I would like to thank the per­son who so cre­atively came up with #!#*&#*@#** for swear words on this silly com­puter. It has been exactly that kind of week and it is only Tues­day. I sup­pose updates are needed here in case some­one is read­ing this and won­ders “What hap­pened to DJ?”  He was discharged […]

It is early Sun­day morn­ing. I am wait­ing for my hus­band to get ready so we can go visit DJ at the hos­pi­tal again. He was trans­ferred to a psych ward for eval­u­a­tion and than some blood test will deter­mine where he goes from there. This may be some­place where he will not be allowed […]

Hello to all. When I left you last, it was with eager antic­i­pa­tion, as my birth­day was the next day. To say that life changes on a dime seems so triv­ial yet so true. At 1:30 am on my birth­day, we received a fran­tic call. My hus­bands son had attempted to take his life. By […]

What a gor­geous day!! The frigid temps are for­got­ten. The birds are singing. Mud is form­ing. The asian bee­tles are awake. I’d like to meet the dimwit agroeconomist(I just made that up) who brought asian bee­tles to amer­ica. We were told they were brought in to fight aphids on soy­beans. A good thing. We were […]

Old man win­ter is los­ing it. We got snow. We got wind. But he didn’t “huff and puff and blow our house down”. Of course we didn’t stick around to see it.( If I told you every time I was not going to be around for a few days, that is all I would blog […]

Liv­ing out in the coun­try can have it’s draw­backs, I was think­ing today, as yet, once again, I trav­eled 18 miles ONE WAY to get some gro­ceries. That is how far the near­est town with a gro­cery store is in one direc­tion and proably equally so in all direc­tions. You don’t for­get things when you […]

What if there were no Valen­tines Day? Would the world stop revolv­ing? I don’t think so. It is hard to post my dis­like for this day when there have been some sweet posts out there…thank you Sher­man. This is why I dis­like this day. It doesn’t make sense to me. Ini­tially, grow­ing up, I thought […]

This is just a quick one. Hap­pened to read the Min­neapo­lis Star Tri­bune yes­ter­day (Feb. 13th) and saw the per­fect story for Valen­tines Day and wanted all to have the oppor­tu­nity to see. Should you have missed it, it is an arti­cle by James Lileks on page E3. His web site at the tri­bune is […]

Does any­one else find them­selves think­ing about stuff to posts dur­ing the day, think­ing ” wow, that’d be great stuff!” than promptly for­get­ting it? It seems to hap­pen with alarm­ing reg­u­lar­ity to me. Must be old.My kids, I have decided, think they can shock me. They can­not. Nice tries though and keep try­ing but really, […]

Today’s post is going to be short and sweet because noth­ing I say here today can or will top Ramblingmen.com. It’s a must see. To Kidd…thanks for the mem­o­ries!!!!To Sherm, Ted and Kevin…lets see if you can top that one!To Hummer…do you have any idea the free adver­tis­ing you are get­ting?To Bauschy.com…girls…do not, and I […]