D D Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr where the Hell did Fall come from??

It must have been below 50 during the night. Was just 53 an hour ago at 8 a.m. when I turned the computer on. 
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! My garden has lots of produce on their vines to produce still.
Is there ever a happy medium??? Too hot and humid for too many days this summer and now THIS!
Called my best friend in AK late last night. 11 p.m. my time ...........7 p.m. hers.
Finally got to get out and work in her garden.  Lots of stuff wasn't looking too healthy and stuff in her green house had mildew on the leaves. Too much moisture.
They had 31 days straight with rain. A record! 
She told me if they didn't live in a higher elevation they would have been seriously thinking of building an Ark.:0)
   On a sour note.....my weeds are looking like wheat field. Some of my plants are hidden. I shit you not!

Yesterday I promised myself I would clean out and reorganize  my corner cabinet in the kitchen today.
It's where I have glasses of every size and description. Some tall, some medium, some small, some for wine, highballs, some that walked home with the person that wasn't finished drinking them and couldn't bear to leave a glass with booze in it behind.  :0(
A few glasses are old. Hope there is room for these ....... if not those odd ones from bars...........GO!
To which I am adding ...I think I counted 10 glasses in an amber color that were Tracie's mom's and I suspect they may have been her mother in laws.

:0) Managed to sneak a few in the house at a time and they are on the back of a counter, hidden behind the coffee pot.

I like them whether they have any value or not. What do you think?

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Now it's almost noon.

My Terry came to drop off 3 long boxes off wood flooring he had left over from doing the floors over in the house he recently bought.

He could have returned them for a refund, but gave them to me to do Jill's floor and probably will have enough to do my entry walkway from  the front door to the diningroom. 

He noticed the storm door that has been left apart as hubby can't do the repairs and worked his hiney off making it useful again. Used what he had to work with, cut screws down to fit the handle and while it won't be featured on House Beautiful, it is in working condition and we can pull the door closed. :0)

Some day when he has more time he will do more work on it .

Worked a good hour or better as it was on it and was supposed to be somewhere else.

I did the gophering gladly for tools and screws.  :0)

Red the squirrel is doing fine. Comes to his hand, but doesn't jump on him...good,good,good.

 Get's food under the birdfeeder  and makes alot of chattering noises.

His wife Nancy watches from the window and is amazed that it comes so close to Terry.

I'd say DUH, but what's the use.  She probably can't comprehend that it was a pet.

Terry is amused with it and I'm happy to know it's still alive and doing well. :0)

In between gophering I thoroughly cleaned the ferrets cage.

Still haven't got to the glass cupboard, but making some headway today in things in the back of my mind that need doing. I shit you not there!

Jill is working today. Cookout. Leaves at 1 p.m. to prep foods.

Butch and Alex showed up awhile ago.

They stayed in last night. She went for groceries and cooked steamers for Butch,Alex and Logan.

Made American chop suey for herself, moi and Logan's friend Kenney.

They killed that bottle of rum in the afternoon. Their friends DD and Tom stopped by.

See another new bottle since they went to the grocery store. Liquor store is before of after it, depending on when you want to stop. :0)

From what she told me this morning he is close to being told to GET LOST!

Was whining that she didn't wear the ring he gave to his mother when he was a teenager the day they went to the wedding.  This ring supposedly his mom wore from the day he gave it to her til she died . It was cut off her finger after she died.

The back of it was very thin.  Now I ask... how can you wear a ring that is cut and pinches you.?

She had taken it to the jeweler in town we have always done business with and he told her it would cost $125 to $150 to put a new ? on it. It can't just be pieced together. Told her the ring wasn't worth it. Okay sentimental value.... we will do it.

So she let him whine on and on about the ring and told him where it was. I'm soooooooo sorry...boo hoo hoo hoo.

Does he have the money for the repair work to pick it up?

She isn't asking and it can sit there til the next time he whines cause she isn't paying for the work done on it.

Told him he was this close to strike three that day.

Ain't love efffin grand!!!!!!

New great grand baby is named Aliya= ah lee ah  Lakena=la ken ah.

Pictures are on Facebook, but I know not how to get them here.  sigh!

There will be others.....................

Meantime, I'll keep practicing how to say her name. ;0)

It's past lunchtime. I'm starving. Another day is flying by. Still aiming for that glass cupboard cleaning and re-arranging. I'm a thinkin that alot of that stuff in there that hasn't been used in ages........needs a good washing.

Took out the step ladder and climbed up there. They do.

I shit you not!

That's All Folks!

D D Trees, trees, efffin trees

Not these.

Couldn't get a nap in for shit.. Trees were being cut down in back of my place. No,.not mine....the neighbors.

Big chain saws and a wood chipper were running for hours.

This same neighbor plays his drums with windows open after midnight some nights. Last night he stopped at 11 p.m. ;0)   Single guy and another drinker.. Has all night parties in his yard through the summer and it does not make for nice. I  shit you not!

Logan slept until 4 p.m. The noise didn't bother him.

He had a good fourteen hours of sleep.   sigh!

She napped  between 4 and 5 p.m.. Hubby napped off and on. Took a long nap after 6 p.m. Wondered when he would wake to eat supper.

Butch worked painting and I sat on my butt here at the computer looking at patterns in Ravelry.

I'd have to live to be 200 to make all the damned patterns I copy. I think it's a sickness I have. ;0)

Jill and Butch disappeared sometime before 7. He got through painting ( his side job) and next thing I know. POOF!  Probably sometime between 8:30 and 9 they came back. I didn't ask where they had been. She volunteered the info that they drove Marty ( our neighbor and Tracie's brother who lost his license due to his 3rd DUI charge)to the Moose for a drink and she was going bonkers between his loud mouth and her friend Deedee's.

My guess would be that she wasn't inebriated enough to enjoy their company.

Don't know what time Logan finally fell asleep last night, but do know it was this morning sometime, because I woke at 1:30 a.m. and saw him getting a bottle of water out of the fridge.

Hubby slept until 8:45 a.m. when the ringing phone woke him. Sometimes he is awake at 7 and others NOT. No figuring him out, even with the naps and snoozes he takes during the day.

It was my Cher to tell me about the school clothes purchases for Trevor.4 pr.elsastic waist pants jogging wt. material, 5 short sleeved shirts, sneakers, plus clothes for Shayla to start school that she needed.

After I got off the phone with her I went into the Old Navy site and bought  5 long sleeved shirts , a sweatsuit with zipper and hood, a heavy winter coat, 1 pr. of elastic waist tan cargo pants and a sweater all in Husky XXL. Trevor is extremely over weight. Cher says he weighs 150 lbs. He's only 10. sigh!

Otherwise he could use alot of the clothes Logan grows out of that are in very good condition.

 .

Completely forgot to snap a picture of the new visitor to our yard. Jill called me into her room last night and there right outside eating was the hugest skunk I have ever seen. Looked as wide as it was long.

I shit you not!

Maybe I'll get another chance to snap a picture.

This looks like it's going to be a good day OUTDOORS anyway.

Nice breeze is coming in through the doors and windows. ;0)

Butch has Alex today. He was here with her just awhile ago and now they are gone. Would ask her, but she just drove off too.

Logan is still asleep and it's almost noon.

I'm going to wake him at noon. He needs to get back into the school next day sleep pattern.

Hubby wants some lunch.  The morning has flown by since he woke.

Probably missing something I wanted to say.........oh well.

That's All Folks!

D D The following fits moi to a T

One day of normalcy and the shit begins again.
Jill puts chicken pieces in the oven for supper and Butch showed up from his side job.
Next thing I know......she is handing me a timer with 40 minutes on it and told me to shut the oven off when it went off,  saying I'll be back to finish supper.
One hour goes by...then two. Tried calling her cell...no answer.
So I said to myself......."Self....fuck it! " Then I proceeded to put some veggies together after I turned the oven back on to reheat the chicken.
Logan, Hubby and myself sat down to eat after 7 and through the door they came.
Her: I was hoping you would decide to eat. 
I'm saying to myself.  Self:  "What's this shit?"
We went to the bankruptsy attorney she says through a thick tongue.
Yeah... 30 min's or less at the attorneys and 2 hours of more in the Moose.
Like.... I wasn't born yesterday. I shit you not!
They fixed themselves a plate. He ate...she nibbled.
She washed dishes and after instructing Logan to hit the sack early tonight they went in her room and closed the door.
Twenty minutes later I'm looking for Lady to give her a treat and put her out to pee.
Call her....hear her bark in Jill's room. Knock......NO ANSWER.
Try the door and it's locked.   What the Fuck! 
Went to the front door and her car was GONE. 
The two of them screwed back to the Moose Hall.  Of course..... it's Wednesday night. The Meat Drawing night.  Another day to partyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
Lady always is under her bed in her room. Every night I have to call her out and if the door is shut she has to get up and let her out. 
Same routine every night around 9p.m.
Give her a treat, put her out to pee and put her to bed
I'm sure Jill wasn't thinking soberly when they split.
Sure.. I see...mom will think we are in bed for the night. How cunning !!!
They must think I'm F'n stupid. 
Right before she went missing she was telling me that she was notified by Mass Health that dental will no longer pay for fillings or extractions amongst a dozen other things. What they will pay for are...............2 cleanings a year. PERIOD!
Isn't that some SHIT!!!  Those born in the USA get 2 cleanings a year from the goverment if they are indigent.
What oral hygenist wants to clean teeth that are full of cavities and gums that are infected from bad teeth that need pulling????  Is this what this Health Reform is all about.............it's sick!
If we can't do for our own...then why the hell do the expect us to welcome illegals that are running up our health costs and leaving us without neccessary care.
What are they going to clean after awhile?  GUMS?

   I got a phone call yesterday from someone asking me to vote for ?
Name was new to moi, so I asked if is she was republican or democrat.
Answer was...independant.
I will tell you one thing....I am not voting for any incumbant.
You may also know which party I will vote for............one guess.
My head is spinning from all this CHANGE!    I shit you not!
I am looking forward to November like I was to December 25th when I was a child.
I shit you not!

Bear waiting for a government handout... Even the animals want in on the gravy train.;0)

Don't get me started on Anchor Baby's either.
Personally knew one Syrian lady that came over here from Syria in her 7th month of pregnancy. Stayed with her brother who came here as an exchange student to live with the ex from Hell's parents and ended up staying here.
A few weeks after the baby was born....she went back to Syria and her husband.
Next baby..........same shit. Brought the first child with her ....damned nice of her and she stayed with Jill and the ex from Hell until a few weeks after the 2nd baby was born.

   Eleven p.m. comes and geeeeeeeeeeeeeeez I'd really like to go to sleep.
Don't know why I'm tired..........it's fuckin late............
Call her cell from my kitchen phone. Message...............Jill, can you please come home and let Lady out of your room. I'd like to go to sleep tonight. Spoken in a weary voice.
Then I opened Logan's door and told him it was bedtime.
 Hubby says to moi...........gee, they really must have passed out.
It  was then that I let him  know they were not in her bedroom.
He dozes off and midnight comes.             I'm doing a slow boil.
Twelve thirty a.m. they come home. i hear her playing with her door to open it and ask her to let Lady out. " She in there ? she says in what she tried to speak in a surprised voice. Like.... gee, that's a first.  NOT!
Next came dishes rattling and cupboards opening and shutting.. then Logan goes into her room and they are having what sounded like a family reunion in there.
Laughing, using normal speaking voices..........it was just like they were the only ones in the house. I shit you not!
I laid there holding my breath that they wouldn't wake hubby. Finally I could stand it no more and went into the kitchen as she was getting something out of the fridge.
Asked her to please quiet it down in a weary and what I hoped was a pained voice.
She tells Logan to quiet down and goes in and shuts her bedroom door.
Which of course makes a noise. Our doors don't seem to shut quietly when they are just pulled closed like one normally would do in the daytime hours. Duh!
Someone comes out ( more door noise)  kitchen lights come on...someone goes back in.... ( more door noise.)
Hubby comes to..............and says........."Logan is up again and has the tv turned up."
Couldn't let Logan get blamed. Told him it was Jill, Butchie and Logan and that they are in her room. 
Then I got up just as she was at the sink and she asked me if i wanted some Chinese food. I told her no. My next words were to let her know that they now had hubby awake and with arms out and palms up I tried to convey how inconsiderate they were. My face was contorted of that I am sure and my words were CLIPPED.
I did mention the hour too.  Returned to my room and heard her tell Logan to get to bed. Then it was quiet. 1:15 a.m. 
I laid in bed plotting my revenge for today.  Make lots of noise as they tried to sleep in.
Coming out of a sleep near 8 a.m.  I hear someone in the kitchen and doze off again.
Minutes later the phone rang. Not one, but four rings. I'm thinking with each ring she will answer it. NOT!
It was my Randy looking for her. Do not know why she didn't answer the ringing.
Hubby continued to sleep.............................  a good thing 
Arose and plugged in the coffee pot.  When the perking stopped I went for a cup and heard Butchie on the phone telling someone with some Ha ha ha's that they were eating Chinese food at one a.m. and he would be over in awhile to get him. 
No shit Dick Tracy! 
A few minutes before 9 a.m. hubby woke. 
It's a miracle that he isn't LIVID and slept through most of the shit.
Heard her get in the shower.....they have the ferrets out and he is at the computer in there.
I let him know in a voice lowered so that hubby could not hear.....  how inconsiderate they were last night.
yeah, yeah....so you went dancing and singing which was his explanation of why they were in a good mood ..........You acted like you were the only ones that lived here, I told him.  Now I have to get her to the side and convey that it wasn't and isn't acceptable to come home at that hour acting like it's the middle of the day.
Drunks!    They only think of themselves and their good times.  grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
It's almost 10 a.m.   I'm still in an agitated mood.  
Randy apologized for waking me. Thought I'd be awake at 8 a.m.
Yeah............normally, I would be. Could not say at that time..........your sister kept me awake until after 1 a.m.     I will !
    Up until close to ten p.m last night I had nothing but troubles with the computer.
Had it set so that it cleaned my files every morning at 1 a.m. or so I thought. Found out that it had been since the end of March since it was done when I tried to restore my computer to an earlier date. Who efffed with it, I know not whom.
Was not able to do a task that I normally am able to do, so that was my reason to go back to another date to restore my files.  Surprise!
Just what I needed. Another fly in the ointment.  NOT!!!!
Minutes to a few hours to restore my files.... turned into a few hours.
Meanwhile I paced, fumed .   I shit you not!
  Weatherman just said the rain that was coming this way is splitting and going???click....hubby changed the channel.  Par for the course. As long as I wasn't deeply into a program...............I'll not open my mouth . Watered the garden last evening for a few hours and I can always look online to see where that rain that was headed here.....went.
Speaking of..................my get up and go....has got up and went.
Today I will accept the fact that there is a reason that I am tired today.
It's called "lack of sleep."  I shit you not!
That's All Folks!
For your tired eyes: Walmart items in China

croc's

rice

mixed meat

turtles, crabs n ?

What the F is it??

rib cages

dried reptiles

frogs

pickles

dried horse milk

pigs faces.

Bon appetite!!!!!

YouTube - Sister Strikes Again!: Late Nite Catechism 2

Something to tickle your funny bone.

YouTube - Sister Strikes Again!: Late Nite Catechism 2

D D Pure sweetness

Doncha just wanna squeeze em all !!!

Yesterday wasn't so bad.  Not bad at all. :0)

Jill went off for a few hours in the afternoon. Of course I thought the worst.

Lovely surprise............was out on Tom and DeeDee's boat with them.

Ryan and Sarah stopped to visit ..take a walk in the neighborhood and swim to cool off after work.

It must have been nice to see mom home annd sober. :0)

No sleepover last night........... . BUT...... I woke at 3:30 a.m. hearing the livingroom tv going.  Logan was WIDE AWAKE watching cartoons. I had one word for him....BEDTIME.

Before I forget A G A I N.... that little 10 year old girl Jackie Evancho singing on Utube blows me away. Check her out!  What a VOICE!!!  I shit you not!

I spent the morning sleeping. :0( sigh!

Sat here this morning and just felt tired, so I took my leave and slept.

I know, I know....it's so like  unlike moi to not have much to say.

but you know....I could get use to this.  I shit you not!

That's All Folks!

D D Have you ever wondered where all

the cute hippie girls went? The ones that did drugs, smoked weed, got tattoed, and did every guy?

Well look no more...........

Take it off...take it all off.  ;0)

A/C is on. :0(

It's going to be another one of those days. I so do not like being in a closed up house. sigh!

Logan had another friend sleep over last night. He heard lots of " quiet down " out of papa and myself. Kept forgetting to lower his voice when he spoke to Ryan.

He seems to forget that his father's house has lots of square footage. Three floors to boot.

 We are packed into a sardine can in comparrison.  I shit you not!

Mom had a fan going in her room and didn't hear a thing. sigh!

Have I said I'll be happy when school starts?   Oh, I have? ;0)

Today Tracie will have her apartment inspected for the FINAL time and faces eviction if she doesn't pass it.  So where was she yesterday, but at her mom's across the street. Her brother Marty was there too doing his laundry and riding her ass to get more of what she wanted OUT of the house.

He put notes everywhere the other day. EMPTY OUT FRIDGE or it hit's the garbage can Friday.

THIS GOES FRIDAY if it's not gone.  I mean business.

She has been bringing things back there to make her apartment look like ------- what is the word I'm searching for??  Livable????? Still it did not pass inspection 2 other times recently.

The rental people told her she was a HOARDER and she claims she is not.  SHE IS!!!!!

Hubby keeps telling me not to bring anymore of the SHIT here......... ut oh!

Hey.... the hand mixer was in good condition and you never know when my $12 handmixer might buy the farm. ;0)  Two fridge magnets...an umbrella that I slipped these few items in ..and a few more ... to look like I was just carrying an umbrella.   :0) Hey! It was threatening to rain.

All for naught... because he was in the bedroom when I came home. LOL

A few weeks back she gave me a doll crib that was hers back in the 70's and it is just the size I needed to put the doll my sister made me in.  Have it in the crib in my bedroom. I want to be able to look at that doll and enjoy her !!! After I make a blanket for the crib I will take a picture.

No picture of my new great grand yet. Dianne's mother has to consult with the monks about her middle name.   ?????   Don't ask! ;0)

She makes my son Terry a grandfather 3 grands now. Jaiden, Ava and Aliya.

Yesterday after 3ish Butch showed up from his painting side job and the two of them went off.

Jill called me around 5    :0) to tell me they were buying steaks and would be home shortly to cook.

Told hubby we were eating steak tonight. Right away he starts with the negativity. Wasting his money buying steak...always wants steak... should be paying bills instead of buying steak... Huruuuumph!!!

It was their money being spent...I did not have to cook and I was very content.. no matter what foods they made. :0)

The rib eyes were cooked on the grille, medium the way we like it..........large steaks  :0( I know...not good for us.......and hubby ate every bit of his. Confess... So did moi!

Whipped potatoes, sauteed  mushrooms and onions and slices of fresh tomtoes and cukes from the garden. 

After they did the dishes....they stayed in.  :0)

I can see from the rum bottle that at least one or two drinks were made. Have been hearing snitches of how her stomach has been killing her.  Was up off and on swallowing Malox the night before I overheard her tell someone on the phone.

The two of us went to have our bloodwork done yesterday at 8 a.m.  Butchie thought she had gone to the doctor. Heard him ask her if she went to find out why her stomach is killing her.

Am pretty sure it's the combination of the booze and excessive Bayer asprin she takes daily.

Have told her what I think and she mustn't like what she heard from me.

She has just finished mowing and edging the lawns and is running the weed whacker.. That is my cue to get out there and sweep the cement around the pool before the grass blows in it.

Think I'll use the industrial vac today, as it's handy.

Just asked her if I should get out there and her words were, " it's a little too warm out here mom."

Logan's friend Ryan has been awake an hour now playing XBOX360 and he is still sleeping.

Almost 10:30 a.m. 

Last night when Logan was cutting up his steak we watched him cut around a small piece of fat. So are you thinking what we were thinking???? As he was being told to put it aside if he didn't like fat......he said "I love it" and popped it in his mouth.  Know of no other 11 year old that likes the fat.

Hubby likes some fat and I never aquired a taste for it. Maybe because I never would put it in my mouth. Ya Think?? ;0)

Braved the outdoors and swept up the grass. It's been worse as far as the humidity goes.

Figured if I felt overheated I could stop and get inside to cool off if need be.

It's a little after 11 a.m.  Jill is in the shower. Moi next!

That's All Folks!

D D A new great granddaughter was born this morning

Aliya weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz's. 
This was Elvis' birthday and it's also the date my dad passed away.


   Son Terry called moi shortly after he got home and released Red under one of his bird feeders..

It headed right up the tall tree about 20 feet up and back down it would come to Terry's eye level, look him in the eye and back up it would go.

Was doing this over and over.  :0)

Terry said that the tree is probably 40 feet tall and there are others close to it, but so far it hasn't lept to another tree or onto him.

He also said he will know this squirrel from the others because none of the others come close to him. 

They scatter when he approaches. .

   Hubby and I went for our dinner at the Outback yesterday.

Before I left I asked Jill if she was going to be home. Far as I know was her reply.

Got back and Logan and his friends were here...........no Jill.   Go figure! 

Was I surprised?  No!    Disappointed, yes.

Butch was working. 

Dinner was very good and hubby hit the bed and slept a long time.

How.... with the storm door constantly banging closed,  is beyond moi.

Didn't mention here the other day that  I told Logan to call her to get her permission  to have a friend stay over and he told me he had tried and she wouldn't answer her phone.
So I told him to ask her when she comes home.....she should be out of work soon and is probably too busy right now.
His words to me were....." Nana,  she always never comes home after work.  She goes to a bar and gets intoxicated."
I said Logan ....not always.
"Yes she does and she stays at the bar and gets drunk", he says. " Watch, she won't come home right from work today." "You will see."
 .....     and damned if he wasn't right. I knew he would be.  Covered up where she was and what she was doing for as long as was possible. There comes an age where kids won't buy what you tell them. sigh!
I haven't told her he said this and don't know if I should.
Oh ..she knows he knows she drinks. Does she care? My guess is not cause she never tries to hide it.
Would his words to me cut her deeply.....????  Enough to change???
Or would they just piss her off instead of smartening her up?
I think I know the answer, but I always think some words will magically change her when she is sober.

   When I mentioned my sister and our mom yesterday...the word OUR struck a chord with moi.
Nancy and I were not close in proximity once we were married. She married a service man and so did I and we were never stationed in the same town and most always she was in different states.
Therefore when I spoke about my mother the words I used in my sentence to anyone in the sentence would be....my mother.  As in...my mother's favorite flower is a rose.
Once we were older and  I was in MA and she was in NH maybe 60 miles or more from me and of course we would get together as often as we could.
Invariably I would say " my mother " in speaking to her.  Not one time, but many times. It was a habit!
Nancy would get so pissed and say in a huffy voice that meant business...."OUR mother. "
I would apologize and damned if I didn't do it again the next visit.
So yesterday in my post of the day, when I explained the writing on the dolls head .....unconciously I hesitated ...just a sec or so and typed "our" before the word mother.
Am I forgiven Nancy?  ;0)
She didn't give a hoot if I said "my dad ".
Now dad was a great provider and we never lacked for food, clothing or a roof over out head....BUT that didn't cut it with Nancy. He was an alcoholic,,,,she didn't like the way he treated OUR mother and once mom died she never even sent him a card.
I never heard dad complain about it and he lived with me when mom died and after.
She would just ignore him when she came here to visit me.
A few days before she died I asked my dad if he wanted to drive with us to the NH hospital she was in.
Sure,  he said... and readied himself.  Nancy was on a morphine drip at this time.
Dad walked up to her bed and her eyes widened and she said with a lilt in her voice, "dad,,,, you came".
It was so good to see the light in her eyes when she saw him... it was like nothing else mattered.
Her dad was there.
Sure, I have lots of unhappy memories of my youth when dad was drunk, he has said and done bad things, but as I got older I gave him credit where credit was due.
That's why I get so upset with some of my kids that can't look past things their sibling may have done or said. I'm not saying...turn the other cheek."  You can be cordial when in their presense.
None of us are perfect .
Nancy and I had our disagreements as kids and a few words as adults. 
Nancy was quick to take things the wrong way.  One day she was telling me she had a ghost living in her house in NH. Lights went off. TV too. Little things like that happening.
So I says with a shake to my head, " Nancy......no ghost in their right mind would want to haunt your house" in a voice that I thought sounded like I was being funny.
With that ...she got pissed. Wellllllllllllllllll! Well Miss House Beautiful...why wouldn't a ghost want to live in my house she said indignantly.
Nancy, I was only kidding. Your house is full of kids like mine has always been and with all the noise we both have and have had I was just being funny, I said.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh! 
She thought I was ridiculing her house or whatever.  I meant more like....don't ghosts want quiet and that's something neither of us had.  We both had noise and clamor.
I miss her.........................sigh!   She can haunt my house if she wants. :0) Lotsa noise here...she will feel at home. ;0)   I shit you not!
I have always said that if I have the opportunity to see someone like John Edward or another medium I would want it to be my sister that came through to me.
If I heard the words,  "our mother ", I would know for sure that there is something after death .
Some years back I did have the opportunity to see a medium with a few of my co-workers.
She was someone that had done a reading for John Edward.  Can't remember her name off hand.
After some time on the other side of the room she came to the side I was on and began making her hands move fast. Kept repeating " I see busy hands." My mother was always working with her hands sewing, knitting or crocheting to make herself some spending money that she didn't have to ask my dad for...like bingo and such.
All her married life she turned her regular paycheck over to him.
 soooooooooooooooooooo after a few attempts at trying to connect this mom with someone   .... I raised my hand and claimed her as my mother. :0)
At one point she mentioned brother or brothers. Told me that one had passed and he was now standing beside her and holding her hand.
One passed was TRUE and would like to believe they are together as he chose to be out of everyones life for years before he died, including hers.
  I'd like to believe they are together and the past is no more. Know my mom had the biggest heart and would open her arms to Ron.  :0)

Lookee here.......I've rambled on and on and now I will wonder where the time went and why I've got nothing done. That's so like moi!  :0)   I shit you not!
Before I owned a computer I would crochet an afghan a week. Have to keep my hands busy like someone else I knew. :0)

In these times; some of these people probably do need the handouts.  Very ingenuous signs.

and the winner is

  Rained slightly after midnight.
Woke around 12:15 a.m. to 5 loud bangs. Went out back in my bare feet in the slight drizzle to see if I could locate where they came from if they sounded again.  Quietness.
This morning Jill said she also woke to them. It was damned Bob 2 doors away shooting off Roman Candles.
It's 71 now and overcast. The kind of day you can work inside or outside and not feel tired before you start. :0)
Jill and I went to have our fasting bloodwork done at 8 a.m.  Amazing how I can get a shower and dressed by that time of the morning when I have to.
My next doctor appointment is in 3 weeks and I have had these orders 2 months now.
I bitched and complained so much about driving the miles to the clinic she wanted me to go to that she finally relented and let me go to the one a mile from home.  It was about time I went.....u think!
It aggrevates me to have to see my doctor every 3 months when I have no complaints.
What's with that! 
Okay... so it's been a year since I had bloodwork done.
My B/P and everything else checked out great. Betcha she wants to see me in another 3 months.
Can't win!  I shit you not!
Hubby wants to go to the chiroprators a mile away. Can do.
That's All Folks!