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 Through the eyes of a writer and traveler 😁! Life and some spiritual musings. |
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Welcome Y'all 🤠. I'm into animal rescue and rights. Positive vibes and activism! 😻🙏 It's been interesting for the past 20 years. Good folks on here and a great 😃 writing community. It's time for rethinking my writing and growing as a person . Sharing how to help others and ourselves 😉 has always been my motivation! Hugs 🤗 to new and old peeps! " The journey of 10,000 miles Begins with one step 🪜. --Lao Tzu What you don't like Don't do to another. Rabbi Hillel Do unto others as you would have someone Do unto you. Jesus 🙏 |
| Still tired but hey y'all! It was a pretty good day. Finding out more about Roanoke and the communities. That's what we miss here. Strange things here 🤔! The biggest things are Tasty Thursdays Which is a bunch of food trucks ( believe me nothing good! No Chinese food or veggies. A lot of pork and things like boiled peanuts 🥜. Ugh they taste like wet cardboard. Had one 30 years ago when we moved to Georgia. They actually were a slave food but some people still eat them. The only big thing out here is The mullet festival. People toss the frozen fish to win prizes! A few food and crafts and at least they have a bunch of things for the kids to do and climb on! It's pretty dang boring here yawn 🥱! It was good for a break from the drama in Oregon. It used to be a good community and had lots to do for the grandkids. Slowly the drug addicts and the homeless took over. Crime is off the chain there sadly. The past two years it's been so super hot we didn't make it to the beach this year, which was a total bummer. That's part of why we were here and because it's cheaper to live. Gas is $2.44 a gallon. But food is high and we have 7 % tax so that adds up quickly. Today joined a Facebook group and will be getting emails from there. Checking out the areas and where we want to live. Our ideal is a small house with a backyard for a garden, maybe chicken 🐔 and place for the indoor kitties 😻 to enjoy. Will probably adopt a dog 🐕 or two ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙 In time. We miss the ones we lost. So a lot of work to do on it. If we hit the lottery we may move to Italy! And would travel to places like Holland and Egypt. I've never been out of the US , even though I've lived from NY to California and in the south. Well tired of course! Maxy had tummy issues and it was both ends so I had my work cut out! She seems better and I'm praying she will be. I'm learning a few things about the woman's movement from my good friend MABs. I'm so happy that all that political BS didn't effect our friendship of 50 + years.💛❤️ She's going to look at some of my poems and things, to give me feedback on what she might buy as a book! I'm thinking of doing an ebook,if I can do it on my Chromebook. Will see what happens. Thanks for being on this journey with me ☯️🪻 🐘! Chow for now! Whew. |
| Still tired but hey y'all! It was a pretty good day. Finding out more about Roanoke and the communities. That's what we miss here. Strange things here 🤔! The biggest things are Tasty Thursdays Which is a bunch of food trucks ( believe me nothing good! No Chinese food or veggies. A lot of pork and things like boiled peanuts 🥜. Ugh they taste like wet cardboard. Had one 30 years ago when we moved to Georgia. They actually were a slave food but some people still eat them. The only big thing out here is The mullet festival. People toss the frozen fish to win prizes! A few food and crafts and at least they have a bunch of things for the kids to do and climb on! It's pretty dang boring here yawn 🥱! It was good for a break from the drama in Oregon. It used to be a good community and had lots to do for the grandkids. Slowly the drug addicts and the homeless took over. Crime is off the chain there sadly. The past two years it's been so super hot we didn't make it to the beach this year, which was a total bummer. That's part of why we were here and because it's cheaper to live. Gas is $2.44 a gallon. But food is high and we have 7 % tax so that adds up quickly. Today joined a Facebook group and will be getting emails from there. Checking out the areas and where we want to live. Our ideal is a small house with a backyard for a garden, maybe chicken 🐔 and place for the indoor kitties 😻 to enjoy. Will probably adopt a dog 🐕 or two ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙 In time. We miss the ones we lost. So a lot of work to do on it. If we hit the lottery we may move to Italy! And would travel to places like Holland and Egypt. I've never been out of the US , even though I've lived from NY to California and in the south. Well tired of course! Maxy had tummy issues and it was both ends so I had my work cut out! She seems better and I'm praying she will be. I'm learning a few things about the woman's movement from my good friend MABs. I'm so happy that all that political BS didn't effect our friendship of 50 + years.💛❤️ She's going to look at some of my poems and things, to give me feedback on what she might buy as a book! I'm thinking of doing an ebook,if I can do it on my Chromebook. Will see what happens. Thanks for being on this journey with me ☯️🪻 🐘! Chow for now! Whew. |
| Still tired but hey y'all! It was a pretty good day. Finding out more about Roanoke and the communities. That's what we miss here. Strange things here 🤔! The biggest things are Tasty Thursdays Which is a bunch of food trucks ( believe me nothing good! No Chinese food or veggies. A lot of pork and things like boiled peanuts 🥜. Ugh they taste like wet cardboard. Had one 30 years ago when we moved to Georgia. They actually were a slave food but some people still eat them. The only big thing out here is The mullet festival. People toss the frozen fish to win prizes! A few food and crafts and at least they have a bunch of things for the kids to do and climb on! It's pretty dang boring here yawn 🥱! It was good for a break from the drama in Oregon. It used to be a good community and had lots to do for the grandkids. Slowly the drug addicts and the homeless took over. Crime is off the chain there sadly. The past two years it's been so super hot we didn't make it to the beach this year, which was a total bummer. That's part of why we were here and because it's cheaper to live. Gas is $2.44 a gallon. But food is high and we have 7 % tax so that adds up quickly. Today joined a Facebook group and will be getting emails from there. Checking out the areas and where we want to live. Our ideal is a small house with a backyard for a garden, maybe chicken 🐔 and place for the indoor kitties 😻 to enjoy. Will probably adopt a dog 🐕 or two ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙 In time. We miss the ones we lost. So a lot of work to do on it. If we hit the lottery we may move to Italy! And would travel to places like Holland and Egypt. I've never been out of the US , even though I've lived from NY to California and in the south. Well tired of course! Maxy had tummy issues and it was both ends so I had my work cut out! She seems better and I'm praying she will be. I'm learning a few things about the woman's movement from my good friend MABs. I'm so happy that all that political BS didn't effect our friendship of 50 + years.💛❤️ She's going to look at some of my poems and things, to give me feedback on what she might buy as a book! I'm thinking of doing an ebook,if I can do it on my Chromebook. Will see what happens. Thanks for being on this journey with me ☯️🪻 🐘! Chow for now! Whew. |
| HI y'all 👋 I kinda didn't hang out with you today, like I usually do ☺️❤️. I had to print some things out at the library instead. I'm helping sis with a project that is very involved and of a personal nature. On another note 🎶 we were trying to figure out having a driver to get to Roanoke when we will be able to move there. We have to save for it and it's just in the planning stages for now! Another of our friends of 50 years plus decided to join our little band of merrymakers! He used to be a cab driver in NY and we've got a lot of history all 3 of us. He's burnt out also on how much Oregon has changed. Tonight he found out sis is legally blind in one eye and said he will drive out with his cat's, to be her driver! That was great news all around! He was one of the first people to welcome me to San Francisco back in 1976! I was looking for my sis and all I knew was " 439 Cole St."! An I found her and enjoyed the last couple of years of the hippie movement in Haight Asbury. It was a very interesting time 😃! So things are coming full circle for all of us. We all agree no one wants to be in a freaking nursing home! And of course they don't make those for hippies! Once I even looked but no, no place you can smoke weed and not be locked in like a jail! I worked in those places and they are sad. I brought all the love and happiness I could to the residents back then. So Life is getting better! Got to speak to 2 of my grandkids today and last week. My granddaughter is taking her GED classes, did great and only has math left! She wants to be a Veterinarian, good for her! She's a real animal lover! She once brought home a homeless Guinea pig and I became it's Mom! I really loved my Shaggy Waggys. Maybe I'll tell you about him sometime. All the animals we loved, lost have their pictures on my Facebook memories. It's bittersweet seeing them... ❤️ So I'm signing off now. Have a blessed evening 🌆✨. |
| Good evening 🌆✨! 🌌 I've been working on the computer a big part of the day folks. I didn't have a chance to do much writing but planning to tomorrow. Some days are like a Tarot card and things are out of our hands! The Unexpected comes up and we have to focus our attention to detail and other things, because it's there to do! I'm doing ok with all my challenges and I hope next week my plan to speak with my Dr will help. This week I had thought about other things I wanted to write about. Like Peanut 🥜 the squirrel 🐿️ and Fred the racoon. I'm sure some heard about it and it was too hard to think more about it than I was already. I fanned the page and have been reading about it. Some good news, I did hear back from my friend tonight. I didn't know if I ever would, considering how some people are overreacting to the voting results. I read some comments on Facebook that I couldn't believe. How they were proud of deleting friends because they voted differently. It's sad that said I was happy that after 50 years of a crazy friendship ( both so totally different and our backgrounds also 😉!) She was still the same person she was and loved me for being me period! So glad she didn't turn 🛞 into one of those zombies of only one outlook on life. Those folks remind me of U of O fans, going to the football 🏈 game in Eugene OR. Droves of them walking like zombies, dressed the same and most with no expression, like lemmings to the sea. You had to be there I think to get the full picture. I hope our country can pull together. People are still struggling in North Carolina besides Ashville. Up in the mountains 🏔️ where FEMA can't get to, but regular folks are and bringing food,tools, generations Etc out of their own pockets. Clearing the trees and debris,on the road and bringing hope. It shouldn't take tragedy to bring people together but it usually does. Bless all those good souls including the Amish who came to the aid of strangers in need. Add your prayers 🙏🌹 please, cause there's so much work left to do. Have a blessed night 💗 y'all. |
| Hi everyone 🤠 I had errands today and still working on my closet and getting my room together. I have some things tomorrow to help a friend with and hopefully will get back to my Chromebook and projects there. This is probably not a great time to be blogging,as people are busy with Nano writing and other stuff. Usually I get some feedback on interest in the subject's in the post. I remember writing about my time in the children of God cult and hearing I should write more about it. ( It was short and didn't give much details). Anyway it's crazy weather 🌡️☁️ again! Last night I had to close the window it was so cold ❄️. Today we had rain 🌧️☔ and it was 80 degrees. Tonight's got rain and I have my ceiling fan 🪭 on and will leave the window 🪟 open 😺. I'm going to be putting my bookcase together when it comes this week! We picked up some food for thanksgiving 🦃 and last time I couldn't find frozen eggplant 🍆 microwave lunch. Sis said she would make it soon, which was nice 🙂👍. After the store ( and having to sit in the parking lot until the pouring rain stopped 😕) We got home and she started it. It takes a lot of time and prep for it. It was really good! She makes her own Italian sauce from scratch and we freeze it! The sauce in the jar is so much and not as good. She makes about five or six jars and it lasts. I almost spaced out posting tonight, pretty tired and rain is hard on my arthritis! It's better when it's warm. We miss having season's and look forward to seeing them again. Have a blessed night 🌃 Bye for now! |
| Hi y'all, I feel very strongly about the title of this... My uncle fought in the Korean War. He never talked about it to me, and it was after he passed that I learned he did. And understood how it affected him. He was very strict and distant. He worked for IBM in the 1960s on computers taller than him. A few times he drove to Brooklyn and took my grandfather and I to his apartment in the Bronx. I'd get to play with my younger cousins and enjoy their Lionel's train 🚆 🚂 set! Later my aunt would sit us at the children's table and feed us a feast of salad, meat and bowls of tasty things. I was sad to go home but happy we had such a wonderful time. One of my cousins joined the Marines. What I do to support Vets is click on the Greater Good site. They help homeless Veterans and their pet kids. Some only have their dog to love them,as they have been forgotten. It breaks my heart that any have to live like that. When we lived in Eugene OR, we saw the shelter for them, fenced in and razor wire was in the top to keep out the homeless tweakers that took over the town. My sister and I were sad for them living in what looked like a POW camp. I wish we could make America Great, because it's not for so many. Just my thoughts on this rainy chilly November Tuesday evening. Off the top of my head. My plans for tonight were to copy something I wrote about this week. About my spiritual journey in 2007 or so. I was on a quest to experience Buddhism for a couple of years. I've lived many lives in my one life on earth. Exploring possible paths for myself since I was 12! I was pretty much on my own by the time I was 15. My family sort of dissolved. I had to figure out life without much guidance and learned to depend on God and Jesus ✝️( G-d ✡️much later) I wasn't brought up in the church or synagogue! Nope just movies like The 10 commandments and King of King's. I found something outside of what we can see. Today a friend gave me some helpful advice and caring, about a serious situation I was dealing with alone. It made a difference and when people treat others with kindness not ego, it's a blessing. I was pretty tired from the laundry yesterday. It's heavy and no grandkids out here to help! I fed kitties at 7 but stayed in bed late,till 8 AM. That put me behind for chores! By noon was working on moving out some furniture ( a heavy wood magazine rack and small table) I took pictures for before and after! I'm getting a bookcase from Amazon any day and will be putting it together and yay have 6 shelves for books, makeup and stuff. After that I worked on my closet ugh! Got rid of a bunch of clothes and started packing up summer stuff. It's a mess that's been sitting on my floor for days, coming out of the closet. My scoliosis ( curved spine) has been giving me grief but just rocking and rolling the best I can. I smoke weed and would be dead without it. ( Folks who need pain meds aren't supposed to,and that's so wrong to withhold any relief for people who deal with high level's of daily pain.) So I spent an hour after that on my Chromebook for the first time, since the summer. It was weird because there were a bunch of emails from a certain person who was cruel to me here. That was the last time I was on WDC there and on my phone since. It doesn't creep me out anymore. I've moved on. Yay me! I started to copy my article but fed the kitties dinner and was tired and Surviver was on ( we've been watching the early seasons!) I will work on it tomorrow after we go to the stores. So it's 8 PM and bushed. I don't know if anyone has heard about P'nut the squirrel 🐿️ and Fred the racoon. My heart is broken 💔 😭 since learning about it. Have a blessed night my dears.   |
| Hi again This is my weekly goals To live to Friday It's hard right now but I'm fighting to stay. Too many distractions fill my day. Time for myself to write is a struggle, some just want to burst my bubble 💬. Keep posting every day in my blog. Didn't miss one day Even if felt like it. Keep taking random notes 🎶 On scrap paper 📜 Vignettes may be my only key to writing and perhaps my sanity! I'm having a tough time again, It's hard to deal with PTSD and have triggers flung at you. To see people you thought you knew decide that an election results are more important than you and past history. To wonder 🤔 if any of it was real. The Barilla elbows pasta 🍝 Are now half the size as last time we bought them. The raspberries were $1.99 ( that I wrote about yesterday) I'm feeling lost in the sauce 🫙 of life. Too many years of living with strife. 🎶 Like a ship ⚓ without an anchor To keep me at the shore. I seriously wonder how much more I can endure. Tomorrow I'm going to do something different. I'm going to recopy a couple of things I wrote a few days ago. It takes a lot more effort to do things like that. In part explained it in reply to yesterday's comment. It's not like I'm giving up. Even if I've been close to it. I still most days Thank God G-d for returning my soul to me and giving me another day of life. And for the strength to push with my broken body. That there's a purpose for me, even if most days, I can't see it. I wonder 🤔 I wonder if I'm just delusional For thinking I should write ✍️ About my crazy dysfunctional family and the comedy and drama in my life. The days I played and sang on the stage despite all the grief and strife. Always looking towards the future in search of love Beyond life's push and shove. Faith and beliefs have carried me Enjoying nature 🍄🟫 and loving to draw 🌲 trees. Stuck inside an apartment now, Not many places to go. Can't hang out in nature God's waiting room is slow... Peace ✌️ |
| Hi y'all 👋 and thanks for comments 😁 dear friends! I will try to get back to you later or tomorrow! We have laundry 🧺 tomorrow and we know how much fun that is 😉! So as I see wake up and live 🌹 mentioned Aldi's, let's get into our topic for the evening 🌆. They opened about a year ago and we went in once. Not seeing any name brand's didn't buy anything. We used to make fun in the car when we drove by,but yes know actually the joke was on us! Last time we went to Walmart, the prices had gotten so high,we decided to check out Aldi, because what we were spending on the same items,were getting out of hand ✋. Aldi's was clean and the first purchase ( I'm going off my memory) was a pint of raspberry's was $1.99! Sis love's them and has to have fruit in her diet! That's been tricky besides the price ( a pint of raspberry's at Walmart are $6.00 and sometimes higher 😩. Last time we went to Win Dixie, we forgot to look and were planning on getting frozen ones. Walmart had messed up our order and we walked out with nothing. She was hot , tired and hungry and was bummed out about not getting them. I went back in ( after she was saying " nevermind it's not important"... I could only find a tiny bag for $7. It lasted 2 days. Anyway $2.99 was a big deal! We found cream cheese for 2 bucks ( Walmart charges almost 5. I haven't been impressed with Kellogg's cereal 🥣 because the big box has less than the small ones and all the dyes they use. ( In Canada and Europe they use beet juice instead of red dye that is bad for you.) The price of a box of Special K with strawberry 🍓 is between 4 and 8 bucks at Walmart. I found a version of it for $3..39 and it tasted better than the original! We found a box of chocolate truffles for $2.99 and they were delicious and used European chocolate! The really good stuff. Not brand names but much better quality and cheaper than expected! A medium bag of cooked frozen shrimp was $6 and change! It would have been 8 or more at W. They had non food items and saw a pajamas set for $7.00 It had long and short bottoms, with 2 tops. 2 pieces are now $20. At W. So we got at least $60 or more for ( 🥁 drumroll please!) for $40. It's probably closer to $80 the way it is going. They have online too but like to pick our food out in person. It could help if your not near one or want to check it out for yourself 😜! So after filled in some things we had to get at Walmart. Spent $57. It would have been over a hundred buying everything there. So I hope this helps some of you to save some money 🤑! They are buying out some Win Dixie's. If y'all live near one. It's 9 PM and fried like an egg 🥚! Have a great tomorrow! |
| Hi y'all 🤠. Whew it's been a busy day and of course wiped out! Tomorrow I'll give you the run down of going to Aldi's 😄. So glad we did and saved a grip load of $. If you have one near you, it's def worth checking out. Will give a few examples of what we got tomorrow. Receipt down stairs! Later it got emotional for me and had a cry. I don't usually do that much anymore ( even though I know it's a healthy thing to do.) I miss having friends that I could turn to and be able to talk about things and get feedback. I do go to groups here but probably not when I feeling the most down... Anyway my grandson sent me some some funds, bless him for being a good person in this world. He offered it and I had a hard time accepting. Even though I've been there for years and sent it to him, when he needed it ( unless I didn't have it.) I was there more than his mother was sadly,most of his life. Today we bought us each a Christmas 🎁 present to save and put under the 🌲. It was nice to do 😊☺️! Tomorrow I'll let him know that those will be from him! This one will be small compared to most Christmas 🎄 past. I have pictures on Facebook that would blow your mind! We used to decorate the house and it was gorgeous and fun. Someday hopefully will again. Sis sight is getting worse and our only hope for any help is our future move. It's a " do or die " situation and in January will be cutting back even more to save and plan to move in the next year or half. Rolling cigarettes and buying way less packs. They are cheap here about 4 a pack. Tough times call for tough measures. That's the tip of the iceberg but if we don't, we'll be stuck here. No bus , and no access. It's a scary thing. She won't be able to drive forever. It's hard this is the first year, she doesn't want anything for Christmas. She can't see to draw or so many things. She wanted pajamas and found some nice ones at Walmart. She insisted I get the Hello kitty comforter to match my room, and I wanted it for months 😀. Trying to find joy in the gloom that is happening. So thanks for listening and have a blessed night 🌃🌉. |
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