Friday Bitches 

Oh boy oh boy it's friday, start of the weekend. Does it matter nah, not really the week's over when it's over. I was always so tired after the weekend. Now it's just part of the week that end's on Sunday not really friday hahah.
 Any day of the week is a great day or it's a day heading strait into the crapper. Flush twice and evaluate that's the way to get it done. It's all banana pudding and rough sex. One or two people hanging out in the driveway all tuned in with "a new camouflage limo is like a bug light to a redneck" or in this case changing spark plugs with a new tool to roll the motor up to get at the plugs. Just like a retarded nascar team all six were out and on the fender in a whopping one hour and forty five minutes. It made a bit of difference with the thirteen dollar genuine mail order tool. How high tech is that. 
 I got about as much sleep as a moth stuck to a bug light last night, I have my fingers crossed and my balls and folded my pecker to hope to sleep saturday night like a baby with no one in the house. All the pilgrims are on the road to a big ol' christmas party with santa and reindeers and present's and good shit. I will be so happy if my clock can get caught up. I watched the news last night over and over because someone who shall be named nameless kept rolling up on the remote and turning the TV off and then poof..back on at least four times. Then bang the family of teens came in and the gov. worker got up and then the reveille alarm went off and then the TV came on again to you guessed it the NEWs Fwaaak....
 I will live another day, watch some more duck commander and go with the wind for a cup of coffee and a piece of bread with honey and cream cheese. Have some wine,good eats and a great nite

          The Old Farmers Almanac

There is a wealth of information in the Old Farmers Almanac, everything from weather to planting and in recent years advertising and recipes. They have a nice little sales area and will now send you a email with a few things they have to offer. One of which is a nice moon phase app for your phone. it would be handy to look at for fishing times, hunting and hay harvesting. But this picture of a memory game caught my eye. A series of pictures meant to help with remembering things and order of things. I have a book about increasing your thought and memory. It uses a series of small things to help increase your memory. I think this actual hands on picture with the ability to be touchy feely and see what you are remembering can in my opinion be very helpful for anyone. It would be great for some who suffer from memory loss from stroke or the early onset of Alzheimer. One of my few fears is loosing my memory and the ability to control my body. I have has this happen on more than one occasion. I would definitely get this if I had the chance. It would help a lot for just killing time if nothing else. The Old Farmers Almanac has been a staple in many an era from the layman to farmer. It does have quite the interesting history and the little tidbit's that it contains are interesting to read I have always been fascinated with the little yellow booklet, the first one bought for me by my mom, she would never deny buying me a book even if we were short on money and the Almanac wasn't too expensive when I was young but it did cost and for a young single mom I didn't appreciate what she had to do to earn a living in those day's and what she had to put up with. Things that wouldn't be tolerated today, but was the norm in the 70's, it wasn't until later years and the death of my mom did I get what she had sacrificed for me and the life she had made for me. She gave me more than I ever was able to re pay. Love you mom and Thanks

 Cold rainy night with clouds and frost I think being able to hit the hay early tonight is in order if nothing else to try and catch up on my own internal clock of sleep count down. 

 The bird is eating like a horse everything I feed her and looking for more it must be getting closer to cold times and winter. 

 Have a great day live like you have left the yard unattended.    

Well...Hell

It's just another day, cold and overcast with a few drops of fluffy snow. Most of the area had big cold rain drops with a touch of mm...nothing special. 

I have had a nice late nap and thought to myself damn it's another wasted day spent thinking but not doing, Doesn't mean it was a bad day just another one. 

I sit and listen to what a few people say and think damn how can you believe what you do. Think what you think and live as ignorant as well you do?? Common sense isn't common in some people because I feel they weren't allowed to find it. Something being out in the world has taught me is common sense. the ability to rationalize what is good and bad, how to construct and dismantle, and what has been taught from others who have been there done that. I learned that if you don't know something you can bullshit it only so far before others figure out it'z bullshit. Why let it get to that point before you admit defeat. Ask for help or look up the information you need to make it right, to get the fact's or ask for directions. Without the help, fact's or directions you are lost, admit it and move on. 

 I won a nice knife from SOG at least I think I did, on their facebook page contest they run when they have a new knife released for sale. I was notified sent to their home page and sent them my information. Fingers crossed. I have bought SOG knives for longer than most having lived in the area SOG was first manufactured in a fella's basement. He would show up at the local gun shows in Puyallup and Everett hocking his latest creations. At the time they were well constructed and has a purpose, I ended up buying a few different knives from SOG and the last one from Sportsmans warehouse cost over a hundred bucks and has lasted everyday without a sharpening for the past three years, I did break the spring hook off a few times but the spiffy sales guy ordered me new ones and they arrived a day's later and boom, installed and still going strong, it is part of carrying a knife every day there is bound to be wear and tear. 

 I think the stress of just hearing certain voices is wearing on my nerves I just need to not let it bother me and harden the fuck up. I don't sleep well if at all more than a few hours and usually woken up I could be suffering from some post traumatic stress from my childhood or from traveling through an airport in a war zone. Maybe but that's a question for Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson Now for a nice bowl of warm apple sauce with butter on top and a cupa'

 Another day to say hey, hay ha' have a nice night.

Black Room and NO sound

I need a room with no sound and no light with a nice breeze of fresh air. I need sleep not a few hours of broken sleep but gee he looks dead sleep. I don't know where people are taught courtesy, I don't think people in my AO have any concept of the word. They KLACK around the house on the hardwoods like a mexican show horse. It would be quieter with a hand full of roosters right out side the window crowing to John Philip Sousa's rag time band...I bet those big ass NBA basketball players in cowboy boots, slamming their balls on the floor wouldn't make as much noise. FWAAK..I am tired.
 What a beautiful day cloudy and overcast, chilly with fog and dew nipples are everywhere damn right it's almost the end of Movember. I have set a timer so as not to sit at the computer ALL day looking up meaningless crap that will fill my mind. Yeah, I know it won't last long but I have been standing for 10 minutes of every hour to get the blood circulating and put a good stretch on the arms and shoulders, and cruisin' around the property to get some exercise. The dog and turkey water were a little frozen, just a top layer but it was nice to feel the crisp air, the turkey appreciates a visit from the food god so she doesn't feel like she is wasting away. she has done very well putting on some winter fat so it must indicate a late winter, winter used to come around December but now it arrives end of January and stay's till march some times. Oh, there are times of sunny summer style bliss where a t shirt and shorts are no big deal but then turn around the next morning and need a parka and ski boot's. I look forward to snow this year, mostly so that certain married teen's won't come down to visit, that isn't going to last long with the drop out and the bailing on life she is doing. The silver nipple will be inserted and she and her husband will be saved. Pfff...NO tool's loaned and guess what they don't use tools anyway, they are just poo throwers. The chimp that passed away at Central Washington University was much more intelligent than these two, and did more to convey human characteristics and thought through human interaction than any other chimp, and it signed like it owned the language. Some humans should learn from those who are less fortunate, less articulate and in many cases happier. 
 Coffee, tea, cookies and me have a day to be you folks. 

Children do you get it?

 NO Tools Loaned, you should already have them. you were given them when you were growing up or were you absent on every damn day they were being issued? HuH! well, what?

 That's right you were given tools to keep, to use and help you survive life when you got out into the real world, not the world of lolly pop's and unicorns your parent's have been providing for the past 18 years. But geeze you don't seem to be able to use them. I see you struggling to comprehend the basic's and it is sad. In a crisis situation your going to be eaten. As a young adult you should be able to understand that if you payed a bunch of money to go to a trade school,knew your credit's would NOT be usable anywhere else you chose to go to school. And then chose to quit before you complete a simple two year program well, hell your tools are not sharp your lucky you have a fork with two tine's. I thought you knew better than that. If you get a GED and don't finish school because you have emotional hang up's from your mommy n daddy and think it's ok because you don't like school anyway. Well screw that you know you can't get by on your good luck and looks your going to get or be knocked up and bitching about how your welfare check is late, and you want to go out ho-in with your friends and fine yo' self a man. 

 I would like to see kids less co dependent on parents and boyfriends/girlfriends and having to be in a relationship and not independent free thinking people. Kids think life revolves around them and they are the priority, they are but not in the respect to others no one person should have the world revolve around them in a family, life is about compromise, love and co operation, to me that's is family. I know many boy's who have had a girlfriend and have that girlfriend act like a wife, all through school they are inseparable the family accept's them and takes them on trips, vacations, dinner's, then on the one faitful day, usually near the end of the Senior year of high school the bomb is dropped and the boy happy to have his woman and get laid regularly is left at the curb shaking his head and wondering what he did wrong. He gives up his invitations to collage sports programs the stepping stone to an education. And now at the age of almost 25-30 he is looking for love in all the wrong places because he is lonely and doesn't have direction, he finds solace in his buddy's who have girlfriends and he is still the third wheel and doesn't fit in. Or he drinks a LOT not a little not to relax but to be drunk to forget. These are broad generalizations but they do involve actual people, people I know and have watch live their live...L I V I N' Many were given the tools and along the way they lost them. I don't loan tools anymore I don't really answer questions when asked "what should I do", My opinion doesn't matter, it all boils down to what you decide, what you feel is right. you had the tools, find them and use them, feel good about yourself and live with your decision with no regret even if it will cause you great pain and hardship in the long run, you decided it you own it. Have a great Monday and remember the week is almost over only 6 day's left.

I Had fun once.....

I have fun in my own mind every day do I get to share it...NO not really I just live in my own little world most of the time things that are very funny to me don't interpret to others. I would love to be able to project funny to other people, I seem to fail. Oh well you can't have every thing but you always have a shot at a lot. I am working of figuring out how to write this blog, what I want to convey to others..hmm. I would like to let folks know about me a little not a lot, see what I have a slight passion for, and see what pisses me off. I don't like the word folks anymore obumma ruined it for me how he cares for folks, he doesn't and yup you guessed it I don't like him or his politic's, bottom line he doesn't have any. I am a self described victim of the system he has created, I went in for a pacemaker, hadn't had one for years they are spendy. I have never had insurance and couldn't work but didn't qualify for any medical that was touted with horns and revelry by obumma for the masses, well this mass didn't get shit. NO I don't like him. There should be a system of healthcare in America that work, this obamacare/romneycare will not, I am a living example of that.  So anyway like a leaf in the wind it's time for Seahawks football and more coffee on a sunday morning. The Americans lost last night but i have fingers crossed that their season will turn around and maybe get another banner for the TC coliseum. 

Cougars WIN!!

Duck's win!!

 Ok so the Ducks of Oregon state University won! and so did the Washington state Cougar's in the battle of the portlandia territory's wild and woolley frontier of college sport's. I almost made it through all of both games, good thing they were a day a part. They played with half a heart not the full grit and gristle I would want out of my players. I would really like to see the iron men of the past play a few more games against the new player and see how they match up. As they were taking a knee on the sidelines and having a beer, sausage and a quick smoke in between down's how funny that would be, and still kicking ass. You can work out and be a specimen of idolatry but if you aren't willing to slam someone into the ground and break yourself in doing so you are lacking a key element in the sport. How many young kids played hurt when the only thing they had going was to play the sport they loved. 

 I would post some hot dog picture of a hard ass football team or a photo of the winning teams logo, I thought screw it I have nothing better to do but not a lot of space left on the old hard drive for stuff to add. I made the mistake of being an eBook hoarder one free book at a time and am frantically reading what I have downloaded that was an easy info gathering read. I could spend a lot of time reading, I am scouring Craiglist for a kindle to read on, I did download the PC app and it is a great thing to have but those little bitz and bitez I keep finding are eating memory alive. I am a junkie anywho when it comes to free and what spectacular thing I can Rube Goldberg together. All the plans and blogs and ideas that pop into my head when I see something I think I could use. I don't store a bunch of crap but there are a few things waiting for the day when I get onto my little Hundred Acre woods or in reality about 19 acres down by the river and I don't think I will find a Winnie the pooh there but maybe a Robin. 

 Last on the agenda is no shave Movember and bringing awareness to men about the importance of men's health. I for one am itching like crazy but I do post my mug shot every few day's to let my facebook friends know I am still in it and want them to take care of themselves and be there for their family's.

 Take care, be well and have a shot on me.

Apple cup who's your daddy?

 If you buy boxed wine and oranges and think fondly of the Washington State vs. University of Washington state rival collage football game. The chilly fall air filled with rabble rouzer's cheering on their team. We would sneak in oranges filled with vodka or cheap white wine to the game in our pocket's, being young and foolish. They were the best treat and would get you laid in the end if you played your card right oh and the team jersey you were wearing WON! The game starts soon so after a nice cup of strong coffee and a nice stuffing sandwich we should be good to go. I like football if the players PLAY and not run around the field thinking about an NFL career or how talented they are, But play the game with heart and meaning. Hockey is my sport I like the physical play and speed. I know those kids playing worked for what they are doing they don't get a lot of money in the collage ranks or junior hockey team's nothing like football players get. A good football program has kids who like to play and would like an education when their career in collage football is over. In today's society that is a rarity I won't even go into a rant about WTH is really wrong with basketball. 

 I miss my friends and compatriots who would sit and watch TV with me anything from sport's to a movie. I have alienated all of those people from my life. Once you decide to burn a bridge make sure napalm is used so you don't go back it's just for the best. Though with the state football rivalries you can't not shout out to the Civil War down in Oregon where the Beavers will take on the Duck's that should be a great game too. But who's counting good VS badd.....

 Enjoy your black Friday by NOT spending like I have and feel the inner peace of knowing that Thanksgiving was just that being thankful for what you have and NOT for what you are about to buy selling out to the man by buying his cheap product's stimulate the economy all year one item at a time not with reckless abandon on Black friday.

This is Sparta or Thanksgiving!!

~ Through hardship came strength, and as a result of pain I found joy. Through suffering came gratitude, and by letting go I found my path and purpose.~

 The Turkey day is here, right here but we are having ham and NO pies I knew I should have baked up the pumpkin's that we got for 25 bucks a pickup load. I was too lazy and pumpkin pie doesn't seem so popular maybe next week when the masses are gone. 
 When I was a kid we would be loading up into the car a 1963 ford falcon with pies and goodies to take to the great's house on the river. It was a big adventure by looking at Google maps it say's 11 whole miles in those day's it was more like 18 miles there wasn't a strait shot down the highway like it is now with a modern divided highway. We would all arrive with mom,grandma and me to be greeted by the cousin's and their children most of which were younger than I was. The feasting would start with breakfast of ham, bacon, oysters, pancakes, biscuit's and sausage gravy and an abundance of egg's and toast. We would lolly gag through the table's of treats and about the time you made it through your plate the vegetable/ cracker/cheese platters would show up on the table with a few gallons of orange juice, soda and four or five bottles of booze it was after all approaching noon. The kids would all sit on great grandpa's lap one by one and say our what for's and he would laugh and giggle while pulling  a half dollar out of your ear. All grandpa's should be able to pull money out of your head it should be a requirement. We would play on the floor while the adults would chit chat about uncle Audie's ranch an the new cow's due in a few weeks, crops and the forest areas he would haul his cattle up to. The business of building in the Tri Cities and what new projects would be built in the next year or what was being finished up. The cousins would brag about how well their older children were doing in school and sports and us younger children would ask to go out to the pond and just look. My great would herd us littler kids out to the pond and show us the iced over water where in the spring the fingerling trout would be placed to be released to the Yakima river. We would look over the pheasant boxes where the eggs would hatch out in the spring to be released. We really didn't see anything wild but our imagination would be filled with what was to come. We would gaze at the cow's in the small pasture by the road and then go back into the house to a cup of warm cider and wait for what seemed forever till dinner was served. We would all be called to the table and set in our place while we watched great grandpa' carve the turkey and hold our plate up to get a few slices of what would be the best turkey, stuffing and cranberries, eating like it was the first food we had all day. After the main course we would get a piece of homeade pie I would have mince meat made with the canned moose that the adult's had gotten on their annual trip to British Columbia. The adult's would pour a large dram of Canadian mist whiskey and sit in the front room with the fireplace going and all would rejoice about what a great day it was to have family and friends around. The family had come a long way to where it was, leaders of the community and industry in the area. I look back on the past with fond memory's how the family would come together and triumph the obstacles that had been placed before them. The large family gatherings ended in 1974 with the passing of Great Grandpa' Murray he was a pioneer who came out west with his family. I will admire him and what he had given us all. The family's would each have their own Thanksgiving in their own homes and each would invite the other but no one would really get together like in the past. Now the cousin's have their own family's and extended family's they have gone on to have their own traditions but I hope they can still remember the past and the good times we all shared in those early years. 
 I hope this finds your family together if nothing else but in spirit. And a large heart felt thanks to my daughter I love her and miss her but am so thankful to have her in my heart and to have the early memories of her at Thanksgiving. 

Thanksgiving of 2012

How or what are you thankful for?

I look at the picture to the left and am draw'n to how those in line are dressed, Some are well dressed and some are not. But in the 20's it took many a victim with the Stock market crash and the Dust bowl. I have been watching the PBS special about the Dust bowl and what those farmers who were looking for a future for their children and generations to come. I watched their whole world be tossed back and forth by the weather, Dust would move more farms about like it was a modular home with little chance to recover. The children and elderly would suffer from Dust pneumonia and have no real hope for full recovery, Out here in eastern Washington I grew up with dust storms that would leave a good inch of dust at the bottom of the sill on the window's but nothing like what those people suffered in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada. I Learned a lot from the two part mini series and appreciated what those who stuck it out went through.I am thankful for the work many put forth to change the farming practices to help prevent such soil erosion and blowing dust. I am thankful for the perseverance of our early pioneers those who were here in the Americas living off of the land, hunting, fishing, and raising crops some of which are tasty as you can get, Sink your teeth into a nice heritage purple tomato and your lips will find the drool with the quickness when you glimpse one again. The Pilgrims who showed up and were indentured servants but stuck it out and survived with help from those native, They did impact us as a people and were afraid of Native Americans but in this day and age of 2012 we are afraid once again it has come full cycle we do very little for the Native people. I would wish that the first american's would join together to help one another but they will not like many humans the tribes are out for what they can get, I am not begrudging them but would like to see more unity. I am thankful that there will be turkey on the table and cranberry's to eat. I will call the ex and wish her well, Hope that my daughter is well and will have a good Thanksgiving. And I will cringe and posture because I am not cooking or preparing. I will look at a generic meal with sudo plates and dishes. But that is tomorrow not today. 

Dia De los Muertos

The day of the dead, where we celebrate the passing of those who came before us. I find that we remember those important in our lives at random times, not just on one day. It is a nice fiesta for many and a great way to salute our loved ones. I can hear the chorus of mariachi's singing in the background with trumpets and flair calling the spirit's of the dead.I haven't looked it seem's to be a pagan celebration but christian in nature I can see the bishop now prancing through the town of short immigrant poor following behind. I wonder if muslims have a holiday for the dead who chose to blow themselves up with the reward of virgin's? There has been a lot of torment from Sandy not where I am at but in other parts of the country Oh well storms come and go and the repair has begun with some loss of life it could have been worse, The Samhain/ halloween night or day of dressing up and knocking on the neighbors door has come and gone,the neighbor who you have never met but see only once a year up close and personal if you have kid's or see as you pass by to work. The time when you knew all your neighbors and where they worked, where they shopped and met when you went to church or lodge is over.You might know a few and socialize with them and that is the way it should be, closing yourself in the house or to your yard doesn't create a community it creates unsocial fear. You wonder about such and such and speculate what they do or who they are. In light of the last few day's it would be a good time to go to your neighbors and get to know them, Help a senior who lives down the way while she is raking the leaves or drag out her trash can.They would be so thankful for the extra help, When you make cookies take a plate to the widower who lives two doors down or the sexy neighbor guy. With this being Movember the beginning of Thankful Thanksgiving month. I am thankful for all the wonderful neighbors I have had they far outweigh the assholes. Lady's you can bring me cookies anytime.

Always be nice and have a great night.