I Am A Conservative

B HO

2009-12-08T10:55:00.001-08:00

Please someone start Impeachment proceedings on Obama. That man is destroying our country.

Taxes

2009-06-18T09:32:00.000-07:00

A few months ago my boss says, don't you want to do your patriotic duty and pay taxes. I said I am doing that. I do pay taxes and unlike a lot of families I get nothing back at the end of the year. I have extra taken out of each paycheck and very often I still owe more.

Now he has this business right. He just learned that his small corp might be charged more in, yep you guessed it, taxes.

I laughed when he told me that he didn't expect "he" would have to pay more. It is only "big" corporations that should pay more. He is not "rich". He is just a little guy.

Well, guess what? When some people look at him, owning a thriving business, he is rich. He has more then they do thus he is rich and should "share" the wealth by paying more taxes.

Wow, sure sounds good when it is the other guy that has to pay, but not so good when it is your pocket the money could be taken from.

So how about it all you liberal let's tax the rich more supporters. Since you seem to believe this is the best way to go just tell the government to take more from your checks and then at the end of the donate what you might have coming back to them. Tell them you are doing your patriotic duty by giving more.

If you have kids avoid that unearned income credit. You didn't "earn" someone else did and the feds are stealing it to give to you. The feds choose to give it to you rather then back to the rightful earners. Isn't that nice of them?

Ask my daughter who has never had children how she feels about "unearned" income, her money given to someone else just because they have kids. She worked hard all year long so that someone else could enjoy the fruits of her labor. Or my daughter and son-in-law who don't qualify for "unearned" income how they feel when they could use more of their own money back for the children they are raising "with only the money they do earn". Ask them how they feel about the things they cannot do for their children because someone thinks they need to give the money to other children. What their children don't count? It really sucks.

Oh and I wonder if those higher and higher taxes of the "rich" is going to be that business you work for. Will you be the one that the business can no longer afford to keep working because their taxes went too high? That would really suck wouldn't it, but then again, it's what you want, isn't it?

WE guessed wrong

2009-06-17T18:04:00.000-07:00

Biden said that. What? Your administration was "guessing". Oh boy if I guessed about paying for everything there would be a mess. Oh that's right there is a mess, a big mess.

Thank goodness I actually know that spending doesn't help when your debt is too high. What insanity did we elect to congress and the white house? Oh wait I didn't vote for most of those people and the ones I did use to be on the side of the people. They turned traitor.

Biden

Find Corruption and get fired

2009-06-15T21:37:00.000-07:00

Fired

How can you trust the people in charge if they fire the people finding corruption?

Sarah Palin Legal Fund

2009-04-25T09:21:00.000-07:00

For those who support Sarah:

Donate

Even $5 will help.

Moveon.org

2009-04-23T20:16:00.000-07:00

They have a petition to start investigations into the torture of enemies. What the heck? Release the memos that tell just what that little play time did to save American lives.

You want real torture? Just listen to B HO and his socialist pals. Listening to what they want to do to tear a part America, now that is real torture.

Get over it and stop using this kind of thing to cover up the real harm you people are doing to the real government. Remember the "WE The People", not the you the B HO and the congress. Heck you people are the hired help.

Hey guess what? You can all be fired.

Tea party time. Be sure to join us in the next tea party and add your voice to all of ours.

A must see

2009-04-07T20:47:00.000-07:00

To late? Probably

Sent to me, too good not to pass on to others

2009-04-01T21:42:00.001-07:00

WHO AM I?

I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was born in another country. I was not his only child. He fathered several children with numerous women.
I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me. My mother died at an early age from cancer.

Later in life, questions arose over my real name.
My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a legitimate, reliable birth certificate.

I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs & didn't follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.

I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them.

That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career.

I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.

I became active in local politics in my 30's then with help behind the scenes, I literally burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office in my 40s. They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into anything. That reinforced my conceit.

I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker and citizens were drawn to me as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing tacks.

I drew incredibly large crowds during my public appearances. This bolstered my ego.

At first, my political campaign focused on my country's foreign policy. I was very critical of my country in the last war and seized every opportunity to bash my country.

But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country's economy. I pretended to have a really good plan on how we could do better and every poor person would be fed & housed for free.

I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess. It was the free market, banks & corporations. I decided to start making citizens hate them and if they were envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight.

I called mine "A People's Campaign" and that sounded good to all people.

I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics & was able to gain widespread popular support.

I knew that, if I merely offered the people 'hope' , together we could change our country and the world.

So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant to include "persecuted minorities" like the Jews. My true views were not widely known & I needed to keep them unknown, until after I became my nation's leader.

I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and examined those people I associated with.

I'm glad they didn't. Then I became the most powerful man in the world. And the world learned the truth.

Who am I?

ADOLF HITLER

WHO WERE YOU THINKING OF?

Redistribution of Wealth Straight from the Guy

2008-10-28T06:45:00.000-07:00

Obama speaking as a Illinois state senator.

Glen Beck: Frightening Obama

What more can be said, but that if you plan to keep what is now yours, what will become yours all yours, then VOTE McCain/Palin or soon you will find your hard work redistributed to others who did nothing for themselves.

You will be allowing the "government" to do to you just what everyone has been saying, allow you to work so others can benefit.

I don't want to give my all away.

How it was or could be

2008-10-27T08:25:00.000-07:00

No links to anything in this one. Just a little musings on my part.

Once upon a time a government started and things happened. The government had people checking out and reporting on other people. Sometimes those people were arrested and afterwards never seen again. Sometimes they were outright shot.

Now we have a person of interest having others look for people and the things they might say and investigate them for what ever they might find, then they try to ruin those people.

Same thing a bit different in methods. You can destroy people in many different ways.

Once upon a time that same government decided that what belonged to the people really didn't belong to the people or that they could better control those things of the people (for their own good you know). So they confiscated what they wanted, where they wanted, and when they wanted. Wealth belonged to the government, not the people.

Now we have another government looking into taking peoples retirement accounts, yea just yanking them and placing them where that said government can "control" them, ah, for the good of the people. The sweetener is that they will take you back a few months and give you a bit of money you lost in the market due to the mistakes they first made. The bad thing is that 100% inheritable fund will become only a portion inheritable by your heirs. They get to keep the rest.

Same thing different method of taking the wealth. First it is one thing they take, then it is another thing they take.

You had a government that said everything was owned by them and therefore controlled by them. They owned all properties and people were allowed to maintain the living by their benevolent government (the same benevolent government that killed millions in death camps) and even allowed to continue working those business that had been theirs but were now "state" owned. So nice of them.

Now you have the second government forcing business, banks, into their government property owned (you must sign on and sell us ??), even when they do not want or need it, and giving away the money of the people who work to pay taxes to that government (remember the government doesn't have any money of their own, it is the people putting up the money to pay the bills, the representing party is only suppose to pay the bills with the money they receive, they are not doing so good).

Same thing different method of getting to the same place as the first government.

Germany long ago took what belonged to others and said it was theirs. America is now in the process of taking or looking at taking what belongs to others and saying it is theirs.

So where does it end. Today they talk of taking peoples 401K's for the "good" of the people. What good? The good that says you can no longer call this your own. You can no longer have the right to say what you want done with your money? With the price tag at least half of your goods belonging to the government when before all of it was yours? Whats the good in all of that.

So what is next. Are they going to decide that every department store needs a buyout, oh sorry bail out, even when they do not really need it. So our constitution says the government shall not own certain things, but they are fast grabbing as much as they can as fast as they can. They are building themselves a tidy little empire don't you think.

How about your simple savings account, or those CD's you invest in? Are they soon to be government owned? Oh sorry managed by the government for your own good.

Oh you have a house that you have either paid for or are one of the people who has paid your mortgage payments every month. This is all yours, right. Well, how about that, so far there is no one telling you that you have to sell your rights or is that give a portion of your rights to that property, to the government. After all you have more then someone else so you should have to "share" it. Oh wait we now own a portion of your home and you have extra bedrooms so we are going to assign these "x,y,b,c" people to live with you. After all you should share the wealth. Give you money for them being there, well you work and they don't so you should share the wealth there also.

You say you have a nice car and you only drive it to work during the day. Well, then you should be sharing that car with others who are not so lucky. They could use your car at night to run their, ah business, and then return it in the morning for your use. After all you need to do your patriotic duty and share with those who do not have as much as you. Oh they don't work, that's ok, they can use it to play at night.

I do not think I would have liked living in that first country when things started going wrong there, and I am darn sure I am not happy about this one following in the footsteps of the one that we fought to bring down so many years ago. That one wanted to take over and rule the world, seems they might just have found a different method of doing so. How better then to corrupt the largest nation in the world.

When you start to force people to "share", when the government starts to take (ah help, by force or otherwise) people/business into a plan that they say they do not need then you are one step along the road to saying this last sharing was not enough, the government does not own enough to help all those others, and next thing you know the government is giving you the privilege of continuing to work to support all they want to do, without the benefit of being able to continue helping (supporting) yourself and those who depend on you.

BEWARE folks. Watch some of the old things, not just old made for the movies, but the documentaries, and see what happened long ago. You will see that we are at the beginning steps for it to happen again.

We have been seeing one example after another, and the most recent is a failure of a party and its running person to put forth the right documents to prove legal rights to run for the position in question. A simple here it is would be the thing to do. An ignoring of that request for months on end is simply unacceptable. We have the right to know. The other party did so fast. So what's the deal here? If I am asked by my employer to show my birth record or some other documents to prove I am who I am and I have the rights I claim, I would not have the job if I refused to do so. So a future employer asked for that same proof and he is being called into question by others who say he is a quack. He is not a quack but a employer asking for the proper documentation to prove right to the job. If that cannot be done then the job needs to go to someone else.

Let me say this much more. Long ago I watched many documentaries about what happened to start World War II. I also watched those about the camps in that same country. I also required my children as they got older to watch some of them and discuss them with me. I felt they needed to be aware of the things that happened then so they could watch for those things happening here. They see it, can you? How long till everyone else sees it too? So long it will be too late? Who will come to rescue us? I think that will not happen, I think there is no one strong enough to make it so or who has the will or want to keep this country what is has been.

Such a sad state of affairs watching the beginnings of the downfall of this great country. Regardless of what others think, the few cannot support the many to the point they want supporting when the many choose to do nothing for themselves but sit around and say you owe me. At some point you break the few and then the many have nothing at all they can get. No one left to hand them the handouts they so desire. It is that one more straw that broke the camels back.

Don't' believe anything I have written, then do some research. It is all out there for you to find. Well, for now it is. Have you ever watched the old news things of the burning of the books? What doesn't fit the "states" idea of good reading is destroyed in a pile of blazing flames.

The market always rights itself. So why are our officials making it not so? There are reasons you know.

The October Surprise

2008-10-25T09:17:00.000-07:00

Obama Citizenship

Intersting viewing. This man Berg has better listing of "what have you done's" then that NObama person has. Watch the video.

The certificate of live birth verses a real legal Birth Certificate

Yea, yea, I know all you really knowledgable people who think there has been proof given. See the differences in the two types of papers.

Vote McCain/Palin

Some talk about Obamas future taxes

2008-10-25T07:57:00.000-07:00

What's it going to cost

It is certain that you can only squeeze so much out of the few of us who have chosen not to sit on our rumps waiting for that next handout to come. Oh according to the article above even if they reach deep to the lower income people to pull some of those dollars into the expenditures that Obama plans, there still won't be enough money to cover everything.

Can we talk about pulling so much from all the tax payers that they have nothing left to support their families? Hum, doesn't that mean that all those people will have to think about quiting jobs to get government handouts and where will all that extra money come from.

It is interesting that the more you take from people the faster you pull them down till they are in the same place as those they stand for as needing the most help.

How about that talk of how to give a tax stimulas to those who do pay taxes?

401K's

2008-10-25T06:51:00.000-07:00

The so called "government" (we all know that "we the people" are really the government, not those people in Congress who think they are), have messed up the Social Security program rather badly.

Now guess what, they want your 401K. They think they can better handle it then you can. What? They messed up the one, now they want to mess up the other also.

Just another way to totally control your investment in retirements now and in the future.

Read about it:
The Loft
401K's

Stop them now before it is too late. Contact your senators and reps and tell them to keep their hands off.

2004 - Hearing to Investigate Fannie Mae Illegal Bookkeeping

2008-10-08T07:59:00.000-07:00

Rep. Richard Baker, R-Louisiana says Report troubling and important to the tax payers who would pay for the cleanup. Calls for regulation.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California complains about hearings. Says that nothing is broke. Says there is no crisis at Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae. Says Frank Raine's is outstanding in leadership.

Under that outstanding leadership of Frank Raines everything in the 1992 Act has worked fine. GSE exceeding housing goals and they should only be focusing on the regulator so not to impede the affordable housing mission. This mission has flourished with desk-top underwriting to 100% loans.

Rep. Greogory Meeks, D-New York says pissed off at the people who caused this investigation to be happening. Says this is just an excuse to cause an opening for people who want to do away with GSEs. Also that this is an attempt to change the direction of the GSEs even though they have done a tremendous job. Says there is nothing wrong with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, but there is a question of the compliance of the people raising questions about them. Continues to say that regulating Fannie and Freddie is like giving heart surgery to someone that doesn't need it. Says he is very upset about this investigation.

Another section shows Meeks asking why he should have confidence in the regulator, to which Armando Falcon returns that Freddie Mac applied accounting rules improperly and also managed earnings improperly, not his regulatory section. That this investigation isn't about his section doing wrong but about the wrongs of Freddie and Fannie.

Rep. Ed Royce, R-California says that they need to move quickly to set up a new regulatory structure for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and home loan banks. Says Congress needs to set up that new regulatory structure to have at least the same powers of other financial regulators.

Rep. Lacy Clay, D-Missouri says the hearing is only about the political lynching of Frank Raines.

A rush to judgement as the markets are not worried about the safety and soundness of Fannie Mae.

Rep. Christophe Shays, R-Connecticut says that even though there were regulatory acts Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac didn't come under any of them. In fact, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played by their own rules.

He says "I am tempted to ask how many people in this room are on the payroll of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac." Continues by saying that Fannie and Freddie hired lobbyists, some to lobby and others to not lobby, so that no one else could hire them.

Later says that Fannie Mae has manipulated OFHEO (Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight) and that with OFHEO coming out with such a strong report about Fannie tells him this is the lower (minimum), not the higher (maximum)

Asks Raines about the 3% set aside in portfolio when a bank that gets below 4% is in deep trouble. Wants to know why. Raines says well banks don't just have single and multiple family loans.

Rep. Arthur Davis, D-Alabama says that specific, but broad judgements about the management of these organizations and that the regulators crossed an invisible line by trying to regulate when they had no right to do so.

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, Financial Service Committee Ranking Member says that the people doing the report seem to indicate a safety and soundness problem but that he doesn't see anything in that report that shows a safety and soundness problem.

Sees nothing to show safety and soundness and it is bad judgement to raise this as it doesn't seem to be an issue.

Rep. Don Manzullo, R-Illinois
Raines 1.1 million bonus on a $526,000 salary
Gorlick 779,000 bonus on a $567,000 salary
Fannie Mae knew the rules but in 1998 when shares were 3.26 per share did the maximum payout when there should have no payouts for bonuses. They ignored the principles of payouts.

Frank Raines, Fannie Mae Chairman & CEO says these loans are so risk-less that the capital for holding them should be under 2%

President Clinton says the responsibility of the democrats rests in them resisting any efforts of the republicans and himself in tightening up regulations and controls over Fannie and Freddie.

Democrates covering up problems in Fannie and Freddie

I watched this video again early this morning. I know that a lot of people, who just do not believe that the democrats are to blame for the failure of the housing market pulling down the rest of the markets, will not watch the video. They just do not want to believe. So avoiding the listening and you avoid having to know the truth.

I know it must be President Bush or the republicans fault because they did not do enough to stop it, but remember that the house has been democratically controlled. You folks wanted "change" a few years ago and you got it. Now that same change has lead to falling markets, failed banks, people going broke, losing homes, and has cost the tax payers of this US billions or more of our hard earned dollars.

Now you want to elect a person who says he must raise taxes to implement things like the insurance programs that will most likely benefit the same people who were benefited by those sub-prime housing loans. Those same people who failed to make their payments and we are now at the point of bailing out.

I know you say that the increases in taxes for the various programs will benefit everyone, but that has been said over and over throughout the years, and it has been something I have never seen come back to my family and friends except in the form of having to pay more. Yep, increased taxes with no extra benefits to those around me. We go back to that socialist society where we get to work and earn the funds, our officials take it away from us, and give it away to someone else. Isn't that nice.

You know we have been fleeced and the end of this has not been decided yet. We are in line for a bunch more of this fleecing to occur.

Vote out those democrats in your upcoming election. Put back into place those who tried to stop the impending disaster that has now befalling us. Take back the protections that would come from those you listened to in that video or read on here. It is not to late to stop the further fleecing of our paychecks.

So you say that everyone has a right to affordable housing. Well, do I not have the right to say that once you have taken from me and then taken again, and again, and again, that I have a right to keep more of what I earned to make my life not drop down to that level of now I am the one that is need of help.

I do not run out and purchase houses I cannot afford, I do not have credit cards that I run up to the max so that I cannot afford to pay the bills, I do not ask other taxpayers for handouts from them. If you earned it why should you be required to share it with others. I earn little enough and should not have my taxes raised to give to programs that will never benefit me.

VOTE Republican, VOTE McCain-Palin and any other republicans you know running. Take back this country for us, the people who pay for it in the first place.

Check it out

2008-10-06T06:11:00.000-07:00

What's up with this?

Wouldn't it be more on the legal side to give the necessary proof, not just an assumption that what they have is the whole truth. It seems to be a bit on the hiding side to go this route.

There is a big piece of the picture here saying you shouldn't question and we will stop you from doing so.

Define it

2008-10-04T07:22:00.000-07:00

Capitalism
Socialism
Communism
Capitalism-vs-socialism-vs-communism a summary

So lots of talk lately has us in the US headed toward socialism, but if you really read that may not be the way of it. Taking into account the above sites definitions, then are we headed toward communism or socialism or is one the start to another? For we are now a few steps into the mixture of a socialist country. How many more steps till we reach the other side. Capitalism is laying at deaths door.

Something to think about.

Vote John McCain/Sara Palin

2008-09-27T21:19:00.000-07:00

Timeline shows Bush, McCain warning Dems of financial mess
Lou Dobbs - Fury Over Executive Bonuses

Watch these and they will set you straight.

A video on the Bail out, why did this happen

2008-09-27T20:58:00.000-07:00

Bail out

Simply Powerful

2008-09-12T11:18:00.000-07:00

Watch your heart.

Dear Mr. Obama

More Obama

2008-07-02T06:51:00.000-07:00

Obama Home Loan

Obama Financier

Obama Hoisted Upon His Own Petard

3 Ways To Lower Gas Prices

2008-06-30T07:38:00.000-07:00

YouTube

2008-06-23T21:15:00.000-07:00

Messing with the Presidential Seal

Not even President yet and messing with the seal of the President of the United States. Arrogant don't you think. Wow, this one doesn't shock me as much after reading the other stuff. Look out America, or will it be.

An O in the seal, hum, does this mean a permanent position? Makes you wonder. No shield of protection for the constitution, but an O for ???. Why? What is wrong with the seal the way it is? Is this a warning that the constitution of the US is in big trouble? Are we about to become something other then the capitalist country we have been? Lot's of questions, no answers.

For your reading pleasure or not

2008-06-23T08:41:00.000-07:00

Barack Hussein Obama

Lies the Media will Ignore

Just One Minute

Obam Selma Speech

Trail of Tall Tales

Obama and Odinga

More

Still more

Again more

Yep, more

Video

More again

War Room and American Flag Pin

2008-06-10T19:50:00.000-07:00

Wow, I heard the bit from Obamas mouth about wearing of the American Flag pin and I have also seen that every time there is a salute to the flag he turns away. Now this article says he has started wearing the American Flag pin.
Article on Obama's internet War Room"
What's up with this? Humm, a war room against the people of the internet (which I think is you and me).

I wonder why it took being "criticised by Republicans" to get a potential leader of this country to wear the pin that so many others often wear? I wonder if he would suddenly face the flag and salute it with that same type of being "criticised by Republicans" or not?

From what I read Obama is afraid of people saying he is Muslim and do not relate that he states that he is a christian with the belief based in black liberation theology
The peculiar theology of black liberation, by Spengler

As I listened to Wright on Hannity, I hear him mention Cone. I thought this sounded so like something I had heard before. It brings back memories of living near and being around the area of Richmond California. Oh those scary days of people who wanted to take "whitey out". Yes I can say that because I heard that with my own ears. It is not a thing picked up from others, but from my own experience.

Is this what Black Liberation Theology is about? Humm, more research is required, though I like not what I now read. Lots to wonder about, to think about, to research. You know I missed Rush today, well all except the end of his program. I was way busy with my grands. I do so love hearing what he has to say about the most recent doings.

Oh wait I did hear this much about our reps in DC. Did you hear about their cafeterias and how they have been going in the whole (money wise), for years and years. Now they think to go privately run. Makes you think doesn't it. If they cannot run a simple thing like their food places, what makes them think they can run an entire country, including yours and my social security, medical that they want in their hands, and still leave us with a buck or two in our pockets. Oh wait they want that also. Sorry what was I thinking.

There was one last thing on the Rush show. There was some guy who called in saying that giving tax breaks to the rich do not benefit the poor. What accounting class or economics class did that idiot take? He says there should be a sharing of the wealth. Take from the rich give to the poor kind of thing. ROFLOL

Let me see is I can explain this. Take Mr B. He has a business. He has $100,000 per year to pay out to himself and employees. He takes $40,000 for himself and pays three employees $20,000 each. That's the entire $100,000 (for them who cannot add).

Ok the reps in DC come along and say well Mr B you are making more so you have to share. We are going to take $10,000 of what you make to distribute else-wheres. Ok now what does Mr B do. He is use to living on $40,000 and he is not going to live on less. So he gives himself a $10,000 raise. Now remember there is only $100,000 to pay everyone. So something has to give. Number 3 employee is put to half time, yep that amounts to that $10,000 raise Mr B just got.

Ok the gov comes back and says well now you have more so we will take $10,000 more to share someplace else. Now employee number 3 has been laid off. Wow, that was great. Mr B is still getting the money and employee 3 has no job. That went well didn't it.

Ok lets look at this a bit differently. The powers that be come along to say we are going to give you a tax break. You can keep an extra $10,000 per year. Mr B is a smart business man so now he knows he has an extra $10,000 to hire a half time employee. Why would he do this? Well, lets say that each employee is making enough money for the company to not only pay for their wages but also to pay for goods purchase by the business, and to have a bit extra to build the business. Now we have more to work with, we can do more jobs, we need more help. Thus we hire.

I see this all the time. When we have the extra at work, we buy more goods. The more goods we buy the better the businesses we purchase from are going to be doing. The more goods we can purchase the more jobs we can do, the more jobs we get the more people we need working. The less jobs coming in, then someone gets cut to part-time. Seen this recently. No joke. Take more money in taxes to "share the wealth" the more hours cut from personal.

Sorry folks just a fact of life. The rich do trickle the money down-wards, no matter what those liberals tell you. No I am not rich, and I wouldn't mind seeing more money come my way, but not at the cost of a job for me or my hubby. That just doesn't make sense at all.

Tax, tax, tax, that is all they, liberals, can talk about. Give me, give me, give me. Then you read about all those earmarks the house and senate people give to each other. All that money that they use for dumb stupid projects that don't even make sense when you think of all the good things that could be done. Then there is all that money they are giving to all those other countries and for what. Please do tell me for what? That is our money and they give it away like it was nothing. Well, maybe they should be working for free and giving the monies they would have gotten to those other people they think needs it.

Just a little talk. Think about it.

2008-06-06T18:37:00.000-07:00

Let's just talk a little. I keep hearing so much about a certain subject that I wanted to address it just a little.

Ok you are you and you have a little family. It's a nice little family. You are content to live life within whatever means you have giving to others as you can.

Now not all of us but some of us develop those who do not care for us. I had a neighbor that way. Mean nasty spirited man. So glad he moved away.

Let's say you have an enemy. You know that given the chance that enemy would do harm to that little family of yours. You know this because over and over he has told you, had messages passed to you, printed things in the paper telling you that he will kill you and yours. Yep, he will take that happy little family of yours and put them in the ground.

So what do you do. Do you go to him and say, let's talk. We will meet where you want any way you want, with no conditions at all put on you for the safety of you or yours. Ok, here you go. You know this person is willing to do whatever he can to make harm to you. Now if it was my little family I wouldn't go to meet this person. After all the talk of killing me and mine I would want some kind of conditions set so that things don't get out of hand. Wouldn't you?

So why the heck would anyone want to vote for that Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. He wants to meet with my enemy and give them the upper hand. How do I know this isn't going to come back to haunt and hurt those I love and care for? Ask me if I want this to even come close to happening and I will tell you no. I have listened to the ranting, and raving from a bunch of people who sound totally insane to me. I hear them say they want to take over and control the world and kill, yes kill all Infidels. It saddens and also angers me that one of the people who is suppose to be sworn to protect me and mine is threatening to cause harm to those he swore to protect.

Rush Limbaugh

2008-06-05T21:46:00.000-07:00

Well, do you listen to him? I do. My husband has listened off and on for years, but I didn't. I was a bah-humbug type of person. It was no thanks I will listen to my music, you can have Rush and no I do not want to hear about it.

Then something happened, something bad and music became my bane. You turn the radio on and you hear, I am missing you, I wish you'd come back, What would you be now, and all that other stuff and the tears would flow. There was/is no coming back from the loss I had.

So I had to find something else. It is impossible to drive down the road when your eyes are full of tears. Just saying this little bit has tears in my eyes again.

So I searched and searched through the FM radio channels, but there was nothing to help me replace what I was use to. You find that song that doesn't bring on the tears, and the next has you not being able to see again.

I finally switched to AM radio. There is not much on the AM. The first station I found that was a reasonable signal was a strictly liberal station. Oh the dribble that was on that one soon had me spitting angry. What nonsense that can come out of peoples mouths and who said they had brains. If the ones I was listening to ever had brains they had lost them somewhere along the way to the radio station.

So back to the searching. Then it happened. Here was the Rush Limbaugh show. Oh no, not him. I reached for the button to move on and he said something that made sense. Stop and finish that thought. Then reach for the button again. Oh no, there is another sensible statement. So I stayed a little while longer. Hey, this guy is not bad at all. He it not the demon that I have heard so many people talk about. He actually has brains, and a desire to pass alone those thoughts that others are telling me not to think.

This discovery of Rush was back in 2006. I found Rush in the morning on one radio station. It doesn't come in very well, but in the afternoon the show is broadcast on another channel that does come in really well. So both stations are pre-programmed in so I do not have to search for them and I have long since learned the hours I need to find the program.

So now I listen to Rush almost everyday. It is funny how a person can be so tainted in thought by the "drive by media" to the point that you do not give a chance to something. Oh but I have learned. I like that term "drive by media". It has become a standard in my speech. It use to be "liberal media" but the liberal isn't really needed when you just use "drive by media", it is just a given.

One day I was listening to something on the news when I hear about how Harry Reid is condemning Rush Limbaugh for talking bad about our soldiers. I was thinking what the heck, I have been listening to Rush for a little now and I have never heard him say one thing bad about soldiers. Then I hear that "phony solider" coming from the radio. Rush called soldiers who did not agree with the war in Iraqi "phony soldiers". What is going on? Who is telling such lies? Harry Reid is and on the floor of the Senate and asking for Rush to be punished.

I was instantly upset, angry, and wishing I had a vote to use against this guy Harry Reid. You see the day Rush was talking about the "phony solider", I was listening. I am not anywhere near deaf and I knew just exactly what Rush was talking about and who that day. So why would someone in such a high position as Harry, spill such garbage out of his mouth. Who ever lied to him isn't the point. The point is that he really should have checked his information before acting like a fool and doing what he did. My goodness, even after he found out the truth, I have never heard an apology. There really should have been one done, and on the Senate floor where he made that other speech. Alas, that will never happen.

One think I have said for years and years and years, I can trust my politicians, I can trust them to do me wrong each and every chance they get. I can trust them about as far as I can pick up the house I live in and throw it. Wow, guess how far that is.

Yea, so what if anyone of the governments (us) elected official reads this. They should know from polls that most people don't trust them. Now if you want the real truth, tune into Rush and listen for awhile. Maybe you won't like what you hear but you won't be hearing lies. If the truth burns then don't stand near the fire.

A Means To An End

2008-06-04T08:10:00.000-07:00

Read
The story

Global Warming? Or is it a hoax?

2008-06-03T22:35:00.000-07:00

Read this:
The Greenpeace Scam

McCain or Obama

2008-06-03T21:24:00.000-07:00

So I keep getting these messages in my yahoo inbox that say MaCain or Obama? Which will you vote for is what they are asking.

ROFLOL

Of course McCain. I am a conservative and Obama is way to liberal for me. He, Obama, has made statements that make me cringe. What do you mean that I need to not be able to warm my house or cool it? What do you mean I should have to eat not as good as what I currently do? What the heck both me and the hubby work, we make money so we can heat and cool our house and buy the foods we now eat. No don't try to tell me he didn't say these things, I listened with my own ears, yes I can still hear. I am not that old yet. ROFLOL

So in the November election, join me in voting for John McCain for president. Oh sure he is not the perfect choice but Obama for me is the worst of the worst choice. Have you listened to his wife? Oh my what a racist person she is. Have you listened to his preacher? Oh my what a nasty racist person that is.

Oh I know, Obama spent 20+ years in this church and never ever heard the bad statements. Yea, right and the moon has a wonderful vacation resort that I am visiting tomorrow.

Want to know why your medical is so high

2008-06-03T21:22:00.000-07:00

Watch this and then think of how this is happening across the whole country:

Video

Where is my money going or yours

2008-06-03T20:57:00.000-07:00

How they vote in the United Nations:

Below are the actual voting records of various
Arabic/Islamic States which are recorded in both the
US State Department and United Nations records:

Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the
time

Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the

time

Morocco votes against the United States 70% of
the time

United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S.
70% of the time.

Jordan votes against the United States 71% of
the time.

Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of
the time.

Saudi Arabia votes against the United States
73% of the time.

Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the
time.

Algeria votes against the United States 74% of
the time.

Oman votes against the United States 74% of the
time.

Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the
time.

Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of
the time.

Libya votes against the United States 76% of the
time.

Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the

time.

Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of
the time.

India votes against the United States 81% of the
time.

Syria votes against the United States 84% of
the time.

Mauritania votes against the United States
87% of the time.

US Foreign Aid to those that hate us:

Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time
against the United States, still receives $2
billion annually in US Foreign Aid.

Jordan votes 71% against the United States And
receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

Pakistan votes 75% against the United States
Receives $6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

India votes 81% against the United States Receives
$143,699,000 annually.
Someone please answer me why we are giving Egypt 6
Billion dollars, for what? And that's not even
mentioning the 100's of millions of dollars for the
rest of these countries that hate us. What is this
money for? And all of this money leaving our country
while our tax payers struggle to put gas in their cars
and food on their tables because these ass holes
continue to raise
the price of oil while burning our flag and protesting
us on every issue. Lets get someone elected that will
piss on them.

Perhaps it is time to get out of the UN and give the
tax savings back to the American workers who are
having to skimp and sacrifice to pay the taxes (and
gasoline) .

Pass this along to every taxpaying citizen you know.

Disgusting isn't it?

Varified by snopes

Snopes

Now everyone has a right to vote the way they choose, including countries in the United Nations.

You want to know what I see here, I see my money, yes mine, my hubbies, my daughters and her husbands, my other daughter, my DIL, my other family members, my neighbors, my co-workers, my boss and his wife, and many other friends money, going to countries for something and I sure darn well want to know why.

Do you watch tv. Some of these countries are the ones raking in big bucks for oil, one is making an island city, others are certainly listed as enemies of my country and harbor those who would do harm to us, so why the heck are they being given this money and why are we not being told more about it? Why the heck does my elected officials give away my money and then tell me that they are going to need more from me? Why the heck are we sitting back not doing anything?

At the beginning of the message that came to me from my brother it asked are we stupid? I guess we are. I feel kind of stupid for just finding out that we are giving away some of this money.

Remember we say our government, but who exactly is our government? We are the government. Those people in Washington DC are just there to represent us, they are not the government no matter how much they would like you to believe that. They are just a special interest group that we the government put in place to run things for us, the government.

This sucks. I think of all that money of mine and my husbands that has been kept by the tax people and all the lies I see as to what is being done with my money and I do believe I would like to have my money back. I never told them they could give my money away to other countries that are far better off then they would like us to believe. They don't share any of their money with us.

Why does everyone think that we have to be the ones to support the whole world. Something is bound to break soon. Well, something is already beginning to break.

Just Saw A Name

2007-11-12T10:34:00.000-08:00

Did you ever have one of those days that was going along fine, and you were feeling pretty good about things then you saw something, or heard something or something happened to set you off.

In my case it is a Name. Oh that Name really sets me off and brings on anger like I don't usually have much of in my declining years.

What's in a name you might ask. Well, sometimes there is a lot in that name to bring on those feelings you just don't like.

In my case this is something that happened years ago. I did an online order, but because I didn't have paypal I sent a check to the Name for the order. It was something to be made and sent along at a later date. It was for something hand made, and pre orders were taken so that the Name would know exactly how many to make.

So I placed the order, and I ordered more then one set (these little picot gauges for tatting). I sent the check and then I waited. I knew it was to be months before these pieces would be done and sent. So I waited.

Then the time came when some orders started being shipped and still I waited. And I waited. The Name was getting ready to move, and said some orders got packed away so they would be mailed after the move was completed. So again the wait.

Months went by and it was said by the Name that everything was in storage till a house was completed. Then the Name moved in and orders started to go out again, and still I waited. Then I started to email asking where my order for two handmade picot sets were. No answer. I emailed again and again. Still no answer.

I am still, to this day years later, waiting for my order or an answer to my emails. Now that is not to say that I expect the Name to email me or to send my order, but how can you ever stop the waiting. What is, is. I was cheated.

You know you read the stories about people who have been cheated through internet purchases. You hear about how some ebay users are really scammers. You hear other things like this from personal sales online, but you never expect it from someone who is a big name in a certain craft and had done right by you in the previous orders you made through them, but I am here to tell you that it does happen.

My one and only getting cheated in a purchase from someone on line happened with the Name. I have bought from ebay, I have bought from individuals, I have bought from online stores, but this is to date my only buy I was cheated on and it still has the power to make me so angry I would like to... Well, I just would like to.

You see the name in groups and you know that person is doing well, and you wish it otherwise. It is a bad thing to say but someday maybe someone will cheat the Name and I would not be sorry for her one little bit. What's in a name, well sometimes total dislike is in a name.

Georgia a name I shall have reason to always dislike. The name of a person who has ever been a person to scam someone who really looked up to her and admired the work she does. A thing of the past can still haunt you years into the future.

You know I just checked and I still have all the emails about this order. All the emails asking for an answer to where my order was, and no return messages. A simple I mailed them but they must have gotten lost would have been better then to ignore the person emailing you. Such a bad way to do business. There was lots more things this person offered at good prices that I would have wished to purchase. I would now spend twice as much to get the items as to deal with a this person.

Not only was a theft done, but the worst part was the theft of my trust.

My Day of.....

2007-10-30T15:46:00.000-07:00

Just feeling like doing nothing turned in to a day of rush rush. There was one caller after another to deal with, an online payment gone wrong, the site glitched they say, so back to the beginning to start over again. Oh so much fun on a day that I didn't want any fun at all.

Now my hubby did me in. A phone call says yarn for $0.55 a skein. Yea, some was that price but some was $0.75. The cheaper is rug yarn, the other is a yarn I haven't seen before. After looking through and picking out the colors I wanted and a $40 check later now I am home not feeling any better then when I left this morning.

I think I will go knit here soon. I have figured out a bit of the don't want to do. I think it has to do with the tragedy of having to deal with greed. There this thing that makes me so sad and at the same time angry when people think it is ok to do wrong because it will line their pockets. You want to think the world is a good place but some things always come along to show you that there are many who are not so good. It is ok as long as the benefit is to thine self. I do wonder what these same people say when the shoe is on the other foot. Do they yell and holler about the injustice of it all? Oh mores the pity.

I have a headache.

Done

2007-10-30T09:41:00.000-07:00

I decided that there was no better time then right now to take that step to no mail. So I went to the yahoo groups home page and did a looking at all my groups as to which had what setup.

It is now complete. Some I left as is but many went no mail. My inbox should be a lot more quiet now, well as soon as yahoo catches up with the changes. You know that sometimes that can take days. In the meantime, I will just do as today and delete out the messages. I have to be sure to empty the trash bin also.

One of Those Days

2007-10-30T09:11:00.001-07:00

Ever have one of those days where you just do not feel like doing anything? One of those days that makes you want to not talk with people? One of those days that starts out not feeling right and just gets worse?

Well, I am having one of those today. I don't feel like reading messages from groups, so I just went into email and deleted most of them unread. The idea is if I read them is that I feel the need to help and pass along info, and I just don't want to do that right now. I just don't want to read that someone needs help, someone needs a want, or the many other things that are happening across the groups.

So as I said I deleted most of them, did go to one group where I promised to keep a better eye out as the owner has things happening right now, and answered a question, but other then that I have been updating one of my blogs with a few minor posts that really amount to nothing of interest at all.

I also checked for members wanting to join groups and those on groups with moderated message status still in force, that is a given as to being a moderator, but for other things can I say, bah humbug. ROFLOL

I kind of think it has to do with this headache I have. I developed it last night and there is this feeling in my head like a sort of empty place but not empty. I cannot explain it other then that. There is very little of the actual headache left but there is the feeling that it wouldn't take much for it to come back. I have to do the work things soon, but till then I am not doing much of anything at all.

We had a storm suddenly come through last night. It had some huge lightening strikes happening in the mountains and around the town. When it got close to our house the sprinkles were were having turned into this massive downpour. It was coming down so hard it ran right over the gutter Shields like the gutters didn't exist. This thing blew in and out so fast. We did have lots of strikes around and wow the light and sound from it was amazing.

Today we still have clouds but as of a while ago there was no water from the sky, but it sure smells nice outside.

Back to the groups thing. I am again considering leaving some. I have added some additional groups at other places beyond yahoo and a few other new ones at yahoo, and now again something has to "give". I have to go look at the list of the ones I am on and figure out the ones that are taking most of my time. Those will probably be the ones I leave, those plus a couple that seem to have died. Well, maybe on those last ones. Since there is not much coming from them there is little reason to worry about leaving them. It is the bigger more noisy ones that I must consider in my choice of what to keep and what to give up.

I have to weigh what the groups are giving me, as to what I really need, as to why I stay with this or that one. If I am always giving and never getting then why stay. I think there should be something in both directions. I have noted several loom knitting, a crochet, and a couple of knitting groups that will most likely be on my get rid of list. No I won't say which, that is just not fair to the groups themselves. Just leave and leave it at that.

Sometimes you have to adjust to make life more bearable to yourself regardless of what you would prefer. I need to go no mail on several so that I can have a lessening of the emails and then see what it is I am actually missing. If I don't miss it, then I don't need it, and I can let it go. Yep that is my next step. No mail for a while.

Truck Drivers and Your Local Town

2007-10-11T09:32:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I went to get my lunch and take to the shop with me. I ordered and was waiting for it to get done and while waiting a man was ordering.

This man asked the order taker how to get back on the main interstate going south. That poor girl looked totally lost. She told him she didn't know as she didn't drive. I think that way too many people do not know their towns well enough to give directions. I have seen this before, but I don't have a problem. I had better not. The hubby use to work for a company that had trucks come every day for delivery and since he was the off load man he had calls coming day and night to the house. I got to answer those calls and give directions.

Anyway the girl tells the man she doesn't know. So he turns to me and just looks and I go on auto in my instructions. It was what I was use to. I also use to be on CB (citizen band radio) and gave many drivers directions to places in the local area. I cannot believe how badly dispatchers are at giving their delivery people the right directions, even in this day of internet maps.

Then once the man had the right directions and knew where to turn, quite easy actually, one left turn from the road he was on, a one way, one block over to the one way in the other direction, a left turn onto that one way, keep to the right lanes and run straight into the entrance to the interstate going south. Easy ones this time.

So the man suddenly asks me if he has a chance of getting a ticket parked where he was. He points out the window of the Carl's Jr we are in. I glance outside to see a big rig parked alone the side of the street. OH boy, I look back at him and tell him it is possible. I continue to tell him that we do not have a truck friendly community. That there is even a sign on the interstate before the exit he used that says trucks use next exit.

Now I have been hearing this for years and years, no trucks parking here, no trucks allowed along this stretch, trucks use other exit. This is totally stupid. We live in an area where trucks bring our goods. All of our goods. There is very little in this area that isn't delivered from another area for our consumption. So telling truck drivers "you are wanted" is a very bad thing indeed.

When I tell the man that we do not have a "truck driver friendly community" but maybe since he is parked short time to get a meal it will be ok. He says with his luck it won't be. He proceeds to tell me that we are not the only town. He says that more and more towns are telling truck drivers they cannot park here or there or go here or there. He says it is happening all over.

So what's the deal with this? Are our local officials stupid or what? If your community depends on staying alive through the deliveries of truck drivers, then why treat them like they are invaders? It is just the dumbest thing they could do. Much more of this and some towns could find themselves boycotted. Then what will those officials do when the people living in those towns have to go some place else just to get the things they need. There could be a lot of upset towns folk and that could be the beginning of the end of many of them, officials and towns.

Making your area not friendly to those who provide for you is never a good idea, but then I have never accused the people in charge of really being all that smart, just greedy and very often quite stupid. The smart ones just go along with the greed so they can line their pockets more. If they say it is so, the first thing I think is what are they after now and how much is it going to cost us.

Rush and the blogs

2007-10-06T20:07:00.000-07:00

I have been browsing looking for things that have to do with crafting. All of a sudden I run across all of these blogs that are normally all about different crafts and they are talking about the last slamming going on for Rush.

Hum, I read and what do I see. Well, it is you can go here to see what he said, you can go there to see what he said, or over here or over there, but I don't see on one of them anyone saying "I listened to the program and heard what he said.

So there is lots of spouting about what everyone else is spouting and nary a word about what was actually heard by those doing the spouting. ROFLOL Did you listen to the program or are you just another running over mouth saying what everyone else is saying?

So I am not going to repeat the what was said, by this or that person. I have can say, I listened, I heard, and I remember. So I don't have to do the he said, she said and I am a dope cause I didn't hear it for myself.

I am kind of sick of the just because this news program said it or that one said it (and remember this is all words written, I have not heard any "replay" of the actual program un-moderated by anyone), then everyone jumps on the bandwagon as it being "the whole truth and nothing but the truth".

I hear that kind of stuff a lot lately. Come on folks are you always going to be lead blindly around or are you some day going to stand up and say "well, lets try to find out the truth for ourselves". I think a lot of people have nose rings and they let them be pulled by many.

A fine example of being lead around is by emails. You get an email that tells you something and you instantly send it out to everyone in your address book. The someone mails you back saying that it is a myth, an untruth, a lie, but the next time you get one do you check it out, no you instantly email it to everyone in your address book.

Come on folks to find the other side and weigh the right and wrong is not all that hard to do. It just takes a few minutes extra of your time and you don't look like a fool in the long run.

So who is right and who is wrong, can you find out? Or do you just blindly rely on the "I saw it in the news"?

ROFLOL, such a state of affairs people have come to. Me, I don't believe it because it is print, I don't believe it because someone said that someone said that it was so. People say what they want you to hear and if you cannot dig for the whole truth then all"s the pity for you.

Think about it people. How many times have we heard that so and so did or said this or that and it turns out that someone only published or broadcast the parts they want you to believe? That when the "whole" story comes out there is a big difference in what was before? Lots. Bunches. All the time. Stop being someones puppet and live life in the real world.

It might fit what I would like to believe, but if I don't find out both parts of the story, I am no better then the person who only spouts the parts they like.

When I have children around I do not take one childs version of the events that took place. I must have both versions and then find that kernal of truth somewhere between. Why should we as adults be any less subject to finding out both sides. Are we children or are we adults?

Bonsai or not

2007-09-24T14:38:00.000-07:00

So there is a thing I would like to just talk a little about. Prices and bonsai plants.

My hubby loves doing bonsais. He has many that are older then we have been together, and some that are younger (we have been together now for 29 years).

We have very often gone to various stores and seen "bonsais" for sale. Oh some of the price tags on these precious little plants are so high that we are shocked by what a cheap one goes for.

Then we look some more and we have to laugh. It is a bonsai or is it? Most of the ones we have seen look to be very young plants. Something that the hubby would have planted from seed a year ago and called it a bonsai.

How do we know? Well, look closely. Even in miniature forms you can see the grow of a tree or plant in its bark. Young bark is very, well young looking. As you can see, I am not the bonsai person, but many times I can look and tell this is not a very old plant or tree.

So what's up with this? Sales, that's what's up. Someone comes along with an idea that they want to make money. Lots of money, but they don't want to put the work and time that actually goes in to growing a bonsai as this will take way to long.

So you stick a sapling, a little baby tree in a pot and say it's a bonsai. I don't find this very nice but it is how life works. There are so many people out to scam other people that sometimes it just makes you wish for nicer people.

So if you are not careful you could buy, for that expensive price, that little year old plant and think you have the real deal. That's ok, till someone comes along to pass on a bit of the truth to you.

This reminds me of my bonsai tree. She is about 2ft tall and somewhere around 30-35 years old. She is quite pretty most of the time, but she was given a very deep trimming this year and has yet to recover from it. Next year might be a root trimming year. I have to find out when the hubby last did that for sure.

Here is a picture of her from this last winter. She is covered in snow. So you cannot see her well, but I think you can tell she needed that heavy trim this last spring. See the one at the far back, that's the hubby's pride and joy. She too is coming back from a heavy trim. Just behind mine you can barely see the hanging rock. That has a tiny bonsai in it.

Donna

2007-09-19T18:00:00.000-07:00

Donna didn't make it. She had her stroke on Friday morning and she passed away on Sunday.

I have been so sad all week. On Saturday a worker of Donna's told me that Donna had massive bleeding and damage to the left side of her brain. The doc was telling the family that even if she came out of it she wouldn't know anyone, she would loose all functions like talking and walking.

I went to work yesterday for the first time since Donna went to the hospital. It was so quiet with the shop next door closed. My co-workers and I were also pretty quiet. It was like the entire world had changed. I felt like I shouldn't be there. The sounds from next door have always been there, from the time I got this job. Now that shop is closed till the courts tell the family what is to be done.

Yep the world has changed a little and not for the good of it. I have lost a friend and the world has lost a very nice lady. She was so caring and loving. Her family and friends are going to miss her so much.

Some Days Just Suck

2007-09-14T21:02:00.000-07:00

I was late leaving to work but that was Ok, my grandson came to visit and I see him less these days. You see school has started and his brother is in school (it is rare to see him while school is in session), so they are home more. Less roaming to grandmas house.

So two hours after I had planned to be there, arrival happened. Gee I wish I had been able to stay home today. It was not one of those days that goes well.

You see where I work the building is split and there are two business in the same building. That's ok the lady, Donna, who owns the other business in the building is a very nice lady. I enjoy taking a break and going next door to visit her. She has great tips to give in various areas, like how to stop leg cramps, how to make a strawberry jam that has no strawberries in it, yummy, she brings us goodies, recently it was zuchini bread. Oh that was so good.

Well, today was different. I got to work and just after walking in I got the bad news. Donna had a stoke this morning. She was working at her shop and my hubby was working in the place that we work. Suddenly he had a lady come in and say that Donna was down and an ambulance was there to get her. Shaun rushed next door and tried to talk with her. He tells me that she was not aware of anything around her.

So her little shop was closed until some family showed up with one of Donnas workers to clean up and set the alarm. My hubby had locked the shop after the ambulance took Donna to the hospital. We waited all day but heard nothing beyond the fact that Donna was in critical condition.

I have worked in the office next to Donna's business now for seven years. It will be hard to go to work if Donna doesn't come back. Shaun said she was really bad when he last saw her, and the family that showed up was really in sad shape. Not knowing is hard. Tomorrow we will try to find out how she is. In all the years I have known her, all I have ever knows is Donna. We talk and we laugh, she always has funny stories to tell, but I never knew her last name. That too makes me sad, before it didn't matter, she was my friend next door. Now I am sad to know that a piece is missing that I didn't realize would affect me this way.

A very nice lady in trouble today and there is little I can do or say to make things better. A very sad day.

The Broken Grandson

2007-08-23T10:28:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday I got an unexpected present. A broken grandson.

The six year old, Austin, had just arrived with his mom and sister. I was moving some things in the bedroom and folding clothes so my sister went outside to watch the kids till I was done.

Suddenly my sister comes in the room and says I have to call Ian. Well, Ian should be at home getting ready for work. When I asked why she said Heather was heading to the hospital with Austin because he broke his arm. I said "WHAT". I didn't hear a thing and it happened not to far from the bedroom window. Granted the air was on, so was the TV for background noise, but you would think I would have heard something with the screaming they said was going on.

Yep, he broke that arm. Mom was headed to the roof and he wanted to say something to her before she got to that point. So he ran. He ran right around the lounge chair that has been sitting there all week long, but he tried to cut the corner. Didn't work. He tripped over the leg of the chair and went down.

Now you have to understand, this is nothing new for Austin. Since he could walk he has run. Since he could run he has fallen, over and over again. This time he landed on a hose, but that is not what broke his arm. The land on the hose caused him to have an extra bit of forward motion that shoved his hand into the ground a bit harder. Normally this kid lands full arm on the ground, not putting out hand to break fall. Well, that hand shoved into the wrist which shoved the arm bone and broke both, yep both, bones in his right arm.

He gets back from the hospital and he is so matter of fact about it. He tells Aunt Crystal, I slipped and broke my arm. ROFLOL Crystal looks at me and says that was matter of fact in the way he said it. Well, that is just Austin.

Can you believe it. They gave him pain meds at the hospital, but since then, remember this was Tuesday, he has had a couple of doses of Tylenol. Yep that's all. He seems to be doing fine but that arm sling they gave him is for the trash as soon as we can figure out how to make one better for him. That sucker doesn't have any back ties and he needs those to keep his arm at a certain angle.

If this would have been me I would be showing the signs of suffering. He isn't. You'd think he was just playing at being a broken grandson. LOL

Roofing

2007-08-23T09:28:00.000-07:00

The roofing is going nicely. Most of the house is done and they are working on the last sections now. Well that is the last sections that need the shingles. Then there is the new continous ridge venting that needs to be installed. That ridge venting is pretty neat. It is a long plastic piece that has little straw like openings in it that face downwards. It helps to vent the heat that builds up in the attic.

One part of the house had no venting at all when they started and now has a lot. The hubby also added some gable venting all around that side of the house. Can you believe that there was no felting, no sealing material of any kind uses, no venting used. What a mess.

Then the added on addition of the house was done wrong, but we knew this. All the water from the main part of the house flows to the newer section of roof. The problem we some time back, was that they people who build this section for us did nothing to prevent water from flowing down a gap on either side and right into the walls of the new room. We managed a quick fix to stop that mess but this time the roofing is being done differently. There will now be solid protection for that area.

It sucks but it is not hard to believe that so many things were skipped, cut out, rigged wrong on this house. It has been many years (about 25 or 26), when the hubby had to replace water piping under the house to the well (yes we have a well). When he dug that all up he found quarter inch pipe going into half inch pipe into three quarter inch back to quarter back to half and it was a mess. We had so much trouble getting water to flow right in the house. We found out why. Where were the inspectors when this house was build. Did they not exist (I know they did), or did they just not worry about what they found? Seems that there is a lot of that sort of thing that goes on.

So soon the roof will be done then it is on to find and purchase new gutters for the house. We didn't do that yea as he wanted to know just how he wants to do those. Being up on the roof has showed him some better ways to install the gutters so that there is more protection from water damage. Then because there is some water damage from before there are some other minor repairs that have to be completed and some other round vents to install (holes have to be drilled for this type in the gable areas.

Guess what? I will soon have a vent for the back bathroom. It has never had one. We bought one and the hubby installed the roof portion, now all that is needed is the inside portion.

Heather and Shaun have worked so hard on this. You can see how tried they are at the end of the day. Tired is not really the word for it, it is more like exhausted.

Busy

2007-08-19T18:15:00.000-07:00

We have been busy with roofing, well the hubby has. He and Heather, our extra kid, one of them we have many, were up there last week removing the many layers of shingles that some sections had.

They found a problem. In the first place the person who did this roof never used any type of sealer, no felt/tar paper, and the nails use were much to short. Then there wasn't any sort of ventilation. So all the boards on that side were rotted. They all had to be replaced.

So all the boards came up and new ones went down. The last ones to be replaced was to be a couple of end panels and then the laying of the felting and starting the shingles today.

Oh yea, it rained last night and today. Oh boy did it rain. We never get rain, or at the very least a bit of a drizzle here and there in the month of Aug, but it rained heavy.

Water leaked through the light fixtures in all four bedrooms, and both bathrooms, plus numerous other places in those rooms. The front room had already been painted not long ago and it has the worst damage. The entire ceiling on one side of the room is water damaged. Oh nuts, this sucks. The room will have to be painted all over again and to top it off there was no getting on the roof to do anything but lay plastic to protect against the more rain that they say we might get. Bummer.

Again that chip

2007-08-10T08:28:00.000-07:00

I had thought to not move one post over from one of my other blogs. It is the huge gripe I had about a member of a group I was on. I left that group because the manager allowed this person to rejoin after having been banned for some really nasty attitude and postings.

Upon being allow to rejoin he never again did the YELL in super large letters things that most people don't even utter, but that did not keep him from being the same nasty mouthed person he was right from the beginning. So I finally left my longest standing group.

I then found I could still keep up with the group members that I enjoyed by just reading some of their posts now and again. Whoops that has brought me to this point. That certain member with the huge chip has a new nickname and I did not know this. Now I do as I read a posting, well two, and there is no doubt in my mind that it is him.

You see he is complaining that someone joined his group under a false name and that this is hiding. He thinks this member of his group is also on this group that I was reading at. He was griping that members should not join his group except under names he knows as this is hiding.

Hum, hiding. This man changes his email name and address on a regular basis. He only posts his first initial in messages. He says he won't post his full first name as there are prying eyes to see him. So I ask you, is this not HIDING? The man frustrates me but this one had me laughing so hard. Can you believe he is complaining about someone hiding on his group while he hides on another group. That is just royal. It is the icing on the cake. In that one posting he shows the type of person he is and I got a huge kick out of that.

The man also says that the person who joined his group used an ID that was not recognizable, but in the same posting he admits to using several different ID's himself. Hum, sounds like what is good for the man is not good enough for others.

Anyways, now that I know he has a new ID, I can go to the group and possibly avoid having to deal with messages from him that annoy me. Then again, he does change those ID's often. Do you think he might be "Hiding"? ROFLOL Oh what a world, what a world. (yes I feel a little witchy today, LOL).

Does he read my blog? Oh I so hope he does. You see, I never went along with his nastiness to others, always being one to tell him that what he was doing was not nice. That post with the really large letters with the really nasty messages, well that one was for me. I chose to disagree and he chose to flame. Oh for those of you who might want to know, his first name isn't M, it's Matt. ROFLOL Oh almost forgot, he will answer to Justin, or Matthew also (I have that in an email, oh yes I saved them all, be prepared is always a good motto should it come to a necessary accounting at a time in the future)

Chips reposted

2007-08-10T08:27:00.001-07:00

Oh not the kind that you eat, but the kind that sits on a person shoulder and allows them to believe they can say whatever they want and no one is allowed and opinion in return.

To those of you who read my blog and are sensitive please pass this one by. I am a bit put off and I am about to say so. It is in no offense to the wonderful people I run across daily on the web. It is for one person only and that one will will know who he is.

Opinions are abound on the web on many things. We all have one. Some express them in ways that seem to be aimed at doing the most harm to others. If a return opinion is given the giver is deemed to be flaming and is a bad person, by the first.

I have such a person around me on the web. He has the worst attitude of anyone I have met on the web. To point out the actual fact, I have met no one worse then this person.

In the past he has demanded what is not his to demand. He has cursed openly on groups, yes this was to me. Oh such name calling. Can I prove it, yes I still have the post that came from the group it was done in. Oh not a nice post at all.

What we have is a nasty little minded person who deems that what he gives as an opinion is tops, while others opinions are flames towards himself. If you do not agree with him, you are a bad person, and he lets you know. He yells and screams and demands that the person who disagreed with him be removed from the group.

So it seems to be OK for him to say statements about groups of people or stores or whatever, but you had better not have a mind of your own or you should be removed from his presence. Oh what a little, little mind in this little, little man. I use that "man" only because of his age. I have seen little boys who have much more manhood in one tip of one pinky on one hand.

I loved the group that I am discussing, but now I rarely visit it. The presence of this thing that calls himself a man truly makes me sick. I tried avoiding him in the message posting but today something I read made me angry. How dare he generalize about a whole group of people and then say that those who speak against what he says are flaming him. What a little mind this person has. What a big ego to think he is all that matters, and his word is beyond question.

The Internet is full of misunderstandings and a person needs to take care in the words they use otherwise you insult. It is extremely hard at times to word something so that you do not insult. Take for example the following statement:

"Yes, Wal-mart does what they please, because they hire developmentally disabled people and promote them to management."

I took objection to this statement. Why, because is sounds like a generalization of all Walmart employees and I know it to be wrong. I have one family member and several friends who work at Walmart stores. None are the developmentally disabled that this statement makes them sound. It is an insult to those who do work at Walmart and to the Walmart stores who are trying to help those who need a hand up, not a hand out.

So I have given you the reason for my blog entry, but I haven't given you my reply to it which would only be fair:

"Well, now I object to this general statement for Walmart employees. That may be happening in your area but to generalize this way about all Walmart employees is rude and uncalled for.

I know many people who work for Walmart that are not of the sort you label them to be. We probably have many who work for Walmart in our group and you have insulted them all. That is not nice.

How unkind of you. Sorry you voiced your opinion, now I am voicing mine. I would send this private to you but your mail address isn't available. Why do you always start trouble this way. Take a better look at the way you like to insult people and change that attitude. Groups should be helping to people not used to sling insults."

So now I am told that my post is horrid and I choose to misinterpret what was being said. Be that as it may be it is how I interpreted the meaning to be and having re-read my post, I do not consider it horrid to ask someone to not insult others and consider that maybe some of the groups members might be employees for Walmart and they could have their feelings hurt.

So here I post because I am disturbed by this person. For a while now I have tried to figure out why this person acts this way and can find a couple of reasons. Have you ever watched certain programs that are geared towards the affront of others. They are out there. There is a certain cartoon one that I find extremely offensive. This person has an entire group that began with almost a worship of this type of program.

They do say that some things we view will affect our attitudes and this shows me that all these years when I restricted my children from viewing programs that I found offensive, I was doing the right thing. Too bad someone didn't restrict this person. He might have turned out to be a nicer person then he now is.

So I know that folks from that group will visit my blog. I know that I chance being removed from that group. I would be saddened the day it would happen but I would live and life would continue. So if it would be, then it will be.

Chips, it is the other thing that seems to be wrong with this person. A huge chip on his shoulder that no one has been able to knock off. He is a member of a certain class of folks and I do think it affects his overall judgement for the ones of us who are of a different walk of life. Too sad. In this area, I can but feel true pity for him. Believe it or not we in the other walks of life really are not out to "get" him. We really could give a D... what he does. He is a little man, with a little mind who is not very nice as a person.

I think I have had my last posting to the group for a while. Maybe I should just leave it, but it brings such joy from some very special people, and I would surely miss them.

PS: Those members of the group who could possibly be Walmart employees are valuable. If you are reading this, know that I consider them to be of much greater value then you are.

Hooks Finished

2007-08-07T21:47:00.000-07:00

Well, the cables came out of one set of the easy tunisian hooks and the hooks went on the other set of hooks, on the cable part naturally, after I pulled off the stopper. They have been glued and I have given them a quick check after they had sat for several hours. Everything seems to be fine but I am going to let them set for a full 24 hours before I mess with them.

Now I can use them for both tunisian and cro-hooking. Very large projects in both techniques will work better now. No more worrying about not having enough space for a very large project.

LOL, it took about a whole 15 minutes to do this whole process, only that long because I was being picky. You can actually do this in just minutes.

2007-08-07T09:34:00.000-07:00

In the previous post you can see a little of one of the ponds the hubby has been working on building. These first pictures are of the first pond he built right next to the house. I even managed to get a picture of one of the very ellusive gold fish in it. These gold fish are ones recused from a pond that is soon not to be, there will be houses instead. They plan to just cover the old pond with dirt and that is the end of any fish left there. This is the second batch we have given a home too. Later you will hear what happened to the first batch.

Our front yard has very little grass. It just won't grow. We have these tress who's root systems just took over. So it is either get rid of the tress, yea right, never going to happen, bring in some soil to bring up the level for grass to grow, or do something else. The hubby decided on the something else.

So our front yard is beginning to look like a forest area. The pond is above the ground in containers. There are water plants, different kinds of rocks, redwood tree stumps, and even some little gold fish. How long the gold fish will last is anyones guess. We have a resident raccoon that comes out at night and he has already feasted on one set of gold fish that was in the first pond. That pond doesn't have a lot of hidy holes so it is now covered at night. It is impossible to cover this next one it is just too big.

All around the pond you can see a ground cover. These are bean bags, you know the kind the beans come in to your local coffee shops. The hubby has a source and picks them up all the time. These will help prevent any of the old grass from trying to come back, and serve as a base for the ground cover he is going to haul in.

He says that once he is done there will be walking paths and more coverage in other areas for plants. He has already set up a raised bed partially around one tree and planted wild plants and some he has bought. The ferns he is choosing are quite lovely.

It sure is peaceful sitting listening to the flow of water in the ponds. If you close your eyes you can actually imagine being near a creek in the wild.

2007-08-07T09:32:00.001-07:00

Cool, found this on Bety's site. I love checking out these things to see how close they come. This one is right on, well at least the last part. That brilliant part has to go. ROFLOL

Your Personality is Very Rare (INTP)

Your personality type is goofy, imaginative, relaxed, and brilliant.
Only about 4% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 6% of all menYou are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving.

How Rare Is Your Personality?

2007-08-07T09:12:00.000-07:00

I have a Panasonic camcorder. It is not a really top of the line but it is not a bad little recorder either. I bought this just a month or so before last Christmas. So I only had one little battery and wanted to have some back ups. I searched and searched trying to find the right ones and I did, on sale no less. I got them last January from an online store called Suntekstore. Oh bad mistake.

I have used these batteries only a couple of times. One now won't charge, one last about 15 minutes out of the two hours it is suppose to last. The third one hasn't hardly been used at all so I am not sure how well it is going to hold up.

So I went to the company website today to see what kind of guarantees they might have. Many places have a one year on their battery sales. Bummer, this site says a problem must be reported in the first 35 days to have any kind of replacement. So now I am out of luck on these. Hopefully the last one will do a good job if not I am out the entire amount of money on these.

I ran out of battery time this weekend for the wedding because I didn't know I was going to have these problems and had left the one battery at home. Gee, I had the original, and two backups, so I figured that six hours of taping time would be more then enough. Especially when the wedding started at 5:30pm and every thing was completely over and bride gone by 9pm. You'd think I had enough to work with, NOT. I was disappointed in these batteries.

So I went online today looking for more batteries. My son says check eBay. He says he bought his from there and got a one year replacement for the ones he bought. Well, I thought, it is worth checking. So I found a seller that has extended batteries, eight hours, for about the same price I paid for the two hour lousy ones. They have a one year replacement, and they combined shipping as I got two batteries and a car charger. Neat, a car charger is what I have been wanting and it was only $14. What's the good in having a camcorder if you have no batteries to work it. Duh, it becomes worthless, just a thing to set around collecting dust.

So now I wait to see if these will work. In the meantime, I will just have to take care on time if I have to use that camcorder.

For your viewing:

My son-in-law, Travis, my daughter, Athea, and their baby Mason, my grandson.

Travis and Athea

2007-08-01T19:12:00.001-07:00

You Are 28% Girly

You are a pretty hardcore tomboy, and a very free spirit.
Gender roles be dammed, you like to do things your way.

How Girly Are You?

2007-08-01T18:54:00.001-07:00

You Are 72% Lady

Overall, you are a refined lady with excellent manners.
But you also know when to relax and not get too serious about etiquette

Are You A Lady?

2007-08-01T18:51:00.001-07:00

What Mary Means

M is for McSteamy

A is for Angel Face

R is for Red Lips

Y is for Yummy Lips

What's Your Pet Name?

2007-08-01T18:50:00.001-07:00

You Belong in Summer

Energetic, creative, and very curious about the world...
You're not going to let anything hold you back, especially a cold day.
Whether you're chilling out at the beach or partying all night, you live for the warm weather.

What Season Are You?

2007-08-01T18:47:00.001-07:00

You Are Not Scary

Everyone loves you. Isn't that sweet?

How Scary Are You?

2007-08-01T18:45:00.001-07:00

You Are a Mermaid

You are a total daydreamer, and people tend to think you're flakier than you actually are.
While your head is often in the clouds, you'll always come back to earth to help someone in need.
Beyond being a caring person, you are also very intelligent and rational.
You understand the connections of the universe better than almost anyone else.

What Mythological Creature Are You?

2007-08-01T18:43:00.001-07:00

You Are 87% Creative

You are an incredibly creative person. For you, there are no bounds or limits to your creativity.
Your next creation could be something very great... Or at least very cool!

How Creative Are You?

2007-08-01T18:39:00.001-07:00

You Passed 8th Grade Science

Congratulations, you got 7/8 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?

2007-08-01T18:37:00.001-07:00

You Are The Hanging Man

You represent the seeking of enlightenment and spiritual clarity.
You tend to confuse others, but your oddities seem deeply satisfying.
Self sacrifice is easy for you, especially if it makes you a better person in the end.
You are the type of person who is very in touch with your soul and inner spirit.

Your fortune:

Right now is a good time for reflection and meditation.
You should stop resisting the problems in your life, and let yourself be vulnerable to them.
You may need to sacrifice something important to you to move ahead in your life.
Accept your destiny with courage, and learn to let go of what you think you need.

What Tarot Card Are You?

2007-08-01T18:29:00.000-07:00

You Are Artemis!

Brave, and a natural born leader.
You're willing to fight for what you believe in...
And willing to make tough decisions.
Don't forget - the people around you have ideas too!

What Goddess Are You?

2007-08-01T18:28:00.000-07:00

You are Ocean Blue

You're both warm and practical. You're very driven, but you're also very well rounded.
You tend to see both sides to every issue, and people consider you a natural diplomat.

What Color Blue Are You?

2007-08-01T18:27:00.002-07:00

Your Birthdate: October 24

You understand people well and are a natural born therapist.
A peacemaker, people always seem to get along when you are around.
You tend to be a father or mother figure to friends, even to those older than you.
You enjoy your role, and you find that you are close to many people.

Your strength: Your devotion

Your weakness: Reliance on others for happiness

Your power color: Lilac

Your power symbol: Heart

Your power month: June

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

2007-08-01T18:27:00.001-07:00

You Know Some State Capitols

You Got 14 State Capitols Correct

You may just be a very good guesser. Or you actually do remember something from elementary school!

Do You Know Your State Capitols?

2007-08-01T18:14:00.001-07:00

Your Love is Based on Commitment

You believe that love is something that develops and grows.
You don't believe in love at first site, and you never mistake lust for love.
For you, love is about mutual devotion, respect, and understanding.
You don't feel comfortable in a relationship, unless you're both in it for the long run.

Why your love can last: You don't take commitment lightly - or leave relationships easily

Why your love can fail: You're so committed, you often can't see the most obvious problems in your relationship

What Is Your Love Based On?

2007-08-01T18:11:00.000-07:00

You Are Teal Green

You are a one of a kind, original person. There's no one even close to being like you.
Expressive and creative, you have a knack for making the impossible possible.
While you are a bit offbeat, you don't scare people away with your quirks.
Your warm personality nicely counteracts and strange habits you may have.

What Color Green Are You?

2007-08-01T18:09:00.001-07:00

You are a Lavender Rose

You represent love at first sight and enchantment.

Your vibe: intense and intriguing

Falling in love with you is: deep and meaningful

What Color Rose Are You?

2007-08-01T18:07:00.001-07:00

You Are the Ego

You take a balanced approach to your life.
You definitely aren't afraid to act out on your desires - even crazy ones.
But you usually think first. Morals drive you as much as hedonism does.
You've been able to live a life of pleasure... without living a life of excess.

Are You Id, Ego, or Superego?

2007-08-01T17:31:00.001-07:00

Your Christmas is Most Like: A Charlie Brown Christmas

Each year, you really get into the spirit of Christmas.
Which is much more important to you than nifty presents.

What Movie Is Your Christmas Most Like?

2007-08-01T17:23:00.000-07:00

You Are a Good Friend Because You're Honest

Like it or not, your friends are going to hear the truth from you.
You know that the truth hurts, but living a life of lies is much worse.

So while you're definitely kind and supportive, you don't pull any punches with your friends.
Everyone knows where they stand with you. And what you like and dislike about them.

While some may be initially turned off by your honesty, your friends have come to consider it a virtue.
After all, in world of white lies and deceptive politeness, you can be counted on for honesty and integrity.

Your friends need you most when: They need good advice or an intelligent opinion

You really can't be friends with: Needy, emotional people

Your friendship quote: "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

What Makes You a Good Friend?

Movies

2007-07-22T21:07:00.001-07:00

It's a rare thing when we actually go to the movies. We usually wait for what we want to see to come out on DVD and we buy it. If we buy it then we can watch it over when we so choose. This past month though we have been to the movies twice. Wow, and there is a third coming that I would like to go see, or at least I think so.

When it first came out we went to see the new Die Hard movie with Bruce Willis. That man does such an awesome job on his movies. I have two copies of the first three movies. I had the regular copy and then they came out with the extended version in a set and I just had to buy them when my son pointed them out on a trip to Costco. Worth every bit of the money I spent for them.

Now we have seen the new Transformers movie. Oh so action packed. When my kids were little the Transformers cartoon was such a bit hit around here. The kids would run home from the bus stop just to get here in time to watch those cartoons. Well, naturally mom had to sit and watch them with the kids. You know I just had to make sure I was moderating what they were watching. Then there were a few times when I moderated those transformer cartoons when the kids were not home. They were a bit addicting.

I still don't mind sitting and watching an occasional rerun of them. Some day I am going to get the entire set of transformer cartoons on DVD for the kids now getting big enough to enjoy them when they come to grandmas house. It's funny but my grands are into the older cartoons rather then many of the newer ones. I give them a bit of a choice and lately that choice has been He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. I tend to pick up cartoons, when I can, that have less of that nasty stuff that the current cartoons have. Boy some of those I would never have let my children watch and some I refuse to let my grands watch in this house.

Roses

2007-07-21T11:39:00.000-07:00

I am so excited. My hubby gave me two roses today. Not just any roses, but Mr. Lincoln roses. This is the best thing, you see these roses came from a plant in the yard.

There is a story behind the roses. I love roses. So my hubby has planted me many rose bushes. I have large roses, climbing roses, miniature roses, some with great smells, some with just a wonderful color. I love them all, the long stemmed, the ones that grow in bunches and all the others.

Many years ago he planted me a Mr. Lincoln because it is a very beautiful red and the smell, oh the smell is so wonderful. My Mr. Lincoln died. So he planted me another in a different place. He suspected that the soil in the first area was not right for Mr. Lincoln. This Mr. Lincoln died.

We waited many years and he got me another Mr. Lincoln and decided to pot it. He got special soil and took extra special care of it. Mr. Lincoln died.

We gave up on me ever having a Mr. Lincoln survive. Then last year he tried again. He again planted Mr. Lincoln in a pot, but Mr. Lincoln wasn't doing so well. We figured he was going to die again. I hate that we seem to put Mr. Lincoln through this time and time again.

He finally moved the pot to a different place and put it closer to his bonsai. Mr. Lincoln must have been lonely for the call of something that is growing as a bonsai because suddenly he is doing better and is blooming. Oh his roses are the best. Keep your fingers crossed for me that this time my Mr. Lincoln can live a nice long life in his pot out by the bonsai plants.

Moved from Loom knitting

2007-07-21T11:36:00.001-07:00

Your Hair Should Be White

Classy, stylish, and eloquent.
You've got a way about you that floors everyone you meet.

What's Your Funky Inner Hair Color?

Well, well, well, guess what my hair color is? I have a silver white hair with bits of dark scattered underneath.

Moved from Loom knitting

Graduation, Wedding, BBQ, and crafting

2007-07-21T11:34:00.000-07:00

My time has been so limited with things going on that I have rarely touched a loom, crochet hook, or knitting needle. I have so many things in the works, like the looms I am building for braiding, the ripple pattern I am writing, and bunches of other things, but not enough time to do them all.

Now a little time has freed itself up. My son who has been attending his last two classes at the local community college is done. Yes done. Yesterday he graduated, with honors, and now he will start to make plans for the near future. The long term is to go to a university somewhere, but for now I think he wants a break.

The thing about his schooling is that we have one car. I need that car. So it has been drive him to school, pick him up from school. This doesn't sound so hard, but with only two classes that leaves me running quickly from here to there back to here to there, and back to here to there again. Lots of time spent driving means lots of time not doing other things. Yea, this is done.

One more week to go and the wedding day will be here, well less then a week now as the wedding is next week. My daughter will then be a new wife and that wedding with all the plans and stuff for it will be over. One more thing down and out of the way. Boy, things can get pretty busy with stuff like this happening in life.

Yesterday, I managed to get most of the morning to myself to work on the ripple file. I have decided to split the two patterns, the top down and bottom up ones, into to files. The reason being is that the first file is getting large and I don't want it to be too big for people to download.

Today was to be a day of working on those files only. Yea right. Did you know that today is fathers day? I didn't. Been too busy to notice that is coming up. So the girls decided to have a BBQ here at my house for dad. Oh yea, more work for me. Now I need to do a quick bit of shopping for the things I will need. I am out of briquet's, I have a couple of chickens I just bought but need one more, I have the chairs to move from the front yard to the back, take the children's table (which I just moved to the front room for the kids dinner last night), back to the back yard, plus all their little chairs. Oh yea, all this to do so where is my file time now?

One big mistake I made in my life was letting my kids talk me into a cell phone. They can get a hold of me so much easier. I had ways to avoid the house phone, no mailbox, no answering machine, don't remember to check caller id for missed calls, but that stupid cell phone tells me all the time about the people I missed. It's hard to say, well sorry I didn't know you tried to call. ROFLOL Once you have one of those keep me in the loop every second of the day not let me have a peaceful moment run my entire life cell phones, you are kind of stuck. Well, sometimes they do come in handy, like that being at the store and getting that emergency call that says oh I forgot we are out of milk or bread or whatever. No more extra trips to the corner store because the hubby cannot live without something.

Well off to get things done then maybe, just maybe I can slip in a few minutes to myself. I am so close to having that first file done. It has been such a lot of work trying to figure out what everyone might need to do this piece.

Note: Moved from Loom Knitting

2007-07-14T14:25:00.001-07:00

You Have a Melancholic Temperament

Introspective and reflective, you think about everything and anything.
You are a soft-hearted daydreamer. You long for your ideal life.
You love silence and solitude. Everyday life is usually too chaotic for you.

Given enough time alone, it's easy for you to find inner peace.
You tend to be spiritual, having found your own meaning of life.
Wise and patient, you can help people through difficult times.

At your worst, you brood and sulk. Your negative thoughts can trap you.
You are reserved and withdrawn. This makes it hard to connect to others.
You tend to over think small things, making decisions difficult.

What Temperment Are You?