Wonder Whip

Thanks for taking me there babe! It was the perfect first date!

Judith

My neighbor Judith; I met her when I moved in, but I haven't seen her in a few weeks. I ask another neighbor if he had seen her. He told me that she isn't doing well, and that her siblings come to check on her. I left a note on her door yesterday morning. And this evening she came to visit. She is probably my mothers age, and in poor health. We chatted for a bit, she told me about her daughter, and shared a good use for apple cider vinager. She told me she has been interested in astrology all her life. She said she doesn't have many friends. I walked her back to her home when I could tell she was getting too tired. I thanked her for visiting with me.

I had had an emotional day today. Maybe this was God reminding me of how amazing my life is and how blessed I am. I am grateful for the reminder and for my neighbor!

Tonight's Full Moon

Thanks S.J.

200k

The other day I hit 200k! 

An Evening at The River Park

HaPPy HaLF BiRTHDay MiSS ELLA!

Grammy Loves You!

Happy Friday

I met a young man on my way to work. His name was

J. Chambers. He is a sheriff’s deputy.

He pulled me over, and I was stumped as to why. He said my temporary plates were expired. He took 12 minutes to look up my information and write me a warning. Then he instructed me on calling the dmv to get that sorted out. I put my registration and license away, buckled up and once again J. Chambers was tapping on my window. I opened the door, and he informed me that he was mistaken, he had read the date on my temp plate wrong, and I am still good for another month. He asked for the warning paper back and said nothing will go on my record. I was 10 minutes late for work. The date is printed clearly on the temporary plate. Perhaps a bit more training is needed. Happy Friday!

*Irony: When I got home Friday evening...my new plates where in the mailbox! There you go J. Chambers!!

1949

As I left the office tonight, chatting with a couple of my coworkers, I happened to look at the parking lot of the nearby hotel. My heart skipped a beat and I got all excited. The girls I was with didn't quite get my enthusiasm. But I was smitten! The parking lot was full of old trucks and hot rods!
This weekend, here in my little bit of Mayberry, they are having the Frog Follies. I don't know what the name of the event has to do with it, because to the best of my research, and I have done my homework on the matter, and asked quite a few people as well, it has nothing to do with frogs. But its all about classic vehicles. I can tell you, this girl is stoked! I took a drive around the lot and lusted from a distance. There will be a race this weekend, and nothing newer that 1949 can register. 
I told my daughter about my weekend plans, she said "Old trucks and old men"! She knows what I like! It's going to be a great weekend! YUM!

Add it to the List!

Wonderful Men

Mr. Green-Jeans and Captan Kangaroo! I love them!

Sing...Sing a Song

Thought of The Day

If you see an opportunity, pounce on it. Think it through, but don’t over-analyze. After weighing the risk against the reward, you’ll find that most often it’s best to try an idea and see what happens.

If it fails, learn the lessons and move on.

Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz

CHARLIE DANIELS

An Open Letter to Congress

Aug 24 | Posted by: Charlie | Tags: Congress

 I am a proud American who believes that America has held - and still holds - a very sensitive and special place in the affairs of mankind on Planet Earth. I believe that America has been divinely blessed and protected in our two centuries plus of existence.

I believe that America has been a counter balance that has cancelled out a lot of tyranny, evil and conquest and, admittedly, we have made a lot of mistakes, but on balance we have exerted a certain Pax Americana in the international affairs of mankind.

It took a lot of old fashioned guts for the Continental Congress to stand up to the world's mightiest military and tell them that we demanded our independence, even at the peril of going up against a far superior force on land and sea with a ragtag army of untrained citizens, many who had to supply their own firearms.

It took courage above and beyond for Abraham Lincoln to push the country into a Civil War that he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt would divide this nation for decades.

It took guts to give the order for American troops to storm the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, straight into the face of artillery and machine gunfire, wave after wave being cut to ribbons by German shore emplacements.

The history of this nation is written in the blood and courage of men who stood in the face of overwhelming odds, politicians, soldiers, statesmen and ordinary citizens who sought to do the right thing regardless of the cost or the consequences.

Well, ladies and gentlemen of the United States Congress, it seems that that particular pen has run out of ink. The courageous politicians that once championed this nation have been replaced, for the most part, by a breed of milksop, politically correct, scared of their own shadow, pushover, pathetic excuses for public servants who are supposed to be representing a constituency of citizens who have to live with the circumstances of their timid folly.

You don't even have the courage to face down an out of control president, even when he makes a deal with the devil. Don't you bunch of timid capons even care what kind of world you're leaving to your children and grandchildren, not to even mention the rest of us? Are you really party partisans before you're parents and grandparents or even human beings?

Be honest with yourselves a minute, go into the bathroom and look in the mirror and ask the person you see this question.

"Do I really believe that Iran will not use the money we're releasing to them to finance terrorists to kill Americans, and, when, not if, but when, the Iranians develop their nuclear device, will they really use it against America and Israel?"

You can’t hide from the truthful answer to that question forever, an answer will be required of you one day.

You have allowed Obama to tilt the Supreme Court so far to the left that they're little more than a shameful extension of the Executive Branch.

You have talked for decades about the porous southern border but have done absolutely nothing about it.

You have allowed cities in this nation to declare themselves sanctuary cities where they protect the worst of the worst criminal aliens, American citizens paying an awful price for your silence.

You watch an impossible National Debt balloon completely out of control knowing full well that a day of reckoning is coming that will seriously curtail the quality of life for coming generations.

You allow corrupt government agencies like the IRS to run over the very people you are sworn to protect and allow the entitlement society to expand exponentially while you actually entertain the idea of raising taxes on those who still work and shoulder the burden.

You compose a third of the constitutionally mandated ruling system and you shirk your duty 
and allow this nation to move a little closer to the edge every day.

I wish you bunch of sold-out, jaded, burned-out hacks would just go home and let some people who still have some vision and whose consciences haven't been seared past the point of reminding them when they're wrong take over and start to claw this nation back on to the path of sanity,

Your ratings are in the single digits, your morals are in the gutter, your minds are on self-preservation and somewhere along the way you traded your honor for political expediency.

You've violated your oaths, you've betrayed your country you've feathered your nests and you've sat on your hands while an imperial president has rubbed your noses in the dirt time after time.

You're no longer men, you're puppets, you're caricatures, jokes, a gaggle of fading prostitutes for sale to anybody who can do you a political favor.

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

Read more of Charlie's soapboxes here: Soapbox Archives

http://www.charliedaniels.com/posts/08-24-15/open-letter-congress

Word...By Any Other Name...Who Knew!!

I have had a lot of issues with my Word program over the last few months. I will be the first to admit that I am probably the main problem with it. My darling daughter has been trying to get me to upgrade to something that is newer and better for some time. However, I am not real hip on big changes to my tech. I know just enough to get by, and even then I screw it all up. So when I truly needed an intervention today, I knew who to call. Not only did my 'brains and beauty' daughter help me, but she and Cole got me all lined up, showed me all the little perks and taught me the fun stuff too. They are mind boggling amazing. I am glad they are so smart, and so willing to keep me up to date on all the new stuff. I love these kids so much. And when I feel stupid about all the new technology that she is so great at, I just need to remember that I taught her how to use a spoon! All is good!

Maroon 5 - Sugar

"Sugar"

I'm hurting, baby, I'm broken down
I need your loving, loving
I need it now
When I'm without you
I'm something weak
You got me begging, begging
I'm on my knees

[Pre-Chorus:]
I don't wanna be needing your love
I just wanna be deep in your love
And it's killing me when you're away, ooh, baby,
'Cause I really don't care where you are
I just wanna be there where you are
And I gotta get one little taste

[Chorus:]
Your sugar
Yes, please
Won't you come and put it down on me?
I'm right here, 'cause I need
Little love, a little sympathy
Yeah, you show me good loving
Make it alright
Need a little sweetness in my life
Your sugar
Yes, please
Won't you come and put it down on me?

My broken pieces
You pick them up
Don't leave me hanging, hanging
Come give me some
When I'm without ya
I'm so insecure
You are the one thing, one thing
I'm living for

[Pre-Chorus:]
I don't wanna be needing your love
I just wanna be deep in your love
And it's killing me when you're away, ooh, baby,
'Cause I really don't care where you are
I just wanna be there where you are
And I gotta get one little taste

[Chorus:]
Your sugar
Yes, please
Won't you come and put it down on me?
I'm right here,
'Cause I need
Little love, a little sympathy
Yeah, you show me good loving
Make it alright
Need a little sweetness in my life
Your sugar! (sugar!)
Yes, please (yes, please)
Won't you come and put it down on me?

Yeah
I want that red velvet
I want that sugar sweet
Don't let nobody touch it
Unless that somebody's me
I gotta be your man
There ain't no other way
'Cause girl you're hotter than a southern California day

I don't wanna play no games
You don't gotta be afraid
Don't give me all that shy shit
No make-up on
That's my

[Chorus:]
Sugar
Yes, please (please)
Won't you come and put it down on me (down on me)?
I'm right here (right here), 'cause I need ('cause I need)
Little love, a little sympathy
So, baby, (yeah) you show me good loving
Make it alright
Need a little sweetness in my life
Your sugar! (sugar!)
Yes, please (yes, please)
Won't you come and put it down on me?

[Chorus:]
Sugar
Yes, please
Won't you come and put it down on me?
I'm right here, 'cause I need
Little love, a little sympathy
Yeah, you show me good loving
Make it alright
Need a little sweetness in my life

Your sugar! (sugar!)
Yes, please (yes, please)
Won't you come and put it down on me? (down on me, down on me)

CHiCKeNS

Yes....I do know what these are!

Yikes

Obama's Plan 

To Seize Control 

Of Our Economy 

And Our Lives

So Darling!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=961940740552470&id=100002096583108

Tragedy at Sea

My friend Karin got back from her two week excursion. She and her man went to England. They flew first class, (I love the new sleeper seats in first class) They toured London, then took a rail tour of part of England. They took a Cunard transcontinental cruise home. 

On the way home a crew members was lost at sea. The ship turned around as soon as they found out he was missing, The entire crew and every passenger scoured the water ways from deck and balcony, at a very slow speed, in search of the missing man. The coast guard also searched. The search was called off after a full day of searching and bad weather. What a tragedy. 

My heart goes out to all that knew and loved him.  

Fall

Quality Time

Spent some quality time with my man!

Checking things off our to do list. 

I love our list! I love my man!

21st

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY

to 

The Best Son 

EVER!!!!

Reminders......

How could I forget?!!!

Wrinkles....

Age may wrinkle the face, 

but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

 ~Danish Proverb

Quote of The Day

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. 
It is the idea of something around the corner.
G.K. Chesterton

Second Grade and A Plan

My friend Tim came into my office yesterday. After talking shop, I asked him how his kids were doing now that they were back to school. He said they were doing just fine. His daughter is a friend magnet, so easy to get right back into the swing of things. His boy just started 1st grade. When Tim asked his son how he liked first grade, his son replied "Dad, I'm not going to second grade next year." Surprised, since this was the first day of 1st grade, Tim asked "Why not?" His son answered "Because I am going to go to prison and talk to the people there, about God." Tim, being a very dry fellow, quickly responded "Second grade is too young, it's not legal." To which his son said "Well that's my plan dad."

And that was that! Onto the second day of first grade!!!

CRaFTMaNSHiP

St. Louis

M.E. Wants

This is so on my bucket list!!!

M.E. knows me so well! 

             

Commercialization

Saturday, just after noon:
There is a knock at my door. I don't have a lot of guests, so I turn the tv off and answer the door.
There was a nice looking man in a red shirt. He handed me a tiny little pamphlet and said he was here to invite me to church. He asked if I had one already. I said I may have. He repeated the name of his church and said the pamphlet would tell me how to get to heaven. He asked if I was looking to go to heaven. I said "I have religion, I'm not looking for a church". I nicely tried to give him his pamphlet back, but he wouldn't take it and he walked away.
I put the pamphlet in the trash.

This interaction made me think about the feelings I have for religion.

I am closer now, then ever before with my Father in heaven. We talk all the time. I think that bond, that connection is vital in knowing who I am, being happy with myself and my life.
I feel that organized religion distorts the presence of God in ones life. It's just like Santa Clause representing Christmas. A church is just the commercialization of religion.

I agree with Abraham Lincoln, who said...
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That is my religion."

I have a close relationship with God, but I don't buy into the commercialization that is religion.

I am grateful for the man in the red shirt. He made me think, and helped me reconfirm my beliefs.
I don't need a pamphlet, I'm taking my trash out now.


***Case in point:
 http://www.14news.com/story/29762845/92-year-old-woman-kicked-out-of-church-for-not-tithing

Cactus Bloom

It lasts just one day, it will be gone by tonight. But it's so beautiful and smells so lovely!

Summer Squash

101st Anniversary of The First Traffic Light

FASCINATING

http://www.citymuseum.org/
I have to say, this was one of the strangest, most interesting places
I have been. It is geared toward children; however I think the next time I go, I will go in the evening, maybe there will be less little people. As an architectural/texture element junky, I loved this place!!!!

My Evening With Steven Tyler