I am not flying with ToTo this Morning

Good Morning Everyone,

Well, we made the national news.  We had some very wild weather that developed VERY quickly last night.  I was watching the weather on the computer, which I do, and these super cells developed  in a matter of minuites and made their way right to our door literally.  The wind came up, had small hail, and the light show of lightening.
And along with that, we had a tornado that touched down just a block from us here.  It made its way from the lake south of us and then hit Bailey Yards, which is the Union Pacific RailRoad main lines. My home is one block from Bailey Yards.   It tossed about 15 cars around, hit some homes and did it general destruction.  I went out and seen the clouds start to dip and swirl, and start forming.  But, we have no place to go, so we just stood by to get into the heavy pickup and pray that if it did hit, we would bounce around,  but  my animals would be in the path and die,  and the house destroyed.
We did not get any damage here at my house, the winds were fierce.  And debris was flying around, the only solace was the fact this storm was moving at over 60 miles an hour right straight north and it was outside the city limits within minuites, but that is all it takes...a minuite or so to destroy everything.
So, this morning, I am giving blessings that everything was spared.  There was some damage to some homes that were in the path , and the weather service wil be out this morning to access the damage and the rating that this storm had. Ratings are the EF ratings, from 1-5 measuring the wind speeds inside these power houses of nature.  We will know more in a few days what EF rating this one had.

In my last post, I mentioned that I was "working".  Well, technichnally, not "working" a job, but handling mounds of paperwork on my parents affairs and D's.  It feels like I am working back at the bank and insurance companies I used to work for many years ago.  It has been mind boggling.  I do know, that I could not handle a job anyway, too many to run after, and there isn't work here anyway, especially for disabled morons like me. But anyway, I just wanted to clarify that I'm not working outside the house.

I have got some seedling up, some tomatoes, and leeks, and a few peppers.  I have been so pleased with the cheap heat mats and covered greenhouses that I got.  These really help with the tomatoes and peppers and other heat loving seeds.  So, currently, I am pleased.  I have never been able to keep tomatoes going until after it warms up totally, usually in June, and by then, its almost too late to get tomatoes going because of the weather and the growing seasons.

I have some photos and some more for posts, so I will post these later.
Right now, I need to get going this morning.  I have a doctor's appointment later and some errands and I will touch base with everyone later.
Everyone, please have a wonderful Monday, I know I am thankful.

Hugs

The New "it" that is really the Old "it.

Good Morning everyone,

Well, our temperatures are leveling off some.  It isn't below 0 today, I think that it is hovering around 24* now, and that is a heat wave compared to what we did have a few days ago.

I received a comment from a wonderful reader who I respect greatly and it really got me to thinking this morning.  I wanted to think about it some more and drink a cup a tea over it and between doing household chores that need doing.

On my blog the other day, I put a web site for mother nature network, and my reader commented that green is getting "old".  Now I am not angry in  the least bit, but I starting thinking about the "green" movement and it really got me thinking, which is a great effort sometimes, and I thought, gee, you know it "is"  getting old.  This is what I love about blogging, we exchange thoughts, and talk, and learn from others, and sometimes you get a new perspective on the world, which for me is somewhat isolated, as I do not get out much so for outside stimulation and conversation, I fall to the Internet and the blogging world.

Now on to the thoughts.  Those of us who live a frugal, simple, and not complicated lifestyle, which the term of "Simple Lifestyle" has as many faces as Yannis, actually live "green", like my reader said.  And the "green" movement has been done for hundreds or thousands  of years.  Now I wasn't around then, but I was raised by Depression Era grandparents who lived simply and frugally and was  "green" before it was a coined term.  It seems like now it is the "it" thing now, but it's not.  I have found that for years, if women did not work outside the home, they were coined "lazy", worthless, or "high priced mistress", which I have found very derogatory to the females.  But yet, the females of the house, were expected to work outside the home, then come home to clean the house, cook the dinner, run after the kids, run after the husband and whatever else the female was supposed to provide for the household plus her wages she earned outside the home. I do not call that lazy, worthless or a high priced mistress unless she was seeking out extras from the boss she worked for, especially if it was a male, for ill-gotten gains. I have thoughts on working outside the home but that is for a later post.
I do not have a word or a comment on this but it sure made me see a light that I really didn't see.  I do feel however that the green movement is being used to benefit corporations for their personal gains, by hitting on people who are ignorant of old ways, and have no one to turn to except these corporations that are seeking out the ignorant and placing images and thoughts that aren't true or undermine others who are living a more simple lifestyle, or more frugally, or trying to get out of debt, 
Now, frugal has a lot a meaning to a lot of folks, and I really feel that I do not need to go into explaining that term.  Each of us has a life that we live and we do it the best as we can, no one can make the frugal lifestyle fit for every one human being for every life that is lived.  What we can do is listen to others, take suggestions, ideas, thoughts, recipes, plans and work them into each of our lives and if it doesn't fit, no big deal.  Go on to plan B, then plan C and etc.

Now I am going to post a web site that I got from another wonderful blogging friend, and it speaks about this subject directly.  Now I thoroughly enjoyed this site.  And the lady who has this site speaks just about a blunt and plainly as she can, and if it makes you upset or mad or whatever, oh, well, sh*t happens.  She is glad that she got your attention.
Please go to www.homesteadgardenandpantry.com and read about Granny Miller.

So, this is my thoughts for today,  my brains are warped now, as this is a complicated subject, with many facets, and many, many  sub-subjects under it.
Thank you again, my lovely readers, for your thoughts, suggestions, recipes, and just plain over the fence conversation.

Still here

Dear Friends,

My apologies for not blogging lately.  I have been doing some extra outside work doing some in-home chef services for some elderly clients that I had made connections with during Farmer's Market, and I was needing some extra money for some future projects around the house so I have been working and by the time I get home, I am beat, so I just haven't been blogging much.  There really isn't much going on around here anyway, I don't have an interesting life anyway, pretty boring so I guess I don't have too much to say.

I do however have some things on my mind, and during the holidays, I find them unbelievable to say the least, and very sad, tragic and feeling the world is literally coming unhinged.
I am so very saddened by the news of these people, if you want to call them that, that are killing their children.  I personally cannot find the words to even think of such brutal and evil doing such as this.  I am having great difficulty in even getting a grip on this and even how a parent can even do such a thing.  I wish someone could explain this to me, though there are no words to even be able to speak of such doings.

Has our world gone so much in the loo that this is the way we handle rifts in relationships, or in difficult times?  I just even do not have words to even begin such a subject, and to be very honest, if I begin, I think that I would melt into tears.  I deal with cruel things when I handle ICU issues with pets, but children dying by the hands of parents, I cannot even put a word into play without tears or anger.  This has really the last week, put me in a state of sadness, and a feeling of hopelessness, and I think that is why I haven't blogged, as it seems that what is the use of blogging when so many other things are going on that are so monstrous in nature, that you don't even know where to start.

Anyway, I just wanted to get this out, as it truly bothers me, and I don't even think anyone could come up with an answer anyway.  I think that it is so big that only the Lord could  touch this.  I pray daily and meditate about a lot of things that seems so huge, I try to pray to even take a bite out of it.  I hope that my little prayers take a bite.

Anyway, I thought that I would pop in quickly to jot a quick note to all, before I collapse for the night.
So, please everyone, have a wonderful weekend, and I hope that next week is better.

Take care all