Scary Times

We have always had radical groups.
We have had Aryan Nations, Militia of Montana,
And there is a new one starting up in Bonner’s Ferry…
There are others who are keeping a low profile. After
all until this week, how many of you had heard of
the Hutree group?

And of course we have the Hutree group, that is in
the news the past few days. Their mission is to
kill a police officer and then blow the rest of the
officers who come to the funeral.

A lot of people think the media is over reacting
to these groups. But can you say Tim McVeigh?
Randy Weaver, David Koresh to name a few.

And what about the group that goes to funerals
To spewl verbal garbage under the pretense of
the first amendment.

Yet our political people are using the words like “target”.
Showing crosshairs to show areas of Democrats.
Calling a Congressman names that we had hoped that
were gone for good. Feeding these kind of people the
message they want.

We use to think of Rush and his hatred group, blow hearts.
But these people take those words seriously… do you
think people are disturbed about these groups… read here what
some of the people said, about how one of the Athol, Idaho
group wants to relocate in John Day, Oregon… the remarks
will surprise you.. from humor to these people are misunderstood.
Not taking them serious… but I can guarantee that the nut cases will.

Scary times


We have always had radical groups.
We have had Aryan Nations, Militia of Montana,
And there is a new one starting up in Bonner’s Ferry…
There are others who are keeping a low profile. After
all until this week, how many of you had heard of
the Hutree group?

And of course we have the Hutree group, that is in
the news the past few days. Their mission is to
kill a police officer and then blow the rest of the
officers who come to the funeral.

A lot of people think the media is over reacting
to these groups. But can you say Tim McVeigh?
Randy Weaver, David Koresh to name a few.

And what about the group that goes to funerals
To spewl verbal garbage under the pretense of
the first amendment.

Yet our political people are using the words like “target”.
Showing crosshairs to show areas of Democrats.
Calling a Congressman names that we had hoped that
were gone for good. Feeding these kind of people the
message they want.

We use to think of Rush and his hatred group, blow hearts.
But these people take those words seriously… do you
think people are disturbed about these groups… read here what
some of the people said, about how one of the Athol, Idaho
group wants to relocate in John Day, Oregon… the remarks
will surprise you.. from humor to these people are misunderstood.
Not taking them serious… but I can guarantee that the nut cases will.

http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/02/idaho-white-supremacist-groups-considers-relocating-to-john-day.html?cid=6a00d8341c2c3f53ef01310f27c1bb970c

Travis and Misty

Misty is doing a lot better. Thank you to those of you who have asked.
She is about 90% her old self. But now we don’t let her jump on
things and she is getting better with asking for help up. Unless she gets
excited and tries to jump up in her chair to get closer to us. And she is
getting better about not flying off of things. She is at her best outside.
Her running across the yard with ears flying high. And she has her perkiness
back. and that is half the battle.

As you can see I have another new blogger on my links. This one is related. He
has done a few a while back, but lately has done more. And I really enjoy reading them. They are of the immediate concerns of Americans. And for so young …lol… 33 he is spot on so many times, with common sense. I like him, not because he is my nephew but because he looks at both sides of the coin… He inspects the subject from all sides. Then says what he feels about it….. So go click on his blog at the left. TG Rants and Raves.
You threw a brick because of a vote...
You broke in, but now you want a cookie?
Are two of the ones I like as well as his new one on Health care that he did today.
WOOHOO HEALTHCARE REFOR... Wait a second...

Happy Birthday kw

How Connected do we need to be??

Now granted I am a senior citizen, so my words
will seem like an ancient way to look at the most
modern of things.

But I have to ask… you have a computer, you have
a cell phone, and then there is Facebook, and now
you have Twitter… All which tell people what you
are doing and with whom, and why. Every thought
you have, can be shown to the world.

I know, I know, you can have only those who you
“friend” see what you have on Facebook and Myspace
Yahoo and all the rest of them. But it seems as you
make friends, all their friends come along for the ride.
A lot of people you don’t even know. Or may not want
to know… And Twitter is double fold of that.

And if this is what you want… go for it… and bless your
little heart…. But my question is why? Why would you
want everyone to know everything on your mind, in your
history of things going on in your life. How much do you
want out there? I think some of you, and even I have occasionally,
have forgotten who is out there listening and reading. Not just
Big brother, but future bosses, insurance companies and so
many more.

But even more than that…. At least my point, is how much
time to you want to dedicate to these huge hungry machines?
How attached do you want to be?

This really came to surface for me when I went to Hawaii.
I did take my laptop, but it was a back up source for my
Grandson who was doing his college classes as he was
on vacation with us. And I did use it to send pictures to
my friends emails. But for the most part, I was not using it.

I gave up my cell phone 5 years ago. So if you want to
talk to me, you have to call my home phone. If I am not
home, you can’t reach me. Now that might seem horrible
to those who are always connected, but it is a blessing to me.
See I lived the first 60 years with out being so connected.


Now I can hear the birds and not a phone ringing in my
pocket. I pay attention to the traffic with both eyes and ears.
I also have more time to do things I enjoy, especially in the summer.
I have the yard work, in the sunshine, I can read a book instead of
reading so many blogs, daily. I visit friends, and can just travel
around take walks with my husband without someone having to talk
to us. As I have him turn off his cell phone. He can see who called
after we get home.. Just as I can see who called by our answering
machine.

So if someone dies, before they can get ahold of me.. then I will
presume it was meant to be that way. If someone is hurt, then I can
be gotten ahold of the old fashion way… see I do tell someone where
I am going… and I do leave a note for the King, if I leave while he is
gone.

And yes, I do have Facebook…which I started as a way to see the
pictures that my adult children put up on their site.. and I do converse
with friends…..when I want. Be it daily or weekly. Or if I am bored.

Yes, I do blog (obviously), and have for 5 years… but so far I don’t
feel tied to it…

And the pleasure of walking or going anywhere I want without being
tethered to someone or thing, well, that in itself is freedom.

What happen to being civil?

Is being civil going out of style,
like common sense went?

I cannot believe such bad behavior
of not only the Congresspersons, but
all others who claim to be Republicans.

Is it sour grapes or what? Is this really
a party thing or just pure hatred?

Throwing bricks or rocks at the windows
of the National Democratic Hall.

And it isn’t just the hate mongers of
the radio, like Beck and Rush.
It is 90% of the Republican people.
And the Republican Governors are
trying to beat each other to the lawsuit
of the Federal government.

Which is amazing as they are all crying poor,
yet they have money to sue the Federal
government. While they cut funding for schools
in their own states, yet can find money for
lawsuits. Amazing…

Then you have our (trying to find a civil word
here) glorious Governor of Idaho… Idaho one
of the states who only has one insurance company
for the people to get health insurance from.
Blue Cross the parent company of Blue Shield and
Regency. Which is one of the disappointments of the
Health bill, as I thought they were going to address that.
Open borders for insurance…

So where did being civil go? Anyone know?… probably
sitting on the bench next to common sense…no one
uses that anymore either.

ARE THEY CRAZY??

9 MILLION DOLLARS!!!! No, not Congress. Besides that is
petty cash to Congress.. This is for a woman, a wife whose
husband betrayed her with another woman. (what is new about
that?). The wife sued girlfriend… and the COURTS GAVE
HER 9 MILLION DOLLARS!!!

No wonder why people are mad at lawyers and courts. And juries.
The one who should pay is the husband…. And it sure wouldn’t
be no $9,000,000! How do they come up with these figures? No
regular person makes $9,000,000 in their lifetime. Do they?

And what happens if she remarries next year or even in 5.. what
or how does she deserve that? She will get child support I would
think, so it isn’t for the kids…

No…no way. Are they crazy?
Oh, and this wasn’t a wife of a rock star or sport star, a CEO.
In fact I think he is an attorney.

I don't know what the girlfriend earns, but
9 MILLION?? let's get real people.

What happen to what my teacher told me in business law...
"you can only sue for what you actually lost"...guess that
went out in the 1950's when I was in school.

Misty

This is Misty enjoying the weekend sun…
She is doing ok…

For those who don’t live close to us,
Misty, somehow, hurt herself.
she came to me a week ago Sat. and tried to jump
up on me to let me know she wanted
some attention. But couldn’t. So I lifted
her up. She cried. So I ran my fingers
across her body to see what part was
hurting. But nothing.

She wasn’t herself. She looked sad,
and walked around like someone was
yelling at her. And nothing we said or
did seem to perk her up.

Her internal system was working well.
But she didn’t come to the table
to beg. She just laid in her little bed.

So off to the Vets we went. She ran at
a trot around the Vet’s office, but she
was fretful. The Vet checked her from
stem to stern. And she said she thought
Misty had strained herself, or twisted
something… So we were given meds for her.

Here we are a week later and she still isn’t
herself. She does seem to be getting a tiny
bit better. Tiny bit. But she doesn’t greet
the King with wiggles and licking of his
face to the point of knocking off his hat.

So we are babying her. We carry her outside,
And pick her up. No more jumping up on
things, and no more run and jump off like
she thinks she can fly…

We don’t care that she won’t jump on things,
as we weren’t fond of that before. And the
same about her flying off of things. But we
couldn’t stop her, it was in her heart.
What we want is for her to be her perky self.
Her feistiness. The tug of wars with her toys.

So we wait and hope that this all returns.

As we know muscles take longer to heal than bones.

Chicken Little or Domino's effect?

Here we are again, waiting to see what Congress is
going to do… and who knows maybe by the time
this is posted, they will have voted.

It was kind of odd as I was watching the news on
Sunday night at 5:45pm and they were talking about
how this was the night that Congress was going to
vote on the Health Care Plan. That was 5:45 pm, my
time…meaning 8:45 pm. Washington, DC time. What
were they waiting for??? Midnight.

We still don’t know what is really in the plan. After all
they seem to be making changes daily and even hourly.
Do the Congressmen even know?

When they were talking to George Will’s the ABC news
correspondent, he was telling them some of the points
that would be good.

Insurance companies won’t be able to cancel your insurance
because you are sick.
Insurance companies won’t be able to not pay because of a
child’s previous condition. And in 2014 for adults.
Then there is the mandatory insurance fees, if some chose
not to get insurance. Not that they can’t, but they refuse.
.
Of course our concern is where is the money going to come
from?

Just checked the news sites and the plan has passed…
After the President issued an executive order pledging that no federal funds would be used for elective abortion. (personally I don’t think they
should pay for ANY abortions.) several Congressmen voted yes.

Now we will see what this is going to cost us, are the “chicken littles”
of the political scene right or wrong. Will the domino’s start to fall?

First Day of Spring 2010

The Snow is still in the mountains.....but



peeking thru the sawdust is....

And while the bushes look like sticks....



You can see there are buds on those sticks

And the garden raised beds are waiting for seeds and plants..

The pond is waiting to be finished..

The clematis is just dried leaves...
Or is it........ isn't that green among the dried leaves...

I took a picture of my metal bird near the water bowl....and I don't know if you can see

but there is violets growing there.....

And there is the table and chairs waiting for bar-b-que days...

We are Family

As you all know, I spent a week with 4 of my
children, spouses and 2 of my grandchildren…
We had a ball.

Before this vacation, we were what we considered
close. But we did lead our own lives, doing our own
thing. After all, most of them live from 400 miles
to 2,000 miles away from the King and I. We have
one of the family, local. That being my daughter’s
family. And even though we call in from time
to time, we also do our own thing.

We do have get togethers one a year or maybe two.
Each of us, know the others are there if needed.
But I think this vacation may have brought us a little
closer.

As this weekend and week, one of our 12 group,
was so sick she ended up in the hospital. Not once
but 3 times. And without an instant of hesitation,
we sent flowers from Idaho and Washington.

Before we would have found out after the fact,
As that is the way of our family. Don’t want to
bother anyone. But Facebook has changed that.
As we found out right away. In the past when we
found out, we sympathize but that is about it.
If one of us finds out first, we tell the others
and then there are phone calls.

It isn’t because we don’t love each other, as
that is not true at all. There is a great love
in this group. I guess it is, we just don’t
think of it. Now we did/do. Maybe especially
with this person being the newest to the family,
we know her better now and we wanted her to
know she means a lot to us too.
We are family…..

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY

Happy St. Pat’s day to you all….
To those of you who are Irish…
and to all those who are Irish for the day…

As a kid, St. Patrick Day was pretty
special if you were Irish in Newport,
Rhode Island. As the Irish were the
second most popular nationality there.
Portuguese being first. Then there were
Italians and French. Us, English were
many pre1700 but close to a minority
in the 1950’s.

The brave English classmates wore
Orange. I didn’t. And I don’t recall
wearing green either . Don’t know
why I didn’t wear green and fake it.
After all, all of us without green got
pinched… pinched all day long…

So may you all have a great time,
Eating cabbage and corned beef,
Murphy’s stew, green beer and
the rest…. But please don’t pinch me..

(do they still do that?)