Great day for yard work.... lights

So we got the tote out and it didn’t go so bad.

The King help with the first line.. which went from

one side of the yard, across the front and down

the other side. Not bad for a one line .. ok, it

was a connected line of 4.

But then the King disappeared. So I got another line

ready, and went backwards from the other. Going

back down the side and across the front.

The driveway side had enough older lights, I

filled in an area with an angel on the half gate..and

a wreath wrapped with lights on the other side of

the gate. Not bad for 4 hours of work. (King never

did show back up.. he was installing.. get this..

thumb warmers on his 4 wheeler. Yes, I said

thumb warmers!! woost)

Also last night I did a project I saw on Facebook.

Where you hang bulbs with a string in the window

and that went well… what do you think?

So it starts...the season of decorate...

I started half hearted today, getting the

Christmas stuff down… 

Already did my Christmas cards before

Thanksgiving and mailed them out the

day after.. so that part is done.

I finally, last year was able to down size

my boxes of Christmas stuff to 2 boxes.

I am more into decorating the outside

than the inside. 

And my Christmas tree is easy.. just

roll it out and hang it on the wall. Done.

But last year at the end.. some one gave

my husband a TOTE OF LIGHTS.. Oh,

my gosh.. a TOTE.. So he said …let’s

put them up tomorrow as it is not suppose

to rain…  Sure, why not..  We should be

able to do the neighborhood.. lol.. if they

all work. That is the second thing we do,

after we dump them out.. see how many

actually work. 

Looking thru rose colored glasses?

I was accused of looking at life thru rose

colored glasses by my first husband. He

told me that wasn’t a reality way of seeing

things.

A drop of kindness is like a drop in a bucket,

which starts a ripple that widens out to changes

to the water in the bucket.  Why can’t we use

our kindness like that.

We don’t have the gift of hope… WE ARE

the gift of hope…… if we so chose to be.

The hatred that is spreading across our nation

now, it worse than I have ever seen. Even more

than it was before civil rights. I just don’t

understand… what does hating your fellow

person get? There seems to be a movement

on both sides of the political spectrum.

It is sad that the goodness of the holidays,

Thanksgiving and Christmas is only given

for those two days.. Why can’t it be daily?

For this day, I shall be thankful....

I know the big turkey day is tomorrow.. but

Thanksgiving day, is every day

for me..  Just like Valentines Day is every

day for the King and I.

You see, every single morning, when I wake,

I am thankful, that God has signed me up

for another day. Then I get out of bed and stand up..

I am thankful that I can do that.

When I walk out into my living room and

then to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee…

I am thankful, that I have this home and

    have enough money to have food and

    drinks.  As I know there are many on this earth

     that don’t have enough.

I am thankful that I have a car so I don’t

have to walk.. but glad I am in good

enough condition.. in case I had to walk.

When I see my children or hear their voices,

or see them on Facebook, I am thankful

that they are well.

I am thankful for the friends I have, who

when we don’t agree, we can agree to disagree.

without having to condemn the other.  

I am thankful for the men and women who

serve this nation…so we don’t have wars here on our door step.  Who are brave enough to serve, as no one HAS to

go into the service.. They go by choice. And I am

thankful enough to tell them ,thank you from the bottom

of my heart.

And this is how I feel each and every day.. So how

do I feel about tomorrow??? Well, it celebrates the

coming together of the Native America’s who

shared with a bunch of immigrants, who didn’t

know what they were doing , almost 400 years

ago..  While we celebrate each year.. it is too

bad we don’t have the respect for them as we

did 400 years ago.. and tell them THANK YOU,

as we do with our service men and women. As

if it wasn’t for them.. a lot of those founding father’s

families would not have been here, dying of starvation

like a lot of the families did.

So for tomorrow… as you sit down to the great food

that we hopefully will have… try to

remember how and why you are celebrating..

and be kind to the people around your table..

And for the love of God, leave the politics out

in the street before you enter the house.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Be kind .. enjoy

the company you have. And for those who open

their doors to strangers or the lonely on this day…

THANK YOU…   

Never met a Muslim....

I have to admit, I have never met a Muslim. At least

not that I was aware of. As not all Muslim, from what

I understand dress like what we have seen on the

media.. Meaning the long black dress.. the hood part

and etc.   I did see quite a few walking down the

sidewalk while in Portland.  But none with the full

face covered clothing.  And as we drove by

I wondered what their lives were like here in America.

Hoping people accepted them for who they, the

person, that they are.  

The human race, and I am pretty sure that

America doesn’t have the corner on this…

We, as humans, tend to hate what we fear.

And we fear, because we don’t understand.

And sadly, most of us, although not me,

don’t want to understand.

We did it when I was a young mother… it was

the Russians then later the Vietnamese

and shortly before there was the

Japanese and German. Some who were here before the war.   Before that was the Native Indians, and the

African who were brought here for slavery.

Still both have to deal with prejudices, to this day.

Even movies portray them as evil.

Look at the peaceful protest in North Dakota..

There are some who make nasty remarks, because

they don’t give them the respect they deserve. If

it was the average white person out there protesting

the possible damaging of the water… and the

police, security and etc.. treated them like they

have treated the Natives… wouldn’t there be more

uproar over this?  If they were maced, washed

back into the river with hoses, woman being

punched to the ground?   So why isn’t there

more outrage? Why isn’t the President saying

anything at all.. His silences is deafening.

It is like the Governor (as he is silent too) and

The President don’t feel they are suppose to

be representing the Native Americans as well.

After all we are ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS.  

Again.. we seem to fear, not understand, so

ends up with hate..  Too bad we can’t walk

in our neighbors shoes after all.

Will there ever be compassion for those who

are different than us?  Be it nationality, gender

or any other prejudices we seem to come up

with.    I fear with a President-Elect it doesn’t

look promising.  And it seems those who

follow him, feel they have been given a

license to hate.  Be interesting to see how

he gets out of this one. 

Looking out life's window

When I am in church.. like most, I head

to the rear pew… but I stay away from the

window…   knowing my penchant   for

looking out it when I am suppose to be

paying attention to what is going on inside.

There always seems to be something thru

that window that draws my attention.. and

like most, that was true of when I was in

school.

I am drawn to the light, to the goings on out

there that seem to be more interesting than

what is going on inside.  The sunny it is, the

worse it is for me.

Even at home.. I am drawn to the window,

from time to time.. when I am sitting near

the living room window..  I see Schweitzer Mountain  

in all her beauty.   When in the kitchen, I love

to work at the sink, as I see the oak tree in

her many colors of the year… the clouds

coming across the lake.. that I don’t see.

Even the door has long windows, that I look

into my back yard, and over the neighbors

house, I see the sun or the light or clouds

depending on the day.

At restaurants, I want the window side.

And I love watching lightening, as it streaks

across the sky.  Yes, I am definitely a window

person. Told my family, if I get put into a nursing

home.. please oh, please make sure I have

a window side bed.   For without the light and

the view, I surely will die from depression

How to kill yourself inone easy lesson

It seems I always find things, when looking for

something else.  And as I was going thru an

old closet that gets things shoved in the back,

I found this… what is this,  you ask. Well, it is

a simple little thing. Two piece of wood held

together by the piece of metal with ball bearing

in it.  Was sold years ago, for fun or exercise.

I bought this one at a yard sale for the mere

price of $2.99.

It looks innocent enough. And being I have been

going to physical therapy for my hip, I figured

why not..

The principal of it is like the dance called the TWIST.

You stand on it with both feet and then twist back

and forth.  Simple enough right?

1.   don’t do it on a rug. You will get thrown off

like a horse.

2.   When using a flat smooth surface, have some

thing to hang on to. Or you could kill yourself.

3.   You are not as young as you thought you were,

So best left for younger ones.  

Is it me... or is it the time???

Where the heck is the year going???

Here we are already thru half of November!

October flew by, I barely was into the month

and it was Halloween before I knew it.

Now here Thanksgiving is just a week and

a half away…

The summer flew by, but I kind of understood why

with that. We were so busy running back and

forward every 2 weeks between Portland and

Idaho. From July to the end of Sept.  So I

understand how I missed the summer..but

these are the fall days, when things slow down.

And I don’t even … want to think… about December

Twist and Shout.....

This week is the week of senior social time…

This is what my aunt referred, to describe her

and my uncle’s doctor visits..  She said if it

wasn’t for doctor visits they wouldn’t have any

social time.. she was joking..

So this week, it is me, on Monday and then on

Tuesday, the King and back to me on Wednesday.

I have had trouble with my hip since they decided

to remove some bone marrow to try to understand

my low platelets and hit a nerve.. but lately it has

gotten much worse.. (that was 10 years ago)

So here I was laying up on the table, twisting

this way and that way…stand up and swing the

leg, back up on the table and he says……….

“Take your right leg and lift it up to your left

shoulder”………………..”WHAT? with whose

body”, I asked..  “ Oh, I guess I should rephrase

that… lift up your right foot and POINT it towards

your left shoulder”.. 

 

This is going to be so much fun….. not… but got

to admit, I did feel better as I was leaving.

Hey, this is better than a political post, don’t you

think.. lol

Sigh, don't know what to write...

As I look at our nation the past couple of months

and especially the past couple of weeks, it is just

heartbreaking.. 

Between the election and the reaction from it..to

the treatment of the protestors in North Dakota,

I find myself saying.. this isn’t the America that I grew up

In.  But then maybe I chose not to see what is

out there..  Or maybe the media is rubbing my

face in it…

No matter what side you are on in the Native

Americans and the oil company battle… it is

horrible how the security is allowed to treat the

people who are protesting.  To have huge

mace throwing machines, to use powerful water

hoses on these people is to me, is disgusting.

Where are the government people who love

committees.. where is their call to have a meeting

and find a mutual comprise … there has to be

something all of these people can talk about

and make good decisions ..after all if Nations

are asked to do so.. why not these people?

This is no way to treat humans..

The protest of the people who are so disgusted

with Trump winning… that they feel it is ok to

burn, trash, property that belongs to those who

are innocent and have no horse in that race. Or

who are just as disgusted but show class and

adulthood, by not protesting… The protestors,

who kidnap people on the freeway… and think

Nothing about the children or the mom with them

in those cars who are scared to death of the protestors

who are ranting.. the people blowing their horns in

defiance of being held hostage.  What about the

person in those cars, what about their rights, their lives

and what could be hurtful for their families as they

may be home waiting for that person. Health issues

that should be effected.. What about them?

What an entitled nation we have become.. People

who can’t handle disappointment, who feel they

can act up and it is ok.. it is about them and their

feelings, having no care to those they have used

in their protest? 

Has this all been born out of the late 80’s and 90’s?

I went with a friend to drop off a present for her

granddaughter.. she also had one for her grandson.

I asked why, it wasn’t his birthday… It seems the

mother doesn’t like the other child to feel shorted

because they didn’t get to open anything. It would

hurt his feelings.   We also started about that time

rewarding children who did not work hard enough

to win an award.  That they had a “everyone gets

an award.. or a certificate…. To reward everyone.

What is with that???  

How does the child feel special on “their day” if

Everyone gets a present?  How does the child

Who worked so hard to accomplish a project

or play the game, only to see all the players,

get the same reward that he did?  Kids who

didn’t care .. that didn’t work days or weeks

on a project.. and it showed in their workman

ship… and yet gets the same reward? 

Are these the same kids who are now running up

and down the roads, blocking cars, burning a business

of some one who may have voted the same way, who

Is innocent bystander?  Who don’t know how to handle

disappointment?  Who don’t know how to use it as a

learning tool, to work harder?  Are these the entitlement people?

And as other  Nations watch on television and other media,

As the Americans come unhinged, riot, protest, and

the treatment of those in the way… oh, how proud

we are… 

But the sad thing is.. they are only about 15% of the

Nation..  the other 85% are going to work, living their

lives as they did last week and look on in disgust..

But those people  don’t get on the television screen, or the

other media… Sad.. very sad… indeed…

  

Time to Exhale....

Well, you have had time to breathe again

after yesterday.  Trump is the man…

So surprised, and I think that pretty much

aays it for everyone.. even on both sides.

Trump group, thought they would win..

but……….. things really didn’t look that

great.. 

Hillary’s group, knew they had it in the bag.

Even a magazine had a cover ready to go,

with MADAM PRESIDENT..  to only have

the rug pulled out from under them.

Now what? Well, for one thing.. we will

have the haters still revving up .. this time

it is the Democrats..  We just finishing up

the Republican haters.. no matter what

Obama has done or will do in the last 3

months.. he won’t be able to do anything

right. And Congress is going to make

sure he goes out the same way he came

in. No co-operation at all.  

Before that, we had the Democrat haters,

lambasting Bush thru his 8 years. So

we are back to that. Some of it already

has started about Trump.

It is kind of hard, when you have friends, at

least you consider them friends.. saying

hateful things about a candidate or even

the President.   I am not talking about

how the policies or what ever.. but personal

hatred.. talk of how the family should be shot

and buried.  Run them out of town, naked..

makes you rethink about your friendship.

Personally, I hate it when people are like that.

Just because they didn’t get their way.  They

don’t even know these people (the President

and his family), how do you hate who you

don’t even know.  I guess it is hating them is

getting back at what they represent in their

minds.

American are a very judgmental group.

And what they don’t understand, they hate.

And they have no interest in trying to

understand.  And those who say they were

not making racist remarks when they complained

about the Obama.. are full of it.. when you

hear them.. they can’t wait to get their black

asses out of the white house..   All I can say

my feelings of disgust is huge. And what kind

of examples are they leaving for their kids to

see?

The more we as Americans are on computers,

hiding behind the screen as they type vile

words, the worse this nation has become.

  

Where do we go from here?

Actually, today isn’t any different than yesterday,

In our own lives. 

The sun still arises in the East… the moon hasn’t

crashed down on us….. although they say it will

be huge on the 14^th.. for all of us to see.. providing

the clouds stay away…

Today, we still go to the grocery store to get food.

Those who work, will still be going to work early

this morning..  and the rest of the week.

Nothing changes… in our own little world. 

The people in North Dakota are still protesting

the oil company, which is on schedule to

dig up the burial grounds, and dig under the

water…   every thing is still moving along

like yesterday..

Come January, it still will be pretty much the same.

At least for a few months.. While the new President

and Congress gets their bearings.  And then we

will see if the naysayers on each side are right..

In the meantime, the “SHIP OF FOOLS” will leave

the dock to sail again..

  

Day of history....

No matter who wins this day’s votes, it will be a

history lesson in the future..

Of all the voters of today.. there are the diehard Republicans and the diehard Democrats.. and those

who will join them… who don’t really care for parties.

that will take up at least half of the votes that have

been casted.

The other half are divided up …  2/3 who voted for

Bernie and 1/3 who voted for various Republicans

thru the primaries and caucus. Those who are

disgusted with the left over choices that the above

left them to vote on.. Some will vote for the Independent

candidates… or Mickey Mouse, John McCain or

various other write ins..  Some of us will use the

N.O.A.  choice write in.. None Of Above.. in the

protest against the choices…

But tonight on national social media there will

be a blood bath of words.. even pictures.. as

the losers fail and the winner disappoints most.

These same people who look at their screens

nightly, for the past 6 months.. seeing words

and pictures … who have added to the barrage

of disgust, anger, and fighting with friends and

strangers alike over the options,and comments.       

Some more vicious than others.. Some fighting

for some truth as they quote Fact Check, Snopes

and other sites…  All this vile comes to a head to

night thru the media .. be it social like Facebook,

or other internet sites.

Which makes me wonder… what will life be for those

come Friday.. as I figured it is going to take a few days

to settle down on this very vicious subject.  What

will come?  Will it be back to what I ate for dinner? What

recipes are good to try??

Some of this might be true.. but I think we will still have

the blame everyone comments..after all we endured 8

years of everything was Bushes fault… to 8 more years

of it is all Obama’s fault. But at least there won’t be the

race card played anymore…

  

The Ship of Fools docks tomorrow night....

Ever since we have heard the names of the many

(at least on the Republican side.. and a few on

the Democrat side), I have called this election

 “The Ship of Fools..  As we bounded up and down

In the waters of election foolery. The party of

Republican side, dumping bodies over.. or the candidates jumping, knowing it was a sinking ship and not wanting

to lose their money.

But here we are heading to the docks tomorrow night,

and looking to see who gets to get off the boat, as the

ramp lowers…or who gets to walk the plank on the other

side.

It has been a slippery deck, with the slinging of mud.

And with modern techniques of Twitter and Facebook,

weighing in.. loading down the ship…as it limps back

to the dock.

This is will be an election for the books.. history books

that is.. How much so, we will see on Wednesday, to

see if it joins the Bush/Gore stories.

We will most likely be treated to stories from the Trump

side, of how it was rigged from the start… if he loses..

And if Clintion loses, well, we will see if she concedes,

as easy as she said at the last debate.

Hang on to your hats, folks.. I think this is going to

be a ship sent back out  to rough seas with us on it.…

  

Mother Nature is rarely wrong....

There was a man, named Harold McWilliams, who

lived in Cle Elum, Washington. His profession was

that of a packer for the government.. He told of his

4 times around Mt. Rainier with his mules. Wenatchee

forest and Cle Elum area was also his work place.  He did this for over 40 years.. before getting another profession

of being a scrap iron hauler, in his mid 70’s. to his 80’s.

Everyone knew Harold, but they didn’t know him by

that name.. they knew him as “MAC the PACKER”.

He was known as that, far and wide, as many tourist

were taken thru the forest with him.  He had many

tales of fun times, sad times and times he wasn’t

happy with the way the public treated nature.

Mac passed away at the mere age of 95, I say

mere, because he was ageless.  He had a sense

of humor but also could be very serious.

Thru all those years of packing he came away

with a great understanding of mother earth.

One of which was, telling what kind of winters

we were going to get.  3 signs that I remember,

(there were more, but I only remember these

3’s)….   1. was the caterpillar…. The orange

one with a strip across the back. If that stripe

was wide .. it was going to be a bad winter.

2. The bees and hornets…  They would make

their beds/nest in the ground.. deep in the ground.

3. and the one he said was the most telling…

Was the twins and triplets of the deer and

moose.  He said it was like Mother Nature knew

not all of them would survive, so she product

more than one, which was the norm for the year.

So if he saw in his travels, multiple births,

He knew it was really going to be bad..

What brought all this to mind is.. as my husband

was hunting this year, he talked about twins, a lot…

and pictures in the newspaper, of the moose who

are moving back to town to feast on the apple

trees, and etc… are pictures of twins and even

triplets.   Also I notice the bees are in the grassy

area of my yard.. almost stepped on a few.

To me.. mother nature is rarely wrong.. so I

am going with the idea…it might be a late

Winter.. but it is going to be a doozy.

Thanks, Mac…..   

For this I know to be true....

Which I have found out… nothing I thought

was true.. nothing I have learned is true..

and I am starting to wonder about my own life.

The part that I have control over.. I have pride

myself on being truthful.. Pushed that on my

children.. Honest….. truthfulness….

But now… we all know how tainted the media

channels are… And internet.. well, they are

more liar, liar.. pants on fire…

Use to be able to watch the nightly news and

pretty well knew, that David, Chet, John and the rest

were truthful.  It wasn’t so much as news as they

saw it.. unless they said that.. But the most part,

reporting was reporting the news as it was using

facts.. and only facts.. with out any personal views..

Now it is all columnist, who give you what they think..

or their company things.  They aren’t even held

accountable anymore.. they just say.. oh, that is

just the reporting… everyone does it..    

Even when you are championing a cause.. it is

heart breaking to find out the details are not as

they were presented…   I am getting so I hate the

news.. be it paper, television or internet.. 

What is the old saying.. believe ¼  of what you

hear and ½  of what you see…and sometimes

you wonder about that too..

Not understand the thought process....

I have heard from both sides.. when someone remarks

about not voting for the Democrat or the Republican

Presidential candidate, that the person is giving the

other candidate their vote?  How is that possible?

Being I have heard it from both sides, it is not just

one side saying it….   But how is it so?

If one votes. not for either side… and the Democrat friend

says, well you just gave Trump your vote.. how is that

possible?  The same is said for the Republican friend,

who tells me that I would be giving Clinton my vote?

Trump did not gain a vote.. any more than

Clinton did… both are short one vote… as I did not

vote for either of them.

It just doesn’t make sense to me. their theory.  But for

me to vote for whom I want to… is to me.. to thy own

self be true..   No matter who wins.. I did not help them.

my vote went on neither side.  It is a matter of principle

to me.. This is not voting for the lesser of the evils..

Especially in this election.. as both sides are the evils

they speak of. 

So don’t tell me that I am giving the other the vote. As

I did not .. give it to them..  And I get to keep my

Bitching rights.   As those who chose NOT to vote at

all.. to me.. have no right to bitch..  And a damn shame

as there are a lot of locals who are also running on that

day.. and your vote could make a difference in the local

race.  So Shame on you.. for not voting at all… and staying

at home..