OH, 2024 WHERE DID YOU GO?

OH, 2024   WHERE DID YOU GO?

THIS IS THE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR… THAT LAST OF 2024… AND TO BE HONEST..   I AM GLAD TO SEE YOU GO,  2024..  

As the old saying went..   “ANOTHER YEAR DOWN THE TOILET, AND HERE IS ANOTHER TO TRY TO LOUSE UP”

So as you walk thru this last day of the year…  Have you learn any thing about yourself?  Or just learn anything in general?

What do you plan on taking into 2025 and what are you going to leave in 2024?

Do you have a list or agenda of what you want to get done in 2025? Any plans…  anything you have put off for way too long? And this year of 2025 it needs to be done? 

I am not talking about NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.. that people promise themselves.. and goes to the way side by January 10^th..

Do you have traits that you want to strengthen?  Like to be kinder to those you who you deal with?  You know where it is irritating to deal with certain ones..  and how you can be kinder, even though they are not..  and probably never will be?   Are you going to take the high road..  and  let go of the bad side of things..  just because people don’t follow the rules.. your thought of the rules.. doesn’t mean we are not to be kind..  Just because they are asses..   we still can be kind…  Just because their road is not travel like ours..  doesn’t mean we should not be kind..   because you see.. you should not be kind for others sake only..  you should be kind.. for YOUR sake ..it is easier on your nerves. 

Is there things you want to do, so you are going drop the usual things?...   I have threaten and thought about it, over and over.. and yet… went back to what I should give up..  And I think this year of 2025 is the year to stop..  Like I said.. I have threaten to stop before.  Thinking I had nothing else to say..  at least of interest to others…   I have done it so that I have always an open soap box to spout off…  But this is the year to say..  Thank you for being there over the years.. those who stuck it out for that long.. and even for those who only joined the past year or so.. THANK YOU… I see the numbers .. so I know there are  several..  8 to about 12 on an average day..  once in a while hit the 19 to 20..  but not the 30 or 40 in the beginning.   So I am releasing you as of this March.. March 5 will be the last day of the FROM A SIMPLE MIND.. it will mark the 20^th anniversary when I started this blog.. 

I don’t do this lightly..  and it isn’t because I think I have so much great things to write about… because I don’t… I am almost scared to quit…   Why is that?  Because I am 84 now..  and doing this twice a week.. puts me on the line to do something..  a deadline so to speak…   and without its… is the part that scares me..   When you are elderly.. and you don’t keep your mind active… you slowly lose it..  Not just the mind, the activity.. the power to do SOMETHING.   So if I quit and I am sure I will… At least on a weekly routine…  what will I fill that space up with.. that will keep the mind thinking?    Will dementia slowly take over?  I have senior moments as it is..  (who doesn’t at 84?)   Surely hope I have something up my sleeve to fill the void..

Well, we still have 60 days … before that happens..  so 16+ pages to fill with nonsense of Cis… 

So again.. what are you leaving in 2024….  And what are you opening up 2025 with?

As we unwind the last of 2024….

As we unwind the last of 2024….

We have had blessings..  we have had heartache… 2024 Definitely has tried us…  and great joy… as the roller coast of 2024 had taken us thru the time of life.

We have had the lost of good friends.. But that is what happens, when you get old.. meaning over 70… 

We have heart aches as we watch a family member go off the beaten track.. and no we are not sharing that one.. 

We have had great joy…   that spread across several areas…..   an insurance company that stood by us..  even when the faulted insurance did not..   the family that stepped up and said. No problem..  bring her own down (our truck that was smash because of another person)….   And the side effect for the King who got to see new born great grandchildren… as well as son’s and daughter in laws.. and grandchildren galore.. 

And then the news flash that we will be come GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS in 2025!!    How can you beat all of that..  even with the roller coaster of life..

 

 

Found in my Document file... and the answer is no.. not yet

 

I was looking for something in my Document File and I found this..  just for the record.. 

NO I HAVE NOT LEFT YET..  Just figured I would put it out there, in case some of you don't make it after me..  or the kids forget to put it in the paper, the way I want..  a controller over my own life to the end..

 

Cis's Obituary

 

Well, if you are reading this Obituary, it must mean that I have grabbed

my last cup of coffee and maybe a strawberry, and my ashes are blowing

with the wind, as I say WOO, HOO, that was a hell of a ride...

So I guess we better get on with the serious stuff.

 

I was born in Newport, R.I. and raised by my parents, Gilbert and Mary

Richardson, along with a kid brother Roy.  I cleaned stalls, weeded gardens and

help put up hay, as I trolloped thru school, graduating from Rogers High School in Newport.  Later in life, learning of a half sister, Sandra Cooper in South Carolina.

 

I worked at the Naval Exchange after high school.  First in general office and then

in ordering and shipping.  Having the experience of going out on strike one lunch

time, because the supervisors wouldn't let us go out and see the arrival of Dwight

Eisenhower, who was our President at the time. This is before protesting was cool.

But was fired from there and sent home to look up the word ...insubordination...

as at the age of 18, I had an inquisitive mind and wanted to know why things were

done the way there were, questioning things that didn't seem right at the time.

 

I was shipped off after high school/job to spend some time with my grandfather,

Leroy Kaull, who had lost his wife. Then jumped across country to San Diego, California. To join friends of my mother, and  my favorite Aunt Harriet's family.

Holding down varies jobs, of sales person, payroll in a men's suits factory, and

also a bit of short cook. 

 

It was there I met my first husband William Worel, and we moved to Washington

State. After a short marriage of 8 years and 7 children, we divorced and I met

Marvin Hughes, who became my second husband.  After 17 years of marriage, and

one daughter, he passed away in 1986.  

Palled around with a friend for about 13 years and then made an honest man

out of him and married him, Kenneth Gors in 1999.

 

After Marvin passed away, the Johnson's, who owned Sandpoint Manor, decided

I was worthy of a job there after taking some certified nurses aide classes in 1986.

I worked there for 17+ years, retiring in 2003.  Taking care of the elderly was an

enjoyable job most of the time. It was a great generation to take care of.

 

After 2003, I dabbled a little in some home health care, when friends had a need

with their parents. But by 2011, I was done.. after all I was getting closer to their ages.

People would ask me what I did in retirement. Told them I did nothing, and found out

that I was very good at it, and it was a very busy time doing it.  Actually I did small

things here and there, yard work in the summer that was fun.  Spend weekends going

to yard sales with my daughter, buying up what I called yard art. Which could be

anything from a weird statue, to lights that lit at night by solar, and wind socks and

flags.  Seem to always have a project to do. And a side line of writing a blog for over

10 years.... called From a Simple Mind.

In 2010, my children surprised us with a trip to Hawaii, for 10 days.. To celebrate my 70’th birthday…What a wonderful time with great people.  There was 12 of us. 

In 2015, There was a joyous gathering in Seaside Oregon, called MEET ME AT

THE BEACH… where my family joined me to celebrate my 75^th birthday. Over

35 join us.  A truly joyous time.

 

So here I leave you, leaving behind a wonderful fun time husband, Ken Gors, who

made me laugh, even when I threaten to kill him, because of his practical jokes. He

still treated me like a queen, when another word that rhymes with witch would have

been a better description.

 

Also leaving behind some the kids, who live in the Longview area... A daughter,  who beat me to the pearly gate… Julie Cook   with her husband Miles in Vancouver, Wa. A son William Worel II, and his wonderful wife Elaine, who live in Castle Rock, Wa. . Gilbert Worel and his lovely wife, Terra, who live in Kelso , Wa. ...Bradley Worel and his loving wife Patty, who live in Castle Rock, Wa. Stan (the man) better know to me as Daryl Worel, and his new wife Terry, who lives in Yelm, Wa. And last but not least.. my daughter and best friend, Jeanette Haines and her wonderful husband, who also beat me the pearly gate…Tim  who live in Sandpoint, Idaho. And two daughters, Patricia Harriet Worel and Sally J.Worel in the Longview area.

Also in this tribe of many, too many to list... is 20 grandchildren, and at last count 36 great grandchildren... spread out from, Washington, Idaho and California.  Throw in a few cousins in Ca.,  Virginia, Wa. and nieces and nephews in R.I., Fla., SC. Minn. ... And some pretty darn good friends..partner in crime over the years, Cherie, and most recently Lorraine Allen.  Art and another who beat me to the pearly gate is wife, Betty and Austin and his wonderful wife, Lynn  ..So please,  take good care of the old man.

 

and  a special one..  my grandchild from another mother, who has gotten me out of more computer trouble than I want to admit... Lexi and her sweet boys..         

A life well lived.. I have no real regrets..  

And all of you left behind... live well, love lots, and keep the faith.

 

 

   

 

 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE 

to you all... 

wishing a great day with your family..  and for those who are alone..  may you find peace and even joy to not be part of the hoopla... but to enjoy  one's self . 

I know there are a lot of lonely people.. so if you know one in your neighborhood, then an invite or take a plate of food over to them..  especially the elderly.. 

and may the kindness of today..  be shared the rest of the year and into 2025

LOOKING BACK (to my Brother Roy)

LOOKING BACK (to my Brother Roy)

See today would have been my brother’s  80^th birthday.. 

Knowing him, he would have had it full of laughter.  He and his buddies would be downtown Jamestown, R.I.  (even tho he moved to Portsmouth in his later life, when he inherited our folks farm)

Having coffee and laughing up the place.. then His kids would have had a Hell of a party.  And by now a great granddaughter running around..  to the gee of Grandpa’s antics.. .. 

But sadly God had other plans

10 1/2 years ago, God decided he needed Roy more than his friends and family did. Just 6 months before his 70^th birthday.

In 2011, I bought a birthday card that you will see here. And he decided to send it back to me on my  birthday and said we should just sent it back and forth to each other.. just adding a few words..   And we did.. as you can see…  but in 2014… after my birthday,  he passed..  so he had the last word. I take it out every year on his birthday and then in April to read what we wrote.   I use to tell him each year in our phone calls, what to look forward to when he arrived at each 5 years..  and I had a doozy ready for his 70^th.. of all the good things that happen in your 70 and not to fear it but embrace it..and passed on my questionable words of wisdom, of things he would face that year.  But I  never got to write it. Looking back, maybe when I got it out, I should have added to it.  See I am 4 years older than he.

See, Roy, as you would have turn 80 this year.. all the good times of 70 .. well, they are gone and you had fun, right?.  WELL, 80 is starting of the pits.  That is when the legs let you know you can’t walk a mile anymore..  that walking around the grocery store can be marathon.  And aches, pains, you blew off before.. well, they nag the hell out of you… letting you know you are not macho man anymore.. But the sense of humor gets even more sharper.. And YOU can rass the heck out of the younger generation..  And teach your great grandkid all kinds of stuff..    But guess you are going to have to sit up there in heaven and watch..  but at least you aren’t lonely anymore.. with your wife joining you,   with Mom and Dad there too. 

God Bless…. Kid..  happy 80th

 

 

 

 

The best that money can buy….

The best that money can buy….

We have all heard the old saying… “he is the best congressman that money can buy”…  that was back in the 40’s or so..  Well, that saying should come back.. because Trump is for sale..  and he has gladly accept all fees coming in. Mostly from Computer company's…  Like Facebook.. then there is Twitter now call X ..  both have given Millions and more..  to Trump’s organization…  it is public knowledge.  Meta president has donated 1 million dollars to Trump’s Inaugural party.  You can find the story .. with these kinds of reports from the Wall Street. and etc..

The Wall Street Journal, which broke both stories and revealed the Meta donation late Wednesday night, said the corporate handout was a departure for the Zuckerberg-run company, which had previously refused to endorse a candidate in this year's presidential race. Zuckerberg had met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida last week, speculatively the precursor for the million-dollar gift.  Coming up right behind him is Amazon’s CEO..  Jeff Bezo…

And we know how much MUSK  has gave already.. and more to come..And this is ok?  There isn’t a law against that..  Influencing and buying the  President office?   Some where I thought that was illegal.. but who am I to know such things..   And the Republican party .. Senators and Representative seem to be ok with that..  I can just imagine what would be splashed across FOX NEWS if it was  Democrat President … say like Obama, or even more so Biden.. 

The winds are changing.. it isn’t for the good.   But I am sure that the Trump group is ok with this..  Maybe this is normal.. after all who has paid for the inaugural parties in the past.. I thought it was the party themselves..  Meaning the Republican’s for a Republican's President and Democrats for the Democrats Presidents..   maybe I should go Google it. 

 https://www.marketplace.org/2017/01/18/let-s-do-numbers-cost-inauguration/

I tried to find out how much Kennedy’s cost.. but guess there were more closed mouth in those days about it..  So I guess the bragging rights goes to Donald. 

 

Words on sorrow.. when they say.. LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH

Words on sorrow..  when they say.. LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH

 This is a rough time of the year for many.. some hide.. some take a way out that is so mind blowing for the rest of us.  Some of us don’t see it coming..  some of us worry about our love ones.. be they a friend or family..  and yet can’t find the magic words to say..  to keep the person thinking that their lives are such a black hole, they can’t take it anymore. 

We had a family member.. who did on the 7^th of December. Don’t know if she was thinking about how she could not face Christmas, even tho it was one of her favorites in the past years..  We knew she was fragile.  She had been fragile before.  She had a wonderful boyfriend, who was by her side 99% of the time.   Yet, she found a way to divert him, and did the deed…  to our horror..   And she left a note…  with the words above…  LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH..  How can you fight that?

So even those were her words, I pray that your love one.. that Love IS enough..  and you can help..

If the worse happens.. there are groups to help you..  Find them..  because you will never understand and they can help you try.   Google the suicide line.. in your area.

LONG DAY IN THE KITCHEN…

LONG DAY IN THE KITCHEN…

Up and at them.. early 0 hour… well for me.. at least. See in the winter I sleep in..  because I am a daylight person..  So when the sun is up at 5am. in the summer… I am up at 5am.  When it is up at 7:15am in the winter…  I am .. yep, up at 7:15 or so.. some times 7:30 if it is overcast and the sun is not coming thru my window.. The bed is too warm to leave before that.. and nothing is hurting on my body.

So to be up at 6am.. yesterday morning… quick breakfast.. and I was ready to go.. Had all the bowls out, and all the measuring cups from 1 cup to 8 cups..  I had the cookie sheets and the wire racks.. All out the night before..  I got the bowls in a row..  and started to put ingredient in them… and then to my HORROR… I saw I did NOT have enough brown sugar.   So called the King (he is up at 5am and with his cronies at the HOOT OWL.)….I asked him to pick up 4 bags..  he got me 5.. that is ok..  Any way.. got the ingredient in each of the bowls.  Not enough nuts for all 3.. which is fine.. as I try not to put nuts in all of my cookies. For those who are allergic.

So with breakfast and ingredient ready to go..  I was spoon  in hand at 8am.. Spooning dough out on to the cookie sheets.  I have 6 cookie sheets..  and by 8:30… first one in..

By 1pm I was all done with all of the sheets and cooked and cookies on the wire racks.

By 3pm all were cool enough to bag. 10 to a bag. Well, I started out with 12.. but when I noticed one of them was 2 short because my tester husband took 2..  so figured… ok. 10 is a good number.

Had them all bagged by 4. And out in the refrigerator in the garage. (a little out of range for my tester husband to get) As  there were a few tinged at the edges.. which became the Testers..  lol..

At 5pm..I was fixing dinner and eating..  by 6.. I had the breads back in the house from the garage.. and wrapped them in wrapping… as I didn’t like how the foil fit around them..  By 7pm, I had the pans all washed, and placed outside in the cupboards in the garage.  And the kitchen back to normal..  what ever normal is..   That is the longest I have been in a kitchen.. since.. well, I don’t remember.. Since retiring… and then the King retired.. and he loves to cook, I don’t do much but prep work for him.  BUT I AM DONE..

I use to do breads, cookies, candy and one time did jalapeno jam.   And we gave it all away in baskets for gifts..  But we don’t do that anymore.. for one thing.. a lot of the receivers have passed away..

But at least I got it done.. until next year..

Wizard of Oz

Wizard of Oz

My thoughts of late have been on the song in Wizard of Oz.

It is the one where the scarecrow sings..  I WISH I HAD A BRAIN…   Because mine seems to go on vacation from time to time..  use to say..  a  SENIOR MOMENT.. but that is too short of a time for this.  

But I got to admit.. I pass what I have now called Dementia Test..  that is where you sit so nice in your house, writing out a list of stuff you need from the store…   and THEN YOU FORGET IT ON THE COUNTER…   and you don’t discovery this … until you are entering the store.  No, you don’t want to drive home and get it..  So you trudge thru and try to remember what it was on the list.  Closing your eyes and trying to imagine what you see of what you wrote, does not help at all.     And I hate going up and down the aisle trying to see what seems familiar of what you are missing at home.    But I went to the store .. and I searched all of my pockets.. (vest has 4 and jacket has two) NO LIST..   I remember the main thing I wanted as I had just wrote it down before I left.  The others were from a day or two before..   But I AM SOOOOOOOOO PROUD OF MYSELF… I aced it.  I got all 5 items.. (what did you think I was a genius and remember 20? Come on .) At 84.. 5 is good. 

Well, heading in the kitchen to make cookies this am.. Christmas cookies that the King loves..  when I make a big batch.. I have to freeze ¾ of them .. or we will binge eat them..   that is why I only make them once a year..  ok. I am off..  humming  Oh, if only I had a brain……

My heart just doesn’t seem to be in it…

My heart just doesn’t seem to be in it…

Each year, for years..  this is the time I start making my Choc. Zucchini Bread..   Last year I did maybe about 8 of them…. usually to about 20..  And this year.. I really don’t have my heart into it..  Hoping when I start, I will get into the mood.. But it is the getting started.. 

Actually I am having a hard time getting my heart into anything…  Got the Christmas stuff out..  looked thru it..  hung the King’s flat tree on the wall next to his chair.. put the rest of it back in the tote and put it in the back room with the other one.. I have got it down to 2 totes.  We don’t do a regular tree.. no room.. Found the flat wall tree a few years ago.. It serves the purpose..  when it is over, just roll it up and put it away until next year.

Anyway, figured I would give the chore to the GGboys.. when they come over Wed.  Did it with one last year.. he did a pretty good job. So hoping they will do well, and not fight over it..  There is no such thing about it not going any particular place.. Just let his ideas flow..  So God only knows where the stuff will end up at..   Will show pictures next week.

 

 

This and That…

This and That…

Well, here we go… closing in on 2025.. ending another year…  or as I use to say..  Another year shot to hell..  lets see how we do with the next one. 

Already told you, I thought this year was on maxi speed. 

While we are about 4 weeks to 2025..  we still have time for things to happen in this world..

There are many changes over seas..  Lets hope peace on earth is one of them.

I have decided ..  I don’t like going for drives any more.  Over the weekend we traveled to Spokane.  Now normally that isn’t a big deal. We went what we would think is the back way.. thru Newport, WA.. down highway 2.. to Spokane.   We have done this many times, just not in the past 4 or 5 years.  It seem like it was FOREVER.. We had traveled for at least an hour… and I finally said.. Boy, I don’t remember this road being so long…  And the King replied… I was just thinking the same thing..  I was thinking how I was beginning to think like a kid.  ARE WE THERE YET?  ARE WE THERE YET?   When we left for home we took one of the other routes we normally take. And it did seem faster..  but it still was a long time.. So about 2 hours each way… with dinner on the way home.  So we were going for over 4 hours.. And the dog was not happy..  I think she thought we deserted her.  As this is the longest we have been gone. Guess I am just getting old.

Oh, and it was for nothing..  We found out the chair the King was thinking about getting.. was really nice.. but the price sure wasn’t..  so we came home empty handed.. Oh well, it was a ride with my sweet guy, who gets very upset with Washington drivers… lol.. and we got lost.. so had to stop for directions.. and of course we had traveled about 18 miles the wrong way…  Oh, road trips… I think I will pass.

 

 

wishing you all a wonderful day

 Here we are.. approaching Thanksgiving Day... 

Tomorrow and maybe today..  I will get ahead start on prep work.. I am the prep cook.. meaning I will be cutting and chopping the onions and celery for the King.  Then there is the celery... to chop at just the right length and put the cheese we have bought in each one. We have about 4 choices..   We will have the usual... green bean casserole, Yam's with marshmallows.. dressing, gravy and of course TURKEY.. along with the side dishes of pickles and olives and coming is devil eggs,  pies, Hawaiian buns,  So I guess I better get started on some of my prep work.... as tomorrow afternoon is GGboys time.. and not much gets done then..  lol.. 

SO OUR HOUSE... WISHES YOU ALL A GREAT DAY.. WITH WONDERFUL FOOD, AND GREAT FAMILY AND FRIENDS CONVERSATIONS..  Make memories.. AND TAKE PICTURES.. 20 years from now, when all the children are adults..  they will see those pictures and remember all of us who have gone ahead...   

GOD BLESS... 

To rake or not to rake

To rake or not to rake

That is the question…   do you rake your leaves or do you leave them on the ground?

I had an old friend..Harold McWilliams, better know to all who knew him….  “Mac the Packer”  who passed away at the age of 95. He was a Leanin Tree looking old western guy.  He packed for the government mostly in Washington State.  He was an old salt.. kind of guy who did not brag … well, rarely bragged.

He sure knew the lay of the land in middle of Washington State. 40+years of packing for the Forest Dept. And knew Mother Nature very, very well…   Later in life he was about 80+ and he was running the garbage/recycle for Kittitas County.. 

As he was sitting there waiting for someone to come up to dump their garbage.. he saw several young men get out of a truck with rakes.  And the went under the trees that were across the driveway from the station.  It peeked his curiosity.  So he walked over and talked to them to see why they were raking the leaves in to piles.. and then load them in to bags..  They explain they were from the local college and they were there to take the leaves away from the trees, so they don’t rot.  The leaves that is.. which would rot the trees.   Mac, a man of few words,  said… REALLY.  What makes you think that?   They gave him a 15 minute or so of reasons for all of it.. fires… rotting of trees and so much more.   He told them, he had packed for the Forest Dept. for 40 years and never seen any one rake the leaves around the forest floor before.. 

And Mother Nature never blew them away…

They looked him, like he was the old man that he was.. and his old fashion thoughts.. And told him this was the new science.  So Mac started to walk away… and then said..  Well, personally, I think God has the best plan that has worked all of my life and before.   Like I said Mac was a man of a few words.

So do you rake the leaves in your yard?  I see yards in the city of Sandpoint, where people put big bags of leaves at the street side for the city to pick up.    Me, I don’t. I follow Mac’s way of thinking..  But the King, he is kind of stuck in the middle… so he runs the lawn mower over them and mulches them.

 

 

IS IT JUST ME….…

IS IT JUST ME….… 

This is November already  AND over half of that… where is this year going??? 

It was February.. and then it was September…March thru August zoomed so fast by me..  I was hanging on to Summer so much, my fingers were marked on it.. I know it had to be so….  AND NOW IT IS NOVEMBER WITH December JUST TWO WEEKS AWAY!!

 

I know I made this reference before..  the joke about the bicycle with the toilet paper front wheel…. That kept running down..  and that it was life running out…   and how I laughed at the time..  I think I might have been thirty something…   Well, I am telling you at 84.. this is not funny.. No wonder we can’t remember much…  with the year on speed dial.

 

I hate December..  I hate COLD FREEZING WINTER. I hate Christmas all that goes with it.. the extra cooking, getting gifts… and all of that… and people arguing over Merry Christmas and me with my HAPPY HOLIDAY..  I just am lazy…..  you know with the spew of

HAPPY THANKSIVING..MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR…   Happy Holidays is soooooooooo much easier.    Yes. I am not a fan of December..   do you remember the song by Merle Haggard?   IF WE MAKE IT THRU DECEMBER that was my theme song.. 

I don’t suppose life can make December go by, like it is on speed dial…    I am ok with learning to write 2025.. 

BAH HUMBUG..

Gosh, I hate getting old…

Gosh, I hate getting old…  

Last night I went to bed and fairly good shape.. Well, as good as I get..   But it really pisses me off to get up and something hurts that did not hurt when I went to bed.

Case in point…  I went to bed.  As I said ..in fair good shape.

I woke up in the morning, put my feet on the floor and started to take a step.. and PAIN.. in my ankle.  My right ankle.  Now remember I just told you, I went to bed in fair good shape..  So where the hell did this come from?  How do you get a sprained ankle IN BED???  So  I am limping to the bathroom, and could not see any redness..  no mark.. not that I was expecting one..but at least that would show something.   But NOTHING.. but PAIN..  So I gimped around, trying not to put weight on it..  The dog wants to go out, so I gimp to the door.   What do I see.. SNOW.. the dog is not pleased.. She makes several circle on the deck and then pees..  Looking at me as she runs for the door,  ‘you didn’t expect me to go down in the yard with all that snow, did you,’ look. 

Anyway, after putting on a sock and then my shoe.. the ankle let up and off I went to church..   But why is it.. when we get old… we go to bed… in fairly good shape, and something goes to hell in a hand basket by the time you get up.. After all, how much trouble can you get into …laying in bed.  Well, I guess enough to be upset about it. 

Oh, yea... I am heading to the insurance agency... for the King and I to get our health insurance supplement done for next year..   as you can see we are a little bit late.. Why because the King was hunting so we had to change our date for AFTER ELK SEASON....  then the second one..  well, that one is on me... I had it welded in my brain.. TUESDAY... at 2pm.  I had the sticky note on the mirror... I had it on the calendar on the wall in the hall.. They called and I said, yep.. TUESDAY at 2.. well, I guess she didn't hear me make a mistake..  because they called on MONDAY..  and said... do we need to reschedule your appt. I said "oh no, we will be there tomorrow TUESDAY at 2."... there was silence on the phone... then said  "uh"...   and I said.. tomorrow the 28th.. right.  and she said, uh.... actually it is on the 28th.. but that is TODAY. MONDAY..   my body collapse on the inside... as I looked at the sticky note that says the 28th...  Monday...   So reschedule to THE 18th.. at 9am..  They called on Friday.. I saw who was calling and I said.. this time I got it right...we WILL BE THERE MONDAY AT 9...RIGHT?   She said yes, this time you got it right...   see you MONDAY..  AND BY LOVE OF GOD.. WE WILL BE THERE..  

it is hell to get old..

Here we go folks… hang on to your hat…

Here we go folks… hang on to your hat…

You have 2 months to breathe in…  and out…  and decide how you will handle the next 4 and half years..  

Will he be the louse that we know he is?  Those who never did like him in the first place.? .

For those who ask us why not give him a chance..   Heck why didn’t they  say that about Joe?  After all you were kicking him before he even got in office..   And you had no clue what he would or could do.. And of course with Republican Congress for all 4 years..  there wasn’t a lot he could do.. Even when he tried to get Congress to pass a law with the border was concerned..  Trump …  Trump  who was not a President at the time… was not a Congressman at the time.. TOLD CONGRESS  not to pass it..  And they didn’t… What the hell?  Since when did Congress pay attention to and EX-President? Not in my memory..  But what the hell, rules and regs and common sense died..  so we sit and watch this one.. 

If there is any common sense people out there… and if come 2026 comes..  and you don’t like what he does.. then you better damn well. Over whelming… vote Democrat or Independent… If you keep voting Republican.. well, the saying comes to mind to me…  is….. the “definition to insanity is Doing the same thing over and over and expecting things to be different.”

Those of use over 60… know what the possibilities of this new group coming in…  we know what can happen, if we put too much tariffs.. on China..  who most don’t understand that they own a good share of our banks in the USA…  they too will raised their tariffs.. and will raise it twice as much as USA will do… So what does that do for your cheap food, and products?  Your meds..  Because it will be at least 2 to 3 years for the USA. To  get product factories going, to make the products that American’s love and can’t do without.. Car parts, clothes, and forget about televisions and computers..  And those parts made in Mexico, same thing.. after all when he starts up with the mess at the border… guess who won’t be selling for cheap prices anymore… 

ABC did a report about 8 years ago…  about products made here and over seas.. What would happen if we could not buy overseas…  We found out thru the show that a good share of the products we use every day…  could actually be made and bought here in the good old USA…  Only trouble is that those who made the products were not in mass production for the country to buy on an basis of what is needed by the whole country.. A lot of the furniture places made maybe 100 to 1000 a year.. it was a craft type thing.. not a mass production company.  Any way, the only thing they could not buy to furnish a new house with ALL USA PRODUCTS..  NO OVERSEAS products… was computers and televisions.. They were made in China, Korean, Japan and etc.  Oh, because the factories could not do a mass production right away.. the prices they ask for their products are high… After all they are paying USA wages.. not overseas…  And even with the tariff of right now.. is still cheaper than the USA. 

And that is only one area… of the new deal coming in..  

Once the Allies see that we are budding up with Putin and North Korea… well, let’s just say they were not happy about Trump last time.. especially when TRUMP ask for no one in the room with him except an translator..  and the rest of the world never did find out what he and Putin had to say to each other and any promises made my our head…

So start now, how to stay close to your family and friends.. I mean your GOOD FRIENDS… do things with them.. and hope you don’t look at the media too much to see what is going on…  and the media will hype it so bad, you won’t know what is truth or not…  So live you life with what matters to you…    It is not wearing shades… or putting your head in the sand… it is “Be aware”, just don’t make it your main thing in life..    and PRAY.. OH GOD, PRAY… that he knows what he is doing… (that is God, not trump)… and hope this 4 years goes by fast.. and pray the Democrats and Independent get there crap together in 2026..  

This pretty well says it all..

This pretty well says it all..

 

This pretty well says it all.. what is the saying a picture is worth a thousand words..??

 

 

 

November 5, 2024

 

November 5, 2024

 

VOTING DAY… GET OUT THERE.. NO EXCUSES.

 

NO VOTE.. NO  BITCHING RIGHTS…

and may the crumbs fall where they may tonight. 

Just get out and VOTE..

 Just get out and VOTE..

 

Yes, I am talking to you!!  Have you already voted early?  Good…. 

 

If you have not….  Get out there tomorrow…  and       Vote!!!    

 

 

 

COME WENDESDAY MORNING……   IF YOU DID NOT VOTE..  DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT GOVERNMENT IN ANY WAY….. TALK TO THE HAND… 

 

NO VOTING..  NO BITCHING RIGHTS…

Time for a readjustment…

Time for a readjustment…

Once again.. my memory failed me..  even with sticky notes and calendar marking…   Now going to have to go to double checking.. and not just mark dates, but days..  

I really screwed up yesterday…  We have an appt. for our health insurance that we have to do yearly..  I marked it on the calendar. Yes, in the right date on the right day….  Even had an arrow on it as we had changed the date before.. As the King was hunting.  I had the card taped to the mirror… even with a phone call..  some how…. Somehow..  I put it in my mind it was on a TUESDAY… NOPE…  it was MONDAY… didn’t register the actual number of the day.. by passed that..   So NOW it is push to NOVERBER 18. Getting close to the cut off date..  AND IT IS ON ME…

So got to come up with a better system..  there is ECHO.. so learning how to set that up…  OH PLEASE LORD, LET ME KEEP MY BRAIN..

And the race is on

And the race is on 

Here we go folks..  the last week of October..  Hello winter..as Friday is November. Once again.  How did THIS month fly by.

But starting next week the race will be on..   See on Sunday the 3^rd we have the old spring forward,  FALL BACK..  so we change our clocks back for the fall..  and then two days after that  Those who haven’t gotten their ballots in the mail.. or gone down for the early voting at your county seat building…  will be the ones who make up the WHO IS THE WINNER THIS YEAR…  and will we have the same nonsense as last time.. Trump scream.. fraud.. and then the riots start because people will believe him..  Or there will be a lot of disappointed Democrats…  Every four years for the past 12 years … election day has been a bitter disappoint for a lot of people.. some accept it gracefully..  other not so much.

So next Tuesday morning when my blog hits the internet… my question will be   DID YOU VOTE…..  and if there are still some stupid people who blow it off…   I give them my hand, when they start to complain.. IF YOU DID NOT VOTE… YOU DO NOT GET BITCHING RIGHTS….  SO TALK TO THE HAND.. Because I am not listening to you..  I don’t care who you vote for…JUST VOTE.    I will repeat these words next Tuesday.. ..

Politic.. are getting stranger and stranger…

Politic.. are getting stranger and stranger…

We, here,  in the northern part of Idaho get Spokane Washington state channels.   Rare if ever we get Idaho election ads.. Don’t know why our group, doesn’t do ads on the   Wa. Station.. After all if we put up with their Wa. Ads.. they can put up with ours.. and besides the stations get the $$$$$$.. And up here there is no Idaho stations.. they are all down around Boise.. 8 hours away.

Of interest of sorts is the Washington State Governor race.  Which has ads on, I am presuming, ALL Washington state stations. 

Their present Governor is not running.   So there is two newbies.

Ferguson, I think is the name of one of them.. the other guy, his starts with an R.   

The reason why I use a name for one and an initials for the other, is I haven’t seen much of his ads.. well, can’t say it is HIS ads because the ad is about what a terrible statesman he is.  Of that he has voted for or against that it is per seems to be, what the citizen would not want.  But Ferguson, has all kinds of what a great guy he is, his friends and brother is in the ads as well.

So I wonder… surely he must be doing better by ads (the guy with the R name)…. In Seattle area.  And hopefully down by Portland Oregon side of Washington state.    So why isn’t he putting in ads of positives in Spokane?  Does he think that Spokane won’t pay attention to his ads?  Be a new guy on the block and with a Seattle background…  shouldn’t he be letting Spokane and surrounding area’s  know who he is?  What good, he thinks, he can do for them? Or is he so arrogant that he feels he doesn’t need them?   (that in is self would be enough for me to vote against him, if I lived in Spokane.)

There once was a sign in the Spokane area… a billboard. It said.

DON’T LET SEATTLE DO THE VOTING FOR YOU…or something like that.  I would ask my son’s but none of them watch the news or regular programming.

Whoa.. but is this month running pass us?

Whoa..  but is this month running pass us?

Here it is the 21^st…  with just 10 days left..  I am so not ready.

Oh, the mild (and yes it is even mild for us..with 55 to 72 degrees) days..  No snow, not even in the mountain area..  (Sh sh….maybe I shouldn’t have said that… bad karma…)   I am still wanting to hold on to summer.. but I do have my winter clothes out and summer put away..  the yard is ready for winter, with the exception of a few potted plants who are hanging on..   Got our winter tires on the vehicles…  In Idaho you just never know.

But still how or why are the days flying by?  We are just two months away from Christmas..   (shut your mouth Cis, )…

Life just seems to be passing us by…  15 days to election where we will see how much this world will change..  Hopefully not the hateful part of the past 4 years..

So hang on to your hats folks..  the calendar pages are flipping by.

 

While Elk season is still alive….  So are the elk…   Elk alive and well  … the King 0

 

The race is on….ELK Season

The race is on….ELK Season

Today is the day of opening season for either sex. For those of you who are living on the East Coast…  Elk is like a large deer. Meat wise it is compared to a cow size. And taste..  Which is ironic as the elk sexes are BULL AND COW..   When the season starts it is bulls only… which was last week..  so here we are about 7 days in.. and it is cow season and that is when it gets serious… meaning you can kill either one of them..  a really open season… It is kind of figured if you don’t get one during cow season..  you are not in a good position..  See there is more of the season.. about week..  /cow season is only 3 days if I recall right.  But there is that week after.. and then there is black powder season, about a week.… But come Nov… it is over.. there is still deer season.. but deer is poor man’s elk.   Elk is more like beef and it is BIG..   Deer is small, and well, it doesn’t taste like anything but venison… if not cooked right, it taste like liver. I like the roast better..  Ken cooks the steaks as he can do it just right.  Me it is a 50-50 deal. But I make a great roast.

So today is the big day..  it is up at 2am.. (NOT ME) so he can get up there with his buddies who camped out.. He comes home at night for a warm bed and shower…  Then they leave camp, and head into the woods..  Because Ken is the senior guy now.. he gets to take the guys and drop them off at the top of the hill or mountain..  and goes down to the bottom and pick them up when they walk thru.. The young guys.. (The under 65 guys.)  Also while waiting for them to come out.. he sits there with his rifle.. and if they scare one his way… He gets to take it down..   the good news is that is near the road…  just about ¼ of a block from the road. So carrying it is not bad.  It is the ones who shoot near mid way.. who have the long haul..  That takes cutting it up in quarters. Load it on your back and head for the truck. Or nearest road so a truck can come get you.   Last year the guys did not get any elk.. only deer. So we are hoping for at least one Elk.   It is split between all he                                      who are hunting with you…  That is the rules of the hunt.  He who helps pack it out, and helps with the processing the meat.. gets a share.

And we women, most of us don’t hunt.. Use to.. when younger..  but now we get to stay home and keep the home fires burning. AND  we get to do as we DARN WELL WANT TO DO..  Some of us read books and drink tea.. watch the shows on tv WE LIKE.. and then there are some, it is party time with the girls..  Either at one’s home or the bars.  Go to shows their husbands wouldn’t be caught dead in..   So you see there is benefits to both sides. 

So here is to a great hunt and all the guys get their tags filled.