the curse of 2020

ednesday...

I have to say today is a NASTY day...it's cold drizzly, and just plain miserable.  And the next two days will be even worse so they say...a dismal end to a dismal year.  A fitting end I think.  

So since I don't want to go out in the nasty drizzle, Im watching the Outer Limits, an old Sci-fi series on Comet - Antenna TV, all day before that tho I was replacing the photos in my old blog posts on my other blog, I'm doing the trip to Canada post and the ones before and after it, I have the photos on Thumb drives so it's easier to do..Very frustrating with the new Blogger it's so hard to get photos loaded, to get text straight and the size you want it to be, the spacing goes haywire...Blogger the worst text editor on the net...now. Another victim of the 2020 curse.  

So I got 3 long posts done and may get one more in before my eyes go wacky.  See Im having to try and figure out from the caption or the paragraph what the photo was.....It's like a memory puzzle.  I had some extra wood waiting on the porch but it may not be enough to last till bedtime so I will use what I have. Flossie went to the porch after dinner she doesn't seem to mind the cold, Annie hangs out with me, she is my new little buddy since Casey passed he was my shadow the past 6 yrs...It was good to see photos of him pop up in the old photos...he almost always traveled with me, and sometimes I had all three of them.

Last night we started watching the Mr. Mercedes series, I watched it back when it was on, had satellite tv then...but its a lot better to binge watch...Well son is out of sorts with me again so he won't be coming over.  He has skipped his therapy for the a month now...HOW is that helping?  So I told him what I thought and he didn't like it.

I think its better if he goes forward without me in the picture for a while. 

After the Holiday I want to get the weird sound in my van checked and repaired if possible, then Im seriously considering going away for a while for my own peace of mind.  We shall see.  I have already written a New Years post so I will take a day off from writing. 

Hope your's is good...if not, I guess my advice is, Make it So. 

Short one...

HERE did the day go?

I found that when it's cold in the morning I really enjoy just staying under the covers a little longer these days...I got very little done due to a late start.  Anyways not much was planned for this day...I spent a good bit of time on the phone with my sis...We talked about growing old, memories, and this:
I got an email from a lady who said she and her husband are considering  buying a farm that once belonged to my 4th great Uncle in TN, and he and his wife and son are buried there...she was wondering If I knew anything about them...I did but not much.. She sent me photos of the farm land it's really nice..so they were concerned but I think they are going to make an offer on the farm.

So my son is here to watch movies with me, so I won't to get a post up fast and converse with him...So More tomorrow.

Flashback of a

ITNESS,

The world is becoming very crowded...they said on my tv news today that 1 in 1,000 people will die of covid.  Is this natures way of getting balance back?  Sure makes you wonder.  It is so very painful for the ones who are losing loved ones.  Trust me I know first hand what loss feels like.  So now the remaining 999 that survive must bear witness to this event and acknowledge the passing of those ones who don't survive, for like a tree that falls in the forest if there is no witness did it ever live?

I know I am weird; no one has to tell me.  Lately I am shrinking even more from society I am finally becoming Ms Hopkins.  She was a widow that lived near me when I was a kid just moved to SC from my Grandmother's farm in TN.  I was very unhappy to have my wings clipped.  It took me a while to grow new ones and explore my new childhood space.  Observing Ms Hopkins gave me great joy, she was much like my grandma, in that she kept the old way of life going.  She hoed her garden, she canned, she tended her flock of chickens, and she dressed the same way with a dress of flour sacking, an apron and a sun hat.  My Grandma never wore the sunhat but she wore these woolen stocking  she kept rolled just above the knee. 

I witnessed all this about her.  Ms Hopkins had two daughters.  They did not help her and when they went off to school they never came back...course that is my observation they probably did but how was I to know so in my mind they just left.  Probably got married and lived nearby and had a ton of grand kids for the old lady to babysit.  

I had this one friend who was a little bit older than me...she lived down the road.  I was so naïve as a child and even a teen., it was her father, her mother, a brother and suddenly a BABY in the house.  The funny thing was the baby appeared after my friend had gone off to live with her grandmother in another town...the family never explained the baby but her mother was way to old to have a child so soon the truth got out...my friend who  was older by 3 yrs had given birth to a child she was 14.  A baby had a baby.  Never found out who the father was. 

I know she dropped out of high school later on and I don't know what ever became of her...or the baby.  She stopped being a child that year.  There was three sisters who lived nearby that I spent time with but they were so different from me.  All they cared about was boys.  I had no interest.  I wanted to talk horses, they wanted to talk boys so I went over and watched them roll their hair and paint their nails and it seemed so trivial to me.  It still does. 
Then I found a friend who had a horse and so I started hanging out with her.

She would come get me on the horse and I'd ride behind her...sometimes she'd take me to her house which was a few miles away, and then her dad would drive me home.  Each time he'd tell me don't come back here anymore I don't have to time to be driving you home....I didn't like him, or her older brother who threw pinecones at the horse when we were on it's back and made it jump. He was mean.   

Lately I have been reliving my entire childhood.  I had some kind of flashback happen to me, I was not hit by lightening but I had a severely emotional day on Christmas, I think I've been time wrapped back...cause this all started long before Christmas.  I have memories of my childhood that go back to age four or five living on the farm in TN.  They are not complete but like little sketches of my life there...like grinding corn for the chickens, watching Grandpa Jess shear his sheep and crying when they had blood on them...then my uncle JC lifting  me up on the back of the one of the big plow horses on the way to the barn after a day of work in the fields...sitting by Ma's fireplace at night with her cats huddled around the rocking chairs.  

They say before you die your life flashes before you, am I dying?  If so its taking a long time.  I asked my sister to relay events and fill in some gaps...See when I was about sixteen I befriended a twenty-four year old lady.  She was married and had one son.  We hit it off cause I was giving her riding lessons, by this time I was quite an accomplished rider and had taken up at the boarding stable doing odd chores and teaching kids how to ride fat ponies, this lady boarded her horse there so we became friends....She asked me to go to Cincinnati with her to visit her parents. Her son was 2 yrs old I would help with the driving and taking care of the baby in exchange for a trip to Cincinnati. To me it was an adventure. 

I will tell you about Bramblewood later, but we lived there at this time...my Mom, and my sisters and we had horses! It was an old run down plantation...then defunked but under lease, well like I said another time...but we all loved living there it became the home we never had we rented and the rent was lowered since the deal was my sister and I had to take care of the horses that lived there who belonged to a very wealthy lady who lived in town...

Well when I was in Cincinnati, it was this same week the one between Christmas and New Years...1968/  The Leaser of the farm told my Mom we had to move out..like I said I will get back to that cause it's a story of it's own.  But we had no telephone so when the lady returned me home, they were gone.  My family!...the dog was there but no family and nothing in the house----> all gone.  I guess the shock of it all made me forget how I found them but eventually, but I don't recall how.   I asked my sister, did y'all leave me a note or anything like that?  She told me she also cant recall but I showed up with the family dog...and that was when my childhood ended. 

I was a witness to it all...a silent witness. 

Me age 8 

Mom and "Silky" at Bramblewood

         

Lazy Day

OOD GATHERING in the afternoon, after a lazy start to this cold day.

Im about to rummage thru my left overs to see what I may come up with for dinner,  I split a small pile of wood, and now my back is aching.  But it will be fine.  I want to get back to walking again.  I've been a complete failure in that regard.  I don't enjoy walking in this neighborhood as I once did.  A lot of loose dogs, a lot of people zooming down the road and it has gotten narrow and steep sided due to the grader operator who is not as talented as the one who retired was.  

It's Sunday and nothing going on that Im in the mood to share.  I brushed out the coats of my two mutts and they smell better now.   Annie is curled up in what was Casey's napping bed, I did not have the heart to put it away and not the one in the bedroom either it sits vacant. But now both these girls will take turns using the one in the sitting room to nap by the fire  here in the evenings.  

Its 4:40 in the afternoon, and the sun has created long shadows leaning east...the sky is partly cloudy and the last light of day is just a really bright golden spot off to the west.  Earlier the birds were busy getting in a last meal before they roost for the night and I will soon do the same.  Last night I went out behind the shed after dark to get some extra wood, and I spooked a bird who has been roosting on the long handle of a rake I've got hanging back there,,,,Im curious to know what bird it is...It sounded big!

Last evening my son came over we watched one horror movie, pretty yukky then we finished up with a few episodes of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents he enjoyed some left overs and then had a snooze...The A. H. Presents  are 1/2 hour mysteries and so well done.  Nothing of the day can top that or the Twilight Zone, and a few others that I really enjoyed.  It was really good to see the sets since season one was made in 1955.  The cars, the interior of the homes, the way people dressed all so much more civilized.  People were polite to each other even the bad guys...lol 

Well it was fun...we saw all sorts of character actors we know from other roles, Aunt Bee from Mayberry, Grandma Walton, Bat Masterson, just to name a few...

I don't know if he  is coming tonight he was supposed to come over today to put a light bulb in for me that's outside up high...HE Offered I didn't ask, cause you know I rarely ask for help.  But I know he will do it, just don't know when. 

Okay time to eat and light this fire I got ready toI will probably catch up on youtubes and stream a movie later...

TTFN. 

Over TG,,,

ISH I HAD...

More interesting things to write about...lately Im going thru all my old photo CD's to try and replace the broken links that Flickr left in its wake.  BUT it's a huge undertaking.  The CD is hard to open with this external Drive so I put them back into this laptop so I can scroll thru the photos easier and find the ones I used for my blog posts.  I did a few, but some photos I just don't have since my external HD quit working...I h ave a lot of thumb drives also so it could take a life time to sort thru it all...But I figure if I do one per night I could get them all done in like 2 yrs LoL...

COLD today...I did go into town for more bird seed, and to have another one of my small propane tanks filled.  There was a line.  I also got a couple items in the tool aisle. 

A hose for my grease gun, and a female electric connector for one of the extension cords I cut up with my old electric hedge pruners that's why I had to get battery operated...cords are very expensive.  

I hope  all who drop by here had a fun Holiday mine was as I said haunting.  Later when I was alone again I watched a live stream with one of the full time RV'ers I subscribe to, she had some trivia games and some give aways...so 300 fans all together doing Christmas Trivia..

I won NOTHING... not surprising.  

Left overs for me tonight...hope you got plenty as well.  

Ghosts of Christmas's Past

ell its not official yet..
But it's in the running for worst holiday,,,lol And possibly my last.  I understand why my Mom was like she was the more I walk in her shoes,  I mean she had me when she was 30 so I didn't connect with the "woman" she was till I grew to be the age I knew her at.  She had way more of everything at this age than I will ever have.  I'm not speaking of "things" Im speaking of wisdom, grace, love, and family.   I didn't know it till now.  Each year reveals more of her to me as I walk in those shoes.  Mom you amazed me, then you left me.  

There is just this huge hole in my life...I can't seem to fill it.  What can you replace love, understanding, companionship, and devotion with?  You just can't.  It withers, dries, and blows in the wind.  I look at these trees and I hear her words, about how they are singing.  But to me the song is a sad serenade.  The title to the song is "If Only I had KNOWN then what KNOW now."  The past 3 Christmas's I started out with tears...in 2018 Mom was in CO with my sisters forced to go there against her will...I was part of that sadly.  Then my son decided he wanted to argue with me,  he lost his job, then the domino effect he lost his apartment, and you know how that goes, and he had been living with me since Sept of that year, so I told him I want  you to find another place to live...he left THAT DAY we had not even opened up our gifts...

Then last Christmas mom passed away before it arrived...sadly 3 of us sat around her table and it was not like Christmas at all...and this year I didn't even bother to decorate the house.  I put the 3 skiers out and 2 days later I put them back in the box.  They represented a family unity that is broken.  And so when I looked at them I only felt more loss.  So the last time I had Christmas with my Mom was 2016 ? She was in CO 2017, and 2018 too.  Since Blogger went haywire and Flickr deleted all my old photos I can't seem to search my blog and find those posts.  

One Christmas we went up to my Sisters home when she lived upstate,  Me, Mom, my X was there and my Sis and her Husband, my Son and his girlfriend.  He gave us the most precious gift...it was a herd of Elephants...They ranged in size from large to small and he passed them out in order of our age.  Mom got the biggest one, my Husband got the next biggest my older sis got the next one, I got the next,  baby sis got the next and my son got the smallest one.  Elephants keep the memory of all their loved ones in their memory  in their hearts and they grieve for years of the loss of one of them.  

As we pass we are to pass our elephant on to the next person who has a large elephant..MY Husband's elephant should have gone to Mom when he passed, but somehow he lost his elephant and we could not find it when we finalized his his belongings.  Of course my Mom's elephant sat right next to mine for many years, and so her Elephant went to my sisters house, and she should of received John's elephant also.  So Im on the look for a Chrystal elephant,,,,two actually because my son has no idea where his is, so in the end the person with the most elephants is the saddest of all...

                                                     4th in line,,,

So bummer end to a bummer year, my son is supposed to be here today we could not agree on the time, I don't know what I was thinking Im still living with the Ghosts of Christmas Past....when we got up early and it was non stop laughter, gifts, food and fun....so I wanted to start at 10, he said 2 pm...so then we settled on 12 noon, but now it's 11 and Im not even able to speak in full sentences yet so I texted and said 2 pm is fine...hope he sees it, I figured he would be an hour late anyways that is normal M.O. I wish I could find those old photos of the elephants I may have them in a photo album somewhere..

Next year I hope Im traveling on the road and can avoid this whole Blue Christmas routine.  Ho Ho letting go...

If you're into it...

ishing all a good holiday... 

I plan to do nothing much today...waiting on hard rain and wind to arrive, so I will get my wood together for the night before it starts but not much else,,,I may go to the grocery for some snacks, Im out.  I have to find some new snacks don't know what that will be since all my favs are now on an avoid list.  Nuts are my favorite snack.  I really like popcorn, but it gets stuck in my teeth I hate that.  So? Chips are so so salty they do have reduced salt chips,  I like bananas, peaches, and pears.  Soooo I need to think about it. 

So Trump is pardoning criminals who are guilty of the same crimes he has committed or is committing,...tax fraud, inside trading, campaign fraud, colluding with a foreign govt, lying under oath, so he is letting the scumbags out most were involved in crimes due to being around him...

After he and Lindsey Graham said NO New Stimulus,,,,he is holding the bill up wanting the payments to be higher, but the thing is HE knew they were working on this bill forever....so all of a sudden he decides to get involved when  he has said nothing for weeks.  He also is holding up a defense spending bill that gives soldiers a 3% raise, Those defense spending bills normally give  huge chunks of money to the corporations that have contracts with the Dept of Defense...so I really don't know what it is in the bill he opposes, trust me, its probably personal with him or it is about him in some way.  And I don't think people making 75K a year need any stimulus money.  The hardest hit sector is the 20K or less tier of taxpayers....75K a year people are in management, and they did not lose a job, they simply went home and continued to do their job from home.  Food service, and entertainment businesses owners and managers yes, I don't think people who did not lose a job need a stimulus.  It simply shows how out of touch the leaders are...raise the wages over all and stop tossing pnuts on the floor. 

Not doing anything traditional this year.  I will give my son his laptop and we will have a meal, It's going to be cold so I plan to use the oven help keep the house warm...I got sweet potato, red potato, rutabaga, peppers, mushrooms, onions, and I plan to add mac n cheese, and a salmon fillet and I think I will make some spanish rice.  That's it, IF I go to the store I need to pick up some lemons.  

This may be the last time I bother with Christmas...I don't really care about it anymore. I will try to post tomorrow but if not I will be back on Saturday. Last night I got caught up watching a Youtuber who Fat-Bikes the western USA.  He is Canadian and this year he didn't get to come down due to the border closing  Im watching his old  episodes from past years. 

I found him via Vancity Vanlife his channel is called Forestry Forest and he lives in a van,,,in fact he just got into a bigger van...so he is doing a built out currently,  the fat bike, its a bike with big fat tires his trips are normally a month or more  long and he covers 3 or 4k miles.  And he makes ONE video about it of about an hour long so fun to binge watch. 
Check him out if you enjoy a calm minimalist you will enjoy him.

Now it's on to the New Year 2021..lets hope for a better one, and just hope things don't get worse...we know the Pandemic is going to continue to be out of control for many months. 

Fascisms is knockin'...

ILL THE USA FALL?

My writtin's have long focused on the Fascist direction of this nation, and it's never closer than it is right now.  AS we sit on our hands and mouths and do and say nothing a MAD MAN is in our oval office plotting how to TAKE ILLEGAL CONTROL OF US,..the people of the USA.  Many seem to want to be controlled as if we are under the iron fist of an abusive husband who just won't leave and if I can't have you no one will kind of mentality.  I hope we have some warriors on our side.  We will need them.  Personally the next 4 yrs are going to be worse than the last 4 not for what won't get accomplished but what will be accomplished behind closed doors...

The Republican party driven by hate broadcasted by the likes of Rush Limbach and Fox News has become offensive to the point of no return.  I  hear all this talk about coming back to the middle, the middle of what?  What is right and what is wrong?  Fact and fiction, fantasy and reality?  NO way.  I won't pass the time of day with their ideology not even for a moment.  Trump's insane lawyers are telling him to  evoke Martial Law in the Swing states and force them to redo their elections...can you believe that...now this is the Banana Republic of the USA?  We will have to take a stand.

 Bill Barr allowed this to happen...he is our Attorney General now he decided to break GOOD? Too Little Too Late.  YES he should select a special counsel to investigate Trumps attempts to overthrow our government...For Pete's Sake.  The news is out of the Laundering of money....the Trump family thru the Trump election campaign money, 170 million is what I heard.  Its like the mob, where you got Vinny and cousin Louis, and Uncle Mickey, and so forth and so on, they know how a mob is structured , a Crime Family.  

So here in my little world I did some cleaning in the house early till it warmed up outside...vacuum, dust, run the dishwasher, it gets run once a week.  I don't do much cooking I eat a lot of salad and nuke a side dish...so I normally only have plates, and utensils to wash...I have 8 everyday plates so when they are all used I run a load thru the Short cycle,  

I figured out that my freezer works better if I put the freezer on Cold not Coldest, and the Fridge on Coldest, not just Cold. it's been making ice regularly and now I have a bin full of ice.  I have a few big ticket items that will soon have to be dealt with, the fridge, the roof, and the water heater.  I see more and more tarps appearing on roofs, with all the rain we have anymore the roof is not lasting the way it should, and people can't afford a roof.  I'd like to go with a tin roof to be honest.,,but it's very expensive to install...

I wanted to apply for a Grant with the USDA. OMG  The 14 page application is sitting on my desk in various stages of completion.   When I got to the "forms you have to provide" section I put it away till after the holidays...

Then I went out and split some wood, and cut another tree.  This tree I cut was extremely crooked.  I wanted to cut it last year and didn't.  It's a red oak, a very hard wood, so it will take a while to dry out I cut it into lengths and stacked it up to dry.  Red oak does burn good but it's hard to split.  So it will take a couple weeks to get this ready to burn.  I lit the fire an hour early even tho it's not too cold outside 58F, it felt chilly inside so I went ahead and lit the fire.  I got dirty cutting wood so soon a shower and then dinner, and another day X'd off my life Calendar.  

I know you're

ONDERING IF I WILL LIVE?

Not forever.... my bloodwork revealed Hashimoto an auto immune disease.  It attacks my Thyroid, and makes it low,..But mine was high,,,so I don't know,  some foods have to be cut from my diet,,,Bread, peppers, mushrooms, sugar, etc.   I am not gonna go all nuts about it oh yeah and nuts n beans too. 

My triglycerides were a bit on the high side also...and other than that all good.  

So Im taking fish oil that is Mercury free..that is what she suggested to do and adjust those things from my diet.  I've had low thyroid for nearly 30 yrs.  MY BP was ok today one thing I did is I waited outside.  I think sitting in the waiting room makes me anxious since the seats are elbow to elbow,,they should make everyone wait in the car and they text you when its your turn.  

So to try and make myself feel better I went birding after I got home.  It was a pretty day today. I did see 4 or 5 of the rare Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers.  The wildlife refuge I go to has done a very good job of bringing this bird back inside the park, and I feel good about them expanding as more Longleaf Pine is being planted now for timber, will they allow the pines being planted to mature? That is the question. 

I binge watched a few episodes of Ancient Aliens last evening and the episode about Nikola Tesla was so fascinating, he is the one who created electricity as we know it,,,,and he also had success with producing wireless electricity back in 1920's.  His patents are behind so much of the technology we use today including Blue Tooth.  He had also created a weapon that was more precise than the Nuclear Bomb.  His Death RAY would focus on a target and it could protect the world and therefore end wars of all kinds.  A very interesting episode.  He fell out of favor when he insisted he had been contacted by the planet Mars.  

So a new strain of the virus is out of the bag, appeared in the UK.  I figured it would mutate and then become the Earth Shattering killer it has the potential to be.  Finally Mitch McConnell got off his ass and passed a covid relieve bill..so I will get $600. I sure can use it to pay all these taxes and medical bills...Personally I think they should stop all Flights period.  

I had left overs for dinner,  last evening I cooked cabbage, black eyed peas, and white rice!! ...so yum to that.  Got my fire going Im already in my comfy jams...and I watching a movie that is starring Sarah Conners,  well not exactly but the actress who played Sarah Conners in Terminator.  It's a Christmas Movie. 

When the stars came out I went out to see Saturn and Jupiter WOW amazing how close they are and they won't be this close for a long time again the last time was over 400 ys ago.  NOW this is another natural cycle that we are witnessing  in this 21st century...we saw the entire planetary system reset it's self in 2012.  MANY things will be happening we are not aware of because it has not happened in the time of recorded  history.  And the moon is about half full and looking good up there too.  

Hope you get out there to see it for  yourself.  

 https://thedigestonline.com/arts-culture/the-great-conjunction-of-jupiter-and-saturn-in-aquarius/

2020----->Bled me dry

HAT ABOUT YOU...?

I think my new Winter normal in this era of climate change is 3 days of cold followed by 2 days of rain, and in Fall it's humid, sticky, then cold rain followed by a Hurricane or Tropical Strom, in Summer it's humidity thru the roof with heat indexes, violent floods and storms, and in Spring it's sun, wind, thunderstorms mudslides and blow downs.  Welcome to 2021. 

And there will be this Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn the closest since 1623, the Mayflower had sailed and the European settlers had begun the rape of North America. My Ancestors helped with that sadly...anyways it happens TODAY at 16:00 UTC for me that is 11 am...so I think I will look tonight (Sunday)  if these dang clouds will pull apart. And Monday night also.

Will you do a  year end warp up?..I want to do a year end BLOW UP.  I can't think of one single good thing so far, except if the BIDEN inauguration actually goes smoothly without any glitches more than the spoiled tantrum of an insane narcissist x president...then that will be the one good thing.  Yet that will continue to be an issue for most of January.  Lets put the 2020 Calendar on a M-10 bottle-rocket  and light the fuse. 

So lets change 2 things...Number one an election can not be called fraud until  it is proven in a court of law, number two, lets seat the President JAN 1, let us not even soil one day of a new era with an old dictator.  I see in GA turn out for this run off to get rid of the GOP control of this country is at an all time HIGH more than turned out for the main election, so Annie get your gun and let us run these assess out of town and scorch the Senate down and send McConnell packing,  To the rear of the line.  And he will be remembered and recorded as the biggest Obstructionist  in the history of our Government.  

I hope once he is gone to never lay eyes or ears on him again.  Georgia SAVE us,,please  The x CEO of Dollar General is Purdue one of the Republicans running, he said that anyone can afford a college education on minimum wage so there is no reason to change that.  He said he paid for his education no problem.  His parents were both teachers and he joined the Air Force...we all know that the military helps pay for college.  He had 2 working parents to help pay his way...and to help him apply for grants etc.  If you read his BIO up there to me has a long history of sour dealings where he came out on top,,,,and it reeks of corruption.

I was reading about Egypt's finding this new tomb full of Mummies.  They opened one up and it was in perfect condition, these coffins will be on exhibit in the new Museum that will open this coming year in Cairo...I wonder how many ancient germs they released into the air? When something is buried it should stay there.

So I watched this really strange movie last night...on Peacock. called You Should Have Left...starring Kevin Bacon  it was about about him and his family renting a haunted house in Wales, pretty scary Kevin has succumbed to aging as we all have...then I watched a second one Open Grave, I didn't recognize any of the actors but the plot was these people suddenly awaken and don't know who they are, where they are and there's dead people all over the place and some completely insane people locked up etc...eventually they find enough clues to remember that they were a medical team brought in to try and vaccinate the population against this pandemic that turned people  into Zombies, I could have gone my whole life without seeing this one but I made it to the end.

The rain stopped but the gloom is hanging on.  Im watching a squirrel try again and again to get at one of my squirrel proof feeders he has fallen about 12 times to the ground...I think we should ask Squirrels to be soldiers they can figure out any manmade booby trap and they get up and keep going no matter what, and all for a few pnuts. 

When you read this I will be at the dreaded Nurse Prac. visit  8:15 am wonder what kind of WARNINGS they will have for me ? 
We're sorry, you're going to die, Yes I already know that, and for the record so will everyone.

                          yes agreed -----from the Facebook Page by the same name

Saturday night picture show..

HICH WAY IS UP?

Good question.  I guess if I stack wood up that is good if my pile is down that is bad?  

I guess it is. When I dont have a fire and have to turn on my electric heat I PAY $$$ for my laziness is how I see it,  Meanwhile how long can I continue to saw, chop and split wood?  I will do it as long as I can But my son thinks Im a nut.  He used to help me then he stopped helping me he thinks I'm just being cheap.  Well I never!! Anyway I will cut wood whether he helps or not.   We rarely agree on anything these days.  

So I spent the entire day cutting wood and splitting it,  I didn't start till 11 am.  It's good strength training. So the fire is burning.  I generally burn the fire from 3 to 10 or so when I head off to bed.  I read this trilogy, the Moon was hit by a meteor and it was tossed off course due to that so many things went wrong on Earth, life as they knew it was over. Soon the grid broke down and there was no gas or electric so this family in the book went out and cut the trees that had been part of their lawn and burned it in the fireplace.  They took turns feeding the fire 24 hrs a day, They all slept in the living room by fireplace and they learned to cook on it as well but when they ran out of wood they started scavenging from abandoned homes.  The fire was what kept them alive.  

Anyways I was thinking of that last night.   I watched a movie called the Long Kiss Goodnight Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson.  Really a good movie, it had some comedy and some  action.  I dont know if it's gonna be Svengoolie or a streaming movie tonight one or the other.  Lately Sven has not been too interesting. Tonight it's the Invisible Woman I have seen it and it's kinda korny.  They basically parade clothes around pretending its a woman inside I think maybe streaming may be the thing for tonight.  

ITs quite cold so a cozy curl  up on the couch with my wool blanket after a Pizza sounds like the perfect Saturday night to me.  

Why do you never fight with Santa?  Cause he has a Black Belt. 

Haha.  Happy Saturday Night.

 

Been,

OOD sawing today...

It's now burning in the fireplace...

So now my arms are aching, And my back is bringing attention to it's vertebra, and my hip joints are  ouchy too.  My left hip is always giving me  some misery.  Have to saw its an old riding injury,,,yes a horse tossed me about 10 ft one day, lol guess I deserved it. Tossed high and hit the ground hard.  I also had a compressed fracture in the lumbar region.  I was 18.  Was back riding in a months time. 

Im stubborn, logical, and when it's flight or fight,,,I fight.  I told my husband once don't ever start a fight with me, cause  you may have to kill me.   He twisted his mouth to the side and  walked away.  LoL..I know I have it in me to be beligerent.  That is one reason being a Paramedic came fairly easy at first but eventually became a big stressor.  Im going to recall a story.

On the first hike my sisters and I did on the Appalachian Trail we were hiking 39 miles and starting at the very beginning and doing the approach trial up Springer Mountain.  We stayed at the Amicalola Falls Lodge, Dawsonville Georgia, the gateway to the Appalachian Trail.  IT is a tough approach trail for our first backpacking day,  BUT in order to do this we left my Bronco at Neels Gap where our hike would end, and we got a shuttle ride to the the Lodge and would start our hike the next morning.  

We had prearranged for Wes and his Wife Dixie to give us this ride back in those days individuals made a few bucks shuttling hikers, but the National Forest Service put a stop to it,,,anyways Along the way a motorcycle zoomed off the road missed one of the curves on this mountain road,,,,I screamed STOP the van...he did and I jumped down the hill looking for the people who rode that bike off the mountain,,I didnt see the girl but the guy and the bike were down the hill and banged up pretty bad,,,I tried to get him not to move but he had not suffered a major injury mostly some cuts and lots of scratches from the trees, but the girl was in bad shape...

So we made a stretcher out of my sis's sleeping bag and brought her back up to the road. This was in 1995 cell phones were not plentiful but somebody had a car phone and called for an ambulance so that was my first roadside
rescue.  I was the kid that brought home strays and helped the wounded all along,,,its just who I am.  

Trump is not doing his job his pay should be docked he has not been doing his job for 5 weeks now,,he keeps pushing this conspiracy of the election fraud...and his ridiculous supporters believe it.  He was supposed to be passing out pardons today but he didn't even do that.  He is so obsessed  with over turning the election he is not even using his final days for any good.  MANY of our agencies were hacked by the Russians, and Trump said NOTHING, Not a peep...he probably helped them do it.

The virus is raging, some hospitals are full, the vaccine is not rolling out as smoothly as it was announced to do, and people are dying.   And now the Homeland Security stopped all briefings with the Biden team,,,when the Biden team said they will save billions when they stop the building of the border wall.  So Trump threw a hissy fit. Pence got a shot today on tv, but what was in the needle? We have no way of knowing...Trump "is immune" in his mind.

The senate continues to stone wall on the aid package to the American people Now they are hemming and hawing about it, using aid to their own citizens as a pawn.  Poor Joe, he is being handed a huge MESS to straighten out.  I hope he can tough it out..
I tried to read up on and figure out what this Hunter Biden thing is all about.  Trump tried to get the Ukraine leader to investigate Hunter Biden because he worked for a Gas company there Burisma.   Ill paste what I found here..

-------The once little-known Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings found itself thrust into the centre of a presidential impeachment storm earlier this year, over its ties to the son of former US vice-president 

Biden’s son Hunter joined Burisma in 2014 as a board member — around the same time his father was serving under President Obama — holding the position for five years.

Trump argues for a conflict of interests — and even alleges corruption — between Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma and his father’s political activity in the country during the Obama administration.

Biden had been tasked by Obama with overseeing US political activities in Ukraine, primarily advocating for anti-corruption reforms in the country’s energy industry.

In a now-infamous July 2019 phone call, Trump allegedly asked Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate both Bidens in return for political favours.

Critics called this an attempt to strongarm the country into discrediting a political opponent ahead of the 2020 election, with Biden considered by many at that time as the Democratic candidate most likely to challenge Trump.-----End

Joe Biden wanted a corrupt Prosecutor to be fired before the US went ahead with negotiations with Ukraine.  They wanted AIDE, Trump held up that aide, trying to use it as leverage to get Ukraine to say Biden's son was involved in corruption with this company Burisma.  Trump was impeached for his action.  NOW he is having Hunter Biden's taxes looked into trying to find anything that he can label as corrupt or a conflict of interest,  AND my belief is that is the real reason Barr resigned...Because ANY investigation info coming from Ukraine could be fabricated since the former Prosecutor  was corrupt.  This is what Joe Biden was saying we want this corruption to end before we give you any aide.  We want the promise that you are dealing with this corruption that you promised (the newly elected president of Ukraine) So it was the USA saying we want the old corrupt ones out before we help you.  He was fired and Aide was approved.  

Did Hunter Biden do anything wrong?  I have no idea.  If he did I don't think his father was knowingly part of it...he may have helped him get the job who knows.  So if there is any credible evidence it should come out.   I know as a parent we will do anything to protect our children  

That's what is on my mind today...

Disappointing...

ASTED DAY.

I had to spend 2 hrs grocery shopping, and it was wall to wall people.  Not my favorite thing to do, it has to be done but I really feel like it was time wasted.  Later when I got home I started sawing up a tree that feel in the strange wind that came blowing through day before yesterday.  I did'nt get it all sawed the battery died in the saw.  So I was happy to stop there.  The wood is wet due to the rain we had so it will have to dry out before I can use it.  So I brought some dry wood off my covered pile in for the evening fire.

I noticed there's almost as many hired shoppers in the store as there are individuals they have big carts and they take up half the aisle but they do their best.  Those carts are big and cumbersome and it had an upper and lower shelf and each shelf has 4 or 6 hard sided bins on it that they are filling with products to satisfy the orders.

I had to stop for gas, and to pay my water bills.  At least I think that's the last of the spending Im doing this month,  I HOPE. I barely slept and felt bad so far all day long.  I tried to watch Season 1 Episode 1 of Yellowstone,  a series on Peacock.  I signed up for that it's another free streaming service and they have some interesting series, like Law n Order 3 different series, SVU, Criminal Intent, and the Original one.  ALSO the Ancient Aliens,..as I mentioned yesterday.

So I didn't make it through Yellowstone, they killed a horse in the very first scene and then in like the 5th scene they allowed an old Indian man to ride up to a tame herd of Buffalo and kill one,,, That did it for me.  I DO not like Ranchers and this is about a ranching outfit.  My sister recommended it highly,,.but she must have a thicker skin than me. 

Honestly I don't like to see animals working,  People give animals a job. Dogs, Horses, and Cattle seem to be the most used/abused in the movie industry but of course there is all kinds of animals used in films.  I just don't like it,  Especially if its a rodeo, and they rope the calf, pull it down harshly by the neck and then wrestle it down and tie up it's legs.  To me it's abuse and I won't watch it,  Bucking horses, Bulls, Sheep, Westerns are notorious for animal misuse. They force them to fall over, they chase large herds of cattle and they terrify wild horses with 4 wheelers and helicopters.  

Not my thing.  Animals should not be forced into work.  I used to work in the horse racing industry and it took me a few years to really see it for what it was and I quit and talked my husband into quitting also.  He stayed in horse work became a farrier and made the life of horses put into working situations safer for them at least.  I wanted him to quit it altogether but he felt he was too old to start over, and I understood that. Most all his customers had horses for pets or pleasure riding. Some tho were show and racing horses.   

My son and I had a huge disagreement so he won't be joining me for a movie, and Im fine with that.  I just can't understand him, and Im about to give up.  I know people who have been estranged from their children for years.  I never thought I would be one of them...not in a million years.  

Yes 2020 has been a bitch for all of us.  I can't believe Trump supporters actually Believe there was some wild voting scam....I ventured onto a fox news interview on Youtube, and I began to read the comments the right wing nuts left below.  They said things like 
"Jesus will make sure Mr, Trump stays in office,"

"These voting irregularities need to be fully investigated." 

"we all know what the evil Democrats do when they are threatened,"  to that one I replied

"yes we come out and vote in huge numbers and win fair and square."

Those people are really under a vale of lies...and they don't see it. They are being manipulated and used.  Some even said "Just wait till Mr Trump enacts Martial Law...OMG can you believe they want that?  I told one fellow 'They won't ask which party you support before they shoot. you down"

I really don't think there is any help for these people...they will belly ache for 4 yrs and when Trump does NOT follow through with his threat to run in 2024, they will move onto the next big LIE to support.  

Well speaking of belly aching, that's my day it's been a dilly and one I would rather just forget...I did not handle my disappointments well at all.  AND now it's Friday again. 

Are we...

ITNESSING THE END?

device overload...

I'm attempting to create a post with my fire tablet which I have not done in a year.  At first it didn't even allow me to sign into blogger...but I googled that and got the info I need and made it happen.  

Today is a rain day so I'm inside I signed up for Peacock..it's an NBC streaming platform...they have free access to movies, current shows and past series...and I found one of my favorites, Ancient Aliens.  So I can binge watch it...cool beans.  Thats why I needed my fire tablet...so I can use 2 devices at once.  

I do agree with them.  There is no human explanation for some of the ancient buildings..and relics.

Georgio is fascinating to watch...lol.  I did read about Von what's his names theory before this tv series began.  I saw him on a news show and then I investigated on my own.  
(Chariots of the Gods 1968) 

Elijha was lifted into heaven by a chariot of fire...in the book of Kings? 

So do you believe  aliens in the past came here and then left?  I do.  They were here to study, made encampments then left...maybe some did breed with the Neanderthals as some say...but either way I agree we have been visited.  It's makes more sense than just believing in some Heavenly being who may nor may not exist for which we have no evidence at all.  The mass hysteria of Trump should convince you that millions of people can be fed a lie and made to believe it.  It's hogwash but without one shred of evidence Many believe.  We are just one of the many weird creatures out there.  We may think we have conquered the world but have we?  I think the World will conquer us. It's in the process of doing that right now.  The Dinosaurs disappeared suddenly but it was probably over a period of time we only have the stone clues to give us a hint,,,but it did happen.  And it will again.  One thing I know is Nature repeats it's self.  Cycles are the norm.  We are on our way to another Ice Age, it's a natural cycle.   

So many myths that people believe and repeat are just that.  If we're going to spread them let us at least make ones that don't hurt anyone. No one is  harmed by believing in Aliens.  However people are HURT by believing in human dictators like Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, Zedong, Duvalier, Kim II Sung, and now his kid Kim Sung un. Hitler... The link I found tells how they came to power and how they died..one unifying factor they Isolated the public from getting information I guess the Romans had the first dictator..in 500 BC Titus Lartius.  The dictators I named above were in Russia, Italy, China, Korea, Germany happened in the 20th century, trust me if it could happen to those countries why would anyone think it could not happen in the USA?

Nostradamus predicts a solar disruption that will destroy life as we know it.  Used to hear a lot about his quatrains but lately no one has mentioned him so there I did. He has a lot of doom and gloom for us in 2021, earthquakes, flooding and solar disruptions like never seen as the Sun completes an 11 yr cycle called Maximum Solar.  Already one plasma release I spoke of in an earlier post  happened,,,,there was little said about it as the world is in turmoil with the virus and the political disruptions of the USA the whole world is watching because we have a coop attempt still in progress and that Fuk'n Trump knows the nuclear codes...will he sell to the highest bidder?  He is a MAN  who worships money and power nothing would surprise me.   We  have a Pandemic.  Here we are only used to reading of such things in the past but people this is NOW.  Not in the past or even something that may happen in the future it's happening now.

I am afraid of our future as American's and a Species.  IF the USA is this unstable how far away is the rest of the countries of the World from similar and even worse a WORLD WIDE DICTATOR,,,think again NUKE CODES.  Rethink what could happen on a grander scale, for no one fights that hard for nothing?  Something BIG is at stake.  

We have been witnessing disasters world wide for a decade, and we have become numb to this news.  Famine, NON STOP Wars, Hurricanes, Floods, Fires, Landslides, Tsunamis, Political Unrest and Murder of whistle blowers, Racial unrest and tension, Police Brutality...all happening now at the same time.  

I sound like one of the hellfire and brimstone preachers on tv, but don't send me money please. 

Yippy the laptop just arrived!!

Good start then

IND CHILL...and clouds rolled in later today

Can you sue your country for PTSD and Stress?  I want to.  I will name Donald Trump and co-conspirators the Republican Party,,,,

Today I needed bird seed forgot it yesterday and I had to pay Mom's house property taxes, next month I will pay mine, I split it up to make it easier on the budget...slowly whittling away at this end of the year  how rude of a County to send out TAX bills due in January,,,do you know how many businesses lay off people in January? Retail hire in Oct fire in Jan...

Modern society is set up for the poor to fail, you must be very lucky  and a very good plan to make ends meet these days.  So the laptop has been scanned 3 days now in the same location it did NOT go out today it's sitting in a post office in Columbia,,28 miles away,  why did it go from N ew Hampshire to Miami? Flew right over me,,,I am not happy with Fed Ex they are the worst shipper to use,  One time they had a package of mine sitting in a town 40 miles away because they had no trucks coming this way,,,,SO I said YOU were paid to deliver it...They are always late and they really don't care,  I like UPS better.

So on the way back from the tax office, I stopped at the Park and did a bit of birding while the sun was still out but boy that wind chill was murder went right thru my light duty clothes,,,But I did see some fun birds, and I actually forgot for a few minutes that an evil dark side is trying to overthrow our Democracy,...I think we should all take what money we have out of the bank because this is what Trump wants OUR money,,,he cares little for anything else.  I hope some country will step up to help us get rid of him.  I wrote to our AG and told him what I thought of him adding SC to that list of SHIT eating states that signed that suit by TX to erase the votes that were cast for Biden.  Barr resigned I guess he finally found his line in the sand or got his Pocket Pardon?

I have the fire going early and will do little else this day.  I accidentally stuck my hand in the fire ouch,,,probably have a blister later. We are in for a very cold night!

Rainy day

ENT GOOD so far...

The lady who did the blood draw actually listened to me when I told her I have one good vein..HERE--> and she took it there where I pointed.  I have had tech's  say no I only go with the AC and they prick plunge explore and then in the end give up after torturing me and go with the one I pointed out...WHO knows  your own body better than you do???

So that went good...one man came in and his appointment was actually tomorrow...but they worked him in, which I thought was good.  After that I headed to Bojanges and had a biscuit and coffee...It was pouring rain when I came out there they had the dining room open I was the only one in there..and I watched the weather channel this rain is ice and snow in other places..my sisters in CO finally getting some snow they really need that moisture. 

Did you see Space X had a rocket explode when it was landing?  Huge fireball...then they did another one the next day and played up how they had 60+ perfect take off and landings..but what about the 2 as I know of that exploded???  Unmanned thank goodness but what if????? How nonchalantly they brushed that away. They actually said "awesome test congratulations to the Starship team... I guess Elon Musk is like Trump he talks backwards makes the words fit HIS reality....they plan to transport humans to Mars on that technology?  No thank you and what the hell...we can't even live right on Earth so how do they expect to do any good on Mars?  

At the post office to mail the box, it comes with $50 of insurance so perfect...that covers the ornaments and the shipping cost.  I ran in with my umbrella, box, etc and forgot my mask.,, no way I was going back in that storm and lose my place in the line waiting in the lobby for the main doors to open so Pulled the collar of my coat up over my face..  It worked but boy I got hot!!

So hope the box makes it still no laptop but I tracked it and it's being delivered today according to the tracking...supposed to be fed ex, but it's coming US MAIL...I will have to keep my eye out they will hang it on the box in a plastic bag I sure don't want it to get wet...

I stopped at the grocery store on my way back to get dry dog food...it's still in the car I will get it out later when the rain stops pouring..

Its chilly in here so I put the gas on..will save my dry wood for later.  I have enough brought in for tonight.  I did look for the meteor shower but the clouds had already rolled in and all I saw was deep space black..

Anyway I changed back into my PJ's heck may as well spend the day on the couch watching sci-fi movies till it clears off,,,

Google had a problem this morning,,,,I tried to read my email and it said "we don't recognize that ID,  Hmmmm Houston we have a problem..but I was able to view it with Microsoft edge,,,so I guess it is good for something.   Its working again now...google I mean. 

In town my phone has 4 bars at home it barely has one,,,so I was able to use some of my data which I don't normally get to use I use the wifi while at home if I need to do any search or updates or upload photos or download apps,,,It was fast and very good.  Surprise. 

I got the few other gifts wrapped up for my son...I got him a new house robe, flannel lounge pants, a 300 lumen flashlight and 2 gas cards and the laptop (hopefully)!

Think I will curl into fetal position and fall asleep and watch the Giant Gila Monster I
n B & W and just have a rain day the mail should run around 11 so I will keep an eye out for that.  

Do you believe in

IZZARDS N THINGS?

The power of words.  I have this entitlement feeling that I should be able to say what I think.  Along with that comes some responsibility. But I enjoy being able to put my feelings into words.  The trouble is some words spoken bring worry to others.  That is never my intention,,,so sometimes I have to clarify.  

I used to subscribe to a blogger...he called himself a mystic.  He studied Taoism and he practiced this notion of SHE/HER guided his actions by giving him "hints".  He lived in various vehicles and moved around the country mostly in the west and lived a nomadic life...but when things got hard he would go to his family.  I think they were supporting him.  He had written many self help books on getting rid of the self.  In other words the self is the ego.  But he struggled with many things.  I was not always able to decipher his meaning, I am a realist and sometimes I don't get it if you're using  symbolism, or metaphoric sentences rather than just coming right out and saying..."This is what I believe."  

A few times he gave away all his belongings and went back to his home state to stay with family.  There was a few deaths in his family and he inherited some money and used it as seed money to get back into the nomadic lifestyle.  Some of the people he spent time with I had been in touch with via email and blogging.  So I inquired if he seemed okay was he coping well with  life.  He just gave away all his belongs which were few.  The answers I got was "who knows".   Is anyone really ok?  

So then he hurt his back but I don't know how.   I had not been able to make a connection with his writing so I had sort of stopped reading.   But I think he had a wreck and destroyed the vehicle...and ended up with a smaller but newer vehicle to live in,,,,but he had pain and I think he may have gotten onto pain killers as so many do.  

He kept trying to write his books about letting go of the self, and he felt he had been able to do that.  

In August he posted a blog called, See You Soon, and it was posted on Aug 28th  2017.  Unfortunately since the update of Blogger when I click on his blog it won't open it says it does not exist.  But the first paragraph I can still read and I copy here below:
 NEAR LA BARGE, WY August 28, 2017 11:48 AM Having accomplished in this incarnation all that I had set out to do (spiritual awakening in 2009 and writing Mystical Oneness last year), I left this planet on the morning of August 31, 2017 at one of my favorite camps along....

And that is all I can see...but it went on to say that he  has reached a point where pain controls his life and he has made the decision to end it,,it is his suicide note.  The day that blog posted I didn't read it that day, or the next, or even the next but after Labor Day I did.  AND I immediately contacted people who he knew in person.  And yes they confirmed Wayne had been found in his vehicle dead.  He had been threatened with having his vehicle repossessed and the constant pain was destroying his peace of mind and so used the pain killers to leave this earth.  

Not long ago I made the statement and have a few times, when I went to sleep I repeated to myself, "I hope I don't wake up in the morning." for I want to die in my sleep.  I don't know that I would have the courage to do what Wayne did.  It bothered me for a long time.  I did eventually get past it.  But when I say I hope I don't wake up that's not a suicide note,,,that is me saying allow nature to takes its course and I'm at peace with that.   I am very disillusioned these days and at best if I stay healthy I have 20 yrs to go? But who knows, no one unless you have decided as Wayne did and you know the day of your death. 

You can get your affairs in order and just be done,,,you can struggle and hang onto the very last breath, or you can just be at peace with it when it happens.  I don't know why I chose this morbid talk to have with you today except if all goes as planned I will be having my blood drawn at 7:45 am Monday morning, Dec 14th 2020...and that same evening the Electoral College we all hate will give us the decision that will affect our lives for the next 4 yrs.  BUT then I got to thinking of the day I went to have broken tooth repaired and came away with permanent nerve damage when the Dentist jabbed a needle right thru my Lingual Nerve....SO I decided if the tech has no experience I will not be subjected to her attempting again and again to find a vein in my arm.  I will calmly tell her NO. Forget it.  And then I will relate the story of my damaged nerve. And walk out. 

It was warm today I did cut some wood and I have my fire ready to light when the chill becomes uncomfortable in here.  The next project I plan to work on is washing my windows outside...this house has sooo many windows and each one has a screen.  They do tilt in and some I will do that way but some have issues and I will do them outside.  I will start with the 2 in the dining room.  A person with long term plans is not getting ready to check out.  So allow people to voice their emotions and ask them to clarify. 

Sunny and,,,

ARM TODAY...

Saturday/Sunday

I had some small errands to run early so got that done, and then a few items at the grocery and back home,  I had one box to get ready to mail on Monday I have to go early for the dreaded bloodwork that I do not want to do,,,but I guess I will and I will drop the box at the post office then.  My sister ordered 2 more memorial ornaments and so they arrived and I picked them up.  So we each can have one. 

The town was packed with people,,this town has out grown it's breeches,  I can remember what the major shopping area was like 60 years ago.  Not only was there no stop lights there was nothing  only the woods, the river, and the bridge,  Now it's swarming with shoppers.  

I no longer like this town where I live,,,it used to be such a small town we had 2 stop lights...now it's so different.  Overcrowding is a huge problem on this planet.  I guess if there is ANY good of a pandemic it decreases the population.  Horrible thing to say but making an observation does not change anything.

It's warm but I have a fire to take out the chill,  My son said he is coming for a movie but so far he has not shown up,  He got mad at me about 4 days ago and he had been very quite and stand-offish.  I'm much better just being alone,  I don't offend anyone or step on anyone's toes that way.  But he came around and so we're back on movies. 

So I heard the Supreme court struck down the ridiculous TX suit against the swing staters,,,,Monday the electoral college votes and if any of those jump ship we will have war IM pretty certain of that..it will be a street fight,   Well I see a light in the back yard must be him so its MOVIE time,,, I'll finish this later,

SUNDAY:

Well I guess you can see I did not return till now it's 10 am Sunday morning.  We watched two movies and I was so tired and sleepy by then I just went to bed.   Guess I could never be a Times reporter with the early news,  So we watched Wyvern about a flying dragon that was left sleeping under the ice but was awakened by the warming climate,,this took place in Alaska a very small town and 2 of the former Northern Exposure cast were in this one,,,before it was all over only 3 or 4 of the town people survived,,

Then it was Predators another sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger blockbuster this one had Lawrence Fishburn,  good enough to keep us entertained.  So once again thanks to Tubi the free movie channel I got to spend some quality time with my son.  

Did I say I returned the chromebook the replacement laptop was supposed to be delivered yesterday it was NOT,  I am a little concerned.  I want to open it up and add some favorite apps to it,,and see if I can get it out of s-10 so it can download chrome same as I did,,this Microsoft Edge...HORRIBLE browser.  It's just a marketplace disguised as a browser.  Microsoft should be ashamed,  my Son is NOT computer sauvy and has never worked with computers he know how to use one but to change settings and such he wont' bother he just goes with it out of the box sort of, me Im adventurous with going into the settings and customizing it I was able to get this one out of S-mode and it works so much better that way,  So I wanted a few days to play with it.  

He said the cat hates the tower and won't go near it...so far.  I hope she changes her mind I told him if she doesn't in a couple months we'll donate it to the animal shelter...

well it's the thought that counts..

waiting to see...

ILL KITTY LIKE HER TOWER?

So it went home today and I haven't gotten a report back yet so hopefully she is curled up in it right now.  One thing for sure I will be the last to know,,,Hummffff. 

My son is one of the most forgetful people of his age that I know.  He said he'd text me a photo of her in the tower but so far nothing.  He was very proud of it for sure. 

Today was an odd day for me.  I wanted to go to the grocery store never made it.  Kept putting it off till once it hit noon, I knew I was not going anywhere...what did I do then? After we moved the tower I got out my pruning shears and I cut down all the azaleas that surround my deck.  I just can't deal with the pruning.  So I cut back by about half their size which is a no no, you should only prune something by 1/3 it's size but to be honest I don't care if they come back out or die.  Im just over woody shrubs.  TOO much work to keep them in check.

'So since I was being brutal I cut back on the umbrella hedges I had allowed to get too tall,,So tomorrow I have to put all that debris on the trailer and eventually it will go to the dump...

This will be less work for me in the summer,,,and I have one more large azalea to cut back by half in the back.  I did one last year and it should bloom this year..but the ones I cut today wont bloom this year no worries,,,AND there is at least 4 more under the bedroom windows those are not too big yet so I will decrease by 1/3,,I have to get serious about how much yard work Im going to be able to do as I continue to get old!@!

I don't want to get on a ladder to prune if possible...and so that's my goal to get things down to waist high and no higher than chest high,,

It was super nice today warm and a gentle day weather wise.  

I just watched Vancity Vanlife youtube update, Chrome has a friend named Joseph and one named Jeffery they all ended up in Squamish BC, and they decorated their vans for the season,..they live in vans and they did more decorating than I have done,,,Im just not in the mood for it this year.   It's not Christmas if it's not in your heart. I only ever did Christmas for my family,  My son doesn't care one way or the other,,if he did he would do it for me,,,,right?  He is single and watching A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation is more than enough for him,,,a couple gifts to open and a meal,  I hate to sound like I don't care but Im burnt out. 

I had chili for dinner it was easy and good.  Our governor is such an ass he won't put in a mask mandate, and he says soon as we  have the vaccine it will make a difference,,,NOPE it won't.  He is a Trump junkie and I have no respect for him.  I sure did not vote for him but this State is so red, why I am here is a very big question. I just don't really want to start all over again at my age. 

I keep thinking I may drag out my yard tree at least so we'll see.  its only 2 ft tall...just call me Scrooge.  I guess the yearly free Christmas Concert will be virtual? Ba humbug. 

                                               One of my neighbors decorating s

60 degrees...

EATHER GODS DID GOOD TODAY...

With a day like today the best thing to do is go hiking and so that's what I did.  Im continuing to explore the wildlife refuge that is not too far away from me...takes me about 27 minutes to get there.,,and that normally includes a stop for gas in one of the small towns I pass through on the way.  I saw only one other guy there and he was walking alongside the wildlife drive I slowed but he didn't flag me down so I kept going I assume he was out enjoying the awesome day also...

Im trying to hike in areas that I haven't done there before,..and each one has netted a surprise for me.  Today I turned down Rd 5.  Its a dirt road and so I drove down and surprise 2 small ponds,  they call them lakes but to me it's a pond.  There is Upper Twin Lake and Lower Twin Lake...yes 2 ponds connected by a single flow.  I parked and hiked a little there...I also hiked on Tates Trail again it's a favorite spot to look for ducks but saw none.

Then I pulled into a hiking path off the Wildlife Drive that I've been curious about forever,,,So today hiked it.  A mile round trip Im guessing. I can't get any cell service there or I'd run my birding app it has a tracking feature in it and it shows your path and how far you went.  This path has no name,,,but it finishes up at the back side of Pool D one of the bigger ponds. And there was an old hunters blind there glad to say it is no longer in use,,,

I did not see many birds.  And no waterfowl.  We just had some really cold nights so maybe they all went farther south.  But I enjoyed the hiking a lot.  Felt good to get the legs moving and to feel the sun on my face...tomorrow is going to be even warmer.

I got  home about 4:30, its now an hour later I've eaten, the girls have eaten, the fire is burning and I had a shower.  Then I realized my clock had stopped.  I keep a battery clock in the kitchen...So changed out the battery in that.  Flossie is walking a little better today I've been helping her get in and out of the house...by using a soft blanket under her belly to help hoist her up the steps...

So now the news is all about the vaccine.  But don't forget it does NOT prevent the virus from getting you,,,it is only to try and keep it from killing you if you get the virus.  Still have to keep the mask on etc.  I have to wonder if it will change anything,,,Did you know Ted Cruz the Senate zit from TX said "watch the virus disappear asa Joe takes office" So I assume he is saying it's a democratic hoax????WOW we hoaxed a virus World Wide,,,,and completely stole an election right out from under 50 states and 70 Million voters,,,I think we may have to change the name of the Democratic party to the Grand Wizzards!! Our power is pretty damn good eh? Let me just say if we had that kind of power, there would be no Ted Cruz. Abra Cadabra,,,,,he is gone.

Trump is still trying to 'overturn" the election,..he is a complete HORSE'S ASS......They are trying to say that 4 swing states illegally changed their election laws...but that is hogwash.  States have the RIGHT to do that.  NOW Texas is trying to sue those states,  the AG who filed the suit   is under investigation for corruption,  so that tells you his character....BUT come Monday the electoral college will do it's thing and it's in stone.  TRUMP GO BACK UNDER YOUR ROCK where all slugs belong.  I hope all his hair falls out and he has double bogey's every single day, and his flat feet get flatter.  lol Now watch all that happen to me.  Karma is a bitch. 

Friday again??? omg.