STILL TALKING

Are you horrified?
I am.
Orange Frothy Haired Guy has not listened to what he is saying and has history skewed.
He is an insult to the American educational system!
How in the world did he get most of his historic references so wrong!

Protocols are non existent when dealing with GOOD GRIEF everyone!
How did the majority of America choose this guy?
I sure didn't!

Besides him not making America great again, when we were already, he instead is turning our country into a laughing stock internationally or much, much worse...http://time.com/magazine/


 This is what it has come to? to DUMP THE TRUMP
A conversation long awaited to be out front and not whispered about, but discussed with high intellect to figure out how to handle it all!
Be afraid, be very, very, very afraid! I hate being afraid! I want things to change.
I beg you to click on the hot key access that I included in this horrific depiction front page of a noted national/international magazine, of what is now going on here for the article that goes with the front page:http://time.com/magazine/ again a very, very interesting read!

Many of us would like him, i.e. Pres. DJ, to be ousted due so many reasons, but sadly we are stumped on the how to do it?
So many of us all day long post from all walks of life people discussing the issues, but none have truly figured out how, we must figure out the "how" to DUMP THE TRUMP!

He has broken so many laws of governing; shouldn't that mean something?
He TWEETS horrible things without thinking first it seems!
Although, he will never admit that anything he sends out could be incorrect or unjust or just plain ridiculous, stupid or inflammatory!
He's, i.e. Pres. DJ, is totally oblivious to the affect his TWEETS have on any of us!

CALLING ALL ALREADY GREAT AMERICANS TO HELP AMERICA CHANGE THIS STATUS QUO!
LET US FIGURE OUT HOW TO REMOVE DJ!
WE CAN DO THIS!

 

Easy money! And my view for America from one American.

All those robo calls to your landlines and cell phones are now going to have to pay up in a class action law suit or some such thing, under I believe "the annoying phone calls entry", you know the ones offering you the free cruise, but of course!
YAY that they will be paying yay!
We should be good for a few bucks too; heaven knows we seem to get them at least once a week.
I had heard from one paranoid senior years ago, no not me, after all I was not a senior years ago, it is a more recent affliction that I own happily now, that it is used as a ruse to rob you while you are on vacation! I always say no to the offer legitimately due to our over the many years of maintaining our menagerie of pets that we need to care for, and so we cannot go away.
I have had a hard time believing all the calls that we get saying that we won a cruise to here or there, especially when we haven't even entered any contests!
That alone is suspicious.

Years ago I learned the hard way that at those event center shows where they say sign up and win, you know the ones... well they sell those lists or they did, maybe not anymore do not quote me, any-who, many have you and me in their systems thus why all those annoying phone calls...still!

They have called both our cell phones as well as the home landline.
I suppose many of us get them, not just us, and it is nice to know they will now have to pay for their bad timing, usually during dinner or having company over or some other inconvenient time during the day, on the way out too, to more important necessary things.

Moving on to not such banal topics, truly a very serious matter.

White Nationalists try to make other white people, men mostly believe that they are in jeopardy of becoming a minority due to all of the people in more interesting beautiful colors turning from individual minorities into a very large MAJORITY; (I say if only! Let's do it!)
Their reasoning is laughable and paranoid, proving of their instability, and why they can be very dangerous who do not believe as they do.
Most groups who think this way become violent out of fear that their worst nightmares will come to fruition.
Maybe...!

I am almost considered foolishly still a peaceable person, but if physically pushed I will push back, as we all should.
Yes, the sit-ins worked back way back when, but there was still physical violence, too often in the form of riots back then in the 1960s, people we do not want to revisit that! Too many spurts have happened on and off over the years since then, let's all be better than that!

These Neo-Nazis believe that the Third Reich should come back, make that spread through them, apparently they do not remember their history of what eventually happened to most all of them from the 1930s-40s, and war crimes were processed decades after the end of WW11, and I do believe that these days that earlier intervention would be more likely by Nazi hunters and all others that believe that their hate is not welcomed here in this the Good Ole U S of A, and everyone that are still aware of their blight in the rest of the world will be stopped too!

The KKK, the old group of equal opportunity haters home grown horrifically, an embarrassment to decency!
Most all Americans dislike those white sheeted hidey cowards and what they represent and they are not what we want the world to think we agree with at all!

Why Mr. so-called President DJ don't you stand up to these haters of our country, and lumped the haters with the ones trying to stop the hate!

Let it be known if you will not, we, the already GREAT Americans will!

I do believe that enough op-ed pieces by legit authors, me not considering myself in that group, but if the real deal people would be expressing as I have been hearing and reading thankfully, what most all Americans believe in and that is that we are still our original melting pot as most of us like it, and where people have the right to be whomever they are or want to be, and believe in what they want to how they want to, without others telling them otherwise and not committing violence on them or anyone who they disagree with, and that no one should ever spew hate at anyone publicly or privately, and that includes in any form of bullying or violence upon anyone should be an oath taken like all important ones are we are America as it was supposed to be!

America is for Lovers!




  

A city to our south is receiving an award for water conservation, huh?

And I am very upset.
If someone deserves an award, by all means they should have it and I am very happy to tell them congratulations!
But... this city, Cape Coral Florida for weeks and weeks made the news for complaining about our normal dry season browning their lawns or that their lawns were now dying all due to them having to go on water restrictions! With being allowed only one day a week to water, the city had no choice.
Well, we in Charlotte County have had watering restriction on and off for years, usually only two days a week, and we have lived on this coast for twenty-two of the thirty-one years that we have lived in Florida!
So we have learned to conserve.
And brown lawns are fine, especially when they come back in the rainy season each year and even if they didn't, we have xeriscape plantings in most all of our gardens these days.
So yay no mowing of the lawn for Hubby, and that will make him happy and every winter it sure does!
Our gardens if they need any water we use our water from the rain barrels.
And we always had sprinkler systems, this is the first home that we haven't had one.
The homes on the other coast were both on shallow wells, high in iron, but Ormond Beach was changing over to reclaimed water when we moved to this coast back in January of 1995.
This coast has not caught up yet and there was no well at this home, only city water very expensive to use for sprinklers, and wells were not being drilled here at the time.

The problem with Cape Coral is that due to their lawns looking bad they started draining their inland fresh water canals and that caused them to have nearly no water left.
I do believe they were told NOT to do that, but then they had the brilliant idea to buy water from a reservoir in Charlotte County for millions to continue to be on that quest of having their emerald city of green lawns!
And so they did, and that it why they are receiving this award, since now the reservoir is full again due to our normal rainy season, and so who knows why they are receiving this award?
But this is like telling your child that they were smart enough to shop on your credit card when they wanted new clothes, since theirs needed washing or some other ludicrous reasoning!
Or if they ate dinner out, since they did not know how to cook!
And rewarding them for either of those ridiculous concepts.

To me it is just wrong.

Any-who...moving on.

Finding out that Florida just made the list of the top five most bigoted states is a horror to have to live with, but I am in too bad of an unhealthy condition to go through another move at this point in my life, but my last night's topic and outing of why they might be watching me more so that is due to me being a short fat Jewish disabled woman northeasterner, uh oh.(Last night's blog was copied a few times I noticed)

No surprise about the county where Cape Coral is that just so happens to be Lee County!

Yup, the same one that has the same horrible bust and picture of Lee due to the county being named for him, yes the one and only Robert E. Lee!
Thankfully, the NAACP has been having them take down his picture, and according to whomever the bust of him in the courtyard statue belongs to it too is supposed to be removed; so far all very peacefully.
I am so happy they will be gone!

I can only imagine that it is no different than Hitler for us Jewish people being thought of as some horrific idea of decency being displayed there, when in truth Hitler was a murdering monster to us Jews and so many others as well, and Lee was the same with slavery with African Americans.
The Nazi flag to us is horrible and cringe worthy on sight as I can only imagine the Confederate flag is to African Americans.
Both represent what those two did to their ancestors and promote hate.

I am just relived that so far it appears that in Lee County it is being handled, those items as historic pieces and that they will be sent on to museums to learn from, as we have done with Nazi things in our Holocaust museums; they are there to tell the whole story of our enemies who killed our families, friends and neighbors during a very horrific time in history. My knee jerk reaction was to see them burned or destroyed, but hopefully seeing them in their context...none of it will be repeated ever again!

Although, chills run down my spine with fear with all that hate up in Virginia spewing this past weekend and I do worry tremendously...!

Violence has been known to spread too like hate with contagion; they have gone together far too often.
We must try to prevent that from happening.
But how?
I do not want to fan any flames, but we must really try to understand each other and ignore the people who won't try.
And realize that their small numbers speak volumes!

Even when they took a survey on NBC-2 news the local Ft. Myers NBC affiliate in Lee County station I was thrilled to see the numbers on whether or not the picture and bust of Lee should be removed the percentages were quite refreshing, 16% only wanted to keep them and 84% felt they should go, yay!
Progress!
Intelligence!

On that upbeat note, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to share your blessings and we will too!

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

 

Hate, in this day and age is so wasteful.

Nothing new there.
It is as old as time and civilization.
Why?
Is all we can ask.
Fear of being on the hated end from the hater is a real issue for me.
I am one of millions that meet their criteria to hate.
It disturbs me deep in my soul.
Am I powerless to change their minds?
Now I am.
Would I like to do something about it?
Absolutely!
Their diseased feelings can be and usually are contagious.
People who believe them are lacking something within their selves; not realizing that they are having the minds bent to hate by these people.

 Hate is cheap, hurtful, unrelatable, nonpassionate, uncaring, disillusioned and wrong!

Many believe that you have to be carefully taught to hate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JjiaRJqKIU

If that is the case you should also be able to be carefully taught to love the world, instead.

To me hate is personal, since I am a short fat disabled Jewish woman!
Easy target for all the hate groups, KKK, Neo-Nazis, and the White Supremacists.

SCARED!

Although, hiding in plain sight might be to my advantage.

I do nothing to insight these people to harm me and so far so good, but I would prefer for them to change their ways of thinking about me and all other groups of people LBGT, races, ethnic origins and religions for them to be more accepting of our differences!

We are all just human beings, people, that is our commonalities.

Our lives are of value.

Please dissolve all your hate groups and try hard to see that people of all shapes sizes colors and sexual preferences and religious and ethnic origins are good and have value to exist.

That's all!

Violence for this will not change anything.
Think of the lion or the lamb, and be the lamb.

My heart breaks for all who perished due to hate crimes against humanity!


STOP!

 

Home with a view.

Sounds soooooooooooo nice!
And as we all know that for the last nearly nineteen years out in our backyard that is basically what we have living on the waterfront.
Although, what some might find as we did too, being waterfront can also mean that you are on view from anyone who happens down your canal, especially if you have opted for non- covered windows to absorb that total view!
So little by little paranoia starts to set in... especially if you like to look at others landscaping along the waterways, as we have over the years for ideas. While going down different canals and find that those with the best views have opted for window coverings in the minimal designs or have them all the way up to see out on the water or decided on none at all, and to let it all hang out!
And horrifically at time that is what can be seen, ha!
So over the years, nature and fences and window shades have been known to block our view, since it is not just one way, always a two way street, make that canal, hmm?
I suppose if you lived in a less developed area that would be fine, shades no paranoia then.
But to be honest a bit of it, i.e. a bit of healthy paranoia, is a good thing when it comes to modesty in a suburban type setting, PLEASE!
Or at least modify your behavior or move into the woods, again PLEASE!
And yes, I am aware that your home is your castle and all that blah, blah, blah..., but children do travel those canals with adults or teens on their own, think about that!
WHEW!
Now I am done.
Oh this was an explanation why our home that used to be after we cleared the initial brush away when we bought the home, where you could not find the canal at all...I originally planted a hedge of Hibiscus in red that I would prune to about two to three feet when needed, just a wink of privacy.
I would tie a string from one end to the other of our seventy-five feet of frontage on the canal, and use that measurement to cut across my height, making it easier, but not too easy, since like electric knives, electric clippers gave me the creeps and so I used manual chompers and I would become Edward Scissorhands, and do quite a dainty good job, great exercise, but I was well then and in very good shape. We also originally had a sixteen foot arbor down to our dock there too, covered with Jasmine, honeysuckle, and another orangey reddish vine that name escapes me right now, all growing beautifully over that arbor. How I did love to garden.
Planted by me, actually the orange one already was here and transplanted there, I did like it and now it is gone. They were all ripped out by Hurricane Charley on August 13th 2004, oddly Julia Childs day of death too, a Friday. Today is the anniversary of those two unrelated occurrences.

The white cottage style fence Hubby placed around the pool for my privacy just a couple of years ago and for that I thank him kindly.
The pond has its own greenery that has been placed and created by us there as so was the fish pond at first a molded one and then enlarged by special material to a eleven hundred gallons, since our at one time many fish were growing very large!
From those original ones in the early 2000s one of the second after the hurricane generation ones is still alive, a couple were eaten by herons and some died of old age, and some by severe heat due to nature. If it weren't for the rain nearly daily the heat would have gotten the last big one and hundreds of small mosquito eater ones we still have!
The shade from the trees, Gardenia, Schefflera, fig, lemon, avocado, elephant ear leaves and cannas, etc around the pond keeping its dappled water shaded somewhat.
Even a few of the pineapples are there.

I think this is the first year of the many anniversaries since Hurricane Charley thirteen years ago on the thirteenth of the month, yup... that I did not post my recollections of that fateful day....!

Time can heal most all wounds, so shall we rip off the band aid finally?
I guess we will.

On that note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night, and ask you to kindly share all your blessings and we will too! 

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

Okay if you must know here is the link, and Geez it has been a few years since I posted it:http://tobi-adayinthelife.blogspot.com/2015/08/our-eleventh-anniversary-of-hurricane.html#links
 Pictures and all!
 

Oh by the way...

While I am being this bum type do nothing person I am binge watching pretty darn good TV on Netflix!
So here are a couple of recommendations from yours truly.
They go from what I am currently watching to if I can remember... what I did more than likely probably did, tonight only two though. Hope you try them, PG rated...

Granite Flats: Set in a small town in Colorado in the midst of the cold war with three likable teens into solving local mysteries.
The cast is exceptional: Richard Gunn and Jessica Wright as the parents of five with the middle son, Tim, played by Charlie Plummer, a tall for his age having a cherubic baby faced boy who is part of the trio of kid detectives with quite a bit success in solving the mysteries. Even the Dad, the local chief of police, has to admit they are very helpful to him when he hadn't asked them to be.
The young adopted Korean slender and pretty girl, Madeline, played by Malia Tyler whose parents are doctors and more than that and a brother not adopted eleven years older who has not been in it yet, has a more than mysterious beginnings that turns into one of their mysteries to be solved by the group. Arthur, played by Johnathan Morgan Heit, the new kid who has just moved there from California where he lived with his Mom, a nurse and his Dad a pilot, who has died, but they had not located his plane or body, which makes it more possible to think maybe he is still alive?
There are flash backs with his Mom and Dad practicing Russian, so that alone is intriguing, hmm?
Anyway, there are three seasons and I am enjoying it, but I am in season two already, darn, and they're  no new ones being made. Christopher Lloyd joins the cast in the second season, you must remember him from Taxi as Reverend Jim as well as Doc Brown from the Back to the Future movie series in this show he is their new high school English Professor and turns Hamlet and Shakespeare into more mysteries for them and that just adds to all the interest of the mystique in all three's young lives.

Republic of Doyle: Is about a father and son detective agency, both former constables, set in Newfoundland, gosh I wish that that wasn't over either! The whole family including the attractive younger red headed step mother with a shady past, a sister with also an interesting back story, as well as the lawyer brother who no longer practices and teenage niece who after a difficult time going through growing up eventually decides on a police career too that proves to be a good fit; are all quite enjoyable as well. This one is six seasons. Cast: starring: Allan Hawco, Krystin Pellerin, Mark O'Brien, Lynda Boyd, Sean McGinley, and  Marthe Bernard and many other notable characters.
Both series are well written and produced, and a nice addition to any watch list.

Moving on...

Today, Hubby and I watched PBS for awhile about the group from our era the 1960s- 1970s, the Mommas and the Poppa and Paul Simon in concert, ahh memories!
And really good oldies!

Additional/correction:

Oh the other nigh,t a few ago, when mentioning that I got the best price on Gus's Heartgard plus heartworm medication I mentioned it was mail-order from Dr.Foster's and Smith Pet Supplies but I forgot to give you the site, so here it is now:http://www.drsfostersmith.com/?t=1&ref=4136&subref=AA&cmpid=PPC-B-4136

That is all for tonight so have a very happy good night and share those blessings and we will too!

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

Being hacked.

Who hasn't been?
We all have been one time or another, unfortunately. Me, personally, way too often.
Who hasn't spent hours and hours on the phone with techs either walking you through dissolution of all the nasty problems that were caused by it, or allowed the techs to take custody of your computer, ghostlike, to fix it automatically from their end.
Scary, giving up that much control, teaches baby steps to this TYPE A.
But some things are not too difficult to fix, and that is when you can go into the help sections in the different sites that you might be a regular visitor to.
Facebook has a problem solving section that notably is called that, in the upper right hand corner of your screen designated by its "?" click on it and just scroll down to report a problem and then follow the prompts from there; simplicity at its finest!
The best way to avoid the problems is to tighten up our security!

I am not a computer technologist, but through experience and asking questions I have learned a little in the thirty-five years that I have been using computers!
Yes, it was 1982 when we got our first computer for a few years old expanding business, Bamber Lake Irrigation Sales and Service, in Bamber Lake Lacey Township NJ.
Our sons were ten and six then and had been learning computers since kindergarten, and so we bought a Commodore 64 with a modem, or the modem could have been after.
By then our little business had three hundred clients from when we had installed sprinkler systems then they would take our service contracts for the year and every year we would renew them and add more clientele as the years went on, not to mention other service contracts from older systems from other companies. So we grew. It was my idea to set up access to the accounts by each customers phone numbers like I knew that Sears had, being a Sears credit card holder customer then and now since 1976.
The year our younger son was born, guess I didn't think I needed it before then.
So our brilliant sons set the whole thing up for their Dad and me, Mom and our office was one of the five bedrooms of the two that were downstairs in our bi-level home that we had built.
We didn't see customers there, although, on occasion they would come over, ha!
But I did all the office business there from payroll to ordering supplies to writing contracts, taxes, or making copies of any of the mentioned items, oh and I wrote a couple of radio commercials, as well as got us involved in what today would be considered Home Shows etc.
So by the time we were ready to sell to move to Florida we had become the second largest underground sprinkler company in Ocean County NJ!
We did ball fields for cities and retirement villages as well as single family homes!
We had to sell the business and the house in tandem, which was quite interesting back then, but somehow it all worked out!

Moving on...

I am learning daily that I have no regrets with so many things, being disabled and older now you sorta gotta take inventory, ya know?
I do believe I might have done things differently with handling some people, but right this moment I can think of three people that, make that four that the time was right to cut ties.
Only one I feel differently about and that was not my choice but theirs, and there is not too much I can do about that, but still I try.
All in all I have seen things and done things that many might have wanted to do too, and for all of that again I have been very lucky that I had those opportunities and so as the "right" thing is to say is that I am very grateful for all of those things.
I did accomplish nearly everything I tried, but without some failures how can any of us appreciate those successes, true?
More than enough successes.
So again no regrets.
No life is perfect, although most would love that to be the case.
But if you are religious think to be more spiritual and accept those imperfections in ones self, for do we not learn from our mistakes?
I did, do, keep learning daily.
I don't know... everything!
Daily I still learn new things and for that again I am grateful, GEEZ I am getting socially correct?
In fear of sounding too Pollyanna-ian, there are things I will not discuss here now that I am not at all GRATEFUL FOR!
Maybe at a later date or never.
Secrecy, what's that?
Not my way, as anyone who has read this blog knows.
My theory has been to open up with feeling that one might strike a cord of commonalty with whomever might read something they too can relate to, and if not this could be years and years of reading for my family and friends, so a win, win, not for me cause... I won't be around... let's face it none of us will be here forever, we all have expiration dates!
I like that non-religious TV commercial way of treating death, our expiration date, but in the commercial for joy hers has been extended to curing her thought to be fatal illness, oh hey can I hear a big yay!
But we all eventually die.
Leave something, anything, even like me this horrid drivel, hack type writing, self serving, opinionated crap, but just like me it is mine and I own it!
And share it nightly right here!
That way you are never ever really all alone; sharing that is.

Have a very happy good night ya all and share all those blessings and we will too!

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