Arnold

Perhaps he ordered a statue for all the Hispanic maids that bore him children. Seven maids seven sons?
I read that they did a test of all the doors in the state house while he was governor and found fetal matter on all the door nobs. I guess that means someone had shit on their hands.

The former California governor has commissioned up to seven bronze statues of himself, each of which will stand 8 feet tall and weigh in at 580 pounds. Good to see he's been humbled by the turn his life has taken this year.
DODGE, Iowa -- Newt Gingrich now says the reason to vote for him over his rivals -- he smarter.
God help the repubs.

Maybee sentenced

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These Arkansas men had the miss fortune to commit a crime which until just of late would have gone unnoticed in our area and if the federal government had not stepped in they possible would have only received a slap on the wrist for their acts but with this new federal law Hate Crimes prevention act on the books they found they were in a boat load of trouble.
When Maybee was convicted of this crime I posted the fact on here and I was threatened and told to shut the xxxx Up so here I go again. The person who made the threat used such terms as YOUD and HES and YOUSSTUPID. I suppose this was to make it appear it was posted by an uneducated person but I am sure this was just a way of trying to cover up their identity.
Arkansas Men Sentenced for Federal Hate Crimes Related to the Assault of Five Hispanic Men, First Sentencing Under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act

WASHINGTON – Frankie Maybee, 20, and Sean Popejoy, 19, both of Green Forest, Ark., were sentenced for their roles in committing federal hate crimes, announced the Justice Department. These are the first defendants to be sentenced under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which was enacted in October 2009.

Maybee was sentenced today to 135 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. Popejoy, who testified against Maybee, was sentenced yesterday to 48 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine. Maybee and Popejoy were also sentenced to pay $5,440 in restitution to the victims, jointly and severally.

friday

The silkie breed of chickens has 5 toes rather than four which is considered a fact which I had momentarily lost sigh of yesterday while studying the new birds trying to decide their sex.
I starting seeing the fifth toe on the birds which grows under the place where the spurs pop on roosters when they mature and decided all the silkies had long spures which would mean every bird was a old rooster.
I kept watching trying to see the spures , the task was covered by the feathers growing on their feet and legs. finally I remembered the fact that they had 5 toes and realized what I was looking at was a toe.
The sun is up and I have yet to venture out but will shortly to check on the chickens , guineas, dogs and cats.

reading

I just want to let everyone know I haven't died. I have a bunch of ebooks to read and I have been devouring a book a day. Robert B Parker has 2 books that I have got. He is a good mystery writer.
I read one by Monica Ferris and one by Robert Crais both writers are new to me but I enjoyed both. I do a lot of reading by authors. If I read one book by someone I will look for more by the same author.I go one the theory if one book is good another will be also.
I haven't even read the news. I must get caught up , the world might end and I would.t know about it.

Andy with a capital letter

NEW YORK — With 1,096 essays for "60 Minutes" under his belt, Andy Rooney will deliver his 1,097th on Sunday's broadcast. And it will be his last as a regular contributor.

The 92-year-old Rooney will announce his departure at the end of the program, where he has been featured since 1978, CBS News announced on Tuesday. It will be preceded by a segment in which Rooney looks back on his career with "60 Minutes" correspondent Morley Safer.

I seldom watch the Sunday morning news but Andy Rooney has been a constant source of entainment on CBS for a long time. First Dan Rather and now Rooney. CBS might as well shut their doors.

dress up or dress down

Helen we have had this conversation before but I think the reason your photos didn't show up you were posting thro' picasa. If you would post them the regular way they will show up I think. The last time I talked to you you said it was too HARD to post thro' blogger so I guess it is a lost cause. I have found if posting thro' picasa some times the photos just don't post and if I go thro' blogger they will show up. What is with the side post about favorite post? I have not seen that before. Maybe that is why you can't post photos.

I am spending time out by the silkie pen trying to decided whether we have any females in the pen, there are still no crowing but I think I can see roosters.

Today is nurse day. The doctor's helper called yesterday and wanted me to take iron pills and vitamins c. I said OK.

Helen's grandson, the one and only Benjamin went shopping with his mother for a Halloween costume and they purchased a Ninja costume, Helen didn't know if I knew what a Ninja was! Of course I know, I know that ninjas are those japs that have all those special powers and throw little stars weapons that are so deadly.

Benjamin got his costume with all the bells and whistles, sword, and probably star weapons. Benjamin wanted to wear the costume as soon as he got home and his mother refused to let him dress up much to Benjamen's sorrow. The next morning when he got up he told his mother that she not only was mean to him but also to his grandmother because SHE would want to see him as a ninja as soon as she got in the door. Benjamin knows there is more than one way to skin a cat.

“The Warmth of Other Suns,” by Isabel Wilkerson

I have a new book to read, non fiction it is titled The Warmth of Other Suns.
The Warmth of Other Suns” is Wilkerson’s first book. (Its title is borrowed from the celebrated black writer Richard Wright, who fled Jim Crow Mississippi in the 1920s to feel the warmth of those other suns.) Based on more than a thousand interviews, written in broad imaginative strokes, this book, at 622 pages, is something of an anomaly in today’s shrinking world of nonfiction publishing: a narrative epic rigorous enough to impress all but the crankiest of scholars, yet so immensely readable as to land the author a future place on Oprah’s couch.

Wilkerson follows the journey of three Southern blacks, each representing a different decade of the Great Migration as well as a different destination. It’s a shrewd storytelling device, because it allows her to highlight two issues often overlooked: first, that the exodus was a continuous phenomenon spanning six decades of American life; second, that it consisted of not one, but rather three geographical streams, the patterns determined by the train routes available to those bold enough to leave.

People from Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi boarded the Illinois Central to Midwestern cities like Cleveland, Chicago and Detroit; those from Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia rode the Seaboard Air Line up the East Coast to Washington, Philadelphia and New York; those in Louisiana and Texas took the Union Pacific to Los Angeles, Oakland and other parts of the West Coast. Wilkerson is superb at minding the bends and detours along the way. She notes, for example, that some migrants, unfamiliar with the conductor’s Northern accent, would mistakenly get off at the cry of “Penn Station, Newark,” the stop just before Penn Station, New York. Many decided to stay put, she adds, giving Newark “a good portion of its black population.”

silkie chickens butchered

I decided to search for a butchered silkie chicken and this was the photo I found. Doesn't that look appetizing? I have read even their bones are black.

I fear that Sammy may have bought 19 roosters in his silkie flock. I have been looking at photos are reading about them since I knew nothing about silkies. My hope is that if he is luck he might have a couple of pullets in the flock. On the other hand from what I read you can't be sure of the sex of a silkie until they lay or crow. A good point none are crowing yet.

Oh well, he can haul them back and maybe get his price back. I might get my courage up and butcher one of the roosters . I have never seen a black skinned chicken butchered. If I do you will get to see one black skinned bird cooked.

The nurse is coming tomorrow.

Janet says she is sick. I wish she would feel better.

Sammy wanted some beans to cook. No one every thinks to by bean except mama. I dug around and found a hand full of pinto beans and more white beans. I told him when he went to town to he should buy some beans. Pizza is not the food to live on. They spend 10 dollars for a pizza and 10 dollars would buy enought beans to last all winter even at the enflated prices of this time.

The children in my house go buy some sandwitches they call hoages, the price was 6 dollars each I was shocked when they told me the price. The hoagie is nothing except a lot of bread with thin slices of lunch meat, a little lettuce maybe a small amount of sliced tomato and some dressing. Outrages!

Janet said she wanted Sam to drive her to work today. I don't under stand why but I suppose there is a reason. I told Sammy that would be a good time to buy beans.

my day

I went to the doctor this morning. more pills. I find this interesting, the woman who checked me in is a native of Portugal, the woman who drew my blood is from Guatemala and the doctor is from Arizona and his wife who is his nurse is a Native American Indian and the only people there from Arkansas was me and a grey haired woman from Marshal Arkansas named Cathy.

this is some more photos of Sam's silkies.

Helen made it home last night just fine.

The sun is shining here today. I have two Ebooks to read.

silkie chickens

Sammy went to the sale and bought young silkie chickens. he gave 1.75 for the 11 younger ones and 3 dollars each for the bigger one. I couldn't believe what he gave for them they will be worth 20 dollars each this spring.Silkie's have 5 toes on each foot and black skin. In china the black skin is prized for eating.
Silkies

Silkie Colours

Silkie Chickens are one of the oldest of the rare breeds of poultry. It is said that Marco Polo wrote about seeing Silkies in the Orient in 1200 A.D. during his travels.

They are a bantam with standard weights allowed by the American Poultry Association's Standard of Perfection 1993 listing as Cock (Adult male) at 36 oz, and Hens (Adult females) at 32 oz.

DESCRIPTION:

Silkies are very unusual looking chickens. Their feathers are missing the barbules that hold them into the traditional rigid feather. Their feathers appear to look like hair, they also have black skin, bones, five toes and feathers on their feet, mulberry colored walnut shaped combs, light turquoise almost iridescent looking earlobes all combine to make Silkies one of the most unusual breeds of poultry.

WHY KEEP SILKIES:

Silkies are one of the most docile, sweet tempered chicken breeds I have kept. Silkies great functionality are their ability to sit, and sit they will. Most of our domestic breeds of poultry have had all their mothering skills breed out of them in the process of improving meat or egg production. Anyone who has raised chicks and had to deal with Turing eggs, worrying about lights and temperature of the incubator and brooder knows this is a lot of work and a mother chicken does a better job anyway. Silkies are tremendous sitters and, wonderful mothers. I have heard the stories about roosters hovering chicks but wasn't until one winter when I saw my Partridge rooster move and four chicks popped out from under him I believed it! Silkies make good pet birds for kids. It is hard to get egg production out of them not because they don't lay, but they go broody (want to sit on eggs) so often interrupting their laying. If they don't have eggs, any round rock will do, no rock, they will sit on empty nests! Mothers will steal any other hen's chicks she can. Silkie hens will also share mothering with a batch of chicks.

SILKIE VARIETIES:

Silkies come in White, Black, Buff, Blue, Splash, Partridge, Grey. Bearded and non-bearded. Whites and black have been breed for show and are more developed in their body types than the colored varieties, usually having larger crests, shorter necks and smaller combs.

SILKIE HOUSING AND CARE:

They need to be protected as they are very docile, with their crests and inability to fly as well as most chickens they are more susceptible to predators. I recommend housing that will protect them from ground and flying predators. Silkies don't seem to like high roosts or housing preferring to stay about 2 to 4 feet above ground at the maximum. They camp in great piles on the ground with several roosters, hens and young birds all sleeping together. Most feather-footed breeds don't do well with their feet in the mud. Baby Silkie chicks are hardy for their size, but feeders and water bowls need to be adapted to accommodate their tiny size.

clayton

Do you realize I have known you longer than anyone else still alive?

mouse glue traps

Rats, mice and roaches are three of my most hated things along with flies and I am always looking for a way to eliminate these from my surrounds.
Three or four years ago I was looking for mouse traps in the store and I spotted glue traps. They were fairly cheap and I bought a pack and placed them around in my kitchen.
I am fairly hard hearted about such things but when I discovered this baby mouse struggling to get off the glue patch I was horrified. It was trying with all it's might but I could plainly see his efforts were useless and his death was going to be by starvation.
I removed the mouse and the trap to the yard and with one blow sent the mouse to death and I have never wanted a glue trap in my house again. I don't mind killing such things but I don't want to prolong their suffering for days.
On the other hand I have glue fly strips and I rejoice every time I see a fly land on the fly trap.

Happy Birthday!

clayton powell

Are you listening
at the back fence
born on this day
was our brother.
a slayer of dragon
an all around good guy.
How old is he you ask?
old as dirt!and twice as ugly.

the last meal

In 1991 Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail. But since that trial (in which there was no physical evidence linking him to the scence), seven out of the nine witnesses who testified against him have recanted their testimony, raising serious concerns about Troy's guilt. Despite these doubts and three previous stays of execution, the state of Georgia decided to proceed with Troy's execution--now scheduled for next Wednesday September 21st.
On the 21 of September the state of Georgia did indeed put Troy Davis to death.

Mr. Davis refused his last meal.
On the other hand in the state of Texas Texas inmates who are set to be executed will no longer get their choice of last meals, a change prison officials made Thursday after a prominent state senator became miffed over an expansive request from a man condemned for a notorious dragging death.

Lawrence Russell Brewer, who was executed Wednesday for the hate crime slaying of James Byrd Jr. more than a decade ago, asked for two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat lover's pizza, a pint of ice cream and a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts. Prison officials said Brewer didn't eat any of it.

The state of Texas says that is too much so hence forth all men or women in Texas who will be put to death can not pick their last meal.

cook stove

When we lived at Carrollton mama cooked on a wood cook stove. They must have sold it when daddy went to the navy because mama cooked on a kerosene stove all the time we lived at Denver, Truth be told i don't remember her cooking at all during those years. she must have but I don't remember her cooking anything except gravy.
When we moved to the farm after the war she cooked on a kerosene stove like in this photo. the stove had pipes where the kerosene traveled to the wick sort of like as kerosene lamp. the pipes would suet up and mama would take a long piece of wire and put a piece of cloth in a hook one one end to clean the stove. One time she lost the rag in the pipe and daddy had to buy a new stove.
The stove was made of tin and not very good for cooking. the oven didn't bake well either.
In 1950 there about we got a Butane or LP gas stove and I think that stove was a great improvement over the old coal oil stove . We always called kerosene, coal oil. I wonder why? I will ask google why and see if there is a reason.
That butane stove came near killing me. Mama was on a cleaning spree and she took all the nobs off of the stove. Mama didn't know how to put them back on and she ask me to do the job. I did and when I went to light the pilot light on the oven it exploded and burned my face. That was the most painful burn I every remember having.

modern marvels

THINGS I REMEMBER...
The first margarine I every say was in a see thro' bag and was as white as Crisco. In those days "margarine" just didn't exist except as a curiosity, but it was starting to be around. Perhaps your grandmother will tell you about the days when butter was selling at $1.00 per pound and margarine started to be sold -- the margarine was about $0.20 per pound. The dairy farmers in those days had lots of political clout and they made "margarine" an illegal substance for many years. Gradually, as they lost those fights, state by state, they managed to get the laws passed that said, in effect, "margarine cannot be colored yellow -- that would be a fraudulent attempt to fool people into thinking it was butter."

So, margarine was sold as a solid white lump, rather ugly as I recall. But, packaged along with that lump of white stuff was a little yellow pill -- food color. You would get the margarine into a bowl, let if soften a bit (you know that margarine will never "melt" as honest butter does), and mix in the yellow powder food color. The kids in many families had the job of making the white ugly margarine look yellow, like butter.

The first detergent I ever saw was called dreft, I remember it was in a green box and the flakes were pink before that day mother used a bar soap with the letters P G E on the bar. My grandmother Powell never used anything for soap except her home made lye soap. When she died in the 1970's she was still using lye soap she made.
In the 1920s, Americans used soap flakes to clean their laundry. The flakes performed poorly in hard water, leaving a ring in the washing machine, dulling colors, and turning whites gray. Procter & Gamble began an ambitious mission to change the way Americans washed their clothes. Researchers discovered two-part molecules which they called synthetic surfactants. Each part of the "miracle molecules" executed a specific function--one pulled grease and dirt from the clothes, while the other suspended dirt until it could be rinsed away. In 1933, this discovery was introduced in a detergent called "Dreft," but it could only handle lightly soiled jobs. The next goal was to create a detergent that could clean heavily soiled clothes. That detergent was Tide®. My father induced these two products, soap flakes and margarine into our home in 1945 after we moved onto the place on dry creek.along with the soap flakes and margarine daddy brought home a jar of peanut butter, it was real peanut butter and had to be stirred before use because the oil separated from the solid after it set for a while.
It is hard to imagine that I was 8 years old before I saw these marvels of invention.

grand daughter

It is my opinion that the new granddaughter looks like her grandfather Poor' what do you think?
Rained all night here, just a slow rain. Sammy made a new chicken house for his sale chickens and they were grateful to get out of the rain.
Janet is working in the cage in Evis because Tom Wilson has been ill.She wont have to work tomorrow because Evis only works every other Friday these days.

new book

I have a new book to read it is interesting.I got it in ebook. I am enjoying it.

There are many accounts of World War II and the Holocaust atrocities, whether media articles, historical records, or books. In My Hands is a true story, magnificently written by, and of, Irene Gut (Irena Gutowna) Opdyke, with Jennifer Armstrong. I urge you to read this book, even it if is the only one you read this year! Perhaps it is my Polish roots, my immigrant parents, and my 1999 visit to Poland and Auschwitz that causes my tears to fall. But, it's hard not to feel strongly about Irena's heroic story - of courage and suffering, while spying on, dodging, and mingling with, Germans and Russians, sneaking food and notes, and hiding Jews from a horrific fate.

up a tree

I had a fairly good rest last night. It isn't often I can report that happening.
I saw where Ralph Nador wanted to get someone to run in Obama place. Lots of luck with that.
A young man I worked with at Tyson has died, Larry was only 54 years old and his death left me wondering, Why?
A congressman is being credited for saving a man's life at Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Tuesday. The congressman is a repub, that would almost make you vote repub but the fellow is safe the congressman is from another state.

A Google search for Santorum has generated some inappropriate results since gay columnist Dan Savage organized an online campaign to link graphic sexual terms to the socially conservative senator’s name.
So I did a google search for SANTORUM and the first thing on the google search was....the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by product of anal sex.

Santorum's “Google problem” might get worse. (Via The Atlantic)
It all started in 2003 when then-Senator Rick Santorum compared gay sex with bestiality and pedophilia, adding: “I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.”

The statements roused the ire of sex columnist, author and gay-rights darling Dan Savage, who proceeded to successfully Google-bomb Santorum's last name and create a new sex-related but far from sexy definition for the moniker.

There is a trend in this country at this time to make homosexuals part of the norm and people who have grown up in a different age and time had better learn if you want to get along with in the public eye you had better either keep your mouth shut about such thing or be willing to take the heat.

let me say I don't understand homosexuals being my self a heterosexual but I think that politicians in our country have had favorite subject matter that they felt by coming out against such things would be a plus in any political race. I think people like Rick santorum really don't harbor such strong opinions about homosexuals and that in some cases it has been proven in the past some are homosexuals them selves, but such people think these statements will play well to their political base.
It is like this, the abortion issue, the homosexual issue and all the pet subjects of people trying to get into or remain in power is just another way to whip the dog. I think that dog has been beaten enough perhaps we should move on to what really is important like war and poverty or love and hate.

Larry Pyshny

Lawrence 'Larry' G. Pyshny Jr., 54, Omaha

Lawrence G. “Larry” Pyshny Jr., 54, of Omaha, died Saturday, Sept. 17 (2011) at his home, at the age of 54.

He was born April 28, 1957, at Portland, Ore., a son of Laurence G. Sr. and Trudy (Greenwood) Pyshny.

Larry worked for Tyson Foods. He graduated from Bloomfield High School, and after graduation, he served in the U.S. Army. Lawrence loved to play and laugh with his two grandchildren. He loved fossil hunting and genealogy, hunting, fishing and being with his family.

He was preceded in death by his father, Laurence.

Survivors include his wife, Linda (Hair) Pyshny of the home; children, Laurence Pyshny III, Lori Howerton of Berryville and Ludwig “Frank” Pyshny and Lonnie Pyshny, both of Omaha; grandchildren, Maddie Rhea Pyshny and Kaleb Joe Howerton; his mother, Trudy Pyshny; siblings, Joe Pyshny, Tina Butler and Terry Pyshny; numerous nieces and nephews; and many other family and friends.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. Cremation and arrangements are by Holt Memorial Chapel

Jumping on one foot!

Alivia Wade

Lovely great granddaughter.

Our neighbor

Our neighbor Lee is 84 years old and he has supplemented his socital security income by working in salvage in metal, alumina cans and any thing he can find he will work every day in his yard.

In the last year lee has been sick and in the hospital a couple of times. I am sure it is his heart. His wife has tried to curtail his labors and she tries to keep him from his labors as much as she can. I suppose the doctor has told her to do this. A few months ago I spoke to her about his working and I told her that he was happy doing his work and should be alowed to work because if not he surly would die.

lee was working this morning on some metal object, you can always hear him , peck, bang and bomb for as Long as Marnia will let him.

My son had a piece of copper tubing from our old stove and he wanted to give it to lee for his copper pile. Lee is deaf and you can never make him hear you so Sammy went down to where Lee was working , Lee had his back to Sammy and Sammy reached out and touched Lee on the back with the copper tubing and lee said with out turning around, WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU WANT NOW? when Lee turned and saw Sammy he said oh, it is you. I thought you were Marnia.

facing the lion

I have a new book titled Facing the lion to read. It is going very fast but I wanted to share some thing about the book.
By: Joseph Lemasola lekuton
Written by a man who grew up in Kenya of the Maasai tribe. These people you see on TV wearing red cloths and they herd cattle for a living. They are a nomad tribe due to the fact they must continual move to find grass for their cattle. he explains that the cattle are their wealth and this is what he said....Cows are our way of life the more cows a person has the wealthier he is...with the more cows a man has the more respect he has...a man with out cows has no voice in the tribe, cows are the Maasai money.
I thought when I read this that this is just like our society.. the wealthy men get the respect and power in our land and only the wealthy has power just as it is in the land of the Maasai.
I am enjoying this book, it is written in a simple manner and would be good reading for a young person I think.

yeah

I have had a problem about my ebooks from the library I downloaded an audio book by mistake, I don't have the soft ware on my computer so it was in never-never land. I couldn't send it back or listen to it and was not sure if I down loaded the thing to listen to it if it would show up or what so I have been waiting to see if the library would be able to pull it back after the time allowed I had to use it. Hurrah it is gone off my account. Note to self don't down load anymore audio books!

I am off to search for another ebook to down load.

monday

LOS ANGELES — Texas congressman Ron Paul won the California Republican straw poll Saturday after making several speeches at the GOP state convention, officials announced.

It is warm and damp this morning and the crickets are calling to each other as the day begins. I noticed I had a comment from a bail bondman In Los Angles Co. apparently they had read my post about being in electronic jail and some one going my bail. I suppose they didn't realize that they were about to read about chickens and books.

Fleta has lost her Internet until Tuesday so I suppose if we want we can say what every we wish about her until tomorrow.

see Helen See

new chickens

Sammy bought more chickens. He said 20 . I have to give him credit they are mostly pullets and hens. I saw one red chicken that might be a rooster. some of the chickens are ready to lay.

He bought 2 full blood game hens.
It is suppose to rain again. Fleta said we got over 3 inches yesterday.

I went to feed and to see all the new chickens beforee it starts.

Bikers

saturday

Sammy took off to go to the sale. He is a fair weather farmer. I went and feed the chickens after he was gone.

Sammy bought some cantaloupe that were no good and I guess the neighbors did also. they had left it cut open laying by the fence I suppose they thought the guineas would eat it but the guineas wont eat any thing like that so I picked it up and put it in the chicken pen. They were delighted.
I got to thinking the neighbors might have heard about the cantaloupe scare and were afraid to eat it anyway the chickens loved it.

I have started one of my ebooks so jail here I come I guess.

It is raining and chilly here no sun today I guess.

went my bail

By Johnice at the library working and by fleta talking I am out of jail and have books to read but I am dishearten cause I know I will read them in a day and when I try to send them back I will be in jail again I suppose so I will read these and wait to see when they take them back. I guess that is better than not having anything to read but just barely.
Oh, if we only had a perfect world but if the world was perfect I wouldn't be here.

friday

I have been napping but had to get up cause the nurse is coming soon.
5 eggs today.
It has been cool and damp all day. 57 degrees here at 3 O'clock.

Taylor, Susie King

Since I am in electronic jail I decided to search for books to read on line and have found a wealth of reading .
this is the book I found and I think sisters might like this book, even Fleta who has high standards for books.
this is a book written by a negro female who went thro' the civil war .HER NAME WAS SUZIE KING TAYLOR click on my post title if you want to look. need less to say Helen wont read this book.

Bantam Phoenix - 1

this day

there were 4 eggs yesterday. At lest 2 were pullet eggs. I will soon be getting a lot of eggs as the pullets start to lay. I think SAM has at least 30 pullets. I cut weeds for the chickens every morning now seems I have found a weed they like so I am cutting weeds every morning.

The gas company came and filled the propane tank yesterday. 2 dollars and 8 cents a gallon. this is the cheapest price I have seen in 3 years.

I am still in electronic jail at the library.

Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Dan Tyminski - I Am A Man Of Con...

Kennedy years and I am a PAULITE

I watched the Jackie Kennedy tape show on TV last night where Caroline Kennedy was ask among other things did her mother every speak to her about JFK and his sex life and she refused to answer. Good FOR HER! As always when I read or see on TV about the Kennedy years. I cried. I spoke to Helen about wanting to see the record Jackie left to be open after her children were dead about the JFK assignation and Helen said, Oh she wont say anything bad about JFK because she was still preserving the image. I don't want to hear any thing bad about JFK. I want to know who Bobby and Jackie thought was behind the death of JFK. I really think LBJ was the "one." or Nixon.
You see I believe Someone or someones in government had JFK killed.maybe The CIA, Maybe Hoover in the FBI or as I said LBJ. Daddy said when a leader is killed look for the person who had the most to gain for the killer and that was LBJ.
For God sakes he was killed in Texas and that was LBJ country.
I enjoyed seeing Carolin Kennedy looking so relaxed and at peace with her memories.

I have always considered my self a liberal Democrat but over the years I find my self more conservative than I once was.
After listening to Ron Paul I have decided I am a "Paulite".

1. He says let the homosexuals marry. I agree, who cares not me, the insurance companies wants to stop them because if they marry the working spouse could carry the other on their insurance. I am for anything the insurance companies are not for.

He says less government is the best government. I agree.

3. he says legalise, drugs, such as marijuana, cocaine and other "bad" drugs. assuming there are "good" which with all the side effects many of the "good" have been "bad". I am for that also.

4. legalize Prostitution. me too. If you get rid of these offences, drugs and prostitution, there will be room in prison for the wealth crooks running around on wall street.

5. He says cut back on the CIA to a very small group with little power and less money, I agree. I also think the navy seal 6 is part of the CIA and should be cut way back. We ought not to go around the world promoting mayhem and death.

6. cut taxes. yes. if the government spends less they need less.

7.He says we should mind our own business around the world. less wars, less backing foreign leaders who after we give them weapons, and power they become our worst enemy, case in point Osama Bin ladin and Saddam Hussein. I agree.

8. right to own a gun. I agree.

9 . free speech. right to say what you want. words don't kill people, people kill people. I agree.

I don't know what else he thinks but I probably would agree.

so for now I have decided I am a PAULITE! I reserve the right to change my mind in the next 10 minutes.

Soggy Bottom Boys-In The Jail House Now

jail

Hello, Fleta is in electronic jail with me now.. Hip hip hurray, she didn't believe me now she will want me to go her bail.

Ron Paul "Get the government out of marriage" - SC Republican Debate 5/5...

Ron Paul Correctly Predicts Obama Lie

Ron Paul Booed at CNN - Tea Party Debate

The people of the US don't like being told the truth. They are bullies and they believe this country should be able to run ruff shod over the world but as Paul said we will pay the price for our selfish ways.

woods

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

The Closer

Virginia's home. Mowing that yard would be a full time job,How about that car?

I understood that the show "The closer" was writing Brenda out after this last go around but what I found yesterday was this....

TNT just ordered six additional episodes of its veteran hit, extending its final season to prepare for a possible spin-off. The network expects to air the previously announced 10 episodes this summer, followed by five in the winter … and now another six in the summer of 2012.

The final six will be the swan song for star Kyra Sedgwick (Brenda Leigh Johnson), while likely introducing a new central character who will headline the spin-off
I guess Brenda will be around for the year 2012 season and I doubt if I last that long.

eggs

We are getting 6 bantam eggs a day now and this is enough so that I always have fresh eggs in the fridge. It is really dry here the leaves are falling from the trees because of the drought.

I watched the Closer the show on TNT that we love to watch. I had heard this was the last season and was puzzled by how it finished. I expected a more dramatic ending.
I did a search and found that they have 5 more shows scheduled for this winter and six for next summer. I guess Brenda got her raise. that was what I thought was going on with all the talk she was doing about quiting. I couldn't see anyone that was a actor quiting with a hit show.

sold out

Sammy went to the sale at Huntsville Saturday and sold all the large chickens he had left. He sold 27 pullets at 10 dollars each for 15 of them and the rest brought 7 dollars a piece. I was surprised, I thought he would lose his shirt but some how he was lucky and got out of the big hens business. I told him he had better not get any more until spring.

in jail

OK, I am in Electronic jail. I rented so many books , I think that is what is wrong and sent back since fleta fixed me up with this reading library thing they have shut me down and says there is a error and to call my administer. You know things like this only happen to me on Sunday so I will have to wait until the library opens tomorrow and see if she can bail me out.

Fleta says she thinks I will remain in jail we will see tomorrow. Fleta thinks they are still on my computer but I am pretty sure they are not I did a search and it said the last one I downloaded and sent back was not on this machine so I think they are all back and their computer has shut me down because I had been downloading and sending back more than is normal. we shall see tomorrow.

fisherman

Shawn Powell , Donnie's son

Virginia

Virginia and her husband and maybe her daughter. I don't know for sure about the daughter.

Virginia's home .I think

Donnie looks like Truman and virginia looks like Francis.

Donnie Powell

Bob Montgomery virginia's husband on your left and Donnie Powell on the right. Uncle Truman made over.

Virgina

Helen , yes Virgina has a computer. She says she can use one because she has to where she works. no she is not a compute nut. she apparently is like Clayton can use one but would rather not. Yes she has an email address.
She ask me did you know our old house burnt? I did know because Tony told me. even tho' they sold it she still called it their house. sort of like we are about Clayton's home. He may live there but it is ours.
I do have her email address if anyone wants it but I don't want to post it on here for obvious reasons.
Virgina has one daughter. The daughter is married to a soldier and is in England at this time. Virginia still works but I forgot to ask her what she does. I told her Clayton was at the beer joint. When she ask about him.
Clayton's new job has furnished me with lots of joy and laughter.

Truman's letter

I hate being old and forgetful. Virginia mentioned a letter uncle Truman wrote when he was a boy to his father when grandpa was in California. I have looked and looked for the photo of that letter, I saw it of late some where but I can't find it.

who ever has as copy post it for me so I can send a copy to Virgina. I bet Betty has the photo but I know it was one of you.

Octobert 1 a party for Kenny

I spoke to Virginia Lee Powell and she said the birthday party was going to be all day. she thought she would get there about 11 o'clock and would have Kenny with her so perhaps we should try to get there about 12 o'clock. she said Frankie organized the party and Donnie suggest having it here so more people would come.
Virgina wanted to make sure Winnie Jo knew about the get to gather.
Kenny lives in Bolivar Mo.

Night and day by Robert B. Parker

I am reading Night and day by Robert B. Parker. I have read some of his books and like them.
Jessie Stone is a small town cop and he has a peeping tom in town plus a 13 year old girl has confided that her parents are into a mate swapping club which isn't illegal but Jess is trying to see if he can be of help to the children. Some parent have complained that one of the children's teacher a woman has made her female students let her see their panties. Jessie is trying to find a motive for her actions and her husband a high powered lawyer has told him to back off or else . I can see fire works on the way. This is a good book if you want to read a good mystery. No one has died yet by chapter 19 but I smell blood in the water so no doubt some one is about to be found dead some where in Paradise.
The one thing I find bad about the library on my computer is I like to read in bed. I can't do that. I may have to buy a note book for bed time reading.

Kenny Powell

I would like to go to Kenny's birthday party. I would like to see Kenny, Virginia, Jimmy, Frankie and we might even see Donnie. If I am having a good day I will go but I need to know what the hours are because My strength is limited to a few minutes away from the house.

It would be nice if Virginia has an email address if we had it then we could talk to her our selves. I may call Barbara Wade and see if she has Jonell's phone number and call her.

The roosters are calling this morning and Sam is out feeding them now. Today is nurse day. I dread it. I have dreaded nurse day every since I lost Nancy. This nurse is a good nurse but she wants to be boss and I want to be top dog as you all know.
I have a full plate for reading today and If I get to wanting more books all I have to do is send these back and look for more.

BOOOOOOOKS

Fleta came by and set me up so I can down load books from the Library and read them I have 2 down loaded , you can only have 3 at a time after two weeks they take them back but I told sister I have to know how to send them back cause I will be ready for 3 more by tomorrow!
Sister has gone to a class to see how I can send them back. the books will be whizzing off the electron shelf in Carroll and Madison county library system.

chicks

I got 3 pullet eggs this morning. I think Sammy is going to sell all his big chickens Saturday at the sale so we will only have bantam hens and a few bantam roosters. He has 13 young ones in the brooder in the house now and he needs to move them out to the calf pen today.
The oldest chick in the photos are a week old and I already can see a rooster!