WHERE DID THE TIME GO??

WHERE DID THE TIME GO??

Just two more days and Summer is GONE..  ok, so some claim September as part of it.. Not me.. LABOR DAY COMES… And Summer is GONE, GONE GONE..

Got to start getting the yard ready for fall and winter..  put away, throw away yard art.. and sprinklers and all such..  Where the heck did the time go?  It seems like last week we were having 4^th of July..

Guess that old theory that life when you get old is like a bicycle with a toilet paper front wheel…  it unravels faster each year.. 

 

 

 

You got to wonder….

You got to wonder….

When you move to a new area..  and start looking about after you get settled.. you kind of get a feel of the local governments and etc.. 

Well, anyone who moves to ours..  has 3 to pick from and many more.. 

We have the college 45 miles from here..   the Trustee have been fighting so bad that the state has put their license or what ever that is … accreditation in harms way…. And even a year later they are still on shaky grounds with a temporary one..   

Then you have the trustees of the school district in the lower part of our county..  two of which are up for recall. Then you have with that  a superintendent that has been hired without a background check and not the proper paper work and has not put in for the temporary emergency superintendent paper work.. and school starts in 9 days..  Yet has taken over the office and fired the office crew because he doesn’t have confidence in them. Hiring his own.

Then we have the county commissioners who have been battling back and forth, and now one of them has put a temporary restraining order on the other, so he has to watch the meetings from  a video instead of being in the room. And the state senator who is head of the Republican party has put his two cents in there..  telling the commissioner who has been served, that he has to either quit or get up in public and apologize to the commissioner and the public for his actions of the past year.. 

Yep, Idaho governing.. at its best....

You know maybe when one moves to another area, and checks out the weather, the housing market and school.. they should check out the government part as well.

I can’t even imagine…..

I can’t even imagine…..

As the reports come in for the fires around our area… my heart goes out to of Medical Lake.. the worse of the local  group.. about 80% of the fires are in the woods..  some of them on the side of mountains..  Out of reach of roads and etc.. and fought with helicopters with buckets from the lakes.  We have been hearing them for about 2 months now.

Maui the horror of losing your home in hours.  To get up in the morning.. doing your normal routine…and by 5 that night, you have no home, you have maybe if you are lucky 50% of your possessions..  Some not even that..  Especially Maui.  Running with just the clothes on your back.  Gathering in a hall… holding your only possessions, sitting on a mat on the floor, that becomes your home for how long?  Standing in line with your family, to have food dished up for you to eat.. Wondering where you life will take you now..  No matter what the groups do, to try to soften the blow.. You and your family will NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN.

In our area,  you might have had 2 hours or maybe if you are luck 2 days before you have to drive out your driveway for the last time… with a whole home..  You have to arrange where your animals are going.  People out of the kindness of there hearts are driving in with horse trailer so you can get your animals to safety…   AND THEN WHAT?   Where do you go. Yes there are hotels and motels opening up for a couple days so you can make other arrangements?   If you had to let your horse go, run free with your phone number on their hooves… how long before you find them again? And where do you take them?   With housing so far out of reach for everyday people..  How do you find housing?  Can you afford it? Will insurance take care of that for you?   Even with friends and family helping the best they can.. even when FEMA and a few others kick in.. When you get to go back to your front yard and look at your property … all black, vehicles and other things burnt to a crisp…  YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. It will take years for you to get back to where you were before..  A home, your family, your animals all safe.

I can’t even imagine…. Prayers for all of those who are homeless due to these fires…  which seems like such an empty offering…

 

SMOKE GET IN YOUR EYES….

SMOKE GET IN YOUR EYES….

These past several days ..  this song has played over and over in my mind..  Even the tune.. with Nat King Cole’s voice…  It was a song from my youth as my mother would play it on the piano many times…

But today.. and this past week… the words have been a reality to all of us.

We have had fire season every year… some years are worse than any other. And this year is a doozy of a year.. there are fires all over ..  we have as the bird fly’s at least 6 fires within 15 miles of us.  We are a little bit safer than most, as we live in a tiny town… but it isn’t impossible as the end of our road there is a small forest of about 40 trees. Of different sizes..  It is a VERY DRY year.. So it would not take much for it to catch fire..  and then the sparks flying in the wind , as it has in other areas… to come down in our yards and on some of our neighbors who have non metal roofs.  We have a metal roof and last year put up metal siding.. So we might have a chance in hell..  Lot of others don’t.

On the other side of Spokane (which is 75 miles from us) there is a small town with lots of farming fields and tree areas..  and it has burnt over 3,000 acres the first 12 hours.  And it is still going.. and heading towards HWY 90.. which is a east to west highway between Spokane and Seattle… there is even a chance of it jumping across the highway… slight at this time.. but still a chance..  They have rerouted the traffic on 90 to a town called Cheney that goes around Medical Lake area..  The helicopters are busy dipping their buckets into Medical Lake for using on the fire… 

So when I think about complaining about the smoke in our eyes… I think of Medical Lake people.. and their homes.. and their pleas for anyone with a horse trailer to truck their animals out of the area…   I got to admit.. what is a little smoke in my eyes..  And yes, I have been staying home.. windows and doors closed..   and praying for the winds to stop and the rain to come for at least 3 days.. but none of this looks possible from the weather report.

Stay safe all of you.. and be thankful the fires are not in your area.

To this I know to be true.. NOT

To this I know to be true..

Seems I might have used that title a few years back.. and for the same reason why I am using it today..   because the answer was…  and still is today.. I know this to be true??   NOTHING ANYMORE.. 

 I read that there was a police chief of a small town in Marion, Kansas, had a raid on a newspaper..  took all the computers and anything else they thought maybe of use to them.   Why..  well it seems the paper, the chief of police  thought was going to publish a article about the chief affair..  Also there was a restaurant owner who had gotten a DWI..   And SHE thought the paper was going to publish it.  And yes this has political overtones..  as there was a party or meeting that the paper was reporting on.  The restaurant owner..  is upset that the paper found out.. and was going to mention in one of their articles.  But the DWI charge was in public records.. so how does she see that it is a private matter? And what makes her any different than you or I or anyone else who gets a DWI?  It is in public records..  the kind of kicker of the police chief is that the paper had gotten information.. about his affair..BUT decided not to write anything about it because… THEY WERE NOT SURE OF THE SOURCE..  

But how does the Police Chief get to make a raid on a paper?  What happen to freedom of speech?  And there are a lot of papers better know as the scandal  sheets..  that have had articles of questionable  resources and no one raids them.

But in high school.. yes that was over 65 years ago.. I took government and business law…  and we were taught that there was a thing about freedom of speech and freedom of press.    Well, I guess that no longer is true…  so this I don’t know is true anymore..    by the way, didn’t some one write years ago.. that one of the first down fall of government it harassment and closing down newspaper offices?    Just asking..

LIGHT IS SLIPPING AWAY..

LIGHT IS SLIPPING AWAY..

Do you know that we are losing 30 minutes per week?  Of sunlight.  Yes, every day we lose 5 minutes..  I was really surprised..  Oh, yes, I know that we have the day shorten up  and then lengthen ..  but I guess I didn’t really think of it… more the time changed did it..   Not paying attention to Mother Natures, daylight saving time change. .

But the weather guy tells a couple times a week.. we have lost x amount of days light this week..  

It is hard to get upset when June 21 comes around..  as it is the longest day of the year and we start losing daylight from then on until Dec.  As the days seem long at the time, we really don’t notice.  Most of us don’t even pay any attention to it..  Oh, gosh the day was 4 and half minutes shorter..  Was that 9:16 instead of 9:20mp.. no not really, we just go on our merry little way.

I am a daylight sleeper or rather non sleeper.. As long as it is day light I can’t sleep.  And I wake on my own in the morning when it is 5:10 or 5:30am… then 6am and etc

By the time winter has arrived and day light savings has ended.. I am up to 7 and 8 am..  just about a 3 hour difference.  Just doesn’t seem any difference, until you wake up with the sun and it is almost 8am..  and seems like half the day is shot.. and then the next thing you notice it is 4PM and it is dark.

Funny creatures, us humans..

Loving my small town…

Loving my small town… 

As I watch on tv.. the downfall and deteriorate of our country.. I realize thankfully there is still quite a bit of old time American..  the basis, of decency in our town.. and the ones surrounding it. 

To see the heart breaking of destruction. Like in New York where the younger crowd who was promised a free game.. by a rapper..  went total off the deep end..  jumping on cars, jumping and kicking out windows of cars.. those who had nothing to do with their freebie..   Then show others kicking in doors..  harassing people on the sidewalk.    People who qualify for the name, in my book at least, as low life..  One’s who seem to think they are entitled to anything they desire.. or what ever the reason.  This was not a black situation.. as there were blacks AND whites..

In our area.. on Facebook page, with the name of the local town.. you see daily.. thank you notes to who ever did this or that..  One was a woman who was trying her best to control her 3 little ones in a restaurant, then asked for the check… to be told, that the 3 elderly ladies near by had paid her bill.  Told the waitress.. that they had been there, did that and for her to have a good day..

There was the girl on her way to work.  Who stopped by a coffee stand.. and the woman on the other side window, paid for her coffee… There was the woman who stopped by a broke down car…  who took the driver and kids to their home..  had let her call for a wrecker first. The wrecker was 45 minutes out.    There was a young boy being picked on at the beach and 3 teenagers came to his rescue…   And then there was the fire, that the parents and 3 kids out of the house with what they had one..  Red Cross put them up at a motel.. with in two days.. the donation that came in clothed the family.. Gave a groceries store  gift card…  and a go fund me account so they could find a house to rent.  . 

This is our town.. our area… and I am so grateful to live in a area that still loves their fellowman..   Don’t get me wrong.. we have a bumps, we have the negative people.. like most towns have.. but when the times get rough, the people gather to help..

As I think about the coming of the world.. and think … thankfully I won’t be around to see it here… I keep praying that my great grand kids get at least a slice of our life we have now..

We are running as fast as we can….

We are running as fast as we can….

All last month, the King has been busy helping his long time friend, do his haying.   He helped last year too.. mostly repairing equipment when it goes down..    as farming it goes that way…   Even though last year he said he wasn’t going to help this year…  he ended up helping..  These two guys in their 70’s are old time farmers … with working on the side, welding for the RR in their day….  So this runs deep.. this friendship..  and it is hard to let down an old friend.  So they made it thru July… getting all the fields cut and bales. And the King keeping the equipment running and helping once in a while where he could.  And at the end helping get the hay up and into the barn.

Now he is on the road again..  Helping his friend of many years who passed away last month… helping his son, get thing done that needs to be done.  Right now that, is getting a bull dozer running so it can be sold.  There is a lot of clean up to be done on the property before it can be sold.   So that will probably keep the King busy until hunting season.. Every thing stops during hunting season.. don’t you know..

I have been keeping the home front running while he is out helping. Also I have  GGBOYS…days..  that is where my two great grand (GG) sons come and spend the day with me.. while Mom works..  Even at the age of 83, I am still hanging in there..  and some times the laughter is loud. 

Also got a call yesterday,  from someone else.. can you come do…………….

After that was done, we got a phone call,  from a old friend.. “I was just in a car accident, can you come and help me.” Of course we saddle up .. ok, so it was get in the car… lol.  And we went and helped until her husband came.  As she just got ahold of him as we drove up..  She got a tow truck heading her way.. help the husband put the groceries in the truck with him.. and she had the rest handled.. So we left as we figured they had everything taken care of.. as they waited for the tow truck to show. 

As we drove away… I told the King.. you know..  we can’t die.. He said, WHAT?  I said.. we can’t  die, because we are too busying helping others.. Who are they going to call, if we die.   Ha ha   This sure isn’t a complaint.. as we have always been there for our friends..  as they for us. 

Turning my hair white…..

Turning my hair white…..

Wait a minute.. it can’t turn my hair white… it is already white.. So maybe the words should be.. dropped my jaw to the floor.. 

I know that the whole internet deal is a lost of our private lives..  There is little that is about us, that isn’t on internet in one form or another… I know that.. But I am here to tell you..  my jaw dropped to see how much is out there. And I have no idea how to stop it.. remove it..  Someone smarter than me.. probably know.. but I don’t know ..

I am so careful about shredding all things with our names on it..  I have the inked out gizmo to run across our names…   But I got to ask myself.. am I only doing one half of one per cent of what is out there on us.?  Some of it is actually lies and have no way of correcting it..

If you got a minute go to or what ever spot… google, or what ever and type in your name.. there will be so many sites out there..  but the worse to me is one called mylife..   it leaves very little for the imagination… of information about you…  what political  party you belong to ..  even make up one.. as I am not what they said I am.. My guess it is taking information from 6 years ago.. which I sign papers so I could vote, as one party in our state will not let you vote unless you say you are from their party. But I changed it back to what I am. An independent… unaffiliated.. . Tells who you are married to and if you have been married more than once.. they are listed too..  even added a name of who I never heard.. also tells who your neighbors are..  WAY MORE than you ever want the general public to know.  

If your nerves are of steel.. go see what you find out about yourself.