The End Is A New Beginning.

 

They say our BC Cultus Lake is bottomless.

Legend has it that there is a hole which forms into a tunnel,
connecting the lake to the Pacific Ocean.
They know this because a man who drowned in the lake,
was found floating by the coast of White Rock and the US border
and because they found sea fish swimming in it which should not be there.

BC is like Finland in many respects. It has fiords and glaciers and so much forest
rich in legendary tales and creatures like the Sasquatch.

A Finnish story depicts a forest god named Tapio, whose beard is made up of trees
and whose eyes were bottomless lakes.
I can relate this legend to our province.

Kalevala, is a Finnish book, discussing the creation of the world.
It was written by Elias Lonnrot (1802-84).
He was a doctor who collected proverbs folk lore and poetry to promote
Finland.
One hero was Vainmoinen, born old, because his Mother Luonnotar,
 floated in the water for 700 years.
He is mentioned throughout the book.

Now Luonnotar was the daughter of Ilma, the air, before time began.
She walked in her Mothers' clouds, until she became very tired and fell into the ocean.
The ocean impregnated her and Vainmoinen was the result.

In the Kalevala book, Vainomoinen leaves a kantele (musical instrument)
as a symbol, of the continuation of Finnish culture.
Finland, at that time belonged to Russia.

The Finnish Creation story goes like this.
Luonnotar floated in the water.
A duck found her upraised knee and laid some eggs on it.
When Luonnotar moved, the duck flew away and the eggs fell and broke, creating the world.

Half the shells became the sky and half the land.
The yolk became the sun and the albumen the moon.

With rolling stones on Mars, suggesting there once was a lake or river up there,
who are we to argue with creation stories?

Legends, heroes, gods, stories from other worlds
finding their way to our world, seem to be relating or
connecting the dots, that the end of the story, is really
just another beginning.

xoxoxoxoxo

Maco Sharks, Volcanoes???

 

Amazing story.
These sharks send a chill up your spine. I think most
films are about similar sharks, small, fast, deadly.
I think they can go up to 20 mph.,grow to 13 feet and dive 400 feet.
They attack coming up from underneath you.

 

As if a volcano and tsunami are not enough to worry about.

This is a great book for elementary school .
It's not very thick and so its a quick read

Today I visited the local library.
I used to go there quite often when my son was small but then
I stopped.
Since then they made a lot of changes, computerized everything.
You sign out your own books now .
They had so many movies one could sign out and watch.
If you don't have cable, you wouldn't miss it, as the selection is quite nice.
Saves you from buying .
If you brought in your computer I guess you could watch a movie in the library too.
They also give you one hour free internet on their computers so many kids use it for research and homework.

So of course I pigged out on books which I have to read now.
lol


Two people are out sailing when suddenly a hand appears in the sea.

"What's this?" asked the skipper, "It looks as if someone is drowning!"

"No," explained his crew, "It's just a little wave."

xoxoxoxo

Now I've Seen It All

Now this is really a good magic trick.

Can you imagine doing this trick on your friends.?
They would never believe it.

You can bet money on it. lol

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A man is sitting on his front stoop staring morosely at the ground when his neighbor strolls over. The neighbor tries to start a conversation several times, but the older man barely responds. Finally, the neighbor asks what the problem is.

"Well," the man says, "I ran afoul of one of those questions women ask. Now I'm in the doghouse."

"What kind of question?" the neighbor asks.

"My wife asked me if I would still love her when she was old, fat and ugly."

"That's easy," says the neighbor. "You just say, 'Of course I will'".

"Yeah," says the other man, "that's what I meant to say. But what came out was, 'Of course I do.'"
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What is heavier gold or feather?

ans: Feathers
Gold is measured in 12 oz Troy pounds
Feathers are measure in 16 oz Avoir dupois pounds.

xoxoxoxoxo

Kissing Future Mr Right

lol I kept this one in my pictures and it makes me laugh every time..

These are the cutest boy friends one could ever have
They steal your heart with their winning smiles
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A young jackaroo from outback Queensland goes off to university, but
Halfway through the semester he foolishly has squandered all of his
Money.

He calls home. 'Dad,' he says, 'you won't believe what modern education
Is developing.. They actually have a program here in Brisbane that will
Teach our dog Ol' Blue how to talk.'

'That's amazing!' his Dad says. 'How do I get Ol' Blue in that program?'

'Just send him down here with $2,000,' the young jackaroo says, 'I'll
Get him in the course.'

So .... His father sends the dog and $2,000.

About two-thirds through the semester, the money again runs out. The boy calls home.
'So how's Ol' Blue doing, son?' his father wants to know..

'Awesome! Dad, he's talking up a storm... But you just won't believe
This. They've had such good results with talking, they've begun to
Teach the animals how to read.'

'Read?' exclaims his father. 'No kidding! How do we get Ol' Blue in
That program?'

'Just send $4,500. I'll get him in the class.'

The money promptly arrives. But our hero has a problem.

At the end of the year,  his father will find out the dog can neither
Talk nor read. So he shoots the dog.
When he arrives home at the end of the year, his father is all excited.
'Where's Ol' Blue? I just can't wait to talk with him, and see him read
Something!'

'Dad,' the boy says, 'I have some grim news. Yesterday morning, just
Before we left to drive home, Ol' Blue was in the living room, kicked
Back in the recliner, reading the Wall Street Journal. Then he suddenly
Turned to me and asked,  "So, is your Daddy still bonking that little
Redhead barmaid at the pub?''

The father groans and whispers,  'I hope you shot that bastard before
He talks to your Mother!'

'I sure did, Dad!'

'That's my boy!'

The kid went on to be a successful lawyer and politician! 
 
xoxoxoxox

Sometimes - It IS Crazy

Sometimes one has to ask why?

Do you not like your arms, legs.....brain?

What's wrong with enjoying a kayak and the view, in safe places?

Sometimes........ is Crazy . lol

My oldest son loved all the latest things.
When the skateboard came out, we had a head ache to
get him one and it couldn't be any old one.

We had to pick and choose the right picture and the right model
and of course he had to try it out to make sure it had the proper feel to it.

We lived in a gated community so we thought if he skated there it would be ok.
It had small inclines and stairs he could jump to learn.
So out he went with all his friends and did the turns and twists and he was happy to go down the small inclines like a surf boarder.
He went one day, he went another and then the third day he came home with
 huge scrapes on his legs.

I had to smile because I knew what this was going to do.
He put the skate board into his cup board and that was the last I saw of it.

If anything, my oldest son was always careful with his body.

We kept teasing him asking him why he wasn't skate boarding and he said:
Oh, I will, a bit later.
lol
but we saw he lost his taste for it.
Thank God!

xoxoxoxox

Being Social

 

Ask people,
what the most important thing in the world today is
and the answer would be
Social Skills
We see politicians struggling with it
We see the world struggling with it
We see kids struggling with it
We see people looking for jobs struggling with it
We even see the Royals struggling with it.
Sometimes we win and sometimes we lose.

Social skills can make your day or break it.

From personal experience, I too,
can tell you social skills are very important in life.
It's hard work for some and so easy for others.

Even at school in our time, we would have kids, who in
 todays' world are bullied, be the
most popular and happiest in the world,
 because of their social skills.

They were cool, took things easy, smiled, joked and
knew how to turn any situation around.

That takes skill, which many of us do not have.
I am reminded of a time, which seems long ago now.

One summer my eldest son joined this group at a club we were in.
I even forgot the name of this group except I thought it would
be cool and the kids would learn something

We didn't know it was being run by a loony psychiatrist
who thought he'd have some fun with the kids.lol

Well, it began with my son,
being democratically elected to be leader of a group of kids
and told to go home and
make up a bunch of rules to make kids behave.
So he came home and told me his homework and began to jot down a list
of how teachers did it at school.
 Stand in a corner, write out sentences,
go to the principals office, stand outside the class room
etc.....
He went in the next day with this list and the kids didn't like it and
 began to rebel and call him names.
He came home quite distressed at being popular one day and
and a social pariah the next.

I was not happy with this guy making things difficult for an 11 year old boy
and screwing with his brain, after he told me what happened.
 It was summer and
his class was supposed to be fun.

Well, I told my son, ok.
 Let's sit down and think about this.
It's summer and you guys are supposed to have fun so ...
make the punishments fun.

When a kid talks too much, make him eat a sour lemon.
When a kid does something else bad, make the kids throw water balloons at him'
Another punishment could be to, go outside and use  water guns on him.or
put an egg under his hat and have some one
squish it on his head.
Whipped creme on your face is a great punishment,
so is sitting on a balloon so it explodes or farts etc....
I don't remember all the things we came up with but it was a whole page of fun stuff
to do, when a person does something bad .

The next day my son went back and presented his new list and the kids loved it.
The teacher congratulated him saying that he did a great job resolving his problem.
and this was the lesson he wanted kids to learn.
When you have a problem, you need analytical thinking in how to resolve it.

Well it was very nice of him to try to teach this lesson but this was not what
 I thought I paid him for, cause he created a lot of work for me at home
to console a youngster, who did what he asked him to do.

After that, all the kids had fun doing all the things my son put on the list
and this psychiatrist was doing all those things with them.
(Must be he had a lot of bad kids in his class lol)

Today, I think he needed to blow off steam, so what better way to do it
than with a bunch of kids, he could also be a kid with.

I'm glad he had fun, stressing me out at home.

He taught the kids an important social skill but it was all I could do from
going to give him a visit
and bonking him over the head
like a good Mama.

So much for Social Skills.lol

To be fair, he did teach my son something.
 So he did get his moneys' worth
but had I known he would do this,
 I would have found a more pleasant class for my son to attend.
I learned that you can;t trust people with your kids.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Must be Reincarnation

This video is so sweet.
Can you imagine how well this fish and dog get along.
They must be friends.

I had a lab when I was a kid and he would bring home hurt animals.
Birds kittens anything he'd find in the woods.
They would be all full of saliva but otherwise unharmed.

Animals understand when something is hurt and try to get it help if they can
It is not something you teach them necessarily, cause we never did.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

Tasting Danger

 

My son with a nosy pushy black bear.
As if Killer Whales weren't enough for this boy.
He's willing to try everything once. lol

Living with danger is a fact of life these days.
I've been reading up on  arsenic  and rice.
The highest levels of arsenic were found in samples of rice from the south-central U.S. The lowest arsenic levels were in rice from California, India and Thailand.

Also water you drink from wells near farming communities have a lot of it.
Lakes have run off from farms and it goes down into wells unless maybe its from a deep well.
Ours was about 60 feet deep.(is that deep)

They say to wash rice a lot  and boil it in more water than less .

Parboiled rice has more arsenic in it because it too is boiled in arsenic filled water.

Distilled water has calcium and magnesium removed as well as everything else so if you decide to drink it, you will need vitamins and
minerals to replace that found and removed from the water.

Also juices have arsenic.

Seems it is in all the food and water .

My Mom probably got sick because of this with Parkinsons.
The farmer next door sprayed his corn every spring. with a plane
 and they had two wells they used on their garden.
I guess I should put distilled water on my grocery list and keep it in the fridge.

They sell distilling units but they are expensive to operate and need to be replaced every 10 years.

I think rice should be not only be rinsed but maybe even soaked in fresh water a few times before use.

There is only one documented case of a plant actually remediating arsenic-contaminated soil and that is a fern, Pteris vittata, the so-called "eden fern", that is now registered for this purpose, but is used primarily on heavily contaminated industrial sites.
Phosphorus increases arsenic uptake by plants, so don’t use this on your contaminated soil if you're growing vegetables, but do use it if you decide to use a hyper-accumulator.

Carrots absorb more arsenic than than tomatoes and lettuce.
So maybe planting a carrot or fern between each lettuce and tomato plant is a good strategy ?
you discard the carrot and fern and eat the lettuce and tomato lol

"Sunflowers and mustard greens both have an ability to pull certain toxins (primarily heavy metals) from the soil and have been used in various phytoremediation projects, most notably in New Orleans, cleaning up after Katrina. 
According to literature, the greens are not edible but the seeds of the sunflowers are - the toxins are apparently accumulated and stored in the roots and leafy growth but not in the seeds. 
Other plants that are known to have similar characteristics are spinach, corn, carrots, peas, Commelina communis (dayflower), brake fern and lamb's quarters - brake fern (Pteris vittata) has been widely used for this purpose."

Of course the plants not eaten,have to be burnt.

xoxoxoxoxxo



 

Turkey Gobble

 

In the 1800's turkeys were kept live on the farm.
For 3 days before Christmas, a turkey had a walnut thrust down its' throat 3 x a day
and a glass of sherry once a day.
Then it was killed and cooked for Christmas dinner.
The meat was said to have been delicious.
 It was tender and had a wonderful nutty flavour to it .

The turkey should also have enjoyed its' last days in sherry bliss.

Turkey farmers...... take note
Flavoured turkeys can be in great demand
xoxoxoxo

Niagara Falls 1911

I never would have thought Niagara Falls could ever freeze but here it is, frozen like rock.
That must have been some winter in 1911. lol
According to stats it was -40 degrees when this happened.

Most of the freezing takes place on the US side and ice thickness has been known to reach 50 feet
The river still flows underneath though. It never stops.Niagara Falls is about 180 feet deep. The falls themselves are about 180 feet high and 2500 feet wide. The water that makes up the falls comes from four of the five Great Lakes.

By July 15, 1885, tourism and the preservation of Niagara Falls became a priority as the 400-acre Niagara Reservation State Park officially opened. While currently known as Niagara Falls State Park, it is the oldest state park in the country.

The Niagara River is said to be flowing up instead of down.
Because the earth is round most rivers flow down from the north but a few flow North from the south and the Niagara is one of them flowing from NEW YORK STATE into Ontario

 Pend Oreille is another one flowing from Idaho into Washington State and then British Columbia

The St Lawrence flows north west connecting the great lakes to the ocean

Vermont has many rivers flowing north into Canada.


Michael J Fox starred in a movie from that area called Where the Rivers Flow North.

Interesting. 

xoxoxoxoxo

Will and Kate

 

Will and Kate, Britains young darlings, have been treated well by the media
until a few days ago with the publishing of photos which can be seen to be degrading.
This happened right after good time Harry, was also photographed being
 silly in a room full of people

Now I don't know Royal protocol but it is the publics' business to know
what their money is paying for.
Harry doesn't care. He is young and he puts his life on the line for England.
He is also a man and single. lol
But for a woman it is always a different story, especially if she is going to sit on the throne beside the future King of England.
But this too is a young couple and what was done to them had cruel intentions to cause pain and harm.

I hope they all learned their lessons and in future make sure not to sun tan in their birthday suits.lol
It's either that or say like the modern French do, we are modern and no different than every one else.
The human body is beautiful and so there is nothing to hide.
Long live the Queen !! lol

From a personal stand point, I think what is being done to them is pretty shabby.
Why make something beautiful dirty?
This couple tries hard to do the right thing and should be given a break.

xoxoxoxoxoxo

Shark Fin Soup

Seems Canadians are not the only ones who find this disturbing.
To catch a huge fish and throw it over board after cutting off the fins
to drown is an abhorrent thing to do especially when sharks do serve a
purpose in our oceans.
The video reminds me of what I heard men used to do to women during the war.
They cut off the breasts just to watch them float in the river, and left the women to die.
The act is just as atrocious and cruel as what they do to sharks.

Shark Fin soup is very popular in the Asian Culture and restaurants here in BC
are outraged that a movement has begun to stop shark finning. They claim it is their culture to eat shark fin soup, completely ignoring the fact that if they are not stopped, there will be no more to catch to eat.

 They make it sound like Canadians are the only ones outraged but so many people in so many countries are outraged. Even the US wants to pass laws to put a stop to it.

Sharks do not have many pups at least not as many as there are people who have a consistent demand to eat them. Some give birth to one or two live pups a month and others lay eggs in a pouch which they try to hang on a branch somewhere or hide between rocks to get born. Not many survive.
Still others live off of egg yokes or from unfertilized egg capsules .
Sometimes the two largest embryos eat the other embryos of the litter (usually consisting of 10).

When you compare the time it takes to grow one such fish with the number caught and killed every day,
the shark has no way to compete with man's hunger for it's fins.

If the Chinese people want to eat fins of sharks, they should breed them privately in tanks or rivers themselves.
This would give the sharks in the oceans a chance to recuperate from possible extinction.
How ever, they won't do this, because they know what it entails to grow one such shark and they would never be able to keep up with demand.

The world is changing. Man is fast outgrowing this planet and we all should consider having less children so food does not become a planetary issue.

We have to begin paying attention to our life style and replacing what we destroy.
We eat fish, especially salmon here in BC. If every child had a tank of babies to let go into the rivers
we would not worry about having no fish in the future. If all the eggs of one salmon could be hatched and allowed to grow before being let go just imagine how many fish we could let go back into the oceans and the same with trout, sturgeon, bass,  perch, crabs, lobster, squid and octopus.

Trees forests and all Gods' Creatures.are very important, if man is to survive.
 We all live dependent on each other.
xoxoxoxoxoxo

Children of Legend

Steve Tyler from Aerosmith is a guy from the past, living in the future.
I loved his daughter, Liv Tyler, playing in Lord of the Rings.

There are videos out there with Father and Daughter together and boy they sure
compliment each other.
The Father, as most hard Rock Stars, was into drugs but he was one of the lucky ones who
found his way out of it and the fans are the ones who benefit from it cause they get more entertainment
 out of him.
and I think I like Hard Rock better than Rap any time.
One can get high on this music without drugs or alcohol
although Steve said he snorted cocaine on stage from a coca cola bottle and it took him a while to figure this out.

It makes me wonder what would have happened if Elvis Presley wasn't cut down so early in life? Would he have stayed in the lime light for so long or just let it go and become a private person?

A time comes for every one to slow down and enjoy the legacy they left behind which so many people
enjoy to this day
but then you have children stepping into these old shoes, like Liv Tyler.
I hope her life goes in a good direction because we will all be watching her like we do her Dad.

xoxoxoxooxo

Little Steps

Check this out.
How many steps it takes to make it to Mars.
At any time something can go wrong.
It is amazing man can make it happen.
Almost makes one think man can make anything happen.
:)

Wonders of the Deep

We see Killer Whales around the Vancouver and Victoria Island area.
They travel in pods and it is quite possible to view them from the ferry boat crossing the Channel
We also saw them in waters  between White Rock and Point Roberts along with seals in the marina
by the US border.
I remember when my son was 2 years old we were on the boat and the ocean looked silky soft, so inviting, calm before the storm.
I couldn't help but think,  I have to take a dip. So I jumped over board.
As soon as I did, my 2 year old, wanted to save me and jumped in right after me.
Thank fully he had his life jacket on because he didn't know how to swim and although he was just a foot away from my grasp, I couldn't reach him fast enough, as he lay face under water. Sudden panic seized me as I tried to turn him over but he wasn't the least bit afraid. It spoiled my swim because all I could think of was to get him back into the boat which he didn't want to do without me. lol Dread filled me to the tip of my toes which felt leaden now thinking about what would have happened if he slipped out of the life jacket.
All I could think was that the water must be 400 feet deep there.

We started the motor to head for home, thankful nothing bad happened, when we came upon a boat in distress who told us they stopped to watch the whales and now their gears were torn.

So now we learned, we were also swimming with the whales and could have been fish bait. lol

As we threw them a line to pull them to the marina, a storm hit us and the waves grew to be 5 feet over the side of our boat.
The boat we had to pull was an older model and  twice the size of ours, so we had to go very slow, all the while afraid of the repercussions if the rope broke or if what it was tied to, tore off. It could go bad all around.
That alone could have killed any one of us.
My oldest sons' eyes grew huge watching the waves around us.
We had an 18 foot Maxum boat and I have to say I was quite impressed with it.
It is not recommended to cross the ocean channel with any boat under 21 feet though, so we always stayed close to the shoreline by White Rock.
It took us a long time to struggle through the waves.
 Other boats came to ask us if we needed help and stayed with us to help break the waves.
As we neared the marina, we also ran out of gas. Two and a half hours of pulling, for what otherwise would have been maybe a 5 minute ride, ate maybe 100 dollars worth of gas. So now two boats were stranded and heading for a rocky shore.
The little fishing boats surrounded us and asked how they could help. We said we needed gas.
They were surprised but one fellow poured in a gallon to get us to the marina.

Needless to say, we were never so happy as to reach it that day. The other boat also had an older couple with older children in it. They were equally frightened to lose their boat and maybe face drowning in the high waves. One can't imagine how high waves could suddenly become, even in an inlet.

It was quite an exciting and very memorable day. Just thinking about these whales beside us
when my son jumped over, gave me the willies. lol The whole thing still gives me the willies because no matter how prepared you are, you are never prepared when bad things happen.

In videos
one has only to watch these Killer Whales hunt in pods, to understand how powerful and smart they really are.
To see them so gentle with their trainers in this video, makes them exceptional creatures although
like any wild, powerful creature, you always have risks entertaining and being entertained by them.

This is a great show, I believe taking place in San Diego.
Quite enjoyable to watch.

xoxoxoxoxo

They Say

 

95% of the people in Nauru  are  over weight

 Guam makes asphalt out of ground coral and oil

The Falklands have a population of 3000
and approximately 350 sheep per person.


Niger has 49% of its population under 15 years of age

Saudi Arabia has no rivers. Most of its water is from
underground reservoirs or desalination plants.

Canada has 3 million lakes

Siberia - Russia, produces the most oxygen
It has 25% of the worlds forest

 Egypt is the oldest sovereign state, the first dynasty
formed in 3100 BC

Mongolia has 4 people per square mi.

Hong Kong has 340,000 people per sq mi

Ukraine is a disappearing nation.
It's expected to lose 30% of its population by the year 2050

Papua New Guinea has 850 languages spoken there.

Libya is mostly desert and can go for decades without one drop of rain water.

Afghanistan produces 95% of the worlds opium.

Surinam forest covers 95% of the country.

Maldives may disappear if sea levels continue to rise.
They are only 1.8 meters above sea level.

 

Haiti is almost treeless

Somalia is the least peaceful nation.

xoxoxoxo

Monkey Beach

 

I just finished reading the book Monkey Beach which I enjoyed.
It had to do with a young Haisla Indian woman, Lisa, who went back home,
 because her brother was lost at sea.
The story went back and forth as she remembered her life
 living in Kitimaat with family and friends.

 

I liked it because it let you into another culture and familiarized you with their beliefs,
way of life and a  territory many of us will never enter.
After looking up the Kitimat area on the map, I was aghast that this was where
they want to bring the oil pipe line.
In the book, the Indians used to sit on the beach and see whales sleeping off shore.
Now how would a pipe line and ships be good for the whales?

 

MAP OF BRITISH COLUMBIA


Lisa had a hard time going home from places like Terrace Prince George and Williams LAke
She spoke about living in Vancouver, on the East side, the home of drug addicts and homeless people.
She spoke of how she became a part of this scene for a while although her grama left her a nice
inheritance.


The story hit home in more than one area as we rediscover this province and
 so many wonderful things about it we never knew.

I remember a while back, they were selling beach homes on the Charlotte Islands for 19 thousand dollars.
The Indians say this place came up from the sea and will go back down one day into the sea.

The inlet into Kitimat is full of seals, fish, clams, mussels etc... which the people and animals live off of.
She mentions it is also the land of the infamous Sasquatch.
The Sasquatch, according to Indian legend, used to steal people but then
they got their sicknesses so they learned to stay away.

I think this is a fabulous book to read as many treasures can be found in it
and it would definitely make you want to take a boat and sail up the coast to these areas
to see feel and understand how the people here, feel about their land, full of mysticism and legend.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Finally Some Rapids.

 

I keep thinking about waterfalls and creeks with rapids while driving along the highway.
Here in Squamish we were able to stop and view one such river in a deep canyon.

 

Up above were seemingly endless mountain ranges and the majestic snow peaks.
Remember, this is the end of summer when everything has melted already.

One couldn't help but think back to when it all began.
How people must have felt when they first came across such beauty.
The desire to live, to be a  part of it all, is incredible even today.

Who, in their right mind, would ever want to see such splendor exploited and destroyed
by real estate?
I understand the feeling to want it kept pristine because soon there will be no place on earth
left to itself.

No place on earth left to heal a man's soul, as places like this heal.

Can you imagine the stories which foretell of a person
in the deep woods, being confronted by a bear who decides to share his terrain and fish with you?
A bear that can only be described as a spirit bear that disappears as quietly as he appears.

A Bald Eagle, flying so high, he looks like a spec in the sky, only to come down to sport an 8 foot wing span and sit comfortably watching you down below, from a high cedar tree.

It almost makes one proud to know such birds exist in todays' world.
Usually everything gets smaller because generations of animals are starved.

The wolves are smaller today but you go to some places and they are HUGE!
One would have to be, to survive other animals in hunting mode.

It's an extraordinary privilege to be able to share a world with other creatures
other than man because without them, what a sad world it would be.
xoxoxoxoxox

Fickle Nature

 

Riding the waves in deep blue glacier waters
surrounded by fish, ducks and nature.
Life couldn't be nicer
Life couldn't be more fair
or daring, relaxing,
Sunbathing in cooling, hot air.

Nature is fickle
She loves to play
One moment she winks and
Tempts you to stay
Another minute she groans and
Laps up the waves
Like a noisy old dog
Thirsting, from the grave

One moment she smiles
Sending warm breezy kisses
Another her brows furl
In black cloudy mists
In all her moods
In these deep glacier waters
I pray so, to soothe and console her distress.

Reflecting, she stops and looks back,
To the dawn of her footsteps and
Remembers herself and her stance in life and
Her tears, so wet and salty, soon
 Dry on my skin with her soft warm breath

And it couldn't be nicer
More fairer or bright
In deep blue glacier waters
Fickle Nature always
Flares up my heart.

A Lady's Life
xoxoxoxo

Alta Lake, BC

This beautiful lake is kept pristine by people who care.
It is full of small sail boats and rented kayaks which go for 15 dollars an hour.

We brought our blow up boat with oars and my son and his friend had fun sitting in the water, paddling to the raft where they could jump off into the cold water.

It took them a while to learn how to paddle in one direction and not go in circles.lol

I find this boat convenient as
we can pack it up after every use into a small box.
Some of the fish are quite big because of the fish and release laws.

The mountain view around Lake Alta is breathtaking.

You feel the freedom as
people are more relaxed with their dogs and the dogs too are relaxed having freedom to walk and play in the lake.
People bring their children and other peoples' dogs also play around them and every one gets along.
A relaxed happy dog will never harm another person and is free to run away from anything it doesn't like.

This to me, is normal behavior as it should be and it did my heart good to see this.

As was expected we saw many kids on skate boards, roller blades, and wide surf boards you stand and paddle on.

We had a wonderful sunny day to boot and so it was a great way to end summer.
Now it's back to school and work
Back to the grind stone, just as we were getting used to the good weather.

xoxoxoxoxo

Gentle Love

These poor dolphins would have met their end had it not been for the people who jumped to their rescue.
This is one of the best videos I've seen.
xoxoxoxoxxo

Whistler in Zen

 

You find quiet places like this to sit and contemplate life or enjoy a coffee and a good book
in Whistler, BC.

 

It's not a real waterfall but you almost expect a fish to swim by.

Is it no wonder they have such beautiful life like statues of deer here.

We see them everywhere we go in BC.
They have no borders.
Gentle skittish creatures who should not be underestimated. lol

It is certainly a privilege to be able to see them as they graze on the mountain where people ski in winter and bike on in summer.

Who ever made these guys, really did a great job.
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Well one of my blogger friends said the hornets are nesting in the grass instead of close to fences and such which according to some folks means a cold winter is coming.
Thought I'd pass it on. Maybe it's time to get the knitting needles out lol
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Well I am thankful this convention is over.

Except for Clinton's speech I was not very impressed with it at all

Kerry I believe slipped and called Romney President lol

Then someone admitted all this change was going to take 10 years, so people have to eat cake till then?

They only had policies to spend money because we know in Canada, it's not cheap to run a healthcare system and in the end it's not there for the people who need it, who die in hallways before they can see a doctor.

In any country the top priority/ stimulus should be job creation and keeping the finances in order.

This isn't happening under Obamas' care.

There is no guarantee Obama won't still over spend on war, as soldiers are still dying

There will always be excuses for failing promises not allowed for the other President.

What is even a bigger problem is run away liberalism.
We had this here as well. Ok everything and everyone for votes.

Then liberals begin killing liberals and then oh oh. lol What happened?

People want conservatism.

So in my humble opinion, America grew great under conservatism.

In the olden days people in both parties held conservative views and it is under these views

the Constitution was written and a country was built.

Runaway liberalism is bad news. 

It's hard to say no after people are used to the word yes.

To have an untra conservative President like Obama allow all this liberalism, sends red flags up.

Another thing bothering me is that Islam law doesn't allow for changes in religion.

Only Islamic children can attend their schools.

So Obama, seeing the problem the US has with Islam and terror, should never have been considered

a Presidential candidate for national security reasons.

Obama is under the religious authority of Iran and if one day he gets a phone call and does not comply

he and his family will be endangered as President and after he isn't President.

This is asking for trouble America doesnt need for so many reasons I can't write here.

Just sayin.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Cave Bear, No Bones About it

 

I have never seen a skeleton of a bear and here is one of a cave bear.
This store has many beautiful minerals with crystals inside from local mines.
If you love jewelry, there are tons here designed locally.

 

The horseshoe looking tusk is below the bear skeleton in the top picture

This year a man was sitting by a heated pool in winter
A bear climbed over the fence and attacked him.
I believe he didn't make it and died as the bear began to eat him.
This happened here in Whistler.

 

Titanothere Skull

 

Wow ! What a speech made today by Clinton.
I think the wrong man is running for President.lol
Well done!!

xoxoxoxoxo

Skeletor

As I sat on a bench beside this bike, the owner sat behind me, watching, as soo many people come to marvel
this creation and take pictures.
We all thought this was part of the exhibition to attract people but I guess it wasn't or maybe it was.lol
One never knows what goes on here in Whistler, BC.lol
He seemed to enjoy people loving his bike.

What we did see was a lot of bikers who either hired expensive bikes or brought their own and bought tickets to ride the Gondola up this steep ski mountain and then do a thrilling ride downhill.
The rest of us did other things like shop and wander and enjoy the outdoor restaurants.

 

It's a nice feeling to be surrounded by a village like this with no cars.
They made it like a circle of hotels and streets that criss crossed. Upstairs is a hotel or restaurant and downstairs are shops. but on the other side of the hotel you have the registering and being told where to park.

 

Havana Band
I liked the rooms which over looked the street where they had music.
They had balconies one could sit on and enjoy the people and music
which is especially wonderful for old people who tire easily.
In winter it's even more beautiful to watch the huge snow flakes as they fall quietly in a serene setting.
The room we had, had its' own fireplace, jaccuzi, and sauna.
Great for those sore joints and muscles after a hard work out.

Where I live we don't have much snow  and when it snows, it melts quickly, so to be here
is quite exciting in the winter time.
This is also where the rich and famous come to spend time.
Prince Charles and his boys came here as did our then Prime Minister Trudeau who married
Margaret Sinclair, from BC.
There is no better place to ski and enjoy any time of year.
xoxoxoxoxo

A Village Like no Other

 

Whistler Village was a great place to watch the people.
It's almost like Disneyland this time of year.
Such a great place to bring families in summer, as the hotel rates are cheaper.
The streets are filled with music, aromas, cold beer.
People dance in the street and totally unwind here.
Lots of nice shops with everything your heart desires.
Taste the Italian gelato mmmmm delicious.
and for the kids there is the Cow place where you get an Ice cream and be able to sit on a cow.
The hotels and restaurants are dog friendly.
If I didn't know better I'd call it pooch town.
The old dogs know the routine and just walk along while the young ones find everything so cool and new
They hop around with excitement taking this all in, as a real treat.
Some people bring in pups in training to become service dogs and they don't know they are being trained
and play like the babies they are. Sooo sweet.
The mountains are every where and some are still and always snow peaked.
I can't even begin to relate how beautiful it all is.
Summer is the time to get out the bikes and ride the gondola up Blackcomb Mountain
and do some serious riding down hill.
Needless to say it's mostly a guy sport although I did see some women doing it too.
You have to be all geared up in protective padding like hockey players because if you fall, thats some serious
trouble you are looking at.
But there are other things to do. The night life is spectacular and safe for both young and old.
No generation gap here folks.
The kids have lots of water to play in
And you never know what you will see next.lol
It was a great end to a summer and I'll put up more pics with little stories which made it special for us.
xoxoxoxoxoxo

My Little Friend

 

My little Chickadee friend who kept hopping under our table,
between our legs and was not in the least bit fearful
What a little darling he was.
I would throw him a rice at a time and he would come and eat it.
What a mouthful though, as he tried to take it in his beak and cut it up into pieces.
One of God's creatures.
He was not friendly enough for me to take him home though , as I am sure
so many customers would think to do
since he was so tame.
xoxoxoxox

The Rice of Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_q_iOObid4

These rice paddies are gorgeous!!
What inspiration!
Teaches you also that there is more than one type of rice plant.
xoxoxox

Move Over Cher

I have no idea what they are singing but they sure sound good .

Move over Cher. The real women of the world, are taking over lol
These are the Buranovskiye Babushki Singers.
Grannies from a place called Udmurtia, a republic between Kama and Vyatka
(where the heck is this?)

They look so cute in their costumes and begin their spectacle by putting bread into an oven.
The same kind of oven old people used to have beds over, to keep warm in the olden days.

The Koreans had the same idea except they had pipes under the floor boards gathering the heat from the fireplace.

The oldest singer here is 76 years old.
They won 3rd place in the Russian Eurovision qualifying contest in 2010
and beat Dima Bilan, a former Eurovision winner.

All I can ask is, where are all our grandmothers?
Time to pull them out of senior citizens homes,
dust them off and let them,
 let it all hang out.lol

I used to work as a student, in an old folks home and boy,
 I know these old people still have a lot
to give and share with the world and communities.
They would certainly enjoy doing it too.
One thing for sure, if they don't melt you with the songs,
 they will melt your heart with their sweet smiles.
It takes so little to make an old person happy.
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I loved the Republican Convention Speeches yesterday.
They were inspiring especially when they spoke about love of ones country
and family.
 This is the America I know and love.

 I also thought seeing Clint Eastwood was funny
because he led the invisible Obama to believe that he's going to have a huge battle on his hands.
You have to understand Clint is old now and lost his voice. It was nice to see him.
He took the edge off.
You know, with the public cheering for him, it took a lot of his talking time.
He egged the President on....... to make his day and show us what he's got. lol
Unlike some people who think Clint Eastwood is senile, I think he was being cute
and promoting a new film, like most actors do, when they get into their scripts. lol

Sneaky lol
People, get with the program.
Clint Eastwood said in the end after all the egging, it's America that counts.
The people...... who like their independence.
Now why didn't the American reporters understand this?


Sheesh! There are only so many hours in a day. How long did they expect Romney to talk?
There is a time and place for everything. He had to leave something to discuss with Obama.lol
Romneys' speech was more than excellent and he said everything he should have said or was expected of him to say at a Republican Convention.
Romney is putting America back on track pushing for excellence and this is a good road to be on.

America is always about Free Enterprise .
Giving away everything, believing you will get something in return, is not a good way to think.
It didn't work in Russia .Services get worse when  "a pass the buck" government takes over.

 Businesses should be kept small and local so they are easier to control.
At least this is my opinion from Canada.

We worry up here because everything that happens in America, happens here.
Obama cost us many jobs in Canada because we have a lot of American firms here.
Every one is afraid and living in uncertainty, waiting to see what will happen across the border.
Americans are great people, so north of the border, we always wish them well.
xoxoxoxox

St James Way

This is a pilgrimage people take to get to the Cathedral of
Santiago de Compostela, located in Galicia , Spain.
It is believed Apostle St James is buried here.

People like to take it because they have a chance to meet people
discuss things and make friends.
The route is 1000 km  or 625 mi which can be done in 6 weeks.

 James was a fisherman  believed to be the brother of John the Evangelist.
He was one of Jesus' closest friends and was said to have seen him after resurection
The Apostles were given areas to work in to spread the gospel
and James was given the area around Spain, where he preached before returning to
Jerusalem.
He was known as James the Just because of his virtue and because he died a
martyr after being stoned.
He was then carried down the coast and put into a stone boat and taken back to Spain.
Queen Lupa brought him from Padron to Arca Marmorica where he was placed in a tomb.
James was buried there with two disciples Atanasius and Theordore.

In the 9th Century, 800 years later, Pelayo, a hermit found the tomb and Spain was elated because she needed something to inspire the Christians. against the invading Moors.
This was when the pilgrimages began.
One route travelled began from Roncesvalles, Another from Seville, on the Via de la Plata
All the routes are marked by yellow arrows.

Charlie Sheens' Dad made a movie about such a pilgrimage and how it healed him and made him whole again, after his son died. His son was going to make this journey and instead it was his Dad who made it for him. Lovely movie.

Interesting stuff. 
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              Housework was a woman's job, but one evening, Janice arrived home from work to find the children bathed, one load of laundry in the washer and another in the dryer. Dinner was on the stove, and the table set.
She was astonished!

              It turns out that Dave had read an article that said, 'Wives who work full-time and had to do their own housework were too tired to have sex'.

              The night went very well. The next day, Janice told her friends all about it. 'We had a great dinner. Dave even cleaned up the kitchen. He helped the kids do their homework, folded all the laundry and put it away. I really enjoyed the evening.'

              'But what about afterward?' asked her friends.

              'Oh, that........... Dave was too tired.'
xoxoxoxo

Yellow Heads

I read the Book    Buddha by Deepak Chopra.




It was quite interesting at the beginning, although a bit slow.

Buddha was a son of a king, astrologers foretold would either be a great king
or world leader. His Mom died soon after he was born and he was kept isolated
by his Father from all things he considered evil.

Buddha suffered as he did not want to fight and kill or follow his Fathers' belief that
a ruler must be feared.
 He said: Father, I love you and I don't fear you, so why should the people?

It is something I could relate to because I also grew up with so much feeling of love,
I thought if I could only talk to the people I could resolve all the worlds problems.

When I went out into the world, all I could do was bend my head and block my ears
from the over whelming evil I saw out there and the hopelessness that
it could ever be resolved.
How do you resolve anything, when people are so divided and full of self?
They yell, scream, fight, throw bombs,back stab and come from all
religious back grounds.
 The more children are born, the bigger the problem becomes.

Buddha was special in that he was able to stand between two fighting people and just by the spirit of his presence, they would stop and go their own way.

Buddha believed God could not resolve mans' problems.
This was up to man to do through disassociation.

Through starvation and meditation Buddha became enlightened.
He found out that once desire for things left, there would be no reason to fight.

In life, we fight for everything: Love, food, shelter,jobs,clothes,money,education, freedom, country....
In order to get something, we are taught we need to persevere and fight for our rights to obtain
the things we need, to be happy.
Through out the years, no matter how nice you make life for people, they are never happy.
The more freedom you give them, the more they try to use their freedom, to stand in the way of others.
 Nothing ever stops but builds.

Buddha found once desire leaves you , we will have no needs and thus be happy and at peace.

It was a good book to read but the ending a bit weak. I expected a lot more from his teachings.

However, I can't see man going to the extent of disassociating himself from experiencing life and suffering,
such as it is.
We are here to experience and learn from suffering inside a living body. Life is a gift from God and this is what makes suicide so abhorrent because it's the same as throwing Gods' gift back into his face.
Taking a life, be it man or beast, is abhorrent for the same reason and once we begin seeing our ancestors
in plants,  eating them becomes also abhorrent.
 No matter what we do, we sin.

I guess once we are dead and become spirits, desires would lift of their own accord.
So the problem is not just desire but the material aspect of having a physical body and the desire to keep it immortal.

So far we found no solution to that problem. Immortality lies in what happens after we are born.
But if life is an illusion as Buddha says, then no matter what we do, is ok.
If we kill some one, it's not real. If someone kills us, it's not real.
 Our suffering is not real. Our life and our death are not real.
All the issues we fight over are not real.
So what is this all about if not for learning the experience of life and living in a physical world?
Can this illusion not be seen as a miracle?

I look at plants and animals today and find they too are becoming intelligent.
Lions are tamer, dogs are almost human, chimps can sign language, plants grow better when you talk to them.

All the yellow heads hiding behind tall grasses just might be our living dead cheerfully saying:
 Hi!
We see them all around us supporting us, nourishing us, forgiving us, saving us.

Should not mankind have the desire to a learning experience of knowing what it means to live without suffering?
It's tricky but I have faith one day, man will find the answer.
Kushinagar or Kusinagar is a town and a nagar panchayat in Kushinagar district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is an important Buddhist pilgrimage site, where Gautama Buddha died.

Buddha died when he was 80 after eating some poison mushrooms.

Here is a short version of Buddha's bio.
http://www.markville.ss.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/history/religion/buddhbio.html
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I watched the Republican speeches yesterday and they were wonderful. Anne Romney brought tears to every womans' eyes. Working to keep the US number one in the world is indeed attractive.
It's always better to lead than to be led. Always good to be free to make your own decisions than have your
wallet emptied for services you will never get and thus denied financially to do things for yourself as well.
Answers lie between the people, not government. We can see that before government comes to help you, your neighbor is right next door and a more dependable source for aid.

Hurricane Isaac is slowly going behind the levees, flooding Louisiana after bashing Haiti Cuba and the Florida Keys.
 Now how does it know to do this? People had to break through onto rooftops to escape and get rescued.
What a terrible thing to happen again.
 I guess if people want to live in these areas, they have to build homes on 14 foot stilts and hope they don't get washed out by the water.
Terrible for the poor people who have to live with a trailer always packed, ready  to escape.
On the other hand, why doesn't the President send planes to disrupt the storm . I am sure they could do it.
xoxoxoxoxox

Such Perfection

 

Another view of a poofy dandelion
 Perfect symmetry designed by nature.



This is so easy and not as messy as using the egg itself to separate the egg white from the egg yolk unless you have a special egg yolk separator.
Kids would find it fun to join in to help in the cooking. yuk yuk yuk. :)

xoxoxox

Romance Pianissimo

I am trying to learn this piece on my piano
from my first piano solo book.
Its an old book for beginners.
I know I will never be good at it as my skills are very limited. lol

But it is a slow piece and so I decided to give it a go
 since I have enough knitted items.lol
Listening to it hopefully will give me what I need to know
where my mistakes are.
Here it is played beautifully
This is where one appreciates music listening .
It does get a little frisky at times
so wish me luck lol
Romance by Tschaikowsky
xoxoxoxoxoxo

Pleasant Day

I could use me one of these lol
What a precious dog.
Now that they have one the other will be so much easier to train.
xoxoxoxoxo

Blood and Venom

This is pretty scary.
When a snake bites you, people say don't cut and don't suck out venom.
Stay calm so the venom doesn't travel quickly in your system.
We can see here what happens to blood when a snake bites.
All snakes are different
A King Cobra has enough venom to kill an elephant.
Its' venom attacks the lymphatic glands.
A rattlers' travels in the blood so a person is told to lie very still.
Some anti venom costs 1,500 pounds.
Some you can only find in certain countries and has to be brought in.

A gram of snake venom is worth more than a gram of gold.
So now we can understand why people raise venomous snakes.
I don't know if its worth the risk, making friends with those sharp fangs and
 most people who handle snakes, say they do get bit.
There is just no way around it.
I wonder if aspirin would help stop venom from coagulating blood?
hmmm
Probably it would be too slow.
It took seconds for this blood to coagulate.

In Australia a gram of dried venom goes for these prices.
to reputable research facilities.

	Price per gram $US
Acanthophis antarcticus	$750
Notechis scutatus	$1,500
Oxyuranus scutellatus	$800
Pseudechis australis	$500
Pseudonaja affinis	$3,800
Pseudonaja nuchalis	$3,800
Pseudonaja textilis	$3,800

Gold per gram costs 45.00 US but usually they will sell it for more than this price.
Big difference hunh?
A vial of scorpian antivenom used mainly for children costs over 12,000 dollars and
you would need 3-5 vials.
Sheesh!
Anti venom is produced by taking venom, diluting it and then injecting it into a horse, sheep or goat which will  develop antibodies which then could be extracted to use as antivenom.\
Some people give themselves the injection and develop antevenom in their own bodies and thus become immune to a special snakes' bite.
King snakes, hedge hogs, mongoose and possums also have a better immune system to some snake bites.

A social system to cover the cost of snake bites would be beneficial considering the price of ante venom.
but there is not much out there if one should get bit.

It's nice to know there is a social system there to help pay for expensive procedures but for small things, people can afford to pay themselves. At least in my opinion.
Many people rush to doctors for any little reason jacking up the costs of health care.

Health professionals also tend to do things twice as opposed to once which results again in double costs.
Compare this to what a person, who would go to a doctor only when there was a real reason to go and
pay no double payments, because the doctor would have to do the job right the first time.
Then there are people who share a card using the same name.
If the files are checked you have some sick puppy with simultaneous diseases and different blood type. lol

Something to think about
xoxoxoxox

Abortion Hoopla

 

This is such a tiresome issue because it's been going on for ages.

If a woman is to be considered truly free as a person and human being,
no one can tell her what to do with her body.

Personally, I don't like abortion, especially if it's done later when
the baby can be saved to live a normal life .
That for me, would be a cold and cruel act to do.
 I think women should get pregnant only if they will love the baby they
put into this world.
Children truly are a blessing.
I love them.
I love the world they live in.
I love their smiles and giggles and even what makes them cry.
I love to watch how they discover the world.
I am a Mother.
 I love being a Mother and I recommend it to every woman.
 But to be a good Mother requires stability, to be able to enjoy your child
and for your child to enjoy you.
Day care is not a solution because you miss out on the greatest privilege and reward
of watching your own child grow.
You have to be able to be there to correct mistakes as they happen.
To be a Mother IS a job.
Not only to take care of an infant but also to sacrifice your own time.
Men play a similar role to raise an infant but they don't have to be there all the time.
 Their reward is to come home to a family who is safe and loves them and waits for them
every moment of the day.
A man becomes a beloved also self sacrificing for the love of family and country.

I love home based businesses for women since
 they can multitask and make a few bucks keeping their sanity. lol
Government, has a place in business but not in the personal aspects of a persons life.
The thing about social help, is it makes everything governments business even
the decision to live or die.
They pay, so they own you.
It's quite different from saying we pay you taxes so we own you (the government). lol
Something goes hay wire after government receives the tax money.
They'll spend on war faster than they will spend on trying to keep you alive.
It becomes a different animal, with a sense of entitlement.
Sacrifice one, to save a million type of thing.
They'll abort you in a blink of an eye, legally because no one will question them about it.
Ask any soldier.
People running the government, have personal feelings about issues but they are not elected
to make their personal feelings rule a country.
So these questions like, how do you feel about abortion, is not a question that should be asked.
You are asking a person if he is capable of killing.
My answer would be no, irrespective of how I feel as a woman .
As a woman I feel every one has the capability to kill if it's a question of survival.
Every woman who has ever been pregnant understands what that means.
Pregnancy should be a welcome thing, not an issue of entrapment.
To say no to abortion, is entrapping a person, putting her in a cage for loving and feeling love.
Desperation leads to doing desperate things.
We all need love and support but the few bucks they send your way doesn't fill the void.

We should keep intimate love safe because we all know what it results in.
It results in something bigger than ourselves and if we are not ready,
 then instead of making one mistake, we make two and then three and so on.

Government is there for all the people and laws have to be made the same for all the people.
We ensure the people we can provide the best representation for them with a heterogeneous
society such as we have.
 Abortion, however, is a personal private issue and involves only the person and her doctor.
What would a law do?
Put a woman in jail? Stone her? Hang her?
Then all women would be jailed or dead.
Those days are over.
A sad woman would not make a good Mother, so why force her to be?
Men are not allowed to control a woman's body via laws and
women, as men, answer only to God.
God being merciful, forgives, because he wants to see learning take place,
Maturity, understanding.
We were sent here to make all our mistakes so as to learn from them.
The old saying applies:
You either learn the easy way or the hard way, but in the end, you learn.

Men should grow up and control themselves .
No means no ,
and yes
Rape is rape.

I am amazed so much time is lost discussing these issues instead of the economy.
The first priority is to be able to put food on the table and a roof over your head.
We look at the suffering in Africa.
We've been watching since the day I was born,
 so many dead/dying babies living in dirt, covered with flies.
You have to ask why?
You do the Christian thing and help raise these children but they are raised in poverty
and live in poverty and watch their own children die and then become rebels.
They lose the ability to love fellow man but not the intimacy and thus control over women.
So to save herself, cannot a woman say no?
Does she need to put a life into this world to suffer and die?
She can but.... she should also have the right to say no.
xoxoxo
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Why shouldn't you tell an Easter egg a joke?
It might crack up!

What is a baby bee?
  A little humbug.

 What did the mummy snake say to the crying baby snake?
  Stop crying and viper your nose.

Why was the baby strawberry upset?
His mom and dad were in a jam.

   A mother took her five-year-old son with her to the bank on a busy Friday. They got into line behind an overweight woman wearing a business suit, complete with pager. As the mother waited patiently, the boy looked at the woman in front and observed loudly: "She's fat."
      
      The big woman turned around immediately and glared at the child, causing the embarrassed mother to reprimand him quietly.
      
      However, a minute later, the unrepentant boy spread his hands as far as they would go and said loudly: "I bet her butt is that wide!" Again, the woman turned and gave him a withering look, forcing the mother to give him a stricter telling off.
      
      But a couple of minutes later the boy stated loudly: "Look how the fat hangs over her belt!" The woman turned and told the mother in no uncertain terms that she ought to teach her son some manners. The mother responded by issuing threats if he did not behave himself. The boy promised to keep quiet.
      
      Three minutes later, the large woman got to the front of the queue but just as she did so, her pager began to emit its distinctive tone. The boy could not help himself. "Run for your life, mom!" he yelled in panic. "She's backing up!"

Kids ! :)

Be a Hostess With Pride

Did I complain about not ever being the greatest of hostesses?
This guest would really please me. lol
He even says his prayers.
Eat up and enjoy!
What a great video!
lol

In case you were wondering what Conservative means
This was sent to me by a friend.

One of the very best emails I have  received where it gently explains the difference in thinking between people with  opposite outlooks.     A  young woman was about to finish her first year of college.  Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be very liberal, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government  programs; in other words redistribution of wealth.  She  was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch conservative, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be  his.

One  day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs.  The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father.  

 

He responded by asking how she was doing in  school. Taken  aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.   Her  father listened and then asked, "How is your friend Audrey  doing?"   She  replied, "Audrey is barely getting by.  All she takes are easy classes, she never studies and she barely has a 2.0 GPA.  She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast.  She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over."

Her  wise father asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask  him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0.  That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."   The  daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back,  "That's a crazy idea, how would that be fair!  I've worked really hard for my  grades!  I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work!  Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree.   She played while I worked my tail off!"   The  father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, "Welcome to the conservative side of the fence." 

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Bear Crabbing

 

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This was a photo given to me by my cousin and his wife,
who went up to Port Alberni, BC for the sight seeing tour.
They came back so delighted to have been able to see a lot of bears,
a hump back whale , dolphins and other wild life, otherwise
unseen by human eyes.
Peanut was rolling huge rocks with such ease, to look for crabs.
When he found one he'd stand and crackle munch away lol
I asked my cousins why the bear was two toned and they said it's because
he isn't full grown and his fur will eventually all turn black.
Well, this girl learned something today lol
He sure is cute!
I could give him a great big Bear hug.
My cousins have a fondness for bears and especially for our special rescue bear Boo
up in the interior, Golden area .

Every year they go up to check on him to see how he's doing.
Every one is cheering for Boo
and wish him the best of luck .
There are many bears by Crystal Lake, who aren't so lucky.
A bear, the size of Peanut, could jump 6 feet ,if need be, to climb a hill, with the greatest of ease, making us poor human creatures, look quite ridiculous trying to get away.
If only wild animals could be domesticated, like we do our dogs.
I am sure every one would love to have one of these guys to play with at home.
Large, cuddly, fun to watch and boy ...who'd mess with a bear in your yard.
No one in his right mind. lol

Well I guess we just have to make do with watching them from a distance and try to make life easier for them to survive.
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