Thursday, December 31, 2015

Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne : Lyrics
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne!

Chorus.-For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

Thanks to: http://www.carols.org.uk/auld_lang_syne_song.htm

And here's the history of the song:  http://www.scotland.org/features/the-history-and-words-of-auld-lang-syne/


Here's the history of New Year's: http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/new-years#

Live coverage of New Year's Eve : http://6abc.com/travel/happy-2016-watch-the-world-ring-in-the-new-year/1141493/


http://newyears.earthcam.com/

ENJOY!

And a very Happy New Year to ALL!

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

The Eve Before The Eve of The New Year's Eve, huh, got that?

So here we go again, funny how every year we do this, hmm?
Although, the place where you celebrate and the people you are with might change, but the fact that every year on December 31st at 12:01 A.M. we bring in the New Year doesn't, and Yay! Sure we have more trouble staying awake these last few years. Funny how we start out that way and revert back to that when we get older; in case I wasn't clear, that is having difficulty staying awake, ya know?

Little known fact about us is that this home is the one of the five that we have owned over the years that we have lived in the longest, seventeen years as of tomorrow night, ta DA! Yep moved in New Year's Eve of 1998 into 1999. The others were anywhere from six to eight years each collectively, we rented our first two years that we were married and then five months while building our NJ home and then again when we moved from the east coast to the west coast of Florida for about four years.

This is our third home in Florida, two others were in New Jersey all within a forty-five year period. Two were in Ocean County NJ and two in Volusia County Fl, and one here in Charlotte County.

Boring!
Sorry!

Moving on...

Our nasty doctor murder turns out to be allegedly exactly how we imagined it had gone down when the news came on the air last June. Gun for hire, although this was a hammer that bludgeoned her to death, and a large life insurance policy worth millions with a greedy husband (allegedly) hiring his old buddy's other buddy for a payout when the insurance paid up, allegedly.
Too many TV shows with the same plot, nothing new with the concept.
Doesn't anyone in law enforcement watch these shows any more?
I suppose it takes time to prove a case, since June, not in an hour, but we both know that, as you all do too that I am more than sure.
Hubby is a retired deputy and I used to write murder mysteries with research and all. 

Any-who, on that note of wishing you all a very happy healthy safe good night and asking you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all of your overages with you know whom and we will too!
  
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS This was just an observation of mine.

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Eureka! I think I have the answer!

Rogue animals are shot with tranquilizer guns, why can't people be too? Why are we more compassionate to wild animals than people with mental illnesses or young children with toy weaponry.

Dosages can be written right on the guns; it's already done with insulin prefilled shots, with guesstimates of size and weight of their human target, this could work by being trained to do that in appropriate classes before taking the guns home from the stores, why not?

Why cannot we all as people use these not so harmful stop 'em in their tracks weapons and we; that is the ones who need them, can all go to classes to learn to aim shots at shoulders necks arms or legs?
To me it sounds possible, people go to ranges for shooting their guns, not the same but similar? 

Another enormous problem solved thank you very much people.

Moving on...

Being a Peacenik from the sixties, now in my sixties, bud, dum, bum... all this violence around the world is very unsettling like to the rest of you I am more than sure.
Ideas, ideas, and more ideas run through this fertile brain of mine. The only thing left that I possess with that growing conceptual fluidity, not too much though, but a smidge still somewhere; that is when I can locate it, ha.

This world of ours has some of the most brilliant minds in it and yet these horrendous violent acts still occur.
PS I am not one of those minds. That is not to say I don't have a mind, because I still do but just not a brilliant one, an okay one, a compensating for my lack of mobility one, a good enough one, enough of one for me, hmm?
Prolific ability to throw out opinionated garbage nightly one, huh?
Sorry!
Where was I?
Oh, that's right saving the world from itself... so in-conclusion non violence should be examined in the bigger picture of Law Enforcement and self protection, just a thought, truly?

  On my noteworthy proposal, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe good night and ask you all to kindly count all those blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too! 

 And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Monday, December 28, 2015

Annoying obnoxious outrageous controversial and yet ingenious!

Who, who, who gets all the free media coverage?
What, what, what are "they" getting paid under the table? (Of course kidding; don't sue me! But how you publish and air all his speakings, makes one wonder, seriously.)
Where,where, where is his knowledge of the United States Constitution, Federal  Law, plain US government, etc.? 
Why, why, why do they all fall for his subterfuge of cleverness?
Which, which, which person is actually the more able to become the suitable candidate?

(And yes, as promised his name is not being mentioned, but you all know of whom I am referring.) 

If my questions baffle you then I suspect you are a member of the GOP. (Again a joke, and if of that party I sure hope that you get it? Again just kidding, or not...sorry, my bad!)

I can go on and on, oh no do I have a frothy orange haired fellow connection in my past?

NOT!

Only semi with his son-in-law being from my original homeland of Paramus New Jersey and a bit more of he attending the Jewish Community Center that my parents help build way back when, oh no!

But not biological, THANK THE ALMIGHTY! I crossed myself too for double coverage, ha.


Upward and onward... and so that life can go on, let us all pray that "he" is not their chosen one.

 Enough already with all the mental torture!

On that note of a reality check, whew, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe good night
and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!


 


Sunday, December 27, 2015

The best of 2015


Below is an amazing calendar with good things that happened this year:  

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2015/12/a_calendar_of_the_best_things_that_happened_during_2015.html

Last night you might have remembered I could not recall anything good that happened this year and today I searched my personal memory banks and came up with a few.
All loving couples, no matter what gender, now have the right to marry, federally!   
Coffee and wine were both found to be full of antioxidants that protect against cancers, and diabetes.
We had started with wine again for the holidays and perhaps we may continue, coffee has always been on our beverage diets.
Florida again this hurricane season did not get hit, thankfully.
So many more I am sure.
For us personally we began traveling again, and we have been to St. Augustine Fl, Savannah Ga., Charleston S.C., Amelia Island Fl. all in September, and Cedar Key Fl., Panama City Fl., Seaside Fl. and New Orleans La.all  in November!
Where to next?
Perhaps the keys in the spring and Maine in the summer, who knows what 2016 will bring.

Our prayers go out to all affected by the violent weather; too much severe weather!

On that realization of that we have far to go to find more good news allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear! 

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Chilling?

Should be.
The hustle and bustle should be slowing, unless...
You are one of the millions who have to exchange or return what you had received for Christmas due to so many reasons, too many to list!
All those lines, GOOD GRIEF!
Or maybe you're the type who uses the mails to return them via how they came.
BUT ALL THOSE SALES!
Sadly a few delivery providers had not been able to, due to the weather that engulfed our other half of our country with everything from violent deadly tornadoes, flooding, mud slides, fires and snows.
Just so sad and horrid.
Here we had the complete opposite.
Sunny and warmer than it should be, thanks El Nino, NOT!
Guilt, and not fair distribution of the weather.
Makes it not enjoyable.
Yes, some of us do have a conscientious.
What can we say.
Our hearts go out to all who suffered by nature's wrath.
It's not like we haven't been there too, because we have.

Moving on...

But now is the time we all think about next year; less than a week now left to this year, and what our next one might bring, true?

A lot of bad things happened nationally and internationally this year.
Every year there is bad with the good.

Deaths are the worse of people you personally know, although famous ones you only thought you knew are sad too.

Has anything significantly good happened that I missed during this year?
I am sorry to say I am having trouble remembering.
Anyway, it is something to try harder to consider and try and be thankful for.
I know there must be a lot, it is just that I am having a problem remembering, my problem not yours...I hope!

On that note of thinking harder about all the good, allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy healthy safe  good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

 

 

Friday, December 25, 2015

Love Peace Compassion Christmas and Russia

Sad and sorry that at this time of year is so short for people to recall what it all should mean that Love, Peace and Compassion should be universally celebrated all year long, daily!
My problem is why only now?
Why not always?
Can we all try, please?
Merry Christmas!

Now, why Russia? (In my title, I am sure you were all wondering, true?) They have been reading my blogs.
I have no idea why except unless it's because they wonder why I am no longer speaking of by name about one of the people in the mutual admiration society between the frothy orange haired guy here that is running for the presidential office and with their Commander and Chief Putin; a truly odd couple, not meant in a mean way, just unconventional.

Interestingly enough though my readers' numbers go up in multiples exponentially whenever they read my blogs sporadically!
Don't get me wrong I enjoy the attention, but folks I am not hiding any national secrets or for that matter defaming any of the candidates anymore than they themselves have been known to do, just by them opening their mouths; one in particular comes to mind...you know who!
Thanks people of Russia where my maternal Grandpa came from in the earliest part of the twentieth century, actually around the turn of the nineteenth into the twentieth.
Without the turmoil at that time in history in your country my Grandfather would not have left so I was told, and I would not be a second generation American!
So truly thanks for that!

Any-who, so since I am one quarter of your heritage finding out what makes you do what you do is a natural curiosity to find out more about myself logically.
Although, within weeks I will know more for on Monday the DNA tests from Ancestry.com will be here to find out more for Hubby and myself each, our anniversary gifts to one another that is in February. I ordered it early knowing it takes time to get back the results, they said eight weeks later.
Darn it will be after our Valentine's forty-fifth, but close enough.
Looking forward to finding out more about us.
Sounds exciting and scary at the same time, doesn't it?

On that note of hope to know and understand our part in this enormous world, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear! 

AND MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A  VERY GOODNIGHT!

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Ah Christmas Eve in Florida!

 
Even with temperatures hot hot hot here in Florida it is nice to remember the quaint olde fashioned Christmas that many do... 
 
 

“'Twas the Night Before Christmas
or Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas
by
Major Henry Livingston Jr. (1748-1828)
(previously believed to be by Clement Clarke Moore)

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

"Now, DASHER! now, DANCER! now, PRANCER and VIXEN!
On, COMET! on CUPID! on, DONDER and BLITZEN!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"
 
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my hand, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
 
 His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
 
 He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!" “
 
 
 
Below is an interesting musical version of the famous poem above, give it a listen, and most of all enjoy it! And to all a Merry/ Happy Christmas and a wonderful night!



Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Breaking all records!

What is?
If you do not live in Florida you may be wondering?
NASCAR?
Greyhound Racing?
Horse Racing?
Lottery total?
Amusement parks' visitors?
Tourists?
Accidents?
Spring Breakers?
Businesses with Christmas sales?
Violent crimes?
Lowest gas prices?
Most endangered species road kills?
Most bear, coyote, gator, human/family pet encounters?
Most Christmas lights?

Nope, none of the above, actually oddly enough high temperatures!
Mid eighties for the last few days and upper eighties for the next several days, and i.e. Fahrenheit! 
Even high for here in southwest Florida for Christmas time; this is about ten degrees over our norms of mid seventies.

Moving on...

Hubby and I went to our local Winn Dixie grocery for a change we usually go to our Publix.
But Winn Dixie has an exceptional amount of prepared foods and sales on items that we thought would makes our lives a bit more simpler for the next several days thus our enjoyment of choosing all their smorgasbord like array of items to our liking hot and cold. Meats, veggies, desserts; you name it.
Nothing needing additional cooking just warming up again since we hadn't eaten all our choices of course and had to put them in the frig! Some items even went into our freezer for a later date use.

It was like going out to a buffet but taking everything home in dogie bags, although their containers are stronger.    

On this note of being efficient, allow us to be the very first to wish you all a very happy healthy safe good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!  

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Mixed day


Happy= Number One Son's visit
Happy= lunch @ Jack's on Marion
Happy= seafood bisque soup and Cesar salad
Happy= St. Martin chocolate from Number One's cruise with his honey
Happy= ice cream for us at Scoops and Bites; voted number 1 in the country's best ice cream, right here in Punta Gorda.

Sad= Number One Son had to leave early, early work day tomorrow.
Sad= after eating great leftovers for dinner my back went out
and I had to be rolled by wheel chair into bed, and I am lying flatish.
Sad= cannot even take my after dinner meds.
Sad= Number One Son just called and he's stuck in traffic two hours later on his way home.

Oh well, tomorrow's another day.

Monday, December 21, 2015

Rush to the finish line

GIFTS!
Of course.
Tis the season, true?
Good luck; I'm out of this game thankfully.
What else can I say?
Cry over NO grandbabies?
Nope, I stopped a few years back.
And for that alone I can be more selfish with getting things for only us, Hubby and me, but we do not need or want for anything.
Odd how that works.  

So no crowds for us.
Or sites going down.
Even not one stolen package by our front door.
I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and may your dreams come true, seriously.

Moving on...

Due to warm weather up north they say that many people are not coming down here to Florida!
What????
Have any of these people tried driving through all the traffic????
Stop and go.
All the accidents.
I do believe they are HERE!!!!!
More slow traffic and accidents caused by no one knowing where they are going is an indication to my experience of living here nearly thirty years that the multitudes are already back!
But God Bless our winter/tourists guests they are a major part of our economy, but again I am no economist.

Rethink the numbers folks please; anymore guests and we all will have to leave so they can stay! Nearly twenty million + in total winter population here! A million are those temps, our tax helpers, and thanks for that.

On this note of my own perspective, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next next time please be here or be square, ya hear!



Sunday, December 20, 2015

Why do grown ups act like children?

RE: Pertaining to the presidential candidates.

And what must children think of the adults in news, about their bad behavior? Not only the criminals, but these so-called educated refined ones, huh? (I was laughing as I wrote that.)
Sure we all have our moments of saying things we are sorry for later, no matter what our ages, but not nightly and so publicly.
Although,do any of these shameful behaving adults believe that adolescents that cannot vote or even young adults of eighteen who do have the ability to vote might be considering their remarks logically not right or prudent for the office of the presidency? Current events are still discussed in school I am pretty sure.I can recall discussing elections even in fifth grade when we were ten years of age.


As far as I  know most candidates are parents, which makes this even more of a nasty a situation.
They should know better.
Not everyone has an excuse for it and if they do then they should not be running.
(That horrid concussion damage from sports or other head injuries, which is very serious and can cause lack of self  control.)

Moving on...

We all know that the weather all of our country has been not usual with the northeast being unusually warm in the sixties and seventies, how odd and with us in the southeast considering those
temperatures rather chilly for we too have been seeing those temperatures for the last two days, brrrrrrrrr, perception!
Tomorrow we will be back up in the middle eighties, whew, not quite the norm for us either, slightly too warm also, more like our fall or spring!

On these notes of little information other than shear commentary of thoughts written down, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Laughing

Funny how hitting enter published my title, just the title again tonight, and with just that one word beginning I think?
But the actual "funny" I was going to tell you about was really the cuteness of Gus, our Havanese mix rescue dog, sticking his nose into the bedroom to check on me every few minutes to make sure of what I do not know?
We had enlisted a trainer through the Animal Welfare League to come to our home to help with his training.
At about two years of age he still gets quite rambunctious in a playful way, and of course we as with our previous four legged as well as a two legged children pretty much have been too lenient so they have been known to run the show.
Discipline is necessary lovingly.
Although, with him not getting some commands a little bit of an unconventional action has been trainer approved and it seems to be working.
Actually, with cats we used to use the method to teach them to not jump on the kitchen counters, water pistols or water bottles with squirting them at the misbehaving four legged child; although I suppose it would work with those two legged ones too, that is if they climbed on the counters too, ha.
I sincerely hope it doesn't prevent him from having his bath at the groomers, she does that more often than his haircut and he has just started getting used to it with her.
My other concern is will he ever love the pool like Skipper did, oh well, not nice to compare...
Gus can be quite comical.
He enjoys jumping on me while in my recliner, straddling me and bestowing me with slobbering kisses all over my face!
He does seem rather smart when he plays too, he retrieves the ball no matter where it goes, he reaches or finds it even when out of view or under or on top of things. He knows when to ask for an assist too.

Moving on...

Hubby has been working hard on painting the exterior of our home, driveway, walking path, patio, pool decking all cemented hard-scapes, but he had pressure washed them with our own machine that we have had for years. Once you paint you have to do it over and over again and ours had been blue when we moved in seventeen years ago, not sad, the color like the whole house including floors and in the garage and ceiling too, all painted the color BLUE! We changed it all to white, and so when you pressure wash the dirt off colors sometimes come through, anyway white has to be redone accordingly. Ordinarily I love blue, in clothing and even in some furnishings, my kitchen counters are a marbleized blue in Corian. But this house proved that there is such a thing as too much blue!  
He did repaint the cement sills outside too as well as the two fences on either side that are white also.
He bought a five gallon drum of storm satin exterior one coat all surface white at Lowe's, great deal under a hundred bucks.
Our tan main part needs it too, but all in time.
A lot of work for one person.
The weather got cooler that is why we decided there was a window of opportunity to get it done, pleasant low seventies, back to eighties by Monday.
Ah Florida!

On that note of we live in the best weather ever, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and to share all your overages with you know whom ad we will too!

 And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!




Friday, December 18, 2015

Listening to the news can be harmful to your psyche

Gotcha!
Sure it could be I suppose.
But that is only if you cannot differentiate the key aspects of the information being tossed at you and take away what you absolutely need to know!
Huh?
Some might argue that a lot of what is pelting our brains nightly is not self beneficial.
True.
Then ask yourself this, why watch?
To stay informed, to make sure it has no affect on your personal life/family or job.
Perhaps.
Curious.
You find that you have that nosy need to know human quality, yep, I suppose that's the same as curiosity, hmm?
It's the only place where being voyeuristic is legal.
And gosh don't they make it easy for all of us with the repetition of some horrid incident when it occurs? 
But is that still considered NEWS?
News is new, not previously aired spots, isn't it?
Although, not by its name, which really is just an acronym for north east west and south. 
So I wonder how it became the representative of an all inclusive catchall phrase for information that is new daily?  
You haven't though, wondered about it?
Its a free world and you have that right.
I, on the other hand still have too much time on my hands, so I can take that short journey and wonder why the news is the news. 
Now that is just too redundant, isn't it? 

How shall I go about investigating my question, Google, Bing or some other search engine or gather many for many concepts of the why, where, when, which and what of it all, just like any true journalistic reporter might attack a question; hold on I'll be right back with a quickie answer I am more than sure...
Two found easily enough, but more are available:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/news
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News

You know the sites no longer allow you to copy and paste in some.
And I have also found that when I go to these definitions and history/encyclopedia sites when I think I know something I find there is so much more to learn, perhaps you will too?

On that note of sure we do, huh, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy and safe good night and kindly ask you to count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

 PS: What ya know it did post? Look below. There it is, but that is just one of many definitions...

news

play
noun plural but singular in construction \ˈnüz, ˈnyüz\

Simple Definition of news

Popularity: Top 40% of words
  • : new information or a report about something that has happened recently
  • : information that is reported in a newspaper, magazine, television news program, etc.
  • : someone or something that is exciting and in the news


 

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Could I have your ear for a moment?

Star Wars!
 Yes, it is great that my maternal grandmother that I am named for could  be a possible relative to the man who made this movie for the Lucas Company, but never sent us our complimentary tickets.
You see, my Grandma who I am named for, although she is a Ma and I am not, (Whoa I am a Mom but there is not the additive of the letters M & A prefix to my actual first name, got that?) and she shares her last name, her maiden one with JJ  so now you see why I thought maybe? (Kidding of course, but who knows, could be, really?)

Moving on:
 
Did you see the debate the other night of the GOP candidates arguing/insulting for top position on CNN in Las Vegas, and who won really?
No one said that I can recall.
But the frothy orange haired one again claimed that he did.
All I personally glean from his obnoxious commentary/monlogues is constant blowhard claims that he's the winner of the GOP race and the world at large, and yet the world's reaction to his claims is disturbing in the fact that if he should win we sure will be up a creek without a paddle, no one likes him at all and do not want him anywhere near their countries! And that was from many chiming in on their own TV stations.

Knowing nothing more today sadly, other than in America the movie industry is still going strong, thank goodness.
Oh and another thing is that after nine years of not raising interest rates and finally doing it yesterday by a teensy .25 marginal amount, since the people who know these things stated that it should not affect the market, i.e. the stock market it took a bit of a large dip today, which just goes to show you that the gains from yesterday were so this could happen, huh? Balance I suppose?

Any-who, on that note of that is why I am not an economist, allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

 

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

So much going on

But not here so much.
With you?
Our daily lives like most peoples' are ordinary.
At least these days that can be a very good thing.
Who wants scares of any kind, and lately the most recent ones were "only" hoaxes, thank goodness.
But they locked out students from learning in LA, but not so in NYC, since for some amazing reason they knew it was a hoax early on those bomb scares. Perhaps a better grapevine?
Even not far from here, just south of us again, in Lee County Florida, Fort Myers area two schools had bomb scares and evacuated the students for a while and one middle school was delayed opening due to a past student entering the building the night before and they did not know what the person was up to.
I tell you we as a nation are getting very jumpy, rightfully so though, ya know.
My biggest fear is if we do become complacent like many have after years without natural disasters do, ten years here without a direct hit from a hurricane, on occasion then we will be more than likely in BIG trouble.

Don't get me wrong being too worried with concern around every corner that the enemy is going to get me is paranoia; and none of us who are cautious want to behave like that, but being careful and prepared is prudent and just plain smart.

Let's not let our guard down, but also try hard to enjoy life too, a fine line like most things in life are, in balance.
I have found many of my generation seem to utilize meditation to calm themselves and to become enlightened, not a bad concept and it is free!

We as individuals must always find new ways to deal with problems daily in business, school, or home.
So why not tackle these major issues in the same manner?
Logically without fear. 
Life has to continue so why not do what you must the best way you know how to with common sense.

Oh I don't know you anymore than you know me, but I wish there was more I could do to quell the anxiety amongst us and protect us all from any harm ever again, mentally or physically... 

 My heart breaks with the news of more extremist killing innocent people who they have decided to hate for no other good reason than them being different from them, to me it is just so CRAZY!

On that note of silly me with hope for a world that will love everyone, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a  very happy healthy and safe good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Sage advice

An old school chum posted an article on the curative properties of sage, the herb.
I kiddingly said to her that it was, "sage advice", and it ended up being.
Double meanings, oh what silly fun.
Any-who, I was making butternut squash soup to go along with roasted chicken for tonight's dinner and it just so happens the recipe I was using called for using sage in the soup. I do use it on poultry often, along with rosemary and thyme, from the song, ya know?

I have had dried sage for quite sometime in my arsenal of herbs but had not used it in soup for quite some time what a coincidence.  
Here's the link   http://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/sage
Thanks Joan!
She had posted its info to share and so am I.
A must read site, amazing what it can do. 

Just in case if you are from another country or planet or are not familiar with this ancient word, "sage" here are the definitions: very wise, and 
"An aromatic plant whose greyish-green leaves are used as a culinary herb, native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean." Thanks to:http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sage
In the mint family. 
So this is my night's contribution to this blog of mine, and betterment of humanity, including a hint for a healthier life; actually my old reconnected Facebook friend's contribution.
On that note of giving credit where credit is due, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!




Monday, December 14, 2015

Anniversary


Another sad one.
It has been three years since the 26 people, 20 children and 6 adults were killed by an unstable person who wielded a gun at Sandy Hook Connecticut elementary school students and teachers and administrators. 
I don't want to take anyone's guns away that are responsible hunters and want protection if someone comes after them  but... let's face it unstable people who have access is quite dangerous as if they were a toddler in your home and no one wouldn't lock up any arsenal no matter how big or small to protect their child, would they.
That's all I am saying treat the ill accordingly.
Also no one needs automatic weapons for either of the above mentioned reasoning's.
Collectors keep theirs in locked cases I would think.
So even with nearly 1500 beings being killed off domestically by guns since that horrendous day just three years ago, you gun toting Americans are safe from me trying to take them away, but not my opinion.
A lot to think about, hmm?
Personally I don't own any guns or like them and they scare me, but that's me.Being short in stature and slender, now just short, fat and old, I always felt anyone could take it away from me and use it against me.
Although, weapons I hear tell come in all shapes and sizes, why a woman doctor in Fort Myers Florida south of here was killed a few months ago by a hammer, can you imagine, bloody horrid murder too!   
Maybe if she had a gun she would be alive today many rationalize,hmm????
Who knows...
Sure us gals have pepper spray and hair spray and panic buttons on key chains and to me those are my weapons of choice if I were attacked, even kicking them where it hurts, yelling rape, and let's not forget calling 911 too!
Locking doors being aware of your surroundings and on and on... now stores and offices as well as schools are teaching what to do in these situations to run, hide and as a last resort fight back.
Not bad common sense to have embedded in our brains.

On this note of trying hard to make sense out of the senseless allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom, and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Anew and whew!

Nothing like another home problem to distract you from yourself.
For quite some time our combination Hunter paddle fan/light over our dinette table had one light not giving out sufficient brightness. There are two curly florescent bulbs in each of our identical fixtures, three of those, one in the dinette, master bedroom and also in the sun-room. Our guest room's one was the only salvageable one after the hurricane, and the one out in the Lanai was also replaced, of course.
The first three mentioned all have remotes and are still sufficiently high tech and eco friendly with their type of bulbs that they haven't become obsolete in style or function eleven years later.
So when the one over our dinning table's light weakened Hubby disassembled it to diagnose the problem; after all he had put it in originally after the new roof and ceilings were completed, the fixture that was there had become a water fountain after the hurricane hit, dangerous and scary too!      

Anyway, when he found out the one socket was faulty he called around and found out Lowe's had the ones we needed, he bought two since the only difference was now they would be screw in bulbs instead of snap in, at six bucks for the two sockets not counting additional bulbs, 60w soft whites curly florescent, it was worth the repair.
Even a decade ago each paddle fan/light fixture was about one hundred and fifty dollars a piece, and so it appears that this one should last another few decades, barring any hurricanes that is.

Problem number two:

Hubby's smart phone had been funky while on our last vacation in November for his birthday to New Orleans it kept going into emergency calls only. He would shut it on and off and it temporarily would work. When we got home we called our cell provider and they had him remove his sim card and then reinstall it and again it would work but even since home it has done it, again today! Now the provider had us switch sim cards with each other to verify that is the problem.
So far my phone has been blinking with his in it, and now I have to call myself to get him, confusing!
Any-who, it's just till tomorrow to prove that is the issue and then they said they would send us a new sim card for him if it is the reason.

Busy minds cannot dwell on bad things, hmm?

On that note please allow me to be the very first to wish you a very happy good night and ask you to all kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS:The best part about today's problems is that they were very fixable, making them not stressful at all! None-the-less still able to distract me; I'm easy. (But only with some things; wink wink.)

Happy eighth/last night of Hanukkah! Boo Hoo! 

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