Our Day In Pictures

We lost another giant pine tree to lightning. So, I snapped a few photos of "our tree guy" taking care of the problem of a deadly monster on the driveway. One wouldn't think it to look at them, but dead trees can be deadly. We've personally known of too many instances where people were killed by falling trees, especially in heavy winds.

So ...

The tree had to go!

"'Bye, 'bye savings!" (me waving to the money I'd saved from not eating out for one month). Aw well.

At least the Stock Market has been up this past week, inspite of congress and the Magic Kenyan trying to wreck it.

Good Stock Market = Happy Face!

Here's some photos:

Tony Hudson, Tree Monkey


Topping the tree ... "Watch out below!!"


A neighbor stopped by to say hello and be nosy ... [wink]


Kablooey!!
Please tell me that's not my pretty driveway reflectors under there?!? [groan]


Hubby oiling the chain on his Triumph.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope y'alls day was cheaper than mine. [sigh]

You DON'T Say!?

Super Comments Award
Surprise, surprise, I won an award! This little number was bestowed upon yours truly yesterday by Valerie at It's A Wonderful Life. Thanks Val!

I'm suppose to pass it on to 5 fellow bloggers who leave nifty comments.

WELL!!

That's easy. To the people who's comments always make me smile and make my heart skip a beat with joy ... I pass this on to ... the envelope please ...

1. Carey of Carey's Corner

2. Dennis at Pappy's Balderdash

3. Iva the 'turtle mom' at The Horizontal Yo-Yo

4. Mildred at Nalley Valley

5. Marie at Voila! Vintage Postcards

Now y'all pass them on to your five, and so forth, and so on.

I have many, many more but am only 'allowed' 5 according to the rules.

Thanks y'all and enjoy your award. You deserve it. Have a wonderful Sunday! :o)

It's One Of Those Days

Whatzit?
Did you ever have one of those days or weeks when you're not quite yourself?

I know, you're thinking, "Well, who are you then?" Ok, smartypants :o) I feel like our little multi-colored fellow here that appears half horse and half zebra: like I'm all upside down and backwards.

Oh, it's nothing serious ... I'm only extremely fatigued.

For some reason, I couldn't sleep last night. I had one of those evenings when I just could not power down, so, I ended up staying awake until 4 am. That's so unusual for me. Usually, I'm like a little kid and fall asleep in about 2 minutes and not wake up 'til morning (except for a bathroom break).

Boy, not last night.

So all day today my attitude has been grouchy and surly. Every little noise is driving me up the wall. Even the innocuous thing of hubby turning the pages in his new paperback book makes me want to slap a knot on his head. If I was a food, I wouldn't be fit for human consumption. [lol]

I'm so freaking tired.

And I guess I'm feeling a little bit of my own mortality this week. We lost yet another friend to mankinds age old enemy, death. That nasty dark fellow that follows all of us around waiting for that last breath. This recent loss is the 91 year old mother of a long time friend. I liked her mother, she was a really sweet Christian lady.

It's just getting tiresome, you know ... all these funerals. When we were young, we attended many a wedding and, for me, bridal shower. Those days are gone. Hubby and I have lost three friends in two months: Dr. Camberg, Kenneth Chancey and Mrs. Tison. Now, grant you, they were all elderly and infirm, but their loss is still felt all the same.

Our little world looks different ... and just a little sadder.

[sigh]

Recently the eye doctor bumped me up to tri-focals. My new eyeglasses are pretty (at least I think so) and corrected this way, I can see so much better.

So, that's a good thing.

But, today I'm feeling my age, and then some.

On a happier note, Hubby and I are "famous" this week too. He wrote an letter to Ride Texas Magazine and they printed it in this month's issue (Sept. 2009). We do so love riding in the Texas Hill Country.

We enjoyed the vacations out there so much that I've even been looking at land For Sale there. Who knows? We might get to move there one day. But, even if we don't, it's not a biggy. I do love our little slice of Georgia paradise. So I won't cry over split milk if it doesn't happen.

Well, supper's ready. We're having skinless, boneless chicken thighs, yellow saffron rice, and big green frozen peas. Yum, Yum! Maybe a good hearty meal will improve my spirits? It can't hurt, right?! [smile]

And I promise not to fuss at hubby too much. [giggle] He's such a sweet guy.

I hope your weekend is happy and fun. As we used to say on the C-B Radio, "Catchya on the flip-flop good buddy!"

The Ten Commandments In Opposite World

PATRIOT UPDATE EXCLUSIVE:

After observing Obama on the campaign trail and during his first six months in office, we have concluded that our President lives and governs according to his own set of "Ten Commandments." They're certainly NOT the Ten Commandments you learned in Sunday School. In fact, many are the direct opposite! To prove that our conclusions are correct, you will find a link to source documentation for each commandment on the Patriot Update web site.

I feel like we're living in Opposite World because everything is upside down and bass-ackwards.


I. Thou shalt have no God in America, except for me. For we are no longer a Christian nation and, after all, I am the chosen One. (And like God, I do not have a birth certificate.) SOURCE

II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, unless it is my face carved on Mt. Rushmore. SOURCE

III. Thou shalt not utter my middle name in vain (or in public). Only I can say Barack Hussein Obama. SOURCE

IV. Remember tax day, April 15th, to keep it holy. SOURCE

V. Honour thy father and thy mother until they are too old and sick to care for. They will cost our public-funded health-care system too much money. SOURCE

VI. Thou shalt not kill, unless you have an unwanted, unborn baby. For it would be an abomination to punish your daughter with a baby. SOURCE

VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery if you are conservative or a Republican. Liberals and Democrats are hereby forgiven for all of their infidelity and immorality, but the careers of conservatives will be forever destroyed. SOURCE

VIII. Thou shalt not steal, until you've been elected to public office. Only then is it acceptable to take money from hard-working, successful citizens and give it to those who do not work, illegal immigrants, or those who do not have the motivation to better their own lives. SOURCE

IX. Thou shalt not discriminate against thy neighbor unless they are conservative, Caucasian, or Christian. SOURCE

X. Thou shalt not covet because it is simply unnecessary. I will place such a heavy tax burden on those that have achieved the American Dream that, by the end of my term as President, nobody will have any wealth or material goods left for you to covet. SOURCE

Just Say No

I thought y'all might be interested in these new taxes being proposed, if you haven't heard about them already. The Demoncrats are trying to pass some new tax laws:

Food and Beverage Tax The Food and Beverage tax is especially heinous for they will definately hurt the poor and those on 'fixed' incomes.

Performance Tax on Radio Stations This should essentially kill any free speech from that arena.

I'm sure there are other tax proposals but I'm not aware of them yet.

It's all part of the Demoncratic plan to fund your 'free' trillion-dollar healthcare overhaul bill by taxing "wealthy" Americans (i.e. Middle Class).

The Devil In The Details

... or in the new Nazi White House.

Either one is correct.

Medicare is about to go, or is already, bankrupt. As even the youngest member of society knows, Medicare is run by our inept Federal government. And there are people who want to expand the government run health care industry!!??

"What are you thinking??"


I've learned of a book concerning the Medicare situation that may be worth reading Medicare Meets Mephistopheles. This book is offered for sale through the on-line CATO Institute.

CATO also discusses the proposed health care debacle ... eh ... reform (as they call it), but let's call a Spade A Spade, shall we?

Anyway, on to ...

About The Book

"Let’s say you’re the devil, and you want to corrupt the American republic. How would you go about it? According to David Hyman, you might create something like Medicare, the federal health care program for the elderly.

Hyman submits that Medicare may be the greatest trick the devil ever played. Medicare feeds on the avarice of doctors and other providers, turns seniors into health care gluttons, and makes regions of the United States green with envy over the dollars showered on other regions. The program exploits the sloth of government officials to increase the tax burden on workers and drag down the quality of care for seniors. Medicare makes Democrats lust for socialized medicine, while its imperviousness to reform makes Republicans angrier and angrier. Most of all, Medicare allows its ideological supporters to bleat and preen their way to the heights of moral vanity.

In the style of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, Hyman writes that Medicare has “freed the self-interest of these mortals from its natural restraints. As a result, the seven deadly sins have blossomed.

With epic political battles over Medicare and the future of limited government looming just over the horizon, Hyman uses satire to cast a critical eye on this mediocre government program."


So, there you are.

More proof that this idea of government run health care WILL NOT WORK.

Thanks y'all for stopping by and for caring about our country. May God bless you for your wonderful Patriotism. You are so very appreciated! -- Sparky:o)

Why CanadaCare Doesn't Work And Neither Will ObamaCare

Something Wicked This Way Comes
How, eh, 'free' health care doesn't work.
Steven Crowder Investigates Why CanadaCare Sucks

Please write, call, e-mail, SCREAM at your Senator and Representatives to *stop this madness now* or we will all suffer under the new Fascism.