Friday, October 7, 2011

Upcoming Weekend Tid Bits...

Tomorrow I get a much deserved day off. The kids are spending time with the grandparents, and I am going scrapbooking at my sisters house.
Hubby will not be around either, he and some friends will be having a slumber party, Probaby dancing around in loin clothes by campfire. Hopefully they don't get rained on, a Nor' easter is setting up off our coast and we are expecting some 2-7" of rain by Monday. Which reminds of a time when my brother was in his early twenties, and he was giving my parents a hard time. He left our house one Friday saying he was "moving to a campground" well the campground was out on the coast and a bad Nor'easter formed...hellacious rains and winds So, come that next Monday,  my Dad asked about his weekend, and he said it hardly rained on him. My dad knew better though. It wasnt until some years later that He fessed up to us that, during that weekend, his tent had blown away and he ended up spending it in the bathroom of the campground.

This is also a three day weekend for me, as I will not have the little tyke on Monday. So I am helping hubby out with a mulch job we have to do for one of our customers. He said Rain, Wind or Shine...we got to get it done....
Today I went to Home Depot, and got some broccoli plants and some collards. I am putting them in my flower box on our patio. I love my flower box, it also serves as a bench.  I like walking around the garden centers and seeing all the Fall colors, and with this Nor'Easter setting up, its going to feel really seasonal out....

Just Ordered "Survivors"

I am excited. I just ordered our copy of "Survivors" by Rawles. He said on his blog that amazon lowered the price to 12.95, for the hardcover. This is a great price!. Now All I have to do is get our copy of "Patriots" back from my brother. I know when I first picked up Patriots, it took me a little while to get in to it, but once I did I couldnt put it down, I kept hoping that if they made it in to a movie that I could play one of the female characters...  : )


I also orderd "Castigo Cay" from Mattew Bracken. Let me start off by saying that if you have never read his "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" Series, you are really missing out. I found myself so engrossed in the books, that I felt like I was actually in them. And they are so true to life, the President in the series is another Obama, and the father/daughter gun shop owners in the first book remind me of Will and his daughter from "Sons of Guns"  (only I think the girl in the book is a bit more mature). I love Brackens work, and I know once I start reading it I won't be able to put it down.... And go check out his website :




Thursday, October 6, 2011

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Wednesday Tid Bits...

The middle of the week, I am so glad its here.  Hubby had a “procedure” this morning at the VA Clinic. The positive to that is I did not have to keep the little tyke. I asked Hubby if it was possible for him to have the same procedure for the next 11 days so that I would be done with the little darling..  I got “The Look” from hubby.  The one thing about the procedure I really hated was that Hubby couldn’t drive afterwards…which meant I had to drive him. For some reason my driving makes him more nervous then a preacher in a strip club. And he being a passenger seat driver makes me tense…which we had a bit of a spat when he told me to make a left and I made a right instead, right in to a butt ton of lunch time traffic. I did apologize to him, because in the end I know he was only trying to help. Now I am cooking him a good supper of chicken, corn on the cob and green beans.

Then I come home and log on to Drudge. And I see the following picture. How big of an ego can one person have? Is he actually in a school classroom reading a story book to kids about himself?  Now I know we might be home schooling next year if that is on the shelves of the library.  

Monday, October 3, 2011

Wall Street Protestors...

I wake up this morning dumbfounded as to why these college kids are protesting Wall Street. What exactly are they protesting against?  Not one of their comments makes any sense. They claim to be protesting corporate greed, but this so called revolt started on Facebook. You can’t get more corporate greed then Facebook, when the inventor of it is worth billions.

I saw one girl holding up a cardboard sign, on the back of the sign was the “Home Depot” logo. So, let me get this straight, she is protesting Corporate America, with cardboard purchased from Home Depot, and actually giving the corporation free advertisement.

Then I read that Michael Moore who said this week that ‘Ending capitalism is more important than ending the Fed”  and Susan Sarandon have stopped by to lend their support. And because there is no real leadership with the movement, Unions have stepped in to give financial support and leadership. So now we will have a unionized protest. 

I wonder what the parents of these kids think.  These kids want Obama re-elected but what they fail to understand is that his 2008 campaign was bank rolled by Wall Street, and he is expecting the same for his 2012 campaign.   It all just makes no sense to me. Protest corporate America?.its Capitolism and Corporations that put people to work.




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And on another happier note.. As of today it is only 15 and a wake up till I am done babysitting the little tyke..  : )