We are so pissed off…..

We are so pissed off….. 

We got a call yesterday from our pharmacy…  They are really great people.. They called to give us a heads up that the King’s med are not available.. at the dose he takes.  See about 6 months or more ago..  people who are overweight.. have claim… that Ozempic is good for losing weight. ..

Never mind it is a diabetic med.  Never mind that the diabetic needs it to live..   and they can do with so many other products.. and over weight is not necessarily life threatening..

WHY are Dr.s prescribing it for just overweigh people.?  Why are the pharmacy allowing that to happen?  WHY ARE HEALTH INSURANCE ALLOWING IT?  After all, if they run the diabetic over the rails over making sure a certain med is used .. other wise they won’t cover it..   why aren’t they question this for non diabetic people??

AND NOW THERE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR THE DIABETIC?  THIS IS SO WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS..

Then to add injury to the insult..  The King went down to his dr. office and asked to talk to the dr. nurse..  see if he would write a new prescription for the lesser dose.. as they pharmacy won’t sell him the least dose … And found out that he has to make an APPT… to talk to the dr.. for the dr. to SEE him.. to determine if he can be on the lower dose as before… when he started. What a mess..  and like I said.. so wrong on so many levels..

Being of service…..

Being of service…..

Some times, unexpectly we are called to be of service to someone else of need..

My sister in law, was going in for gall bladder surgery ..  her son was going to be with her and help her at home… when she got home..  But Covid.. intervened..  Then his girlfriend stepped up and said not a problem.. BUT.. just days before..  she too, got Covid…    So I stepped up to the plate.. No problem ..  I told her.. I will be there..   After all I had told her husband when he was passing.. I would take care of her..  The King and I.. 

But then I thought.  Ok, I can do the hospital bit.. I will bring a book.. I can do this..  But then I thought.. wow, what if I am boring..  This poor woman would have to put up with me in her home for 2 days.. and a half..

When I was a kid, I only went for a over nighter with one girlfriend..  It went ok, but never had anyone to our house.. Mom didn’t tell me no, just it never happen for someone to come to my house.. Or me to go to another.  So would I be a good overnight guest?   An old broad like me..  boring? 

Well, no problem.. I keep her on the even keel of taking her meds on time, we watch tv.. we talked ..  we watch tv show of buying a house at different towns thru the nation..   Blazing Saddes, Harm’s Way, Blood Alley and many more..  We b.s. a lot…   and LAUGHED..  Talked about our childhood,… And the days and nights went by..  She was up and walking around..  She fixed her dinner…  She carried Belly Boo.. (a pillow, the hospital gives you, so you can cough, so you don’t feel like your guts are going to fall out) ..  We just had a nice time together.. Just the two of us.

Sometimes you volunteer and then second guess yourself. And wonder, how will it go.. will you actually be of a help..   Sunday at noon, I hugged her good bye.. She was doing GREAT… So see, being of service is a nice feeling… to help our fellow person..   Hope you get to do that too… 

Oh, forgot.. did some that late afternoon… for the other generation…  my daughter asked me to fill in with her and her grandchildren.. going to a church HOLLOWEEN party at our church..  The parents were both at work.

So off I went.. in a place of 200 plus of children and parents, and grandparents and me a great..  Wild and crazy time.. Kids playing games, getting candy rewards… And me thinking I am too old for this.. lol.. but it went well, and the boys had a ball.

I thought it came from????

I thought it came from???? 

Over the years I have quote what I thought…  was a line in a show on tv.. called the Mod Squad.. You know the one about the 3 teens who help the cops solve everything.  I remember one scene when they were in a hospital room with a friend.. and LINC… SAID..   I cried because I had not shoes until I met a man with not feet…   I had never heard that saying anywhere before or since..  AND YET.. it came up somewhere and gave reference such as these..  I was so surprise..   more of life that isn’t what you thought it was..

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All I can say is .. WOWSER!!

 

The story of the pennies…lesson learned

The story of the pennies…lesson learned

A few weeks ago, we were helping out our friend’s son. Our friend who passed in July…

We went out to see if we could find some important papers..  The son lives in another state.. we live 25 miles from our friend’s house..  So easier for us to do it..

While there we came across where he was collected coins..  We left the silver coins for the son to get…  but there was pennies.. and they were black. And disgusting.. So I figured.. what the heck, I will take them home and wash them up for him..  I brought them home, spread them across the outside table.. THEY WERE ALL BLACK.. barely could tell they were pennies.. So got some vinegar and salt and swished it around in a 5 gallon pail with the pennies…  I know it worked for my mother’s Revere cooper bottom pans.. This stuff did not phase it…  So went on google to find out how to wash and clean pennies..    Nothing that looked good to me.. there was some commercial type cleaner.. but these are pennies.. don’t want to spend …  So decided to go with Mom’s second choice..  cooper cleaner. 

Oh what a mess..  globbed the cream and smeared it all over the coins. As doing  it by toothbrush was not going to be fun.. and more labor than I wanted to invest in.. Besides the couple I did try.. hardly did anything.. I left it over night and swished back and forth.. filled up the sink with warm water to rinse it off..  Not much difference.. So figured.. ok.. I will just spread them on a towel and let them dry.  Some of them came out .. ok.. kind of.. the rest are not all dry with dry cooper cleaner on them..  I took a brush to them under the water..  Not much better at all..  So I dried them all.. Took a day and half.. in the sun..  to get them all dried..WITH DRY COOPER CLEANER ON THEM..making them now dark cooper and green. Again did the brush.. Loosing patiences that I don’t have in the first place.

I had spread them all over a large towel on the dining room table… and found out there was 972 pennies..  All of this for $9.72.. I am DONE..  LOL.

So I took them to the bank and asked if they had one of those machines that counts coins..  They did not ..but their main bank did in town.. so off to town to give it to them..  I explain the whole thing to them.. they open the container and said.. weeeell….. you see these are pretty dirty and they may clog up the machine..  so they need to be wrapped and then we can take them.. They sent me on my way… with wrappers for the coins… I looked at it … when I got home.. 20 wrappers.. a container full of dirty pennies.. 

And the saying … what  is the story… no good deed goes unpunished.. came to mind.

I loaded the pennies in a plastic container.. put a note on it.. to explain what happen.. and put them in my box I have for Goodwill… (when it is full, I drop it off)… let them get someone with more patience than me..

That was two weeks ago..  and every time I walked by.. that container nagged at me.. Was kind of upset with myself.. for giving up.

That was two weeks ago..  Saturday, I looked at them.. and thought .. I have the whole day with nothing to do but read… … how hard can this be?   So I took the plastic container out…  open it up..  .God that is a lot of pennies..

I put it on the table.. took out the wrappers..   and thought .. 18 wrappers ? 19 of them…. To fill..   I tried one.. and it did not go well..  I was ready to fold.   But I thought DAMN IT CIS… you surely aren’t going to fold on this..  what else do you have to do today.. at least start..  Then I went on line to see if there was an easier way to do this..  not really ..  there was some funnel thingies..  There was a guy who just put the pennies in.. looking like it was easy, but I already knew it wasn’t..   So went back to the table.. and looked at all those pennies..   Then came up with a plan  Just stack the pennies 10 to a pile..  a line of 5.. that is 50 .. and if you put the wrapper over the top and try to slide the wrapper over the pennies..   Nice plan.. it worked for the first 4…pennies, that is. Then I made sure the ten were lined up really well.. put the wrapper over and tapped VERY gently.. and they went in..  YAHOO.. whoa.. not so fast, there is 4 more piles to go..So slowly and gently.. I repeated it .. got it to do it in 6 minutes..  Ok, 6 minutes with 19 of them.. how long can that be.. I did not want to know.. So I started.. 

Every time I looked at that container I swore those pennies were breeding in there.. it didn’t seem like they were going down..   But then I remembered President Eisenhower’s saying..  DON’T LOOK AT HOW MUCH YOU HAVE TO GO…  LOOK AT HOW MANY YOU HAVE DONE…  So stop looking at the container..  (well, not very often) .. and keep going..  I was getting piles of the coins stacking up in wrappers..   One time when I look at the container.. I could swear it was not getting less… but then looked at the pile and there was $6 worth there.. 12 rolls.. YAHOO…. But still there was a lot left.. But started up again.. counting out 50 pennies in stacks of 10’s.. And two hours from when I started.. I WAS DONE…  I GOT THEM ALL.. 19 ROLLS.. $9.50.. YAHOO.. I WON.. I WON.. I said to myself.. 

Like life, if you just keep going.. your project/chore is done.. 

So what am I going to do with them?/  take them to the Bank on Monday am.. and get green backs with 2 quarters.. and send it to the son… See .. never give up.. And it was a great feeling when I got done..

The tumults times of the day and I can't understand

The  tumults times of the day…. The week.. and who knows how long. Last time it was 6 days… there is more buildings and etc.this time... so this time will take longer..

Israel is at war…  They quickly notified their enemy who cross their border and killed their children, woman and bomb the homes.. 

Some thought that. Oh ,no we will be going over and helping.. ISRAEL does not need our help..  Maybe moral support.. But mostly they want us to just stay out of it.. and all other countries as well..  This is between them and Hamas. Let’s hope it stays that way.

Israel’s armed forces have been very strong over the years and still is.. They have a Air Force that rivals ours..  some of that is due to the fact they are buying our planes.  Their Army also rivals ours.. maybe even more.. as they enlist men AND WOMEN..  and have for years.  All those 18 and over had to go into the service and learn how to protect the country.. Those woman are just as strong fighting as their male counter parts.. They have trained side by side with the men.  They have fought, side by side.. guns in hands.. FOR YEARS.  Each one had to do 2 to 4 years of training and duty before they could go on with their lives.  .. It was mandatory

The Israel Government has been a country to reckoned with as they have the attitude of .. you bomb us once.. we bomb you 5 times..  that is why they are bombing Gaza to the ground… This time anyway, they have warn the civilians to leave the area…as they will bring the whole area to the ground.. They are trying to make sure they can clear before..  something the HAMAS has not done.   Even worse they snuck in under the gate (where was the guard? Why have a  gate if not guard?)   and killed everyone… women where either killed or taken… babies were shot, set on fire… What kind of human can do that to a child? I know war is war.. but children.. babies?  How can any of these men of power (Putin) be ok with killing elderly, children… even children in hospital..  what kind of manhood is that?  How can you take pride in conquering.. from that?  I don’t understand..

The people feel bad for the Palestine’s … but these are not the civilian Palestines .. the every day, living ones.. these are the terrorist who have taken over part of their government and citizens..  HAMAS.

Because of this region, when it is war.. no human is exempted… children, women, elderly as well as any soldier type.  In fact the weak, more so.  They figure they are carnal damage..

With this type of attitude, this will be one of the worse wars yet.. Both this one and Ukraine … as they are both run by barbaric leaders… Hamas and Putin…There will be no winners of humanity in these wars.

What kind of person can not only bomb areas where children are.. but actually walk up to an area and shoot children..  bomb a children’s hospital.. what kind of cold blooded humans are they..   we think in the age of 2023 that the human race has improved..  there are parts of the earth, that is not true at all.  What kind of a man can follow his leader to shoot children.. Am I to assume he does not have children at home?  How can you do this with out thinking of your children at home..  What kind can follow a leader that would ask that of you?   And to be honest.. what kind of God do they have, that is ok with killing the weak..  Women, elderly, children and babies.. how can they be a threat to you and your country? 

I don’t understand.. it is more than my mind can handle…  I pray that some day, there will be human decency for ALL people.

We mourn for the innocent Israel citizens.. who that morning had not a clue that this was their last morning on earth..

 

Who handles the purse strings in your family?

Who handles the purse strings in your family?

Over the years.. thru 3 husbands..  I have been the one.. They made the money … the first two..  and I paid the bills, got loans arranged, got income taxes paper together and did the taxes for a while,, when it was simple.

And with this husband..  we both worked, but I am the one who handles the paper works.. meaning also the bank account.  With that I am the one who finds the sums that he wants to use to buy from our budget.

So far my bookkeeping had endured without problems..  I say so far, because I know there will come a day.. when I am going to need help before I go.. And that person of choice is my youngest. The reason she is, because she lives here..  It helps that she is also a bookkeeper by trade.  But I am sure my bookkeeping will drive her crazy until she figures out my system.. The system that works for us.

I have always paid bills first..  food second.. and if there is any left over, then we got to do something fun.  All 3 men have had good credit rating because of my attitude..  bills first..  It wasn’t easy at a few times.. But it was done.. So the first one walked away with top notch credit rating… The second one passed away with top notch credit rating.. and the one now.. he came with the lowest of low.. due to going into business with his brother, before  my time..  But thru hard work,  Skimping here and there, we brought him out 5 years later.. and now he has a top rate..  None of this was easy.. 

But I saw women who’s husband left.. or died and they had not a clue how to run the finances of their lives..  Didn’t even know what bank he was using.. That was scary..  I also decided to make sure my husbands  would not be in that position. 

The problem I found when my second husband passed away was ..  we had everything financially in his name..  credit cards, utilities, bank accounts were in his name.. and  cars were in his name..   So my first widowhood job was to find a way to get that into my name..  The credit cards would not let me continue in his name.. and as far as my name..  I had NO CREDIT RATING..  because I had no history of credit..  One of them.. I wrote to ,we had used them for about 5 years..  I told them if there was a way to see our payments, they would know I was the one making sure the payments were paid monthly.. usually in full..  I told them I had the cancel checks with my signature on them.. not my husbands.. So they decided to let me have one.. for .. $1000 .. credit line..  It took them a year to trust me.. Along with me paying .. I had gotten the utilities in my name as well, and they saw that record.

So I am trying to make sure my guy knows what is what.. I have everything in BOTH of our names.. so no matter who goes first, the other doesn’t have to fight the company to keep things going.   He hates doing book work.. I make him to it at least twice a year. 

But for backup, my daughter knows where the book is that I use to keep monthly track of each bill..  I have a file cabinet with the bank info.  I have a grab and run bag in the file cabinet..  so if we have a fire, there is the important papers or if I pass first.

So it is a good idea that BOTH of you know ALL of the financial information.  Which bills that need to be paid monthly.. where that income come from and where it goes.. in the year of 2023… there is no excuse for not both of you to know..   One can handle it..but the other needs to know where everything is.. and how to handle it … just in case.  And yes, I know there are spouses that would  or can not handle money at all..  That is sad.. you are a team.. and should work as a team.

 

 

Something you don’t see anymore

Something you don’t see anymore…

What you don’t see anymore is a woman driver… who when she put on the brakes, her right arm came out straight across, faster than a school bus stop signal arm came out….. in front of her passenger’s chest. ..

If you remember this.. than you had to be born before 1980… Because after that..

1. there were children seats after that……

2.. there were seat belts  after that…

3. most of all… is when they outlawed kids under the age of teens, in front seats.

I know I did my fair share of it.. All my kids probably remember one time or another .. be they were 4 or 24… my arm would swing out as soon as I threw on the brakes.

How about you who are over the age of 6o …do you remember doing it?

Those who are over 40 should remember being held back quickly by a mom or a grandmother....

It starts TOMORROW……

It starts TOMORROW…… 

TOMORROW is October 10^th.. Most of  you will get up tomorrow morning and go about your business like it is another Tuesday morning…  And it is for 90% of the population…

BUT for those of us in the 10%... it is the BEGINNING OF ELK SEASON IN IDAHO!!   That means the women who do not hunting.. have the house to themselves..  They have command of the remote controls… 

Yes, there are woman who hunt.. and there are those woman who go to hunt camp with their spouses.. But there are those of us.. who don’t.. we stay home. Our only job is to have dinner ready, even when they don’t get home until an hour after dark.. Make sure the towels are ready,  A beer for some.. and when their hunter arrives after dark..  don’t talk.. just listen.. and after a bath, eating and he head to bed..  This goes on for 3 months off and on.. See there is Elk Season.. and then there is deer season.. which last a very long time.. and snuck in there is about 3 or 4 days of BLACK POWDER ELK SEASON…  If your guy and his group get their Elk the first week..  then there is lull until deer season.  And if one gets his, they are all still going until everyone gets theirs..  They are the group, that drops of the hunter who isn’t successful yet..  and pick him up about 4 trails below. 

Some of the hunter have a hunt camp.  If you think women prep.. there is nothing like a guy who is prepping for hunt camp.. It takes them at least 5 days.. Getting camper ready..  first and foremost.. food..  beer, or soda depending on the guys.. then clothes… you know all the camo stuff.. pants, shirt … jackets and hats…  Last and not least.. is the rifles and ammo..

And then at 0 hundred..  in the silences of the night… off they drive.. trucks, jeeps, 4 wheelers..  because the camper is already up on the mountain.  And some already went up the night before.

Mine and his group, are day time hunters. He leaves at 0 hundred darkness.. with coffee in hand..  and hour after dark, comes staggering in.. legs hurting from hiking…or even riding the 4 wheeler…  mumbles..  half ways eats, after showering.. and heading to bed.. (they like to be in their OWN bed..so are day time hunters)  to be able to start the process over again. 

Some wives mumbling grumble about their guy going hunting…. bitching  about the lack of elk..  and besides then it gets messy taking care of the dang animal..  but are thrilled to have the steaks and hamburgers and roast to cook all year around.

Me… heck no..  I get to sleep in, I have the day to myself.. I can do anything I want to do, go where I want to go… and not have to worry about being at home to make lunch or what ever..   If I was a party person, heck I could go out and party with the younger versions of me…  But at this late stage.. I am good with having the house to myself.. eating what I want to eat..  watch what I want to watch on tv..  So when he stumbles in, so tired.. and beat.. and  needing  a shower..  make something quick and easy to eat.. I listen to the tales of the day.. and off to bed he goes..  It is a great 3 months…  off and on. But the first two weeks are fabulous!!

 

What I know about AI…..

What I know about AI…..

In reality, I know nothing..  Well, I know it exist and there is so much more, that what you have ever read about it.

I find it interesting.. of the vastness of it.. but scary of the world if it goes sideways.

As we all know.. for every good thing that has showed up.. there are evil out there who do evil things with it.. Even some who mean well, ended up not being good for all. 

I read of the good.. and the promise of more.. The health programs that come of it.. the help for doctors to find the root of illnesses.. the operations that will be done, which could make recovery easier and faster.  There so much they talk about …..  but..

THERE IS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN…  there is talk about copying works of others..  there is talk of copying those who have passed and their words.. from  poets to singers and etc..   That is the part that is partly scary.. where does truth end and AI (Artificial intelligence)start? What is real anymore?

Those of us who grew up with TRUTH being valued and counted on .. not the “alternative truth” that  Trump and his group came up with..  but as the saying goes.. HONEST TO GOD TRUTH….    I am beginning to believe.. the quote I have used in the past..   from A few Good Men.. Jack Nicholson said it so well…   “THE TRUTH?  THE TRUTH?  YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH”... In the years to come..  will there be truth as you and I know it.. That is scary.. 

But the part that scares me more.. for my grandchildren and my great grandchildren… is evil..  When ever something comes out, new that seem to be a wondrous thing..   Evil finds its way to form it to their practice. Look at computers in general, when they first came out.. Now we have hoax, scams, and much more.. Facebook started out a great way to keep up with your friends and family who live away from you…  Now look at it.. Ads beyond Ads.. people stealing other peoples pages..  say nothing of the twisted ways that Russia has incorporated into Facebook with others. Stolen identities.

We know that AI is all over China… some of the great minds of AI are Chinese citizens..  Even India has some great minds in it… as they with all the rest..  make AI more and more each day.. heck, even hour to hour.. How long before Russia and those other who would love to see American crash and burn..  take it over and the world will not be.. what you think it is now.

What will be left for our grandchildren… great grandchildren??  You worry about the Republicans and the Democrats and the lack of working for the American people and keeping up with their petty crap…  THAT will be come child’s play..  How many of those over 60 in Congress even have a clue of what AI is.. 

So you see this is growing so fast.. and furious..  it is admittedly over my head.. and is for so many others.. and a lot of it is not in the news.. And only if you read the recent TIME magazine.. to you have a small iota of what it is and can be..

How do you feel about AI???  does it scare you?  Will the good outweigh the bad?  And those who think Congress will pass a law against evil in AI.. is laughable..  it is not a USA thing.. it is a WORLD thing.  And we all live in this world..  Heck even Musk is trying to get his space ship in better condition to go to Mars and take his family..  in case AI goes array. But… ha ha..  he is cashing in on it before he goes.. Now if that don’t scare you, I guess nothing will.

HELLO OCTOBER….

HELLO OCTOBER….

Here we go again.. heading to the big season of winter.. YES I KNOW. It is FALL.. but you know Fall zips by faster than even Spring does…  Summer well, that depends on weather and what you got going.. on if it last longer. But we know WINTER LAST FOREVER..   They say it is 3 months.. but we all know it is longer than that..  and that is even if it starts on Halloween night.. which seems to be the first snow of the season, while the kiddo are out begging for candy..

We have had light snow for the past couple years.. Maybe two feet at any given time..    maybe that would be high to you.. but on a good winter we have had up to 5 feet of standing snow..   with mounds of 10 feet because of the snow coming off the buildings.. be it by shovel or nature..

Still have some time to finish off the yard stuff..  Have two table sets to move to the shed and two b-b-que to put away.. (he has a propane one and a wood chip one)  By mid October we will have snow shovels in place..

And I sleep later.. already up to 7am..  I was up at 5:30am for the summer.. But that is too dark and cold for me now.. so the dog and I snuggle in at that time..  and wait until 7am’ The King rises at 3:30 to 4:30am..  old traits are hard to let go for him.. as that was his working hours.. Up at that time to be at work at 5am..  now his 5am call is.. the HOOT OWL..  it is a mom and pop restaurant.. and he and the old farts (it is one the wall next to the table) discuss the world .. nationally and local.. 

So get your winter stuff out.. it is coming your way… soon..  sooner than you want.