Sunday, January 31, 2010

snow still




OMG, in the news

The french President,Jacques Chirac In early 2003 told in his new book that President George Bush said he had to invade Iraq to thwart Gog and Magog in Bible prophecy and while attending a 2003 summit in Egypt Bush told the foreign minster he was " on a mission from God to defeat Iraq".

The actor Rip Torn 78 years old , drunk, ugly as hell and holding a gun broke into a bank in Swalibury Conn. It is bad to get old and go crazy also but it is worse to be sick like Elizabeth Edwards with a cheating no good husband calling the police and accusing Edwards of stealing her purse, which he probably did by the way! according to a police report filed in late 2008 Elizabeth called the cops and accused Edwards of that very thing, when ask why the report was not made public the law said Elizabeth had ask that it not be reported. Oh, how wonderful is life until it bites you in the ass.

That is about all the news I can stand today.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Everbody crazy around here.


My stupid kids went to town or at least they started. My neighbor has started to town also. Everyone will be down at the foot of the hill after while.except me.

Stink



I have lived long enough I don't care if I am sexual attractive to someone and I found the following artificial extreme funny.This was written by a man of course.
By Andy Wright

. Problem: Your Vagina Smells Bad Solution: Vaginal Deodorant
In the seventies, Massengill tried to marry feminism and its vaginal deodorant spray ("With Hexachlorophene") in an ad that declared the product to be "The Freedom Spray." It was "...the better way to be free to enjoy being a woman. Free from worry about external vaginal odor." Because you're going to need that time you used to spend worrying about your vaginal odor to flirt your way through the glass ceiling. Oh, and Hexachlorophene? It's a disinfectant that can be lethal when absorbed through the skin. In 1972, it was added to baby powder in France due to a manufacturing error and killed thirty-six children.

In case you think vaginal deodorant is a relic of the past, just take a trip to the drug store. (I did, and I took notes. The staff of my local Walgreens is convinced that I'm both very thorough and that my vagina smells really bad.) There are several kinds of vaginal deodorants still for sale (Walgreens even manufactures a generic version). You can buy scented vaginal suppositories called Norforms in Island Escape and Summer's Eve Deodorant Spray in Island Splash. (Norforms contain something called Benzethonium chloride, which is also used as a hard surface disinfectant for fruit and classified as a poison in Switzerland. Exotic!) And you can buy FDS (Feminine, Discreet, Sensual) Spray ("For the woman who cares.") in a myriad of scents including Sheer Tropics and Fresh Island Breeze. Because if you really cared, you'd make your vagina smell like a poisonous island.
2. Problem: Your Vagina is Dirty Solution: Douching Douching, the act of forcing a mixture of fluids up into the vagina with a tube and pump, was first promoted as a form of birth control (it doesn't work) and has continued to be used for vaguely medical reasons: to prevent STIs (sexually transmitted infections), to clean the vagina after menstruation and, of course, to rid it of that disgusting vagina smell. Douching has been repeatedly discouraged by the medical community, which not only doesn't attribute any health benefits to the act, but believes that it can actually harm women. A government Web site run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services discourages douching by answering a series of hypothetical questions, one of which is: "My vagina has a terrible odor, can douching help?" The answer: No. Get thee to a doctor. Despite health concerns, manufacturers still churn out vaginal douches. Pick up a box of Summer's Eve Douche, and you'll find warnings that douching has been associated with PID (Pelvic Inflamatory Disease), ectopic pregnancy and infertility. Right next to the suggestion that women douche after their menstrual period, after using contraceptive jellies and creams and to "clear out any vaginal secretions." So basically, any time your vagina isn't as dry as a British sitcom.

3. Problem: Your Vagina is Too Loose Solution: Vaginal Rejuvenation Let's face it. Nature really screwed up when it made the vagina. Never mind that that it accommodates the birth of a child or that it's fundamentally better designed than male genitalia. (Who wants to carry their most sensitive reproductive organs on the outside?) While nature was busy dishing out things like multiple orgasms, it forgot to make vaginas vice-tight. Luckily, plastic surgeons have stepped in to put an end to womankind's collective suffering. Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation is a trademarked phrase that refers to a practice developed and popularized by Dr. David Matlock, who's made several appearances on the E! channel's plastic surgery reality show, Dr.90210. Matlock and other doctors who carry out LVR claim that the $4,000 to $20,000 procedure makes women's vaginas tighter, thus increasing sexual pleasure. But many doctors disagree. The American Urogynocology Society won't endorse it. And the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists cautioned in a 2007 statement that women seeking "designer vaginas" should be "informed about the lack of data supporting the efficacy of these procedures and their potential complications, including infection, altered sensation, dyspareunia, adhesions, and scarring." Sexy!

4. Problem: Your Vagina is Ugly Solution: Labiaplasty If your vagina is tight enough (and let's face it, it's probably not) you've still got to deal with the labia. And by "deal with," I mean remove. Labiaplasty drastically reduces the labia, the protruding lips that surround the opening of the vagina. Why would you want to do this? Because your labia are "unequal," "elongated," "large," "irregular," "floppy," and "unfeminine." These are just some of the unflattering adjectives bandied about on the Web sites of surgeons who offer this procedure. Luckily, with the use of lasers and scalpels, your vagina can be made "prettier," "better proportioned," "youthful," and achieve "the true Playboy aesthetic look." How much will it cost you to make your labia proportional and feminine? About $5,000 or more.

Friday, January 29, 2010

snow


6 inches of snow at 4 PM and still falling. 27 eggs today.

Fleta said





It ain't bad, well I can tell you it ain't good if you have to get out in it I went to feed and a few chickens came out to meet me and then said are you crazy? we are going back inside the hen house now the wild birds are eating and enjoying my work!

sleet and snow


We will soon see the last of January and I am glad. We have sleet on the ground and it is snowing now. I am glad for the snow I have to go feed and it would be a slippery trip on the sleet.
Winnie is right about Paulina's daughter being named Marlane, check Fleta's post, Helen.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Moore's


I was delighted to see aunt Omie's family photo. somewhere there is a picture of pauline's daughter and the Blondie Etta lee's daughter in grandpa Powell's front yard. date about '43 in fact uncle Harold took the photo and I bet Winnie Joe has the photo somewhere.
poss is pauline's husband and pauline was in a nursing home when poss came to visit aunt Thelma back in the 80's.
John Moore visited with daddy in the 50's. I remember he fished in our pond.
Guy Moore was a drunk and disappeared into skid row for several years when he was old he contacted Oma and she let him return to the home. in fact probably about the time this photo was made. The last time we saw Guy was in the 50's after grandpa died in 1954. He was at our house and he told daddy he drank some every day and was able to control his dranking that way. Aunt Omie was a bigger woman than grandma, not fat just larger frame.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Adam is dead

Parnell Roberts has died of pancreatic cancer he was 81. I have always thought of him as Adam the role he played on Bonanza which he dislike. A few days ago I heard his voice on the TV advertising something or another. he had this wonderful voice that he has used in the industry for a job when he had grown to old for the audience to view he still was able to do voice overs.
I remember when he refused to renew his contract with Bonanza and we discovered he was bald and it was a shock to say the least.

Monday, January 25, 2010

The cousins


It was only day before yesterday that Richard and me ran and played with these 3 pictured here. I was thinking last night as I lay in the bed unable to sleep about gone by days and the happening of our youth.
The little fellow setting in between his brothers was named Donnie . Donnie was full of life and prone to get into trouble often dragging the rest of his cousins present along with him. Uncle Truman had a razor strap which was often in use on Donnie's behind.
One spring day Uncle and Aunt came to shop at Denver in Uncle's green truck. When They started home they invited Mama , Richard and me to go spend the night. with them.
We were excited enjoying the prospects of a day at play with our cousins. Uncle Truman drove a green ford truck with a rack and we loaded up in the back with the cousins for a exciting trip down the dirt road.
The Powell cousins had been some where to see a move staring Gene Audry and Donnie was telling us the movie plot and about riding champ the famous Audry horse as usual Donnie was excited and tell big stories about he would jump on his horse and gallop down the road out running Uncle Truman's truck.
We rounded the bend in the road and the home place was in sight, We turned and was looking over the cab of the truck towards the house loosing interest in Donnie's tall tales. Truman brought the truck to a halt beside the old walnut tree and we baled out ready to start our day of play when we noticed Donnie was not with us.
Uncle ask us when we last saw him in the truck and we said just past the bend in the road. Aunt Francis was screaming and Uncle Truman was running down the road and for once we children were silent awaiting news from the horse back rider of the purple sage.
Then we saw Uncle returning with a freckle face unconscious Donnie in his arms. They took Donnie to Green Forest to Doctor McCury and he sent the frighten parents to Grandpa Powell's home to awaited the out come of Donnie's troubles.
In that day the closest hospital was at Little Rock Arkansas and that was why the unconscious child was put to bed at Grandpa's home.
grandma told me later, because we children had been left at home with mama , that she was setting in a chair by her bed where Donnie lay dead to the world and when he came to he looked at grandma and said "Ma". Grandma said it was the sweetest word she had ever heard.
Donnie recovered without any side effects that we could see, He still was loud and always getting into trouble dragging us along with him.
I look back on that day of the worst trouble we could possible imagine and consider all the things that have descended on us in our old age and think if we had only known the trouble we would see we might not have been able to go forth from that day. The Bible says the evil is sufferance unto the day meaning we know not the trouble we will see and it is good that we don't know of it.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

JAMES CARVILLE speaks

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5d87e54e-0925-11df-ba88-00144feabdc0.html
James Carville speaks out about the election for senator in Mass. and as usual he says a mouthful, you might want to read what he has to say. THE BLAME GAME.

church key



My family was not a beer drinking family so I was 40 years old before I learned a beer opener was called a church key and today I got to wondering why It was so named. so I looked it up.

There is sparse, and often contradictory, documentation as to the origin of the term "church key", though most agree the phrase is a sarcastic euphemism, as the opener was obviously designed to access beer, and not churches.

One explanation for the term "church key" lends its origin an almost mythic significance; in Medieval Europe, monks and nobility were the only brewers. Lagering cellars in the monasteries were locked, as the monks guarded the secrets to their craft. The monks carried keys to these lagering cellars on their cinch, or belt. It may have been this key from which the "Church Key" opener got its name.

Another motive for assigning the device such an ironic name could have been the fact that beer was first canned (for test marketing) in 1933[8] — the same year Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Bill.[9] This act, which predated Repeal of Prohibition, amended the Volstead Act, making 3.2 beer legal. Some experts have posited the term "church key" was a way to "stick it to" the religious organizations who had effected Prohibition in the first place.[10]

Another possible reason for calling the device a "church key" is that in some rural areas, churches were not locked, so no key was needed. Because the can opener is designed so anyone one could use it, the ubiquity of access was compared to the ability to get into a church at any time.

I remember mama

mama's birthday, January 24,1921..she worked all her life to make our daddy and us comfortable.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

the head lines in the news








The weather is damp but not cold. There is a town 100 miles from sister in Arizona that has floods that is a paradox, a desert town that is flooded.






I read in the head lines that Paul Harvey the voice of the rest of the story was in cahoots with J. Edgar Hoover back in the day when Hoover had the respect of the man on the street.




Somebody in Georgia wants to start a basketball league for whites only. Isn't that still against the law?




A fellow operated on his dog and gave it to much chloroform and it died now they want to send him to prison for 20 years.




Wouldn't you know that they kicked off the census count in Palin's state, sound like a Republicans dirty trick to me, why not Hawaii?


Drudge report has the head line "white house nightmare persists" course the nightmare for many is the fact the head nigger is still in office! They can refuse to do what he wants done but they are still stuck with him 3 more years! yea!






Friday, January 22, 2010

maram chickens





if I order chicks this year I am going to order cuckoo marans. they lay such dark brown eggs they look like fudge.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Who's your daddy?


The sun has risen on a new day and John Edwards has confessed.
“I am the daddy. I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves. I have been able to spend time with her during the past year when not hiding the the men's room and trust that future efforts to show her the love and affection she deserves can be done privately and in peace. How much peace he will get remains to be seen with Elizabeth still breathing.
Sarah Palin is going to campaign with John McCain in Arizona for his run for the senate I read this yesterday and was puzzled as to why he would want the help but today I see his wife is working for Prop 8 in Californian , the gay rights amendment for same sex marriage that was opposed so heartily last year by the Mormon church. A large voting block in Arizona is the Mormon vote and Cindy should do as the song says.." Get along home, home Cindy, get along home John needs you now.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

boondoggle


This is a photo of the mourners in Ma. for Eward Kennedy a few short months pass and how the Democrat party made such a boondoggle mess in trying to elect his replacement is beyond my understanding.
As I see it all Martha Coakley had to do was pick up Eward Kennedy's mantel wrap her self in it and go to the US senate instead the powers that be sat around and got beat by a little known Republican.
I remember when Johnson ran for president after JFK died every other word out of his mouth was JFK and no one could touch him in his race to the white house.
How could the Democrat party in Ma. be so inapt as to lose the seat to a republican?

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

war and greens


I feed some greens this morning and the chickens went crazy. my itching is improved, I have to go back to the doctor tomorrow.
I saw on msnbc news that the supplier of the guns used in Iraq has inscribed bible codes on the guns that the government has been buying for war. All major wars have had religion as part of the cause and this war is no different. Religious fanatics have promoted war as an excuse for obtaining their rule over other peoples and this war is the same.

Monday, January 18, 2010

birthdays and death days


I think this is grandma Powell's birthday, I am never sure of any thing anymore. When I was a the doctors they ask me when my husband died and I couldn't remember. I told them the year 2000 . I knew that was wrong but I couldn't remember the year. I remembered mama died the same year but I was in the dark as to the year. When I was on my way home I remembered, it was 1992! regardless I know this is Martin Luther Kings birthday.
I am sell eggs faster than the hens can lay them so I suppose I am selling cheap. Janet has sold 2 dozen for today and Sammy has sold 5 dozen as soon as the hens can lay them. The chickens are laying 18 eggs most days and some days 20 eggs.
I am going to send 18 hens to the sale as soon as I can get them ready. I think I will send them the first of February. I just have to many for the space I have for them.
My itch is some what better but still have itching on my arms and back.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Itch


Sister said she liked to know what I am doing, well I have had a rash for 2 weeks and it is driving me crazy. it started on my feet and went to my legs. I think it is about finished on my legs but now my arms and back are broke out. . The stuff I take for the itching makes me about half asleep so I can't read or do much of any thing.
I have had this problem before but this is the worse I have had.
I did go to a doctor the other day and he told me he thought it was the soap I was using, well I didn't argue with him but I know it isn't the soap. He was full of suggestions about what I should do, like finding a place to walk and walking every day. forget that. I walk to the chicken pen 3 times a day and I walk to the toilet, kitchen and the bedroom and I clean the floors, scrub the cook stove, clean the refrigerator and that is all I am going to do except walk around our libarary and the grocery store. I will not walk just to walk I have to have a purpose to do what I do.
The main reason I went to this doctor is every time I get sick and go to the hospital the people there get real nasty because I don't have a primer physician, so now I will.
So that is what I have been doing but I would rather talk about something else. scratch, itch, scratch, itch!

Phoenix


Sister's sheriff is on the front page again. I don't suppose sister was near the demonstrators. We like to mouth off from the comfort of our living room.
PHOENIX - Ten thousand immigrant rights advocates marched in front of a county jail in Phoenix Saturday in a protest that was aimed at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration efforts.
Sheriff Joe as he is known receives much criticism about his handling of illegal aliens in his city but it should be noted since the Bush crowd built the border fence along the border in Californian , Arizona has become the Mecca for illegal aliens entering this country. The truth be told Arizona is overrun with illegal aliens.
There are certain places in Phoenix that the illegals gather and people drive by and hire these day laborers for cheap wages . I believe if someone wants to do justice they should arrest the employers hiring these illegals as well as the illegal aliens.
The illegal alien comes seeking jobs and a better life for their families if the employer wasn't willing to hire these people at a low wage breaking the laws of the land the illegals would not be here.

Friday, January 15, 2010

a chicken lover


I found someone else who is chicken crazy, click on the title to visit her blog. her chicken story is posted in full below!

So last Thursday evening, I went into the chicken coop around dusk to collect eggs and shut them in for the night and Claire was still on the nest. Not normal for a chicken to still be on the nest in the evening. I made a mental note to check her out the next morning, already becoming paranoid as to what this might mean. The next morning she was on the nest as well. She looked uncomfortable and seemed to be flexing her nether regions....y'know, where the eggs come out. Oh God. She is egg bound. Freak out a little bit. I felt her abdomen and it sort of felt like an egg was hanging out there but I couldn't tell and that doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong. I will check on her when I get home from work and take action then. Hopefully she won't die by then as a result of my neglectful chicken husbanding ways.
I got home in the mid-afternoon (Good Friday and all) and found her still on the nest. Still felt like an egg in there. Time to take action. I consulted my trusty Storey's Guide to Chickens to see what I had to do to fix an egg-bound chicken. It involved a latex glove and ummm....personal lubricant. Which I did not have. But okay, CVS is only a short drive. I'll just go get some and come back and save Claire's life.
So I go to CVS to buy the personal lubricant, for the chicken, and I wasn't sure where to find it, since I've never bought that particular product (not that there is anything wrong with that particular product, I just haven't had the need for it. Okay, TMI.). Anyway. So I find the aisle in the store where it is stocked and wow. I was not aware that there were so many choices of personal lubricant available. I figured K-Y, Astroglide, and maybe some generics. I was stunned. There are tons and tons of these products! Scented, spray-on, warming, flavored, different colors. When did this happen? I stood there looking at the the five shelves of personal lubrication that stood before me.
And I must have looked bewildered. Because a CVS employee, a man, came over to ask me if I needed help. In my head I was telling myself "Just say no, just say no, he'll go away, just tell him no". But I didn't do that. I said that I was looking for a personal lubricant that was plain, that didn't have any fragrance or smell or warming stuff, just a plain simple one. And he asked if there was an allergy issue or something.
And I said...... "No, its for a chicken".
I know. The words started slowing down before they were even out of my mouth because only then did I realize how ridiculous the words were and how they most likely would totally be taken wrong and would suggest something unspeakable.
And that is exactly what happened.
The CVS employee looked at me with such disgust and horror. And I had to explain about the egg-bound thing and how it really wasn't what he thought. And he still was unnerved and shoved a box containing a CVS brand plain lubricant at me and mumbled "this should work". And I paid and left.
Long story short, after the donning of the glove, the applying of the shame inducing product, and a suprising compliant chicken....she was not egg-bound. She was broody. And she came bounding out this morning all fresh and happy, not sitting on her nest. And I have learned valuable lessons about when to keep your mouth shut. :
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Sarah being Sarah


In what can only be labeled as a stunning yet entirely predictable turn of events, former Vice Presidential candidate and "chief common sense haver" Sarah Palin has stepped down from her new role as Fox News contributor - only minutes after inking the deal.Not wanting to be labeled as a quitter, Palin was adamant that this was because she was duped by the "elitist liberal Ivy-league educated freedom haters" who didn't tell her that there wouldn't be phonetics on her teleprompter and that she was "being lured into doing fascist work behind a desk that freedom-loving Americans can understand why she wouldn't want to do".
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thawing


23 degrees here and we are suppose to get into the 50's today. Maybe the ice in the chicken pen will thaw.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

good morning


I went to feed and one of my black hens escaped the pen. I thought she would never go back through the gate.The weather is some what better, the low was 24 degrees.

Monday, January 11, 2010

34 degrees


Today is my son's birthday, He is 50 years old unbelievable!
We are haveing a heat wave, 34 degrees at 8 O'clock. I thought some of the chickens many containers of ice would be thawed and I would get out of carrying water, not true I had to come back and get a bucket of hot water to pour on the ice.
I hope this is the last of the zero weather for the year.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

the happy chicken



We are going to have a heat wave today the temperature is suppose to climb to 32 degrees. We have been in the deep freeze for a week.
Fleta had to come up and get me on line with the new computer and I gave her some of my eggs. Kelly took a dozen and Sammy took two flats to Tony so I only have 1 and 1/2 dozen this morning. The hens have slacked off some while it is so cold.
I have the itches. I break out in a rash and it just about drives me crazy.
My new computer is doing fine. When mine crashed I decided I would just let it go and forget computers but my children, Kelly and Tony and their wives bought me a new Hp computer. I ware a computer out in about 3 years, maybe this one will last until I go into the great beyond.

Saturday, January 09, 2010

cold chicken

The cold weather has made chicken keeping a job but the chicken growers have a much harder job than I have.
The brutal cold that hit northwest Arkansas this week has made things for poultry growers, already a beleaguered group, even tougher. Profits made slim by rising fuel costs and dropping chicken prices will be sliced even thinner.The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture has reported some growers have gone 48 hours without sleep in an effort to monitor and regulate conditions in their chicken houses .

Cheryl Ann has been busy trying to clean her houses and prepare for babies chicks. I hope the temperature climbs before they bring her chicks.

I have brought every thing I can find in the chick pen to give my chicks water, I fill the containers and the next morning they are full of ice and I have to find new container for water. I soon will have more ice tubs than I have chickens.

After tomorrow it is suppose to warm up to 40 degrees, we may have to turn on the air conditions it will be so warm.
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Friday, January 08, 2010

catching up with the news




I am glad to get back on the web for the news else how would I have know that John McCain was such a great fellow and was going to save us from President Obama!


"He's lived through a battle or two, vanquished many a foe,'' a narrator says of the retired Navy pilot and admiral's son who spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. "But perhaps no battle in our lifetime is more vital than the one John McCain fights now... a battle to save America, save our jobs...




"John McCain leads the charge to slash government spending, bloated bureaucracies and ridiculously unaffordable ideas like government run health care . never mind he ran and was defeated by Obama!


With out the net I would never have known what James Carville said about air port scanners.....He said they could measure his penis any time.

I read that the GOP was taunting the Democrats about unemployment being high and saying where are the JOBS? So what is new? The GOP doesn't mind people being homeless and hungry as long as they can crow about the failure of President Obama and the Democrat party to provide Jobs. I am so glad to get to read the news and not have to listen to the TV.



I am back


I had a major melt down on my computer. Kelly has delivered this new machine this day and I am back on the net. This is a HP machine and I have to get some stuff down loaded like Picasa for my photos.
We have just about froze to death the last few days since I was on the net. I couldn't check the weather, I couldn't check for the temperature, no computer. Son said I could check the thermometer but I didn't have one so I had to turn on the TV. what a pain.
sister had to come up and get me on the Internet and she had a hard time trying to find out how to disconnect. I said don't worry I will just stay on line all the time. no one calls but bill collectors any way.
I will read up on the news. I have had to listen to the talking heads on TV for my news. They never fail to make me mad! I was listening to Kieth Olberman on MSNBC last night, he is suppose to be pro Democrat but he called President Obama Mr. Obama 3 times in a news story and then refereed to George Bush as President Bush, I wanted to call him up and chew on him.
I really think that the news media is bias against President Obama because he is black or 1/2 black.Any way I don't have to listen to them tonight!

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

weather


The high for Friday is suppose to be 10 degrees with a low of -4. I am ready to go to some tropical Island and stay.
Tyson may shut down Thursday because they have to have the natural gas to send north to our cousins. I know they have shut down before in extreme cold because of gas shortages.
I have said I have more chickens than I need and might sell some of them but if this cold last I may loose some in death.
stay warm!

Monday, January 04, 2010

cold advise


It's late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.Since he was a chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like.Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood to be prepared.But, being a practical leader, after several days, he got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is the coming winter going to be cold?""It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the meteorologist at the Weather Service responded.So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared.A week later, he called the National Weather Service again. "Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?" "Yes," the man at National Weather Service again replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter."The chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.Two weeks later, the chief called the National Weather Service again. "Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?""Absolutely," the man replied. looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we've ever seen.""How can you be so sure?" the chief asked. The weatherman replied, "The Indians are collecting firewood like crazy."Remember this story whenever you get advice from a government official!
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snowing


we don't have this much snow but if it doesn't warm up and keeps snowing we will. The temperature is 15 degrees.
I really have to talk to my self to keep from really getting down in the dumps about this weather. I have seen the time when we would be in a lot more trouble than we are today but I still would like to see warm weather.
I do have books to read so I can escape into a book and dream of warm spring breezes.





Sunday, January 03, 2010

snow again


20 degrees and we have snow again.

Saturday, January 02, 2010

20/1/4


Some one is going to be eligible for the old age pension on the 4 th of this month!

Friday, January 01, 2010

2010


The year has begun, I hope it brings only good things to all. Big surprise I lived to see it.
The chickens are enjoying their breakfast with their hot coffee.