DAYS REVISITED

" THIS IS MY NEW TOY SO LEAVE ME ALONE, I'M JUST SITTING ON EVERY ONES COATS THEY FORGOT TO HANG UP ". SADIE

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" DANNY, don't get up in a tree like your brother Ken,

NAH look at the Eagle in the tree up there" Dau #2

A day at the zoo. It's a wonderful little zoo in South Jersey. Free, you can give a donation if ya want, don't even pay for parking! Close to the very tip of NJ @ Cape May, NJ. Although a small zoo it has all the animals. It's over many acres of land and wonderful walk paths, under trees which show the fauna & flora of NJ. Very educational. And really not too big to get the children crying & exhausted. We went with my 4 grands & my brothers 3 grands. It was great, the youngest child was a year and oldest 10. The older kids actually were a real help with the little ones. There were 6 adults. We made a donation, of course, and we took a picnic. So the day cost us practically nothing. I love those types of trips! Didn't even have to get souvenirs!

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We go from summer to winter. Kenny grandson #1 made this @ school. I wanted to take it home with me but momma said NO! Pretty neat for a 10 yr old huh!

I have just come to a realization, I don't take nearly enough pics of Kenny. So when next up in MD, will have to do better. Can't totally blame granny though. He usually is on the computer or video games or outside tossing a football. AND I have to be the one he tosses it to.

no NO NO!

Yes a pretty sky in my neck of the woods

No, No thanks, I said no, what part of no don't you understand?CLICK

I have had two real annoying calls today! you know the type, the ones who don't take no for an answer. How do these folk do it? call people over and over and are told no, sometimes not even politely, but down right aggressively! Is the money that good or do they need that paycheck that badly!

I really try and be polite, but after several attempts at saying no I get aggravated! I don't usually berate, I simply hang up on them. At one time I would play with them for a bit to try and get them to thinking I might get their offer, but I have grown out of that.

Today I told em I wasn't feeling well and had a headache and had just taken medicine, and I would not be able to make any decisions today. He came back, I am not trying to make you make a decision, I am ONLY asking you send us $99 to upgrade your membership(which has relapsed by the way). O well, thanks but no thanks CLICK!

I have even gone as far as telling them I was dyslexic and they would have to explain everything to me backwards- did that dissuade this fellow! by no means- he started doing his spiel backwards!

Then I found out a friend was dyslexic and thought that mean.

I haven't had a house phone for awhile, and decided maybe I needed one since I have a handicapped daughter, but you wouldn't believe the calls I've received. I even got one the other day in which the entire one sided conversation was in Spanish- I decided that was def a wrong number!

I will continue to try and be polite, BUT it's a hard task sometimes!

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine

Where's my Valentine 2010?

Here he is Snickers! Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
YEP I FIND MYSELF HAVING TO EXERT MYSELF IN MOST THINGS THESE DAYS. BUT SOMETIMES WHERE DO YOU GET THE STAMINA JUST TO EXERT YOURSELF!?

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

YES AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THAT OTHER PERSON DIES AND YOU ARE LEFT HOLDING THE BAG? YOU PICK YOURSELF UP BY THE BOOTSTRAPS AND CONTINUE ON!

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
I IMAGINE I HAVE INTELLIGENCE DOES THAT COUNT?

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839

I AM SO GLAD I HAVE CHILDREN & GRANDCHILDREN!

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004

WHAT!!! I WANT TO BE INVOLVED WITH THE ONES I LOVE.

I know what a weird post, but that's about how I feel this Valentines day. Weird, lonely, depressed, however I know I am loved and I have love to give & share!

happening

I always love this moss and how it looks on the trees. Saw this one weekend while I was on a retreatThis little chapel was on the grounds of the retreat center. Lovely inside

Can ya see the beautiful rainbow? This was one of the most wonderful ones I have ever seen. You could see every hue! and at one point it was a double rainbow! I just wish I could have captured it better, but too many buildings were in the way.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)

Christmastime 2009

The cousins all together. They don't see each other often but when they do they are like brothers and sisters. One big happy family.

Keyanna, Kailey (grandnieces) & Danny- he is a ham!

Keyshaun (grandnephew) Keyanna, Danny & Alexzandria

#1 grandson Kenneth, during school play, his class did China. All the students in the grade school had different countries in which they learned how they celebrated Christmas and other interesting facts. Yep he is as tall as me now!

Alexzandria, grand niece

Alizabeth(grand niece) & Daniel they are 6 months apart in age she is older, we always take pics of them together to see who is bigger- I think he always will be, it's in his genes! His dad is 6'4" hers was about 5'7"

Michelle with Snickers & Elizabeth with Sadie, my girls! oops granddaughters

ups/downs

grandson Daniel when he HAD to have a Mohawk over the summer 2009

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds along rocks.
- Charlotte Bronte Quite a quote huh!

Today hasn't been one of the best for me. This morning when I got up the sugar was 89, good right! Well I ate breakfast of oatmeal & coffee. Around 11am it dropped I didn't even take it again, didn't need to, felt shaky & nervous but ate a sandwich and had some cheese. Then for about 3 hours I felt like crap! It's now approx 7pm and I'm finally feeling better. I have diabetes, and really try to keep it under control, it was just one of those days when it just kept dropping.

Some folk I know with diabetes have trouble keeping their sugar down- I'm just different, mine always goes down. It still makes ya feel awful, either way.

I am relating all this because It's just a health note from me, I never stopped nursing. Elevated sugars for a prolonged time can cause all kinds of problems, without ya even knowing it! That's why it's called the Silent Killer. Yes, Heart, Eyes, GI & Extremities. Warning signs of Diabetes:tiredness, unquenchable thirst, urinary frequency, sores that won't heal, frequent infections, weight loss, blurred vision, red swollen & sore gums, tingling of hands & feet.

So if ya have any of these get out to a Doctor or Nurse Practitioner!

February

Sorry he has such green eyes here, but he is truly a love! Man was my hair short, didn't realise it at the time.



It's February! What types of things do you think of when you hear February!?
A short month, a nondescript month. Snow or the beginning of snow.
Days are short and so is the month.OMG a month has already passed in 2010.
Thinking of vacations.Have you given up on New Years' Resolutions yet!
The groundhog-will he see the shadow or not-who ever thought of this silly day? someone sitting around wishing winter had passed already!?



I have a paradigm shift- I really don't know what to expect in February in Florida.
The rains are coming and so are the hurricanes. The days are warm, but the nights are a bit cool. Plants are looking a little sad, but will soon be colorful again. Should I plant tomatoes?Spring training is just around the corner. When will the snow birds return to their places of origin? Guess the Canadians will be going soon.

O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
William Cowper (1731 - 1800), Task (bk. IV, l. 120)