The End is not as near….

The End is not as near…..

I seriously had thought, like each year…..of ending the blog..

Really … my readership is down.. some sweet people are still checking in… So thought, maybe it is time.

Next week will be the 14^th anniversary of this blog.. that I decided to do as a fluke.  I blame it on Dave Oliveria of the Spokeman’s Review blog called   NO BARS HOLD.. at first then switching to HUCKLEBERRIES ON LINE… I use to email him before he allowed comments on his blog… 

Then second culprit is Marianne Love of Slight Detour..  Dave had challenge me to start my own blog… I told him, nah…. I am just a wordtosser..  Then I was reading Marianne Love’s blog and on the top of the paper was….  START YOU OWN BLOG.. IT IS AS SIMPLE AS 1,2,3….  Well, when it comes to computers…..nothing is as simple as 1,2,3.  but figure, I will show them,  it isn’t that easy… Unfortunately it was that easy.. because I found myself a writer of a blog..  1,2,3… as I filled out the form… it ask what was going to be my name….  thought for a moment and remembered telling Dave… I was a wordtosser…. So filled in that slot…  Then it asked for a title to the blog..  WHAT?  I thought that was what I just used..  see I KNEW IT.. it wasn’t that easy.. but then I settled down and thought..  FROM A SIMPLE MIND … pretty much described me…. So with that.. and up popped a blog.. with FROM A SIMPLE MIND …. I was on the road and still on the road for 14 years.. I have cut it down twice.. First I started out like a wild fire.. posting daily… and a few times twice a day..  Well, eventually I burnt out on that… so narrowed it down to Monday thru Friday….. and then a year ago, I believe.. knowing I was burning out… I narrowed it down to two days a week.. picking Tuesday and Wednesday.  Why I didn’t just quit, I don’t know.   I guess because every time I think I am going to quit since the 10^th year… something comes up and up on the soap box I go… or something too funny ..not to share.. and there I go…

So here I am 5 years later..  BUT THIS time.. I have a purpose… and a deadline.. of sorts.. I have decided.. one more year… for two reasons..  it will be then 15 years.. and also.. I turn 80.  So April 5, 2020… Lord willing I am still around.. and mentally here… I will end the blog. Or a day or two later, in case I do something so wonderful for my 80^th birthday.. I have to share..

I am not the woman that I use to be….

I am not the woman that I use to be….

One of the things I have learned as I age, that after 70 the game changes…. And you lose a lot…  it is physical and mental.

I use to do anything…that I thought I could do…

I changed the water pump on my friends car because the one who would have helped her was my husband.. but he was in the Vets hospital 450 miles away…   So I told her to buy the pump… Told which one as I use to order parts for my husband.  When it came.. I took off the old one and installed the new one..  Start it up .. wha la.. perfect.. even changed the thermostat for her while I was there.   Why did I do it.. because I thought I could..  Watched my husband do a few….. As a helper of getting tools for my father, and then my husband.. helping him from time to time… I watched.. 

So I always had the, I think I can do this.. changed tires, even when I was 9 months pregnant.  Got out and put my own gas in the car before  everyone HAD to.  Washed my own windows, and etc.. check the oil.. check the transmission fluids..  

We got pigs, I built the pig pen and fencing for it.. I slaughter the rabbits we had for dinner… hauled hay…

I smashed cars for junk.. with the equipment we had. If you read back in the Roslyn days, you saw where I smashed a load of cars while waiting for my husband to come home from Minnesota..

It wasn’t because my husband wouldn’t do it… it was they were busy too..  and I just do it.  Although if they were slow in doing something.. I was ot beyond doing it .. even if I didn’t know what I was doing.. so they would be scared of how it was going to come out, so they took over and did it right.  haha

I was just use to doing… something needs to be done.. do it… but now?  Hell, I can’t even open a jar by myself anymore.. Are jars tighter than they use to be?   I know I have not been doing enough of regular exercise.. sloughing off with the idea that yard work in the summer and shoveling snow in the winter is enough… But I have lost a lot with those ideas.. So on my bucket list will be do more..  more walking.. more regular stretching exercise… the old adage..  don’t use it… you will lose it.

I am not the mother I use to be either.

Now my children are now  not only adults, but grandparents, themselves.

But they would come to me, when life would throw them for a loop. And I not only knew the questions.. I knew the answers or where to get the answers… Or just that I had lived the questions so told them the options they had…   Most of the time.. I would just tell them what to look for… rarely ever giving advice.  Because advice is usually only good for the person who already lived it..  So if you show them options, they can make the choice that works for them.

But of late… and memory… I don’t have the answers hardly ever anymore… and don’t have many of the options… as life in 2019 has changed sooooooooooooooooo much.. that the options either aren’t there, or don’t apply anymore..

So part of me.. is sad.. I know it is time to hand the reins to others.. but when you find out, you aren’t the person you had built your life to be… it is sad realization..

MORE SNOW...OH, GOODY.........NOT!!!!!

You know we all get sick of snow after a while..

I seem to endure for the most part…. Keep telling myself

This too shall pass… And it is February.. so Spring is

Coming…

And I tell myself.. again … this is February, thank goodness

this didn’t start last November… after all, to look forward to

5 to 6 more months of snow.. well, talk about stir crazy.

But this is February, and the end of February at that… so only one more month..2 at the most.. We have had snow in April.. but it is the kind that disappears over night..  So we are hanging in there.. Well, at least I am.. not so sure of the King..  He is so tired of snow blowing, and pushing snow with the plow… and now we are to the point of having to rake snow off the roof… which falls on the deck.. which means the deck has to be shoveled off AGAIN…  Then there is the trying to get to the other sides, where the snow is 2 to 3 feet deep.

The weather had warmed up last weekend… so some of it slid off…but still some left..

And here we are due more snow..  up to 4 to 5 inches in two days.. 

So may I express…..

WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF SNOW!!!!!!!  SPRING.. WHERE ARE YOU???

We had cabin fever so bad on Sunday… that we went to Walmart, just to get out of the house…  and we don’t even like Walmart.

HAPPY PRESIDENT DAY…

HAPPY PRESIDENT DAY…

Big sale day… for furniture and cars and etc…

Do you remember what February use to have instead

of President’s Day? 

February 12,  Abraham Lincoln’s birthday… February 22 George Washington birthday… and remember all the cherry pies that were for sale in the stores.. or actually mostly when I was a kid…  our mother’s made cherry pie to celebrate George Washington’s day.

In the background today was the Kelly and Ryan Live show.. and they did a quick quiz…  Ryan asked Kelly… (who is in her 40’s, so should have had history classes)  What President said.. "speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far."   She did not know.. she thought maybe Johnson?  Lyndon Johnson…. Sad…

Sadder yet is the fact that History, Civic and Government is not as required as it us to me.. now they have arts and etc..

Well, it is back to getting the wash done.. and mop the floors.. it was 6 above when I got up this morning at 6:30am… now a big 11 at  almost 9:30…  good day for reading and inside projects.

WHAT I HAVE BEEN DOING FOR THE PAST TWO DAYS..

Heck, what I have been doing off and on, for the past week...  they say a picture is worth a thousand words..   so here is a couple of days worth..

 AND.... MISTY SAYS..  SERIOUSLY?   REALLY?   MORE SNOW...????

The guilt day is coming…

Those of you who have read this blog for years.. know how I feel for the day called Valentine’s Day.  

It started out as a nice time of cards to tell someone how much you love them… Then somewhere.. it turn into that guilty circus of over commercialized day..   Buy jewelry, diamonds in particular. Or furs, and other expensive stuff…   And FLOWERS.. OH MY GOSH..  Have you seen the prices..  You can buy a dozen of roses all year long for $9.99 to $12.99 depending on which store..  But come Valentine’s day.. they start at $39.99 to as much as $69.99.  And why is it one sided? Why is it up to the man to do all the buying and work?

You really want  your love one to know you love them ? Then tell them every day.. you never know when your last day will be..  How about writing your own card.. make one out of any color paper and fold it over..  draw something on the front.. .. and inside tell them how you feel.  What is it about them that make them special to you.  And then you can make a dinner together… both of you working on it. One can make the salad and vegetables and the other cook the meat.  That will be more important than any commercialized items..

Valentine’s day should be every day in your house hold..  Hugs, a little squeeze as you walk by.. whisper of I love you..  Some times, just standing there and hold each other..

That is my humble opinion..   Love should not have a price on it.

They are starting to add up again….

They are starting to add up again….

Got notice this past week that GREAT grandchild number 24

Is due in July…  Number 23 is due… I believe in May.

So we might have enough for 3 baseball teams.. or maybe a football

Team.. lol..  they surely will be able to have a better game than

The one on Sunday.. Which wasn’t quite so Super.. 

Actually I have seen worse.. you know the ones that are 32 to 3.

This one actually had great defense on both sides… With still 0

To 0 by half time.. and then 3 to 0 at the start of the 4^th quarter,

It was amaszing.. NO TOUCH DOWNS..   I told the King that I

Thought the winner would be the one who didn’t run out of steam.

The first team to tire out.. would be the one to go down.. and sure

Enough,  There was a hole for a touchdown..  I think they said

It was the lowest score of all time of Super Bowl.. 13 to 3..

Even the King, who normally hates football, got into it. Even

Yelling at the players..  lol