Fall is a coming

Lets hope it does come a little soon or we might have more critters like this one hanging around. What a beauty of a spider. But the bugs have been really bad this year from gnats to roaches to mosquitoes and all of em! So fall is change . Again. People move, come back, change. There is some hard enough times in the economy but our President seems to be determined to make our lives more confused. Not many understand what he wants to do or how he wants to pay for all the "Change" I think if we knew more and could hear it put more simply we would not be so fearful and thats what it is, people are afraid; afraid of change and teriffied that what happend last sept will happen again. That we will lose all our savings and more and more will lose jobs and more and more homes will be lost. i don't think the current govt. has done enough to explain the reasons behind what they did or what they are going to do and uncertainty breeds distrust. I know folks are changing the way they spend, the way they shop and what becomes real NEED versus just WANT. Sure, there are things I want, would love to have...oh, maybe a 40 inch HDTV, and some new living room furniture(mine is about 15 years old or more)or a screen in porch instead of a deck, some yard work, maybe even a newer used car, but its not a need and whereas i love to watch football and movies and read, i can do that in the stuff i have got. But what i always will need is food, utilities, paying bills and some wine!! So we make do with what we have and keep hoping we hear and see more positive things coming our way. So for Christmas, just give me some Zinfadel, a book to read, some firelogs, and a box of toile paper, paper towels and cat food!! Thanks all....hurry fall.

Love Anyway

Love Anyway. I want to love someone. Everyone wants to love someone. To have someone to care about, to hug, to love, to hold to sleep deeply with and to have them care for you. For them to care when you hurt and how you hurt and if they can do something to ease that pain for you. Someone there in the night, when the dreams are bad and the night is so long. To love someone and know they are thinking about you as you are them and when they can see you again and how much longer till the day is done and you are together again. To argue with, to not see eye to eye but to still care enough to call to see how you are during the work day or when you are apart. Love often, over and over and over. it does not matter the times you get hurt or the times your love is not returned equally. Just love and one of those times, you will love and it will be the same and you won't get hurt and all the other times won't matter. All that matters is just this one time, the one that didn't hurt, the one that matched perfectly. Don't be afraid to love, you will make a difference in your loving, even if it wasn't right all those other times and you will make a difference in the lives of others. Its fall and the Sept. heat and the leaves have started to turn, and the football season is upon us again and times are still tough for people with and without jobs and its hard to make the ends meet again, but we are people with hope and even the friends and neighbors and family who invite you to supper or bring you leftovers are there to cherish and the ones who are having a tough time, you be there for them and it will benefit you too. We always wish we could do more but what we do really matters.

Happy Allergy Time People

It finally is Spring, along with allergies, sneezing, coughing, pollen and itching..but at least its warmer and the weather is beautiful. The furry critters are out and about and you cant see her but Lucy is down at the bottom of the tree just daring that furry tail rat to come on down. Every one is doing good and my gran in NEESES has a couple more horses and they are pretty. My little gran here is doing great at school and almost finished with the 5th grade. How proud I am of both of them. Im good, but broke, thanks to the greed of Wall st. and the banks and the crap going on in the new administration...its crazy and no one seems to know what the heck is happening.

Hope we didn't get ourselves into something really, really bad. Its just strange the way higher up people and companies just don't pay their taxes and lie about it. Well, on to raking yards for a couple bucks, except now they are all done and we are just waiting for the grass to come in.....love the smell of grass....watch out for April fool!

Gosh, what can I say? Its already almost March of 09, and we have had Christmas, New Years, and the Feb. Birthdays. Its going to be a rough ride this year with the economy doing so poorly and people losing their jobs. Even the "wal mart greeter" jobs have about 100 people for each opening. You have to contend with laid off executives along with college grads for every job and moms out of work and dads getting laid off. Stretching money gets harder and harder with every month. People are losing their homes and cars and the new President has one heck of a job trying to fix this. Seniors have a really hard time because they are on fixed income...meaning..no more comes in, but more goes out...we feel sorta stuck and forgotten. This country has been through tough times before and I lived throug some of them, but this has everyone down and depressed. Time is the only thing we have going for everything put into place to start to work but its hard being patient. I am so thankful for the small bit I have and the family that I have. i have come to be so much closer to my gran in Orangeburg and her family and now she is taking horses in to train and ride and I am so proud of her. She has 4 and works with them all the time. my little gran turned 12 and she is so busy with her friends and school and skating that i seldom get to see her , Ijust hope she thinks of me once in a while. the neighborhood misses Lane and Jill and the cookouts we use to have. We had a small one last night and it was fun and good food...Mandy is the grillmaster now and she did the cooking. She is working on the pool to get it ready and on her back porch. The porch looks great, more like a room with some corner curtains and a new little rug and she is getting some cushion covers in a great stripe. .saw Rebecca for the first time in a while, she has a new guy and we NEVER see them come out for air! They are so in love and goofy.

Holly turned 4 and Matti 8 and thats about all the news...and the good times will come back...after all, Tippy got her burn barrell so she is set for the burning and is working hard on her back yard! I have nothing to give anyone after the crashing of the stock mkt last fall, all i have is me and my love. Good times will be simpler times and vegetables cooked on the grill!! Later, Dudes

SANTA CAME TO THE CIRCLE

Santa finally came to the circle and he was mobbed by the kids..we must have had about 15 of the little critters. It was fun and we had good food and a couple of new babies for the day.

Kiddies ran around, played, fought, fussed, laughed and had a great time ..then it rained and it all ended. I got to go eat with my oldest grandaughter and her hubby and her mom and that was nice. I get tired of my "so called" cooking ! Cooking for me is mirowaving a dinner. However, the leftovers in the neighborhood sometimes make their way to my house and thats a good change! Hope everthing is wonderful for everyone this Christmas and maybe the New Year will be better for all. I really hope so. Look forward to the New year and miss the old ones at the same time.

December is here

December is here again and this year feels different and everyone has changed some. More people are out of work and more people have lost money in the savings and retirement funds they have. Its turning out to be a Christmas of essentials like giving coffee, a gift card to a grocery store, fruit, and clothing. Not a Christmas for just things you "want" but things you need. I would be glad for a 6 pack of paper towels, some tp, coffee, and a stocking with oranges, apples and nuts in it...IF I still believed in Santa Clause. Its almost like the 50's again when you got a pair of pymas, some bedoom shoes, socks, and underwear and maybe thats what it has to be. This will pass and the economy will come back, but darn it, I have been through too many of these and now, at 69, to be worrying how to pay the water or electric bill is really depressing. All through the 40's we scrimped and had ration tickets for gas and women gave up their nylons for the war..then in the 50's, the Korean war and then was VietNam, and in the 70's the recession where we had gas rationing and you had to buy gas according to the first letter of your last name and the malls and businesses went dark at night, lights in manufacturing plants were turned off and Christmas lights were not put up because of the energy crisis..and then in the 80's another backward slide and you had to go through a shortage of goods in the stores and places were doing badly in business ....but this is worse because we had such a long run of good times where GREED raised its ugly head and screwed everything up from Wall Street, Govt, to the builder in the housing business. But we all are paying for it. i remember when we were doing good at the store and i could help family and friends and my Aunt. i put a new roof on her house, got her a new furnace, could get her any food she needed and clothing and even paid for her paper and her cable so she could watch Braves Baseball....what happend to grown children who take care of their parents? They are having hard times too and parents are having to help them and try to take care of themselves. i can't do it any more. its too hard. i don't have any resources left and the part time jobs i have applied for have not come through.

Talk about feeling alone and deserted..damn, where is everyone? Even our neighborhood is looking sad and depressed, people are not decorating as much, houses that are vacant are dark and lonely looking...God help us get through this. If even we needed the Christ put back in Christmas, its this year.

Strange Times

This is a strange fall, its been colder than normal, but the trees and leaves and foliage has been beautiful. A lot of it too....we have some turbulant times in the stock market and with wall street thats affecting all the world and the retail world and consumers very badly. People can't afford to shop, their house s are being foreclosed on, even with the deep discounts you can't buy because you have either been laid off, or can't find work, or the places you use to work are closed. Its seems like someone somewhere his trying to level the playing field for the whole world. You have the big 3 auto makers coming to congress and asking for money to survive, and yet they come is corporate jets...??.whats wit tha? They want money but they pay wages that add up to 75.00 an hour and here in the south , our auto workers are doing fine, making payroll, and putting out cars for 45.00 an hour???Someone somewhere has got to get real. Maybe we do need a big ol crash, go back to living in black and white, getting up from our seats to change the channel and use a push button phone for all our communications....we are spoiled and not living within our means and it s coming back to haunt us! Change is coming and mayb not the good kind...go back to what is NEEDED not what is WANTED.....me, i just want to see my family more. I think about them a lot and them laughing, talking, playing games, talking pictures, and being and having fun. I don't go anywhere anymore unless I am invited. i don't feel right just poppping in and i love them so much. There were some horrible things said...it will come back in spades and the karma will be satisfied. So, whatever, stay warm.....had a great visit with my oldest gran and her husband. I am sorry now none of us went to her wedding. Karma...will slap you in the face, then circle around and bite you in the ass!! Stay warm, say a prayer for family , friends, and the troops..