no baby yet

I had reported that Casey was having her baby of course Sam told me he talked to tony yesterday and he was on the way down to see the daughter.

I had to get on facebook to find out what is going on , they are going to induce labor Thursday if she still hasn't had it. so no baby yet I guess.

Casey Wade said ... Her name will be Alivia Wade.
I so happy mom and dad are here. Now Alivia you can come out sweetie because Thursday we are going to kick you out.

last day of August

tony is going to be a grandfather soon.
I am going to be a great grandmother.They said it was a girl so that make me to great grand sons and two great grand daughters.
Helen is going to Washington to visit, Mellisa and Benjamin are going along but they will come home after a week. Helen is going to homestead I think.
Today is the last day of August my least favorite month.

books and highs and lows

I have been reading the bookmaker daughter. It was about a girl who grew up in Hot Springs Arkansas. Good book. Bye the way I told you about reading the book entitled 1000 white women and how I enjoyed the first 9 pages. That was it, it was the silly book I ever read.
I watched the storm on CNN in the hopes New York City would get washed into the sea.
This is the mayor of New York city talking about the people should do, he droned on and on. The fellow on his right in the blue shirt was really funny. He twitched,he raised his eye brows. he put his glasses on, then took them off.no one could watch the mayor because we were watching to see what the blue shirt fellow would do next. It was funny. The next day the mayor spoke again with these men around him but the guy in the blue shirt was GONE! I don't know what his job was but I am sure the Mayor fired him if he had the power to do so.
Sammy is my weather man . not a day goes by but he tell me how hot it is. Yesterday he came thro' the door and said tomorrow it will be 70 degrees . I ask how do you know? he said the weather man said so not 30 minutes before he told me it was at least 100 degrees out side and the weather man said it would have a high of 90. I checked and it was 83 degrees according to my computer.

Ducks blown off their feet by the wind

Virgina beach Hurricane

This is a photo in Virginia beach , Virginia. I am thinking about Nancy Ratzlaff, she is out there some where in the storm. I talked to Tony last night and he said she buried her son at Arlington the day before and he hoped she was coming home but being a mother I thought she would go to Virginia beach with her grandchildren. I know she didn't fly out cause all flights were grounded but If I had just buried my son I guess a hurricane would be of very little consequence. In fact it might seem an Appropriate reaction.
I went to bed early and so I am up 3 O'clock our time to see if that Babylon the Great also know as New York city might be washed out to sea. Not yet!

08 27 001

08 14 011

Eric Clapton - Good Night Irene

Washington D C and the noble red man

Fleta brought me a book , the title is One thousand white women , the journal of May
Dodd by Jim Fergus.

I have already started laughing and only read the first few pages.
The year was 1874 and 44 war chiefs had been invited to Washington Dc to meet the great white father Ulises Grant president of the United States.
There we find 44 bloody thirsty Cheyenne war chiefs surrounded by Washington's leaders including Julia Grant first lady of the land, who had begged to be allowed to attend to see the noble red man.
Chief Little Wolf begins to speak thro' an interpreter after receiving a peace metal from Grant, a large silver disk which The chief would later wear into battle against the U S army in the Cheyenne's last desperate battle to remain free.
Wolf was 50 years old and a veteran of many battles. He said that the Cheyenne were few after many battles and the diseases like the pocks had destroyed their once proud people.
The chief had decided that the Cheyenne would join the white mans tripe and in that manner the Cheyenne would be able to survive as a people. Now wolf had a plan to accomplish this, he purposed that The assembly give the Cheyenne 1000 white women to be brood mares for the Cheyenne prodigy. These white women would carry the off springs of the red man and therefore the Cheyenne would flourish.
President Grant's wife fainted dead away, the white gentlemen rose up crying for the blood of the savages and as was the custom the red men made a circle with knives drawn ready to fight to their death.
After much hue and cry the red men were loaded on a cattle car the next morning and sent back to Montana post hast. the car was pelted with rotten fruit and vegetables as the Indians were leaving Washington, D C.
This has happen by page 9 no telling what awaits the reader next.

DRUG COMPANIES AND DOCTORS

Last month, the Office of the Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) issued a "Special Fraud Alert" targeting aggressive drug industry marketing involving cash and other payments to doctors and pharmacists to promote specific products. The Inspector General warned that such schemes may be in violation of Medicare and Medicaid anti-kickback laws (American Medical News, 29 August 1994). DHHS is concerned that aggressive promotional incentives could harm patients if they influence doctors to make medically inappropriate prescribing choices.
The alert spotlights three different marketing programs. The first involves payments made by drug companies to pharmacists to persuade doctors to switch prescriptions from a competitor's drug to one of its own. One example of the so-called "bounty" scheme involved Miles Incorporated paying pharmacists $35 each time they got a doctor to switch a patient to the Miles anti-angina drug Adalat CC from Pfizer's rival drug Procardia. The pharmacist "bounty" programs are so pervasive that the Attorneys General of 20 states have asked FDA Commissioner David Kessler for his help in stopping the practice (Scrip, 9 September 1994).

The second marketing effort features a drug company awarding doctors "points" towards a free airline ticket each time they complete a questionnaire stating they had newly prescribed the company's product. In 1993, Ayerst paid $830,000 to settle civil and administrative claims arising out of such a "frequent flier" program involving 20,000 doctors.

In the third scheme, drug companies make substantial payments to doctors which are labeled "research grants." In return, the doctors have only to make brief notes about treatment outcomes. In August, a federal grand jury charged one drug distributor, Caremark International, with kickbacks involving the human growth hormone, Protropin. The grand jury charged that Caremark paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Minneapolis doctor disguised as research grants and consulting fees in return for his prescribing Protropin.

I have been thinking

Via: Medical Billing and Coding
I WENT TO THE DOCTOR YESTERDAY AND I THINK THAT I WAS SOLD TO THE DRUG COMPANY. i BELIEVE THAT UNDUE PRESSURE WAS APPLIED TO GET ME TO BUY BRAND NAME HIGHER PRICED DRUGS.
i HAVE VERY LITTLE MONEY AND I OBJECT TO BEING SOLD IN THE MARKET PLACE , CHAINED AND SHACKLED LIKE THE AFRICAN SLAVES IN DAYS PAST.

friday

It is a cool 61 degrees this morning with a promise of 88 for a high.
This is Friday and august is winding down rather fast.

chaney's book

WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney writes in his new memoir that President George W. Bush rejected his advice in 2007 to bomb a suspected nuclear reactor site in Syria.
Maybe the decider was a little smarter than I supposed.
Cheney said heads would exploded when his book was read. me thinks he puts a little more importance to him self than others do. He is a sick old man and He is History .
I can't imagine anyone reading his book.

Doctor Visit

Thrill, thrill, I have to go to the Doctor Dracula today. Blood sucker wants more blood so no coffee or water or anything before THE VISIT.

I will get to see Clayton's better partner and have a few laughs with her. She runs the office at my doctor's place.

I am going down there with a new attitude today. I want pain pills , I want antibiotics and I want refills! Then I will let you have your blood

Fame or defame

I have made you people famous, you are viewed all over the world. if you put in your name on google images these photos pop up and right below each photo... there is this title.....
pattypenny.blogspot.com

Fixing a problem by google

George and Clayton needs me to fix their up side down problem. I didn't need a wench truck or nether did I have to take it apart and work for days. All I had to do was use My google Picasa program and turn the garage over of course now the sky is down and the trees and ground is up but no one is perfect.

Fleta and Betty talked about their Microsoft programs which wouldn't work turning photos as it should. Everyone knows if it says Microsoft it cost money, Google is free.
Some guy at a computer shop told Bet that Picasa was a virus a few years ago and now she wont have that program on her computer. The young man probably was a agent for Microsoft.LOL

nets for chickens

Sammy gets the neighbor boys to catch his chickens . The separated the banty hens from the bigger chickens and the boys don't know a hen from a rooster. Sammy is learning but he missed two of his banty pullets.

Last spring I sent SAM to the hock shop to buy a fish net . My plan was to use it to catch chickens. It had a rubber net and I was disgusted thinking it was no good. I am still able to learn and by studying I figured out what I was doing wrong. I can net a chicken now with one swipe!

I told him i was going to net the two banty hens and he said that is too much work. I said that is what being alive means. You need to do something on this earth if you don't you might as well be dead.

I got the net and caught the two pullets and he came and moved them to the other pen. He said when I sell these big chickens I want you out here helping and I told him OK, as long if its cool weather and if you will pay me like you do the boys.LOL

for Betty

Here is that delightful boy, straight and upright.

Janet paid for our winters fuel yesterday. I wont have to save all winter to buy gas unless The repubs decide to take my check away from me and buy tea.

Fleta called to see if I had lost my mind buying a book for 11 dollars when I could get it at the library for Nada. I explained that I am not able to stand and search for books at the library now and Janet doesn't always want to return them , she always does but she groans about it sometimes and I am always afraid she might loose them. I can order them on line and since we have two cars now I may start that. The ladies at he Library will pull them for me and Sammy likes to go and so he would return them with out groans.

What I would really like is one of those" books" Donna talks about I think she calls it a kindle. Apparently she can get what ever she wants on it. I would spend my whole check buying books and maybe then I could loose weight since that would cut back on my eating.

Truth be told the 11 dollar book cost me nothing. Janet Paid at the counter, the only thing was I didn't know ahead of time she was paying for mine or I would have bought lots more books.

Old Friends and wal-marts

I went to wal-marts in the new car. rode good and was air conditioned, bought all the anti-fungal creme and spray they had and non brand Tylenol.

I bought a book and it is Betty's at Harrison fault. She told me about it and I had heard about the book already. I bought the book "the help" and it cost 11.20 more than I give for A Book usually but I wanted it and when I got to the check out Janet paid! Looked on the net and they were selling for 14.95 so I guess I did OK.

I got Sam a for sale sign for his chickens and if he is gone when people stop I will sell out!

I have a friend named Betty here in town , I saw her and got her phone number. I had lost it. Betty has been married 4 times. her first husband died the other day and I told her I wanted to call and tell her "well you got rid of another." it is nice to have an old Friend that you can say any thing to and they know it is a joke.she has been Buell by birth then Deweese, then another that I can never remember his name, now , then a Asbury and now a Bishop. When she married Bishop I told her she had got her initials back.

itches and rashes

Sammy moved his checks around again yesterday . One of the guineas died from heat stress in the plastic dog carrier he had her in along with 25 other birds.

While considering my sisters and my problems with whelping rashes and eczema I happen to think of Grandma Powell. I remember being on her front porch and a rashes would appear on her lower leg. She would scratch and scratch. She applied baking soda and water to the rash or poured alcohol on it. She would say well piffle that itches.
I guess we come from a long line of people who scratched and itched.
As far as I know the only one of the sisters who don't have the itches is Fleta, perhaps she is our stress and that is why we itch.

I used to get it on my head and I would take a bottle of alcohol on my scalp and pour on my head quickly and that usually stops the itch. When I am itching I go to the dollar store and buy 6 bottles of alcohol to have on hand usually I have a bottle handy to start on the next time I get the itches. Rubbing alcohol cost 50 cent a bottle until the last few years. Then it went up to a dollar a bottle and the last time I had my problem I paid 1.10 cents for it and the bottle held less.
I noticed the other day the card board they wrap toilet paper around is larger than they were a few purchases ago. I wonder if the hole in the donuts is larger than it was?
When I have the itches I want to run down the road screaming from the pain. It is pain and only someone who suffers that special torment can realize just how much we suffer.
When Helen had her last go around with the itches she was taking Kemo and she though the treatment for her cancer caused the rash. She has excess to better medical treatment than I and they cut one of her whelps and ran test on it. they told her it was not caused from a out side element, in other words it was some thing special about her, she concluded it was the cancer treatment they didn't. They didn't do any thing for her except what I advised Betty to do and I added the alcohol treatment which she used also. When she told her doctor about pouring alcohol on the places where she itches they said doesn't that hurt? She told them it felt good. There maybe a lot of women in Arizona now soaking in alcohol.
I have sores on my back and upper arms from my itches now. The last time I saw the doctor he said Don' scratch. He is a fool and I hope he gets the itches too.
I learned a thing or two from my grandma.

Betty Here!

Betty's daughter told her she had a rash because of NERVES, listen to your sister, I am older than your daughter and smarter. Your daughter will be smarter when she starts itching . which she probably will some day.
There are many causes of hives including foods, drugs, infections, and diseases. Oddly enough, even though there are many potential causes, in the majority of cases of hives, the cause is unknown. Hives causes can be broken down into 3 broad groups:

•Idiopathic: This means we don't know the cause; it just happens.
•Immunological: Some hives are caused by changes in the immune system. A typical scenario would be coming in contact with something that causes cells in the immune system to trigger the release of histamine from certain white blood cells called mast cells.
•Nonimmunological: Exposure to certain substances can cause the direct release of histamine from mast cells without the involvement of other parts of the immune system.
If you have hives, you want to know what causes them so you can eliminate that trigger and free yourself from the itching. The following lists are not exhaustive, but do give the main known hives causes. While most cases of hives are idiopathic, see if you can eliminate any obvious causes of your hives. Just remember that it's best to talk to your healthcare provide before eliminating all possible hive triggers. If you suspect medication is causing your hives, contact your healthcare provider immediately.

If the cause of a person’s hives can’t be determined, and therefore the trigger can’t be avoided, then treating the hives is the next step.

The treatment of choice for hives is antihistamines, especially with the newer, low-sedating forms. There are many choices, including prescription-only forms and over-the-counter types. The best antihistamine for hives, in my opinion, is Zyrtec (cetirizine). Cetirizine is now available in over-the-counter forms without a prescription, including in generic forms. Claritan, Alavert and generics of these drugs (loratadine) are reasonable antihistamines for the treatment of hives as well, although loratadine doesn’t work nearly as well as cetirizine, in my experience. Benadryl (diphenhydramine) works as well, although it needs to be taken multiple times a day, and causes significant sedation.

There are many prescription forms of antihistamines to treat hives as well. These include newer, less-sedating types such as Allegra and its generic forms (fexofenadine), Clarinex (desloradatine), and Xyzal (levocetirizine), which is very similar to Zyrtec. Commonly used older, sedating antihistamines used to treat hives include hydroxyzine and doxepin, which is an anti-depressant with strong antihistamine effects.

I find that I only need to use oral or injectable corticosteroids in a small percentage of people with hives. However, it is common for non-allergy specializing physicians to use these medications. Antihistamines usually do a good job of treating hives with fewer side effects than corticosteroids.

The A bomb and the Japs

President Truman made the decision to drop the A bomb on the 2 Islands in The pacific and some people argue now that he should never have dropped that first bomb never mind the second.

They dropped the first bomb and then told the japan if they didn't surrender they would dropped the next bomb and the Japanese did not surrender they fought harder so Truman had another bomb dropped.

My father probably had a better take of the Japanese soldier than anyone of us and he said they were like us , they hurt and they bleed when they died they cried out for their mother. He said their word for mama was near enough to ours that you would recognize it.

My father didn't blame the Japanese soldiers for their deeds, he didn't blame the US soldiers. He said the men who fought and died were victims of the Japanese and the United States Governments. My father was very critical of our Government for the rest of his life.

Daddy came home after the bomb was dropped and I am gratefully. The japs were our enemies and the people alive with a memory of that time know that they were the enemy

Bills

Fleta's problem

Image size: Small
Medium
Large
Use this layout every time?
When I click the photo image over on the right hand side this is on my site . I haven't told you but your blog is weird anymore . I can't post as Patsy any more when I try I get a message that "bpoor@ you know where" doesn't have permission to view this site!! so I post as Anonymous on your blog.The "damn photo" says right at the bottom below the blue blob small, mediam, large and extra large ..photo size . I don't have an extra large on my posting site.

I suppose you were trying to stop me from viewing your blog and stealing your photos.

saturday

Helen got a parking ticket.

It was suppose to rain last night as far as I know it didn't.

I went to bed at 9 and woke at 11:30 getting up to wait for Janet who should have been home by 12:20. She came in at 1:40 , they worked late but I was afraid she had wrecked her car there for I was glad to see her car lights come up the hill.

Fleta here is our deer

growing watermelons

My son Tony is an excellent gardener, of course his job is where he lives and that is part of the reason he does such great gardens. Life is simper when you don't have to leave home to earn a pay check.

Tony brought me two watermelon he grew, he said they are awful small and I thought he did well to grow any watermelon even if they were small. Then he told the rest of the story. He said I had 12 really big water melons but they blew up! I said WHAT? he said they blew up, I thought someone must have got in his garden and busted them but surly not. He said he had made inquires around to people who grew melons and they said he had watered them to much.
Tony has plans for growing melons next spring. Really big watermelons if they don't explode.

Clayton

Helen , Clayton called and he wants your cell phone number which I don't have so call him. He forgot your birthday and is trying to lie his way out of it so go for a nice birthday gift. He can afford it, he got a raise on his SS check and 2 years back pay so go for the gold.

Happy Birthday Helen

Tony brought me tomatoes, Fleta brought me tomatoes also today. They are realy good .I wish you had some.

candy and Letterman

colorful birds.

I awoke to rain on the roof this morning. The day is suppose to be warm with a forecast of 98 for a high. I am not worried unless the electric fails we have 2 air conditioners 1 floor unit and a new window unite that hasn't been turned on since Kelly fixed the floor unit.

A frequent contributor to a jihadist website has threatened David Letterman, urging Muslim followers to "cut the tongue" of the late-night host because of a joke the comic made on his CBS show. Letterman had made jokes about the killing of Osama bin laden and the fellow didn't think it was a joking matter. I am some what in agreement with the fellow, The death of a human being no matter who is not a joke but I don't want such a destruct action as to cut his tongue out. I would shut the TV off.
PALMYRA, Pa. — Hundreds of foreign students, waving their fists and shouting defiantly in many languages, walked off their jobs on Wednesday at a plant here that packs Hershey’s chocolates, saying a summer program that was supposed to be a cultural exchange had instead turned them into underpaid labor.
Who would believe that our GOVERMENT would bring young people here as a culture tour and put them to work at a candy factory deducting money from their wages to pay for room and board and then paying low wages.
Unemployment is high and we are importing students from China, Russia, Nigeria, Romania and Ukraine, and making them work in the candy factories of one of the riches families in our country to pay their way.
It would be interesting to know if Hershey received a tax break for employing these students. I have know for years that the meat industries in this country having worked at one for years was very hard and low paying work but I never dreamed our sweet tooth was feed by slave labor from foreign countries.

Northern Lights in Canada

There were droughts in the Ozarks in the '50 and we sat in the yard on quilts trying to escape the heat during the evening, often sleeping out side all night.
One night we saw in the northern sky a sight which I will never forget. Lights, red and green danced across the sky and daddy said that has to be the northern lights. I know that he was correct.

chickens and work

The weather is great cool, and sunshine. I have been out for a hour enjoying the fall weather.

These golden neck banty pullets are some SAM bought at the sale this spring. I think he has 9 of them.

Janet took off to buy the car yesterday but she will be back on the grind again today. They are talking about opening a 3 rd shift and the lady they left in the cage wants to go to 3rd shift . she thinks she will have less work. I told Janet if she did that means you can take your job back but she said she doesn't want it . I guess the job in the plant isn't as bad as I thought.

Janet's new Transportation

Transportation, ford mini van.

Green Forest honors the Ratlaff family

They had a memorial for Tommy Ratzlaff:today just out side green Forest, Ar. No protesters were present. I am sure the local people would have never allowed that church group to get near the funeral if they had desired.

I was told there were many navy seals present and that was another reason for the war protesters to stay away.

I think the war should have been over long ago but to protest at the funeral of the dead is a terrible thing to do. Go to Washington DC and protest at the white house and leave the grieving families to grieve in peace.

The number at the funeral was placed at 1200 and that is a large number for our small community.

Insects

tumble bug
small blue butterfly
When you were young did you see large groups of little, no bigger than a nickle, light blue butterflies that always were around mud holes? I haven't seen any in years.
also how about tumble bugs? they would roll up manure and move them to where ever.

Dung beetles get their name from their unusual diet. These insects gather balls of dung to feed upon and lay their eggs inside. Some species don't bother to bring the dung to their home, but make a home inside the dung. There are 7,000 species of dung beetles, which is relatively few in the insect world. Their numbers may be few, but the positive impact the dung beetles make on the earth is significant.


How many insects have disappeared in your life time.

monday

The weather is a delightful 62 degrees this morning with the people in the know are saying 88 for a high today. The sun is up and I am about ready to go out and see the chickens. The banty rooster is crowing.

I read Helen's post, she said she had celebrated her birthday and I though Oh my I forgot Helen's birthday. I am slipping then I checked the date. It is the 15th. Helen is slipping. Her birthday is the 18th.

Helen said Billy was working on her bike,. I told Clayton Billy will end up with the bike. Read today he had it and was suppose to bring it home today. MAYBE? I figure that is OK, Helen is too old to ride a kids toy.

cornish chickens

Sammy bought more chickens from a woman who lives up the hill from us . she is married to a native Mexican and being illegal he was stopped while driving and will be sent back to his native home. anyway she sold Sammy his chickens. she said they were Cornish mixed with blue eggers.

I was puzzled by their looks but after looking on the net I found they are called Indian game so I suppose Sammy is in the fighting rooster business when they get older. they appear to be about 2 months old now.The blue and the black are the Cornish chickens.

Sammy didn't have the right change so I paid for them so maybe I am in the fighting rooster business. She had one male guinea, one Sussex hen one black and white hen which I can't tell what breed and 13 Cornish / blue egger chicks. the price figured out to a little less than 2 dollars each.

bird

Obama

Obama compares himself to King,,

And now that King has his own memorial on the Mall I think that we forget when he was alive there was nobody who was more vilified, nobody who was more controversial, nobody who was more despairing at times. There was a decade that followed the great successes of Birmingham and Selma in which he was just struggling, fighting the good fight, and scorned, and many folks angry. But what he understood, what kept him going, was that the arc of moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. But it doesn’t bend on its own. It bends because all of us are putting our hand on the arc and we are bending it in that direction. And it takes time. And it’s hard work. And there are frustrations.

Obama Martin Luther King tried to bring justice to the poor people, black and white while you are trying to do us in and make the rich richer.

The only claim that Obama has to trout is the health care bill and the more I see of it the more convinced I am that is only a bill to enrich the insurance companies as if they need more money.
Martin Luther King believed in non violence while Obama is gun hoe to fight wars all over the world. enough said about MLK and Obama. I am reminded of the presidential debate when some fool compared himself to JFK and the reply was JFK was a friend of mine and you sir are no JFK. Obama you are no MLK.

corn

Mitt Romney leads national polls and many states' surveys for the chance to challenge President Barack Obama next fall and his worth is 265 million.
The pair clashed during Thursday's debate in Ames: Bachmann said Pawlenty "sounds a lot like Barack Obama if you ask me, of course he sounds like Obama, Obama is the most repub in the field.
The jars pictured is the straw pole in Iowa and all this proves the tea party bunch has cornered the market on corn. Ever one should know that corn has gone out of sight in price.

found a new blog

you should click title and enjoy along with me.

today

Kelly came over and worked on our air conditioner and it works now plus Janet has a window unit working so we are ready for hot weather again. It is cool out side but I am not turning off the air and opening the door. I like canned air. Appears it is about to rain.

Kelly threw the breaker and every time our electric goes off my computer is hard to get up and running I was working on it and was upset afraid this might be the time that I wouldn't get going.

Sammy told Kelly "she doesn't have any patient."I said this computer is all I have. I can't go anywhere any more. I can't do all the things you take for granted so yes it upset me when the computer goes down and as a after thought he can't do any thing on the computer.

FRIDAY

I have read of riots in England and now i read there are riots in Israel. I wonder if soon we will have riots in our streets?

It is a lovely 64 degrees here and 91 is projected for the high.

I saw a Peter Paul and Mary program on PBS last night so that is the reason for the youtube post.

Peter, Paul & Mary - El Salvador (1986)

Listen to this song and substute the word Afghanistan.
They say for half a billion they could do it right
Bomb all day, burn all night
Until there's not a living thing upright
In Afganistan

They'll continue training troops in the USA
And watch the nuns that got away
And teach the military bands to play South of the Border
And kill the people to set them free
Who put this price on their liberty?
Don't you think it's time to leave
Afganistan?

if i had a hammer - peter paul and mary

Bigfoot

bigfoot has been down to see Fleta and let his foot print in the ground. when the rain fell she has a mud hole for the grand son to play in.

Bobbie Rhody is being buried today. she was almost 90 years old and had bone cancer. A while back some home health people came calling on her and told the family that they would have her out of that bed and going places in a few weeks.
Bobbie's son- in- law told them she is almost 90 years old and she doesn't want to go places, she just doesn't want to hurt anymore. We all should have a son -in -law like J.T. Terhest.

trouble, trouble

Major trouble yesterday our air conditioner stopped. I took what money I had and told Janet to call wal-marts and see if I had enough for a window air conditioner as is often the case "they " my children said why call we will just go.

OK, they went no air conditioners at wall mart mean while i am setting in front of the open door with fans going and about to die I think. 5 hour later they return with a box from a place in Harrison.

Sammy was in a do it right mode and he took 1 1/2 hours to put it in the window while I am dieing by degrees finally they get it in just so and turn it on and I swear it was like having a fan in the window. Thank God it will soon be winter and I can start buying propane and freezing.

I heard a pullet in the one pen that Sammy has singing yesterday. I told him that she was singing and he didn't realize that was a good indentation she would start laying soon or didn't realize that the reason for having chickens was getting eggs.

We had rain during all of my air troubles and rain all night. I read that Betty and Fleta both had turned off their air and open the doors no wonder if theirs is like my air conditioner.

Obama one term president

Democrats doubt Barack Obama's reelection chances
President Barack Obama is facing mounting doubts within his own party about his re-election prospects, with fellow Democrats beginning to ask if Hillary Clinton would have made a better president.

Yes she would have done more with less and she would never have bowed down to the repubs like Obama has and thinking he has to give and give and never get. I don't think she will try again but surely there is at least one person that will stand up and say enough is enough.

Obama 's government has called for the Syria leader to step down how about Obama stepping down?

snowbrush

I don't know why but some times I just stop visiting a blog and that is what happen to snowbrush.
I visited him again after not reading his blog for a long time and I laughed and laughed! seems he has been using medical marijuana and he tells us all about it.
I would copy his post but he says his writing are copyrighted and not to copy them some times I just ignored such things but not with snowbush I am sure he would hunt me down and kill me so click on my title if you want to see what snowbush has done now!

Muhammad Ali

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.


A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.


Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.


At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.


Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.


Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.


Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.


He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.


I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.


I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.


I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."


I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.


I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.


I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.


I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Float like butterfly and sting like a bee

Your hand can't hit what your eye scan't see!
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942) is an American former boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.[1] After turning professional, he went on to become the first and only boxer to win the lineal heavyweight championship three times.

Originally known as Cassius Clay, Ali changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, subsequently converting to Sunni Islam in 1975. In 1967, Ali refused to be conscripted into the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War. He was arrested and found guilty on draft evasion charges, stripped of his boxing title, and his boxing license was suspended. He was not imprisoned, but did not fight again for nearly four years while his appeal worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was successful.

Nicknamed "The Greatest", Ali was involved in several historic boxing matches. Notable among these are three with rival Joe Frazier and one with George Foreman, whom he beat by knockout to win the world heavyweight title for the second time. He suffered only five losses (four decisions and one TKO by retirement from the bout) with no draws in his career, while amassing 56 wins (37 knockouts and 19 decisions).[2] Ali was well known for his unorthodox fighting style, which he described as "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee", and employing techniques such as the rope-a-dope.[3] He was also known for his pre-match hype, where he would "trash talk" opponents on television and in person some time before the match, often with rhymes. These personality quips and idioms, along with an unorthodox fighting technique, made him a cultural icon. In later life, Ali developed Parkinson's syndrome. In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC.[4
In early 1966, Ali was reclassified to be eligible for the draft and induction into the U.S. Army during a time when the United States was involved in the Vietnam War. When notified of this status, he declared that he would refuse to serve in the Army and publicly considered himself a conscientious objector. Ali believed "War is against the teachings of the Holy Qur’an. I'm not trying to dodge the draft. We are not supposed to take part in no wars unless declared by Allah or The Messenger. We don't take part in Christian wars or wars of any unbelievers."

Ali also famously said, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong ... They never called me Nigger." It was rare for a heavyweight boxing champion in those days, or now, to speak at Howard University where he gave his popular "Black Is Best" speech in 1996. Ali was invited to speak by Howard’s sociology professor Nathan Hare on behalf of the Black Power Committee, a student protest group. The event of 4,000 cheering students and community intellectuals was surely another step toward his iconic stature.

Appearing shortly thereafter for his scheduled induction into the U.S. Armed Forces on April 28, 1967 in Houston, he refused three times to step forward at the call of his name. An officer warned him he was committing a felony punishable by five years in prison and a fine of $10,000. Once more, Ali refused to budge when his name was called. As a result, he was arrested and on the same day the New York State Athletic Commission suspended his boxing license and stripped him of his title as did other boxing commissions, for being unpatriotic
Muhammad Ali



I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad Ali

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad Ali

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.
Muhammad Ali

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
Muhammad Ali

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
Muhammad Ali

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad Ali

It's not bragging if you can back it up.
Muhammad Ali

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali

My toughest fight was with my first wife

for Helen , think before you go to the mountains!

This one is wearing my shoes!