Then anniversary and good bye..

 

March 6, 2025

Then anniversary and good bye.. 

 

It is funny how 20 years ago, I wrote this.. and things aren’t any different today..

Gas is of the conversation..  it is going up higher again after have prices lower for about

3 years…  Yet with Trump coming back in.. and promising $2 a gallon prices, as  he takes over..   He has been there a month and 17 days.. and it is higher than it has been since he was in there last time….

 

 

Sunday, March 06, 2005

Gas Prices

Am I the only one who is blown away with the jumping of the gas prices?
They say they are going to raise 25 cents this week.
Heck I remember when gas was 19 cents and they raise it TO 25 cents!
And we all said we were going to walk and only drive one day a week. ha ha
of course we lived in a very small town so that wasn't a big deal.
But we thought we would teach them a lesson... some lesson... they are
charging $2.00 more now.

Posted by Word Tosser at 11:02 PM 

 

 

And so there it is…  the last of the first..  as the world goes around things don’t seem to change…

As I approach my birthday next month…  it will be number 85.  After not having much of a birthday at the age of 80 that I was so looking forward to..  cancelled in all fashions.. meaning no party.. no dinner at a restaurant..  just standing outside of our fav restaurant with the waitress, handing out a BAG of our food…  and going home with the King and sitting by ourselves… during covid close down….. I just can’t get excited about this one.  I truly don’t want to celebrate with a party..  The day before is the King’s birthday…  we use to celebrate by ourselves.. with dinner for his day and breakfast for mine.   That sounds just fine for me this year. Now if I can just get my family to agree.

 

So my dear friends who are reading this one last time…  Thank you for reading this old gal with a SIMPLE MIND, babble. It has been fun.  The ups and down of life recorded so to speak for my family if they ever decide to read it years later in their search of ancestry.

And if blogspot keeps it up..  but I did put it on external drive for the family… in case the on line one disappears as things do on internet.

Hoping they see I had humor as well as well as standing on the soap box complaining about how unfair I thought life was at times.  I bid you a farewell… HAVE A GREAT LIFE AND THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES..

Cis…the WORDTOSSER… fading away to great things with my family and lots of yard work in my future..   

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THE SUMMATIONS OF “FROM A SIMPLE MIND”…

THE SUMMATIONS OF “FROM A SIMPLE MIND”…

Saturday, March 05, 2005

From a Simple Mind

Going to try this out... I am just a word tosser... but a lazy one... don't know if I have enough in my mind to do a daily blog. So don't expect much...

Posted by Word Tosser at 10:39 PM 

 

This was the beginning… the set up.. of FROM A SIMPLE MIND.  

 

 

Hopefully I can give you the 4 W and 1 H..  WHO, WHAT, WHY AND WHERE.. AND HOW of the blog in a page of how it came about.. and what happen thru the years.  The joys as well as the sorrows and the humor of it.

As you can see it was late at night as I ventured the words to set it up the page..   I had read Marianne Love’s Slight Detour..  about her life in general on her farm, about local stuff and more..  up in the right hand corner was an ad from Blogspot..  Start your own Blog .. it is as easy as 1-2-3… I thought.. can I do this?  I did hang out at DFO’s blog on the Spokane Review.. called Huckleberries.. or HBO.. And I would add comments from time to time.  Could I?  Well, we will see how easy is… 1-2-3.. Well, sure enough it was easy alright.. but then I had to come up with a name.  Hummmmmmmmmm…  somehow FROM A SIMPLE MIND came to mind, as I had use that wording with DFO.. when we emailed  and he told me I should start my own blog.. that I had some good thoughts.. he thought I would do well..  and I replied with this simple mind?  And he said yes.. I said, but I am just a wordtosser… he said yes… So there I was.. with a blog and a name.  NOW WHAT?  What can I say? How do I start this out..  well the above is what I started with… and the next day.. I actually started to blog..  that one you will read tomorrow..

My purpose was to have a soap box to stand on for some of my opinions.  And if you have your own blog.. people don’t seem to grand slam you…  like they do on Facebook nowdays.  Also I wrote for  humor..

So over the years, there were stories of humor which most of the time was about my trying to do my own projects. Most were done while the King was gone for class down south of our state for his job.  Doing things I had asked him to do for a long time.. so I would just go ahead and do them myself.. I AM NOT A CRAFT PERSON.. and BARELY hold my own on projects.  If you read my blog you saw what I mean.  And if it could go wrong it did..

Over the years, I took my readers with me..  on my soap box as the government or just life in general was going awry. I took them to events in our local area..  the Lost in the 50’s  parade and downtown show..  to the 4^th July parade.. altering between Sandpoint and Clark Fork (a very small but proud town north east of us).. some times if there was something going on. These came about with the King coming home and saying GRAB YOUR CAMERA..  and off we would go for pictures of something..  like the time the plane went thru the fence after it hit a deer on the runway…

There has been sorrow, as we lost people.. I lost my uncle and then my aunt who was like a mother to me..  I lost my brother.  We lost friends..  we lost brothers of the King’s.. and his sister, who taught us how to recover from a family member, who commits suicide leaving a note of LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH, yet celebrate her life.  We lost our oldest daughter who pass with no warning, from a major heart attack on her lawn.. these ripping our hearts out and we learn how to keep going.  We have lost some long time friends.. Helped their families with their lost. Helping the sisters of one, clean out his house,

There has been Joy.. when I started the blog, I believe I had about 16 or 17 grandchildren.. we have 20 now..   I started out the blog with about 2 or 3 great grandchildren..   we have 37 at last total..  AND NOW in June.. we will celebrate the coming of our GREAT GREAT grandchild.. our first.  Hopefully God will be kind and let me live long enough to met her, and have a 5 generation picture taken..   And not pass as kindred spirits on our coming and going. 

So  much that has happen since I started the blog. A man saw my blog and asked me about one of the things I did.. with my children. So I wrote that up and sent it to him for him to do for a paper in college.   There were stories of the past.  How I use to smash vehicles with my deceased husband in the 1970’s. How I did one of the loads myself. While I waited for his return from a job search that did not pan out..  I told about how we traveled across the country from Washington to R.I.  and then  4 years later traveled back to Idaho.  And why we did it.  I wrote about being a nurses aide.. with the 3 part..  SO YOU WANT TO BECOME A NURSE AIDE.. blog stories.  There is so much history of our family in there..  which makes me wonder.. how long will these stories stay up on the internet. Will my great grandchildren or even great great grandchildren be able to go back and read what I wrote when they search for their ancestry in the 2060”s?  Who knows.  It might be gone by 2026..   who knows..  I have kept copies of my blog on external drives.  So maybe.. if the family doesn’t throw it away.. 

It was been fun.. it has been sad.. it has been a blast, it has been maddening..  My post have been .. not bad..  boring..   phone in… and informational.. and some actually were pretty good.   As I went back to find a couple to fill in.. as I looked back over my blog.. I was surprised at how well I wrote a story, how some were actually out loud funny..  but I guess it is me..   So for all my readers..  those (only a few who stuck it out for the 20 years)  and for those who dropped by and dropped out.. some who just came in the past year..   THANK YOU for stopping by.  Hope you found it worthy.   By the way,  I think one or two of my kids actually read a post or two.. but definitely not followers.  Even one of my daughter in laws read my blog… I guess to find out what kind of family did she marry into..  but the good news after reading it..  she likes me..  lol.  So that is good.

There are a lot of bloggers I have met over the years.   DFO use to have BLOGFEST a couple of times.. and I went to a few. There is some friendships I gained thru the blog, one of which we still are good friends, sadly we don’t get to gether often enough. BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS.. she is now a author of children books.  She has 4 I think out for the public to buy.. you can find them on Amazon..Mari Meehan…  look for them. it is about a dog called Slobbers.. 

Marianne Love is still writing her SLIGHT DETOUR.. so check her out.   Sadly there are a lot of them who have past.   Even family members gave it a shot. My oldest who passed wrote, her son in law has..  and our nephew Travis did before he passed away from a car accident injuries.  Now there is a guy I sooooooo totally miss. Travis was an unusual guy, he had such a great grip on life. Common sense, and he could see beyond the face value.  I give anything to sit with him and ask him what he thinks about politics since he left us. The Obama President time line…  and definitely would love to sit there and hear what he has to say about Trump.   There are many who we use to write back and forth about our blogging.. who have passed. 

While life has been up and down for these 20 years..  I would not miss it for anything.  Am I glad that,  that late night I decided to give it a try..  OH HELL YES..   I have had as low as 6 readers, I average 8 to 12 readers.. and I have hit some great peaks of 80 to 120…  

My post about the parades always got good numbers as they knew I had a lot of pictures of the  parade.  And in the hay day of HBO with DFO..  he would highlight some of my post..   but 8 or 100 it was still worth it.   Some came years after I posed it..  guess the internet pick it up for   with a catch word..  and then they would come to be on the list of wanted notification of when I posted.. there were many many names I never heard of.  So that was cool.. that they read it and wanted to come back..

Well, I hope I answered the W’s and the H.. of the series. 

Here is to one more day..     Don’t know if I will write more. Or just put the words up..  BYE..  so nice to know you..

Heading down the stretch….

Heading down the stretch….

Because this is the end of the blog this week.. I am doing 4.. 

Two regular post..  if I can think of what to say..  Oh, there is a lot to say..but do I, is the question.  And two good bye ones.

Funny as they ask at the Dr. Office paper work. ARE YOU DEPRESSED? DOES LIFE UPSET YOU??  what questions in this day an age..    Luckily I don’t go until July .. that is if I am still here.. for my wellness check up..  So if the question is there..  I am tempted to say.. HELL YES, THE WAY THE GOVERNMENT IS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY.. WHO ISN’T DEPRESSED AND LIFE IN THE USA  IS UPSETTING.  But with my luck I would have the men in white coats at my door..  with their HOME  health people..  judging me and then what??  Oh, well.  Who knows if we will still have a country by July..    But as I have said before..   I am putting my family and friends along with us..  in the hands of God.

In all my 80+ years, I have not seen this country as divided as it is now..  It is more so than in the 1960’s and 70’s during the Vietnam War..  Where generations were divided.  The young protesting..  and the older generation who went thru WWI and WWII and the Korean war… stayed with what the country did before.  This time we have friend against friend..  … family members against family members..  Women seeing their rights being whittled down.. return to the 1950’s for women.   My generation who fought hard to get rights for women..  When I was first married.. I could not get a credit card..  had to have my husband get one  and maybe get to get dependant card…  A single woman was not allowed to get a card .. oh, you could try.. but they turn you down.. Even if you had a good job.  And we are now sitting here to see just how bad all these changes are going to go.  Will the poor once again be homesless?  Will children once again be denied health care, dental care, that is soooooooo expensive that one can’t do it by themselves anymore.  Will women still be lower and lower in the cash flow?

As Bob Dylan says…   THE TIMES.. THEM TIMES ARE CHANGING.. 

AND it does not appear to be to the good.   Once again the rich white men are gaining control over the country.  Something I never thought I was see, because there are sooooo many good men out there.. who walked beside us in life..  Not ahead, not behind.. but along side us… Together..