Tonight we will be hearing from our new president...

Again our President Obama will speak to our nation about our economy tonight at 9 P.M. EST.
He will be discussing how we will be going about getting a handle on all those major problems.
Until he speaks that is all I am able to say, and I will not second guess his comments since I am not a member of any journalistic pool with a presumed written text on what exactly will be covered.

As a commoner, but an American with disabilities, but also many abilities that is I do have a mind of my own as you all know and will be able to figure out just how important his statements should be tonight and what he thinks or is about to do to accomplish our resolve to our problems as a nation.

And that is a problem lately… what am I talking about?
My own disabilities, lately my legs have been going numb way too often, which is making walking a real issue.
I know the doctor said that my hips are now bone on bone which means that I do have osteoarthritis of the hips and so are my shoulders in the same predicament, but the numbies are either coming from my MS, Multiple Sclerosis, or from a few discs misbehaving since I also do have spinal degeneration for the last several years, but most do; it is a part of the aging process, well, I do also have stenosis but in my cervical region, the neck that is.
Anyway, none of this feels very good and I will be going to the doctor tomorrow to find out if there is anything that can be done other than just giving up and using my new ride inside too?
To be honest I don’t feel very well.
I know who does these days?
Everyone has problems.
Life is frustrating to all, and we as a nation of people with more commonalities than differences now more than ever. That is to say that not one thing is the problem in our lives but many have been causing us stress over these last few years and we should all try harder to be patient with one another, as well as trying for a unified understanding of each other.

I do sometimes wish that this venue was more interactive, where people would send me ideas or comments that would be able to help me or even… more to my liking me help them.
Wishing sometimes makes things happen or start the ball rolling on beginning a way to really communicate with the world.
As I have been saying we all have more in common than not.
So comparing notes on similar problems could be helpful?
Lately, mobility has been with this little scooter, but really only able to use it outside since my home is too small or maybe we just have to rearrange it furniture wise?
I still do have one step to conquer down here to the sunroom where this computer is, and daily the problem of maneuverability to here gets more difficult, and writing does cause my shoulders to hurt too.
I would die a little inside if I could not maintain this Blog daily it is really something that I look forward to.

Getting tired now so I will bid you good night to all and to all really, really count those blessing and I will too.

All the empty homes alone...

Suggestions are flying and needed for an understanding why in a country of the home of the free and the brave; have we so many homeless people and people-less homes?

Sometimes common sense can appear as brilliance and logic can be just plain simple.
Why with all these different situations of need can we not have some modifications of how to handle these problems and match up families with homes and have them work for a new paid for government agency making them employees to help others in a similar position etc., etc.?
We would be solving the foreclosure, homeless, jobs problems all at the same time!

Now I do know what you are saying…this is the same woman who thought that the homeless were taking over the empty homes in her neighborhood already.
Yes, that is true, but you know something they were quiet and took care of the properties and were nearly perfect neighbors, odd you say.
I say, hmmm surprisingly decent, but that sounds patronizing, why wouldn’t they be?

Do you know what happens to homes that are left empty and abandoned?
Well, lately the trend… dare I say has been teens and some adults having wild orgy type parties in them with under age drinking and drugs causing the destruction of these homes and therefore a destruction of that neighborhood, and so the dominoes fall.

We must come to the conclusion that a full house is better than an empty one.
Every home that goes without loving or without being a shelter for someone is a ‘Rave’, waiting to happen! I think that’s what they are still called, those moved around wild parties of the nineties where the people who would create them would move them to different locales according to where they could have them without much or any over head expenses.

They were notorious for drugs and underage drinking, but actual physical destruction of the property was minimized due to most locations being large buildings similar to Quonset huts, mostly empty shells. The original concept was worthy though it was for youngsters to get together to hear live music and dancing, hah!

But tonight, the news just mentioned such a party over this past weekend which was held in a foreclosed 4K foot home that was basically broken up and out and written all over with vulgar graffiti throughout; seventeen were arrested, seven adults and ten children.

Now my idea is sounding pretty good huh?

Did you see the Oscar Awards last night?
They were great and not too many surprises on the winners, but I was pulling for Mickey Rourke mainly because I knew how much it would have meant to him, and his loving 18 year old Chihuahua just died six days before. I would hate to see him take a down turn when he is doing so well. We are all pulling for you guy! And being nominated is truly great; not just lip service.
Can’t wait to see Slumdog Millionaire, we have already put it in our Que online at our movie rental home delivery service.


What can I say about Hugh Jackman?
Now I see why he is this year’s choice for the sexiest man alive.
Is it just me or wouldn’t he be the next best James Bond?
Personally, I can already hear him saying, “Bond…James Bond.”; “And shaken not stirred,” etc.
And he is so multitalented, singing and dancing, and no, he is definitely NOT GAY!!!! Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Politics are going on and on and all I know is that all it has been just a mere month and already our new chosen guy is being given, in my opinion too hard a time, hang in there Mr. President we are in the majority, the ones who are pulling for you, which means when you win we all succeed!
It is sort of like a teacher whose student gets all 'A's', that means the teacher taught that child well.

Good night to all and to all count your blessings and I will too.

An email I received today got me thinking again...

And this could be dangerous it has been before!

The meaning of pacifist is some one who strongly and actively opposes war or any type of violence for moral or religious beliefs.
And the meaning of an activist is a doctrine or practice that is in direct opposition to one side of a controversial issue.

Well, I guess I have done both of those in many youth filled angst years, but seriously who hasn’t? And as a nearly senior, although AARP believes I already am, yes I have expressed my feelings out loud again and again, like now.

Speaking of that email…which I surprisingly received from an elder cousin discussing all those right reasons to be involved in a war, it was one of those chains, but he did send it to me.
You all know what I am talking about…basically I stood by when they did such and such to someone or other than me or mine, on and on until then when they did finally come for me it was too little too late.
I am a firm believer in any anti-genocide behavior whatever it takes, but to start a war on misinformation or fear from an unknown individual has made me stop in my tracks these last several years and question, when do we really know that it is besides for the prevention of genocide, which is a clear-cut reasoning for me; when we should intervene?
As I have said before… what price war?
I don’t believe, but I could be wrong that any of his children or grandchildren is on that front line with their individual lives on the line, but I could be wrong and thankfully none of mine are now either.
But as a parent who cherishes life, as most everyone does, including that of others’ children I would really want to know for sure that there was an extremely, no other way out way of thinking why I should have someone’s life on the line for my freedom.
When the face is a blank in your mind that soldier be it a woman or a man they are very dear to some one some where, imagine that individual with your loved ones face and then I ask you is it so easy to say send them to war?

I honestly could and would say an absolute no, these soldiers commit to die for their country and too many already have, more than all of the people who died on 9/11.
Life is way too precious.
Too many wars have been started on one person assuming things without facts or being paranoid or differences of opinions on religious beliefs these are all verbally negotiable conflicts, murder to make them listen doesn’t seem right, you know?

That is what war is to me murder with an allowable legal reasoning, a hypocrisy.
I have never met any soldier who has been on the front lines that when they got home was not changed forever.
Even if physically unharmed, seeing all that it surely emotionally has taken its toll.
No one is unscathed by war, and we all know that many of our young people over the last several years have been committing suicide from whatever they have seen or been a part of; they can’t all be cowards as the righteous warmongers would like us to believe.
These people, young and old have consciouses and guilt of killing or seeing killing hurts them all. I am not saying that the way to handle all that is the correct way, but why won’t their military officers accept that they need the help before it gets that far?
I pray it never ever does come to that, but as we know even our military has been unable to cover up this truth of all these current suicides.

And that is why I suppose if I was younger and asked to go to save our freedom, first I would have many questions, and if they couldn’t prove to me that people were being killed because of their hair or eye color and then I would probably be considered what used to be called and I am sure still is a conscientious objector.

That’s something to think about; again.

Good night to all and to all count your blessings and I will too.

Tired but the good kind of tired

Tonight we had our more scaled down version of a dinner party only two guests, but this is one of those times that quality over quantity counted, and it was definitely the case for this evening.

Good food and pleasant conversation what more could any nearly seniors want or desire.
And tonight we enjoyed both.

The day started with my mad rush to try and clean our home within an inch of a nosey inspectors concern, but none were coming with any white gloves so I do wonder at times what possesses me to think that way.
I do hope I came close in passing that test metaphorically speaking that is; it does seem that the only motivation to try for that type of clean is when we know that we are having company.
It is a good reason to get things in ship shape anyway.

My hubby is still hard at work cleaning the grill from his slow cooking of those great babyback ribs that he made.
As you must have guessed our guests have gone.

And to tell the truth I am pooped too.

So tonight will be just this short little Blob of a Blog.

Good night to all and to all count your blessings and I will too.

Routine for most but not for me...

Howdy partners in this obsession of mine called writing this Blog without missing a beat or day so far, pretty darn great I say; commitment is amazing to anything in this day and age.

Fort Myers is counting up their expenditures from the visit of our President Obama a few weeks ago, it apparently cost the city 76K, but they have 92M for such happenings? So I ask what the problem is. The fact that they paid overtime to their police and fire services does seem rather odd, considering this was a daytime event. I suppose it was calling the day off people in for more coverage, which does sound right.
Other things like clean up etc. seems appropriate, but then again I have never run a presidential event before, so I really have no idea what they should run; dollar wise that is.

A young, five year old child in Putnam County Florida, the little girl, Haleigh Cummings that has gone missing, presumed kidnapped, when her babysitter a seventeen year old who is the twenty-five year old father’s girlfriend called 911 when she noticed that the child was missing. Now might not be the right time or moment to bring this up, but has anybody besides me and my husband wondered why no one has questioned why a twenty- five year old father of two has a seventeen year old girlfriend and isn’t that illegal in this state and many others?
Now this young woman has stated just this morning on the Today Show that a relative of hers who is a criminal that lives in Tennessee may be the ‘who’, who took her boyfriend’s child.
Too weird for me, but I do hope it all turns out all right for the missing child’s sake.

Now, I do have the right to revoke my previous statements concerning the Chimpanzee’s owner, the more I hear about her and his relationship with her the more I do believe she is somewhat of a whack-job, I do believe is the proper colloquialism.
Anyway, her neighbor or so-called friend, talk about toxic relationships this fits that bill big time, she is doing better and talk is she may very well be a candidate for a face transplant since she is in the hospital that did the first US one. We can only hope all goes well whatever happens for that poor unfortunate soul.

Back to life goes on in our Charlotte County Florida we had a murder of a sixty-six year old woman, in a very nice fancy neighborhood, and the husband confessed in less than a day!
Wow, that expedites our system, saves us taxpayers a chunk of change.
And our law enforcement agency comes up smelling like a rose.
Unfortunately, the husband might get off due to his wife having had him declared psychotic prior to moving here from Maryland so it’s a matter of record.
Oh well.

On that note I wish you all good night to all and to all count your blessings and I will too.

Some things of interest to anyone I supppose...

We just had a brief sprinkle, not enough to fill our rain barrel, but which is not unheard of in our dry season just not seen that often. Oddly enough we received an email from our county extension who is offering a $40.00 class on how to install a rain barrel, and so I sent them a picture and note of ours, I am so bad, really! I even mentioned our drip system and composter.

The Dow Jones closed at its lowest point since October 9.2002 at 7465.95 down 89.68 points.

Today, we returned the rearview camera we bought on Saturday; since in Florida you cannot obscure your license place with anything and that is where you are supposed to mount it, odd that the company did that and didn’t know. We had purchased it at one of those famous discount chain stores we all know.
And usually they are always extremely busy no matter what and the isles are stuffed to the brim with products, but it appeared quite wide open and under stocked for them, as well as also pretty quiet patron-wise too.
For the heck of it while there in their garden department I thought I might have a look at their broad leaf shade plants that I was interested in, but oddly enough they said that those particular species that I was interested in had froze from our cold snap and they threw them all out. Now when that sort of thing happens at home we trim back the plant and they usually come back, and to me, especially in this economy that sounded just plain wasteful. Well, it’s not my money yet supporting their store that is accept when I make purchases.

75B of the recovery package will be helping out the in jeopardy homeowners who are legitimately in need as stated specifically for prevented foreclosures.

The use of radio frequency technology for killing cancer cells inventor, John Kanzius a retired engineer, a local man from Sanibel Florida, did not live long enough for his idea to help himself, sadly he died from his cancer today. And he was born in 1944 so he was still not that old a man and to me that proves that you are never too young or too old to save the world or at least try to. His legacy will be miraculous for all who will benefit.

Unemployment hit an enormous high today 4.98 million people are out of work, what happened to that .02% person, OMG? Sorry but how can there be a missing .02% I really don’t get these numbers sometimes, do you?

92% of us still pay our mortgages on time, how about that? I suppose that is some good news for a change.

Only 8% are in iffy or dire straights, and we as a nation should be able to change that for the better.

President Obama made his first trip out of the country today to Ottawa Canada actually a tradition for US presidents; he was there to meet with Prime Minister, Steve Harper. They discussed NAFTA, Afghanistan, etc.
He finished off his tour of Canada as a tourist by helping their economy by shopping. But made a big faux pas by mentioning he had never seen a hockey game, not a good thing to say in the land of hockey! Oh well, I suppose he will now have to make sure he sees several.

Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton finished up her Asian tour today in Korea.
And at one point she appeared to be treated as somewhat of a rock star! Good for her, women are great diplomats! She seems to have found her niche.

Good night to all and to all count your blessings and I will too.

Chimps demise is an unfortunate necessity...Facebook draws the line in black and white

The Chimpanzee in Connecticut was not understood by most.
As a child, who didn’t want a monkey or pony as a pet?
I do think most of us little girls did, but we grew up and realized that they took a very big commitment and a lot of room and knowledge to keep.
Sadly as an animal lover of more conventional pets I can almost understand the chimp’s owner’s dilemma, but in the end she did do what any sane person would do in her situation, she tried to stop her loving pet from turning into a wild monster by physically destroying him before he destroyed another human life!
My heart goes out to her and her friend that she tried to save that is now in critical condition.
For 14 years the only problem she had to deal with was the occasional hijinks that her loving son/pet created as a minor problem, her misery is felt all over the country and all our prayers are with her for her dear friend/neighbor’s survival.

Apparently, while I was busy doing other things than placing a Facebook file online nasty displays of our populace were taking place, oooweee showing way too much of just about anything and doing or saying whatever they care to, boy have I been out of the loop.
Anyway, the powers that be are finally getting involved with terms of logging on and what is allowed in that context, but not really, I think I am too confused:

“Logging onto your profile this morning shows the following message:
Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised. For more information, visit the Facebook Blog.

If you want to share your thoughts on what should be in the new terms, check out our group Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.”

Apparently, the idea of anything goes has gone, or they will own it or not, and now you are fully responsible for what you do, protection is like your medical and financial records. Well, that was as plain as mud?

Anyway, life goes on for the rest of us in a rather mundane way.
Today, I did myself a favor and baked two desserts for the weekend and quickly froze them so I wouldn’t be tempted to eat them, walnut brownies and banana sour cream pound cake, mmm too good!

A few nice things happened today…as promised my cousin chose to make an effort and an offer to get together for the art show on the first of March, and of course I will get back to him with that answer…sure why not?

My other cousin, who I hadn’t heard from in some time who oddly enough I was hoping to hear from, was all right. I had been thinking about him, as I took a short nap today, and there like magic were three emails from him when I awoke, wow talk about psychic…we were.
I told myself when I got up from my nap I should email him and ask how he’s doing, that was so weird, but in a nice way.
He’s and older cousin, actually now that I think of it except for one cousin of my twenty-five first cousins I only have one that is younger.

You see, both my parents came from large families.
And most of my cousins are males.
When I was a teenager it was great we would go out for bowling and pizzas, and I would hide when they tried to pick up girls.
Whatever that relationship may sound like to you; it made it easier for me to talk to boys as a teen, and make most of them my friends before we even thought about dating.
And later on it prepared me for motherhood of sons.

As I have told you previously we are in our dry season, and right now on the periphery of our county we have a few forest fires that have sprung up, but seem to be somewhat under control.
Unfortunately, at one point though a couple of areas had to be evacuated, for us though being near the water that is one of the few things that we have not had to be concerned with that in all of our years in Florida where we have always lived near the water.


So I will bid you good night to all and to all count those blessings.