Steveston Muscle.

Steveston has lots of boutiques as well as great sea food restaurants.

I was going to buy this shirt for my husband so he could show off his abs.lol

It would at least get a second look from gals and build up his ego a bit.

I know, however, when they see a gal like me walking beside him, they'll think twice before messing with me. lol

That skinny old guy is MINE Ladies.lol

SORRY! :)

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Well the Vancouver Canucks got a thrashing yesterday by the Boston Bruins.
Everything began very well until Bostons' Horton almost got his neck broken by a shoulder hit from Canuck defenseman Rome.
Seems this affected the managers and then the team as things began to go sour for us.
So many fights ensued between the two team members that by the time it was all over we hardly had anyone left to play in the rink lol
Our Stadium was sold out in spite of the fact that the game was in Boston and even in Boston,
there we 14,000 Canuck fans cheering for us.

However this all ends up, our hockey team sure united our Province and country and did a lot for the economy.
They have a day to lick their wounds and to create a new strategy for Wednesdays' Game.
Let's see what happens.
GO CANUCKS GO!!!!
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AGAIN
Sincere Condolences to my fellow Blogger George
on the passing of his Sweet Mother.
May she Rest in Peace in Gods' Everlasting Glory.
We shall all meet again.
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Life in Pink

It's too bad Arnold Schwarzenegger had this little misunderstanding because
English isn't his native language.

He told Maria (his wife) that their housekeeper wanted a raise.

Maria said, "Screw her."

Any simple-minded, semi-literate Austrian could have made the same mistake,
Right?
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The above flower was again on a vine and the more you look at these vines the more you like them.

BC is wonderful when it comes to growing flowers. We have plenty of rain this year which makes it easier on the gardners.

In Steveston they opened up small unused areas between houses to make community gardens.

I always find this enlightening. Every house gets a wooden frame to grow anything they like in .

Lots of women were working and enjoying their day around their gardens although I must admit it was very hot yesterday and I wonder how they planned on watering each box. If you don't live across the street, you'd need an extremely long hose to drag out there for the job and or keep barrels full of water to use every day as needed.

Usually, if we are lucky, it rains at night so the plants get water and you just do the weeding. But then again you also have to watch out for the birds helping themselves.

The pleasure you get if things are done right and results are seen, is stupendous.

Each little plant becomes your special baby and a big part of its' life is yours.

This is such a special connection people can share with nature and between each other as they can compare each others gardening skills as well as social skills.

If you don't have a box garden you may find growing potatoes in a garbage bag a lucrative investment. You roll the bag down and put in soil. Once the potatoes sprout to 10 cm shoots add more soil. Keep doing this till you reach the top. Then stop and let shoots mature.
Make holes for water to escape at the bottom, and water regularly.
et voila.
Soon you will have your own crop of potatoes.

Have a wonderful day !!

Sunday Glory

Today was a great day and my husband forced me to go out to enjoy the sunshine.

Usually I try to escape the sun because I think it gets too hot and I burn fast.

But today was wonderful. We went to Steveston . The place was packed with people and good food.

The smell of coffee was incredible!

I took lots of pictures to share and the one on top is one such flower Beautiful British Columbia

has to share with the world.

It looks almost like a delicate flower made of crepe paper but it isn't and grows on a vine.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. :)

Hope you had a great Sunday!!

:)

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A riddle for the day

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one.

Michael J. Fox has a small one.

Madonna doesn't have one.

The Pope has one but doesn't use it.

Clinton uses his all the time.

Mickey Mouse has an unusual one.

Liberace never used his on women.

Jerry Seinfeld is very, very proud of his.

Cher claims that she took on 3.

We never saw Lucy use Desi's.

What is it? Answer below! (this is pretty good )

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The answer is: "A Last Name."
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An efficiency expert concluded his lecture with a note of caution. "You don't want to try these techniques at home." "Why not?" asked somebody from the audience. "I watched my wife's routine at breakfast for years," the expert explained. "She made lots of trips between the refrigerator, stove, table and cabinets, often carrying a single item at a time. One day I told her, 'Hon, why don't you try carrying several things at once?'" "Did it save time?" the person in the audience asked. "Actually, yes," replied the expert. "It used to take her 20 minutes to make breakfast. Now I do it in seven."

Tomorrow as Today

Miss me this morning or Miss me not
Tomorrow, is another day.

Think of me today or forget
Tomorrow, is another day

Love me today or love me not
Tomorrow, is another day

Forgive me today or forgive me not
Tomorrow, is another day.

Believe in me today or trust me not
Tomorrow, is another day.

Tomorrow is today for me and
You are a flower on my tree
You are the joyous song I wake up to
I miss and love the whole day through

Tomorrow, is today for me.
Tomorrow, is another day
If you'd just look into my eyes
You'd see it too
Nothing matters, cause
Tomorrow, is today
And just for you..
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A Lady's Life

It's A Great Day!!!!

You wake up in the morning feeling kinda dull like the weather and then you see the world all green and lush and you know, it's going to be a Great Day!!
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The Coat Hanger:
A woman was  at work when she received a phone call that   her small
daughter was very sick with a fever.  She left her work and stopped by the
pharmacy to get some medication.  She got back   to her car  and found
that
she had locked her keys in the car.

She didn't  know what to do, so she called home and told   the baby
sitter
what had happened.     The baby  sitter told her that the fever was
getting
worse.  She said, "You might  find a coat hanger and use that to open the
door."

The woman  looked around and found an old rusty coat hanger   that had
been
left on the ground, possibly by someone else   who at some  time had
locked
their keys in their car. She looked   at the  hanger and said, "I don't
know
how to use this."   She bowed  her head and asked God to send her help.

Within five  minutes a beat up old motor cycle pulled up,   with a  dirty,
greasy, bearded man who was wearing an   old biker  skull rag on his head.

The woman  thought, "This is what you sent to help me?"   But, she was
desperate, so she was also very thankful.

The man got  off of his cycle and asked if he could help.

She said,  "Yes, my daughter is very sick.     I stopped to  get her some
medication and I locked my keys in my car.     I must get  home to her.
Please, can you use this hanger to unlock my  car?"

He said,  "Sure."  He walked over to the car, and   in less than  a minute
the car was opened.     She hugged  the man and through her tears she
said,

"Thank You  So Much!     You are a  very nice man."

The man  replied, "Lady, I am not a nice man.     I just got  out of
prison
today.     I was in  prison for car theft and have only   been out for
about an hour."

The woman  hugged the man again and with sobbing tears   cried out  loud,
'Oh, thank you God!     You even  sent me a Professional!'

Is GOD GOOD  - or what!
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Two little old ladies were sitting on a park bench outside the local town hall where a flower show was in progress.

The older one leaned over and said, ''Life is so boring. We never have any fun anymore. For $10.00 I'd take my clothes off and streak through that stupid, boring flower show!''

''You're on!'' said the other old lady, holding up a $10.00 note.

The first little old lady slowly fumbled her way out of her clothes and completely naked, streaked (as fast as an old lady can) through the front door of the flower show.

Waiting outside, her friend soon heard a huge commotion inside the hall, followed by loud applause and shrill whistling.

Finally, the smiling and naked old lady came through the exit door surrounded by a cheering, clapping crowd.

''What happened?'' asked her waiting friend.

''I won $1000 as 1st prize for 'Best Dried Arrangement'.''

I thought it was funny lol :):):)

Live A Life

Did you know that sodium is not salt and although sodium is not good for you, salt is?

In fact life would be pretty bland without salt and all the minerals it contains.

So keeping our oceans healthy and non toxic is quite important.

So all corporations out there, beware. Money, will not buy you life.

Likewise, cancer cells do not like an alkaline environment.

They do not need oxygen ,as opposed to normal cells which , we need to combat them, do.

That being said I now come to one of my favorite meals.

I love chick peas. We eat them in humous, in soups and in salads.

No garden should be without beans and they are best eaten fresh.

Beans in general are very good for you but chick peas crunch under your teeth so they are my personal favorite.

Here I made myself a salad of chick peas, celery,a pickle, chopped leek, broccoli, garlic and spinach.

I added black pepper , sea salt, olive oil , oregano and dug in.

It was so enjoyable that if I could eat the whole bowl myself I would but I have a couple of men who will be famished in a few minutes.

If I had some blanched sole fillets to crumple into it, so much the better.

My son likes cheese added to it but he has two hands and can add it himself....right? lol

What I like about salad in my home is that with everyones' schedule being so obtuse, cooking has become a very irritating dilemma in my house so with a salad, they can open the fridge and there it is.

Nice for me, nice for them.

Now I have a few chicken legs to boil to make a bouillon . It would have been better to get an old chicken for that but they are hard to come by since everything is eaten and sold by a certain age.

Chicken doesn't have the same flavor as it did in my Mom's time because it is fed on artificial food so it grows faster. Not good.

This is why back yard chickens and eggs are a treat today because you are in charge of how long they live and what they eat.

I think many people are coming to realize the importance of home grown food because even restaurants are growing their own gardens in up raised containers and before long they will also begin growing their own fowl to get their recipes and reputations specialized , perfected and prized by gourmants who know a good thing when they taste it.

Today people prize flourless bread.

You can either buy or make your own chick pea flour by grinding it yourself.

Its full of carbs and protein.

Sometimes I go out of my way and take out many varieties of dry beans and grind it up in my coffee grinder.

(Great for pizza dough)
One recipe I like is uses Zuccini to make pancakes.

I use chana (chick pea) flour with sea salt and black pepper.

Its served with salsa or curry or with plain tomatoes or eaten by itself.

Sometimes I add chopped fried onions to it.

It's different. lol

Well I hope you have another great day and that the weather changes for the better.

Here it's dull and wet again as usual.

I checked my gutters and the metal pieces I put in to keep the leaves out of the drain pipes are all eaten through and basically gone. hmmm. Acid Rain?

Wolf Hound Charisma

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This is a dog of all dogs. I have only met up with one Wolfhound, once in my life and thought my God!

What a wonderful animal. He stood there like a king on the street, alert, calm and free.

Today I think if I moved to country living I would get me one because it is great with children and strangers . They look scruffy with prickly fur but good hearted souls. Sorta ......like......me lol

He would do great sitting in a garden following me around, keeping me company while keeping an eye out for bears, coyotes and mountain lions, which tend to lurk around more and more in people areas.

They were once prized by royalty and who would know better about dogs than the creme of society, used to the best.

My Dad used to like doing things and when we had a dog in the country, he would make it a wide collar of thick cow hide. He also knew how to insert some sharp metal studs into it.

People used to let their dogs run and I'd go bike riding a lot with my dog, so attacks from yards were normal things. Dogs would run out onto the street and my dogs' job was to defend me so he'd stay back to fight, while I moved on far enough to call him. He would then see I was safe and take off.

This particular dog I had was a local yokel born of a Cocker Spaniel Mom but the Dad must have been a lab. He looked like a lassie with a neck covered by a mane of white. He wasn't too big but of sturdy body.

Cheechen would swim the lake with me every day and then go on long bike treks. Needless to say, he was in great shape.

He was smart as the dickens and loved his life.

Well I'd check him over after such a fight, and this collar saved him many times. He would learn to turn in circles so fast he would be able to bite each dog circling him at least once on the legs and all they got was a collar and sore mouths.

The collar was bit right through, which means these dogs really meant business when they attacked him.

In such cases it's never a good idea to tie your dog because then he has no defense system. He can't run away or fight. It's always a good idea to put on one such collar though in the country .

This way you are both free to ride and run away.

If I had a dog such as this wolf hound, I'd do the same thing my Dad did. Make him a wide collar and even a thick leather body armor just in case of a bear intrusion. In times such as these, dogs are truly man's best friends. While keeping the wild animal busy, this buys you time to move away and hide and then get your best friend to follow you to your hiding place.

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Today I dug up a French lilac tree which I planted some 8 years ago . It hasn't flowered once.

I think its because it wants a sunny dry place to live and I planted it close to my window hoping for some nice smells to come inside the house from it. But because I am on a hill its too wet and shady for it. So now it sits in a flower pot waiting for some rain and I have to see what fertilizer it will also require to keep it healthy. Now I have two such plants to go with the oak trees I am raising.

Because I leave my land natural I find so many earth worms in the leaves. These are good to put into your plants to make holes in the soil and fertilize them naturally and they are good to put into your garden for the tomato plants.

Every time I do this I get excited.

I don't know why.

I also have a Chinese lilac bush. These are great if you want a bushy hedge and the smell is incredible. Usually I like to mix them with roses so you have flowers all year long.

I don't do much gardening now but I still love it.

It's this Wolf Hound Charisma I have. I'm also Scruffy, prickly and put my nose into everything. lol

Have a wonderful day.:)

Lake Champlain's Champ

I wrote about Champ before but now more and more people have seen him/her in Lake Champlain.
With the flooding in this lake and the Richelieu River, we have no way of knowing where he is. He is as elusive as Big Foot which more and more people see as well, and believe that now
Big foot might be either Indian Shamans, sent into the wild for ten years becoming wild or a man we have forgotten existed and lives in the wild.

Well Champ also has this same kind of story. They believe he may be a left over from dinosaur times.
Having done a lot of swimming in this area myself, I do know one thing which no one talks about.
Apart from the many different kind of fish this area holds, such as bass, sunfish, perch, pike,sturgeon and walleye, it also sports eels.
Not many people eat eels, nor do they eat the other fish because of pollution, so the fish in this lake and river could grow to be very big as well.

This Champ, looks snake like, almost like a huge eel.
Size changes behavior and we did have a boat broken in half in which fishermen like ourselves, were fishing in. Could be they caught themselves one huge eel and it broke their boat in half, killing the boaters, who were never found.

I remember snorkeling once in murchy water because a storm was brewing and the waves were getting to be high for the area.All of a sudden I came face to face with an eel.
It couldn't see me and I couldn't see it and we bumped mask and muzzle.
It got scared as did I and we both got out of each others way. lol

Snorkeling allows you to see eel behavior . On the US side they have Fort Montgomery along the edge of the shore line. I am not sure if the US did anything to rebuild it like we did Fort Lennox just up the river a bit, but if you snorkel it's easy to see one of these eels digging with such exuberance underneath, at the stone wall with their mouths and noses, to get at something.
You can't help but think, I am glad that's not me they are trying to get at.

There was a time they had huge cat fish who would come to shore and grab ducks.

This Champ just might be a huge eel, which means people need to be careful in good ol Lake Champlain and Richelieu River because just maybe, if there is one such huge eel, then there might be others and that's not even mentioning the catfish and other big fish growing and untouched due to toxic food intake.

Man sure gets a prize for killing nature. People used to drink this water and this area had so much to offer to growing families who brought their children out to enjoy life at its best.

I don't live there anymore but I sure do not forget all the time I spent on this river. In some ways I was Huckleberry Fin because I could have lived there for ever with the bull frogs and tad poles and so many different fish fries.
I do not forget all the dreams I had there and how I played out the historical dramas of Samuel de Champlain and the Iroquois. So much history can be found by Ol McCallums farm.

They were all good people . All gone now leaving their places and history to those who do not appreciate it as much as it should be.

So ol Champ makes his debut once in a while, to tell us all to be ware. He is still there. He is not afraid and he is still watching,taking care of his lake and river.

Some say that along this area are swampy bogs which go in so deep, that once you go in, you will find it hard to find your way out. Lots of things grow in there and it would be a terrific place for eels such as ol Champ to nest in.

Have a wonderful day :)

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY

Peace is found on this stretch of ground, for the men who marched to the bugels' sound.

To the brave and the strong who carried our flag

So a nation can stand proud and strong.

We hail them on this Memorial Day

We hail them each day.

For righting the wrong.

We thank them for caring. We cry every day,

for the price they paid for this sacred soil
on

Memorial Day.

Thank you.

Aussi Land of Change.

Brisbane sure puts on a show .

Australia, home to such as Nicole Kidman and Russel Crowe, can be proud as crowds come in to watch how movies are made.

I wonder which movie they are acting out today?
Will people be changed because of what they see?

This country also came out with bra burning, Germaine Greer and some very well known Aboriginal Authors.

One of them, Noodgeroo Noonuccal, wrote verse.

We Are Going

They came in to the little town

A semi-naked band subdued and silent

All that remained of their tribe.

They came here to the place of their old bora ground
Where now the many white men hurry about like ants.

Notice of the estate agent reads: 'Rubbish May Be Tipped Here'.
Now it half covers the traces of the old bora ring.
'We are as strangers here now, but the white tribe are the strangers.

We belong here, we are of the old ways.
We are the corroboree and the bora ground,
We are the old ceremonies, the laws of the elders.
We are the wonder tales of Dream Time, the tribal legends told.

We are the past, the hunts and the laughing games, the wandering camp fires.
We are the lightening bolt over Gaphembah Hill
Quick and terrible,
And the Thunderer after him, that loud fellow.

We are the quiet daybreak paling the dark lagoon.
We are the shadow-ghosts creeping back as the camp fires burn low.
We are nature and the past, all the old ways
Gone now and scattered.

The scrubs are gone, the hunting and the laughter.
The eagle is gone, the emu and the kangaroo are gone from this place.
The bora ring is gone.
The corroboree is gone.
And we are going.'
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Change and life, is like a dream you live in.
Your memory serves like a movie you watch and relive over and over again.
Time gives you a chance to relive the mistakes and the joys, to make you a better person.
Man is indeed a creature of wonder.

Have a good day! :)

Generation Gap No More.

Alize was originally made for women 45-55 years of age but stood for 8 years without many customers.

I guess they did not advertise it. No one knew about it .Its a cognac liqueur, based on fruit and jam.

It took rapper 2pak (TUPAC SHAKUR) to turn it into something special.

He came out with a video called

THUG PASSION.

Now here is a drink thugs drink today.

2 oz of Alize

2 oz of champagne preferably, Cristal made by Louis Roederer

Price ?

Alize was sold for 25.00 a bottle

Cristal, 350.00 a bottle.

Now would a discount apply here? lol

Even with 10%, I think I'll pass. lol

Unfortunately for Tupac, he will not be here to enjoy it, but his death, made Alize a very popular alcoholic beverage to drink today.

Tupac closed the generation gap between the young as well as the older and more mature element, at social gatherings.

Quebec it seems, just closed it more by making the official drinking age, 14 years of age. They kids cannot buy booze however and parents cannot buy it for them to drink, but if they want a little swig or two , I suppose they can find their way to the liquor cabinet. lol

The free thinkers believe we should allow people to do drugs and alcohol . I can only presume it is only to promote chaos and to establish dictatorship, ending democracy and freedom.

This is what happened in China when opium was popular.

Is it a plan to save or enslave the world one day?

President Obama made a wonderful speech in England about two things, which unite us all. Dignity and freedom. Seems the man is Kenyan, Irish, Indonesian and who knows, maybe even Russian. He just has a problem proving he is American, which would then make him close to a citizen of the world. lol

But like everything else in the world, it takes more than words to achieve citizenship, let alone, dignity and freedom.

These are things you are supposed to be born with, not things you need to obtain.

These are things you are, that walk with you, from the day you are born as an individual.

A person is not a number.

As a number, a person does not exist .

Freedom also has its' limits, for the better good.

So Here's a toast to Tupac, for his good taste , and for closing the generation gap, to hopefully do more chatting than drinking.

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AND HERE'S TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.

An over-the-hill new to-the-gym, workout wannabe, spied himself a sweet young thing over on the elliptical.

Easing over to a strapping male trainer he slyly asked, “what machine do you think I should use to impress that little cutie?”

The trainer looked him up and down and drawled.. "I’d try the ATM in the lobby"

Cloverdale Rodeo on Victoria Day Week End.

While the world is busy, this week end, some got to enjoy the Cloverdale Rodeo, in Surrey, BC

It was a time for the kids to have rides and for grown ups to listen to some country and western as well as take family pictures for posterity. This is a time people pull out their cowboy hats and boots and the special shirts and step back in time to when the west was won.

These are the good things in life when one can, for a moment, step away from bad news and the head aches of everyday life and living.

We have so few events like this in life, which seems to just fly by.

This makes it even more important to make your New Year Resolution about making time for memories celebrating every day life and living.
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The attorney asked, "May I help you?"
The farmer said, "Yea, I want to get one of those dayvorce's."
The attorney said, "well do you have any grounds?"
The farmer said, "Yea, I got about 140 acres."
The attorney said, " No, you don't understand, do you have a case?"
The farmer said, "No, I don't have a Case, but I have a John Deere."
The attorney said, "No you don't understand, I mean do you have a grudge?"
The farmer said, "Yea I got a grudge, that's where I park my John
Deere."
The attorney said, "No sir, I mean do you have a suit?"
The farmer said, "Yes sir, I got a suit. I wear it to church on Sundays."
The exasperated attorney said, "Well sir, does your wife beat you up or anything?"
The farmer said, "No sir, we both get up about 4:30."
Finally, the attorney says, "Okay, let me put it this way. "WHY DO YOU WANT A DIVORCE?"
And the farmer says, "Well, I can never have a meaningful conversation with her."

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I guess whether they are cowboys or not , Men will always be Men. lol

If you can find a way to celebrate life every day, it sure makes life worth livin.
Next year, if you folks have nothin to do, why don't you come on up?
Aw shucks. Comon up anyways and have some good ol fashioned BC Fun.
You might even find a gold nugget or two.


Have a good one Everyone!!

It's Either a Discount or It's Free !!!

Want to know why its always good to have Gramma and Grampa pay at the Cash register?

They get discounts. This alone is a good incentive to have them tag along.

People over 50 get 10% off at Church's chicken and 10 % is 10% when you buy a bucket of chicken. at 21 dollars lol

Makes you feel kinda good to know you are still needed for something lol
And seniors being the kids they , may like to rap and hoot and holler with the kids.
What else do they have to do?

There are other discounts you can find on pages like :

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http://www.cupidsfreebies.com/

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Linda Bowmans' books on Senior discounts :

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http://www.bradsdeals.com/

Hotel Discounts Participating Hyatt Hotels offer 25% to 50% savings to seniors 62 & over in the both the US & Canada Marriott Hotels offers seniors 62+ 15% savings off of normal room rates. Must show ID when booking Days Inn offers 10% off of standard rates to seniors 62 years old or older. Must show proof of age Howard Johnsons offers seniors 60 and older discounts from coast to coast Best Western at least 10% off regular room rates for seniors 55 and older

Many other hotels offer discounts to seniors. Make sure to ask when you make your reservation.

Restaurant Discounts

The restaurants below offer discounts to seniors as do many others not listed here.

Appelbee's, Arby's, Bakers Square, Boston Market, Burger King, Carl's Jr., Chick-fil-A, Chili's, Church's Chicken, Coco's, Country Kitchen, Dairy Queen, Denny's, Dunkin Donuts, El Pollo Loco, Fuddruckers, Golden Corral, Hardees, Home Town Buffet, IHOP, Jack in the Box, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Krystals, Long John Silver's, McDonald's, Ponderosa, Popeye's, Shoney's, Sizzler, Sonic, Taco Bell, Village Inn, Wendy's.

(Discounts & age requirements may vary. It's best to ask before ordering)

Some additional savings:

Airlines Many airlines offer discounts for seniors 62 or older.

Banks Many banks offer discounts to seniors often providing free checking accounts and free checks. Check your bank to see if they offer free travelers checks, special rates on savings accounts and use of bank services like faxing, copy machines, etc.

Bon-Ton Department Stores offer a 20% discount to seniors one day a month if you use a store credit card & 15% if you use any other payment www.seniordiscounts.com/FeaturedDiscounts/BonTon.aspx

Cruise Lines Most cruise lines offer discounts to seniors. Ask to see if you qualify.

Midas Auto Service many locations offer a 10% discount if you are 55 or over. Check this out for more information www.seniordiscounts.com/FeaturedDiscounts/MidasServiceCenters.aspx

Movie Theaters Most offer discounts to seniors but often for certain showing times.

Regal Entertainment Group offers theater tickets at its 546 theaters at a 30% savings if you are at least 60 years old www.seniordiscounts.com/FeaturedDiscounts/Regal.aspx

Museums offer discounts to seniors but often for certain days or times.

Summers' Here ...........So make sure not to forget to ask for them Discounts.

Or your Grand parents :)

Water Ailments and Cures

Well the country is really getting an upheaval.
Lake Champlain is rising and pushing water up the Richelieu River which is where my Dad's house stands. The army is called in to sandbag and if the wind doesn't blow the houses down, we might just make it through this very bad spell of weather.
Every year more and more people are hurt by weather conditions.
This year it's our turn. Keeping our fingers crossed.
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Cure # 1: Water prevents and cures heartburn.

Heartburn is a signal of water shortage in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract. It is a major thirst signal of the human body. The use of antacids or tablet medications in the treatment of this pain does not correct dehydration, and the body continues to suffer as a result of its water shortage.

Tragedy: Not recognizing heartburn as a sign of dehydration and treating it with antacids and pill medications will, in time, produce inflammation of the stomach and duodenum, hiatal hernia, ulceration, and eventually cancers in the gastrointestinal tract, including the liver and pancreas.

Cure # 2: Water prevents and cures arthritis.

Rheumatoid joint pain - arthritis - is a signal of water shortage in the painful joint. It can affect the young as well as the old. The use of pain-killers does not cure the problem, but exposes the person to further damage from pain medications. Intake of water and small amounts of salt will cure this problem.

Cure # 3: Water prevents and cures back pain.

Low back pain and ankylosing arthritis of the spine are signs of water shortage in the spinal column and discs - the water cushions that support the weight of the body. These conditions should be treated with increased water intake - not a commercial treatment, but a very effective one.

Tragedy: Not recognizing arthritis and low back pain as signs of dehydration in the joint cavities and treating them with pain-killers, manipulation, acupuncture, and eventually surgery will, in time, produce osteoarthritis when the cartilage cells in the joints have eventually all died. It will produce deformity of the spine. It will produce crippling deformities of the limbs. Pain medications have their own life-threatening complications.

Cure # 4: Water prevents and cures angina.

Heart pain - angina - is a sign of water shortage in the heart/lung axis. It should be treated with increased water intake until the patient is free of pain and independent of medications. Medical supervision is prudent. However, increased water intake is angina's cure.

Cure # 5: Water prevents and cures migraines.

Migraine headache is a sign of water need by the brain and the eyes. It will totally clear up if dehydration is prevented from establishing in the body. The type of dehydration that causes migraine might eventually cause inflammation of the back of the eye and possibly loss of eye sight.

Cure #6: Water prevents and cures colitis.

Colitis pain is a signal of water shortage in the large gut. It is associated with constipation because the large intestine constricts to squeeze the last drop of water from the excrements - thus the lack of water lubrication.

Tragedy: Not recognizing colitis pain as a sign of dehydration will cause persistent constipation. Later in life, it will cause fecal impacting: it can cause diverticulitis, hemorrhoids and polyps, and appreciably increases the possibility of developing cancer of the colon and rectum.

Cure # 7: Water and salt prevent and cure asthma.

Asthma, which also affects 14 million children and kills several thousand of them every year, is a complication of dehydration in the body. It is caused by the drought management programs of the body. In asthma free passage of air is obstructed so that water does not leave the body in the form of vapor - the winter steam. Increased water intake will prevent asthma attacks. Asthmatics need also to take more salt to break the mucus plugs in the lungs that obstruct the free flow of air in and out of the air sacs.

Tragedy: Not recognizing asthma as the indicator of dehydration in the body of a growing child not only will sentence many thousands of children to die every year, but will permit irreversible genetic damage to establish in the remaining 14 million asthmatic children.

Cure # 8: Water prevents and cures high blood pressure.

Hypertension is a state of adaptation of the body to a generalized drought, when there is not enough water to fill all the blood vessels that diffuse water into vital cells. As part of the mechanism of reverse osmosis, when water from the blood serum is filtered and injected into important cells through minute holes in their membranes, extra pressure is needed for the "injection process." Just as we inject I.V. "water" in hospitals, so the body injects water into tens of trillions of cells all at the same time. Water and some salt intake will bring blood pressure back to normal!

Tragedy: Not recognizing hypertension as one of the major indicators of dehydration in the human body, and treating it with diuretics that further dehydrate the body will, in time, cause blockage by cholesterol of the heart arteries and the arteries that go to the brain. It will cause heart attacks and small or massive strokes that paralyze. It will eventually cause kidney disease. It will cause brain damage and neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease.

Cure # 9: Water prevents and cures early adult-onset diabetes.

Adult-onset diabetes is another adaptive state to severe dehydration of the human body. To have adequate water in circulation and for the brain's priority water needs, the release of insulin is inhibited to prevent insulin from pushing water into all body cells. In diabetes, only some cells get survival rations of water. Water and some salt will reverse adult-onset diabetes in its early stages.

Tragedy: Not recognizing adult-onset diabetes as a complication of dehydration will, in time, cause massive damage to the blood vessels all over the body. It will cause eventual loss of the toes, feet and legs from gangrene. It will cause eye damage, even blindness.

Cure # 10: Water lowers blood cholesterol.

High cholesterol levels are an indicator of early drought management by the body. Cholesterol is a clay-like material that is poured in the gaps of some cell membranes to safeguard them against losing their vital water content to the osmotically more powerful blood circulating in their vicinity. Cholesterol, apart from being used to manufacture nerve cell membranes and hormones, is also used as a "shield" against water taxation of other vital cells that would normally exchange water through their cell membranes.

Cure # 11: Water cures depression, loss of libido, chronic fatigue syndrome, lupus, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy.

These conditions are caused by prolonged chronic dehydration. They will clear up once the body becomes well and regularly hydrated. In these conditions, exercising one's muscles should be part of the treatment program.

For More Information, Read the Book:
Your Body's Many Cries for Water.

by F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.

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Today I was reading Westra, one of my blogger friends.
She is a wonderful Mom with two great boys, who she loves with all her heart.
She is also afflicted with breast cancer which has spread to stage 4.
Doctors tell her they can't do much but she is a fighter and so lucky to have a group of friends around her who help her and her family in their battle to save her.
Vicky's blog today enlightened me.

In my drudgery every day thinking about meals I don't really want to eat, she reminded me that there are other things, easier on the stomach, healthier, enriching and something you can carry to hockey/soccer or even the back yard to do your gardening with.
It saves you using pots and pans and washing dishes all day.
Yup.
I got out my Hamilton Beach, and pulsated my way to heaven.

I chopped up spinach, broccoli,carrot, apple, ginger, and a hand full of cherios, topped it off with a glass of water and voila, a meal fit for a Queen.

I sure enjoyed it and it took Vicky to remind me, that yes Veronica, there is a Santa Claus.

I am praying Santa Claus hears my plea to give Vicky a present she truly deserves.
Health, Love and Family.
The second two she already has and needs to keep and the first she is fighting for.

May God Bless You Vicky. This blog is for you.

A Poor Mothers Heart.

This is a very old beloved and also hated song of my youth
sung by the King of Tango Peter Leschenko.

I was a little girl and listened to this song over and over again.
It was bad enough it was a Tango, the dance of love but
it also broke my heart because the song was about a Mother who lost her
son who she accuses of having forgotten her.
She was dying of a broken heart and wished she could see him if only for an hour.

She told everyone not to call the doctor cause he couldn't do anything to calm the anguish and trembling in her heart.
She wanted her son back because life was too difficult to live without him.
He was the light of her life and without him, not knowing where he was,
her soul was dying.
I was around 4 or 5 when I broke the record and shoved it behind the radio gramophone thinking no one would find it there. lol

When My Mom asked me why I broke the record I told her my Mothers heart is not broken.
She doesn't need a son, when she has me. I was quite upset.
My Mom delicately explained to me that if I don't like something I should just put it away and not use it.
I think I broke her heart that day. lol

This was just a record and had nothing to do with me or my family but when people have problems at home, its not just grown ups suffering. Children watch grown ups suffering, and this leads to terrible side effects. I have to think right now about all these children growing in the African and Islam world. How many years will it take to heal their wounds? More are being raised on the hatred in their parents hearts.
When I went to school I was amazed how many kids came, literally shaking over issues which had nothing to do with them. Did they live in a concentration camp? Were they starved and shot at by the Reds in Russia? Even in Quebec, we see this hate being inspired against the English part of the country, to gain Quebec separation, using history, which has changed so much in their favor. The Quebecois forget that their schools never educated people except in religion, so they were not qualified to do anything.
Today, they can't use this history anymore but they continue to try to proliferate hate into their children. In BC the same is being done with Punjabi children and Phillipine children who are being taught that we OWE them for the past. I don't feel I owe anybody anything. My Father was an innocent who spent his life running and sitting in labor camps and my Mother was beaten
by German surgeons when she, a child herself, did not give them the proper surgical instrument
during an operation. She was a person who fainted at the sight of blood, so I can just picture how terrified she was at that time forced to work for such people.
No matter what their experience was however, they spared me from knowing about it until I learned for myself in books and from other people. I grew up with a clean and good heart because of their charity and true love to spare me. When they did say something, they told of good people who would risk thrusting a crust a bread through a fence seeing people were starving. A small thing but helped a person survive. Life is such that moves you forward.
Once you are gone, forget about it and don't keep looking back because you won't fit in.
The singer of this song kept looking back and was sent into a hard labor camp after being allowed entry into Russia.

Then we see schools and governments trying to put the blame on different things, like bullying and in politics, Christianity and the CIA lol.
If only it were that simple.

Instead, the blame should be put on pressure groups, parents and leaders, who put themselves first before their population and children.
Why are societies allowing children, to watch an adult world, which they do not understand, behave badly? Is this a way to raise people to develop a loving peaceful world?

When we say we are our brothers' keeper, we mean this especially where children are concerned and people should always behave in such a way, so as to set children a good example for them to grow on.
This means no bad language, no adultery, no divorce and stability, bringing love into their homes and supported by business institutions who care about people instead of their money. Money should not make slaves of people. A man should not financially destroy another to earn a living.
ex.
Maria Shriver knew what she married and I am not so sure she didn't know about Arnold's
escapades and that the woman in question right now, was even working in her home.
Maria didn't look very happy for a long time.

She must have heard talk of this woman and what she was doing. Maybe she even suspected the boy playing with her family had a resemblance to her Arnold.
Regardless, she stuck it out long enough not to risk political scandal with respect to the man she married. She will sue him and clean it all up and for the first time in his life, Arnold is terminated.
lol
Maria is now wearing the pants in the family. But beware......Arnold has a sticky history.
He'll walk behind her saying.........I'll be back. lol It might be a true love story here. lol

Our communities and government and social groups try band aide solutions which they know will never work, because psychological damage takes years resolve, if ever.
It creates angry people who do not care to be their brothers keepers.
You can only take so much abuse.
You can only watch so much abuse in politics , businesses, churches, families, TV, Music, art and
especially financial institutions which are cold and heartless, when it comes to money, not caring who they hurt. We shudder hearing about people being beheaded in our busses and shopping marts. More will happen, because people are over exposed to technological, psychological abuse .
It's all business which is not interested in working with their client. Today the little guy needs scavenger lawyers to nip at their scavenging lawyers, and both sit in checkmate because the laws do not work anymore.
It remains to be seen how Maria Shriver will clean it up with Oprah at her side lol Will Arnold be able to withstand her institution of friends? lol

It makes you wonder, why have laws and why have prisons, when the true criminals design laws
to fail. They are used against the person they are defrauding and hurting legally.
Other obvious examples ? Mortgages. Bank policies, Insurances, Gas companies. Who needs them? They offer you nothing but trouble. They play on natural greed.When you need them, they fail you. So why give them your money? Use it to buy your kid new shoes and or to teach him a life hobby of survival.

Businesses cut you quick and clean. They are not interested in your problems.
But when an instance happens whereby the customer victim, proves probable cause, of say fraud, they ignore the victim and do not pay the reparations owed, to the damage they did, even if they are insured themselves should something like this happen. They drag it on and on and make the little guy, the bad guy and maybe even a dead guy when it comes to health issues. A lot of good it does to sue then. Someone always has to die before issues are corrected.

The only way to deal with such institutions is to have a feisty Judge,interested not only in law but in clean business, take the side of the people and freeze their business until a thorough investigation takes place. It would be a wise thing to do because once an institution is investigated other cases would be easier to deal with. Truth would be at the top of the pile.
So....
Shut the whole thing down.
After all, this is what they do to their customer. Otherwise it can be seen as discrimination.

Once they understand the billions in assets they will lose each day, by getting a taste of their own medicine, they will not resort to these methods, in their legally preplanned contracts, designed to fail the customer who buys into them or who they sell to. They would ensure good business practices with things called responsibility and accountability.

Why would a President of a gas company, care about the fraudulent money he took and owes a poor man who needs it to feed his family, when he can sit on it and collect interest and earn a million in company bonuses? What does he care about honor and business accountability,
when money is involved to his advantage?

Todays' world, inspite of all the rhetoric, does not care about his fellow man, as much as they care about their bonuses which amounts to millions, if they know how to legally destroy enough people. So learning and teaching people how to destroy others pays in the end because judges only look at laws in black and white and not about the root causes and meaning behind them to stop such things from happening.
The things our local police deal with, are small problems, and these problems would disappear once people are happy in systems that work fairly for them .

Right now
Shakespeare comes to mind.
Julius Caesar:
Brutus said he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man.

Today's world ..........As in yesterdays'
A true tragedy............leaving
A Poor Mothers' Heart to suffer.
:)

Love and People

This is a beautiful video. I wish I could make something like this.
Maybe one day. lol

Today I visited the Lia Sophia Catalogue looking for some jewelry items.
Once in a while I like to treat myself. lol

Well I found this beautiful Solace Ring made with Abalon.
I love delicate looking things like cameos and this ring was very appealing to me.
I thought it would be very expensive but when I looked it up, it was only 58.00 dollars. Totally reasonable.

I think this company has come a long way and is really beginning to know its' customers likes and dislikes. Worth taking a look see.

http://www.liasophia.us/sites/corporate/productcatalog?page=productlisting.category&categoryId=7&showCrumbs=true&pageNum=1

And while we are on jewelry, after the Bin Laden demise, Obama and his wife are invited to spend time at Buckingham Palace.

I guess it might be the Queens way of thanking Obama for maybe warning them about what was happening in Pakistan thus postponing William and Kates' Honeymoon.

It was very nice of her, considering Prince Philip is known for his quotes and gaffes which might not be very considerate or flattering or exactly polite lol Joking of course.
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Prince Phillip's quotes and gaffes (Also known as the 'consort's clangers'..)

(1967 When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union) "The bastards murdered half my family.."

(1981 A comment during the UK's recession) "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.."

(1982 To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5% a year) "You must be out of your minds.."

(1984 On receiving a gift from a Kenyan native woman) "You are a woman aren't you?.."

(1986 To a group of British students in China) "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slittyeyed.."

(To a Cayman Islander) "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?.."

(c. 1990 To a British expat in Hungary) "You can't have been here that long, you haven't got a potbelly yet.."

(1995 To a Scottish driving instructor in Oban) "How do you keep the natives off the booze for long enough to pass their test?.."

(1998 To a student who'd trekked in Papua New Guinea) "You managed not to get eaten then?.."

(1999 On seeing a fuse box while being shown around an Edinburgh factory) "It looks as though it was put in by an Indian.."

(2002 To a school band in Cairns, Australia) "You were playing your instruments weren't you?, or do you have tape recorders under your seats?.."

Horsin Around

These are my two boys on horses at Langley 204.
It is run by this wonderful woman Teresa, who is a champion horse rider herself.
She saves good horses from an otherwise poor demise and she has other women with farms who help her if she ever needs a place to retire a horse to die in peace. That's what I call love.

While I was taking care of my Mom, we spent a lot of time there with the horses riding and helping Teresa keep them fed and clean and of course loved. My Mom would sit and enjoy the view and the horses.
There used to be a farmers' barn we passed along the way and they sold broken unsellable carrots, for horses. We always got 2 huge bags for these wonderful animals, who worked to earn their keep.
When they would see you with a bag, 40 horses would run to the fence post and God FORBID you didn't treat them fairly. lol They were like children and understood everything. lol

Teresa taught the kids , who came regularly, about horses. She made each person ride a different one, so as to learn , that it's not just a horse but an animal with feelings
and a character and pride. They were no different from people and expressed themselves accordingly.
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As I am writing this the Canucks scored 6 goals against San Jose who scored two.
My goodness are they on fire tonight!
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My favorite time was when Teresa would have these barrel races after a work day, for the kids.
The kids had to dress up their horses and wear a costume like for Halloween. She had the same things for Christmas and other times of the year. She made it like a club to thank the families for supporting her and her horses, by giving each child a horse to do with as they wished.
Even women riders would dress up as fancy Spanish LAdies and their horses were equally gorgeous.

Teresa had this pony and no one wanted to ride it because it was small. However, for barrel races, it always won because it had the extra touch of being small to make quick turn arounds and the area covered was not that big. A big horse needed more time to turn and could not gain speed this way to make up for the lost time. When the kids saw this they all wanted to ride the pony but Teresa refused because there was a weight limit.
Lots of disappointed kids was the result when they learned they were too big for the pony. lol
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Oh my God! They scored again 7-2. Geez! 3rd period.
San Jose must be pissed. They are a great team with Niemi as their goalie.
San Jose will not come back now. No time left.
They just put in a goal so its 7-3 . San Jose is not taking this very well and there are a lot of fights.
Will be a lot of disciplinarian stuff going on
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The young man on the gray horse is my son Alex. He really enjoyed going into the National Park with the horses. They ran fast and boys like thrills.
Behind him is little Nick who rode like he was glued to the horse. He was a natural.
But then Nick was a natural at everything he did. Even bike riding. He just got on and rode.
Alex would close his eyes and not realize he was alone and riding lol
Two boys, totally different, just like horses.
Alex careful and Nick a little confident risk taker.
I got into learning how to sew the face masks for the horses so the flies would not bother their eyes and thick blankets to place under the saddle as pads, to prevent chafing.
Blankets would need washing as they got dirty quickly but I would imagine it would be hard on the washing machine. Face masks were expensive to buy and sometimes during play the horses would rip them, so making them at home was much cheaper and easy. I made 40 to give Teresa that summer. The kids also learned about salve for the hooves, special brushes, and soaps to make the horse shiny. Needless to say, maintenance for one horse, was very expensive.Then there were the leads and the horse mouth bits.

Anyway. If anyone loves to ride horses, I recommend Langley 204 in British Columbia.
You will love Teresa and she deserves merit for saving so many horses.
:)

A Little Poetry To Clear the Mind.

Our school is a good school, It's made of bricks and plaster, The only thing that's wrong with it, Is the bald headmaster.

He laughed when they said it couldn't be done, He smiled and said he knew it, But he tried the thing that couldn't be done, And found he couldn't do it.

Poor old teacher, we missed you so, When in hospital you had to go. For you to remain there is a sin, We're sorry about the banana skin.

There was a young caretaker named Frank, Who kept all his beer in the school tank. One day it was locked, And he was so shocked, Because without his pint he'd go blank.

When things get twisted and out of joint, Don't get discouraged and quit the game, Remember a corkscrew never goes straight to the point, But it gets there just the same.

The joke you just told isn't funny one bit, It's pointless and dull, wholly lacking in wit. It's so old and so stale it's beginning to smell And besides, it's the one I was going to tell.

Mary had a little bear, To which she was so kind, And everywhere that Mary went, She had a bear behind.

Don't worry if your job is small, And your rewards are few. Remember that the mighty oak, Was once a nut like you.

There was a young teacher of Rheims, Who had the most frightening dreams. She would wake in the night, In a terrible fright, Shaking the house with her screams.

I wish I was a little grub, With whiskers round my tummy. I'd climb into a honey pot And make my tummy gummy. ============================================ The day is sunny and we are waiting for the Hockey game to begin between the Vancouver Canucks and San Jose. It should be a treat as the Vancouver team is said to be very focused. It is going to be a long week end here in Canada and the college kids are heading up on to Whistler to partee. Mama and Papa will also partee at home alone for their anniversary. We are slowly becoming a single couple again.lol Saturday, according to one priest, is supposed to be judgement day. Its just a matter of days before we see what all this is about. Seems to me the end of the world has been predicted every generation and still the world is carrying on as if it doesn't know anything. It just continues on its' path doing what it always does, ebbs and flows, freezes and melts, rains and shines. The rest of life has to deal with the consequences of the planets behavior. Lately it has been naughty. Is it learning from life to live? To make it exciting for people? Well at least we are busy trying to clean up our lives so less time is spent on dirtying it. lol Trying to see the bright side of it. hmmm.

Precious Instinct.

I often find myself in a precarious situation with this cat.
She is very independent and likes it that way.
So many times I have attempted to capture her on film and it was like she would hex the photo because it would never come out.
She is a nice cat when you leave her alone .
I guess it is because my son found her downtown and put her in his pocket to bring home.
She was tiny but already had her wild instincts inbuilt.
We named her Precious because this was the first word that popped out of my mouth when I first saw her. So she must know she is loved and once in a while lets us know by allowing us to pet her and carry her around for a while.
She has a fur coat of pebble looking spots and she loves sitting on that fence looking over her garden. It's her world.

Never lend a geologist money. They consider a million years ago to be recent.
A volcano is a mountain with hiccups.

Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.

One day the zoo-keeper noticed that the orang-utan was reading two books - the Bible and Darwin's The Origin of Species. In surprise he asked the ape, "Why are you reading both those books"?
"Well," said the orang-utang, "I just wanted to know if I was my brother's keeper or my keeper's brother."

-- Neurotics build castles in the sky.
Psychotics live in them.
Psychiatrists collect the rent.

Mural of Many Lives.

This Cochrane mural is comprised of so many small pictures which fit in, to create a huge wall picture when you step back.

So interesting.
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If anyone want to peruse through old LIFE Magazines . Here is where they may be found:

http://books.google.ca/books/serial/ISSN:00243019?rview=1&source=gbs_navlinks_s
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The Canucks are still in the game, winning the first of a game series of 7, this time against San Jose, in Vancouver, BC.
The next game is on Wednesday
It was a tough battle as San Jose is not push over.
The Vancouver fans are ecstatic and hopeful for the best things to happen.
Toronto is not happy with BC as they wish it was their team winning.

GO CANUCKS GO!


It is special to be able to make it, up to the big teams.
:)

Seed Price.

Matitiyahu (Matthew) 13:24-30 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

Since man is born knowing both good and evil, anything can be expected of him.

The above Matthew 13:24-30 gives an example of how to resolve a problem in the field when good intentions of planting wheat, are
sabotaged by someone who threw in weed seeds to either kill or weaken the wheat plant and also maybe to trash the farmers' reputation of being fair just and good.

The answer was to allow both weeds and wheat to grow until harvest and then
pull the weeds out and then, to gather the wheat.

The verse is amazing because we do plant certain plants into toxic soil, to absorb the poisons, which we then collect and burn. The soil is thus left renewed, clean and able to be used again for healthy farming .

We probably could find certain plants to plant in lakes and rivers to absorb the toxins from the soil below we could not clean up after cleaning the water. We can't eat the fish because of it because they eat the plants which absorb the toxins which now lie in the ground below the water the plants root in.
However if we pulled them all out with the toxins they absorbed, eventually the fish would be edible again.

This example transcends, time history and can be applied to marriages, business, politics, schools, churches, corporations, banks etc.... It makes me wonder if it can be applied to diseases such as aids and cancer. If we can't get the aids virus for example, out of the white blood cell, maybe by adding something more into the white blood cell, we can pull out, that also attaches itself to the aids virus inside or outside the white blood cell, the aids element can be manipulated to behave in the way we want it to.
Thus it can be either destroyed or washed out, attached to the new addition.


No matter how good a foundation you build, you will find both good and evil.
Someone always tries to trash what you are trying to build, grow or have built, for personal profit or envy or just because he/she can. As society grows, without moral conscience and decides everything is, just business, it behaves more and more like the cancer and aids we are trying to find solutions to.

Someone comes along and throws weeds into your domain so your life or product, does not produce fruit.It happens every day, more than we know.

The answer, we learn in the Bible, lies in patience .
Planting other things. Other seeds to negate the weeds or evil, also need time to grow
so evil can be eliminated or found where it hides.

Patience lies in time. Many don't have the time. Many don't have either the patience nor the money to buy time. Many panic and produce chaos. Evil loves chaos.
However, chaos can be used both ways.
It can promote good as well as evil.

No one ever said it was going to be easy.
For everything we have and grow, we learn from the tree of knowledge, there is a price to be paid and sacrifices to be made.
:)

UN Treaties and Our Personal World.

This was not my idea of what the UN should be.I thought they were supposed to bring the world up, not down.
Are they going too far?

Take for instance Global warming. We do not know if it is due to our behavior or celestial behavior or the Earth's natural cooling or the Suns' natural cooling, and yet decisions are being made for us raising costs of living.

This price gouging attack on societies, does not stop the oil from being sold, or the rich from getting obscenely rich doing things to continue to pollute the earth.They continue to make money and live a good life no matter which country they live in
Their products still sell and the public is punished instead of the rich and companies doing the selling. Look what they are doing in the arctic?
They don't care about global warming. They care about money.
The UN should stop them but it doesn't.

The UN is there to bring nations up. It is not there to make a judgment decision, that if you are a have country, you should be put down to be on an equal level to a have not country. On the other hand, it is up to the people to speak up and if they don't, then this means they are happy with what they have or rather what they are losing and don't have.
Someone who has nothing, doesn't miss not having something and finds being intruded upon to create something for him, rather arrogant and threatening as for example the few tribal societies left in some countries, who love being who they are in the forests they live in.
They have things we don't and will never understand or appreciate, for what it is.
The Muslim countries are the same. They are used to their dust basins and oil. They don't like our life style and those who do, escape. lol

Instead of keeping money in our own pockets, we are being charged and taxed and give money to governments, who then put it into the salaries and pensions of bureaucrats or into someone's expense account.
It doesn't go to subsidize the gas prices we need to live our normal lives.It doesn;t go into health care or into education for our children. It magically disappears.

We should plant more trees and force the UN to do the job it was put together to do or leave it.
We do not need the UN to destroy the Arctic, or to keeping the masses down, feeling bad about the planet, when the leaders of countries don't seem to care at all.
This includes Russia, China and Europe.

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PRICE OF GAS AROUND THE WORLD

Prices are quoted in US dollars per gallon for regular unleaded as of March 2011

Oslo, Norway $6.82

Hong Kong$6.25

Brussels, Belgium $6.16

London, UK $5.96

Rome, Italy $5.80
CANADA $5.36


Tokyo, Japan $5.25

Sao Paul o , Brazil $4.42

New Delhi, India $3.71

Sidney, Australia $3.42

Johannesburg , South Africa $3.39

Mexico City$2.22

Buenos Aires, Argentina $2.09
... YOU'RE GONNA LOVE THIS ....

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia $0.09

Kuwait $0.08

Caracas, Venezuela $0.12

Gee, if only the U.S. and Canada were an oil producing nation.....

Hey, wait a minute!!! We are! What the hell happened!!

The oil companies have their reasons they say but they don't because they spend so much money on other things. If they stopped using oil money for other things and kept it in the oil business, then the prices would come down.

:)