IT'S VOTING TIME AGAIN.

This is not an actual blog. I tried to put this on facebook but they said I had too many words, so here it is hope you read it and if you think it is worth while send the link on to your facebook friends. See ya Gloriadee

Is anyone out there sick of those tacky political ads? I don't care if you are dem.  or rep. liberal or conservative. Those ad people get paid to put out that stuff, and what should make all of us stop and think is that the candidates have approved them!!!!!! Think about it, and before you vote for anyone, ask them some very pointed questions. Ask them exactly how they are gong to go about doing what they say they will do. I have asked that to several candidates lately and they can't tell me. JUST THINK ABOUT IT. DON'T VOTE FOR SOMETHING JUST BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS HAVE VOTED THAT WAY. DON'T THINK THAT AUTOMATICALLY THE OTHER SIDE IS ALL WRONG. OK off my soapbox for today. Just care enough to ask questions of your favorite candidate. Who knows he or she may just listen to you. (not likely, but who knows!) Now that was sarcastic wasn't it. Have a good day dear Facebook friends. If you feel like this is something you would like to share with other facebook friends go ahead and do it. Hope you have a wonderful day. Gloria

SAY WHAT??????

I will make a very brief blog today, since I have company coming soon. I have just heard for the "thousandth" time today about a ball player and his decision to play for a team. I am not going to give him more publicity by using his name but you all know who I am talking about, unless you have been out in the desert and have just come back to what we call "civilization". I have a whole bunch brothers, and they  are sports enthusiasts to the max. I even have one who was at his prime a passable basketball player, so I know they all have been waiting with baited breath for his decision. My word! he even had an interview on GMA and I am sure on the other morning  entertainment shows as well. Just so you know, I am NOT against sports. I am for sports in the form that is the most like it should be. I am for young people going out there and playing their games and getting exercise and learning how to loose. I am a parent and grandparent who has sat their share of time on hard bleachers in rain and snow and heat and cold. I do that willingly and happily.
The professional sports world is just another business, and if any of you think differently all you have to do is just come out of your adrenalin induced haze long enough to look at the big bucks the players get, now do you really think that if you are paid many many millions of dollars that the game is your main concern????? You say why shouldn't they get the big bucks if they can, after all they PLAY ball well. They are talented PLAYERS. Well dear hearts, there are teachers who don't make enough to feed their families, and there are policemen who don't make enough to feed their families, there are firemen who have to worry about their bills. In my opinion, THESE ARE THE REAL PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE GETTING THE REAL BIG BUCKS. THEY AREN'T PLAYING, THEY ARE BUSY HELPING OUR CHILDREN AND SAVING OUR LIVES, Well that is all I have to say right now. Got to run. If anyone reads this and has another opinion, please let me know. I love to hear other points of view. gloriadee

Words from the past in another part of the country.

If you haven't read Lisa's blog  yet, you probably should, it is great and this blog will make a bit more sense to you. I too share Lisa's love of all things past as long as they don't clutter my already full little home. Vintage cards and magazines and books are my love, so when I read Lisa's (smashed pennies) blog the other day I got out my cards and ran across a letter written in a Get Well card. There is no date on it, but the card is pretty fragile, so I would guess, 1920's or 30's? Well anyway here is what a mid western house wife wrote to another mid western house wife some time in the past.
Dear Lila & Family.
A line to you as I think of you often and hope you are feeling much better than when we heard last and hope the rest of the folks are fine. I suppose your grandpa is fine and I suppose busy. Have you been having some of the winter weather that we are? The ground was froze yesterday morn and puddles of water. We have had some much needed rain but we are wondering whether this has hurt the wheat. It sure fixed my beans and tomatoes but won't worry about them. Little Cathy Sue seems to be doing better. They took a blood test today and said she had infection somewhere and he gave her medicine. Hope that clears it up. The other kiddies are all OK. Catherine I think is feel some better she is uncomfortable. The Dr. put a brace on her and is so uncomfortable she says. Walter and Ann are OK.  Jim and Mildred too. They run the basement walls yesterday and when that is done, maybe it will seem like they are getting along faster. Will be glad for them when it is done. I haven't did any house cleaning and don't know when I will. I had got so near out of dresses, have been trying to get some sewing done and that don't go too fast for me. Well I must quit and write another letter or two. Wanted you to know we think of you often. Am so glad you have two such good house keepers. I know your do appreciate it too. Our love and best wishes to all . From Uncle Chaz and Aunt Pearl.


This was not a noteworthy letter. It wasn't written by some famous person, and it didn't have much in the way of news. It was just a gentle little letter written about every day ordinary things. The stuff that life is made of. Oh how I yearn for the days of letters! They were great but I fear that the gentle art of letter writing has become extinct. Well that's all for now. Hope you enjoyed the trip to the past. Contrary to what some say, we can learn a lot from listening to our past. If we had listened and learned perhaps some our problems in this country could have been alleviated??????  Well bye for now. gloriadee

Well here it is July 5th, and we survived another holiday. I hope all stayed well and didn't get any food borne illnesses. Of course since the fourth was on Sunday, today is the official off work holiday so there is still time for a good case of food poisoning. If you are unlucky enough to get it, just look at it this way, you will most likely be able to stay home from work tomorrow also, perhaps even Wed. Boy am I warped or what??? Trying to think of ways to stay home from work! Actually I don't work out of my home any more, but I remember those days when going back into the office after a long weekend was almost traumatic, you had several days to get back to being yourself, and then bam you have to put on your work persona again. Boy reality bites sometimes doesn't it? I have said about all I want to say for now. Just get back to work tomorrow and remember Labor Day is only a few months away. Stay well. Love gloiradee

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

Well here it is almost the 4th of July once again. We are invited to several functions, all of them revolve around the pot luck model of entertaining. You know, hosts provide meat and drinks, everyone else brings stuff. Isn't it funny how it usually works out that there are so many different salads and deserts? Many of these dishes are made with mayo, or some other bacteria containing ingredient. All the experts say to keep all that stuff made with cream sauces and the like on ice, and for heavens sake don't keep it out on a picnic table for longer than a few minutes, or you will most likely die, or worse yet get food poisoning. Now I know for sure how detrimental food poisoning can be to a persons body, you are in a suspended state of misery, and time does indeed stand still. Your stomach hurts you are going from both ends, (forgive the graphic description, I didn't know how to say it more delicately), you know for sure that if this doesn't quit soon you will dehydrate and just die. In fact just before you get to feeling better you start to think about what flowers you would like at your funeral. You hope the family doesn't put you in that horrible dress you bought on sale last month, it was not a good purchase, but it was cheap and you can't take it back. You think if only you had a pen in the bathroom you could scribble your last request not to bury you in that dress and that you want roses instead of lillies on the toilet paper, but that won't work you are just about out of toilet paper and you might need it. Well you are just going to have to take your chances on the the funeral arrangements. Somewhere in your tortured mind you make note that should you recover from this by some miracle, you will most definitely write down your wishes and put it someplace safe so the family can find it when the time comes. Well folks I took this a whole other way than I had intended. I was going to talk about our independence and how we have all these freedoms. Heck we even have the freedom to go to potlucks eat warm pasta salad, and get food poisoning. Ahhh what a wonderful country we live in. Well hope you all make it through this holiday in good health. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

It's an Un-quiet Evening.

It has been hot today and windy.

It has been humid. There were storms this morning.

The day was filled with the electricity of an unsettled atmosphere.

My day was also filled with disquiet. I don't know if that is a word or not but it pretty much says what I felt.

There are decisions to be made. There are things to be worked through. There are thoughts that I would love to change but can't for any number of reasons. There are places I would go, but can't for another whole set of reasons.

People I care about are ill, some won't be with us long. There are happy people who will be happy for a time and then be sad for a time. There are all these things that are going on in my mind on this "unquiet evening".

I don't want to face the responsibilities of tomorrow. I don't want to be where I am. Now before you get worried and think that I am going to do something drastic. I am not. I am just trying to write out my unquiet thoughts. I am trying to write out my unquiet feelings.

I am trying to put into words that life is just never never what we think it will be. Plan and plan and plan, and then when you get done, plan some more, and it doesn't really make any difference, because plans are just wisps of fog on a cool autumn morning. Plans are fireflies at night. Plans are thunder and lightning. Dear hearts. plans are very elusive and capricious things and they don't care that you worked so very hard on them. They have a will of their own.

Well guess that is all for now. I know these are not words of wisdom because all of us have had plans that haven't made it to the light of day, but I just needed to write down what I was thinking. Goodnight dear ones. Good night "unquiet thoughts."

Sunday Afternoons.

Well here I am again. It has been a while, and I am not sure that I 'm going to wax profound in this blog, but I am bored. It is Sunday afternoon. It is cool and cloudy and damp out. Nothing good on TV. (we had our satellite discontinued because we were paying to have the option of watching over 200 channels of boring, mediocre stuff. The only channel we even almost miss is the National Geographic channel) I could do housework, but I am not that bored!!!! I have a thing about Sunday afternoons. When I worked I used Sunday afternoon to get cranky thinking about going to work on Monday. I would always take a Sunday afternoon nap, and that was good. It still is. I still keep that tradition. In fact I will make a confession , that I take a little afternoon lay-down almost every afternoon. It gives me a little time to reboot, and it feels so good. This old age and retirement has to have some benefits. I am not sure where I am going with this blog, so I think I will go and have my Sunday afternoon lay down, and that is good, but what is really great is that I won't have to wake up and get cranky thinking about going to work on Monday. Well this is all for now. See ya. Gloria Dee