hiddenhollowcrafts

2011-10-06T06:52:00.000-07:00

it is quiet this morning ,i have noticed that when i have a loud busy day ,the next is usually quiet and peaceful ,i thank God for this,my young son feel back asleep on the sofa this morning ,the phone isn't ringing and there is no one at the door,all is as it should be in my world ,with no trouble and only the normal problems of life ,this to i am thankful to God for ,i have reached a point in my life ,where i look at everything ,as this to shall pass ,all the troubles large and small shall pass and God will continue to set things right ,my daughters are still in the mist of young family life and that can be so trying ,i have come to realize that the children of older parents are truly blessed ,we have been there and done that and are grounded in our world ,the rules are the rules ,and we had our time to work them out with the older kids ,i love to tell my youngest two ,your brothers and sisters already tried that,so no it isn't going to work for you either l.o.l.
i am organizing my craft room ,so that i can get to my stuff i have a lot of sewing,knitting and crocheting to do ,the weather here has been just beautiful ,since October began ,i love the early fall here ,the woods are breath taking and the air is mild ,tomorrow my oldest daughter and i will go get groceries and we have decided after that we will have a Halloween movie day ,can you say Pumpkin Head ,that movie scares my daughter ,she is 29 and has watched it 50 times and still jumps like a pre teen girl when ever the creature appears on the screen
i love to hear her squeal,she is studying toward her PHD in commuication at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa ,and is still frightened by a b rate horror movie

2011-09-22T11:09:00.000-07:00

i haven't been posting ,and this blog has never become what i wanted it to be ,so i think it is time for that to change ,i will be going through and deleting some of the old post ,but right now what i have on my mind is food ,not the kind you go to the grocery store and pick up ,but the kind you can produce yourself ,i have a thought that keeps recurring to me ,what if all we had to get was what we could grow or raise ,how would our eating habits change ,just what can be grown here ,i know rice can be grown in the southern United States but i have no idea how to do it ,there is a book on small scale grain farming i think i will buy but i don't know if it covers rice ,how much land do i need to produce rice ,my thoughts are on healthy foods that i can grow for my family ,along with rice i think about fats is it possible to grow olives here ,i know that they grew in Turkey when my father was stationed there ,and the winters there were cold much more snow than bama gets ,so maybe ,i know i could produce lard from pigs but that's not really all that healthy ,what about salt is there a local salt mine around here

i am going to slowly stop buying foods that i know we cant get locally ,it wont shorten our list of foods all that much but there are some things i don't think we can grow here bananas and oranges being two of them

i will be making a list of the foods i know i can grow or raise ,just to see where it would leave us and others like rice i will research .

i don't know where this will lead so i will just have to up date as we go along

Life on hold and how to live it ,or the doctors are killing me slowly

2011-07-13T10:16:00.000-07:00

well ,it all began with a diagnosis of a heart disease know as arterial fibrillation,i spent a miserable 6 days in the hospital and now i am waiting for the surgery to fix the problem ,the doc said it would only take 3 or 4 months to get it done so..........................as i wait about all i can do is read and write anything else makes my heart race like i am running a marathon,and let me tell you this sucks ,big time

in the mist of it all i started having problems with my stomach that i thought were related to the heart condition ,turns out that when i finally went to the emergency room at 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning to be diagnosed with diverticulitis,that according to the 12 year old doctor it was caused by old age ,now i know i am not a spring chicken any more but i don't see 50 as all that old either 80 is old ,50 is mature ,well grounded ,dignified,my first thought at this comment was to punch that boy in the mouth ,and teach him to show a little respect for his elders ,since my husband was watching ,i decided to take my high fiber diet and go home , but i am sure i will see this young punk again and hopefully we will be alone

it has been a long while since i posted steady to this blog but as i have very little to keep my mind busy right now hopefully i will think of something to write about

my youngest daughter has streaked her hair black and the over all effect reminds me of Pepe le Pew,she has informed that i am just wrong ,ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh ! the things we do for fashion ,i hope she out grows this soon

my youngest who is 10 has become interested in when he will go through puberty ,and how he will know when he does

,i assured that he will know and hopefully he has a couple of more years to go yet ,i asked where he heard about puberty he said in a late night movie ,i gotta get this kid in bed earlier...................

back at last

2011-02-08T14:14:00.000-08:00

my puter crashed gasp !*&^%$# and again @#$%^&

so for 2 weeks i have been off line ,until i could find one in my price range that i liked,i had gotten lazy anyway and the trying to post once a day went out the window ,but while i was away ,i finished an entire double wedding ring quilt top for my oldest ,it will be a Christmas present this year ,this week i will start one for daughter number 3 and her husband

today i have spent the day downloading everything i cant live with out on to this puter,my baby girl also got a new lap top and her net book became youngest sons ,so the kids are happy and the new Wii their father bought for himself ,saying the entire time it was for them ,yea ! right l.o.l,they will be busy for awhile ,i should have at least 24 hours of peace and quiet ,but today i think i have a shopping hang over,hubby is bringing home a car for me that he bought from a friend at work so there goes my excuse not to drive $%#@!%^&*

the things i keep to remind me

2011-01-07T06:09:00.000-08:00

in my home is a rotary dial phone wired to the wall ,and working ,when i put it in my children smiled and whispered behind their hands,there is a television set up with rabbit ears that doesn't work ,to remind me of a time when we had 3 channels ,you got up to change them and tv was free,oh ! the tv will come on and you could hook a dvd player to it and watch what ever you wanted ,it just wont pick up a digital signal
in my kitchen stands a cast iron wash pot ,inside it is are 2 rub boards a coil of clothes line ,clothes pins ,a large pile of octagon laundry soap i also have a number 10 wash tub and my children say why ,this is when i smile and say" i may need them"
you see i have all the modern convinces but i still enjoy books made of dead trees ,water clear and cold from a spring ,real heat in the winter also from dead trees ,not the forced air kind ,standing over a vent to get warm on a cold winter just isn't the same as standing in front of a roaring wood fire
when the weather man predicts bad weather ,my neighbors rush to the grocery store to get canned soup and bread ,i make a pot of soup from my home canned garden abundance and several loaves of sourdough bread,while they are scurrying to get home on lethal roadways i am safe and warm enjoying the delicious smell of fresh baked goods ,while others struggle to make a 2 family paycheck work ,i sit in my old house not wishing to keep up with the Joneses ,i enjoy my paid for house ,my paid for car and i don't worry about what my future may hold ,i am in Gods hands ,i have learned to predict the weather by watching my animals ,i have a mama cat that is better than the guy on the weather channel ,if she comes in the house and refuses to leave the back of the chair ,closets to the wood heater there is a storm coming ,if she lays dead center of the kitchen window things are pleasant but cool ,the sunny spot on my bed means no worries at all ,sunny and warm ,the back of the couch ,rain for days ,and when she leaves the house ,spring is here we will see her next fall,if she comes home in the summer it is only to tell us heavy summer rains are coming ,and they are rare here

my son is a home owner now ,we got the call yesterday ,that the house down the road is his now if we can buy out the other 2 neighbors this side of the hollow will be ours ,my oldest dd is working on the house next door to ds,and my dd number 3 is working on the house between us ,the one across the street has been mine since 1994,if we are successful of the 8 houses in the hollow they will be shared by 2 last names,life isn't always easy in the backwoods but it is always happy for me anyway ,most people want a major city with in 10 minutes of their door ,i call fast food raw fruits and vegetables they call it Micky d,s, i can usually have a meal on the table in the time you drive to ,order and wait at the drive through and that is with no plan ahead time

dd number 2 and i went to the thrift store yesterday and i got half a buggy of crochet yarn for ten dollars ,it was all tangled up but only took about 10 minutes to straighten out when i got home ,it is going in the scrap afghan ,which is now as big as a couch throw ,don't know how much bigger it will be ,it may cover my queen size bed when i am done ,we will see ......................

dreary rainy day

2011-01-05T10:38:00.000-08:00

dreary rainy day,that is what i woke up to,so we had a slow school day and finished early ,i am left with an empty afternoon to fill ,not that i am complaining ,not at all

i have been reading about dead birds falling from the sky across the world and floating fish ,i offer no opinion about the cause but i do have theories

most people don't want to hear what i think ,so i keep it to myself

i think i will knit some on that darn afghan ,i finished reading the great god pan last night ,so i guess i will work on lair of the white worm

hamburgers for supper

okay ! so i have been lazy for a few days

2010-12-30T17:06:00.001-08:00

once again i don't really have anything to talk about ,my goal is to get really good at this and to have a riveting and stimulating post every day of the week ( yeah ! right ) not enough happens around here

although the iguana nearly escaped the other day ,see i like the iguana ,i hold it and pet it ,but i have this thing about it getting out on its own ,i don't know why but if it leaves its cage on its own ,i freak out ,my husband has it in an aquarium with glass over all except a spot abut 6 inches by 12 inches where there is wire,and he discovered that if he climbed on his tree limb he could push that wire up and get out ,i noticed this when i heard the wire move ,i calmly walked over and set the top part of a shoe makers last on top of the wire and left it there ,it is still there i am taking no chances on mid-night escapes ,i would really freak if i woke up and found it in my bed some cold dark night

hubby is off work again for another 4 day stretch for New Year ,i am glad the holidays are almost over ,i have a lot to do that i want to get on with ,Zaks reading needs some work and i need peaceful days to get it where i want it to be

i started this post a couple of days ago and i am completing it the evening of new years day ,the holidays are all most gone except for a small celebration of Old Christmas,for my husband and the youngest children,i found out about old Christmas in my Internet reading and decided to make it part of our holidays ,like May Day i think i am one of the only people around here who know what they are and try to have a celebration of some kind on those days,my husband loves celebrations that include food and sweets of different kinds so he is all for this,i observed all the old superstitions of the day and ate every thing you are suppose to ,the turnip greens were wonderful the black eye peas ,my dd made were great and the ham was cooked by me to perfection ( of course )

now tomorrow ,i will have to clean up all the messes,i held my little man while he slept and gave him lovin' till it made him mad l.o.l

the future for us all is bright and it is a brand new year ..............................

Snow really ?

2010-12-25T13:02:00.000-08:00

well, i don't guess you could call it a white Christmas ,but we did have a few snow flakes ,falling pretty heavy for a few minutes there ,a very rare occasion for central bama,if we see snow it is normally late January ,or February

i looked out the back window a few minutes ago and the mist rising in the woods ,always makes me grateful my ancestors settled here on this beautiful slope half way down the mountain,it reminds me of the old world ,the hills of northern Scotland ,my blood remembers what it looked like there ,i think these hills were the closest they could find to home

the mist are so beautiful among the trees,there is just no way to get it across in words ,

we ate a very large Christmas and now i have a turkey hangover only one of the children couldn't get here for dinner ,i wont see her and her family till Monday ,due to their work schedule
one more holiday to go next Saturday ,i will cook the traditional New Years feast ,to thank God for all our blessings
Merry Christmas to you all !

well i missed last night posting

2010-12-23T16:45:00.000-08:00

but i have a good reason//////////////////////////,we went to finish up Christmas shopping and when i got back my father in law brought deer and i had to cut up and package ,what i wasn't going to cook today ,so that took awhile,the young ones went to spend the night with dd number 3 last night ,so we had the house to ourselves ,i rented a movie off direct tv ,i love m.night shyamalan ,dh isn't so crazy about his stuff ,he doesn't like horror or sci-fi in general but will tolerate some fantasy ,tonight i have found the book of Eli on one of the movie channels ,so i am going to watch

dinner last night :egg rolls

tonight :deer tips and rice

knitting :the afghan

crocheting :not today

reading:the same plus the first book of swords ( i love that series)

8 days a week

2010-12-21T18:03:00.000-08:00

eight days in a row i have come back here and posted now,i am proud of my self ,today we didn't do much
ds number 2 and i watch stargate episodes on DVD most of the day,i cleaned the cabinet top book shelf and tomorrow i will start to put my books on it ,only my favorites will be in this one
well school is now out until the 4th of next year ,my son is very happy about this ,even though he home schools ,he is glad his sister is home for about 3 weeks
i have a lot planed for us to do ,sometime tomorrow we will bake cookies and blond brownies
but first we will sleep late ,i told dh not to wake any of us when he got up to leave l.o.l.
i have noticed that since the grown children moved our dinners have gotten much simpler ,dh hasn't wanted complex meals ,today's was about the toughest i have done in awhile and it was pretty simple ,i have got quite a bit done on the afghan today
dinner :stove top stuffing casserole ,black eyed peas,fried potatoes
knitting :the afghan
crocheting :the shawl
reading:the same

2010-12-20T16:31:00.000-08:00

i have two very old quilt chest one large ,one average size,i have thought for a while that i wanted the large one in my bedroom ,to put my clothes in ,and i have had the top half of a Hoosier cabinet for about 5 years now, that i thought would make a great book shelf if hung on the wall above the quilt box

number one ds and number two d grand son came over to day to split fire wood,and move furniture for me so i had them hang the cabinet on the wall above the quilt box we moved in last week ,it looks great and tomorrow i will start putting my books on it ,i managed to crochet some today on the shawl i am making to replace the one my dd lost when she moved back from college ,i even managed to knit on the afghan ,

i talked to the neighbor who is trying to sell the house one door down from me and hopefully it will work out where my oldest ds can buy it ,then we will own three in the neighborhood,there is one more sitting empty that we will try to acquire ,eventually

things have been real quite around here today even with the boys here this morning ,i am tired tonight from pulling on the furniture trying to help,just a sign of getting old ,i guess,i will be glad when the hub bub of Christmas and the new year is over and we get on with the long winter months ,i guess i am living in anticipation of spring,,i have great hope for this spring and all i hope to get done ,the garden the animals ,baby goats and chicks .................

dinner :sloppy joe's and french fries

crocheting :shawl

knitting :scrap afghan

reading :very little today

today we cleaned

2010-12-19T18:00:00.000-08:00

i made the kids slow down today ,they have been to busy ,with spend the nights,going to friends and having friends over ,two of the cousins called today ,but i didn't let them come over ,we needed a day ,they mostly got their rooms clean and rested today

dd number 6 went to her first teenage ( or should i say pre-teen party ,she is only 12 ),she partied till 9 p.m. last night and it made her feel grown,a 14 year old at the party told her she was the prettiest one of her sisters ,(sounds like a juvenile player to me )

we went over this afternoon to see the baby for a few minutes,dh didn't want to stay long he just wanted to check on them all 'i have made a good bit of progress on the scrap afghan and hopefully it will be finished soon

this is the sixth day in a row i have posted ,i am so proud ,just wish i had more to say ,but hopefully i will get better at this soon

knitting :the afghan

crocheting :not today

dinner :hot dogs

reading :a little

gearing up for Christmas

2010-12-18T14:43:00.000-08:00

dd number 2 and ds number and i went to church this morning ,our church has a food bank and they always have lots of extra bread to give away ,and i being as frugal as i am (my children call it being a cheap skate ),i have started taking this bread slicing it and making french toast sticks for the little ones ,i freeze these and then all the kids have to do is nuke them in the mornings ,usually on Monday mornings i will make french toast sticks ,biscuits ,waffles and pancakes ,depending on what we are running low on ,i have a turkey in the oven that my son gave me ,i already had one in the freeze when he gave me this one ,so i put it in the oven,and it will make great turkey sandwiches

i have been busy all day with kids and what not so now i am going to knit

dinner :turkey sandwiches

knitting :that afghan

crocheting :not today

reading :hopefully back to my book right before bed time

what a day

2010-12-17T15:26:00.000-08:00

to begin the story of this day,i will start with the pictures they are of my latest grandson ,and what can i say he is just gorgeous

but on to the real day ,i went Christmas shopping with dd number 2,and that took most of the morning came home wrapped presents and dd number 3 came over and brought ,my darling grandson for me to kiss and hold

the afternoon was shaping up to be a quiet one ,until dd number 2 called to say ,dd number 3 husband ,had been in a car wreck and they were all headed to him ,it turned out he was okay but the car was a complete loss,

as i told them things can be replaced ,people cant

dinner :red beans and rice

knitting :yea ,right like i had time today

crocheting ;same as knitting

reading :where is that book

gotta love that bama weather

2010-12-16T14:12:00.001-08:00

our weather loves to tease us ,we had two days of temps in the low teens ,and this morning it was 54 at 5 a.m.,that means our temps went up over night l.o.l.,this can only happen in the winter in Alabama

ds and i didn't do a whole lot today ,we mostly played hooky ,i have almost finished his ski cap and even made progress on that darn scrap afghan ,my son is coming tomorrow to move furniture after i get back from wally world

sorry about the lousy pic ,my batteries are dead ,so i had to use the camera on dd net book ,i really didn't use a pattern for this ,i basically made a crocheted cap and kept going when i got to the eyes i skipped 2 rows and left them open,he didn't want a space for the mouth ,just the eyes

two more rounds and it will be finished and tomorrow i will start dd flip top mittens

dinner : hamburgers

reading:same as yesterday

knitting :ditto

crochet:ditto

'All hope abandon ye who enter here'.

2010-12-15T16:33:00.000-08:00

My husband say's that should be the sign above my sewing room ,i would love to say it looks like the pictures on this blog ,but no ,mine is more like almost organized clutter

the kids and i got another shelf moved out of my bedroom and in to the sewing room today ,i guess you are wondering why they either were not at school or doing school as i home school one and the other goes to public middle school

this morning shortly after the 12 year old left for her cousins house to wait for the bus her cousin on the other side of us knocked on the door to say his mother said there wasn't going to be any school today ,he went after my dd ,she came home and said they were having school there other cousin had called and there were no school closings ,well cousin number 2 came back and said they had just announced on the emergency scanner that the schools were closed,one more time he starts up the hill to get my dd ,he made it about half way and met her coming home ,the bus driver got the call to take all the children back home just as he arrived to pick them up

30 minutes later the school called to let me know they were closed today ,so both children got the day off

all this was because it was raining and our temps didn't get above 32 till this afternoon,there were several roads and most bridges closed,and we worked on my sewing room,i now have the space in my bedroom for the furniture to come from the storage house and the quilt box can now go in the front entry way ,two more pieces out of storage yea !!!!!!!!!!!!!

after Christmas i will get the coffee table ,back in the house as i have figured out how to use it and the over sized side table in the living room,but first the Christmas tree has to be gone ,

i am also thinking that the drop side table can go in the sewing room,that will get two more pieces over here ,then the secretary for dd room and side board book shelf for ds,i am getting a lot done

hopefully my free furniture movers (son and grandson )will show up tomorrow ,to bring in the piece for my room

i rented movies for each kid this afternoon ,so it was mostly quiet

tonight's dinner :spam casserole

knitting :that darn afghan

crocheting :ski cap

reading :same as yesterday

public restrooms

2010-12-14T17:19:00.000-08:00

i would like to use this time to ,talk about the public restroom ,i am not here to complain about cleanliness or toilet paper or the lack there of in these places !

we have all at some time found ourselves in need of a public restroom ,be it in a store ,restaurant or gas station (yuck ! God forbid )

this past week my oldest daughter and i went to visit my favorite thrift ,and i found the need to visit the ladies room ,as i sat there staring at the walls i noticed something ,the highly educated people who stoop so low as to use this format for their spring board to the world ,have a spelling problem ,they miss spell waz,cuz and buz,dis and dat ,i think they even miss spell their own names,i mean i don't really think any mother actually ,named their child Aprilllea

BUT,there is one word ,and only one that is never miss spelled and i mean never !

you know the one ,yes ,that word,i know it can be spelled by almost any child in grade school but come on now,are these people trying to tell us that they attended school and this is the only thing they learned to spell

is there a class that teaches this ,do children come home and tell their parents that they have learned to spell this word,they must be proud of it they ,spread it all over bathroom stalls

i hear it spoken,on television ,on the street ,in the politest neighborhoods ,and written on walls every where ,is this now our common tongue ,have we become so lax in our morals ,that this is okay ,are their any out there who do not use this word in everyday speech

when i was growing up having a potty mouth was not okay and durn was a bad word,i had an uncle who used s.o.b. and that is what i mean not the words just the letters and my grandmother said he cussed like a sailor

i have always thought this was a word that no one uses,but it seems that i am wrong and it is now accepted in common speech ,

my daughter told me i was a prude,so be it !

now that my rant about the bathroom is over ,i had a very productive day ,today ,with the older children being gone ,i have more time and room ,so i am trying to get back to the way i used to prepare meals and keep house ,

today i made 3 weeks of biscuits,pancakes and waffles ,cooked and froze the sausage for my husbands weekend breakfast scramble ,and the kids sausage gravy ,i also made the buns for tonight's fish sandwiches and a loaf of bread

tomorrow i have big plans to rearrange my bedroom to bring in some furniture from the old house ,this week i crocheted a Rasta hat for my oldest daughter and a ski mask for youngest son ( the wind was trying to bite his skin off)i have promised my oldest daughter ,flip top mittens ,so maybe by Friday ,we don't normally need very much cold weather gear in Alabama but the good Lord has blessed us with bitter cold for the last two weeks ,i awoke this morning to the temp hovering at 15 degrees,i hate cold much less bitter cold ,my poor husband has to be out in it all day ,my 12 year old has to catch a bus at 7 a.m. ,it is just so cold here

one of the reasons i have never left the south is i hate cold weather ,we are having temps that could kill you ,this is not the south i know and love !

i plan to try posting at least once a day ,so i can keep up with the things i make ,what books i read and the meals i prepare

i finally found my camera so i can post pictures of what i make

Sunday :made a months worth of granola ,and gave a gallon bag to my son in law

dinner : fish sandwiches with french fries

homemade bun

reading :mysteries of the unknown series

the psychics,the worm ouroboros

crocheting :second ski cap for son

knitting :still working on that durn afghan

my weekend

2010-12-06T17:09:00.000-08:00

daughter number 3 got a large dose of parenting this weekend ,my little bitty grandson has a viral infection that landed him in the hospital for the weekend ,so from Friday till today they were all miserable

i was so thankful when they got to come home today ,they stopped by to see us on their way home ,the little guy looked good and happy now that he has had 4 days of antibiotics ,my youngest had his cousin over all weekend and youngest daughter was at another cousins for her birthday ,we all stayed up to late and got up to early ,so i am hoping to rest ,this week ,i did the monthly grocery shopping today so all i have to do now is get ready for Christmas ,so much to do so little time

i guess this is all for tonight ,i have a date with a twelve and nine year old to watch "a nightmare before Christmas " ( i love that movie )

Bama weather

2010-11-30T05:55:00.000-08:00

The wind began to switch - the house to pitch and suddenly
the hinges started to unhitch.
Just then the Witch - to satisfy an itch went flying
on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch.
And oh, what happened then was rich.
*The house began to pitch. The kitchen took a slitch.
It landed on the Wicked Witch
in the middle of a ditch,

well that is what i woke up to this morning ,thankfully my part of the state ,in our little hidden hollow ,has been by passed the really horrible stuff is to the north of us,but the rain and wind are steady ,so this day i will spend making soup and knitting ,very little else ,hubby is home ,in his recliner watching a Tom Cruise movie ,that is the one thing about his work ,they cant paint in the rain

feline luck or maybe a cat really does have nine lives

2010-11-28T16:05:00.000-08:00

my latest animal rescue story begins ,with a neighbor child walking in my house with a half grown,mostly wild kitten,i said no ,my youngest son cried and it stayed,she turned out to be a sweet little thing ,bothered no one so i didn't take much notice of her
one night after she had been here about two weeks ,my son couldn't find her that night right before he went to bed ,i said don't worry she will turn up in the morning ,shes just asleep some where in the house
well the next morning as my husband was getting ready to go to work ,the fan belt slung off his truck so he came back in and got my cars keys and went on to work
my oldest son found the kitten about 2 hours later ,looking as if it had been attacked by a dog ,her head was swelled up about triple its normal size ,one eye was cut and bleeding ,as one was nostril,now i don't take cats to the vet ,if they are hurt ,i do the best i can for them and if the pass away ,well they had a good life ,i did all i could for her and told my son she was in God's hands from that point on
my hubby got in late from work that night and the next and since i didn't need the car that week ,he didnt put the belt back on the truck for 3 days ,that Saturday morning he went to fix the truck and found fur in the belt ,at that point we figured out what had happened to the kitten and the truck
by this time the kitten was on the mend and doing quite well for being caught up in a motor
we had not named her so my oldest son suggested fan belt ,i said no ,dd number 2 ,suggested ping ping as that had to be the noise her head made as it hit the hood of the truck ,my children can be cruel !
well it came me about a week later
Harriet ,the cat who lived

the day after ,after

2010-11-27T18:59:00.000-08:00

hubby got a lot done today ,he cut fire wood ,got dd number 2,s dryer hooked ,up her heaters checked out after they delivered her propane,and even managed to take the kids to see his mother ,before she left to go home
the kids and i finished changing the bedrooms around and put quite a few things in the storage room ,we will add more tomorrow and catch up on the laundry
my step mother in law came over for a few minutes,my young nephew was disappointed to find ds # 2 gone for the afternoon,
son in law number 2 has finally finished reading my harry potter books ,and returned the last one ,my youngest son and i are reading them as a part of our home school lessons,i plan on letting them lead to king Arthur,from there to lord of the rings and finish up the year with the chronicles of Narnia............i think that will give us a good year for second grade
i am tired tonight ,why my children decided Thanksgiving week was a good time to move i will never know ,i guess it was the days off work that had them star struck,at least we didn't have that much of the moving to do ,as most of the heavy stuff came from son in laws place and his parents did that part,they only have 2 kids so they aren't completely wore out from moving children back and forth yet lol
tomorrow we will find and put up the Christmas Tree ,it may not get decorated ,for a couple of days but at least it will be up
we finished watching the football game at hubby's grand mothers last night and i was sad to see Bama lose ,but there is always next year ..............
i have been to busy to knit today so i guess i better get off here and try to get something done

Thanksgiving

2010-11-26T18:37:00.000-08:00

We have lived through another Thanksgiving ,and black Friday at least this year i haven't heard of any shootings or of anyone being trampled to death.
I have had 2 days of food and family,now i am tired ,the kids are tired and my dear hubby has fallen asleep in his chair
I have found a horror movie on Chiller and settled down to knit ,i am working on an afghan in a simple pattern ,i call mindless knitting ,i try to keep a project like this going,one i can do while watching TV ,tonight is the perfect night for it ,our weather has turned off very cold for the deep south
over the past week all of my grown children have moved into their own places,so we have just the young ones at home now for the first time in 5 years ,the house is quiet ,but it is a good quiet as it should be
all adults need to make their own homes,
back to my knitting project it is a simple pattern that forms diamonds ,you sew together to make an afghan,you hold to strands of yarn together and cast on one stitch ,the next row you do two stitches in that one ,then add a stitch at each end till you have the first half of the diamond as big as you want it ,then decrease at each end till you are down to one stitch and bind it off.Iam about half finished with this one and it will be my cover up on the sofa throw this winter
to celebrate the moving and all children now having their own rooms with out having to share ,M decided they could both have a new puppy apiece that a family friend was giving away ,so there are to half boxer ,half hound puppies running around my feet, i am absolutely sure these will be the ugliest dogs alive when grown,but for now they are very cute lol
Well , two more major feast days to go then i can rest till Easter .............

empty nest syndrome

2010-11-21T16:53:00.000-08:00

well that's not what it is called around my house ,my husband says thank you Lord one more gone,we have started a new tradition at my house ,we give them their bed so they cant come back ,to stay, my husband loves to quote the old southern saying " you are marrying off,not on ,this seems like a hard way to be ,but then we did have one to ruin it for the rest by staying here with her husband till she was 28 (and the son in law would come back if we let him )
my daughter that turned 19 yesterday ,is getting married and moving out ,but not in that order,she will be moved out by the 29 Th ,and i sound like she is moving to the other side of the world instead of 3.6 miles down the road ,only 2 miles as the crow flies
about a year ago right after she turned 18 and thought she was grown ,she found out she was expecting a baby ,and decided it was time to grow up and that she didn't know everything
well baby daddy didn't last long in her new responsible future ,but God saw fit to bless her with a young man ,who was interested,in applying for the job of husband and father ,
it is very strange to watch ,them ,so excited about their future,and i worry if they will be able to make it,he is 25 so its not like he is a teenager,and even though i have been on my own since my mother threw me away at 17,and i think i have done pretty well for myself,
my grandson is 7 weeks old today ,and growing like a weed ,i hope to get my house back in order ,once the moving out is done ,i have big plans for the room that will be emptied
i am going to turn it into a pantry ,slash crafts store room,that is the plan any way ,the pantry ,i am using now,will become a linen closet ,because that's really all it is big enough for
my husband is very happy about all this ,he sees it as one less mouth to feed,he made the comment the other night ,that we only had 2 more to go as Ronnie will probably be with us for the rest of our lives,and then i think Zak will be the one he goes to ,Michael feels we should get the youngest 2 jobs now ,but as i explained to him ,the child labor laws apply ,to children 12 and 9 l.o.l,they are very independent children though..........................

WHAT I THINK IS PRETTY STUPID

2010-10-12T08:23:00.000-07:00

i was watching the history channel ,it was a a program about the Levy's in this country ,until hurricane Katrina,there was no official agency for the upkeep ,location or number of Levy's in the United States,now to me that's just plain dumb ,dumb,dumb
since these things are holding back the water that could be flooding your house ,killing your family ,it seems to me it would be to every one's best interest to know where these things are ,there are entire cities that would be flooded if they break ,i.e. New Orleans
as i watched this ,i felt very lucky to live in the middle of no where ,where there is very little in the way of industry,not the first time i have found myself pleased that my area is so sparsely inhabited

this is also not the first time i have been disappointed ,with our local ,state and federal government ,i have been telling folks for years that ,we only have ourselves to depend on ,at all times we need to be prepared
there are so many people who cant not function without the modern utilities,in our area the conveniences have only been around for about 50 years they were slow coming to Appalachia ,the mountain people of the American south kept to thierselves,thier culture was important to them

There is a baby at my house

2010-10-08T04:05:00.002-07:00

This past Sunday morning, October third ,at 3:30 a.m.,daughter number 4 woke me ,and said "i think i am in labor"
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I responded "No you are not, go back to bed"
at 4:30 she once again woke me "Mama,i am in labor ,get up "
once again i responded " No.you are not ,the baby is not due till Wednesday ,this is your first baby ,it will not be born 3 days early ,it will not be born for another 2 weeks ,now go back to bed !!!!!!!!!!!!!
at 5:30 one more time she enters my bed room " Mama ,she loudly proclaims ,i am in labor and if you don't get up and take me to the hospital Brandon ,is coming to take me and you can just stay here ,
i said "OKAY, just start the coffee ,i am getting up !!!!!!!!!!!!!
well,i drank my coffee and she kept saying " I am in labor " me thinking the entire time no you are not we got to the hospital about 7:15 ,
Brandon ,her fiancee' has been there 30 minutes,and lives 60 miles further away than we do,can we say speeding !
I on the other hand am still thinking this is a wasted trip ,they will send us right back home
they take us up to labor and delivery ,i am still thinking this is a joke !
I must stop here and say in my own defense that daughter number 4 is a hypochondriac ,who if she cant sleep will wake you up just to talk !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so, I went and found myself a cup of coffee ,and a pop tart from a machine "YUCK"
I went back upstairs about 9:00 a.m. ,as I entered the room i said " Well ,what did the nurse say ,Brandon responds ,"nothing ,about that time in comes a nurse
she announces "We are going to have a baby today"
at this point I panic and call my husband ,I let him know we will be grand parents ,before the day is out
daughter number 2 shows up ,along with cousin number 5,and her child number 2,as the day proceeds,and no baby shows up ,i am beginning to get a little bored,daughter number 2 has to leave for work ,the fiancees mother drives up all the way from Pensacola,Florida,and when she arrives things start to happen quickly the medical personal decide that it is time to have a baby ,at 3:44 p.m. Jayden Michael Lee Munn ,entered the world and my life ,which i am sure will never be the same ,he is a week old today ,and has been home for 5 of those days
I have rocked ,bathed ,fixed bottles and lost sleep ,but to see him born was excellent ,and maybe in a year or so i will sleep again

tony curtis

2010-09-30T06:12:00.000-07:00

i awoke this morning to find that Tony Curtis ,passed away in his sleep at age 85 a good long life ,so i of course googled him ,and found out that he was the father of one of my favorite actress Jamie Lee Curtis,i also found out that she is actually Lady Haden-Guest,i have always had a lot of respect for her as she seems to hold her life together ,effortlessly in an environment where so many lives fail
she has been married only once ,her father Tony was married six times ,maybe the apple does fall far from the tree,in some cases ,i know that in a lot of instances we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of our parents ,i feel it always takes a conscience effort on our part not to
i have worked very hard in my life not to be the parent ,or person that my mother was
i try to see to it that all my children feel they are special,a friend of mine tells me i have raised all my children to believe they are an only child,l.o.l
i tell each one they are my favorite and they are ,the oldest is my favorite 28 year old ,the 25 year old my favorite 25 year old and on down the line
i tell people that my mother had 6 kids ,i just wasnt one of them ,i use to think my mother didn't know how evil she was to the ones of us she didn't like ,namely me and an older brother ,but as i have gotten older i realize that we all know right from wrong ,i belive it is in us when we are born ,i was taught as a child to do quite a few things that aren't right ,but knew in my heart even then that they were wrong
we all feel our parents are God when we are young ,but i learned very early mine were not
i thank then ,for i wouldn't have become the person i am ,if they had been different ,i like me !
i have also discovered in this life it is so much easier to do the wrong thing in any given situation ,than it is the right
in less than a week i will be a grand parent for the first time ,i can only hope i have raised my daughter in such a way that she will be the wonderful caring parent ,i know she was meant to be

how it's going

2010-09-25T06:10:00.000-07:00

well, i have managed to carry on with the program for four days in a row ,for me that is a remarkable feat ,my calves are killing me and i am sure i will hate Doctor Lewis ,by the time of my next appointment ,which is 6 months away ,i have managed to sit here and let myself go to pot ,over the last 4 years and now it is time to pay the fiddler
i have a heart problem that as devoleped out of pure laziness ,and bad habits ,so i must turn these around,the one thing i hate losing ,is red meat ,i love a good very rare steak or roast ,but it will now be a rare treat ,instead of a weekly thing ................

and so it begins

2010-09-21T07:19:00.000-07:00

i haven't written a blog in a long time ,but i need a way to hold myself accountable ,so this works ,i will explain later l.o.l
right now i am just to tired .so
walked to the old school yard and back ,made Zak very happy ,and Ronnie miserable ,so things are normal

thinking about our house

2010-05-06T05:53:00.000-07:00

thinking about our house and how we live here in the deep south ,this aera is one of the few place i know of where you can sleep at night with the door unlocked ,my front door dosent even have a lock ,there is little crime here and i hate to admit it but the local criminals are mostly related to my husband
they all have a deep fear of him ,so i dont worry about ,anyone stealing from me ,i have always had the attiude that if someone needs my things bad enough to steal them i will just buy or make more ,i wouldnt want someone to break my door getting in ,so i dont lock it

spring

2010-05-02T20:11:00.000-07:00

i have had a strange and troubling weekend ,it began Friday my oldest had been having trouble with her car ,so she borrowed mine to go to the doctor in B'ham none of us like to drive into that city ,we feel those people are crazy ,her 18 year old sister rode with her ,they called me when they started home ,about an hour later i was expecting them to pull up in the yard ,the phone rang ,i have a special ring for my daughters cell phone so i knew it was her ,she was crying ,it seems that they were turning off the highway to come into town and a young man in a pick-up truck tried to pass them in the direction they were turning ,what he managed to do was skin my car all they way down the drivers side and land himself in the trees off the side of the road ,his truck was wrapped around one tree and it had snapped off and came down on the cab ,he walked away with out a scratch {God was with him} my daughters were not hurt just banged up we took them to the hospital just to be sure as the 18 year old is expecting
a neighbor took me to the scene of the wreck and i talked to the EMT's and then drove them to the hospital,before i could get home my oldest son called to say a neighbor {the one i cant stand ,had run over and killed one of my little dogs ,i have had for 5 years
and that's not all
Saturday morning my oldest daughters little dog began to act funny ,refusing to eat ,and by the mid morning he was throwing up ,late in the afternoon he was laying at my feet when he started to heave like he couldn't get his breath ,my son in law came and picked him up and before he made it all the way out side the poor thing died
so this weekend i came close to losing 2 daughters ,my daughter lost a car ,her husband told her it wasn't worth fixing again ,and the 2 little dogs
as i set here reflecting on all this ,i am very thankful that my daughters are fine ,my new soon to be here grand child is fine ,and i grieve for the little dogs ,this is a lot to happen at one time to any family ,none of us broke down or had a complete come apart ,all this was taken in stride as the will of God
also this weekend i paid off my computer and my washer so i am once more just about debt free ,i love living that way ,i like my money to be mine and not belong to someone else
it left me broke till pay day but that's not far away ,yes it has been a full and busy weekend for us maybe the rest of spring will be calm and quiet

i think i am nesting

2010-04-17T19:44:00.000-07:00

well ,i think i have let it be known ,that i am getting my first grand child ,i have two step grand sons that i love dearly,this will be the first grand born into the family ,and i think i am nesting just like i did when i was expecting my own

but i am not quite sure let me explain ,i went to the doctor the 29 th day of last month to talk about estrogen replacement therapy ,my husbands aunt had suggested it to me ,my doc . felt i should only take a multi vitamin,extra c and extra d,well i have been living a pretty sedate life style over the last 5 or 6 years ,very little exercise ,my energy levels were low .....................

about a week after i began to take these vitamins ,i decided to clean out the old house ,now for the last 11 years any thing that was out grown ,not needed at the moment ,or if some one said do you want this ,i put it in the old house this house contained 11 years worth of toys ,clothes ,craft and art supplies ,seasonal items and general junk

i drafted 3 of the kids about a week ago and we have worked on this place for the past 6 days ,it is looking like a house again ,it got to the point where i said get rid of this and my oldest son chucked it out a window ,to put on the burn pile at the end of each work session

we have one or maybe two days left to go ,before i can truly start to organize ,everything .

the books are all pretty much in one place ,the craft supplies will be in one place by tomorrow and i will get rid of a lot of the toys by Monday ,i am proud of what we have managed to do ,that place was a mess

i am now planning my next project ,the herb garden ,i want it larger and more defined than it has been in the past ,maybe it is just my age and the getting over my husband being gone those eight and a half months he was away ,or maybe it is those vitamins ,i don't know but i am now giving them to every one in the house

one more time the public school system

2010-03-25T10:16:00.000-07:00

i have discovered that my 18 year old daughter feels the only reason to read is to find answers

now this has been instilled in her by the public school system ,

i am trying to teach her my theory on reading and here goes ...........

we read to gain knowledge ,improve the human condition,gain insight unto ourselves.learn the wisdom of the past ,increase our station in life ,better our future ,entertain our minds ,uplift our souls ,to teach the ones who come after us,discover our abilities and our weakness's and improve those areas of weakness ,so we may better contribute to society ,our neighborhood our community in general ,so when we have something to say ,we know how to say it ,

in the area we live in ,we are know to the rest of the country as redneck ,uneducated hillbilly's ,i feel with what our children are being taught in our public school system ,they are the main contributors to this stereotype ,needless to say ,i have removed her from that system

i myself have no formal education education but i have a love of learning born in me and from what ever ancestor that gene comes i thank him ,now if i can just pass it on to the hillbilly's i have raised .........................

many blessings

2010-03-15T20:01:00.001-07:00

20 years ago when i was expecting my fourth child,technology was not what it is today ,but i had the ultra sound and the doctor convinced me i was having a boy ,i made the sweater set ,pictured above ,in the blue and white thread

my daughter was lovely in it ,well that little outfit went the way of most baby clothes in a large family ,and i have no idea where it ended up ,that precious baby girl is now expecting her first child and i once again am knitting this sweater set ,this time in lavender and white ,just in case the doctors once again have no idea what the wee babe is going to be

here in the deep south we are usually well into spring by now ,this season has been long and bitter cold for us ,and even the middle of march shows no real heat for us ,i am tired of winter ,

my garlic is coming up nicely and the strawberries look good ,i am holding out hope for the mint but may have to re-plant

i have spent the winter collecting seeds from all over the country ,and will soon start to plant ,but right now i am knitting

food

2010-02-22T16:26:00.000-08:00

i have another post i am working on but thought i would write this while it is on my mind,i cook every day for 10 adults and 2 children who eat like adults ,now that is a lot of food and a lot of work our main meal is in the evening around 6:30 p.m.,and is the largest of the day ,breakfast is eaten in shifts ,husband and son in law usually just get something on the way to work ,girls cook eggs before leaving for school ,or toast ,or eat muffins i have made ,disabled son and younger children have breakfast about 7 or 8 every morning ,me a little something about 10 or 11 as i am not a morning person,we make 2 pots of coffee a morning ,and 1 in the afternoon ,4 gallons of sweet tea a day ,plus at least 2 liters of soft drink ,lunch is usually leftovers or meatless soup ,except for the weekends when lunch is a big meal and so is the evening meal ,breakfast on a typical Saturday or Sunday morning is as follows ,sausage gravy ,tomato gravy ,grits ,hash browns,biscuits,eggs,orange juice and cinnamon rolls

i cook a lot on the weekends and each night for supper ,tonight i made a family favorite

stove top stuffing casserole ,i make my own stove top ,but it consist of 4 boxes of stove top ,,14 chicken breast ,2 pints of sour cream and 4 cans of cream of chicken soup ,you mix the dry stove top with sour cream,and soup i put it in a large roasting pan and lay the breast on top and bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees ,half the time covered half not this will feed 12 people ,if i don't have a large amount of chicken ,i just cook it and dice it into the stove top ,it works just as well and taste just as good

well i guess that what i am getting at ,is there anyone else out there who cooks like this daily ,i mean beside the Amish and a couple of older black women know

we spend about 1,000 dollars a month on groceries and i try to keep at least 2 months worth of food ,i have2 refrigerators ,2 deep freezers a large pantry and a husband who works very hard to feed us all , am tired just talking about it ,how did families do it in the depression ,or back when you grew and put by all you ate ? the work involved ,the constant striving for

food ,the storing of food ,the harvesting of food ,the preparing of food for storage ,the preparing of meals ahhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!! the work had to be endless just to survive and over half of our world still lives in this fashion,and i still think maybe they know something we don't ,you have to think of it this way when you are working that hard for each meal ,you sure don't have a lot of time to get into or stir up trouble

children

2010-02-18T07:23:00.000-08:00

this morning i am thinking of children and grandchildren my oldest daughter passed away shortly before her 14th birthday ,due to compilations from asthma ,my next to oldest daughter has had 3 miscarriages and will probably never be able to have children, she has to nearly grown stepson that i love dearly so my 18 year old unmarried daughter has taken it upon herself to give me my first grand child ,she thought i would be angry ,disappointed ,ready to kill the boy ,but whats done is done ,and i think a lot of families get started this way ,life continues God will see to it that the world carries on one generation to the next as long as he desires it ,man will continue,the joy of a new life surpasses all negativity ,the smell and feel of a new born baby makes life worth living this child to come will have 6 mamas and 6 daddy's ,it will be spoiled ,hopefully in a good way it will never have to be left with strangers ,there are plenty here to tend to a child ,my daughter will never know the exhaustion of a new mother without help

i look forward to the child's birth ,it is due in mid -September ,one of my daughters birthday is in September and she is hoping the babe will hit her birthday ,i hope it has its own ,we all deserve our own special day at least once a year ,my children and grandchildren are precious to me,my husband and children are the reason i get out of bed every day and continue this life ,if not for them i would much rather be with Jesus ,if not for them i would find a nice nunnery some where and spend my days in prayer and study ,that would to me be a productive life ,we all see things differently ,there are things i was born knowing and i cant explain to others how i came to be able to do them i wasn't taught ,how to swim ,drive or do the crafts that i do ,i simply knew how ,i think we are all born with natural abilities and are taught by society to deny them ,they aren't always valued by our society so they are shoved aside and we are taught to ignore them ,my husband is a natural carpenter he loves the feel and smell of wood as i am with fabric,wool and thread he is with wood ,but can no longer make his living with it ,

so he has had to put his passion aside ,and do what must be done to earn a paycheck,for years i had to wait tables to make the money i needed,because my skills are no longer needed in this our modern world,we have machines that knit and sew our clothing ,thou they haven't designed a machine yet that can crochet ,it can only be done by hand
i worry that the old skills will be needed again soon and their wont be enough people to teach them ,we may not always have google,people have gotten extremely lazy in this country ......................

Quote of the Day

2010-02-04T17:54:00.000-08:00

"I don't have prejudice against myself .My father was a white and my mother was black.Them call me half-caste or whatever.Me don't dip on nobodies side.Me don't dip on the black mans side or the white mans side.Me dip on God's side the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white."
Bob Marley-may you rest in peace

i awoke this morning and checked my facebook like every morning to find a message left by a neighbor about a dear friends son who passed away of a heart attack last night at the age of 38 ,a young man in the prime of his life ,with a wife and 4 young sons,a highschool football coach and teacher who took very good care of himself,a strapping young man that i watched grow up ,it seems to me there have been to many deaths of young people as of late this is the third death from heart attack in my local aera in as many months
the first was 50 the youngest 38 and the other 44,i knew each of these people ,quite well ,it seems to me there must be something very wrong in our society for people this young to be having heart attacks ,heart diease is for old men ,who eat bacon ,ham and 4 eggs for breakfast every morning ,not people barely into the middle years
my heart goes out to this young mans family both is wife and children and his parents ,may he rest quiet in the arms of Jesus

alright hurry up spring

2010-01-31T09:28:00.000-08:00

the title says it all i am sick of cold ,our weather keeps teasing us with warm days and then snatching the rug out from under us ,i have been collecting seed all winter and i am ready to plant ,if i could just get warm

my new computer

2010-01-26T11:09:00.000-08:00

needless to say i have a brand new computer ,i must say it was past time the sound had gone out on the old one about 5 years ago so i could watch videos but not hear then ,which makes it kinda of boring ,to say the least ,while i was at it i saw to it that the older 2 daughters got a new one and i will pick a new one up for baby girl next week ,

the old one has been placed in a hidden away little stop to maybe someday be connected back to the Internet ,maybe

but the dependence the kids put on being continually connected to the world worries me ,i rarely travel more than 30 miles from my home and that only happens once or twice a month but less than 50 years ago the distance of a mile or two was a long way in my part of the world .with today's technology we span great distances in moments ,i have used the net to explore almost all of our world i have learned about all my interests even mild one's

i have been taught several new hobbies and read 1000's of books ,articles and news's papers,but what about the public libraries they are becoming Internet cafes ,people rarely if ever turn pages any more they click a mouse instead,we are gaining knowledge but losing something important also ,i cant quite put my finger on what ,we are connecting with each other ,but not always physically ,

my oldest daughter ,hit me up on facebook chat two nights ago from her bedroom 20 feet away from where i was sitting ,she could have just said Mama and i would have heard anything she had to say very clearly ,today daughter number 3 got her new lap top ,she was chatting on it and my desktop ,while talking on the house phone and texting on her cell and couldn't see why i had a problem with her using 2 phones and 2 computers at the same time (can we say something here just ain't right )but i see it more and more often people talking on 2 phones at once ,they will 3 way each other put the phone on speaker and text someone else ,there is no way anyone can handle all that at once ,they tell me it is because i am old (i turned 49 in December )( i will admit to middle age but not old ) i am puter savvy ,i have skills but i just cant talk to 4 people on 4 different devices and the same time ,i get tired just thinking about it

the need we have for face to face human contact is being pushed aside by our technology ,my husband has been very disturbed by what he calls the kids priorities (computers and cell phones) even the youngest 2 ,and the ones we have in the public school system do almost all their work on computers ,so way cant they just stay home and do it ,public school has become a warehouse for social activity ,and a baby sitter for working parents ,i know there are those who have no choice but to put their kids in the public school system but this lack of choice also worries me what has become of the stay at home grandmother who took care of the kids if the mother had to work ,the lack of family connection even here in the south where it has always been valued ,is frightening
we need to return to a more traditional way of life ,a more forgiving attitude ,there was once a quality of life here that was unmatched any where else in the world ,that quality is quickly becoming a thing of the past ,i think man will be forced to go back very soon ,and i for one will be glad to see the return to the old ways

the English language

2009-12-22T06:03:00.000-08:00

the English language to me in this country only seems to be spoken in the southern states ,i don't know what it is the rest of this country speaks but it isn't English,i have noticed that southerns can pronounce all cities of the north and western states but the rest of the country can not do the same with southern cities i have heard Tuscaloosa and Montgomery murdered ,by Yankees and Savannah and New Orleans are beyond them also ,i feel if you are coming to the south you should do just a little research on the correct pronunciation of the local towns and cities at least enough to ask for directions ,i have also noticed that you can take a southerner up north or out west and they will lose all of their accent but the minute they step back below the Mason Dixon line it comes back like a smooth Tennessee whisky ,my mother in law has lived in Indiana for 36 years but you let her come home and she rolls ya'll off her tongue like she never left ,and i have even noticed it coming out of the mouth of her son who was born up there ,i have even heard him use southern phrases such as" a one legged man in a but kicking contest " he also has a strong opinion on Bama college football so it must just be in his DNA ,i will admit it is a different way of life here ,there seems to be a real problem with the police and i do know people who have cut their grass and found a car (my brother in law being one of them) i have a friend who grew up in Californian ,his father was from here ,he came here the first time in 1996 at age 15 and he never left ,he told me once that ya'll rolls off his tongue so easy now that he cant remember what word he used to use in place of it

the warmth and sunshine of the south makes the days longer and the pace of life slower ,and the south tends to treasure our old people and buildings much longer than the rest of our country

i have also noticed for an actor to play a convincing southerner he either has to be born here or ,he must speak with a British accent in his natural speaking voice ,now isn't that strange a yankee just cant seem to say ya'll it always come you all ,but the Brits can do it so well you would never know they weren't born here ,and God forbid a yankee should try to fake it ,we see through ya'll quicker than greased lightening ,i used to work in a national truck stop chain and the act of interpreting what the yankee's or Canadians were trying to say always feel to me ,i also knew just enough Spanish to be dangerous ,we had a delivery man for New York city that when he was around i found somewhere else to be because when he yelled "YO "Johnny i couldn't stand the sound of it ,the hair on the back of my neck would stand up, i have received tips just to say the word baby it seems that word in a southern accent does something to the men who aren't from around here ,southern manners are also something the rest of the country isn't used to but let me tell you my kids may not say yes mam' every time i speak to them but they do to any other adult that speaks to them they grow up knowing it is expected of them ,they also know what will happen to them if i catch them doing other wise ,there is never excuse for bad manners or crudeness ,there are two things in the south you can always depend on Jesus and mama ,it doesn't always have to be your own mama but there is always some bodies mama that will help you out ,it is unheard to go to someones house and not eat ,you will always be feed something ,even if you aren't hungry it is considered rude not to eat ,and never hurt a woman's feelings by not cleaning your plate ,dinner takes place at 12 noon and is usually started around daylight it maybe soup and grilled cheese but it is started at day break ,because you never know who will show up hungry ,there is always left over biscuits from breakfast and no self respecting woman will send her husband off to work with out breakfast ever !

i believe the fast food restaurants make a large profit off lunch down here but their breakfast menu is geared toward single men and teenage boys who need a second breakfast ,not married men ,now while i am on the subject i don't want you to get the wrong impression about what i am saying i love all my country ,i just think the southern states are the best and the only decent place to live ,our cities in the south are warm and inviting and the rural country life is the only way to live ,the northern cities i have visited were either noisy and dirty or very sterile and cold nothing like the warmth of my south ,i guess if you grow up that way you just don't know any better ,so you really have to feel sorry for anyone not from the southern united states

they just don't understand the peaceful beauty of it all

Christmas

2009-12-18T16:23:00.000-08:00

well i have decided to turn the other house into a craft shop ,and maybe a room to rent out in the back ,we will see the shop part will be first ,
i have started to clean out the years of accumulated junk that has been stored there ,13 years of martial bliss for two pack rats can bring a lot of stuff ,i hope to have one room done by the spring and electricity back in over there ,i don't think i will advertise it all that much just word of mouth in my time little area ,i will sell the things i make or remake ,mostly hand made baby clothes ,quilts and refinished furniture ,i will have plenty of space over there for work rooms and storage as well as display
my husband has found a new ,well paying job and has just come off 14 days straight ,he is tired and about asleep already ,the job was a gift from God ,his work with his uncle was getting slack as it always does this time of the year and we were out Christmas shopping at the first of the month ,i went to Walmart and sent him to the Burger King next door to get lunch for the kids,he left his cell phone in the car and checked it when he got back ,there was a missed call ,he returned it and the man offered him and our out of work son in law both jobs ,they made arrangements to meet the man the next day and found out the jobs were painting at an oil refinery ,they were both blown away ,these jobs are usually hard to get ,and they just sorta feel into them ,as i said a gift from God
so things have gotten very good around here ,i went today and bought Michael's Christmas present there was a necklace he had seen and mentioned that he liked so i got him that ,we will go shopping together next week to pick out mine ,he learned years ago not to try shopping for me alone
funny kid story my mother in law lives out of state and my birthday was this past Thursday ,my youngest daughter went to get the mail ,from our box at the top of the hill and came back to tell me that i had a birthday card from a man with money in it ,i knew right away who it was from and what my daughter was going by ,my mother in laws address has a man's name in it and she had just written her addy and not her name in the return address ,so i called to thank her and let her know her 11 year old grand daughter thought i was receiving gifts from strange men l.o.l
i just love the way kids assume they know everything

black friday

2009-12-18T16:22:00.000-08:00

black friday
well thanksgiving is still more than a week away and the idiot brigade has already began the sale papers and commercials are every where ,my neighbors are clamering to save 5 dollars on a 19 inch televisionyou know i hate to be the barer of bad news ,not ,but where have our morals gone where is the thankfulness we are suppose to feel this time of yearWal-mart has promised to make black Friday shopping safer for their customers this year ,and i should hope so,their stores got a man killed last year ,i know blame it on his fellow shoppers ,but the chain created the ad's that caused the hysteria to begin with ,and i feel they got off lightly for a man's lifei personally refuse to participate in this most solemnof American shopping festivals ,i prefer to spend that day eating left overs curled up on the sofa reading by a nice warm fire ,why any sane human adult would put themselves and their families through that kind of frenzy i will never comprehendin my neck of the woods people seem to lose all sense of self at this time of the year ,i hear a lot of i want ,give me ,i must have and at 25 percent off ,i would rather spend the extra bucks to have a little peace and a calm holiday experiencei know i am once again on my soap box so on a lighter note i bought holiday shirts for my youngest twobaby girls says "Santa likes me best" ,baby boys "Dear Santa i was framed"if i could just get the older kids to wear the matching angel outfits i made

Round One

2009-11-02T19:11:00.000-08:00

it seems the holidays are here ,i have lived through Halloween ,harvest festival the making of all the candies from the harry potter books plus Carmel apples and popcorn balls ,cake walks ,trick or treating ,i am getting to old for this crap and my oldest has taken over a lot of the hands on activities with her youngest brother and sister
Michael was 32 and i 40 when our youngest was born ,so we are older parents most of our friends have grand children
the month of October has been a non stop ride to the hospital for us just about first Ronnie and the broken foot ,then my son in law had a minor car wreck ,on the day of Ronnie's first doctor's visit my husband came home from work bleeding and it only took 8 stitches to put his hand back together ,i have decided the month of October is not good for us
on a better note i am making crocheted rugs for the house something i have been meaning to get done for years ,we have only had a few cold days but there is a feel in the air of more coming ,i am also working on socks mostly for myself as my feet are always cold
i have started planing next years garden and will begin to clean out the back room we are soon to remodel for a pantry as soon as i get over my Halloween hangover,i have big plans for that pantry and the root cellar that will be added under the new living room this spring ,there is a lot happening here much work
my ferret passed away this month too ,and he will soon have to be replaced as i found a snake in the back room when i first went to see what needed to be done ,it is only used for storage of seasonal items and there fore had not been entered in 4 months ,it was only a rat snake looking for a place to hibernate but i still do not want to share living space with it ,i have also discovered a new tobacco at a local shop and my husbands cigarettes are only costing 65 cents a pack now ,the only way to make them cheaper is if he does manage to grow his own ,which i will be very interested in watching him try ,both growing and smoking
my washer decided it had lived a good life and died this month so my husband used the purchase of the new washer as an excuse to upgrade his television at the same time ,a man will do anything for a bigger screen

11 days

2009-10-11T19:58:00.000-07:00

a week ago this past Thursday i went to pay bills and do the monthly shopping ,i didn't leave the house till after 11 a.m. when i got back i had missed 2 calls ,(i forgot to take that blasted cell with me),one was from my husband the other his aunt ,i returned the one from my husband first ,

he told me my oldest son had sprained his ankle pretty bad and the aunt had taken him to the hospital just in case he had broken something ,well he was suppose to bring him home with him that night on his way in from work ,husband got here no son ,by the time he got the whole story out ,my son's foot was broke and the hospital kept him till he could see a specialist ,well 11 days and 3 surgeries later my son is home and wont walk with out a walker for the next 3 months ,it seems the 4 wheeler he was riding threw him and the guy behind him hit him,his foot was crushed between a rock and a tire not a good combo by they way in case you were wondering ,he also tore all the muscles lose in that leg so he has 27 staples down the side of it 4 pins sticking out the bottom of the foot ,2 different sets of stitches and a skin graft ,the doctor said his foot is now held together with pins,screws and wire ,i am thanking God it wasn't his head ,or chest ,or any other vital body part

as it stands he is asleep and on some real good drugs

2009-10-05T04:51:00.000-07:00

darling daughter number 1 -1979-1993

darling daughter number 2-27

darling daughter number 3 -17

darling daughter number 4 -16

darling daughter number 5-15

darling daughter number 6-11

now i ask you to look at these faces ,two blondes ,oldest and youngest

i brunette the 17 year old

and three redheads numbers 2,4 and 5 what woman could be more blessed than to have given birth to 6 beautiful daughters are they not the prettiest things you have ever seen all of them

2009-09-30T13:52:00.001-07:00

about this time of the year ,when the mornings and evenings start getting cool ,i have a strong desire to knit something ,dosent matter what just something i started this morning i dont know yet what it will be shawl ,scarf or blanket l.o.l
i have been telling Michael for a couple of weeks now i need to knit something ,he said we have enough blankets and then shook his head as if i had lost my mind
i told him it was a female thing he would never understand ,the feel of the needles and the wool in my hands is just so enjoyable
i also built our first fire of the year this morning it was 49 degrees and felt like 20 to me l.o.l
we will have a day off school tomorrow as i have to go pay bills and buy groceries
i have been raising kids for 36 years now,i have had someones child on my hip since i was 12 years old and i learned something new the last time we went to walmart ,being allowed to go to the mens room alone is a rite of passage for little boys l.o.l
my 8 year old insisted he was not going to use the ladies room ,he didnt mind going in there while i did but refused to use it ,so i had to stand outside the mens while he went ,he is now a man he told his brother that night because he went in by his self l.o.l

Fall is here

2009-09-29T05:32:00.001-07:00

it arrived this morning to the tune of 49 degrees

my sweet wonderful husband woke me up at 6 a.m. to tell me he was leaving for work ,i had gone to sleep last night in a sweat shirt and short shorts,to awake freezing to death ,i quickly found long underwear and socks ,i am now wrapped in a blanket ,to sorry to get out and get wood to build a fire with ,i have the stove and dryer on hoping they will help heat the house our high for the day is a pleasant 74

i have bribed my 11 year old to scan her brothers worksheets ,she will do about any job no matter how miserable for five dollars ,she is also predicting a long cold winter ,her reasoning for this is ,it is only the end of September it should still be hot here,and i am sure we will have some more very warm days ,but today ain't one of them

while i am thinking about Walmart has a bunch of new commercials out where they are telling people to eat a couple of breakfast a week at home and save ourselves 800 dollars a year or make ice cream treats at home instead of going to the shop for one ,this they say will save your family 400 a year ,okay ? well DUH ! how stupid do they think we are !

reading

2009-09-15T14:54:00.000-07:00

in my own defense ,i must say here that i am a child of the 60's ,i was taught to read by the look say method ,and that is probably why there were so many illiterate in my generation
by the time i was in the third grade i still could not read ,but i also need to say here that i was in 3 school's in as many years,in two different states and two different countries,i also started school in Massachusetts and under there laws at that time you could start school at 4 if you turned 5 by the first of January ,i barely made it in
so by the time i ended the third grade i was a whole 8 years old ,my mother took it up on herself to teach me to read ,at the insistence of a third grade teacher ,who refused to pass me if i didn't learn to read over the summer
my mothers method was to hit me every time i got a word wrong ,i learned to read in self defense
now that the back ground is known ,let me go on to say that when my oldest started kindergarten (which i think is an excuse people use to get rid of there kids )anyone can teach a child there color's ,number's and the ABC's you do not need a degree to do this just an I.Q. of at least 75 ,my youngest daughter taught her little brother when she was 7 and he was 5 playing school
on with my story when my oldest started kindergarten she came home and said "the teacher says's we are going to learn phonics's" i said do who ?the southern equivalent of huh ?
well i decided to home school my youngest 2 after my daughter had a bad experience in public school ,she had already made it through the first grade so phonics wasn't a problem ,we just bought the abeka 2 grade curriculum and she taught herself the second grade phonics ,i did nothing
well then came Zak and i had to teach him to read to begin with i didn't try to teach him anything until last year when he turned 7 ,i feel no need to rush a kid ,and i had read a lot about little boys not being ready for school until 7,8 or 9 ,i have been trying to teach myself phonics since the summer of 2007 and i am glad to say the crap has finally started to make sense to me ( my I.Q. by the way is 140 i am no dummy i just didn't understand the concept's of phonics)no one says in plain English it is the teaching of the sounds that letters and letter combinations make
and i feel it is the only way to teach a kid read ,but poor little Zak has had to go along for the ride ,he seems no worse for the wear though and is skipping right along in his reading ,well enough that i get very proud when i think i taught him that ,but man was it hard l.o.l

fall is coming

2009-09-05T13:28:00.000-07:00

it has rained all day today ,thunder woke me this morning ,there are definitely signs of the coming fall ,i will be glad to see it here last winter and this spring and summer have been long months for me and i almost feel as if the beginning of fall is the renewal of life for us
school is going good ,we have a heavy schedule this year ,we are using oldfashionededucation.com with some other things i picked out thrown in ,there are a lot of books ,i either want the kids to read or i want to read to them ,
there is a warmth and richness in the old books we are using that you don't find in there modern counterpart ,and my youngest daughter has discovered that a lot of the old movies she loves were books first ,i.e. Pollyanna and Pollyanna the second glad book ,she was very happy to discover that second book ,
i have also discovered that these books don't talk down to our children ,that aren't abridged to make them easier ,they challenge the reading skills of children instead of playing down to them ,this is one of the problems in our public school system there is no challenge ,our local librarian has told my youngest daughter that there are books to old for her and that she couldn't check them out ,i simply went and got them for her ,
i try to read everything my kids are reading so we can discuss it ,if i haven't read it in the past ,i read it very quickly before they do ,there have been times ,i have stayed up half the night to finish a book they wanted to read
on a different note the weather man has promised us cooler weather for next week ,i for one will be glad to see it

peace

2009-09-03T08:59:00.000-07:00

once again i have been thinking ,people use to value peace in their lives more than any thing else and they didnt air their dirty laundry in public ,now drama is all the rage and family problems are everyones business ,i blame televison ,calm lives dont make good shows so we have all grown up watching conflict and now most of our population thinks this is the normal way to live but not to long ago people would have been ashamed of this kind of thing in their lives ,less than 100 years ago you would have never heard a mother putting down her own children no matter how rotten they were

families kept the family matters to themselves ,no matter what my children might do it is between me them and God it has nothing to do with the rest of the world ,and trust me i do not have perfect children ,

my little one

2009-09-02T16:23:00.000-07:00

this is my little one with her new glasses ,i thought she was so cute in them i just had to show her off ,and i have reached a milestone it has been 9 years this month since i have had my hair cut i can sit on it and sometimes i accidentally do

the length of my hair makes me very happy

strange dream

2009-08-27T11:52:00.000-07:00

i had a very strange dream the other night about my ex-husband now i don't know about y'all but when i am done with an ex that's it done ,no revisiting ,no meeting to discuss things when its over its over ,leave me alone ,there is a me ,there is a you ,but there ain't no we

well i feel particularly strong that way about this boy ,let me just say you couldn't pour me back on this boy with a spoon

but in the dream there was a quick succession of wives it was like he was flipping through them till he got to the present one ,and i ended up talking to his ex-cousin -in-law about him,i told you it was strange ,i am still trying to figure out why my mind wanted to re-visit a marriage that only lasted 2 years and ended 30 years ago ,well a couple of nights later i dreamed of ex-husband number 2 (yes i have been married 3 times ) you know what they say third times the charm ,i tell everyone i have been married 3 times but i have only had one husband ,the present one i have no complaints about
i am thinking there is something i either need to learn or remember from these dreams maybe i just need to re-visit who i was then ,to make sure i don't go back there ,i feel a lot of our lesson in life we work through in dreams ,you go to sleep and your mind works it out
my husband does this with problems he has on jobs ,if he cant figure out how to do something he will sleep on it and the solution usually comes to him
well the phone company did it to me again over the weekend i had no Internet service ,it took them till 5 p.m. yesterday to get it back up ,there were kids whining every where around here
i have a good friend in New Zealand and we write back and forth ,it is so odd to me that they have summer during our winter ,she has told me there weather is already starting to get warm and ours is getting cool very early for us this year ,today is the last day of August and we already have cool mornings and nights ,i think we are in for a cold hard winter
i have a very busy day tomorrow ,well really the rest of the week as a friend of mine says so busy i need a clone l.o.l

the river again

2009-08-27T11:11:00.000-07:00

we went to the river again today and Michael decided to teach the children about tubing for those of you who do not know about the redneck sport of tubing it pretty much consist of floating down the river in the inter tube of a large truck or tractor ,you basicly just lay across the tube and let the current take you ,while the sun bakes you

for some it is an enjoyable way to spend a few hours ,for others a waste of time ,my oldest daughter and her husband do a side line job during the summer months of taking the tourist tubing it is a way to make extra cash and torture the out of towners at the same time ,she leads them into a gentle rock free sandy part of the river leading them to believe everything is safe then pretends not to hear there screams as they hit the sholes and their backsides hit the rocks ,if you are aware of what is ahead in the river and perpared for it ,it can be a lot of fun ,if not it can be scary ,i prefer to use a mattress float and doze my way down for a mile or two,today we only floated about a 1/2 mile we had to walk back but all in all it was a good morning

cute kid story

2009-08-26T06:36:00.001-07:00

okay the kid in this story may seem a little old to you but she is still my kid and it is a cute story
my oldest daughter is in her second year of college at 27 years of age yeah,she is a late bloomer took her a while to decide what she wanted to do with her life
i have always know that she was mathematically and scientifically challenged,now this kid is smart don't get me wrong just not in those areas
she ran into my house Monday night and said tell me quick didn't Sir Issac Newton do the theory of relativity dumb founded ,i said why with a smile beginning to creep on to my face
she said this may be my only a in math ,i get to write a paper about a great mathematician and one of his theories,i get to write about how i think he may have felt ,
well i politely told her not if she wrote about Newtons theory of relativity ,by now my husband is smiling and shaking his head
i looked at her and said ,C did you at any point attend any math or science class in high school,she said yes mother but i slept through them
so i turned to her 11 year old sister and said tell you sister who is famous for his theory of relativity
A said that would be Einstein and Newton would be gravity
i am so glad i am home schooling my 2 youngest kids

and the beat goes on

2009-08-19T15:31:00.000-07:00

my dear niece who i love ,has found herself in a bit of a sticky wicket ,or between a rock and a hard place ,she has a fondness for nice things but not for paying for them so she is behind bars as i write this

her 5 finger discount days have landed her in the poky ,i have been trying to tell her shopping lifting is something that you get caught between the ages of 10 and 15 not at 30 ,if a kid is caught shoplifting you think oh well there was 5 or 6 of them daring each other ,they pay for what they took do a little community service and its all over ,she blames her problems on the fact that she is bi-polar oh ! yeah ,right ,this is one more medical condition that i think is made up so that we never have to learn to control ourselves ,why should i control me there is a pill that will do it for me ,if you get caught breaking the law ,the excuse is i was off my med.'s

i have heard so much it wasn't him it was the drug he was on ,well he made the decision to use the drug ,if you tell these people it is possible to live life without these drugs you hear but the doctor said

and ,who died and left him God ,have people never heard of a second opinion ,if a doctor tells me i have to be on med.'s for the rest of my life you better believe i am going to ask someone else before i take his word for it ,i am also going to ask what the side effects are ,and the drug interactions before i take it not after ,when i get home with my new med.'s i am going to research them on my own

can we say google people !

i can not believe the amount of people i know who blindly put pills in their and their children's mouths with out asking what it is ,what it's for or what it does and how bad is going to make me feel while it is making me feel better

i have found the best thing for the nerves is a long hot bath a good cup of spiced tea and THE KINGS JAMES VERSION

back problems ,how long do you sit on it everyday your legs were designed to be used not just to look nice at the bottom of your torso and as for weight problems (see above)

it seems to me a lot of our problems have simple answer's ,don't you think ,and they don't include doctors and medication

i have been trying to teach my niece how to be a kind and loving wife and mother but our society pushes so much at us that we can have it all it is okay to let the kids come home from school alone ,your husband who has been out busting his butt ,to support you all day come home to an empty house ,nothing cooked and a cold bed this is not what God intended

my niece says aunt ___ i want to be like you ,but that isn't true to be like me you have to stay home and get out of bed at 4 a.m. to make your husband coffee ,breakfast and a lunch before he leaves then feed the kid's and teach them ,while doing the laundry ,cooking lunch and supper ,mopping the floors and all the other house work that has to be done and were not even gonna talk about raising the chickens ,goats,ducks ,turkeys,guineas ,geese ,sheep ,rabbits and garden's to help feed everyone with ,

she says she wants to be madly in love with the man she is married to ,but i am not sure she does ,when you love someone that way ,you are very vulnerable and there wants ,needs and desires are more important to you than yours are .

my husband and i both feel very blessed to have that kind of love ,i know very few do but a marriage like ours has to be worked on it is a separate entity unto its self ,it has its own life and demands its own attention ,it is hard work ,most don't want that kind of commitment ,not in our society it takes to much away from self

i was at the local video rental place a little while back and the young girl in there looked at my last name and said oh do you know so -in-so and i said yes ,she and her husband are related to us ,the girl said she has a husband ,i didn't know she was married ,they have been married 35 years and there are a lot of people who doesn't know she is married they are never seen together

if it were me i don't think i would be ,i have heard a lot of people say i stay ,for the kids or the money ,i think both of those are a crock

why not tell the truth you stay because you don't have the guts to leave it takes a brave person to say we are all miserable we have to do something to change this

on a lighter note i am dog sitting my oldest daughters dog ,Mork ,he has seizures and takes phenobarbital ,my husband asked this morning before he left for work ,how long the psychotic dog would be here

,i told him ,it was suppose to leave yesterday

we have had cooler temps lately and i for one cant wait for the fall breezes to begin they kids are already getting geared up for halloween and i am looking forward to it myself

world travel

2009-08-14T15:24:00.000-07:00

i feel the need to travel the world tonight and see what i can learn ,my husband is watching a movie about the year i was born 1960 ,i know that makes me 48 years old alright i don't have a problem being middle aged ,i like me and who i have become in my 48 years
what i don't like is that time period i was born in the 1960 was a horrible time in history ,yes there was a lot of good accomplished but there was so much evil
that is not what i want to talk about ,i have been thing a lot about fall or autumn which ever you want to call it
my oldest was born in late October and i named her autumn she died right before her 14th birthday ,so as summer winds down around here my thoughts turn to her she would be 30 this coming October and i am still trying to figure how she could have possibly gotten that old ,i feel the same except for a few aches and pains and general wearing out of the body l.o.l
i know i am wiser than i was then ,i know when to keep my mouth shut now to me that is one of the wisest things we learn ,just to shut up and listen
when we are young we are to busy to be quite or to be still for that matter but with age we begin to watch the seasons change more closely and wonder where they go as i am tonight ,wondering where 30 years went ,gee that is a large number ,i still see a lot of people that i knew as a teen and some of them are starting to look real old ,enough of this is enough as i said i am going to travel the world tonight

strange things that come to us from other countries

2009-07-27T06:17:00.000-07:00

i have found out what marmite ,and of course i will order a jar or should i say crock just to try this stuff but i am a little frightened by the things i have read on the internet about it but try it i will

i have always been one who believed if you cant produce it you dont need it and i have found there is no recipe to make this stuff at home i will continue doing research on how it is made until i am through

i did enough research to produce my own soy sauce ,though it is a long tedious process maybe once i taste this stuff i will not see a need to produce but i like a challenge l.o.l

salad cream on the other hand once researched i realized i had eaten my grandmother called it boiled dressing but in my search i found a very old cook book online thank you jon for that at vintage recipes i love that site ,vegemite (i think that is how it is spelled ) i might try it to

i know there is no hope of finding these products in my aera ,this is rural we just now got eggroll wrappers at our local grocer ,i made my own from scratch for years ,when i first started making mayo my kids said you cant make that ,my oldest daughter said someone has to make it my oldest son is a mayo freak it is his ketchup and he loves my home made version

since i have ended up talking about food this morning i will go on to say my corn is coming in i should be eating it soon all my husband has had to say is "i told you ,you planted it almost to late" i of course rolled my eyes and said "you can do it next year "

he has large plans for next years garden and i do to really ,i will spend the winter buying seeds and he can do the work while i watch l.o.l

every once and a while the local sherrifs office around here anounces a sherrifs night out as they did this past weekend i usually get to go and pick up someone i know from the county jail on these weekends a friend of the kids is usually the culpert as it was this time ,i go sign the bond bring them home and leave the rest to there parents .......................

i dont have a title

2009-07-26T14:03:00.000-07:00

well the thoughts are to diverse for just one title i received a facebook message from a friend this morning that said "i wish i was still young and in love with boys " well she has been married to the same guy for over 30 years ,i hope she loves him and as for being young i don't think there is enough money in the world to make me go back even a single day
i like who i am and where i am at in life i am friends with my kids and i truly like each one of them as well as loving them ,i think my son in law is an idiot but respect my daughters choice ,i don't have to live with him and as long as he is good to her i wont say anything
i think this is where a lot of people make mistakes with there grown children we have to respect there choices whether we think they are good or bad if they wish to live in the mountains among a herd of goats that is there life not yours
my life is calm and peaceful very little drama and i like it that way ,to me one of the sweetest things in the world is watching my husband sleep l.o.l to me that is joy
i have spent sometime rearranging my house this week and have set up a sewing room slash school room for this fall ,we needed a place where we could go and find quiet if the house got to busy around us
Michael has a small job to do this week and then another by the weekend ,so he will be around the house a lot this week and i will enjoy him being home
i find it bothers me badly that my friends my age aren't satisfied with there lives i truly believe if you are not happy with your life you should have the courage to change it ,if it means you end up with nothing living under a bridge if that is what it takes for you to be happy do it and stop whining about how things never go your way accept yourself for who you are and get over the bs
i feel by the time people are my age they should have made peace with who they are ,it amazes me how many people i know that are miserable and will tell you about it geesh ! are these people crazy the doctors tell them they are and give them pills to keep them stupid and complacent ,instead of saying get off your lazy butt and do something about it and we have raised a whole generation of people who think pills that produce a fake contentment are the way to go
we have had some strange weather here lately and it has me thinking ahead to the fall ,i look forward to its coming ,we have had very cool days and chilly nights for July in bama ,it is warming back up now but has put a few concerns of an early fall and hard winter in my mind ,we have been very lucky the past 5 to 7 years and had almost no winter
my niece has had me worried lately i think she has lost her mind she is 30 and acting 15 ,i have always been told that if you never had a childhood at some point you will she was married at 14 and never had one she is getting it now but in a truly bad way not thinking at all about what the consequences of her actions may be
i told the thoughts were to diverse for a title

cahaba river

2009-07-21T12:03:00.000-07:00

the images are of where i spent my morning ,this location is just about a mile from my home ,we went swimming here this morning it is a lovely secluded place ,the local sherrif came riding by as we were leaving and stopped to speak with my husband,they went to school together and he is just a nice guy

our days are slow and peaceful right now and the weather has turned cooler here for july in bama any way it has been very nice ,the mornings are very cool right now ,and the days are not unbearable but you just wait till august ,i have no hope of making it through that month without air conditioning going full blast

i have made a lot of plans for cleaning out the old house there is crap in there that should have been gotten rid of years ago ,i know i should have gotten it done but i got lazy ,so it piled up on me and has to be done now

i hope to have it all cleared out by this fall ,i am not rushing it by any means

my husband is picking up odd jobs around town until his classes start that is the way it is going to go ..................

he is home and all is well

2009-07-20T14:58:00.000-07:00

his home coming went more smoothly than i could have hoped ,life has been crazy since he got here though ,there has been so much to do at times i thought i couldn't keep up ,the days have flown by for me ,my poor garden has gone unattended and is now angry for my lack ,but i will soon whip it back into submission
we spent most of the day at the dentist while my husband got the worked completed for his upper dentures l.o.l
i go next week to get prescription glasses yeah once you get past 40 things start to fall apart ,i have worn reading glasses for about 10 years but it is now to the point i need then just to walk around and forget trying to drive l.o.l i am a menace on the road right now
my husband has gone back up to get the dentures and will have a brand new smile when he comes home his mother will be very happy
i don't think i have talked very much on here about my mother-in-law i am one of the few people in this world who truly loves there mother-in-law she is a great person and i am lucky to have her as is her son ,she lives 500 miles away and i wish she was closer to us but you cant have everything i hope now that life has calmed down for us to be able to post here more often ............

4th of july

2009-07-04T17:24:00.000-07:00

well the 4th our independence day passed quietly here except for the neighbors who are having a party as we speak and even though they are young they are trying to be respectful

we still have 3 days until the morning of my husbands homecoming

my youngest daughter will be 11 tomorrow a big day for her she will officaly be a pre -teen ,she is big into myspace with her little friends which i constantly have to monitor to make sure no perverts sneak in

she has 5 sisters older than her so there isnt much this kid dosent already know ,she is smart as they come ,her feelings are a little hurt that her father wont be here until 3 days after her birthday but he will make it up to her

my oldest daughter is 30 yeah i know thats a 21 year age difference ,but it seems as i got older my kids were born smarter ,or maybe i just got smarter ,i hope anyway

we start a new part of our lifes journey in 3 days when my husband comes home !

life in gereral

2009-07-04T06:17:00.000-07:00

i know i haven't been here in awhile but things to be settling down just a bit now ,the garden is coming in ,i have made peace with several things that have been giving me trouble and i am well on my way toward a degree in something don't know just what yet but something l.o.l
i hope to have more time to read the blogs of my friends and study for longer hours now
as a friend of mine says's it is hot in bama the way he puts it,it is "hotter than forty whore's in a pepper patch"and he speaks the truth we are in triple digits most day's now so the only thing to do afternoon's is hide in the house with the light's off and the air on ,this is killing weather
i have one daughter staying as close to water as possible and another sweating out summer school ,one is now unemployed and living off the benefit's of the same ,they shut down the restaurant where she worked the company closed 9 across the nation ,our economy is getting worse ,heedless of what our dear president says it worries me to some extent ,i know people like me will survive ,it is the ones in cities those who have never heard of hunting,fishing or farming i am concerned for ,you cant grow much in an apartment and there aren't a lot of catfish or deer around in most large cities you would be hard pressed to find a squirrel
i guess this is the way it has always been ,those who can will help those who cant but i fear for what we will become ,i didn't live through the great depression of the 1930's but my parents did and i remember what they taught me
well the kiddies are awake so time to begin another day

i have been thinking

2009-06-15T09:29:00.000-07:00

i know scary isn't it but i am of the belief that people and the way we are made up our emotions ,thoughts ,desires are the same now as they always have been all the way down time

i own a movie i don't remember what it is but there is a line in it that impressed me a young man says times change an older man says yes times do people don't

i feel the sum of mankind's existence is summed up in this

man does not change and i also believe that all people are inherently good by nature we all want to be good ,we all want to be close to God ,we slip we fall ,we make mistakes ,but down deep we want to do what is right by our fellow man ,when my children were little if they were given something a cookie or candy they would always ask for some for the rest they didn't want their siblings left out they always wanted some for everyone ,i feel when we live in a family unit as God intended this is how we relate to each other taking care of one another when we alienate ourselves from the family unit that is when man begins to see trouble ,when we allow our own pride to become more important than our families
forgiveness is something i have talked about with others a lot lately i feel that if you try to put ourselves in the place of the one who hurt us forgiveness is the only option we will have i am not saying be stupid and let them continue to hurt us
forgive and then distance ourselves from the person be the grown-up walk away
peace is the only way to live drama is for the stage and not our daily lives

david carradine

2009-06-06T10:29:00.000-07:00

i think i would have rather believed it was suicide than death by masturbation wouldn't you

the full moon strikes again

2009-06-06T10:04:00.000-07:00

well last night a local teenage boy called me at 1;06 i hung up on him he called back at 1;08 i hung up again he is a member of my ex-husbands family this morning i talked to the appropriate people and let them know that if it happened again i would do something about it

then i went to the grocery store this morning and ran my car out of gas yeah i know stupid ,i called a friend who lives close and sent my son back after the car he went to cut grass for another neighbor took my car of course the little girl next door came up with a large deep cut on her foot i asked where her mother was she said gone to the town just down the road and her daddy didn't know what to do ,well i cleaned it up gave her Tylenol and called her grandfather who lives right down the road by this time my nerves are gone and i am shaking like a whore in church he arrives and being the old dude that he is tells her,he can pull the skin that has been shoved under the skin on her foot back out and put a couple of stitches in it himself or she can go to the doctor ,she opts for the doctor this kid is 7 ,by now all the neighbors who are home are in my yard ,her mother reappears she latches on to my 10 yer old and insist she go with them to the hospital ,her mother is about panicked i told her to calm down i bet it is either the full moon or close to it and sure enough i come in and look it up June 7th full moon

i love it when i'm right

life in general

2009-06-05T04:06:00.000-07:00

from time to time we all need a reality check i have been out of touch here lately with the world i do this now and again to work on me and my family i turn off the TV the radio and only take certain phone calls it renews the soul when you turn the eye inward

i become lost in family ,garden ,books and music

i talk to my children and husband and no one else for weeks at a time

i am in one of these periods of time now but yesterday i feel into a news website and discovered David Carradine had committed suicide at the age of 72 now i would be very interested to know just where the mind of a 72 year old man was to cause this at 72 you only have 2 more years of Gods promised time ,so why waste it

i am at a loss to explain how someone could get to this point he had a good and blessed life ,from the outside looking in he seemed to have it all together

i didn't care for the kill bill movies but kung fu was one of my favorites as a teenager and i will still catch the re-runs from time to time

i have always been angered by suicide ,i see it as the cowards way out and i feel it would make to of many of my in-laws and ex in-laws happy if i bumped myself off

l.o.l

yea !i am a thorn in the side to quite a few people can we say i don't give a sh__

back to dearly departed David he was 72 where was his mind what could have caused this why was he alone at that hotel did he not have traveling companions at that age he should have why was he not found for 12 hours

i just don't understand his work gave me joy and i hate to see this is how he ended

but all i can say is my condolences to his family and David

rest in peace

long hot summer

2009-05-29T16:35:00.000-07:00

well its been awhile since i have been here i am sorry ,but i have been busier than a cat covering up crap on a tin roof
my garden is looking great ,my husband will soon be home and all is well with us my oldest and her husband moved out so the grandsons arent around so much things have been quiet ,i have enjoyed the peace
i had a good week last week and i hope to start harvesting some veggies soon peppers and cucumbers at least
i have been in over drive trying to get things ready for my husbands homecoming
i promise to be back in the next couple of days with way more to talk about

to jon on rattlesnakes, tobacco and medincial herbs

2009-04-29T13:40:00.001-07:00

moonshine still

mongoose and snake

tobacco plant

medicinal herb

yes jon they draw that line here too but i bet if i looked hard enough around my little bitty rural neighborhood i could find a small garden of those too ,but we can brew and distill all we want for personal use ,but they take offense to selling (can we say bootlegger)but i have a neighbor across the holler who does just that ,finest white lightening i ever tasted and from what i have read there are no laws at all about growing your own tobacco ,cotton is regulated but not tobacco

and as for rattlesnake antivenin it depends on the individual some people shake it off like a bad cold others die quickly ,there is an old saying- there are 5000 types of snakes in the world and 4998 of them live in Alabama

here if it crawls it bites ,if it flies it stings ,if it grows wild it has thorns or briar's l.o.l

life here outdoors is an adventure the first thing young children in the country are taught is to watch for snakes we keep both goats and cats to keep their numbers down i have 2 ferrets that run loose also, for that very reason and hope to get a couple of mongoose

our garden has been worth the trouble tho ,but when my son got the offer to lay brick in 90 degree weather this week he jumped at the chance i think he needed a break from garden work l.o.l

every thing we planted is coming up nicely and when it gets just a little taller i am going to take pictures and brag of course

oh and we too have the drunken hunters one lives to the left of me and one across the road and there are wild boar,honey bears and panther in the woods behind my house ,i live half a mile from a large management area

my tobacco hasnt come up yet but as soon as it does there will be pictures (i have been water misting for 3 weeks and still nothing )

thank you for your interest in my tiny little blog and the crazy things i write about

rattlesnakes,racoons and alabama ticks

2009-04-28T05:28:00.000-07:00

my son and i well really everybody here has been working on our garden to make it as big as possible this year we have potatoes in tires ,raised beds and open garden ground

the zucchini ,okra,bell peppers ,cucumbers,peas,green beans .collards,and pinto beans are growing like crazy

we have been at this for weeks now and have come in contact with one crazed Nazi man attacking raccoon a flying rattlesnake and several hundred bama ticks

my son was plowing last week he my son-in-law and 3 of the kids were in the back yard ,he had the tiller going there was lots of noise and it was 2 in the afternoon up out of the woods came a crazed raccoon ,now as it came on acting crazy my son did what any true southern red-neck would do he picked up a machete and killed it ,well at the time it took me a few minutes to realize that coons are nocturnal creatures and one shouldn't be out during the day and walking up on a grown man running a tiller

by this time my son had it in the front yard and had cut the tail off in true red neck fashion ,when it hit we live half a mile from the game preserve and the way this coon acted it probably had rabies that got me moving i called the game warden who called animal control ,they came and got the coon and said they would let me know if it was rabid needless to say i am still waiting to hear back

two days later my son was plowing in the same spot and the tines to the tiller picked up a rattlesnake and threw it up on him as he was plowing he grabbed the nearest hoe and cut it to pieces ,this boy had a rough week last week to say the least

here in bama mother nature has decided we have had enough spring and she will just throw summer on in here the temperatures are reaching upper 80's already and it is hot so the ticks are in smorgous board heaven and we truly know what i need to check you for ticks means

even with all the little problems our garden looks great and i will post pictures soon

so until then........................

the mothers day drama

2009-04-28T05:12:00.000-07:00

i am going to be away from home on mothers day ,i am going to visit my husband and my oldest daughter got snippy about it ,but then said she was working all day that day so i was like what are you complaining about as my husband said she never did anything for me on mothers day any way except eat what he cooked l.o.l
she is in college full time and has a full time job so she doesn't do much around the house at all her husband keeps there bedroom clean and i do her laundry and cook every meal she eats but she is bossy and was majoring in social work till she switched to journalism which is a good thing because this girl has no compassion for anyone and i feel that is a must in social work and this kid is one heck of a writer ,her stories capture you she draws wonderful pictures with words maybe she will be rich and famous someday
i always told her she would make a good writer or lawyer one she made up the most tremendous lies when she was a kid and got caught doing wrong ,she used to tell me i saw it wrong l.o.l
i just thought it was her ,it was really her sister or brother
hot diggity dog! 70 days to go and this will be over i cant wait for him to walk back through this door i still look up when it opens from time to time expecting it to be him ,i hate waking up mornings with out him ,going to bed with out him ,not hearing his voice in the house or yard
i am looking forward to once again hearing him say boy i told you if you are going to use the tools put them back up ,i told you leave the car keys on top of the t.v. so i can find them
i want to make him pancakes at 9 p.m. again or grits because he wants a little something sweet
i am looking forward to the smell of him in my bed i love his scent
a friend of mine has a saying she uses to explain stupid things she has done she says's" i was on that stuff what killed Elvis "when she asked me why i am still so head over heals in love with my husband ,she she has never shared this kind of feeling with any one i just told her "i am still on that stuff ,what killed Elvis" l.o.l
there is noway to explain the bond he and i have to someone who hasn't experienced it with someone ,i have one friend who knows she had it with her late husband she needs no explanation
okay i am getting sappy now so i will leave this alone for a little while and write more later

2009-04-27T10:47:00.000-07:00

well another night that i cant seem to get to sleep i worked hard today too i should be tired i mopped all the floors in the house ,did laundry,cooked cleaned my bedroom back up where the kids destroyed it shuffled 2 kids off to spend time with family and supervised the building of more raised beds for the garden the pinto beans and okra are both coming up great i am going to have faith that the rest will be up in a couple of days my father in law walked over to see the potatoes grown in tires and generally how our garden was coming along God knows how many people i am feeding and need to be able to feed more i have people i try to help out with food and extra clothes and things like that when i canwe live in a very poor rural area in the foot hills of the southern Appalachia and a lot of people around here have it hard we also have a lot of hard hearted people who could do more to help out the less fortunate you know the politics of a small town it's not hard to be a big fish in a small pond and a lot of people let it go to their heads when they become that big fish we better get off that subject before i get on my soap box ,i can preach when i want to and there are times it get on a roll and don't know when to shut-upthe kids say it happens daily i think they exaggerate a good bit i have been trying to stay busy , i can hear my grandson in the bedroom watching underdog his favorite place to sleep is the sofa but tonight i took it away from him he is a good sweet kid he is really my step grandson and when my daughter began the relationship with his father 7 years he and his brother were 9 and 10 i told her don't put yourself in those boys lives unless you know you are going to be there the rest of there lives i worried about the 2 of them even being together at the time they began dating she was 19 and he was 34 (he is a year older than my husband)but they love each other and everything is fine with them back to my grandson over this spring he has pretty much just moved in with us his older brother is here on the week ends and has down syndrome i have so much fun with him ,he is the coolest kidhe and i were dancing in the living room Friday night to some brook-n-Dunn(my maria)when my baby boy got jealous and i had to dance with both a friend of mine told me one time i had raised 8 children to believe they were only children she said how did you do thati told her when i have each of them alone i whisper to them you know you are my favorite you always have been and i love you best ,but don't tell the others we don't want to hurt their feelings as long as they don't get to talking among themselves about it am good if they do i could be in big trouble l.o.lMichael told me Saturday to be expecting another package today so i cant wait till the mail runs ,i love mail and especially from him

friendship

2009-04-24T06:22:00.000-07:00

The Friendship Creed

If you can't be everything to somebody, reach out and just be a friend.If you can't be somebody's whole life, be satisfied with making their moment or their day.Give them a smile and a gesture of friendship to warm them. Do something nice for them, something unexpected. People appreciate even the smallest offer of kindness and acceptance - a call, a note, or whatever you decide...that will do.If you can't solve somebody's problems, just make them feel a little better about something. Make them feel good about themselves. It doesn't have to be a big deal or cost a lot of money. It can just be something thoughtful and small. Let them know that someone is thinking of them.Make their world a little better, even for a short while. They just might need a lift, you never know. Don't hold back. Life is too short.Don't wait. They might need you. If you can't make their day, then brighten a moment for them.It could be important- Donna Fargo
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till he is home

2009-04-16T14:22:00.000-07:00

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well i have not be doing very much writing here ,i hate to admit this but i have been blogging some where else be cause there are things about my life i haven't posted here but i have decided to come clean

my husband is in prison and has been for 6 months ,he was in business with a man he thought he could trust and when the business went bad there were funds unaccounted for my husbands name was on the checks he went down for it was sentenced to 8 1/2 months in prison ,there is a wonderful place on the net called prison talk http://www.prisontalk.com/

and that is where i have been lately

i have never met more deeply caring and giving people any where ,i have been very busy with gardens kids and grand kids and husband because until you have been through it with a loved one there is no way you can understand what it is like having someone in prison they are still apart of your family but not in the physical sense so all the work has to be done by the ones who are there physically and the mental stress is unreal the u.s. prison system needs a lot of work

1 out of every 5 adults in the united states is incarcerated this is a very sad

my husband's latest idea

2009-04-11T13:49:00.000-07:00

okay ,the newest idea my husband has had to combat the rising cost of living is to grow his own tobacco ,now back in the days of his youth when he smoked other things than tobacco he was successful at growing a decent product (from the stories i have been told)

so i have no reason to believe he wont be again

the reason behind all this is the new sin tax our lovely new president has put on tobacco raising the cost by a dollar a pack (my husband had already gone to roll your own)

i have researched the growing process ,the curing process and purchased the seeds(you can get anything on ebay)

everything is in place and ready to go once the seeds arrive this week ,if he is successful i will post pictures ,if he is not i will still post pictures l.o.l

the missing person

2009-04-11T12:54:00.000-07:00

i have come to the conclusion that every business i deal with has a customer service rep. who is in reality a missing person ,you know the one i mean the one you are always transferred to ,wait on hold for to be told 30 minutes later that they have stepped away from there desk,are on the other line,out to lunch ,in a meeting ,with a client ,on vacation,having surgery,gone home for the day ,incommunicado,indisposed and just not available

i have also come to the conclusion that this person really dose not exist ,they are made up by the people who do work for these companies (excuse my french) to piss us off

they give you a name (oh!you need to speak to Mrs.so-and-so then they transfer you to them ,turn to there c0-worker and say lets see how long this idiot stays on hold l.o.l

i have decided that from now on i will let them know i am in on the joke and to cut the crap and just put me thru to the Secretary who knows what is going on ,because they are the only ones who have a clue

stock up on those candles

2009-04-10T19:52:00.000-07:00

AP source: Spies compromised US electric grid
By JORDAN ROBERTSON and EILEEN SULLIVAN – 2 days ago
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Spies hacked into the U.S. electric grid and left behind computer programs that would let them disrupt service

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gTamvV9J8BmeVmQift2odb--mBigD97EJO000

found this link today on anothe blog i read quite often (hey cindy)(http://cindybrick.blogspot.com/)and it got my mind to turning once again i belive we live in a very percariuos world where all it would take was one mistake ,one slip ,one accident and the world as we know it would come to an end

i am not saying life would end ,but life as we know it ,especially in the rural areas the ones of us who are out there i have been working for years to make my home sustainable both with or with out modern conveniences
think about this we had people take out huge buildings with a plane ,what can they do with an internet connection
so.......................stock up on those candles

the horrible awful really bad hot water battle

2009-04-10T14:13:00.000-07:00

the horrible awful really bad hot water battle ,has me very stressed for 4 days we have fought the battle of the hot water heater i am to the point where heating water on top of the stove to bathe with will be fine by me

i can not afford to replace it right now and if our newest efforts don't fix it this may be what i have to revert to at present

well its 80 degrees here to day so by the end of this month it will probably be hot enough for cold baths any way

yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there heroic efforts worked we have hot water again

2009-04-08T06:57:00.000-07:00

You have to be from Alabama and live near and travel to B'ham to appreciate this. First you must learn to pronounce the city's name .. It's 'Bur-min-ham'.Driving Information:Burminham has its own version of traffic rules. The truck with the loudest exhaust goes next at a four-way stop. The truck with the biggest tires goes after that. Note: Blue-haired ladies driving anything have the right-of-way anytime.To find anything in the city, it is required that you know where Malfunction Junction is, which is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. It may be one of only two 'cloverleaf formation' interchanges in the world. We invented it and only one other city was stupid enough to implement it again Atlanta -- making them only a wee bit dumber than we are. The morning rush hour is from 6:00 to 10:00. The evening rush hour is from 3:00 to 7:00. Friday's rush hour starts Thursday morning. If the term 'merging delays' is ever used by the person reporting the traffic,even in passing, call in to work and tell them that you will be at least 30 minutes late regardless of where you are in your commute.If you actually stop at a yellow light, you will be (at the very least)rear-ended, cussed out, and possibly shot. This applies to male and female drivers alike. You must know that 'I-459,' 'I-59,' 'I-20,' and 'I-65' are the same road. They just loop around, cutting in and out of each other's path. We think this was a ploy utilized to confuse outsiders and discourage visitors after the War of Northern Aggression.Always, always, always, find out if it is a race or football weekend before you get on any of these highways to travel somewhere. If it is a race or football weekend, stay home. You won't be pleasantly going anywhere else.Construction is a permanent fixture in Burminham. The barrels are moved around in the middle of the night to make the next day's driving a little more interesting.If someone actually has their turn signal on, wave them over to the shoulder immediately to let them know -- you can be sure it was'accidentally activated'.The minimum acceptable speed on 'I-65' (see above) is 85 mph. Anything less is considered downright sissy.This is also Alabama's state-highway-sponsored version of NASCAR --especially during rush hour (see above) and everyone in the city is driving at once, bumper-to-bumper. If you are in the left lane and only going 70 in a 55-65 zone, you are considered a road hazard, and will be'flipped a bird' accordingly.Do not gawk at the woman in the car beside you in traffic who is applying make-up, drinking a Diet Coke, smoking a Marlboro,talking on a cell phone ,while send a text message and maintaining a steady speed of 85 mph on I-65 in rush hour traffic. If she is coming from north of Burminham, she might be packing. If she is coming from south of Burminham, she IS packing and is not afraid to use it.Weather Information:If it's 110 degrees, Thanksgiving could be next weekend. If it's 10-20degrees and sleeting or snowing, then watch out. Burminham residents consider this 'demolition derby' day and will be all over the roads(frontways, sideways, etc). Please proceed with caution, as you could be the next target.Seasonal Information:If you stick to the seats in your vehicle, it is Spring.If you need to let the car 'get some air' while standing next to it with the doors open for a minute before you can stick your upper body inside to crank it and get the air going, it is Summer.If you are sweating even with the windows down, driving 55 mph, it isFall.If you finally turn the AC off and roll your windows up, it is Winter.General Alabama Information:Do not ever speak during the song ' Sweet Home Alabama ' unless it is to sing along with the lyrics. This is a form of heresy and will erupt in a brawl if everyone doesn't show 'proper respect' to the band who gave us Free Bird. This is especially true if alcohol is present (notice I didn't say 'sold at this event,' but 'present').Yes, we know that Vulcan is mooning the entire city. It's not that funny to us anymore, and by now we're used to it.If you ask someone for a 'coke,' they will often ask you, 'What kind?'This is not a trick question. Tell them what you want: Sprite, Dr.Pepper, Root Beer, etc., it is all 'coke'.All tea is sweet. If it's not sweet, you are in a Chinese restaurant or have crossed the Mason-Dixon Line .Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth and 4,998 of them live in Alabama .. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Alabama, plus a couple no one's seen before.If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.Onced and Twiced are words.It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.People actually grow and eat okra.'Fixinto' is one word.There is no such thing as 'lunch.' There is only dinner and then supper.Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two(or younger ).We do like a little tea with our sugar! Backwards and forwards means 'I know everything about you.DJeet is actually a phrase meaning 'Did you eat?' You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time itis. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.You measure distance in minutes.You'll probably have to switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable,grain, insect or animal.You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.You carry jumper cables in your car . . . for your OWN car.There are only four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.The first day of deer season is a national holiday.100 degrees Fahrenheit is 'a little warm.We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time.Fried catfish is the other white meat.We don't need no stinking driver's ed ... if our mama says we can drive,we can drive even if we're 4. EVERYONE can't be an Alabamian; it takes talent. You might say it's an art form or a gift from God!

My South

2009-04-08T06:35:00.000-07:00

received this in an email from my mother-in-law this morning ,a transplanted southerner ,this truly describes my south
MY SOUTH! This was written by Robert St. John, executive chef and owner of the Purple Parrot Cafe, Crescent City Grill and Mahogany Bar of Hattiesburg , MS . Thirty years ago I visited my first cousin in Virginia. While hanging out with his friend, the discussion turned to popular movies of the day. When I offered my two-cents on the authenticity and social relevance of the movie Billy Jack, one of the boys asked, in all seriousness; 'Do you guys have movie theaters down there?' To which I replied, 'Yep. We wear shoes too.' Just three years ago, my wife and I were attending a food and wine seminar in Aspen, Colo. We were seated with two couples from Las Vegas. One of the Glitter Gulch gals was amused and downright rude when I described our restaurant as a fine-dining restaurant. ' Mississippi doesn't have fine-dining restaurants!' she insisted and nudged her companion. I fought back the strong desire to mention that she lived in the land that invented the 99-cent breakfast buffet. I wanted badly to defend my state, my region, and my restaurant with a 15-minute soliloquy and public relations rant that would surely change her mind. It was at that precise moment that I was hit with a blinding jolt of enlightenment, and in a moment of complete and absolute clarity it dawned on me -- my South is the best-kept secret in the country. Why would I try to win this woman over? She might move down here. I am always amused by Hollywood 's interpretation of the South. We are still, on occasion, depicted as a collective group of sweaty, stupid, backwards-minded, racist rednecks.. The South of movies and TV, the Hollywood South, is not my South. This is my South: My South is full of honest, hardworking, friendly people. My South is the birthplace of blues and jazz, and rock n' roll. It has banjo pickers and fiddle players, but it also has BB King, Muddy Waters, the Allman Brothers, Emmylou Harris and Elvis. My South is hot. My South smells of newly mowed grass. My South was kick the can, creek swimming, cane-pole fishing and bird hunting. In my South, football is king, and the Southeastern Conference is the kingdom. My South is home to the most beautiful women on the planet. In my South, soul food and country cooking are the same thing. My South is full of fig preserves, cornbread, butter beans, fried chicken, grits and catfish, and pear preserves (if your lucky enough to have a Mom who has the recipe). In my South we eat foie gras, caviar and truffles. In my South, our transistor radios introduced us to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones at the same time they were introduced to the rest of the country. In my South, grandmothers cook a big lunch every Sunday, so big that we call it dinner (supper comes later). In my South, family matters, deeply. My South is boiled shrimp, blackberry cobbler, peach ice cream, banana pudding and oatmeal cream pies. In my South people put peanuts in bottles of Coca-Cola and hot sauce on almost everything. In my South the tea is iced and almost as sweet as the women. My South has air-conditioning. My South is camellias, azaleas, wisteria and hydrangeas. In my South, the only person that has to sit on the back of the bus is the last person that got on the bus. In my South, people still say 'Yes, ma'am,' 'No ma'am,' 'Please' and 'Thank you.' In my South, we all wear shoes....most of the time.(not if i can help it) My South is the best-kept secret in the country. Please continue to keep the secret....it keeps the idiots away!

Zak ,Ibuprofen and Dirty Dishes

2009-04-01T20:19:00.000-07:00

taking a break
working hard
noticed the camera
baby butt crack-true redneck
singing at the top of his lungs
needed more soap
applying soap
still singing

my youngest son is a healthy child standing nearly 4 and one half feet ,85 pounds at the age of 8 (big boy)no itty ,bitty boy here
well one evening not so long ago he came in from playing and said he felt bad i gave him the kiss test for fever and decided he might have a slight one only to discover i was out of Tylenol and living in a rural area and not wanting to pay 12 dollars a bottle (slight exaggeration)at the local grocery
i thought hes a big boy one adult Ibuprofen wouldn't hurt him
so i gave him one 20 minutes later no one could find Zak ,i heard water running in the kitchen and could see everyone in the home but..............Zak

i cautiously approached the kitchen ,you have to know this child he could have been doing anything from making his own kool-aid to teaching the ferret to swim
he was washing dishes all the dishes he could find weather they were dirty or not ,when he ran out ,he searched all rooms for more dishes ,then preceded to the cars to look for dishes ,when i stopped him 4 hours later he was going to ask the neighbors for dirty dishes
Zak will never take another Ibuprofen ,as long as he lives in my house and i mean it

unless i really need the dishes done

Life

2009-04-01T19:45:00.000-07:00

my husband made a comment to me this week ,that he had come to realize how short life really is .he just turned 40 in February ,and i feel it hits all of us then when we realize that by what the bible promises us our lives are half over ,we wonder where the years went and where we are going ,this is the time when a lot of marriages break up and new careers are started ,second families are begun

i have been very busy for the past week or so ,and spent very little time reading ,i decided to catch up with my friends around the web tonight ,only to discover my friend in France ,Jon ,had lost his younger brother at the age of 40 ,i say again life is short it seems this young man had no health problems and died in his sleep ,it could be any of us ,God doesn't promise us tomorrow only right now i feel if more of us thought about this a little more often we just might treat each other better ,speak more kindly and show how we felt about those we love more deeply

once again Jon my heart goes out to you and your family our thoughts and prayers are with you

2009-03-23T05:30:00.000-07:00

for the past two days i have been baking like a mad woman ,i think this will probably continue through the spring ,but i also have to start some seeds today peppers and tomatoes and herb seeds for sure
this has been a wild week the peppers and tomatoes are going to have to wait to the first of next week
our weather has been unreal heavy storms ,rain and wind
the weather changed my plans and the colds the kids and i have had made for a slow down week ,where very little will be done ,well there's always next week

the feather pillow

2009-03-19T19:39:00.000-07:00

you know i love a good feather pillow ,they are the greatest for sleeping and at my age few things are more important than a good nights sleep

well my oldest son did a load of laundry for me this week and put a feather pillow in the washer (first mistake)

well i came apart instead of telling me he took the pillow out put it in a bag and proceeded to put the clothing that was in with it in the dryer ,(second mistake)

by the time i found this mess my dryer was spitting feathers out of the lint filter ,dryer goes round feather puffs out ,dryer goes round feathers puff out

it has been 3 days and there are still feathers puffing out of my dryer ,i think i will be cleaning up feathers for another 6 or 7 days

reminds me of the time my daughter dried the cat

the goats

2009-03-19T19:25:00.000-07:00

i thought while i was on a roll i would post the latest pictures of my goats the new little one is so cute ,you cant help but love them

pictures of the sunrise and old railroad trussle

2009-03-19T18:47:00.000-07:00

we rode to Talladega last Tuesday and i took these pictures of the sunrise and the railroad trussle across the Coosa River this is about 80 miles from my home give or take a few it is a beautiful place but holds sad memories for me ,but i have found sometimes it is good to remember the sadness in our lives as well as the happiness

my grandson's and the great basketball game

2009-03-19T18:31:00.001-07:00

number one grandson

son in law getting his butt kicked at basketball

son in law

thinking over a shot

discussing strategy

number two grandson

number two grandson kicking son in laws butt at basketball

the one in the middle is not my grandson ,he is my 41 one year old son in law ,15 years old than my daughter and 1 year older than my husband it's a southern thing the 2 boy's are 16 and 17 the little head you can see in the back is my 7 year old son

2009-03-18T12:39:00.000-07:00

okay the potatoes planted in tires are in the ground and we will see how things go ,i will be posting the progress reports and rate of growth until the harvest wish me luck as i am praying for a bountiful crop

they were planted the 13th day of march and should start coming up in 14 to 21 days

the new kidd in town

2009-03-15T15:38:00.000-07:00

at the end of February we discovered we had a new family member ,one afternoon ,the nights were still cool here so my son was checking on the little one every morning

and he had put an old roasting pan in the pen to feed the little guy mush out of in case the mother wasn't doing a good job ,the picture above tells the rest of the story

anyone for roasted goat

point taken

2009-03-15T07:04:00.000-07:00

Urine Test -- This guy has a point! This was written by a construction worker in Fort McMurray . Read on . . . I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes, and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to earn that pay check, I work on a rig site for a Fort McMurray construction project. At any time I am required to pass a random urine test, with which I have no problem. HOWEVER, what I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test. Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them? Understand - I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do on the other hand have a problem with helping someone sit on their rear end, drink beer and smoke dope. Could you imagine how much money this country would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check? If you agree, please pass this along, because something has to change in this country.

now this is what i am talking about ,and i would even take it a step further offer drug and alcohol re-hab to those who don't pass ,give them the help they need to get clean to find jobs ,this would definitely separate the wheat from the chafe (don't you think)

the bible plainly states a man that wont work shouldn't eat ,i know quite a few who shouldn't be eating ,if people truly need help fine ,but there are a lot who take just for the sake of taking ,because they can ,with no regard for those truly in need

the state i live in has the every able body law ,which states that every one who can work should work ,i on the other hand feel mothers with children should be able to stay at home and raise those children to the point of being able to home school them

i feel so strongly about this that i wont even babysit for a mother to go to work ,there children need them ,not strangers

i also feel that the Church's should fill the gap ,in this need ,since this is one group of people our government seems to ignore

the christian mothers who through no fault of there own have been left on there own by abandonment ,death,voluntary or in-voluntary

i know a family , an entire group of people who have played the welfare system in this country for years ,very few of them have ever held steady jobs ,if it can be received for free they know where to go and how to get it they have played they food stamp office ,welfare office ,un-employment,ssi disability,social security ,churches,toy for tots,medicaid

and these people eat out every meal and have never held jobs
my family has not got it easy and we do all we can to pay our bills ,i have a son -in-law who is un-employed but makes his rent every month my oldest daughter is a full time student with a part time job and pays her rent ,needless to say we do not eat out ,ever..........
i have a handi-capped son on disability ,i know poor ,i know un-able to help yourself ,but there are those who are just to lazy to do right ,just to lazy!!!!!!!!!!!

isn't he beautiful,and the kid's aren't bad either

2009-03-13T08:29:00.000-07:00

our wedding the young man behind us is my oldest son at age 14 he grew into a mountain of a man who towers over my husband and son-in-law (who is a little bitty guy only 5 foot 7 ,but is incredibly agile and very energetic)

I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said "Journeys end in lovers meeting." What an extraordinary thought.( i have experienced this,until i met my husband i had always felt like i was searching for my home ,never complete never satisfied ,until God brought him into my life) Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said "love is blind". Now that's something i know to be true.

these are the opening lines to a movie i saw recently ,spoken by Kate Winslet these words made a strange impact on me

my husband and i are on a journey ,at this moment in time that i hope quickly comes to an end ,i also believe that love is blind i have let it blind me quite a few times in my life,and i know no ones wants to here a happily ever after story in our jaded world ,no one wants to here of love that not only stands the test of time but endures hardship,separation , adversity and selfishness

i believe that for a love to last and a marriage to last ,pride can have no part in it ,at some point you have to open up your heart and release all the dirty little secrets you keep to your self the ones you think will go to your grave with you the ones that you feel make you UN-lovable to the rest of the world we all have them ,for a relationship to grow ,it has to get deeper and deeper that is what successful Christians do with God,and successful lovers do with each other ,this is not something that is accomplished the way the movies portray it it doesn't happen in a couple of weeks it takes years

i met my husband march 17 th ,1995 in just a few short days it will be 14 years ,he quickly became my best friend ,my husband almost 2 years later ,Feb.25 ,1997

he remains to this day my best friend ,he is the finest human being i have ever met ,i am head over heels in love with him and he is still the cutest thing i have ever seen

he is the biological father of 2 of my children and accepted the others as his own and introduces them as his children to people he is a remarkable and i am blessed to have him

exercise

2009-03-03T09:56:00.000-08:00

i called a friend this morning to tell her just how angry i was over the fact that we had snow on the first day of march,in Alabama no less,and she said make this quick i am exercising
well i started to ask why she was cussing me but thought better of it and simply said
go ahead i will listen
which started her on a tangent of listening doesn't help
oh! but what if it did wouldn't it be wonderful to just pop in a exercise dvd and watch ,i have caught my husband and son-in-law and 24 year old son watching the early morning exercise shows on cable before ,but i don't think it was for the calorie loss!
the discussion i over heard had phrases like (shes hot)
(wonder if shes married)from my son (i hate to think where his mind was going)(hormones you know)
now Denise whats her name is a beautiful ,sexy ,healthy woman and i believe she is the married mother of two ,but we cant all be perfect ,if we were she would be out of work
see there are those people like me in this world who will walk for exercise because they have to ,to keep from weighing 300 pounds but don't feel the need to be under 170 but then i am six foot tall so i can get by with it ,all that jumping ,twisting and weight lifting is just nonsense a slow steady walk will do me just fine thank you

i try not to push my beliefs on others so why does everyone one who decides to lose weight want to take the rest of us to hell with them(could be the old adage of misery loves company)

i like to walk through the woods with my children i just don't feel the need to sweat

there is no need for a lady to sweat like a pig (i was raised in the old south)huff,puff and groan in public

it would also be nice if you could just hire someone to do it for you my husband says there are machines that will do most of the work for you ,i say why cant i burn mega calories reading,chatting,sewing,crocheting,knitting,typing

why ?why?why?

he says God designed our bodies to move ,well i am moving doing all those

things

shouldn't they count for something
and i personally feel a lot of those moves on the early morning cable exercise shows should be saved for the bedroom

2009-03-03T05:53:00.000-08:00

A basketball in my hands is worth about $19.
A basketball in Michael Jordan's hands is worth about $33 million.
It depends whose hands it's in !
A baseball in my hands is worth about $6.
A baseball in Roger Clemens' hands is worth $475 million.
It depends on whose hands it's in !
A tennis racket is useless in my hands.
A tennis racket in Andre Agassi's hands is worth millions.
It depends whose hands it's in !
A rod in my hands will keep away an angry dog.
A rod in Moses' hands will part the mighty sea.
It depends whose hands it's in !
A slingshot in my hands is a kid's toy.
A slingshot in David's hand is a mighty weapon.
It depends whose hands it's in !
Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in my hands is a couple of fish sandwiches.
Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in Jesus' hands will feed thousands.
It depends whose hands it's in !
Nails in my hands might produce a birdhouse.
Nails in Jesus Christ's hands will Produce salvation for the entire world.
It depends whose hands it's in !
As you see now,it depends whose hands it's in.
So put your concerns,your worries,your fears,your hopes,your dreams,your families and your relationships in God's hands because...
It depends whose hands it's in !
This message is now in YOUR hands.
It Depends on WHOSE Hands it's in !

My name is Pride

2009-03-02T19:29:00.000-08:00

I FOUND THIS ON A BLOG I WAS READING ,IT SPOKE TO MY HEART SO I THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE IT

My name is Pride.
I am a cheater.
I cheat you of your God-given destiny...
because you demand your own way.
I cheat you of contentment...
because you "deserve better than this."
I cheat you of knowledge...
because you already know it all.
I cheat you of healing...
because you're too full of me to forgive.
I cheat you of holiness...
because you refuse to admit when you're wrong.
I cheat you of vision...
because you'd rather look in the mirror than out a window.
I cheat you of genuine friendship...
because nobody's going to know the real you.
I cheat you of love...
because real romance demands sacrifice.
I cheat you of greatness in heaven...
because you refuse to wash another's feet on earth.
I cheat you of God's glory...
because I convince you to seek your own.
My name is Pride.
I am a cheater.
You like me because you think I'm always looking out for you.
God has so much for you, I admit.
But don't worry...
If you stick with me, you'll never know
.-Broadman & Holman

here is a link to the blog
http://floridasoutherngirl.blogspot.com/

potatoes,potatoes,potatoes

2009-03-02T10:08:00.000-08:00

well they will have to wait a little longer,with the rain and snow that came in we didn't get them in the ground ,so to plant my the moon i will have to wait till march twelfth (dark of the moon ,you know)
so i will plant potatoes and carrots at the same time,and onions that gives me a few days extra to prepare
that is good as we have all had a nasty stomach virus and spent the weekend lying around

To the parents of boys

2009-03-02T08:17:00.000-08:00

This is for those parents of boys, sisters of boys, and boys that have grown older. And anyone else who needs a laugh. Why boys need parents...

And you also find out interesting things when you have sons, like...
1.) A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.

2.) If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.

3.) A 3-year old Boy's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.

4.) If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20x20 ft. room.

5.) You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a base ball a long way.

6.) The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.

7.) When you hear the toilet flush and the words 'uh oh', it's already too late.

8.) Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.

9.) A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36- year old Man says they can only do it in the movies.

10.) Certain Lego's will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old Boy.

11.) Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.

12.) Super glue is forever.

13.) No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.

14.) Pool filters do not like Jell-O.

15.) VCR's do not eject 'PB & J' sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.

16.) Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.

17.) Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.

18.) You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is.

19.) Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.

20.) The fire department in Austin , TX has a 5-minute response time.

21.) The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.

22.) It will, however, make cats dizzy.

23.) Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

24.) 80% of Women will pass this on to almost all of their friends, with or without children

25.) 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid.

let it snow,let it snow,let it snow ,NOT !!!!!!

2009-03-01T08:37:00.000-08:00

this is the view from my front door

the reason i live in the deep south

is because i really,really ,really

really

hate snow

i cant stand it and refuse to go outside

till it is gone!!!!!!!!!

but ,the kids love it

2009-02-23T13:40:00.000-08:00

i have been making 2 large pans of granola a week for a long while now and the ingredients differ from week to week,this week they are as follows oatmeal.flax seed ,raisins,candied fruit peal,candied green cherries butter and honey in the first batch ,the same for the second but no candied fruit or cherries and instead of honey ,molasses i always combine the liquid with a good sized lump of butter and heat it before i pour over the dry ingredients ,i then bake it at about 200 degrees for 1 0r 2 hours until golden brown

this makes about 2 gallons and disappears quickly at my house

okay quit whinning and plant the potatoes

2009-02-23T06:45:00.000-08:00

well it is time to get serious ,i am a little late but the potatoes are going in the ground this week along with snow peas ,onions and turnips (for the greens of course) the ground is plowed now it will be raked and furrowed ,rowed up nicely and the seeds pushed in

i am going to plant the potatoes in tires this year as i have been given an abundance of them i will be researching this all week while the actually planting is going on and will post any useful information i find here ,i know of one good site just have to search the favorites and locate it again ,the farm in Tennessee grows beautiful potatoes and i will be following there direction ,some of there stuff is to far out for my liking ,but i have been keeping up their commune for quite a few years now ,if you can over look the pot and Jesus attitude they know there stuff from organic gardening to natural child birth (oh by the way i don't have a problem with Jesus my nerves cant take the pot part )it is still illegal here (tho i think my son-in-law indulges regularly)i have always said i would rather be around a pot head than a drunk any day ,but let me interject i do not condone the smoking of marijuana at all

but i digress back to the garden,i have a long list of veggies i plan ,to plant this year and hopefully can to help with the astronomical grocery bills here ,and just for general self sufficiency ,by the time my son finishes the plowing we should have a lot of space so the herb garden is being restarted too,and marked better this time i may do a whole book just of where things are planted

the pictures are of the spot where the potatoes will go and the tree casting the shadow will soon have no limbs on that side ,i have been meaning to remove those limbs for years and they will be gone soon

the winter was rough on my small goat herd ,i am down to only 2 females ,that to i am going to soon change and a new batch of chickens have to be acquired

after the potatoes are planted this week ,i will post pictures of the tires that hold them as there will be no plants to see yet ,i may take pictures of the tires without the potatoes in them also ,just to show how it is done

THE ALABAMA WIFE

2009-02-16T14:36:00.000-08:00

Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives duties. The first man had married a woman from Ohio and had told her that she was going to do the dishes and house cleaning. It took a couple of days, but on the third day he came home to see a clean house and dishes washed and put away. The second man had married a woman from Illinois. He had given his wife orders that she was to do all the cleaning, dishes, and the cooking. The first day he didn't see any results but the next day he saw it was better. By the third day, he saw his house was clean the dishes were done, and there was a huge dinner on the table. The third man had married a beautiful girl from Alabama. He told her that her duties were to keep the house cleaned, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed, and hot meals on the table for every meal. He said the first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything, but by the third day some of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye---enough to fix himself a sandwich and load the dishwasher.

I AM A KEPT WOMAN

2009-02-16T14:19:00.000-08:00

I Am a 'Kept' Woman? You see, there were a few times when I thought I would lose my mind, But GOD kept me sane. (Isa. 26:3)

There were times when I thought I could go no longer, But the LORD kept me moving. (Gen 28:15)

At times, I've wanted to lash out at those whom I felt had done me wrong, But the LORD kept my mouth shut. (Psa. 13)

Sometimes, I think the money just isn't enough, But GOD has helped me to keep the lights on, the water on, the car paid, the house paid, etc.., (Matt. 6:25 -34)

When I thought I would fall, HE kept me up. When I thought I was weak, HE kept me strong! (I Pet. 5:7, Matt. 11:28-30)

I could go on and on and on, but I'm sure you hear me! I'm blessed to be 'kept.'

I'm 'Kept' by the Love and Grace of God!

God is AWESOME, share Him with someone you love !!!
and don't forget....YOU are also.....the apple of His eye.......fearfully and wonderfully made!

The Age of Aquarius

2009-02-15T15:16:00.000-08:00

well it seems to have happened ,according to some astrologers ,as of the dawn of Feb.14,2009 we are in the age of Aquarius............just like in the song

when i first reads this,the quirky way my mind works,the first thing i thought was my husband is an Aquarius ,we cant let this happen ,if the world is changed to a climate or attitude like his ,it could be a tough place to live ,don't get me wrong he's a great guy ,but the whole world with his thought patterns could be rough

Qualities of an Aquarius

Intelligence, abstract thought.Science, technology, invention.Diplomacy, humanitarian, open but aloof.Perverse, eccentric, unusual, sporadic.Strong Independence, originality, honesty, idealism.

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derision's
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation
Aquarius! Aquarius!
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in
Let the sun shine, Let the sun shine in
The sun shine in

Astrological meaning of the Age of Aquarius
Ages are believed by some astrologers to affect mankind while other astrologers believe the ages correlate to the rise and fall of mighty civilizations and cultural tendencies. Aquarius traditionally "rules" electricity, computers, flight, democracy, freedom, humanitarianism, idealists, modernization, rebels and rebellion, mental diseases, nervous disorders, and astrology[4]. Other keywords and ideas believed associated with Aquarius are nonconformity, philanthropy, veracity, perseverance, mankind and irresolution[5]. The appearance or elevation in status of many of these Aquarian developments over the last few centuries is considered by many astrologers to indicate the proximity of the Aquarian age. There is no uniform agreement about the relationship of these recent Aquarian developments and the Age of Aquarius. Some astrologers believe that the influence of a new age is experienced before it arrives due to a cuspal effect or Orb of Influence. Other astrologers believe the appearance of Aquarian developments indicate the actual arrival of the Age of Aquarius.