A wonderful memorial day

I think this past memorial day was one of the best ones I have had in a long time. All of our family was together and for once theire was no bickering and fighting. I think as we are getting older, we are realizing how silly all that was at one time. Our mother in law is aging and we are all trying to make what might be her last holidays with us, enjoyable ones.

I do have some pics of my tulips I wanted to share with you.

4 wheeler vent

A business near us had to shut down and put 6 people and the owner out of work. Oh, it iwas a small business and some people might find it no great loss because of the number of people put out of work, not to mention a good man having his life ruined because some kids decided to ride a four wheeler on his propet and one of them wrecked and was severly hurt.The girls parents decided to sue for a large amount of money. They sued and won such a large amount, the man decided he could no longer operate his business because he money she won, wiped him out. He had signs up but there is little that can be done even if the signs asking them to stay off are there. I don't know if he could have won if he let it go to court or not but I would have taken them to court had it been me.

I was told by a state trooper that if they come onto my property I was to take their keys and ask them to walk off the property then call the cops to report them. They would make them remove the four wheelers.

I am not anti four wheelers but I do think they should not be on my property unless I give them permission. And I should not be responsible for what happens to them when they are on their without my permission. I was always taught to respect other people's property and not to do anything on their property without asking permission.


With all the deaths being caused by these things, I have to wonder why there is not more outrage over the kids being killed on them. Some that are killed on them are ten and under. That is way to young for kids to be driving them, I don't care where they are driving them. There should be an age limit and they should be liscensed. Those kids that were almost killed were thirteen and fourteen. I feel sorry for the kids that are hurt and many whose lives are ruined because to their injuries or they have to live with the fact they lost a loved one because their parents allowed them to ride four wheelers without an adult around to supervise. My friend lost a twelve year old son to such an accident. He was driving and it flipped over, killing him. While I sympathized with her, I wanted to grab her and scream, 'He was twelve! Why in the hell was he driving that thing? Couldn't you say no to him once?" He always got what he wanted to so he got a fourwheeler for his birthday.......

I had to stop and save this for awhile because I get bent out of shape and so frustrated when I think of how lax the laws are where these dangerous machines are concerned.

If you own a four wheeler, please treat it with the same respect you would a car and do not let young kids ride them unsupervised. Before riding it on someone else's property, please ask. If they say no, move on.....

I had a very good day to day. My youngest is moving out and we decided to give her our couch. It was the one we had in the family room in the basement. We had two couches, on chair and a day bed there. I decided to make her room into a sewing room so I am bringing the day bed up there tomorrow. I want to fix it up so I can sit there and quilt while watching some of my shows. I have been tearing it all out and moving stuff in. I felt kinda sad about it all but she must move on. I did not want anyone holding me back from life and I will not do that to her.

I cried while hubby and I moved the stuff but had my tears dried when I got to her apartment. It was a nice visit with her and she is coming tomorrow. She has her cat, taters with her. Yes, I parted with taters and was so worried about how he would relate to her roomies cat and they are like the best buddies. I was happy for both the cat and my daughter. Sounds weird, I know but that is how I felt.


All and all, it was good day. :)

Lost Arts....

Recently I made my daughter a quilt. She took it to college and showed to some of her friends. They thought she bought it from the amish. When she told them I made it they were amazed. They could not believe someone made that by hand unless they did it for a career. I never liked to think of myself as an artist but the quilts I make are my own designs. I do not follow anyone's pattern. Most are quilted by hand, not machineTherefore, her art teacher told her I am an artist working on a type of lost art.

I think there is something sad about the fact that so many things that we once did for enjoyment or necessity have now become a lost art.

Jelly making is what I talked about in a previous post. It too, has been on the list of lost arts. So is canning. It is so much easier go to store and pick things up. But it is better for us? At least with canning or making your own jelly, you know what is going into the food you eat. You don't know that when you walk into walmarts and pick up some chicken, exactly what that chicken ha been fed and I think that is a great problem today.

There are other lost arts fading away and someday we will wake up and realize just how special it was to know how to do those things.

Jelly

Recently I was talking to some young women and they were wondering how in the world anyone would make jelly. Now these are bright young women and I like them alot so I tried to be very patient and explain to them how one makes jelly. Two of them seemed impressed but one said she would never eat jelly again.

I know women have to work and they do not have the time to make things at home like they once did and I understand that. I also feel a little bit sad when I realize how much they are misssing out by not knowing some of these things or sharing that time with their mom doing it. Some of my best memories are of picking strawberries in the summer, or other types of berries and helping my foster mom pour the hot jelly into jars while we listened to the latest tunes on the radio or she talked about life on the farm as she grew up. She made it fun and made some great memories for me to look back on now.

I have made every kind of jelly imaginable. Rose Jelly, violet jelly, dandelion jelly. All kinds of berry preserves and jellies.

Oh, I have some jello out there....maybe I could make some jelly out of it? *s*

Okay, so I bargained with God.....

I stood out on my front porch and surveyed the soggy mess that is my front yard then looked to the heavens and said, 'Please God, send this rain to Arizona or some other place that needs this rain. We don't need it any more.' Did he listen? No. It is still raining. *sigh* I tried to think of all the things I could tell God, I would do if he would agree to do this but I am such a good girl, there is no way I could improve upon myself. *s* So I guess we are stuck with the rain til it moves out of here. A month or two I will be complianing cause there is no rain so I think I shold just decide to be satisfied with what we get.

How depressing

It know it should be a great mothers day and all that but my husband had to get out some pics to show us that he took of my daughter and I falling asleep on the couch. She was on one end of our reclining couch and I was on the other. The depressing thing was, when I saw my pic, I did not see me but I saw my mother lying there with her mouth open, snoring. When did I turn into my mother?

I was once beautiful, young and had a figure that made men turn their heads. Now, I am nothing more than an embodiement of my mother. How sad is that???:(

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Another vent

A business near us had to shut down and put 6 people and the owner out of work. Oh, it iwas a small business and some people might find it no great loss because of the number of people put out of work, not to mention a good man having his life ruined because some kids decided to ride a four wheeler on his propet and one of them wrecked and was severly hurt.

The girls parents decided to sue for a large amount of money. They sued and won such a large amount, the man decided he could no longer operate his business because he money she won, wiped him out. He had signs up but there is little that can be done even if the signs asking them to stay off are there. I don't know if he could have won if he let it go to court or not but I would have taken them to court had it been me.

I was told by a state trooper that if they come onto my property I was to take their keys and ask them to walk off the property then call the cops to report them. They would make them remove the four wheelers.

I am not anti four wheelers but I do think they should not be on my property unless I give them permission. And I should not be responsible for what happens to them when they are on their without my permission. I was always taught to respect other people's property and not to do anything on their property without asking permission.

With all the deaths being caused by these things, I have to wonder why there is not more outrage over the kids being killed on them. Some that are killed on them are ten and under. That is way to young for kids to be driving them, I don't care where they are driving them. There should be an age limit and they should be liscensed. Those kids that were almost killed were thirteen and fourteen.


I feel sorry for the kids that are hurt and many whose lives are ruined because to their injuries or they have to live with the fact they lost a loved one because their parents allowed them to ride four wheelers without an adult around to supervise. My friend lost a twelve year old son to such an accident. He was driving and it flipped over, killing him. While I sympathized with her, I wanted to grab her and scream, 'He was twelve! Why in the hell was he driving that thing? Couldn't you say no to him once?" He always got what he wanted to so he got a fourwheeler for his birthday.......

I had to stop and save this for awhile because I get bent out of shape and so frustrated when I think of how lax the laws are where these dangerous machines are concerned.


If you own a four wheeler, please treat it with the same respect you would a car and do not let young kids ride them unsupervised. Before riding it on someone else's property, please ask. If they say no, move on.....

Myspace rant....

I heard again on the news about a child preditor picking up young girls on myspace. The tone of the news commentor sorta ticked me off cause it was like he was blaming the myspace owners for all the perverts picking up kids on there.

I have an account on myspace. I do not go there often but there is a friend who is on there and she keeps in touch with me that way. I have seen some of the blogs written by the young kids on there. The language is atrocious. They make it plain why they are on there. There are pics of very scantily clad girls in provocative clothing. Young girls, not young women. Some are only 12, maybe, 13 years old.

My first thought when I saw some of them was, where are their parents? Why are their parents allowing them to post such filth and in many cases they had their full name and address. It would not be hard for a pedophile to find them.

My daughters both have myspace accounts. I never allowed them to post their pics up there until they were adults then they could do it if they wished. Our computer Was always in the main part of the house while they were young. I could see what they were posting and how when I walked by and they never knew when I was going to walk by. They did not have computers in their rooms til they were over 18.

So why blame myspace when these girls disappear? I think the ones to blame are the men who trick them and take advantage of them and the parents who do not control what their kids are doing on a computer. I do not think the kids are at fault as they are too young to realize the danger they are putting themselves in when they put so much out there on the net.

If the parents have done all they could to prevent it, then the blame lies solely on the pervert who did it. Not myspace.

Friday..........

My daughter called late, very late last night. She was imbibing. Sharing the bubbly with some friends. She was feeling very tipsy and talking to me. I just asked her if she was driving and she said no, she was at her friends house and they were staying over. We talked for awhile and I thought some of the stuff she was saying was goofy but that was okay. I have always kept the phone lines open for my kids. Always. I could call my mom any time of the day or night and that is what I miss about not having her. She is not here for me to call at 1 in the morning if I so chose and talk to her or cry on her shoulder as I often did.

My husband was so mad at her for calling and mad at me for not chastizing her for calling while she was drinking. I told him that my phone lines and doors would always be open to my kids no matter what time of the day or night it is. Drunk or sober. She is normally a very responsilbe young woman who is doing very well in school and holding down two jobs. I have only known her to be drunk a few times and I often look back and think of what I was like at 22 and I was no way near as responsible as she is.

I think our kids have to feel they can talk to us about things or we will lose them. Or, their trust in us and when they are young adults, they often need us as much as they did when they were teens. Just in a different way.

I do not want to shove them out the door or make them feel as though they cannot talk to me. I will never do that either.

getting tired of this...

For some reason my blog will not publish. I keep trying and none of the ones for may first are coming up. I will try to republish the blog, I guess. My gripe right now is contacting blogger to try and find out why things are not working. I think they should have a button on the page where it says contact us but they don't. I did find the page in blogger help though.

He is leaving...

Some time ago my eldest daughter called to tell me about this woman who was going to drown her one kitten if she could not find a home for it. I wanted to kill the woman but my daughter wanted the cat so I took him. But my daughter moved out to a place where she cannot have a cat when the kitten was very young. I made up my mind to keep him til I found a home for him. A good home. Well, I found a home for taters and he is leaving next week. *sniff* My youngest and her roommates want him. I would keep him but I have three others and the one does not like Tater Tots. But he is going to a great home.......