Makes me want to sing " The Hills Are Alive" 🙂 It was 2 below here this morning when I woke up so thanks for the image and reminder of better days to come!! Its beautiful.
No leash. He minds pretty well, he sometimes jumps the neighbors fence two homes over but I only have to worry about watching a coyote approach from below. most of the time I can see him. When I clap my hands twice and call his name, he knows it's time to go in. Sometimes I just sit in the sun and when he has climbed and run around and eaten some grass, he'll come running toward the gate and I follow him inside. On the days it rains and he doesn't go out, he wants twice the normal time outside. Go figure! I keep an air horn and a slingshot with me while he is out.
Hello,
My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit.
HOW I QUIT
I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started.
When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.
