white specks. Also the work needing to be done requires a 16 foot ladder because it is gutter & roof work.  Also under my crawl space to attach my dryer duct because it has fallen out of the floor & needs to be re-attached & I can’t wash and dry my clothes.

That’s only 1/2 of it.  I will stop complaining.  I have so many emotions running through me right now I don’t know where to start writing a list and putting everything in order.

I hope you had a better day than I have.  Maybe tomorrow will be better.

I feel so ashamed for being so gullible believing in these workers.  My Father would be so dissapointed in me. I feel that upsets me the most.

Your Friend’

Shookie~

Hi Anita.

I am so sorry to hear about Hunter. I am sure he is having fun with all the other fur babies which have crossed over the Rainbow Bridge.

Stash is still hanging on with his illness’s.  The vet told me 2 yrs. ago he had six months & he has passed that by 1 & 1/2 years.  I have all my babies indoors now.  The vet was telling me to keep changing & trying different medicines which started making him sicker. All babies in the house and I no longer take them to the Vet for shots.  I never did like giving any of my babies shots the vets say are a must.  Not saying I know better, Vets these days are all about the $$$.  My old 2 vets which were great have retired.

I feed Stash what he wants, of course watching his salt intake.  I purchased a grooming kit & keep him shaved so he wont get hair balls.  He gets where he breathes hard sometimes except with all 3 of his illnesses I am happy he has made it this long.  I love all of my babies so much.  Izzy is friskey as ever & my Balinese is not the sharpest knife in the drawer but his  keeps this little baby face on as if he is telling me, “Mom, I’m never growing up”. Stash loves playing with him and I believe that contributes to Stashe’s health.

Stash doesn’t have much choice when Takeda jumps on him wanting to play.

I am still working on sealing my steps & wanted to read your message.  It makes my day!

Take care Sweet Girl & I will message you tonight or tomorrow.

Your Friend,

Shookie  <=^..^=>

My Friend Anita,

YES,  the first time, my home was hit by lightning. Only mine & my neighbor, which had their televisions and some electrical knocked out.

I have a dead pine tree close to the back side of my house & thought it was the tree.  That little sucker is going to be cut down as soon as my other neighbor goes to Florida for the winter.  The tree is mine & he says it’s his.  When he gets back it will belong to the wildlife.

The neighborhood has most of the empty lots sold & all the wildlife are being pushed out. I still feed mine.  I have many nests for the animals which have been since before my mother passed.  I have seen several red foxes & their kits.  Two mama skunks with her babies.  It amazes me how the babies are mostly white &  it doesn’t take long to get the black stripe on their backs and the little white caps on their heads. LOL~ I have a deer feeder, which of course, the mean neighbor does not like.  It’s my property. I bought some watermelons for the fox and now they love me.

I was going to build an A-frame on my property except it would cost more to build one 1/2 the size of mine and the cost would be the same to build as I could sell mine for.  The only reason I was thinking about it is I would have no neighbors, just wildlife.

I have my precious girlfriend which I don’t see enough and ran into a friend I haven’t seen in over 15yrs and we have been talking on the phone on occasion & text a few times a day. It’s fun games where I try to guess what color shirt he has on for the day.  Silly, but fun.  We have many laughs.  We have known one another since we were 21~ He has many girlfriends.  He is like my big brother & I believe that is why he treats me with respect.

As I mentioned in past messages,  I prefer animals over most people.

I am learning to appreciate the life I had growing up instead of thinking about just getting older.  I realized I had the best parents I could have asked for & an exciting life and fun jobs.

I watched Top Gun Maverick the other week and it brought back good memories of when I flew & worked on the flightline in the Military.

I am going for a walk and come home to box up and donate things I have been hanging on too long. Another good lesson I have learned.  It’s only stuff.  Memories stay with you forever & it makes me so happy.

I hope you are happy and doing well.

I will look for tomorrows read from you & will write to you tonight when I am tucked away for the night with my 3 babies.

I Love Stash, Izzy and Takeda so much.  Since I stopped letting them go outside they have turned into Luv bugs…

Your Friend Always,

Shookie~

Hi Anita,

I was so excited to read your message. Ecstatic, is better.

I replied to the one I just received & don’t see it on the thread, I am going to write, send & see what happens.

How have you been?  I can’t tell you how lost I felt when the messages stopped.

I never stopped wondering what you were doing & how you were.

So much has happened in my life since our last message.  Good, & bad, many changes.

I have missed our messages and hope this will go through.

Once you respond back I will tell you more.

I have accepted what comes in and out of my life, there is a reason why everything happens,

Your Friend,

Shookie~

Hi My Friend,

This was an awful experience for me a while back~I was in the grocery store and bumped into a man who was 80yrs. old.  First too old for me except he seemed nice & lonely and asked if I wanted to have a seat in a small area the store has if you purchase food & want to enjoy your sandwich in the area.

We spoke & he gave me his number.  The girl in the customer service area which I know because I usually pick up my groceries in the store said he comes in a lot and was a very nice man.

I called him and we spoke for a while and decided to meet at a restaurant.  When I got there he said he wasn’t really hungry and he lived a few miles away & would I like to come by & talk. I also don’t like cheap people & I felt that from him.  Also, his house was filthy and a mess~

He lived in an area I was aware of and had close neighbors to his home. I didn’t see any harm so I went.

He told me he rented one of his rooms out & his wife passed 16 yrs. ago.  Then he asked if I wanted to watch a movie & I didn’t feel comfortable because he kept trying to hold my hand and touching my hair.  I told him I didn’t like my hair to be touched and was uncomfortable.  He asked if he could be honest and tell me something & I said sure.  I almost fell to the ground when he said he had been dating and not found anyone he was interested in but had an attraction to me which gave him an erection and I was disgusted.

I told him I made a mistake by going to his home and felt what he said was very disrespectful to me & I was repulsed.

He actually asked if we could get together again and I told him absolutely not.

Why do men do such things?  I know girls that sleep with men only because they felt an obligation because they paid for their meal or they thought the man had money and will sleep with them thinking they may get some type of security from the guy.

I have avoided all of these situations and feel I may be alone with my babies until the end of my life.

People have changed & most have no idea how to communicate or treat you like a lady.

Being old fashion, I want to be courted and respected.  I would not feel any type of obligation to sleep with a man because we went out.  I definitely don’t like being touched.

It takes a good 6 months or longer to really know someone you just met & I have no past boyfriends I would want to date again. Most may have passed because I have not seen them in so long.  Guess I am a loner and sometimes I feel I am on my way downhill instead of spending my golden years with someone.

I have one girlfriend I trust and we are so much alike.  She worked at the Sheriff’s Dept. and is disabled now.  We talk on the phone.  Besides writing to you and speaking with her on the phone I am basically a loner.  Also, my trust in people has come to a halt due to all the deception I have experienced.

Back to the dating scenario if a man tries to get emotionally involved on the first date I can only imagine what their past was like and don’t care to waste my time sharing my life.

I didn’t sleep well last night, for some reason I feel so disappointed in people these days. Too much deciet and intitlement is what I feel from people.

Maybe it’s me?

Have a Beautiful day!

Your Friend Shookie~