JUST SIX WORDS........

I love this picture.......It's my GIG dog with a friend!  Well, not really but it looks just like her so maybe it is some of her family.......we all have skeletons in our closets!
Good thought: In the world of nudity, you could feel very liberated.  Out in clothed society, people are packages of clothes, shoes, watches  and other status symbols that can mask their true natures.  Style disguises substance.  I enjoy checking out interesting blogs on the Internet and ran across one that makes blogging very simple (sixwordsyourlife.com) He put down what was happening in his life and what he was going through in only six words.....that would be a real challenge for me, I like to write to much.  Here are some for instances:  Waking up in an empty bed......My best is never good enough......I had a love, he's gone......Low hopes makes for less disappointment.....You know I liked myself once.....Lost myself, now I'm starting over......Thought I was something, guess not.  You can go on and on, interesting challenge for someone who wants to blog, but doesn't like to write! It takes all kinds to make this interesting world.   Off to lunch and bridge today.

DID YOU KNOW????

The world is changing so fast and not really for the good.  What has happened to our leaders when it comes to all their promises to commit their time and lives to serve us well.  They are not sincere you can't believe any of them, especially the president and hard work??? What a joke.  I guess the only thing I can depend on to be constant is  "The Father - Son - Holy Spirit". This little sign says a lot.

I am finding more and more of friends my age are dying, which brings up the many customs of death.  Did you know.......Several hundred years ago, lead cups were used for drinking ale and whiskey.  The combination would sometimes knock people out for days.  When found they were sometimes presumed dead and were prepared for burial.  They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family gathered around eating and drinking to see if they would wake up.  Hence the custom of holding  "a wake."

England started running out of places to bury people.  So they dug up coffins and took the bones back to their house and reused  the graves. 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratched marks on the inside and they realized they have been burying people alive. So they decided to tie wrists with a cord , lead it through the coffin, then up through the ground and tie it to a bell.  Someone  was posted all night to listen for a bell.  Thus began "the graveyard shift."  Where their relatives hoped their loved ones might be "saved by the bell" and become a "dead ringer?"  True or not sounds good to me.

SECRET RETREAT......

Now days.....the thing to do is have a second place to escape to..  Two of my kids have cabins to break the routine of everyday living and the other has a time share they use once a month.  In my other life we had a cabin in Wyoming that I adored. Took long walks, pressed the wild flowers, gathered driftwood from the river near by and explored the little towns near by. The children so love these places and have many memories to share through their lives.  Now days I live in a great condo and  have spent many years traveling around the world. But now I don't feel like long lines, delayed schedules or having to pay extra to take my clothes with me.  My dream would be to have a fun place like this picture. In a fun area with good neighbors.  A couple of small flower beds, a little garden area and I would put a rocking chair on the front porch to watch the sun set or sun rise and listen to the frogs when the sun goes down.  As you get older your life grows more simple and you do just what you enjoy doing.  I will just close my eyes and go there.......pretend I already have the place of my dreams.....surrounded by fields of wild flowers and beautiful birds and the sound of the river near by. Occasional wild life wander near by, Oh yes, it costs nothing to dream!  Monday again and news from our two missionaries.  And........ I have to go to the dentist, broke a front tooth off!

CUTE KIDS......

It is perfectly normal and OK for a mother to brag about her beautiful children.......I have to admit growing up it was always on my mind.....".now if I married him what would my kids look like?" I wanted someone tall, dark and handsome like my father, always loved brown eyed people.  But can you believe I married a tall, blond, blue eyed man......so I have three beautiful blue eyed daughters.

Like Maxine says, if you have strong, healthy, beautiful children you can handle anything else that is thrown at you through your life.  There are some beautiful red-headed people in the world with their fair skin, but that was the dread of my life that I would end up with a batch of red-headed, freckle face kids that had noses that always peeled all summer. I know that is probably a horrible thing to say and I am sure I would love them no matter what they looked like if they were mine.  I guess when you are old you stop and think about and really own all the thoughts of your younger years.....good or bad.  A nice quiet, cooler Sunday morning in July.....I'm lovin' it. Off to Panniers for dinner.

LISTEN TO WOMEN & LEARN......

These are women of my generation that knew how to get things done.......Why aren't more women running our country.......BUT, not Hilliary Clinton !

NEVER FORGET HOW WE GOT HERE......

These pictures I want my grandchildren and great-grandchildren to look at and remember the history this great man gave us......about a nation divided.....about all men are created equal.....and his nick-name was "honest Abe"......because he was a honest man.  Abe's wedding picture, the theater where he was shoot by John Wilkes Booth in 1865 and the hearse that carried him to his grave.  What has happened to our country now?  Where are the honest men that run our government?  So many are being dismissed for pornography, cheating on their wives or being gay!......President Obama is the worst of all when it comes to leaders.  Where are we headed as a country?
I discovered today I had missed last month's quarterly payment......why?  The first time that has EVER happened since I began paying quarterly!!!! Am I slipping?  One of my front teeth broke off so off to the dentist Monday......First a new air conditioner last week, this week a new tooth, if things comes in threes......what is next? Met Patty for coffee this A.M.
BU,T GOOD NEWS FOR THE PANNIERS.......THEY SOLD THEIR HOUSE  YESTERDAY, THE FIRST DAY IT WAS LISTED.......

A MOTHER HEN.......

This precious little group is the center of my life....all nine of them.  Now, I only had three daughters, but lucked out with 6 grandsons.  The list above so illustrates how my three girls feel about these precious little boys!  I never saw a list of mother's protecting sons before......it's usually us Mother's threatening these wicked boys out there not to harm our precious little girls.  Yes, all three girls are like a momma bear protecting her cub if you make her little guy feel bad.....so beware you cute girls out there, you are getting some prized possessions, so treat them good......you might even have grandma on your trail too.........
The back row is Alex and Richard, who are both on LDS missions. Nicci is holding Scott, then William who is 21 and has a steady girl friend.....and then Kennedy.  Bottom row Brayden, Tiffany and Andrea.  These were such fun days when everyone was little and no mother worried about girl friends or boy friends.