winter daus

           Hello my Xanga Family !!!  Well it is a cold winter day here.  We are getting out traces of snow. Not enough to help out the poor farmers in our area. We do need the moisture. It has made for a dark winter sky and the kind of day you put a pot of stew or chili on the stove and let it cook.  Curling up with my little dog and reading ot catching that cat nap. That is in the plans after doing a few things around xanga.

            Marvin beat me to the cat nap. Curled up with out boxer Abby and they are out!!!  They beat me to my favorite spot. Oh well.... The Big couch will do just fine. My littlest Dog Annie at my side and we will have it made.

             Last week ThundernROses had a blog about gardening.  She could not have timed it any better. I started getting my pile of Gardening Catalogs in the mail the same week. SO it has lead into some serious dog earring of catalogs and a lot of drewling over things I wish we could afford !!! LOL!!   Gardening here means I come up with the ideas, we locate the plants.. and My dear Hubbu does the Muscle work!!! Works for me ... LOL !!

           As I said in my last blog I have lost an aunt and an Uncle since Cbrstmas eve. So I have dug out some of the old photo albums for some laughs and tears. It has got me into wanting to start scrap booking. I have a PBS show that I watch on Saturdays on Scrapbooking.... it looks like it could become a new addiction ... LOL !!  We can't afford much but I think I could some up with some ideas with out all the gadgets.  But I know I would really like to put some of these pivtures into a coffee table book. Shariing with my family and friends that pop in.

         Well I am off for my PM meds and that cat nap. . Hope you all have a great weekend!!

                                    Hugs and love.... Rosie

               Howdy Friends !

It seems like a long time since I have blogged again. But I have lost 2 family members since Christmas Eve. I sort of got lost in my own pity pot again!  I did get to see most of my family except for a few of my cousins. SO that was wonderful. After the funeral we went back to my cousins and sat for hours looking through boxes and hearing my uncle explain some of the pictures and who they were and where they were at at the time of the taking of the pictures. My Grandmother had 3 boys and one girl. My Dad being one of the boys. All three of the boys went off to WW2 at the same time. So there were lots of pictures of each of them in there different sections of the army. HE also told of a lot of things that they used to do when they were younger. OF course there had to have at least one nearly naked pictures of each of us nieces and nephews. We each seemed to have a story to tell on another among the cousins. It was a hoot to say the least. It is a sad way to get us all together but I know that the rest of our family that have gone on before us were laughing too. Now we all have our books full of email addresses to keep in touch now. So I am thrilled. there will be pictures sent back and forth now. But I no longer feel so all alone in this world. After my parents both died I had lost contact with my family, but I will not let that happen again. . My son Justin took us to my aunts funeral. All of my aunts and uncles could not get over what a big handsome man he had turned out to be. He was the only great nephew there. so this Momma was proud to say the least. I had a hard time realising that Justin is in his 3rd year of teaching and working on his masters . Gosh I am getting old. My aunts were teasing me about still being blonde and not using dye on it. I am getting lots of greys in there but they are more white than grey. So I am just letting it turn white ! LOL!

      Other than that not much has changed around here. Except the house cleaning my hubby did around the house. I did what I could.

       Hope that you are all having great days. sending hugs to all....... ROsie  

Happy Monday !!! I think LOL!! I get confused easily, Hey I was born blond and I remain blond and I am 48 sp I have a built in excuse!!! :LoL. How has your monday been? anu thing exciting going on in yuur corner of the world? My days are pretty routine. Get up. Take meds, lay back dowm til theu kick im. Then feed the critters. Wash up then get in my day clothes and sit down to work on some hand work. I am trying to finish a shawl for my dear Sister Atoka. Noon time meds and ssmething to eat. watch the tube for a while til my meds kick me into a nap. My Hubbu get's home about 3:45pm and wakes me up. So we talk about his day for a while. Then he goes to hay and g rain the horses. All the dogs tagging behind him. Our boxer is becoming a real buddy to one of our horses. Josey ( THE horse) goes nose to nowe with Abby ( The Boxer) If Josey makes a move Abby takes off. It's funny to see the animals interact with each other. I am easily entertained !!!! We call it our hillbilly TV. .Marvin is anxious to start working with the horses and finish breaking them. Hope to get some pics of them and post them someshow. I am a spoiled Premium user and have not figured out how to cut and paste to xanga.  Too many DR bills we are trying to pay off. I am just thankful that my time in ICU is paid for. I was in a trial for a new med on sepsis which I had along with double pneumonia. So my stay was paid for. THank God. But still have tons of other bills for all that I have gone through in the last 3 years.  So for now I am just happy to have xanga.

         My Son Justin is in his second year of teaching. He has k through 4 and freshman through seniior. It is a consolidated district. He calls me every night on his way home. I get such a kick out of the stories he has to tell me. One of the latest was his little first graders and the little boy trying to get a little girl to take down  so he could see what was down.  Justin says "Mom that one got me. I did not know how to deal with it." HE took the little boy by the hand and led him over to his office and told the little boy that was not nice and that he had better not see hium doing that again or he would go see the princip;el.. When he wewnt back out to the class the little girl did not want the little boy to sit beside her anymore. SO Justin moved the little boy to the other side of the room. Thinking problem solved.  Well the next day he caught the little boy trying the same thing with a different. Once again Justin took him by the hand back to the office. Justin askrf the little boy if he remembered what he had told him the day before. The llittle boy, with his hands stuck in his pocket, said YEs Mr Robinson.. but you told me not to do that to melanie you didn't say anything about anyone else ! LOL !! Justin said it took all there was in him not to crack up laughing.  The Little boy got Justin good.  So off to the principales office they went.  After that was all over worth the class was at an end and the Principal and Justin had a good laugh about how that little boy had Justin over a barrel. So Justin is learning to be a bit more specific about direcions etc.

       Well I guess I am off to read a few blogs then need to lay back down.

           Hugs alll around....... Rosie

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 Greetings my friends!!! Good to see you all.  I am having a better day today and trying to make the best of my time. So here I am writing what cines to me.

     I am not sure whose blog I read now but it reminded me to be grateful for what I have. Also reminded me once again to be so thankful for the man I love and loves me back 10 fold. Being home and being on disability , often leaves be feeling useless and feeling like a burden to my family. But when I get into that stinking thinking, I am getting easier to get myself of the pity pot and leaving the stinking thinking behind me. I think of others far worse off than I physically. Or think of all those that are still living in their cars of tents down south after the hurricanes. Even the people loosing everthing in the fires and mud slides. I am blessed. I have a roof over my head, food in the panrty and family that loves me.Blessings, blessings and more blessings.  I guess my hours in therapy over this last year is paying off!!! LOL !!!

        I pray that today you too may find a blessing or two that help you see your day maybe wasn't as bad as you may have thought that it was.

         Well I am off to do something else now. Read some blogs then get busy on some hand work that I am trying to grt mailed off before the postage goes up.

                         Hugs to you and your's

     I get these in the mail eaach day and thoushg that it was a good one to share with you all.                                  Rosie

Elder's Meditation of the Day - January 4
"Our circle is timeless, flowing, it is a new life emerging from death-life winning out over death."
--Lame Deer, LAKOTA
When we look at the world in the manner which the Great Spirit designed it, we can see why it makes sense to live in harmony with it: the trees grow and bear fruit, the fruit has seeds, the seeds fall to the ground, the ground grows new trees, old trees die to make way for the young. Any time we think we can interrupt this cycle or change it we will experience turmoil and confusion. The Human Cycle exists as the baby becomes the youth, the youth becomes the adult, the adult has children, the adult becomes the Elder, and the Elder teaches the youth. Elders go on to the Spirit World. Spirit comes into babies to produce new life. Flow into the flow. Be the path of least resistance.

Happy 2006

Well here I am actually doinhttp://www.xanga.com/twoberryg what I resolved to do this year .  Writing in my Blog !!!

That is but one of my resolutions but,it is one that I hope to keep up on.  Thanks to Two Berrys http://www.xanga.com/twoberry , I now have several new friends!  That is what happens here in xangaland. finding these little paths around the land and following them to the door of another person. I have met so many wonderful people and have been blessed with some of you sending cards and letters, even little gifts.  It all warms my heart. I know that I would not have made it through those aweful chemo treatments without you all cheering me on !!! Hugs to you all.

New Years Day here at the farm, well my hubby is stretched out and watching Our Kansas City Chiefs Play football. Here I sit at the computer doing me thing.  I took a break from some beading and hand stitichung to come say a Big Hello to you all. Prayiing your days are blessed and that Peace fills your hearts.

I am off to visit some of you .

Hugs til then... Rosie