SERIOUSLY........

NICE DAY WITH THE LADIES PLAYING MEXICAN TRAIN.......AS USUAL WE CUSSED AND DISCUSSED MANY SUBJECTS....FAMILY ALWAYS COMES UP AND SEEMS NO ONE HAS A PERFECT FAMILY.......THEN WE GET ON THE SUBJECT OF ALL THE PRON AND X RATED MOVIES FOR KIDS TO WATCH NOW DAYS........

SERIOUSLY?

AS A CHILD I SAW TARZAN ALMOST NAKED......CINDERELLA ARRIVED HOME AFTER MIDNIGHT........PINOCCHIO TOLD LIES, ALADDIN WAS A THIEF......BATMAN DROVE OVER 200 MILES AN HOUR.......SNOW WHITE LIVED WITH 7 MEN AND WASN'T MARRIED TO ANY OF THEM........POPEYE SMOKED A PIPE ND HAD A LOT OF TATTOOS....P.AC MAN RAN AROUND TO DIGITAL MUSIC WHILE EATING PILLS  THAT ENHANCED HIS PERFORMANCE.......AND SHAGGY AND SCOOBY WERE MYSTERY SOLVING HIPPIES THAT ALWAYS HAD THE MUNCHIES......IN MY DAY, NO ONE COMPLAINED THAT THESE WERE TEACHING US BAD HABITS.......WHAT HAS CHANGED IN OUR WORLD?  MY GENERATION DIDN'T TURN OUT TOO BAD.

COLD AND RAINY DAY WITH SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS......AND MORE FORECAST......WE ARE NOT SURPRISED.......IT ALWAYS STORMS WHEN THE TOWN IS FULL OF PEOPLE FOR LDS CONFERENCE.

TIME.....WHERE DOES IT GO?

TIME IS LIKE A RIVER, YOU CANNOT TOUCH THE SAME WATER TWICE.....BECAUSE THE FLOW THAT HAS PASSED WILL NEVER PASS AGAIN......ENJOY EVERY MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE........

WEEKS SEEM TO FLY BY......COFFEE WITH PATTY MONDAY......PAM CAME BY AND SHOWED ME THEIR CANCUN PICTURES ......THEN OFF TO.SHOPPING AND CHORES ON TUESDAY,  RELIEF SOCIETY LADIES TODAY.......DOMINOES GROUP TOMORROW AND AN EYE DOCTOR APPOINTMENT ON FRIDAY.......THIS WEEKEND IS GENERAL CONFERENCE, .....SO NO CHURCH.

IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY SUNDAYS YOU SIT IN CHURCH OR IF YOU THINK YOU ARE SAVED, GOD SEES WHAT YOU DO AND HOW YOU TREAT PEOPLE.......AND THAT IS WHAT COUNTS.

TWO MORE DAYS OF MARCH......THIS MONTH HAS FLOWN BY.

DAYS COME AND DAYS GO.....

THIS CUTE GUY........BRAYDEN......IS SO SPECIAL.  HE JUST KEEPS BAILING ME OUT.  HE FIXES ALL OF KEN'S CAR TROUBLES.......KEEPS MY IPAD AND  COMPUTER WORKING FOR ME, WORKS FOR GRANDPA BUD AND SEEMS TO BE ON 24 HOUR CALL FOR HIS DAD AND GOES TO LDS BUSINESS COLLEGE........HE CAME OVER TO DO HIS LAUNDRY TONIGHT AND ATE A BOWL OF HAM AND BEANS WITH ME.  HIS SCHOOL IS OUT SOON AND HE WILL BE SPENDING MOST HIS DAYS IN VERNAL I AM AFRAID......IT HAS BEEN A FUN YEAR AND HE HAS BEEN SO MUCH HELP WITH KEN.  ALWAYS HAS A BIG SMILE AND A HUG FOR HIS GRAMMIE.....HIS MIND GOES A MILE A MINUTE WITH NEW IDEAS AND HE CAN FIX ANYTHING.   LOVE U.

MY NICCI.......

NO MATTER HOW OLD YOU GET.......AND SOMETIMES IT IS GOOD TO FORGET HOW OLD YOU ARE.......YOU HAVE TO STAY YOUNG AT HEART AND LOVE AN ADVENTURE......SO LOOKING FORWARD TO MY ROAD TRIP WITH MY SISTER IN COUPLE OF WEEKS!  FOR MY BIRTHDAY SHE IS DRIVING ME TO ONE OF THE TWO STATES ON MY "BUCKET LIST".....OKLAHOMA!  MY SWEET NIECE AND HER DAUGHTER ARE GOING WITH US AND WE GET TO VISIT LESLIE'S GRANDDAUGHTER WHO LIVES IN OKLAHOMA CITY.

I AM HUNGRY FOR TRAVEL AND TH E SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF OUR WONDERFUL WORLD......HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO GET ENOUGH OF IT......AS I WATCH THE HANDS OF MY CLOCK TICK OFF THE  MINUTES OF MY LIFE, I FEEL I AM PART GYPSY.

AFTER OKLAHOMA JUST ONE MORE OF THE 50 STATES TO VISIT AND THAT IS SCHEDULED FOR MOTHER'S DAY WITH MY TWO DAUGHTERS TO VISIT A NIECE IN MINNESOTA.......WITH A TWO HOUR DRIVE TO THE BORDER OF NORTH DAKOTA, I WILL HAVE HIT MY MARK OF A VISIT TO ALL 50 STATES.....I FEEL SO LUCKY THAT I HAVE PEOPLE WHO LOVE ME AND DO SUCH NICE THINGS FOR ME.

MEDS????

      TALKED TO AN OLD FRIEND THE OTHER DAY AND SHE WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT ALL THE MEDICATION SHE WAS ON......HOW IT SEEMED TO MAKE HER CONFUSED.....I DO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE OVER MEDICATED TO THE POINT OF ONE PILL FIGHTING ANOTHER PILL AND NEITHER ON DOING YOU ANY GOOD......JUST CONFUSING YOUR BODY LIKE WHEN YOU DRINK TOO MUCH AND TRY AND CONQUER TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR!  SOUNDS LIKE THIS!!!!!!
       STARKLE ....STARKLE LITTLE TWINK......HOW THE HECK YOU ARE I THINK?.....I'M NOT UNDER THE ALCOFLUENCE OF INCOHOL......THO SOME THINKLE PEEK I AM.......I FOOL SO FEELISH.......I DON'T KNOW WHOSE ME YET........AND THE DRUNKER I SIT HERE THE LONGER I GET!..........EVER HAVE THAT FEELING?.......CHANGE PILLS!
      "ACCEPT WHAT IS.....LET GO OF WHAT WAS......AND HAVE FAITH IN WHAT WILL BE"
     

WHAT IS ENOUGH?

ONCE IN AWHILE I STOP AND PONDER....."DO I HAVE ENOUGH TO GET ME SAFELY TO MY GRAVE?"

THEN COMES THE NEXT QUESTION...."WHAT IS ENOUGH?"

THE WORD .....ENOUGH.....MYSTIFIES ME.    IS ENOUGH MEASURED BY THE FIGURES IN MY CHECK BOOK?  IS IT PHYSICAL, MEASURED BY WHAT I CAN TOUCH?   THE THINGS I OWN......HOUSE, CAR, FURNITURE?  I AM NOT SURE.  I WILL THINK ABOUT IT AWHLE.

TAKEN FOR GRANIT........

                GOOD FRIEND PATTY JUST CALLED AND WANTED TO COME OVER FOR COFFEE......GUESS THAT IS MY CLUE TO GO SHOWER AND GET DRESSED THIS MONDAY MORNING........I AM DEFINITELY NOT A MORNING PERSON ANYMORE!  BUT YOU WOULD BE PROUD OF ME.......GETTING UP FIVE DAYS A WEEK AT 6:00/6:30 TO GET KEN FED AND OFF TO TEMPLE SQUARE.......OF COURSE I WON'T CONFESS HOW MANY MORNINGS AFTER HE LEAVES AT 8:00........I GO BACK TO BED FOR AN HOUR OR TWO!
              BEEN WATCHING A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PROGRAM ON THE USE OF FEATHERS.......WHO HAS TIME TO THINK ABOUT A FEATHER? WELL, I HAVE TAKEN TIME THIS MORNING TO PONDER A BIT.
            IS THERE ANYTHING IN NATURE THAT IS BOTH SO EXTRAVAGANTLY BEAUTIFUL AND SO DANG USEFUL AS A FEATHER?  ASK OUR FINE FEATHERED FRIENDS.........IT MAKES FLIGHT POSSIBLE.....INSULATES AGAINST HEAT AND COLD.......DISGUISES, CAMOUFLAGES OR FLAUNTED TO ADVERTISE IN COURTSHIP............WE.....PEOPLE......ALSO USE BEAUTIFUL FEATHERS TO DECORATE OUR HATS, FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS AND JEWELRY.........I REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER.......AFTER SHE KILLED A CHICKEN......SAVING THE NICE SOFT FEATHERS FOR PILLOWS OR FEATHER BEDS.......NOW DAYS THE WARMEST COATS AND JACKETS ARE DOWN FILLED.......PLUS AFTER A CHICKEN CONTRIBUTED IT'S FEATHERS ......IT WAS GOOD TO EAT!
     SO FROM NOW ON I WILL LOOK AT FEATHERS DIFFERENTLY.......THEY HAVE A REAL PURPOSE......PLUS THE BEAUTY OF MANY ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
       

HAPPY 38TH ANNIVERSARY ..........

MARCH 17TH WAS HAPPY........38TH........ ANNIVERSARY TO PAM AND ROB......HERE WITH AARON THEIR ONLY GRANDCHILD.   THEY DID A FISHING TRIP TO A PRIVATE ISLAND OFF CANCUN TO CELEBRATE........ROB'S IDEA.
THIS WEEK THEIR OLDEST DAUGHTER IS OFF ON AN OFFICIAL SORIETY COMMITMENT AND THEIR SECOND DAUGHTER AND HER HUSBAND ARE ON A SAFARI, AND I AM LOVING THE PICTURES SHE IS SENDING HOME ON INSTAGRAM......ALL MY KIDS LOVE TO TRAVEL.
WELL I HOPE IT ISN'T ANOTHER TWO WEEKS BEFORE I CAN GET BACK INTO MY BLOG......COMPUTERS ARE SO FRUSTRATING!!!!!

UGGG.......

WELL I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN!!!!!! FOR ALMOST TWO WEEKS I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET INTO MY BLOG......I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DID TONIGHT, BU I HAVE SOME CATCHING UP TO DO.......

ST PATRICKS DAY SLIDE BY WITH NO EXCITEMENT......PAM AND ROB WENT OFF TO CANCUN TO FISH FOR A WEEK AND JUST CAME AND PICKED UP BREE TODAY......ALL LAST WEEK SHERRIE AND FAMILY WERE IN LAS VEGAS TO A TRADE SHOW AND CAME BY FRIDAY AND TOOK KEN HOME WITH THEM FOR THE WEEKEND........AND ALEX AND SHELLY POPPED IN FOR SATURDAY NIGHT STAY, THE SECOND WEEKEND IN A ROW TO SEE THEM.  ALEX WANTED ME TO TRIM HIS HAIR, BUT SHELLY WANTED US TO SCALP HIM......WHICH WE DID!  THEY LEFT ABOUT NOON AND I WENT BACK TO BED.  

LAST WEEK WAS COLD AND RAINY AND VERY QUIET,,,,,,I DID PICK UP MY INCOME TAX , WATERED PAM'S PLANTS ONE DAY AND WENT TO PATTY'S FOR COFFEE.......THIS WEEK LOOKS BUSIER........DR APPOINTMENT, DOMINOES, RELIEF SOCIETY TEACHERS ETC.

BRAYDEN JUST BROUGHT KEN HOME, HE SHOWED AND JUMPED INTO BED AND SEEMED HAPPY TO BE BACK.

I AM STILL STRUGGLING WITH THE GAS BUBBLE IN MY EYE.......IT WAS SUPPOSE TO DISSOLVE IN 8 WEEKS........WE ARE OVER NINE NOW AND I AM STILL STRUGGLING WITH IT.    CAN'T BELIEVE ONLY A FEW DAYS OF MARCH LEFT!

WHY??????

SORRY ABOUT THAT........HAD A DETACHED RETINA  FOR A FEW WEEKS AND DON'T SEE TO WELL!  Slowly the gas bubble is dissolving and my normal sight is suppose to resume.....but until then.......... the postman may be in danger......I had a very quiet weekend....slept for hours and didn't do much.   I did go to dinner at the Panniers on Sunday and when I got home I had a fun surprise.......Sherrie had driven Ken back to Salt Lake for work on Monday and stayed all night with me......those kind of surprises are so fun......She and Ken both left about 8:00 this morning.......but it was great to have them overnight.

I forced myself up and showed and got my nails done today......went to Lowes to get a bolt for my table on the porch....... and thought I would just run by "TUESDAY MORNING".......Well ended up buying two new chairs for my front room.........I have had my eyes on them and was just waiting for them to go on sale.......but I love them and will have some more decorating to do......With turning 85 next month and when I get my income tax back.......I just decided......what the hell Betty you aren't going to live forever.....I keep watching these Flip and Flop shows on TV and they say when you move to a smaller place you also need to down size your furniture......DUH?   I can see that......Ken and I like them and it makes the room look bigger......The two big high back chairs are great in the office......very cozy......and the office chair will match the one downstairs.........!  Been a good day.

We are having beautiful weather.....so Springy......WISH MY LITTLE SISTER LIVED NEXT DOOR.

WEEKEND....YES!

         A great weekend.....done nothing......doing nothing.......not planning on doing any thing. It is really nice weather and I would really like to get out and enjoy it....BUT.....I can't get past the bed without laying down!!!!  My best friend Patty came by.....yes I laying down.....but she understands me and never cares how I look or how the house looks as long as I have a hot cup of coffee available......which I always do!
       This picture sooooo......describes my 5 days a week.  Up at 6;30 to let the dog out and make a cup of coffee before I get Ken up at 7;10......It is quiet and until lately been dark.....I just sit and tell myself all the things I need to do that day......or not.  I like me and my quiet time.....and need it.  I get Ken up, we have the blessing and do our scriptures while he eats, then to the news on TV and then get Ken off to Tracks for his trip to Temple Square where he works in the Postal Department.......THEN......4 out of 5 days......I go back to bed for an hour or two.   What is wrong with this picture?????  I am afraid I am taking this being 85 next month to the limit.....Where is the exercise time.....the meditation time......the house cleaning time.....the volunteering time etc.?  I am in need of some help..... should I.call Dr. Phil?  AND THEN I REMEMBER I HAVE TO CHANGE MY CLOCK TONIGHT!  Have been invited to Pannier's for dinner tomorrow night......I will be here!

AN UNTOLD STORY........

       HOW COME I DON'T LIVE IN ARIZONA????? SO TIRED OF FALLING BACK IN THE FALL AND SPRINGING FORWARD IN THE SPRING!  IT TAKES ME A WEEK TO GET WITH THE NEW PROGRAM  EVERY TIME.....MOVE? PROBABLY NOT!
    Watching National Geographic last night when the "CODE TALKERS" came up....It was what helped us win the war with Japan in WWII....... I was about 9 .......but on down the line our neighbor was one of those CODE TALKERS......who helped win the war.  Franklin Scott, was his name.  He was a Navajo who spoke the language the Japanese could not break......Navajo was never written down!......so the Japanese could not learn it!  Chief , as our family called our neighbor..... was a  nice man.....he was an electrician at the Diamond Match Factory in our small town.  He and his family were our neighbors......and good ones.....his privates had been shot up during the war and he could not have children......so he and his wife Arlene.....lucked out when her sister.....who had a baby every year and lived in Telluride or Rico  gave them one of her babies....We loved their little David.  They also had an older boy.....and a little girl...such a nice sister......My parents had taken a taxidermist course when they were with the Bell Telephone Co. and had continued with it as I grew up.  Chief would not go into Dad's  shop when he did a  bear rug as he felt it was some relative.......when Dad died he ask us if he could put some deer horns and sage brush on his grave.....never knew why?
      My mother also took a Navajo baby...... who was very sick into our home and raised her until mom died at 58......Linda was 13.  My father could not deal with a teenage girls at his age and Linda was sent to Shiprock, NM to an Indian school to finish her education and learn the legends of her people......she had a rough time adjusting to the Indians ways but finally got her life on track and died early of diabetes.  I had left home and did not know Linda.......the younger sisters were all for it .....my father was not. YAT-TA-HEY CHADONIE......AGOSHA?  Hello friend, where are you going?
     My oldest daughter Pam knew Linda and her grandparents,,,,but the twins were 2 when Mom died and all of this changed......I just thought this story would be of interest to the great-grandchildren some day.......OR NOT!  It is just one of those stories that slip through the cracks of any family.

BE THANKFUL......

THIS REALLY MADE ME STOP AND THINK.......How many cold and hungry people there re just in our city......much less the world!  I am so lucky.

Had my eye checked today....been 7 weeks tomorrow......and the Dr. said all is well.....still have to give it a couple of weeks to get rid of the gas bubble......Now my face is another problem....red and pealing and sore.....but I guess this to will pass.

Had a good time last night with TIFF and AARON......so appreciate when the kids come by just to visit with gram.  AARON starting to say everything and loves trains.

Waiting for Ken to get home......he does not like Mon and Wed with his other gram and the program she selected for him......Brain Change......hope it works......

Tomorrow is Dominoes Day.......won' t get much done tomorrow!.......Oh well, there is always the next day.....a beautiful 59 degrees today.....can feel Spring.

I'M DONE......

      THIS SEEMS TO BE ONE OF THOSE .......I AM JUST DONE DAYS.  TOMORROW IS MY EYE APPOINTMENT......HOPE IT IS GOOD NEWS. SO TIRED OF THIS GAS BUBBLE AND SLEEPING ON MY LEFT SIDE????   SEVEN WEEKS THURSDAY....THEY SAID EIGHT
WEEK WITH THIS SILLY GREEN MEDICAL ALERT BRACELET SAYING I HAVE GAS!
      MY FACE LOOKS LIKE I HAVE LEPROSY.......ALL RED AND PEALING.....HATE TO GO ANYWHERE.......
      TIFF CALLED AND SHE WAS BRINGING AARON BY TONIGHT AFTER HIS HAIR CUT........I GOT HIM A "THOMAS TRAIN"......HE LOVES TRAINS.
      SEE WHERE CHASE IS JUMPING INTO SOMETHING NEW AND EXCITING....CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT IS NEXT WITH HIM......
     JANE CALLED......BETTY BARLOW CAN'T HAVE BRIDGE THIS MONTH BECAUSE OF A  HEART OPERATION.......SLOWLY MY WORLD IS SLIPPING AWAY.   NEED TO VISIT MY NEW NEIGHBOR AND ESTABLISH A FUN FRIEND.......

ODD MAN OUT......

Some times you have no one to go to talk to that you feel will understand what you are feeling is GOD.......So do it.  You know he is always there and hears all your prayers.   

WHY......when you suddenly become divorced do you quit being invited to dinner and birthday parties of your married friends?.......Would our single energy be distability to the worn dynamic of domesticity an extra woman would create a kind of frisson of possibility, a glimpse into the swirling chaos of the outside world that would be threatening.......or maybe their excuse is we simply don't have anything in common any more.

If you want to really have a fun and entertaining evening......go with your single friends and have those who are married to leave their husbands at home,....and watch the real people come forward!

A very quiet weekend.....trying to get over all my ills.   Windy, but warm.  Sher called, Lucille and Lesley......don't know if Pam is out of town......she is faugh.

WHAT IS AUTHENTIC?

     There are  classes you can take to preform, to impress, etc  and do things that are not the real you......But wait a minute, you say, Preform like actors?  Be who you are not?  Isn't that inauthentic?  I always felt the best road in life was to to be ...."the real me"......Now look at it another way......what if there isn't a "real me?"......Think of some of the scnnarios in your life.........Your daughter puts her first new born in your arms for the first time.......A state trooper pulls you over......You hear a good friend died.....If you are advised to be "yourself".......in each of these situations, You might ask ,"which self?"........To be authentic in each of these scenarios, you draw on different versions of yourself......and none of them are phony......they are all you.  None of us has just one self....each day we are presented with situations that are new and cause us to craft new versions of ourselves......we kinda create who we are and who we are becoming.....Sometimes we have to preform who we are are not.....YET!.....The real me has to preform in ever-expanding ways day by day......whoever thought I would call my X and thank him for the hundred dollars he gave to  me to help with Ken's mission.....Life is so interesting so I am committed to go with the flow!!!!!!

BE THANKFUL.......

Be thankful for a full vocabulary........But from now on I may call it as I see it.......what do you think I would get if I walked up to the butcher at Smiths Food and said....."how much is your cow's ass today?"  Well this made me smile and I am sure that is what it was meant to do........

A THOUGHT;.......Yesterday on my way home it was cold but there was this beautiful blue sky with not a cloud in it and I looked up to see this big white contrail being made as this plane full of people were off for different reasons......vacations, work, see family or going home.....who were they, each would have their own story.......and the pilots?......Were they young, old, have families and normal lives and did they enjoy their jobs?  After being on many airplanes through my life, and mostly off to fun or exotic places to enjoy something new and fun.......it is something I think of when I see a plane up there in the blue.......and being a stewardess and then married to a pilot of 30......it definitely brought back memories.

The boys are off to Vernal this afternoon for the weekend........feeling like Spring is around the corner.  My new neighbor.....Susan Stotte came over last night to introduce herself and we found out we grew up close to each other......she is from the four corners area too.....Farmington, New Meico.

ONE OF THOSE DAYS......

If you are lucky enough to wake up each morning.......you never know what that day has in store for you......Up and at 'em at 6:30.....coffee on, a few games on the Ipad and get Ken up.....scriptures, TV  news and Ken is off.  Pam comes over and tells me she has a companion pass and she, Sher and Tiff and I are going to visit Nicci for Mother's Day and take me.......big reason....... so they can drive me 2 hours to NORTH DAKOTA.......One of the two states I have on my bucket list to get the  50 states done....Yea!...That only leaves Oklahoma and I will have my 50 states in by the time I turn 85 in April and I guess I could take a bus to the border and will have been in all 50 states, 6 of the 7 continents and 120 countries....UNBELIEVEABLE!!!!!  What a great life I have led......

ALSO.......Pam pulls out a hundred dollar bill and tells me Don gave it to her to give it to me to help with Ken's food......

when did he start caring about his grandkids?????  I will call him and thank him for it and maybe he can make amends.  Maybe he is a few years late on  that.....Brayden called and wanted to bring a date over to play Mexican Train so I invited them to dinner......WHAT A GRAM?   Tonight is Ken's night with Gram Kay and the Brain Change Class.   Interesting Day.