Love at First Bite

Julia discovers pork chops and it seems to be Love at First Bite. I think she might just try to eat the  bone.

We just watched the Presidents address to the nation. I think we are jumping from all veggies to real meat again. Sounds like he has a good plan to rebuild our economy, which has been depressed to an extremely low growth rate, while taking on an exorbitant amount of national debt. 

During the coming months we will begin to tell the difference between the true Democrats who want our people to do well and those who only want to have their own way, keep God out of the country and destroy our freedom. The true Democrats will help put through laws, etc that will rebuild our country, make it great again.

Generally speaking in the past, both parties wanted the same end, they just went about  trying to get there in different ways. Now we have those who want the best for our people and those who want a one world government, contrary to our way of life.

I'm praying God will help those who want the best for us to pull together and get the job done.

Oh, and won't it be good to get our healthcare out of the hands of government and back in our doctor's hands? Back in the hands of the doctors of our choice! I'm anxious to see the prices of medicines, etc come down to reasonable numbers. 

Packages too Beautiful to Open

It is very difficult for my sensibilities to go back to Christmas for a blog post, but I just finished this layout and like it quite well. From the subjects, our grand triplets, to the gorgeous packages to the  fun I had with the layout itself.  Yes, it will end up in a book to be seen by the family for years, but it just doesn't seem right to post a Christmas theme at the end of February. 

Well, I could be posting skiing, if I had the photos. There are other activities that I could work with...if I had the photos. I'm not taking many of them myself lately. I prefer sitting here at the computer making pages of other people's photos. 

On another note. I have to tell a story. It is embarrassing for me, but in other ways it is rather funny as well.  Last night,  I had turned on the mattress cover warmer on my side of the bed, so that when  I crawled under the covers, the bed would be as warm as a toaster. Before I jump into bed, I invariably turn off that heater. Last night, I forgot to turn it off.  

Have you experienced spilling water on some of the heavier fabrics made a few years back, before all the light weight cheap fabrics came out? What happens it, because of the weave or something, water does not penetrate the fabric, but just runs off it.  

Remember that, it is why I woke up early this morning in a puddle of water. It was so hot this February night that I must have sweated like a cotton picker in the hot Texas sun...all night! instead of penetrating the fabric of my pajamas, it stayed inside on my skin. It is a good thing  I drink lots of water, or I would have become dehydrated. Seriously, I was drenched! What a mess. Bet I won't forget to turn off the heater before getting into the bed EVER again!

The Eyes Have It

I've lost a week! I'm not sure how or why. It is just gone. I last posted on February 22...Well, I guess it hasn't been quite a week...more like 1/2. But where have the days gone? I'm not sure! But, now I'm back in the saddle and posting once more.

This is our little great granddaughter. (Did you ever expect to see a great grandmother posting on her very own blog? Wow even us old geezers are posting these days. ;) Anyway, our little one, Ava doesn't visit often, but when she does we really appreciate seeing her and her mother, Brittanie.

This day in late December, Ava was full of energy. I would call her the energizer bunny. Not much could slow her down to a pace slow enough for me to catch up with her. But, she became enchanted by the large magnifying glass from my 'coffee' table. She had  quite a good time  with it. At least it kept her occupied for a few  minutes...long enough for me to get some shoots. 

Wouldn't it be great if we old folks had even 1/2 the energy of these little ones? Of course, if we did, we would probably hurt ourselves.

Praying that those who would destroy our country from within could slow down, grow up and concentrate on thinking positively for a change. If they only knew enough history to escape repeating the worst of it,  and help save it for all those like Ava.  

I certainly pray that Ava knows freedom when she matures, rather than group think.

Celebrating our Friend

Monday, our little group met to celebrate Sali's Tuesday birthday.  Monday night, her life group met...and celebrated her birthday. It is sad that one gets older with each birthday...oh yes, that is what happens. She was 6 hours older when she ate her birthday cake that evening! 6 hours! And the next day, she turned one year older. Scary, isn't it?

But Sali doesn't show her age. As a matter of fact, most of us are into covering up our ages these days. None of us are as young as we used to be. We still enjoy getting together. We just don't get as many chances as we once did. It just doesn't seem right, but the older we get, the busier we get. We raised our families and then we got more things packed into our lives, some times by choice.

If you ever see a group of vibrant ladies like these, please compliment them and offer to take their picture. lol  Actually, I'm not kidding about the picture. We like to keep a record of our outings. Often people will very willingly snap photos, if we ask them. Some even offer. Many times everyone looks too preoccupied to be bothered. That is when we pull our stunt where we take several pictures and put them together for a good group picture. That is what happened this week.  

On top of that problem, was another. There was no good place for the picture, one with a good background that isn't too cluttered. We tried one place on the east side of the restaurant, but it did not turn out well at all. So, I had to find another picture of the Blue Door online. It is a snap on google under images. But that meant, I had to 'cut out' all of us and 'paste' us (digitally of course) in front of the blue door.

Next for the background, I got really crazy. Don't know why I like to keep up with styles, fads, etc, but I decided to make this a little artistic. Not so sure I'm happy with it, but spent so much time doing it, it will probably stay this way. 

By the way, notice our clothing. It was February 20. It was in the 60's and has been for several days and supposedly will be for several more...maybe even getting up to the 70's. Feels great, but the  crawly bugs and buggy germs are not being killed out as they should in winter.

That Vintage Look

I had a very good time building this page which features Julia in her little vintage looking outfit. I took this picture of her in early December. We had not seen her since May. What a difference a few months makes at this age. She was just a baby of one month and here she is at close to 9 months old. She can get around! And she seems very alert...intent.

Wish I could be with her much more often..like every week at least. But the  commute from OH to CO makes that quite difficult since neither of us owns a jet. But by looking into her studious eyes, I seem to think she may be flying a jet some day.  Oh, but I can think of better things for her to be doing, like raising her own little girls and boys.

2 Cute for Words

Early in December we  made a little trip to Columbus to meet up with John, Beth and kids. These pictures were taken of Ron, Oliver and the dogs...Molly whose house we were visiting and Maggie, who tagged along with us.  Even if it was annoying for out Maggie to act like she did, it was also a bit amusing. 

This shows the Importance of my opinions, which appear in this blog on occasion: 

It is obvious that I need to work on my example...even harder than this blog. 

Ginza Japanese Restaurant

Today, I worked this into my slightly crazy day. Once in a while, I do something that even impresses me...not often, but this picture of Greg and his kids  worked very well blended into this textured paper.  I think it is pretty cool.  

This is something I didn't know until after I had turned 60, but if you want to eat out on Christmas or New Year, the best places to go...and sometimes the only places, are Japanese and Chinese. Their holidays don't  sync with ours. So while most of our restaurants are closed, these are open for business. These pictures were taken this past Christmas day, when our daughter's family headed to Ginza, one of their favorite places, for dinner. 

Now, if you are a snowflake, you might want to choose the business you support from those that espouse the same political beliefs you have.  We see this happening more and more. But, you know, it is no longer one sided. Some conservatives are now doing the same thing.

Since the country is just about 50/50 now as to numbers of people spending money, a business, in my opinion, who shouts out it's beliefs  from the housetops and decries the beliefs of their opponents may gain business...BUT, they may also suffer the consequences and lose business. It probably would be very wise to keep businesses out of politics. Annoying people is not the best way to get customers.

Just ask Nordstoms, for example.