Does anyone else...

[rickymouse]

Yeah, I am one of those that is wondering what is coming.  eight months ago they found some really good  medicinal properties for coffee, and the articles just hit release to the public a couple of months ago.  In that time coffee spiked, and excuses are coming out of droughts and storms but in my mind, I wonder.....did they make this disaster stuff up to drive up profits.  In that time, coffee went up from a twenty six ounce can from six ninety nine on sale, to about nine ninety nine on a real good sale.  We had twelve cans of coffee in stock, all cost us between five sixty six and six ninety nine and I have not been buying more stock till last week, we bought a can of around twenty six ounce maxwell house for nine ninety nine, and a thirty and a half ounce can of Hills bros. original for twelve ninety nine on sale.   We had about sixteen cans in stock and we let our stock go down to twelve.  Of those twelve, most of them were under six bucks, but three were at six ninety nine...they were the thirty and a half ounce ones so they were higher by a little.

So, being someone who cannot turn down a good sale on coffee, and seeing those pound and a half plus cans regular price at about sixteen bucks a can now, I feel good I am drinking coffee at a way cheaper price....but am kicking myself for not buying more at five sixty six...we only bought six on that sale last summer.  None of the cans we have are even past the BB date yet, we do drink a couple of pots a day.

So my thoughts, why was there a delay in us being able to read the medical benefits of coffee by six months?  I think we all know that my conspiracy theory is probably not a conspiracy at all, just a normal everyday greed factor by speculators and peoeple who saw a gold mine.

Now, we do not stock up food supplies and essential things because we are hoarders, we are both on social security so we buy quite a bit on the best sales when they happen.  It saves us money...more than we could make investing and it also saves us lots of gas since we are not running to town to get something everytime we cook or clean.  Maybe people say look at the prices in the store, we do something about it, not complain.  I am not going to pay eight bucks for a twelve pack of toilet paper when they go on sale for three ninety nine at Menards once in a while with an additional eleven percent rebate.  I don't feel like flushing money down the toilet either....

[Sirius]

...feel like something is coming?  From war to natural disasters, and now (supposedly) an alien space craft with hostile intentions en route to our system.

I say this as my dog (we're in Texas) is acting funny.  He doesn't like going out at night anymore through the doggy door.  He also refuses to go on walks barely stepping foot in the yard opting to rather observe from the door.  The times I am able to get him outside on a leash he sticks close to the side of the house before pulling back to the door.

Even our neighbors two little annoying dogs which casually roam the neighborhood due to their gate constantly being open are quiet. I can see them inside the backyard but it's like they refuse to come out.  I suppose it could be a predator of sorts, but there really isn't any in this area as it's highly populated.

I can't help but have a feeling that's something off, possibly building up to something.  Or I can just have a case of good old paranoia! 

But anyone else noticing anything funky lately?  Or have a feeling that something is looming?

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[KTemplar]

Absolutely!


I work with the public.  I talk to a lot of people!

personally my cat has been waking up at around 2:30-7:30 and meowing so loud til I get whatever she wants or my son lets her in his room.  It keeps going too.  I maybe get 3-4 hours of sleep a night now.  I hear constantly from people that their pets are acting strange too!  

The politics stage, I am actually hearing from a lot of old timers hardcore Republicans complaining about the cost of things,  they tell me their SSI got better, actually say the president fixed it, and I think so what’s the problem!    Then they wanted a doge check?  For what to gamble with?   If you don’t have the additional costs of vehicle upkeep, keeping nutritionally up so you have enough energy to get through a 10 hour work shift running around on your feet all day, then why pray tell do retirees feel they deserve more?  It would have been nice if the working class (who don’t receive tips) got some kind of break!

Everyone I know who is working is drained and I see 30 yr olds that look like they are ready to collapse.  Yet they still try to smile and stay positive.  

I Know a few people who work 2 jobs who cannot afford to replace their brakes right now.  They are living on a prayer.  I recommend some mechanics I know, but costs are through the roof right now, so the people are saving up, it’s going to take forever.

I went through this last year and walked to work for weeks on some of the coldest days.   No public transportation of course.  I live in Taxachusetts.  So many people I know have left or are leaving this state, and when I retire I hope to as well.

The constant barrage of crap online and the media has made me decide to go back to books and nature, with DI being an exception.

People are scared, depressed, have no fun, cannot afford to do anything but pay bills.  It’s not the life I grew up with.  People are short fused and stressed to the max.

[rickymouse]

Absolutely!


I work with the public.  I talk to a lot of people!

personally my cat has been waking up at around 2:30-7:30 and meowing so loud til I get whatever she wants or my son lets her in his room.  It keeps going too.  I maybe get 3-4 hours of sleep a night now.  I hear constantly from people that their pets are acting strange too!  

So, you are complaining because your cat is now acting normal?  You're cat must have been feeling tired before, glad to see it is finally letting you guys know who is head  of the house.

[KTemplar]

I guess I was spoiled for 19 years with her.  I love little muffins like she’s my baby, but her meowing is so loud the neighbors bang the walls.  She does this for hours pretty much every 20 minutes.

The vet says she deaf but otherwise healthy!


I’m just tired!

[Roma]

@Vulture pay attention to the animals.  They can sense things we cannot.  

My dog has been relatively normal except for one or two nights recently where she was restless.  Nothing close to what you've described though.  As for me, well all I feel is tired.  Like all the time.

[rickymouse]

I guess I was spoiled for 19 years with her.  I love little muffins like she’s my baby, but her meowing is so loud the neighbors bang the walls.  She does this for hours pretty much every 20 minutes.

The vet says she deaf but otherwise healthy!


I’m just tired!

Our last cat was nineteen years old when she died.  She was hard of hearing for the last couple of years and she was a lot more loud when she talked in the end.  Meowing is a form of communication and even adults get louder when their hearing gets worse.  Cats are no different.  

We have had quite a few cats over the years, most used to live to be over twenty but for some reason in the last ten years, they have been dying younger.  I think the food has gone downhill a lot, they keep designing the composition using science that is not fully correct.  I spent quite a bit of time investigating cat food over the years and how it has changed.  They are adding taurine but lately, they are taking out much of the other ingredients because they say grains are not good for cats, but grains contain molybdenum and the MOCA cofactors are necessary for a cat to actually make sulfite oxydase which is necessary to utilize the taurine they add.  Cats we had that were outdoor cats ate the grainheads of the Rye grass and other types of grasses on side of our yard a lot.  They have molybdenum in those and they were healthy as hell.  

So, since they took the elements they needed out of the cat food when they removed the grains, I started giving them a little molybdenum supplement and the cats got much better.  Now the last cat, Shody, she had a little coctail of added special minerals and some vitamins, just a tad, and she did pretty good....she had seizures, so I used supplements that work on me to control my epilepsy, one is a molybdenum supplement, and she had no more seizures.  I have some enzyme deficiencies genetically that cats have...so pasically the only reason the wife married me is because I am part cat.  Both my daughters have cats too, one has six, the other has five.  We usually had three indoor and two outdoor cats.  So I think that the two daughters are trying to be like their parents.

No more cats for the wife and I, we do cat sit for one at a time sometimes, but I am going to be seventy in september, and the wife is seventy three.  Now we do not want to worry about what is going to happen with our cat if we die, so we don't want anymore.  Plus it is way harder on us now than before when a pet dies, even the goldfish dying was saddening.  We have two fish left, no more of those either, the fish we have were from my granddaughter when she was young, now she died and that was hard to deal with too.  WE have four does and five fawns coming to our door every day,,,,,actually pretty much throughout the day because the kids get in trouble when they are together, so the families come in separately most times.  It is cheaper to feed the four does and their fawns than to feed one cat decent food and pay for cat litter and occasional vet bills.  Our blind cat we had ate most of a pound of bacon a week before it died. We got about four pieces for ourselves.  Bacon is not cheap, but it sue made his hair nice and being that his blindness was from a genetic problem, the blindness was related to conjested heart failure.  He lived about three years longer than the vets said he would live, I designed a specific mix of supplements for him to take up some of the problem, and he lived to nine, the vets said he would have only lived to five or six....the bacon made him happy, he loved bacon and if we ran out, he would not drink his milk with the medicine in it.  When he died, some disease took out his weak lungs, we had twenty six pounds of bacon in the freezer which we gave most of to the daughters to eat when he died.  Had to prep for the cat too.

[FlyersFan]

...feel like something is coming?  

Yeah ... but not on a world wide or national scale.
On a personal scale.
With my husband and I.

[Ravenwatcher]

I wake up every morning with the word boom in my head.
This game Trump is playing can only last till someone wants to cash out.

[KTemplar]

Rickymouse


i totally get that! This is my last pet, I am afraid of leaving one behind.  I just passed on a 3 day camping trip in the white mountains with my sister because I’m too afraid to leave her alone.

Thanks for reminding me of bacon, my cat loves bacon, and I got a good sale on bacon a couple weeks ago for 3.99 a package, I’m going to make that for her tomorrow for breakfast treat!

you really know your stuff about cats!