|
mcbery
|
read my profile
sign my guestbook
Name: Miriam
Country: United States
State: Indiana
Gender: Female
Interests: I have a lot of interests. Children, grandchildren, family, praying for them and our world, daytime talk radio, animals, photography and playing with pictures. I like shopping, eating out, Xanga, good humor, and lots of other stuff. I like Facebook too. Come play Pathwords with me! :-)
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
4/20/2006
 True  Premium
|
|
| Headline - Historic Health Bill Clears Senate Hurdle
It was never a hurdle. They were going to push it through no matter what. It has occurred to me that they believe the Mayan calendar. If you believe the world is going to end in 2012 then even if you're bankrupt you go out and buy the Great Wall, the London Bridge and Manhattan. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it? If you see me today?
 I won't be doing that. Lol!
I'm thankful for fall and the mild weather we've been having. 
I took some of these pictures close to Laporte at a place Lee was working.
After he was done there we went on up to New Buffalo, MI.
If you look closely you'll see at least one seagull facing the opposite way. Must have my name written on it. 
Found that on the beach. It looks like a scary skull but I think it was seagull remains. I turned it upsidedown
and that's the way it looked underneath.
I gave them leftovers from my McDonald's meal. It was gone so fast I had time to snap one picture!
I just had an awful thought. It was about our politicians being like seagulls! :-O I'd better quit thinking now.
Stepford wife time.
I had lunch with Adena one day this week. We were driving back from lunch when we heard Bryce spluttering and coughing in the back. "What's wrong, Bryce?' He stated, 'I was drinking with my nose!' Dena & I burst into gales of laughter. Bryce looked very beat out and wondered why we were laughing. 'Austin drinks through his nose!' he declared. I told him he could get pneumonia doing that. Then Austin started yelling that we were all going to get pneumonia! It sounded pretty loud for awhile. I thank God for laughter and kids. We explained to Bryce that Austin only pretends to drink through his nose and explained to Austin that pneumonia contracted from inhaling liquids isn't contagious.
Brynn had a lovely birthday in October. We were in Pixie Hollow.
In Pixie Hollow there are dewberries & marigolds to eat and dewdrops shining in the early morning flowers.
The bluebirds are sitting in fluffy nests among the dewdrops. 
They are safe, except of course when those government seagulls swoop by. I never knew you could eat
Marigolds. I'm told they have a strong taste. We'd better be figuring out what we can eat besides food, you
know. I think we the people should go undercover and invent foodless food and moneyless money. If there is
money that isn't money and food that isn't food, it can't be taken away and regulated, right?
 
I'm thankful for Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for  .
I'm thankful for a lot of things. I bought the children's version of the Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck. One evening this week Rose was sitting here reading it to Julie. I heard Rose's voice start to quiver and I felt a lump in my throat. Pretty soon we were both sitting there crying and Julie was looking bewildered at Rose. Rose started laughing and said, 'Look Grandma's crying too.' Then we sat there and laughed through our tears. So why am I crying again!!?? I know the real story behind how Glenn's mom died. I know he didn't get a chance to hug her good by. My heart aches for the little boy who lost his mom and for so many years couldn't share that story with the world. I would have liked to tell him it's OK. Mom knows you love her. Even if you didn't tell her and you get mad at her, she knows. She loves you too. No matter what they do or say, a mother's love is there, even when she's gone. That's what makes the world go around.
Thanks, God for You, for family, for our great country, for laughter and tears and so much more!!
May God grant you hugs, laughter and joy this week. Dear God please keep those seagulls away from our Happy Meals!!
| | |
| I'm thankful for people who live in this house that can take pieces of computers and put them together along with a new drive and mother board, clone my old drives and I have a 'new' clunker computer. It's faster and nicer with all of my things on it but when I looked for some files this morning I couldn't find them. So after I get done with my rant of the day I shall go make some more copies for the new old computer. I'm really a happy person most of the time. I'm just really worried about things in our country. Don't tell me to be quiet and pray. I pray out loud all the time at the radio. Lol! Sorry, that's just me and that's the way I am. I sound just like mom sometimes. It used to irritate me how she would pray all the time but I know now that it's so very important to call on God. Dad still does too. Sometimes when we're talking about something we're really concerned about he'll start to talk to God too. Then we say amen when he's done. I have such a wonderful family.
Ready for my rant now? It's not really a rant. It's just some more things that happened yesterday that made me pray again. I can't sit idly by like some people do either. It's our children's future we're talking about. So the Mayan calendar says the world might end in 2012? I've lived through 88 reasons and Y2K and more. We need to act like it's going to go on for a long time and remember that it may end tomorrow. Ok, buckle up. Lol!
I went to get crickets yesterday. Yes, live ones. Some little creature eats them here. I went to Age of Aquariums pet shop. I saw a big going out of business sale signs!! Oh no! I've talked to him through out the summer and I knew he was struggling. He told me something interesting and horrifying. The stimulus money that is putting in a new sewer that goes past his place tripled his sewer rates. I'm wondering how this benefited anyone? I'm trying to stay calm now. Breathe deeply. OK, I was discussing this with my dear Honey and he talked to someone yesterday who is doing some new roofing in Elkhart with stimulus money. The new roofs are going on low income housing, subsidized by we the people. What they really need is some more insulation in the attic because there's hardly any. Someone who knows said they crank the heat up to 85 sometimes and a lot of that heat is going out the roof. Now there's a new roof but why? Because the stimulus money was designated for roofs not insulation so our tax money is going out the roof and these people who are already living on 'free' money are spending a lot of it to pay heat bills, unless of course we're footing their heating bill too? You see, I didn't even shout yet to get my point across! IT WASN'T THAT I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT!! The roads are all being torn up and new additions to schools and when they're all done the people that have moved out of all the houses and business's growing up in weeds and vacated are coming back? I don't think so. The owner of Age of Aquariums showed me a really good letter to the Goshen News. that his part time help had written about giving stimulus money to small business's. She's 17 and has a pretty good idea of what is going on. Go look it up. I forget what her name was but it seems like it had Morgan in it?
Ok, let's calm down and go on a walk now. 
It was the bluebird of happiness. It just flew away. Wait a minute! Come back here!
Ok, I know, I mistakenly put October on my last post. The days are flying by too fast! This is the last of the September pictures and I'm way behind. I stop to look at little things along the way too. That slows me down.
 
 
 
 
I wonder where butterflies go in the winter? I should look it up again.
These next few pictures were on the corn.
 
Pretty, isn't it? I should use them for background pictures.
 
Ooooo, I've got an itch. I need to scratch. I can't scratch so I'll bite.
Come on little one, it's time to get up!
But, Mom! I just fell asleep!!
It's hard to smile at 3:00 in the afternoon!!
 
I love fall colors! I think that's the unwanted kind but I didn't see any lady bugs of the other kind in my camera. Does that mean the good kind is gone?
I walked around the pond and the lighting was just perfect for some fishy pictures. The more I take pictures the more I realize that a lot of pictures are once in a lifetime. For example, these same fish will probably never swim in exactly the same place in exactly the same way at the precise moment when I have my camera and the light is just right for pictures like this. That's why we seize the moment!! That's why I'm so tired in the evenings and fall asleep during even scary movies. Then I dream scary dreams!! Aarrggghhh! That's OK. There's too much conservative bashing on the networks anyways.
Come on! I want a kiss!!
This kissing through the fence just doesn't cut it for me!!
The spider's were feasting on the aphids and bugs on the corn.
 
There were some eggs. Not sure what kind.
 
I love this wasp picture. Nothing like looking a wasp in the eye.
Last but not least, the last September birthday. Happy birthday Julie! I'll save and be right back. If the rest of this doesn't appear on Facebook you may have to click on original post to find it.
 
Ooops, I forgot one. This has been a long walk. Long walks are good for what ails me. I can look into the eyes of God's creatures and remember He has it all under control. I don't always, but He does.
This was in Grace's room at Memorial where someone 'accidentally' spilled that water on her stand and swiped her phone. How cruel can you get anyways/ Stealing someone's phone who has just had cancer surgery?! God saw that!! I'd hate to be you when God decides to let someone swipe something of yours.
Grace is doing OK with the treatments so far. Keep praying for miracles. She has lot of good friends who have been taking her to the hospital and sharing their time with our family. How wonderful is that!?
Here's lots of  from  .
God bless and keep you all!
| | |
| 
I am wondering why they aren't dropping the health care thing? Why is it so important that Fort Hood and the people take 2nd and third place? Why is Nancy Pelosi such a, I can't even say what I think of her because I'm a lady. I try to be anyways.
Mom, Nancy & I went with Grace for her radiation treatment yesterday and we had a blessed time talking about the old days and praying. The days before Nancy Pelosi. Mom was the tender age of 13 and she drove her little pony to work for 25 cents an hour. Wow! I asked her how many hours she worked? Well, she couldn't remember but she knows her highest pay was $12.50 for one week. 50 hours!  She remembers they worked sometimes into the night. She said it was fun and she enjoyed it. She said rich people brought them their produce and other things and they canned it for them, tomatoes, corn and such. My mind is just going, County Health Department, USDA, Children's Services and all those scary people who have showed up through the years until we are so safe that we still die sometimes. Wow! Mom is fine too. She still works at 79 years old, part time. Now children learn how to be so full of self esteem they don't know they're big brats who don't know much. Help! I just had a scary thought! Is it them who are in the Capitol building right now? Voting on Sunday, maybe for a health care bill? Sunday is a day of rest! Why are they so bent on our destruction that you just have to vote on Sunday? Just can't give up their little agenda and their own way? Oh no!! They don't even know how to can tomatoes and corn!! They just see pictures of polar bears and can't give up the idea that they are so important to us! Can't can polar bears you know. I'd better quit. It's too early and I woke up because I wasn't sleepy and here I am.  Barney Frank, you, you...I think I should turn you into a pumpkin than maybe I could make you without a mouth so you couldn't open it. Ugh...!! Please go can some tomatoes or penguins then maybe you'd have a little common sense and wouldn't be living on our tax dollars. I'll give you a donkey to drive to work in so you won't make such a big carbon foot print, the donkey could do it for you!! You see, I'm getting worse as the day goes on. Lol! Sorry.
I was looking at the moon this week and I did a second take. Wait a minute, did I just see? No, I didn't really, did I?
 
It was beautiful.
This is a guess what picture. 
Answer at the end.
In September we went apple picking at Kercher's. That's a lot faster than blueberries!
Brynn played soccer too this year.
Then there was a bug again. 
We ate at IHOP for Julie and Autumn's birthdays. They had this wonderful football pancake
filled with cream cheese! Seems like this is the children's choice for birthdays.
I picked up a ball and brought it in the house yesterday and there was a yellow jacket on it! Lucky for me he was too cold to do much.
Wonder which mood I'll be in today? I'll have to wait and see when I wake up again, after I go to bed now.
It's supposed to be really pretty. I think a hot dog roast in the woods would be fun. 
Sue Etta and Lorene fixed us such a nice supper one evening. Lorene has beautiful cabin. It seems like such a peaceful spot.
Then we took John out for supper last evening. It was so much fun but a little scary. We took him to the Lux Cafe. I got him turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy. He ate 2/3 (?) of it. They have big plates full of good food. He really enjoyed it. He said he'd like to go to church too. Maybe some kind person with a van will help us with that? We had to scrunch his head down to get him in the van in the wheelchair but PTL it was a good time. He was getting pretty tired at the end and having a hard time concentrating. On the way out a teacher friend spotted him. John seemed glad to see her and he said they taught many years together. Her name was Deb.
There's the guess what thing. It was a mushroom.
Well, good health to all of you. Knowing that it's mostly control issues in the health care bill you should probably stock up on super glue and band aids. I have to tell you the story of Lee's brother. This summer while Louann was in the hospital he sliced his arm open with a piece of steel that fell. I think that's what it was. He said blood was spurting out a good 2 feet (?) and it sliced in so far you could see bone. One of the little ones said, 'Daddy! I can see your guts!!' He recruited Amanda to help him and they super glued it shut and bandaged it. That's why I said super glue and band aids. I remember one doctor saying years ago that 10% of people can be helped by doctors, 10% are beyond help and 80% will get better anyways doctor or not. So, my mind is wondering about the huge industry and medical facilities that are growing and thriving on practicing medicine? Umm..thinking about that is too hard. I think I shall go back to bed.
Have a great week-end everyone and God bless America and those families who lost soldiers this week. Let Freedom Ring!
| | |
|
I should quit being so cynical. It's not my fault! It's all because of the missing NTLDR!! 
