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…