Lucky

Our Lucky little grandson is studying a little turtle while modeling his new St. Patrick's Day shirt.

When you are two years old, you can feel lucky just by having a little toy in your hand. He takes in every detail. And of course we, his whole family, are all Lucky, but most of all, blessed to have him.

Hope you can feel lucky today...but more than that I pray you are feeling blessed right now...blessed to be alive and blessed to be a child of God, the creator of the universe. It is from Him that all good things come.

I suggest we all pray for our nation today...right now, if you will, that God saves us from the mess we have made of our great country; for as bad as it is, it will take His all powerful hand to guide us and protect us at the voting booths across the nation.

Footbasketball

Caleb picked up the football and... played basketball.  So what is the problem?  It fits in that basket quite well.

Oh how sweet the innocence of childhood.  He hasn't a care in the world. No worries.

Not quite so with adults though. We need to keep awake and know everything we can about what is happening.  

After all, the Obamanation is going to be flooding the campaign trail with money...a lot of it probably confiscated from us voters through tricks., that is the part that does not come from foreign nations.  They will litterally try to buy the vote.

This is a bit of history that has remained hidden in my head for some time.  One of my uncles lived in West Virginia.  He was always given the opportunity to buy votes for the Democrats at election time. He didn't think anything of telling us.  I think it is safe to tell it now.  He has been dead for some time. 

Of course there are some places in the country that are notorious for their crooked elections.  Of course, we'd never think of Chicago that way, would we?

It is a little embarrassing to see one of the Republican wannabes flooding states with 'his' money trying to influence the vote.  Maybe you know that for every vote that Romney has gotten, he's spent $12, while Rick Santorum has spent a much more modest $3.  

Cuter Than Cute

I'm thankful that I had finished this layout some days ago.  My computer just decided to pull a good one on me tonight. When working in Photoshop Elements 10, nothing would save, so I could not complete more layouts. 

Now it is late and I must sleep. I has been a long, long day.

I appreciate you all for checking by to see my layouts and for my opinions.  Even though I heard lots of news today, my brain is in a fog.

I'm praying tomorrow will be a better computer day.

Where's Waldo?

Where's Waldo?  Where's Lauren?    Lauren and Pat seem to turn up all over.  It's  spring break and this time they are in Phoenix, Arizona at the Tempe Diablo Stadium for Spring training for the Los Angeles Angels.   Evidently they love that game.  You might notice Pat is wearing his Phillies' shirt.

 And now time for an opinion based on fact:  After three years of Obama... Here's your change!

Avg. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.

                    1/2009 was $1.83           1/2011: $3.44    percent of increase: 84%

But we can't really keep up with all the change. Today it was $3.85 here. That's more than double what it was when Obama became president.

Blame whomever you want, but when Bush was president his name was mud when gas went up a little.

Obama is on the record saying we should have gas prices like Europe. It just isn't fair for us to get it for less . Besides, he believes we shouldn't be driving all these cars around. We need to change to another source of energy, or use mass transit.

The fact is, gasoline is plentiful in the US. All we need do is drill for it.   Even though we the tax payers have  thrown away too much money into companies for developing other sources of energy and cars that run on alternative fuels, nothing works like or as cheaply as gasoline.

Caleb's Picnic

Colorado has been having some warm, bright days recently. Of course that is not a rarity like it is here in Ohio.  It's great for a two year old to be able to get outdoors and run off energy.  Here he is settled down with his picnic lunch and new sandals. 

It was beautiful here today and if I could have spared the time, I would have been out in our yard cutting and dragging away debris from last year's greenery.

 It so happened  that we had a luncheon at church for the older set.  Being on a diet and watching everyone dig into the types of food that were popular in the 60's and 70's  (fried chicken, gravy, macaroni and cheese...you get the picture) could have been hard; but I really have become a salad person this year. So, it didn't tempt me one bit.  The only thing that got my attention was key lime pie; but I was able to pass it by.  So after eating sparingly, I went to Curves and worked out for one hour. Now if I don't break through this barrier I've hit and lose another pound, I surely will be surprised, because I also skipped dinner and drank a 140 calorie soy shake instead.

I'm saying I did not have a picnic today.

Neither is it a picnic to listen to some of the liberals spout off these days.  There is a comedian named Bill Maher who was making fun of Santorum for homeschooling his children.  Now to show the side I'm on, I whole hardily support home schooling now, even though I taught in public school...back when my first graders actually learned how to read in that 9 month school year.  Today our children are not safe in most public schools: educationally, physically, mentally or emotionally.  If I had a child now, even at my age, I would consider it a necessity to home school him or her.   Okay, back to Maher.  I won't even repeat here some of the tripe he spewed.  But I really appreciated Santorum's comeback.  He said that his 12 year old boy could out reason Maher.  Not knowing the child, I would still be willing to bet that he is  much better able to deduce situations in the political arena and beyond than is the comedian.

Weekend Visit

We were blessed by a visit by our youngest son this weekend.  He had been back East on business and took out a little time  to come to OH. We appreciate it and really enjoyed our visit. Of course I kept him busy with my computer for quite a while.

The pictures were taken when we took a walk in the park on Sunday afternoon.  The weather was perfect and more  heat is to follow. By the end of the week we can expect 70 degrees.

While John was here, we checked in on Beth and Caleb with Face Time several times.  They were doing well, but getting anxious to have him home, I suspect.

We were really excited to have John meet our new preacher who keeps us anxious to go to church each week.  We certainly don't want to miss a thing. He keeps it's interesting as well as Biblical. Our church is growing and it is obvious why.  We were right. John was duly impressed.

I hadn't been watching the political scene quite as closely this weekend; so when I saw this morning that the feds are going to block a Texas law requiring  photo identification to vote, I wanted to throw a fit that would cause waves throughout Washington.  HOW DARE THEY! Texas is a sovereign state. They have a problem to solve and our federal government steps in on the side of foreigners!

It might be time to divide the country in 1/2.  Conservatives in one half and liberals in the other. I don't care into which part the conservatives go, it would be blossoming and soon booming.  While the other portion would be stinky from trash strewn around. There would be no money because they would immediately spend all they had on things other than necessities and all those who were not the president's best friends would have the same...nothing much.  They wouldn't have sufficient energy. They would be standing in line at shops to buy what little they could for exorbitant  sums from other  countries. Their borders would be overrun for a time by those from other countries. But that would stop because no one would want to go there after everyone started wearing rags and begging on the streets.

It's a dreary picture, but without a good work ethic and with everyone wanting others to support them, that's what you get. A big mess.

Proud of Greg

We are proud of our son-in-law. He has done much for theater.