Last December our Mt Rainier put on a beautiful display and it was photographed by several on lookers:
Lenticular clouds over Rainier

When a Texas Gal tells a man to do the dishes she means it! Undone dishes provoke assault
And DO NOT cheat a Delaware Woman! Woman pummels clerk after feud over $20 bill

The Calm before the Storm
© By Anonymous

I come home in the evening, after working hard all day
I open up the mailbox, to see what I must pay.

I have a cup of coffee, a cigarette I light
There is a moment's pleasure, before there is a fight.

The kids are in a frenzy, I can't take it anymore
Your supper is in the oven, I am walking out the door.

I said no need to worry, there's no reason you should pout
I didn't want to hear it, just put my dinner out.

Well her voice got very quiet, and then she just got sore
The oven door came open; my food went on the floor.

The dishes weren't broken, as they flew across the room
The dog ran to the basement, he sensed there would be doom.

My clothes came down the staircase, a little after nine
She was cleaning out the bedroom, with everything of mine.

The kids were watching TV, the volume was on high
They didn't want to hear the screams, in case I had to die.

A chair went through the window, the neighbors went inside
Some went in to pray for me, the others went to hide.

The cops came round the corner; they knew just where to go
They pulled up on the driveway, and approached her very slow.

She stood there in the doorway, and asked where they had been
I was in the closet; I prayed they'd take her in.

After many years of marriage, and a will that was so strong
I learned there are times I'm not right, and then sometimes I'm wrong.

There's a message in this story, which should be very clear
Listen very carefully, and you will have no fear.

A woman, who's not angry, may love you every night
Just keep in mind these simple words, she is always right.

WANTED:

Good home for Gerbil, 6 cats, a lab, 2 blue jays and possibly 1 raccoon.

Saturday, September 12, 2009, 10:05 PM

GERBILS/FERALS,DOGS,CATS & BLUE JAYS

Well, it's another day at the zoo.

Yesterday morning while making coffee I caught something moving, toward my feet, out of the corner of my eye. I moved my foot back and turned to see it run under my kitchen stove. Gadzooks! It was the color of a Gerbil. A gerbil?

We now have a gerbil too? This is just too much for one little old lady to deal with. Now how on earth did a Gerbil get through 6 cats??

Well, my 2 are off hunting all the time but the ferals are right under the house and I know there can't be a single living thing under there with those 3 feral kittens. I've never seen a mouse that color. It was the color of the gerbil in the picture.

Well, autumn is here and at the rate things are going my home is going to be over run with wild life. I might as well hang out a shingle that says:

When you click the link you will find, at the top of resulting page, a scroll with a button, be sure to read it and enjoy. Colors of the World

Why Leaves Change Color

I've added 2 new links under My YouTube Favs at the bottom of my blog page. Press One for English and The Woman at the Well. I thought they were both good, hubby's fav is Press One for English, of course.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 5:05 PM

WINTERIZING/FERALS

Hello, yep "I'm back".

Well, besides keeping up the house it is now time to winterize, right!, I'll get right on that. NOT! Hubby is working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. It will be the middle of Winter before he gets around to Winterizing. He did manage to clean out the chimney...so wood stove is ready to go! Yipee.

Well, at any rate I figured I better move those feral's food dish so it won't rain on it. Deciding the front deck would be away from my cats (Sassy and Bear who eat on the back deck) I moved the dishes. Then wondered if they would even try to get on the front deck. HA! Two mornings later my front deck is over run with 3 feral kittens and their mom. The kittens are investigating everything and mom is look out. They are racing over the upper and lower deck out front. One kitten is running up down the hand rails while another is investigating a flower box just outside my frontroom window. The third kitten is checking out the rose I have in a pot on the deck. Mom has vanished while I'm watching. So, I, oh so quietly opened the front door and stood just inside the screen watching them.

One of the male kittens (I think there are two males and one female because of behaviors) came right up to the screen door and was looking inside to see what was in here. The other one came up and looked right at my legs, then up at my stomach until he reached my face and then looked right into my eyes. I stood very still and then slightly closed one eye lid. He froze. Then ran for edge of the deck and disappeared. I don't know where the other boy kitten went or the little girl either but I couldn't see any of them. Then mom walked out (on the deck) from the side of the house, up to top of the steps leading to the lower deck and sat down. I waited a few minutes and then quietly said, "Hello, mama kitty." Which is what I call her all the time. She hissed and then growled and then slunk down the steps and over the lower deck to the ground and then underneath the deck and was gone. They sure are entertaining.

There is a large blue jay that has been around here for years. He eats my cats food by swooping in under the roof of the deck and helping himself. I noted they had been eating out of the ferals food in the back yard. While watching out the window one day I saw the boy kittens sitting together watchin a bush very intently. So I'm checking out the bush when I saw the blue jay move, ah, so this is what they are watching. Pretty soon one of the boys slinks under the tree and up into the bush where I can't see him. Never saw the bush where he was move at all but the jay moved a little higher in the bush and then flew over to a small tree limb not far away. "I see you guys have decided on Blue Jay Dinner for tonight". At this point the kitten that had been sitting still and watching intently moved so fast I could hardly see where his feet were, into a higher position, which still put him 6 feet underneath the jay. Mean time I still can't see the other boy kitten but the jay obviously knew where he was and when he felt that the kitten was too close finally flew away. Like I said they very entertaining.

I came to realized we had 2 blue jays. They were both eating out of the kitten's dish. The girl, I assume, was smaller than the big one that has been hanging around here forever. I was stealthfully (is that a word?) walking up to the window one day, to check and see if the kittens were out, and was startled when a small blue jay bumped into the window and seeing me veared off just in time to not be completely knocked out. Whoa! Maybe the kittens will have Blue Jay Dinner after all.

Do my other animals know about the feral family? My husband's dog does. I let him out a couple weeks ago, onto the front deck and he suddenly stopped and was very still looking toward the backside of the house. So I stepped further out and looked to see what he was watching and there was mama kitty staring back at hubby's Lab and when she saw me she went under the house. I said to Kid (name of my husband's Lab), "No chase". He looked up at me and wondered off in the opposite direction. My cats, as far as I know, never have gone back there they hang out on my back deck which is the opposite side of the house from where the ferals are, no one goes back there. At least not until we started taking food back there for them. I know that my 2 cats must be aware of them but they ignore them I guess.

I just hope my own two cats don't leave. Some cats will when others move in or at least that is what I've heard.

Well, the Lord will have to sort all this out. Maybe this winter I will be able to make friends with the babies. At least then I could take them to the vet and get them nuetered or spayed.

Sunday, August 30, 2009, 08:05 PM

UPDATE/NATURAL MEDICINE/FERAL CATS

Hi Everyone, sorry I've been away so long...............

Not being able to clean my home for so long has left much undone. I've been busy catching up with all the work that has waited on me to get well enough to do my own housework. Plus projects that have waited by the wayside. And yes, I am doing it and have very few problems. My body objects after being inactive for so long but hey, it needs it. *laugh I tire easily and I don't push myself too hard, but it is getting done and that tickles me to no end.

Yep, I've learned a few new health tips. Most recent is how to get rid of moles, unbelievably it is "Castor Oil"! Really, I'm not kidding. I actually tried it on one that I have just above one of my knees and within a week it had changed and within 2 weeks it was smaller and lighter and within 3 weeks it is only 1/3 the size it was, it is drying up and it is almost gone. I'm told it takes about a month for it to go away entirely. You simply rub the Castor Oil into the mole very thoroughly once a day. Suppose to work on age spots and other skin blemishes too.

I also heard that Coconut shampoo and conditioner keeps lice away. And was told it has worked very well for one of the grand children. Her friends have come around and she goes to school and although the other girls have lice once in a while, the grand daughter has not had it one time in the year she has been using the Coconut Shampoo and conditioner....I guess the lice don't care for coconut. *grin

Am I done yet, no chance, I also heard that Exlax broken into small pieces and scattered around an area where there are mice will get rid of them. A member of our family's attic was infested with them and using this method, it has totally been cleared out since the Exlax was tossed into a corner of their attic. And they haven't come back.

Do you know why our grand and great grandparents put egg shells in coffee?? Because they neutralize the acidity!!! Yep! That is a fact. So for coffee and tea drinkers who have acid reflux, you can now drink it without worrying about the affect it will have. Just put some cleaned, crushed egg shells in with your coffee grounds (or in your tea balls). I'm doing it and coffee tastes so smooth. Enjoy!! It never ceases to amaze me how great God is. I asked for His help in finding things to help me heal and I'm getting more than I bargined for. *laugh But that is okay, God knows I will share what I discover so that many of His people will find healing and good health and don't forget.....LAUGHER IS GOOD MEDICINE!!!

Also new: I have a feral cat and her 3 kittens!!! Oh, Boy, aren't I just thrilled. I saw the mother cat many months ago as she was coming onto the deck for my outdoor cat's food. She was huge, her hair stuck out all over her and I remember thinking, 'she hasn't been a stray for very long or she would look really skinny'. Several months passed and I hadn't seen her. I was looking out a window at the back of our home one day and there right below the window was a small kitten. I'm thinking, "Where in the world did you come from?" And caught a movement out the corner of my eye and yep, there was the same stray cat (now skinny). Well, duh? I've been watching these kittens grow all summer. Yes, I do feed them....well, I'm sorry but I couldn't just NOT feed them. The mom had kittens she was feeding which means she needed food and the kittens looked old enough to eat on there own. So we put dry cat food back there where they live and sure enough the kittens were eating along with mom.

I should trap them and get them spayed/neutered? Ya think? Well, I'd be happy to do that if you can suggest a way to catch ALL 4 at one time. If I catch just one, I'll never get the rest. That is if I was 30 and not 60+ years old!! They see us coming and run under the house and the part they are under is a bedroom we built on which is only a foot or so off the ground! Besides I suspect mama cat has been feral a long time. Even my Lab doesn't mess with her.

I wondered if my own 2 cats and dog even knew she was back there? Turns out after observing them through the summer, they are well aware of her and give her a wide berth. *laugh She growled at me the other day when I took some food out there. I forgot to let her know I was coming, I usually talk to her before I round the back corner but this time I forgot till I heard her growling. I stopped and talked to her and then started walking toward her and she split the scene.

The latest laugh was my hubby went out and put food in there dish. We were told cats don't drink much water. HA! Anyway, the next morning I got up and glanced out the window and their empty water dish was moved four feet from S.E. where it had been sitting to N.E. of their food dish and was laying on it's side almost in the food dish. It was like a neon sign, "YOU FORGOT THE WATER!" So, around the house I go with the hose and filled the water dish, "Pardon us!". We've been expecting her to move any day now......any day now.....please any day now??

Taco Truck turned porker Enjoy.

I'm never using hair spray again!!! New bacteria species found in Hair spray!!! Ewwww! Spray on new species This is what happens when I'm gone for a long time....talk, talk, talk. Oh, yeah, that is what a blog is for, yes?

Thursday, April 16, 2009, 06:35 PM

FOOD THAT HEALS/SUSAN BOIL

Wow! It has been 22 days since I last wrote on my blog! Where does the time go?

My husband's father was recently hospitalized and came home yesterday. He passed away this evening.

I've been doing my Bible studies everyday and trying to keep up my housework. I'm actually doing quite good, which is a blessing since my husband has had enough on his mind these last couple weeks.

I have discovered a couple things about food, for example, avocados are said to lower Cholesterol and that is a factual statement. My doctor wanted to put me on medicine to lower it but I ate 1/2 an avocado everyday for 2 weeks and when the tests came back there was no mention of me having high Cholesterol. As many of you know I'm taking 2 tsp. a day of lime juice for Acid Reflux and it is working wonderfully! So I've begun to wonder just how many foods out there will actually heal what? If anyone has a story about a food they eat for medicinal purposes I'd love to hear it. My email is in the menu on the left. I'm trying pears on my kidneys but I don't know how I will test it's value?

You may not hear from me much as I'm researching foods that heal and with everything else I'm doing I don't know when I will be able to get back to my blog. However, I will try to get here is often as possible to keep you all posted.

Here is a lesson in humility. On Youtube. The audience didn't think much of Susan Boil but got the shock of their lives when she started to sing. Wonderful and heartwarming to watch.

A new species discovered in March Funnel-shaped Sea Squirt eats like a Venice flytrap.

Heard a cute story on the Radio, a woman said she had been praying for a car and kept asking God, and asking God and then she got a picture in her head of herself as a child in the backseat of a car, God was driving, and she was saying, "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" I thought it was a cute analogy of us when we are waiting on God for an answer to prayer. :)