A Year of Change

The youngest, Mom and I are up reading the paper and watching the end of the Phineas and Ferb movie the youngest started a few days ago, thankfully it just finished! Mom’s neck is sore but her head seems to be hanging in there. Today we have soccer at 11:30 and then we’re free for the day. I need to see if I have time to run to Boulder sometime to have my scope mounted on my 270 Winchester. It’s never too early to get out there and practice as it’ll be October and hunting season before we know it.

It’s still cloudy and cool this morning which is a nice change. In fact the misses has the fireplace going. Mothers Day is tomorrow and we’re going to lay low but will go up to Grandma’s to visit for awhile.

I’ve stayed away from politics intentionally which is a good thing as we’re starting to be bombarded by tv ads every few minutes. in fact our loser Pres is on tv right now spinning his faults trying to fool the people once again. I don’t know about you but I think it’s time to give the other team the ball, it can’t be any worse. How’s that for ya?

The oldest one just came down in a good mood meaning he got enough sleep which is a good thing.

In the newspaper today there’s an article about a tiny house. I guess that’s a movement that’s going on right now. Anyhow the article has a couple who built a 133 square foot house on a trailer out of old beetle kill lumber. It has a loft, a kitchen, a sofa and compost toilet and propane stove like those found on a sailboat. The entire cost was something like $20,000 and it’s really cool! Can you hear our wheels turning? Now of course we’d need more space with the boys but our life long dream, (and my dad’s) is a cabin up at the ranch. Maybe this is our answer as I do not want to be sitting around, again like my dad, in 10 or 20 years, saying “I wish I would have done that”. After all, no one is ever on their death bed saying “I wish I worked more” right?

We’ve also been investigating high altitude gardening and the feedback from professional gardeners and others has been really positive. It turns out you can grow all kinds of good stuff at 7000 plus feet of altitude. You do need a greenhouse of some sort (for year round growing) but that’s doable too. The missing piece is who do you sell your harvest to? Well that’s been solved too as our friend who owns Brush Creek Ranch (the uber exclusive guest ranch that cooks for 50 to 100 people each day) can buy all we can produce. So there you have it, now all we need to do is gear up to grow some stuff up there and have someone manage it. Maybe our dream of a farm/ranch will come true someday. Of course we’d still have to live in the city, for now anyhow but who knows what the future will bring.

Mom’s cooking away in the kitchen and Grandma Dix, Pa Don and company are having fun in Hawaii as she calls just about everyday.

Here’s some quotes to chew on for the day, see if you can guess who said them before I tell you below,

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I wish I could say that I said all those things…
Those are quotes from Thomas Jefferson, who definitely had it right. They sure still ring true today.

How about the last quote, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground”?! This sure is what has been happening in America lately. No doubt about that.

People have been relinquishing their liberties with frightful and ever increasing speed. The liberty reduction curve has gone parabolic. All in the name of ‘terrorism’ it seems. We all went willingly following 9/11, but here we are 11 years later and we are seeing executive order after order, and laws upon laws further diminishing our freedoms as free individuals.

I sense in my bones that something is going down, and that the guberment is getting their ducks in a row. No, I’m not paranoid. I’m a skeptical person, who can add 2+2… My gut tells me that the end game is nearing regarding the world economic condition (nations and their banksters). Since it is all tied together in a corrupt web of electronic bets and counter-bets, that a rapid collapse domino effect could finish it all. A best case scenario will be a somewhat controlled crash landing – but the real crash is still to come.

In the mean time, we can fight for our rights for liberty by raising awareness and talking about any attempts at takeaway to our friends and family whenever you hear about a story or news report as such (it will mostly come from the alternative news media – not the main stream who only wants you to focus on fluff).

When you hear or read something that doesn’t sound quite right to you (e.g. the Dept. of Homeland Security buying 450 million rounds of ammunition, or the NSA building the world’s largest spy center in Utah to track Americans, or that congress is introducing an amendment to outlaw self defense), check it out for yourself. Check multiple sources and dig for the source of the original information. The main stream will NOT report on such things. It is up to you to find and expose the truth as to what is going on. Sure, there will be some alternative news that turns out to be stretched way out of reality, but there is an alarming amount of reality as to what has been going on too.

When you find a truth that is stripping more of your liberty, do not accept it or the excuse that is used. Fight back. Even though I suspect that most of us don’t have much hope in the results of calling or writing our representatives, but, if we do not, then we are doing nothing within the system to make a difference. Do it anyway. Even if it seems futile. Plus, talk about it with others. If we keep to ourselves, we are to blame when our liberty is stripped from us.

Hope this wasn’t too much for you to think about so early in the morning but once you lose something, it’s hard to get it back. Just think for yourself, you don’t have to let NBC news and politicians think for you. Think bout it,  your parents and Grandparents did just fine without all the regulations and supervision from the gov, didn’t they? I sure think so, what do you think?

Take care and God Bless,

After an hour or so with my neighbor helping me, we now have wireless connections back in the house. I still haven’t received my power supply in the mail, I’ll never buy a Dell again! We had a good day but the misses probably did more than she should. I stayed up late to watch the Nuggets smash the Lakers by about 25 points. It will be something else if they win Saturday night.

It’s cooler today by about 30 degrees and feels good outside. Both boys had a good day at school and had their usual playtime after homework was finished. They’re both a little tired this morning, especially the oldest one who’s a little dramatic right now.

We need to keep the misses on the couch today taking it easy as she still needs to rest. Of course I could or should be making breakfast right now instead of her.

Time to run so I can help. It’ll take me a few days to get back into writing long posts. Take care and God Bless,

While it’s a little early to throw a party, the misses woke up with a sore neck (which is expected) but not much of a headache. This is good news! We’ll make sure she lays low today as directed and hoepfully the trend will continue.

She’s now on the couch taking it easy as she should. I just took the boys to school and am working downstairs and have calls lined up for the next 2 or 3 hours. Grandma Dix and Pa Don made it safely to Hawaii yesterday despite Pa Don’s oxygen levels being low on the plane. When Grandma Dix called she was sitting on the curb waiting for Pa Don and Aunt Myrna with the rental car. I told the misses to tell her that if we were there, she would be already in her car with her bags loaded and on the way to her hotel!

Time to run, I’m hoping to get my computer up and running today if my power supply finally arrives. All else is good, lots of work to do so time to run, take care and give the misses a call or drop off some chocolate and flowers for her, ha ha.

God Bless

Well we’re home from the rhyzotimy (not sure I spelled that right) and so far, so good. The misses sure is one tough cookie according to her doctor and she came through with flying colors. Right now at 7pm, her neck and bones hurt from the 8 needles and cauterization but the headache is about 75% or more gone! We’re hoping this continues.

More tomorrow, sorry I forgot to write this morning, take care and keep the misses in your prayers!

Tomorrow morning we’ll be getting the misses ready to go to the mountains to hopefully begin to end her pain. They say she could actually have worse pain for 2 to 4 weeks before all the nerve endings die off. Let’s just pray it works. I don’t know why the font size is so small????

It rained most of the day and was pretty gloomy. We’re in for a brief warm up before another cold spell Friday. School was good for the boys and other than that, just normal stuff going on. Today my power supply for my computer is supposed to arrive so with luck, and the help opf Steve our neighbor, our network and computer should be up and running.

Mom’s still sleeping as is the oldest one and it’s almost 7 so I need to run. I’ll get back to longer posts once i’m back on my regular keyboard. You’ve probably enjoyed the break though so we’ll see.

Take care and God Bless,

In about 48 hours, the misses will go under the needles to cauterize the nerves in her neck. While no one is really looking forward to this, we have to try as she’s just living with a headache 24/7. Say your prayers for her Wednesday morning.

Yesterday the oldest one went to the Rockies baseball game with the neighbors while the youngest neighbor boy stayed here with our youngest. The misses and I did some more yard work and housework and that was about it. Uncle T made some great short ribs for dinner but only made 4. I told him next time I’d buy like 20 of them as they were that good! I did run to the cowboy store and bought the oldest a pair of 16 slim jeans as this is now his size. Let’s see, 10 years old wearing 16 slims, hmmm, do you think he’s going to be tall?

It rained most of the night which was good as we need the moisture. There was thankfully no lightening like the day before. It’s suppose to continue until tonight which is good for the flowers, grass and plants so we won’t complain.

Not much else going on, still have a broken computer network, maybe I can get the neighbor over today to help me fix it. Grandma Dix and Pa Don leave for Hawaii tomorrow, too bad were not going with them. If the misses head seems ok after her procedure, we’re going to try to get into Brush Creek Ranch in a few weeks. Time for the boys to get out their fishing poles.

Have a great week, take care and once again, say your prayers for the misses.

We woke up early and were off to Boulder to the famers market by 9am. Our friends from Iceland, Bogi (pronounced Boyee) and Sola met us there on their way back to Vail as they have kids at the University of Colorado. After some food and picking up our fresh greens, we had to run to make it to the youngest ones soccer game. By the time this was over it was 2:30. We made a quick pit stop at home, (for him to change) and then were off to the misses store for the gluten free festival. We finally arrived home around 4pm and had a few minutes to rest before starting dinner, halibut fish tacos.

Grandma Dix called and gave me permission to go back to politics but I think I’ll wait a bit, at least until I’m back on a regular computer and key board. We had a nasty storm last night with hail, lightening and rain but all our plants survived. I think we’re off for a hike this morning before the showers return mid afternoon. We all slept in until after 7 and the big guy is still sleeping.

Time to run as I hate typing on this keyboard. I have to continously go back and fix errors from the small keys. Take care and God Bless,

The misses bday started off with her doing some exercise and then we headed out to the garden. I built our new bed and tilled the soil by mixing in a bunch of good organice dirt. Then the misses came out to do her thing which is plant the plants. This of course was after she cleaned the house so we could have the house cleaned by Elvia which was one of her bday treats. Before we knew it it was about 1pm and time to go get the cake.

Meanwhile I had dropped the youngest at his friends for some play time so on the way home, the three of us picked him up. Next up was Uncle T and Aunt B a and Grandma coming over at 4 to celebrate. Mixed in between was a bunch of calls from some of you and the misses friends wishing her a happy day.

Before we knew it it was 4:45 and we needed to leave for dinner in 45 minutes. We made it downtown to the restaurant by 6:10 to meet our friends. It was a great place and somehow one of our friends had securred a table outside in the courtyard even though the town was packed for the NBA playoff game. Our friends from Iceland and Rollie (the realtor the misses worked for for a short time) had both brought her presents. It seems Rollie had arranged for a big “to do” for her birthday. The food and company were both great and the misses was glad I talked her into going. We finished up with some great gluten free dessert from the restaurant and they even gave the misses a gift certificate to come back. It was a fun time.

We finished up at 8pm and the game was starting at 8:30 so we offered to drop the 4 of our friends at the Pepsi Center where the game was. Lucky I cleaned the car! They’d make their own way back afterwards to their cars. We arrived home just in time for the tip off on tv and in 30 minutes or so, I was the only one left downstairs watching the Nuggets blow out the hated Lakers. It was a bit close in the end but we won by 15.

This morning we’re headed up to the farmers market in Boulder for more fresh veggies, then I’m sure more gardening. Hope everyone is well, take care and have a great weekend.

Today the good looking one is 48, wow! She thinks she is sooo old, wait till she hits 50, we’ll all have to run for cover. Well the boys are off school, again. We have lots going on around here and this evening we go to an early dinner with our friends from Iceland and another couple before they go to the NBA playoff game between the Nuggets and the Lakers. I think we’re going to a french place.

This morning we have to get the rest of the garden in and then my computers should be down as the neighbor tries to re-wire my home office. Hope he gets it right.

We’re praying for some divine interventionaround here as we have lots of things  here and in our life that needa little help, enough said. With no politics and other stuff to talk about, that’s it for me. I’ll try to get the misses to come down and write something. We did manage to get her to Nordstrom Rack (the discount store) where she found some sandles, shorts and a few t shirts for summer. I think she was happy to get some new clothes.

Take care, have a great weekend and call the misses to say Happy Birthday!

Uncle T was out walking the dog and came up to me as I was washing the car to remind me that I had not written the blog today. He said I need to get back on coffee, alcohol and red meat as I’m slipping. Oh well, could be worse. We got the boys to school ok and the misses is off to an appointment in an hour or so and I just washed, vacummed and cleaned out her car. Man can those kids do a number on a car. There was old red cake, the camera lens cap the misses lost sometime ago (and I already had to buy a new one) and what seemed like a years worth of candy wrappers stuffed down in each kids seat back. I’m sure it’s only a months worth!

Today is the last day of school for this week and then it’s 3 days off. Tomorrow is the misses birthday as you all know. She says she doesn’t want anything as we’re trying not to spend any money but I did get her some flowers and organic soil for her vegetable garden yesterday. I’m sure the next few days will be spent out front.

Sorry for the short posts but I just don’t seem to have any time these days. Give the misses a call tomorrow to say hi, take care and God Bless.