Walking around this blog site

I suppose those would say, that I am phoning this one it..
in a way, I guess that is true...with all the snow removal
we have been doing on our own place as well as a neighbor,
there just hasn't been much time for coming up with new
stuff.

So I thought I would do a walk around the blog site..

Last year, Toni from The Big Piney Woods helped me
out for a new face for the site. And it seems to work.
I like the Maxine in the corner... Sums up most winter
mornings.

Stebbijo's husband Bob, gave me the coffee cup with
my name on it. It kind of sums me up too...as I am
worth less before my first cup of coffee in the morning.

Then I have the clock.. that way when you are reading
the blog, you can tell if it is time to get the heck out of
here... you have spent too much time... lol.


Then I have my site meter to keep an idea of how many
people come to read. Which has been amazing lately.
Must be a lot of bored winter people. Also it is amazing
where these people are from. I don't know who they are
but some are from Spain, some places I never heard
of, some I have and across the good old USA...

Then I borrowed/stole from Oregon Dave, the Match
Up game. I use to play it over at his blog, and so
I decided I would help educate some of my readers,
along with me.

Above the Site Meter is Links. I recently took some
off and put on some new ones. Don't know if anyone
pays attention to them. Some have been there for
years. Of course Huckleberries and Slight Detour
being the parents of this blog, they are there the
longest. Each one of those in the link, have great
blogs. Ones that I go to off and on. Some of them
daily. My Gal Cindy is one of the new ones. She
is a gal I knew from when she was about 8. Now
all grown up, was a Judge in Alaska and now is
in Seattle while her daughter goes to school there.
So it is her adventures in the big city after being
a gal from a small town in Alaska. One is a name
change. Idle Thoughts, a friend of 30 some odd
years, who is running the gambit of trying to
keep ahead of her grandsons who are now teens,
and she and her husband have been raising them
since they were 2 and 3. Marmite toasty is from
England and always has me laughing my head
off. A Family runs through it, always amazes me
of what a cool stay at home dad he is...Heck, he
is just a cool dad..period. You have the zany
Oregon Dave, the thoughts of a sweet and sour
guy in Bay Views. Cat Lovers is The Piney Woods
gals... the beautiful pictures of cats and the area
they live in. Kelloggbloggin is a great guy who
finds 3 beautiful things in life each day, and does
double duty of Kellogg where he was raised,
and Oregon college life where he works. The
R.I.er is where I am from... and he runs a wonderful
site for those who want to know what R.I. is like
or bring back memories for those who lived there.

I tried to cut the list down some.. as it was getting long
and I was afraid that those who look at it, would think
it took too long to check them out. So that is my group
for now. In case you like to check them out.
Huckleberries gives you Cda and Spokane infor
and conversations that peak others interest.
Slight Detour is about Sandpoint from a
native.

So that is the walk around the blog. And
the rest is wild thoughts of my simple mind,
or pictures of what is going on around our
lives. I do this Monday thru Friday.
Once in a while the pictures for the weekend...
and I take off holidays too. And so far, I have
survived almost 3 years.

Thanks for coming...

The Seesaw keeps on going....

Well, we sure have a seesaw of politics...

Florida... isn't this the state that fouled up so badly
that we got stuck with Bush?

And Rudy Giuliani really thought they would love him so,
that he would get the state? Why would he put all his
eggs in one basket? To not run in any of the others...
maybe what he is running for, is Vice President. So he figures
if he can carry Florida.. He can be a good one for Vice
President. Well, he is running a bad third place so far.
So good bye Mr. Giuliani ... As far as I was concern,
this is good news. The New Yorkers didn't like him before
9-11 and not too many liked him after.

McCain is running ahead in Florida and Mitt is a close
second....so the question at the convention will be...
Will it be McCain & Romney or Romney & McCain?

And if it is, can they beat the Democrat power train
candidates? Because if it is Hillary or Obama ...doesn't
really matter which, it is going to be a heck of a power
train.

And Obama does NOT need Hillary for a Vice President.
Who would want to have Bill in the background looking
over your shoulder? Would Obama and Edwards make
a good team? I don't know...

But the seesaw keeps going....

Helping the neighbor

I am married to the best of guys.... Here is the King on the neighbor's roof... it had over 2 and half feet of snow and ice. The neighor's grandson came up to help. He works nights... so with 3 hours sleep... and it took them 3 hours to do it all... then the King snowblowed ours and the neighbors driveway and walk ways... We just feel it is the right thing to do for your neighbor.. up here in Idaho... And we are blessed with several good neighbors.



Starting at the back... the King gets a hole going.... he did the whole back side...
as the grandson digs a path to the front...
This is the front of the place.....

Gone shoveling snow, see you
Tomorrow

Good Morning Idaho

Another day in Idaho.....see what the snow fairy left us over night...


This car was bare..yesterday





Yes, this is our deck.... it was bare yesterday except for a foot size bar that fell off of the roof...

This is our gazebo....see the lower picture.... that was before... and this is before the King snow blows today....if he can... the snow is so heavy. I had to shovel deck off away from the back door..as the snow blower is having trouble eating thru it.

This is a scene from north of Sandpoint area.....

You all stay warm now.....

Looking thru the Past

These last two or three days, I
have been going thru the past.

I bought a box each for my children...
and envelopes for relatives.
In these boxes will be, and I have
sorted 90% of the stuff already. ...
pictures and letters and cards that
they have sent over the years.

Some of these letters were written
while I had to go back East to take
care of my mother for 5 weeks. So
the kids were young. And they wrote.

Some are when they left home before
they met their spouses, and some
were with spouse #1 and now they are
with #2. And so there is a mixture.

I hope they will look thru these and
read the cards and letters. As it is
a journal of many parts about their
lives at the time. Some joys as their
children came along. Some sadness
when marriages didn't work out.

Pictures of 30 years or more of their lives.
Some of them now in their 40's and some
are in their 30's. Some of them are parents
to teens, and finding out life isn't quite as
simple as they thought it was from the
child's point of view, now that they are in
the parents seat. I smile...

I am doing this, so if I should go, I won't
leave a mess for the kids to go thru and
figure out what is who's. I think they will
be amazed that I have saved their stuff.
I gave them all some of the stuff I had years
ago,as they started to be parents. All the stuff
that was in my file cabinet that is. Like
report cards (groan) and hand prints and etc.

But the rest I kept. And these past days,
have been ....well.. interesting on how we
managed the bumpy times. And the joys
of the coming times. And the cards that
are plenty, that have the words....
Happy Mother's day, I know when I was
growing up, I gave you a hard time, but
now I............ well, you fill it in... we have
all at one time or another after we became
adults, felt guilty about what we put our
parents thru.

It is nice to be on the receiving
end of how it wasn't an easy job, but
they now appreciate it. Nothing opens your
adult children's eyes, like your grandchildren.

Well, it seem like a good idea at the time

Well, it seem like a good idea at the time.

Have you seen the ad for the shower cleaner?
On the ad, they show about 6 cleaning ladies
jump in the tub and clean the whole area.
With shower curtain, of course. Saying that
the cleaner is like 6 cleaning ladies.

While at the store, near where they were sold,
a man chimed in and said, "my wife loves those.
We have one and it does a terrific job." That is
all the King had to hear. As he has wanted one.

We brought it home, installed it in the shower.
We have one of those corner showers, with the
glass walls.It hangs from your shower head.
So the King takes a shower, steps out, pushes
the button and beep, beep, beep,beep, beep,
15 times.... and then swish .... swish back and
forth it goes about 3 times. I will admit it does
a dandy job... for about 4 feet of the shower in
the middle. The top of the walls get nothing. And
the bottom gets the middle's left over drain downs.

It does clean it... it does keep it from fogging up.
Although I like that. I think one needs 3 of them.
One for the top, one for the middle and one for the
bottom. Or at least top and middle.

We have found that we need to only do it once
a day, not after every shower, otherwise the bottle
empties out fast. It last about 2 weeks. I have tried
to use some other type of liquid. Mr. Clean, came
to mind. But it kind of drooled over the holder. And
after trying it about 3 times... it just left soap on the
walls. Not a good thing. You had to rinse each time.

So there I am in the shower, I decide to take the bottle
out and run water in it and clean it out and turn it on.
While in the shower..... like the title said.. it seem like
a good idea at the time.

I hit the button and turn the water into the holder at the
same time. Figuring it would get the soap out of the
nozzle. It seem like a good idea.... at the time......
Well, the nozzle started to spin, out came the combo
of soap and water.... and .............and.......... I am
just the right height, to get it in the face. Luckily I
had my mouth shut.

Here is my sign........

Are you cold?

Actually it was quite warm until 2 days ago.
But compared to other years, it is still warmer.
Like when the big freeze came thru in 1988...
with the wind-chill factor it was 80 BELOW...

I was working at that time when it came in, and
went out on every break to start up my car to
let it run for 20 minutes or more. When I got
out of work at 3 p.m. it started... I drove home
to Vay, and turn it off... It didn't start for 3 days.
Luckily I had two of those off. The King had a
little car that we called bondo because it had
lots of bondo under the paint. We put a lamp
with a bare light bulb in the engine, and a blanket
on top of the hood and had it in the garage. It ran.
So he took me to work.

Then there is the winter of 1968-69 and just
before New Years, it was -20 as we had drove
thru this area on our way to a funeral in Minnesota.
It was -25 without the windchill factor. It was -45
back there.

And it was still going on when we drove back.
The road was black ice all the way thru Idaho
and as we pass thru Spokane on Highway 90,
we saw a trooper slide pass a car that he had
stop to check. When it warmed up to -7 we thought
it was a heat wave.

So it can be worse...

and the winter goes on....

Well, I didn't run the poker run that I had in
Friday's blog... although it sure would have
been interesting to have it on Saturday night.

With white out, it sure would have made the
potholes hard to find. And the card dealers
would have ran home too. And it would have
been hard to judge the time, as you
couldn't see the cars go by...heck, you wouldn't
be able to see your watch..

But since we have had the snow, the road
has smoothed out some what. The pot holes
filling up with ice and snow. It sure has helped
the traffic, as the cars have gotten back up
to 40 mph again. (it is posted 15) but the kids
on the end of the block don't care about that.
I think I saw one of them hit his head on his
truck headliner.

Now we have the deep freeze coming. So
I guess we will have to hold off on the poker
run. But the rules are on Friday's post if you
want to give it a try. And you got to watch
out for those Litehouse semi's, they will
slow down your time. I notice even they
have cut their speed with the holes. Maybe
they can't shake the milk up..

I got to get over this cabin fever, and get
out side in the sunshine..

Just like the good old days