Day 2

EATHER ISSUES...

Currently it's pouring rain....the kind you should get in spring when it's soft and heated...the environment is in for a shock...as finally a cold front that has been stalled in the midwest is moving toward us and a stream from the South and west is full of moisture and now it's dumping on us...visibility is pretty much zero from my windows...

My daffodils are up about 4 inches in some parts of the yard and my little peach tree is in pretty much full bloom.  It's been over 70F for the most part of 3 weeks now?  So a fake spring and now the cold returns this will affect the peach crop Im sure.  I traveled thru an orchard last week and the trees had that orange tinge to the limbs they get right before the set the bloom...it's a full 60 days early...Last yr my little tree bloomed and had a few peaches on it, but a late frost killed the fruit...this year it won't even get to set fruit...

That has to be the warmest December on record for us...2021.  I did finally see a flock of Chipping Sparrows....they have been staying north since it's been so warm.  AND speaking of birds moving...my sis the one birds in CO, she has been trying to see Rosy Finch since she moved there and finally yesterday it happened....an entire flock came to her HOUSE and fed on her feeders...She was on cloud 9 to say the least she sent me photos I was soooo jealous..and happy for her at the same time.  There was about 20 of them on the ground in her photo.  

My other sis is down in the dumps as Jimmy did not have a good day yesterday and she is wrestling with a decision one I had to make in April of 2020...my lovely little Casey.  I only had him 6 yrs as I found him wandering down the highway lost....he was an older dog with I found him probably 9 or 10...sis has had Jimmy since 2010 and she thinks he was about 2 when she adopted him... he is the age of my girls...the sisters now we reckon about 14. 

Casey began to have seizures every night about 8 oclock and then he was in that horrible postictal state for hours after...poor little guy I could not bare to see him suffer it was SO hard to make that drive and I nearly turned around several times, but I knew I HAD to do this...I HAD no choice. He was almost blind, he was pretty much deaf, he could barely move around and he was just old and tired and I wanted to ease his suffering and stop his pain. His pain stopped and mine began...as I had 3 solid years of grief.  I don't cry every single day anymore...but I cry at least 3 times a week...my x, my mom, my Casey...and now it seems it will be Jimmy.  

And I do think I will be the first sister to go....I will talk about that more in the upcoming weeks. 

On  a high note I made the perfect biscuit this morning.  I mixed up only ONE...and I gave it my full attention and it was delicious.  I was a glutton for gluten last week...I plan to show more restraint in the upcoming months. 

Into the Future!

ELL...
I haven't been very attentive to Writtin's.  Not that I haven't had anything  rattling around in my head I have, its I haven't had anything GOOD to say.  IT was a very challenging year for me,, from start to finish....

Some random ideas that have been ping ponging around in my head lately:

So 2012 is gone! That sounds like such a far away time~ when I was a kid back in the 1960's I thought there would be colonies on Mars by now.  Didn't you?
What has held us back? 
We have held onto old ideas such as gasoline engines, coal burning power stations, and a 9 to 5 lifestyle. We have milked the gas and oil cow till she is nearly dry and now we are MILKING it for all its worth.  As a world population we are stagnant as the super rich control the world we live in and we continue to be players in an economy that was created to keep the upper tier rich as the rest of us struggle to make the best of the lemons  disguised as "THE AMERICAN DREAM"

I was recently reading a copy of the magazine Prevention.  By the time I finished reading it I felt doomed to a life of anguish and unanswered questions.  Headlines such as:
FATIGUE, WHAT CAUSES IT
ARE YOU IRON DEFICIENT?
WHY YOU CANT SLEEP
IS THE FOOD YOU EAT MAKING YOU SICK
HOW TO STOP BACK PAIN WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION

When I read these shock-lines I realized we Americans are a mass of sick people.  We are in constant pain both physically, emotionally, and most of all spiritually.  The American way of life is what is giving us fatigue, gives us a horrible diet, wont allow us to sleep, and creates a body riddled with all sorts of complaints. 
IF we could fix the spiritual problems first that would give us the strength to deal with the emotional, and then the physical would fall into place.  WE think we are a sick society now, wait until the kids of today grow up...they are being raised by cell phones and x-boxes.  When its their turn to be the Dead Beats in the House and Senate what will be important to them?  Will they care about the natural world at all?

They had a "take your kid hunting day" here yesterday and today! SO the only time a kid is encouraged to go into the woods is to kill something? To me that is SICK!

9 to 5 keeps people enslaved.  A life is like a flash in time...when compared to the Universe  our existence is a nanosecond! We spend our most productive years working to earn money.  I was thinking of this; what if instead of retiring at 65 we retired at 50? Reason being...if people moved out of the jobforce at age 50 younger workers would move into these jobs, it would keep the tax foundation strong and steady, a young workforce is more productive, and as workers age they are more prone to disease! AS we enter into that pivotal age  we need time to work ON US, a job takes precedence.  IF we had 16 hrs a day to work on our own health, we would become healthier people! Less fatigue, less emotional issues, stronger physical bodies, and we could discover who we are spiritually! IF we wait until we are 65 years old we are pretty much at a point of no return!
...By this time workers are so beat down by the work a day life style, they    cant/dont make time for exercise, we dont make time to relieve stress, we dont have time to cook and eat right...just going to work and staying on the wheel takes all we have to give.  Not everyone is able to tap into our inner Super Man or Wonder Woman.  Some can and my hat is off to those people, but I dont want to be like them.

The Medical machine is draining us dry....if we didnt have to work away the best years of our life, we would be healthier! IT would cost US less for workers to retire early! Happy people are healthier!....IF our system included saving for the future...we could retire early! We are not told HOW important it is to save money, we are sold an "investment idea".  SAVING money is the key to financial security!  Investing is like playing the lotto.
Pay yourself first should be the most important thing we learn in high school!  But I  dont  recall a class called MONEY. The typical education is not preparing us for the REAL world we live in. 
What if the classes being taught were like this:

NATURAL WORLD SCIENCE
YOUR SPIRITUAL BODY
YOUR EMOTIONAL HEALTH
YOUR BODY and HEALTH
FINANCIAL DOs and DONTs
FAMILY DYNAMICS

Maybe then we would be prepared to actually take better care of ourselves and be productive and happy at the same time.

SO on we go still rolling a square wheel uphill...all we can do is work on
 ourselves and make it better one day at a time.