Party? What Party?

I am sure that like myself, you are tired of this

b.s. in Washington, DC.  So much standing in

in front of the television cameras with bumbling

words.  On both sides.

So here we are, what 29 more hours and then we

find out who is playing chicken and who flinches.

They say they are speaking for the American's.

They are so into watching themselves on the

televisions, they surely can't be watching how the

citizens are reacting. Or they would be in there

getting their act together.  What part of "Affordable

Care, is not up for discussion" don't the Republican's

get. Sure there must be some sane ones there who

get that and have a voice.  Get it together.. work on

Affordable Care after.  Fine tune it later.. Let's get

with the rest of the decisions. Mainly, the debt ceiling.

Talk about a do nothing Congress.

In the old days, the Republicans and the Democrats

use to try to get along some what.. That is why Tip

O'Neal and Reagan got along... Kennedy with McCain

and many more, way before any of them. 

But this Republican party they have now.. has split

so many ways... I think there should be truth in parties. Meaning.. they shouldn't all run under the same umbrella when they can't get along with each other. Let them stand out there on their own.

There should be... the Democrats, the Republicans,

the Tea Party, the Conservatives, and what ever else

the Republican party has hid under that umbrella. 

Because I am sure there are a lot of old time

Republicans who are shaking their heads, and even

have their heads hanging low with all these others

invading their party.  It would be really interesting, if

they would all run under the headline of their interest,

instead of hiding under the elephant.  And really would any of them really get any real votes if they did? 

I saw on the news this morning, that there is a survey

that shows a wide berth in the middle.. really wide berth, of people of this nation who are sick and tired of both parties. They showed 1/4 Democrats(blue), 1/4 Republicans (red) and a grey area in the middle that was half of the voters who want no part of either party.

I am sure today, they are even more so.. and who knows how many from each side will jump to the middle?  I jumped there over 13 years ago.. with my joking of the Cafeteria Party... but now it is hard to find anything on either side to pick from.

So let's have truth in the parties... If you don't believe whole heartily in what that party represents, then get

you own.  And the Republicans should kick them out

of their party.. after all they are giving the Republicans a bad name...

 

YOUR OBITUARY...

With all the huffing and puffing coming out of Washington, D.C.

I decided to lighten up and work on my obituary... Now you might find that to be quite a downer... but actually it isn't..

 

When I took Hospice classes over 13 years ago, one of the assignments was writing up our own obituary... The teacher told us we could do it serious if we wanted to, but we also could have fun with it too.

 

Wish I knew where I put mine. As I decided to have fun with it. And if I can find it... I will probably use a great deal of it.  It started out with the usual...  You know.. when and where I was born... and to whom. Listed my one and half sibling (brother and half sister) and my 8 children,

and listed the number of grandchildren. Which has totaled up almost twice as much now and then there is the great-grandchildren.  Well, that takes up a paragraph in itself.... But the rest I had fun.

 

I told of the many jobs I had over my then 60 years. Putting on a spin, of how they help form my life. Among them was smashing cars for scrap iron. The waitress jobs... the starting out jobs...   Babysitting, working civil service (telling how it educated me to knowing what the ord insubordination meant. Being I was always questioning why, at my young

age and wanted things to be "fair") and how I came to smashing cars and burning them on purpose.  Before spending the rest of my life working in a nursing home and the love of the patients and what a great generation

they were.

 

I think a person should write their own obituary.  Too many times it is a family member who writes a flowerily one, that would embarrass the deceased. Or maybe not..

But one that was a hoot, was one I read this past spring.

She wrote her own.. and near the end, after tooting her own horn, she wrote.

"But there are some who I couldn't stand. and you know who you are"... I almost spit out my coffee... I didn't know the lady, but I had to give her a high five for a great obituary.

 

So what would you write about, if you were writing your own? Would it be serious? Would you tout all the wonderful thing you thought you had done over the years? Or would you write one that was humorous... After all, this

will be your last words... your last shot so to speak. 

 

I know I am going to make mine one that they will remember for a while. After all I won't have a grave site.. my ashes are going to be blown to the wind... going back to the earth that I came from.  And my tombstone is already in place in a park.  it is a bench for grandparents to sit with their grandchildren, to be able to give them words of wisdom.

 

See I am a control freak... of me.. Others I feel can do as they see fit. It is their choices.. but I am accountable for me.. So that means I hope to control what happens right after I leave this earth... then I will leave the rest up to you all. 

So if you hear that I have passed... try to find my obituary to see if they let me write my own... it ought to be a hoot. 

 

ALL OVER, BUT THE SHOUTING????

NOT HARDLY...  Some think that a compromise is coming this week.

Well, with part of the Congress who decided Columbus Day was a big enough holiday, to leave town.. it doesn't sound like they have the shut down in mind.  More like get out of Dodge while they are still able.

 

Even if you believe that the compromise is coming.. do you realize it isn't the shut down they are talking about? No, it is only the raising up of the national debt they are talking about agreeing on.  And that is only for a short

time.. weeks..  

Kind of like the carrot in front of the donkey, to keep him going. Or Lucy with the football, waiting for Chuck to run up to it.  

This is what our government has become.  No more decisions that last for years.. not even a

year.. These clowns that we all call Congressmen/women... can't decide or agree on much that will last for a year or more.  Each time they scare the daylights out of the elderly, make the vets wonder, and all of the rest of citizens of the United States mad as hell.  

 

Decisions, decisions, decisions... they are on the ship of fools...  Making agreements at the last possible minute or later.. and no conscience of what they have put the citizens of the nation thru.. only the selfish

meandering of their own existence.  Then have the guts to brag about how they help end the mess they made in the first place. 

These people make me sick... and our nation of short term memories, won't remember this come election time. 

 

HUNTING WIDOWS???

Today is the first day of hunting season.  So before the crack of dawn, many of men are on a road to seek their elk of the year. Some have their special spot.. and God forbid, if a rookie comes across it. Hunters are more guarded than mushroom seekers about their favorite spot.

 

There will the rookie, first time out guy... Who is partly scared he will mess up, and partly excited. A lot of times these guys are future son-in-laws who want to prove themselves to their future father-in-laws.

Or a new son-in-law.   Some are because the economy has been slow and need extra help with groceries.. And an elk would be a winter's meat supply.  Even halving it with a hunting buddy would help.

 

The rest are old pros. Been doing it since they were kids with their fathers. Lot of hunting camps went up last weekend, looking forward to the beginning of the hunt today.  Some will be getting their elk today. Those who have scouted

the area over the summer or while gathering the winter's wood. So will have a good idea where the elk are hanging out.  And if they are hunting with others,

the hunt isn't over yet. As that person becomes the driver. The one who drops off other hunters in one area, and goes to the other side to pick up those hunters. Also helps getting other's elk out of the woods, as well.

 

Now the wives.. well, life goes by ... like any other day. Maybe something will fall apart, or stop working an hour after the husband has left for hunting camp. Or it is the same old routine.. minus husband.

 

Then there are the party widows... While the buddies are drinking beer around the campsite, talking about their day in the woods, their wives are out at the bar, drinking and laughing with each other.  No foul play.. just ladies night

out.

Next you have the older hunting widows... like myself... This is where we call this time of the year.. PROJECT TIME.  This is where we tear some thing part, that we have been trying to get our husband's to do over the year. Be it a painting project, tear out a wall (for the more aggressive of us) move

the furniture..  OH, SO MUCH TO DO, IN SUCH A SHORT TIME. haha.

 

This year the King isn't doing hunting camp. He has decided to do nights at home, in his bed with a shower available.  We live only about an hour drive from hunting area... so it isn't a hardship.  So my projects will have to be small. BUT, he is going over to Washington, to be driver for his brother,

so he isn't hunting by himself... and that will involved days and camping.

ALL IS NOT LOST... I am saving up my most involved project for that time. But that is 3 weeks away... dang.. oh well, I can gather supplies for it, now.

 

So HUNTING WIDOWS.. do not despair... there is lots of fun things to do. Younger ones, can share babysitting, so each gets to get a ladies night out. Older ones.. do those projects, without having to argue over how it is done.

And be able to finish it.. eat meals when you want to.. and you get control over the REMOTE CONTROL... so you can watch those Lifetime shows, DIY and other shows your guy doesn't like.

Yes, I know there are women hunters too.. but this post is called HUNTING WIDOWS...  

 

Dividing up the state...

The headline read this morning...

Frustrated Rural Colorado Counties Want to Secede as 51st State.

Now where have I heard that before...

First, locally... if the people of Washington and Idaho had their way, there would be a Empire State.. at least that is one of the names.

It would take in Spokane, Washington and Northern Idaho..

Both areas feel that their capital has no clue, nor do they want to have, about the other side of the state. 

 

Spokane feels that the people in Olympia, are only concerned about the western side of the state.. mainly Seattle. And Spokane is the step-child of Olympia.  

Bonner, Boundary, and Kootenai counties feel the same

way about Boise. Out of sight out of mind. 

Although, in the past 2 years, Boise has been spending a lot of money up this way. With new highway work going on between Kootenai and Bonner county.  Sandpoint has

finally got their by-pass that they have been trying for... for over 50 years.

And Dover (in Bonner County) got a new bridge as well. Of course being called the worse bridge in the nation by Mechanic Illustrated and the Discovery Channel, kind of helped there.

 

Then I do remember way back in the 70's I believe, that Newport County was making noises of how they wanted to break off from Providence and have their own state as well.. Which sadly got a lot of laughter, when you

consider that R.I. is the smallest state in the union. And Newport was only about 28 miles from Providence.

 

Well, if nothing else, now that the headline has made it to national television by the way of ABC NEWS... maybe the Governor and their Congress will take note, that not all is happy in Colorado.   

What hateful people we have become....

Or maybe we always have been... thought

i don't remember in my childhood, in my 20's,30's

and 40's it being as hateful as life is now.

Thank heavens there are enough good people out there

to balance it.

Anyone who has read, heard, about the recent shutdown has either had their own opinion or spreading someone else's opinion.  Most of it hateful.  Even I, am totally disgusted with them in D.C.  As far as I am concern, there is enough blame to spread around.. no one person is responsible.

Even though there are a lot of people who do blame one person.

Obama, of course. It goes with the job, (remember Bush)

But who passed Affordable Care? Congress.

Who is fighting in DC and shutting down the government.. although I understand it isn't a shut down but a partial, or what ever else they want to call it... but who is fighting? Congress.  Telling half truths as they face the television camera's. Both sides.

Then you have Facebook, which is spreading the venom along with Congress.  So much half truths to bald face lies. It is every where.  I have downsized my Facebook Newsfeed to get rid of a lot of them.. some of them, friends, some of them, family.  Just don't want to hear it, don't want to read it.   Life is too short to waste it on such stuff..

I was watching the movie 42 which most of you know it is about Jackie Robinson.  Such hatred. Even being passed to children. There was a child who was with his father, thrilled to death to be at the ball game.. When the father started yelling hateful things, the child was  confused... but shortly later that same child mimic his father...

That is what disturbs me most. Adults teaching hatred to their children. You see it in the Aryan Nation groups. You see it in the religious groups, you see it in the pictures overseas with their children.  Those children don't even know who we are. What we are like. We have it here as well. 

I heard those who are the most hateful are the ones who don't understand what they are hating. That they fear the unknown, so there for hate it.  Sad.. really sad..

Guess that is the reason why it doesn't bother me when and if someone says or tells someone else, that they hate me... (not in the last 20 years...lol) because they don't know me.. how can you hate someone you don't even know?       

Working with your husband...

I love helping my husband... I hate working with my husband.

Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus, they say.

I do know that I am logical.. so everything has an order...

My husband line of order is what ever is in his head at the

moment... and not necessarily in the next moment.. of which

he doesn't tell me he has switched gears.

When I work with him, it is fun until the line of order gets afoul.

I think if you move the things in front of you... then that opens the area for the next things to put away... and then the next. 

He starts out that way, but he will see something in the middle, and want to get that first and then something on the other side,and back to the front.. and cussing as he goes, as he is slipping and sliding on things in his way. 

If anyone were to be here while we work together.. and there

has been some poor souls, who don't understand.. think we

hate each other and how can we fight like that.  Which both of us will look at such person and wonder what are they talking about. We were just discussing how to do things.

But to be honest... I now know.. and understand my parents.. as they would bicker so much... I had to leave the area sometimes. And I would ask Mom (when I was an adult and it was safe to ask such questions) why do you help him, if he fights with you so much.

She would look so surprised and ask, what fighting? We were just talking, discussing options...

Now I understand.  but boy I can get so much more done by

myself... and the King probably thinks the same.

And that is why I do my projects while he is hunting. 

The Rough Shape I am in....

I thought I was doing pretty well.
After all I have been doing yard work all summer.
But I got out of bed this morning, feeling like 
a 90 year old woman. 

I guess that climbing up and down the ladder about
30 times yesterday is taking it's toll.  I was removing
the lights I had put up in the pergola. I don't remember
having this much trouble the next day when I put them
up.   Also there was the undoing all the bungees that
hold the shade cover as well. 

But between my back and my legs, well.. 90 year 
old describes it pretty well.. Guess I should spend
some of my down time this winter, doing some 
stretch exercises, for these old legs. Walking isn't
enough.   

Who can afford kids anymore....

I was reading about how some parent was paying their kids

for the tooth that fell out...   I did the same.. but I guess I was a cheap skate... as I only gave a dime... now days kids get from $3.00 to $5.00 a tooth.  What the heck?  It is a wonder the enterprising youngster doesn't pull out all of their teeth.

Babysitting... I only earn 25 cents an hour... and paid 50 cents an hour.  Now they are demanding $5.00 an hour...Holy cow.

How does a low income family afford to go out.. and also if

there is more than 2 children.. they charge extra for the other

children.  Wowser.. I never would have been able to leave

the house. 

I know there was times when my husband and I didn't have

money for a baby sitter... and had friends who thankfully were in the same position.. So we traded off babysitting.  Now days they call it going to spend the night... lol..  We didn't go out very often..  We hardly ever went out for New Year's Eve.. The kid's dad, called that amateur night.  That is when people who didn't really drink, went out and got drunk.  Also was safer to be at home.

Maybe families should go back to the old fashion way ...

going out in the 1800's and 1900's was going to another

families house and play games.. and you brought your kids

with you...to play with their kids.

Also we weren't given a list of things to bring to school,

for the kids in the beginning and even after it was a short list. Pencils, pens, locker lock and sneakers. A couple of peeches, and paper. That was it.   I saw the list at Wal-mart before school started and even kindergarten class looked longer than my shopping list.  Multiply that by each kid.. you almost have to get a loan.   No wonder there are so many groups who are giving away backpacks with supplies in it. Talking about backpacks... you see those things.. I have seen hunters go up in the woods with a lighter load.

Yep, I am glad my kids are grown.. and most of my grandchildren

are too. 

HELLO OCTOBER...

Hello, October....

Well, hang on to your hats.. October is coming in like a

lion.. September left in a huff... wind blowing over the

weekend... with rain coming down.. but the gardens

are put to bed for the most part..

You got to love October... the colors are wonderful.

A walk anywhere, shows you the trees and bushes of

many colors... even the leaves gives us memories of

playing in them as a child..

A walk is a brisk walk.. the coolness puts a bounce

to your step. Even having a sweater or a jacket is

warming to the soul.  And coming home to a cup of

hot chocolate or hot coffee is an welcome warm feeling.

Yep, I do like Fall... I know... I do like summer best.. but

I am a lover of all seasons.. each one has its purpose.