Free Yarn!

AllFreeCrochet.com is giving away 2 skeins of "At The Bahamas" yarn from Darn Good Yarn. This yarn is made from silk saris torn into strips by hand, sewn together and dyed into a rainbow of colors. If you want a chance at this go here: http://www.allfreecrochet.com/sweeps/Fair-Trade-Recycled-Silk-Sari-Ribbon-Yarn/ml/1

Yes I Am Still Here

I apologize for losing track of time and not blogging on a regular basis but life has been a bit hectic lately. I have recently decided to start selling Avon products and am working on starting my business. But I promise that I will be more active and thanks for sticking with me!

Hello Again

Yes I am still around. Sorry about the recent lack of posting but life has been keeping me running. I went to church this morning after a long search to find my specific branch of Lutherans. I had to go to a town about 12 miles away from ours but at least I know where it is. Now hubby and I are going out for lunch to try out a new local restaurant in town. At least it is new to us not to the community. I will be back with more later on.

Keep Pink Slime Out of Kids Lunches!

You think that what kids eat for lunch at school should be healthy for them? Think again especially if your child or some of their friends eat with help from the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The FDA and the USDA thinks that it okay to feed Pink Slime to these children. Don't know what is in Pink Slime? It is connective tissue and random beef scraps doused in ammonia and formed into a paste! I seriously doubt that any caring parent would knowingly feed their child ammonia. Ammonia is also a highly-corrosive poison that is known to cause respiratory illness and lung damage, liver problems, and cancer. The Chemical Encyclopedia says ammonia is "highly toxic" if swallowed (http://healthychild.org/issues/chemical-pop/ammonia/). Nobody in their right mind would feed ammonia to their child that they love and care for but the government is more than willing to do so. After all, McDonalds, Taco Bell and Burger King are eliminating this so called food from their menus. So why is it allowed to be fed to school children? Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035255_pink_slime_USDA_school_lunches.html#ixzz1pLB6gPNf

It's Beginning to look like Bears

We have what the native residents who have lived their whole life here consider a sign of spring. The house about half a block away had a black bear visit their backyard in search of food. The bears have come out of winter hibernation and now are starting to search for food, which can be a bird feeder or bowl of pet food out in the backyard. I don't really want to see a bear up close and personal even though I know that they are a part of the wildlife here. When I was in Illinois I saw plenty of white tail deer which tend to have a curiosity of people but hardly ever attack you. We also had plenty of birds which are not a threat to anybody, a few raccoons who are mostly attracted to dry pet food left out in the open and opossums who just tend to wander aimlessly looking for food. We also had a large population of fox and grey squirrels and some of the fox squirrels had become trusting enough to take a cookie out of your hand.

Ready for Spring

I am glad to see piles of snow vanishing into puddles of water, hear the birds singing in the trees and flying about in search of food which is much easier for them to find now. I am also seeing the green sprouts of the crocus sticking out of the ground getting ready to burst into flowers. I personally have seen enough of the cold, dry air but I am sure that the ski resorts have not been happy due to the lack of substantial snowfall. After all you do need snow if you want to go skiing during the winter. And water skiing during winter in North America is not a fun thing.

Having an Anxious Day

I am an anxious person today due to the fact that I have diabetes type 2 trying to run my life and now I am faced with a toe on my left foot that has developed into a small ulceration around the left nail. Yes I know about proper diabetic diet and foot care but right now hubby and I are living/surviving on his limited income. I have been unable to find a substantial job here in New Hampshire due to most of my work experience being in an office/clerical position. College would probably have made a huge difference in my life. Most of the jobs here are in the manufacturing industries and companies won't even take a second glance at your application if you haven't worked in a factory. But back to my left foot. My problem with it is that my toe next to my big toe is about 1/4 inch longer than the big toe. Oh you think no big deal but it is due to the fact that every time I take a step the pressure of walking goes onto it rather than my big toe where it should be at. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow which is going to be odd given the fact that I bumped into her and her husband in a local store parking lot on Friday when I was walking pretty well. But this sore didn't really show up on my radar until about 7 pm that night when I was tired from all my activity, sat down and took my shoes off. I really have to learn how to better control my blood sugars and keep both of my feet as part of my body where they belong at.

Is USA Nazi Germany the Second?

The United States Government is spiraling more and more out of control with each day that goes by. Now the TSA that is supposed to make sure that flights are safe from possible explosives has gone entirely too far, by having a male guard forcibly humiliate a new mom to pump her breast milk into the empty bottles that she was taking onto the plane. We can't take a full bottle of water or other liquid on board due to the fact that it might be made into an explosive, but now you can't take an empty bottle on board? There is no valid reasoning behind this! It is not like the empty bottle can possibly contain anything other than air. The TSA is nothing more than legalized sexual perverts who can do anything that they want to in order to satisfy their sexual perversions. The American public needs to stand up to the TSA and the Government thugs that back it up and bring it to a screeching halt. Many people liken the TSA employees to the Nazi-style brownshirts who functioned as a paramilitary organization of the Nazi party which helped Hitler come to power in the 1920's and 1930's. Do we really want a repeat of Hitler's Germany? I certainly hope not and that the American sheeple will stand up and put a stop to such ridiculous things. For the whole story please go to http://www.naturalnews.com/035143_TSA_breast_pump_bottles.html

Raw Milk versus Dead (Pasteurized) MIlk

I have learned that raw milk is much healthier for you than consuming dead or what is otherwise commonly known as pasteurized milk. I did not know that pasteurizing is what causes lactose intolerance. It is not your body that causes this but the process of pasteurization. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) does not want the American public to know the truth of the matter or to consume raw milk which is better for your body. I have included the following infographic from http://www.naturalnews.com/035130_raw_milk_infographic_pasteurized.html

The Ides of March

I know this post is a day late but life happens and I'm sorry. I wanted to figure out what the saying "The Ides of March" meant so I did some researching. I found out that Ides comes from the Latin word Idus meaning half division in relation to a month. The Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was held in his honor. This is also the day that Julius Caesar was killed by being stabbed 23 times in the year 44 B.C. Now that I know all of this, it doesn't come too me as too much of a surprise as to why this isn't a very well known day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March

Bill Gates: Human Depopulation Mastermind

Most people will recognize the name Bill Gates as being the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, but how many realize that he is spending billions of dollars in the name of humanitarianism to establish a global food monopoly dominated by GM seeds. I applaud the fact that Mister Gates wishes to eliminate disease and feed the worlds poor, but eliminating what he considers to be human weeds is definitely not the way that this should be accomplished. Bill Gates father William Gates has for a long time been involved with Planned Parenthood as another way to systematically exterminate unwanted and in their eyes, unnecessary people. To the best of my memory neither of these men have in any way been appointed God, which is serious blasphemy. I pray that God will make both of these men aware of his displeasure with them and what they believe to be right. For the complete and unsettling article that this post stems from visit http://www.naturalnews.com/035105_Bill_Gates_Monsanto_eugenics.html

Are we Done Yet?

I am glad that today is February 28th. This would normally be the end of the month but this year we have a leap year. I would usually consider an extra day off or of vacation to be a great thing but this is not such a great thing. It just means one more day until payday on Friday. Thankfully we will finally have money to go grocery shopping with. We are writing out our shopping list even as we speak. There are some things that we are completely out of such as sugar and margarine. I wish that we could afford to buy butter but that is too costly for my budget. I use Splenda in my coffee due to my diabetes but right now I only have enough for 2 cups of coffee, then I have to drink it black. Not happening. Sorry that this is a post with a negative tone but I am just telling the truth and we all know that life is not always a positive experience, so thanks for hearing me out I really appreciate it.

Government Out of Control!

I don't normally blog about things like this but this subject needs to have some light shed on it. In Michigan the Department of Natural Resources has decided to bring the feral pig population under control. Okay so you don't want a bunch of wild pigs running around loose in the wilderness reproducing at will and destroying the environment. But when you decide to crack down on small family farms that are producing animals in a controlled environment, that are not exactly what the government considers to be a domestic, thus possibly a GMO animal you can NOT keep and breed them. The farmer in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tOBUKrMXfGw is going to considerable amounts of trouble and headache to keep raising these animals. This is just another case of the government trying to put the small family farms out of business so the corporations are the only ones in the farming industry thus creating a monopoly. This is definitely not the way things should be done.

Why are we Getting Snow Now?

Today we received about 1 inch of snow on everything over the top of 1/2 an inch of rain that turned into ice. I know this may not seem like very much but in New Hampshire it is a law that your car must be completely cleared of snow and ice, if snow flying off of your car you will be held responsible for the accident.To the best of my understanding this means even the top of the vehicle, be it car, minivan or truck no matter how high it is and how short you are, get my hint. This to me is a crazy law due to the fact that I had until April of 2011, I had lived in the state of Illinois which gets plenty of snow and freezing rain and has no such law. Yes you have to clear your car but not %100 before you can drive it, so today before I made my 10 minute drive to the post office and back I spent 20 minutes cleaning off the car thus freezing my fingers in spite of my gloves. In my 30 plus years of driving, I have yet to see an accident caused by snow flying off one car onto another thus blocking their vision of the road.

What a Mishap

When I first heard about this story I thought it was about Prince William or Harry. But it is a scary story about another Prince, Prince Johan Friso http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/02/201221852132913116.html . I don't care how much of an average person you are or are not, horrible things can still happen to you along the path of life. I have never been able to participate in the to some people wonderful sport due to bad knees, but nobody not even royalty deserves to have their life cut short due to trying to live life to the fullest. I hope that he fully recovers and in the process learns a lesson about where to go skiing at.

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A Trip Back to Texas

Today, hubby Seamus (Irish for James) started planning our short and fast (hopefully) trip back to Texas to retrieve the items that we left in storage. We are going to take the Greyhound down there and then drive a rental moving truck back to New Hampshire. I have drove vehicles of most every size and shape so I feel comfortable doing this. I just make sure to avoid the major cities at rush hour. This is going to be a good thing for both of us to do, especially Seamus since most of the major pieces of furniture are his family heirlooms. If it had been possible, I would have rented a truck for us to use last year when we initially came up here. I think we had about $150 left when we made it here.

Target beauty bag has arrived!!!

Oh what a wonderful day! My long awaited Target beauty bag has arrived! My hubby went to the Post Office today and returned with a small package for me. I hope that everything that was supposed to be included is. The reason I say this is that one end of the box was open and the zipper on the bag was open. Also the samples were not enclosed in a sealed plastic pouch. Okay enough I don't really trust the post office talk. The zippered beauty bag is fuchsia, purple and white satin fabric outside and purple inside, Contents by Allegro. Nice little bag to carry your cosmetic goodies in your purse with. Now for the best part, my samples which include L'oreal 
Paris Youth Code Day/Night Cream; John Frieda Full Repair Shampoo and Conditioner samples with a coupon; TRESemme Naturals nourishing moisture shampoo and conditioner; Garnier Fructis Pure Clean Fortifying Shampoo and Conditioner; and last but not least, Pond's Evening Soothe with chamomile & white tea Wet Cleansing Towelettes to remove the days grit and grime plus soothe your soul. I have great expectations for these wonderful products and I am going to give each of them a road test and see the results for myself. I can make good use of the L'oreal Day/Night Cream to prevent lines

and wrinkles from forming. You know an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Thank goodness for that. And I will test out each of the shampoos to see which is most suited to my needs.

Confusion

This day, if you can call it that is a bit of a confused mess. Wonder why? Sunday night I never went to bed and stayed up until 7 a.m. due to it being Sunday which means I don't really have a routine for it. No I don't go to church even though I know I should since it is a day of rest. I need to find a church that is comfortable for me and within a short driving distance. I am a little on the liberal side and all of the churches in my town are on the conservative side. I know that there is a church from my Lutheran synod nearby but I need to conserve gas and money.
So now it is Monday, February 20th which I refer to as Washington's Birthday but is more commonly known as President's day. I have always wondered why Mr. Washington always has such a grim look on his face, but if you had wooden teeth I doubt that you would be much happier either. I am used to Washington's Birthday due to me growing up in Illinois where if Mister Lincoln didn't get his own holiday there would be a small revolt, plus I am a cousin of Abraham. Yes my family has proven genealogical records to prove it too. My poor brother gets more unwanted attention than he likes because he bears the family name of Tom which happens to belong to a certain famous actor.

The Planet or Non Planet Pluto

 The planet Pluto was known to exist long before it was fully discovered. The scientists had long believed that this planet existed due to the actions of the other planets near it, Uranas and Neptune. On this day, February 18, in 1930, the mysterious “Planet X”, also known as Pluto was finally observed at the Thomas Lowell observatory in Arizona, where Percival Lowell began his search. The planet was named Pluto as the result of a survey being sent out to school children and Venetia Phair suggested the name Pluto for the planet due to no particular reason. It does strike me as a little odd though that eventually there would be a Disney character of the same name.


 

Now the scientific community has come to the decision that Pluto is not a planet due to the fact that it has not cleared its neighborhood. Simply put, that means that Pluto has not ridded its neighborhood of smaller objects that could become an obstacle in its path. Sorry to say that it is no longer a planet. Oddly enough the planet Earth that we reside on has not entirely cleared its neighborhood either. So that means we don't live on a planet either? Confusing enough to me, is it also to you? For further explanation about Pluto's discovery you can visit http://famousdaily.com/history/pluto-the-ninth-planet-of.html and as to why it is no longer a planet go to http://www.universetoday.com/13573/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/.