President Trumps speech, and a lack of respect....

Last night we sat proudly and watch our President give his first speech to a joint session of congress...  I found it inspiring, I felt like the adults were back in charge and was so proud of him. And I loved his new tie..  : )

What I found to be a pathetic show was of course the democrats: Nancy Pelosi, Wasserman-Shultz and all the others like them, dressed in white, and sitting on their hands, stone faced, and being completely disgusted by the fact that they had to sit there and listen to President Trump speak...  And what the heck was up with the white suits? I heard it was something about the suffragettes and woman's equality...who said women weren't given equal rights???? 

A very emotional moment came when:

 President Trump honored a fallen hero, Navy Seal Senior Chief Ryan Owens..  He also  honored his widow Carryn Owens, he reassured her that her husband did not die in vain, that the mission he was on had been highly successful, and he thanked her many times over. She received a standing ovation and a thunderous applause that went on for several minutes, as expected she was overwhelmed with emotion..my heart went out to her, I can't imagine the pain she must be going through. But then the worst of the worst came... a  public act of disrespect like none I have ever seen before from our elected leaders while some democrats stood to honor her, there were those pathetic people who didn't. These people are shameless and should not call themselves representatives of this country.  I understand it was their right to sit and behave like a 2 year old. But, when a military hero is being honored I expect them to be respected. I expect petty differences to be put aside.  You may not like President Trump, heck I never liked Obama, but when he honored our military I showed respect, these pathetic democrats should do the same.
Our military are not politicians, they volunteer and put their life on the line every day for this great country. I hope the constitutants of those that sat were watching and will hold them accountable next time there is a vote.
Oh and for those people who said Ivanka should have hugged her or something...I did see her comfort this poor lady, I saw several times that she whispered to her, and put a gentle hand on her... 

Then there was more disrespect when Trump was talking about murders caused by illegals... A father in attendance-his son murdered by an illegal who has been deported twice but kept coming back.... The GOP applauded Trumps new ideas but the Democrats sat...so I guess its okay for American citizens to be murdered by illegals. I loved how the President  looked at that side of the room and asked all the law makers in attendance what would they do if that was their child?

Then there was this guy:

 Who I felt bared a striking resemblance to this guy:

You remember him right ? The bad evil old man ghost from Poltergeist 2 ( the other side)...   

Well the first guy is the former governor of Kentucky Steve Beshear and given his likeness to the second guy I kept expecting to hear " Your all gonna die"!!!!!!!!

...This is the best the democrats could come up with for a rebuttal? The 72 year old ex democrat governor who was ousted by a republican, from the same state that Trump won overwhelmingly?  How Weak!
  He sat there in a diner with a bunch of old cronies around him, looking all pissed off like they forget their daily dose of stool softeners.  He is an EX for a reason, which I am sure has a lot to do with the way the coal industry has been done by the former administration and the EPA.

As for President Trumps speech, he really hit it out of the park. He was on point, did not meander off topic, and looked distinguished and quite Presidential. 

-JUGM

Spring and Updates

Well its pretty evident that due to all the warm weather that an early spring is in the air.   Senior and I have started working on the spring garden, we got it tilled pretty good, and put in some red potatoes. We have also started down the road to a new venture: Pigs.

Eventually I would like a couple of goats and have a strong affection for pygmies. My cousin out in San Antonio, TX has the Nubian goats. She bought them for her granddaughters 4-H project and she entered them in shows and made a nice profit once they went to auction.

Last weekend we visited a livestock auction. The only pigs they had were 4 pregnant pot bellied ones...so when you bought one you were also getting her litter...no thanks!

Goats though were in abundance, I know they are so cute when they are babies:

 

But then they have to grow up: 

So back to the pig issue, my uncle in NC is on the look out for us, he has been visiting some pig farms and getting prices and looking at the stock. He is going in with us monetarily for them as he would like at least half of one in his freezer...so we put him to work doing some of the leg work.
The pen is built, and we are hoping in the next couple of weeks to have them here...
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I mentioned updates so here goes: Last Monday after dropping kids off at school I was pulling onto our road when I got rear ended by a driver who clearly was not paying attention...I had some minor damage to the back of my car, but his entire front end was hanging off... My trailer hitch went right into his radiator and ripped off his bumper...  antifreeze was everywhere. Thankfully no one was hurt, and the kids weren't with me.
He was very decent and immediately admitted fault, he claimed he looked down to grab his coffee-Yea Right! . So after the cop wrote him a nice big ticket, he got blessed out by his father...turns out he was on daddy's insurance-There goes those premiums!, apparently this was not his first rodeo and has had other traffic violations.
My car went in to the shop for a couple of days which was a huge inconvenience and his 2001 pickup truck went to the graveyard....it was totaled. 
But all is right again with the world, got my car back earlier then promised turned in the crappy rental car and drove happily home.

And in other news: On the 27th the guardian takes over for mom. My sister and I are very happy . I am thrilled that someone professional will be able to deal with all the paperwork and headache of medicare etc...  My brother is none to happy about it because for Christmas my sister and I got a very nasty letter where he claims he will never have anything more to do with us...okay A-hole!  no problem.
The best part about the letter is the coward did not have the testicular fortitude to address the envelope himself, he had his twit wife  do it...I guess he assumed we wouldn't open it up if we recognized his handwriting.. My sister got hers first so when mine came in the mail I simply wrote his return address and returned it back to him unopened..
 My sister had emailed it to me, so I printed it and keep a copy in my purse for in the future should our paths cross and he tries to speak to me, I can quickly whip it out and remind him of his actions...
There will truly be a special place in hell for him one of these days...

I just realized that my previous post was on Feb. 1st..   geez where does the time go????? 

-JUGM

Who would you be????

 As you all know I love to read. For me opening up a book is like jumping in to an adventure.
An old friend of mine who is a Christian Counselor and graduate of Liberty University, asked this question on her Facebook page:

Which book or movie character do you relate to and identify with the most and why? 

Gosh I really thought about that question for a while, most of the comments she was receiving was pretty superficial. I mean geez if you could jump into any book and become any character who would you be?   One of my favorite books and most read books was "To Kill a Mockingbird"  I always related to "Scout" she was a fearless kid and real smart mouth. But yet she cared for people and wanted to help others.

Then the wheels in my head started turning and haven't stopped for the past few days....after reading the Brian Kilmeade book about Washington's spies, I think I would want to be Agent 355. The mysterious woman that was in the British circles and kept her ear open and reported the things she heard to the Continentals. She did all that until she was discovered and jailed on a British prison Ship- The "HMS Jersey"  No one is sure of what happened to her, after the British left NY in 1783 they abandoned the prison ship, so its unclear if she died on board or was able to escape.Of course I like to believe she escaped the horrors of the prison ship and moved west.
  Her true identity to this day still has not been discovered, theories have floated around about agent 355 and who she was, but nothing concrete.
Why could I identify with her? Because she helped to create this nation, she helped to rid NY of the British, albeit a small part  however still significant because without some of the intelligence she gathered, Benedict Arnold would have handed West Point over to the British. She knew the perils of her mission but still accepted the challenge. What an incredible woman she must have been.

So now I ask you the same question my friend asked....   If you could, what book character or movie character would you be????? 

I look forward to reading the responses

-JUGM

snowflake math....

Had a liberal say to my niece the other day:  "You think I am a snowflake, if enough of us get together we will make a political avalanche"..so it.got us all thinking....
 
There are approximately 100,000 snowflakes in one ounce of snow
The current U.S population ( as of 1/22/17)  is 325,436,815
46% identify as democrats
324,118,787 x .46 = 149,700,935 snowflakes ( I rounded up)
149,700,935 /100,000= 1,497.009349 ounces of snow
1,498 (rounded)oz /16 oz = 93.6 pounds of snow ( give or take)

All the snowflakes coast to coast would barely cover my car with snow, much less an avalanche.

deer and canned bacon

 

No we did not can deer meat with bacon all in the same jar!   I knew from my title that some of you might think that. There was no actual deer meat involved. Only bacon. If you have been over to my better half's page lately (Seniors Mess)  you would see the blog post he did on our recent bacon canning venture. The next morning we opened a jar up, fried it with some eggs and it was quite tasty.

I am only writing about it, because I posted it to facebook. I was a little surprised at how many comments I got in support of this prepping venture, one of my like minded gun toting friends even shared it on her facebook page, and tagged a couple of her other friends in it..  

But as with everything there is always that ONE person that can't understand why we do these things...  In this case she is a friend of my moms, and we have known her for well over 40 years. 

She simply asked " But Whyyyyyy"?????   just like that. 

I sweetly replied back to her that in the event of long time power outages whether it is man made, or natural, my family would like to be able to have some nice crispy bacon and not have it all go bad in the freezer.  She has yet to respond...  

 Now the deer part of my title comes in... hunting season is over and the deer seem to sense this as they have  been coming out more frequently. So, we set up the trail camera, and baited parts of the garden with a water trough, and corn. It took a few nights but the herd found its way here. This morning I was taking the dogs out and Libby caught site and chased about three of them from the garden. later I checked the trail camera. In other pics off to the right you can see the legs of another doe. I wonder if there is a big buck hanging out with them...

We had a our big ice and snow storm a couple of weeks ago now, and as I guessed it fizzled in my area. Ended up being more ice then anything. But it made for some great pics. I took this one going down the road, it has gotten quite a few compliments: 

 

The thermometer was tilted the other way now, we have been seeing record highs and I wonder if winter has remembered we are still here. Sucks wearing shorts in the middle of January. But, I will take it as the heating bill has been quite low.  

Hope you all have a wonder day....and smile on Friday we get to wave goodbye to BO..     : ) 

-JUGM

Yup!!!

I was in the office of imaging today getting the girls their yearly check up and while I waited to be called back that liberal rag of a show called "The View" came on  the waiting room  TV. The guest was none other than good ole Uncle Joe.
Whoopi was so excited that I thought she was gonna pee her pants right there on stage.  And Joy Behar got a tingly feeling all over....
Obama has been handing these things out like tic-tacs...

snow and christmas stuff

Did I say snow?  why yes I did. !
we are under a winter storm warning with a possibility of 4+ inches. And then there is the Arctic blast that is coming in behind it.
The boys are thrilled and hope the forecast holds. Of course if it doesn't I am sure our buddies Rob and Hobo can pack us up a truck load and gladly ship it to us...lol
Then there are the crazies out on the roads and in stores....everyone grabbing whatever off the shelves and what is a "milk and bread" storm and why is that what people go for first?  Now I see why we prep and stay prepared for these kinds of things....

Okay I am about a week and a half late posting Christmas stuff but here goes...
 I was surprised with some really nice things... Books! and a guitar. I play piano and its always been on my bucket list to learn so Senior completely shocked me!  Learning is slow going, but I am getting it a little at a time... Pretty soon I will jammin some "kumbaya my Lord" while sitting by a campfire....lol

Santa also brought me some jewelry, Florida State stuff and books..... One is this one:

I saw a Brian Kilmeade interview about it and had wanted to get it. Its pretty good. I also got Bill OReillys "Killing the Rising Sun, and Legends and Lies - The Patriots".
Haven't started those yet but I am looking forward to it.

Well the initial rain is starting to set in, temps have dropped 6 degrees since about 2pm.  If you are in the Southeast stay warm , inside and off the roads....and don't stress it will be back in the 60s by Wednesday...

-JUGM