Ponder Pages

This morning while I was driving to work I was half listening to the news. They were saying something about bad weather some where, not sure where, they said that a woman had a tree fall on her house. This is what sounded weird, She said it sounded like a car or something fell on her house. Now around here it's more common for a tree to fall on a house then a car. The other thing they mentioned was about Britney Spears. In my opinion she needs mental help big time. The paparazzi needs to say away from her. All magazines and news shows should stop the demand of any kind for pictures of her. There should also be laws that if you want to take a picture of a celebrity you have to stay at least 50 feet away. And no cars are involved in anyway shape or form. After she gets the kind of mental help she needs, she needs to go somewhere away from all that she knows to a pla ce where she can get back to basics. Learn to like herself. She should be away for at least a year. She will then

It's cold outside!!!! Right now it's 6 below. I think most if not all schools in my area were closed. About 48 people called into work today. I'm not sure if any showed up later. This morning the only strip joint near here, burned down. To me, no great loss. I'm not sure how much business it got. Most people around here, hope that it will not be rebuilt. It was an old building that had been allot of different kind of bars. I had a little time today to think about my story idea. I've come up with a couple of different things to do with the story. When I get them worked out I'll post it. Now for the thought of the day: "He sees most clearly who stands and looks."

I was thinking about different people and things today that made me think about getting back to basics. What this means to me is maybe it's time that people started living a more basic life. We live lives that are molded around the latest tech things. Things that are suppose to make life easier for us are the things that are making us more handy capped. If something does happen in the future that disrupts normal day to day things would we really be able to survive? I don't think most people would. We're spoiled. Even if nothing earth ending ever happens I believe people should learn to live simply. For myself I would love to learn to live more simply. Have a big garden, raise my own meat, learn about finding editable things in the wild, cook on an old wood cook stove(Which I do have but it's not set up, yet) and make things, home made things. If I didn't have to work out I would either make a home like this or travel around. If I could travel around I would like to

What to ponder. How about the state of the Union speech that Bush will be giving tonight? I don't plan on watching it. Every time I see him on TV giving a speech, I can't explain what goes through my head. So to save myself frustration and allot of yelling I don't watch. One thing that always bugs me when a president gives a speech is how often people applaud. Why not wait till after the speech is over? Or do they do that to make sure they don't fall asleep listening to it. What I think would be funny is instead of applause all that could be heard would be crickets chirping. I know be serious. I now it is suppose to be important, but I can't get into listening to speeches like that. I like casual . I don't like being preached at. I'll hear enough about tomorrow on the news. I go to bed early, around nine or so. I guess I don't have allot to say so I'll do my thought for the day: "Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but memories."

I know it's been a few days since a wrote anything but the only excuse I have is nothing in my head wanted to be written down. I'm still not sure what to write. So I'll mention a few things I've learned over the last few days. Personally, I will a great aunt twice. A nephew on my husbands side is having another child. In my mind not a good thing. There are some people who I'd say that's nice. In his case not good. He is turning out to be a father like his father, a hands off father. Plus there is other dramas going on in his life I only hear could be happening. Ignorance is bliss in this case. Another thing that happen is my father-in-law was in the hospital again. I guess it was gull stones, I was told. But he is back home again. My mother-in-law has had him almost dead for the last at least seven years. He has a bad heart, one kidney and almost everything else. It's hard to say what is really wrong with him except old age. Every time I hear he'

This morning when I was going to work the radio said it was 10 below. When I got to the north side of town one sign said it was 7 below. When I got to the other side of town that one said it was 20 below. Which one do you believe? Town is about two miles wide. So why the temp difference? Maybe it's location of their thermometer. That's my guess. Tonight it's going to be cold again with it getting down to about 16 below. By Friday it's suppose to be warming up to maybe 20 above with snow. I don't plan on going any where tonight. I will be nice and warm in the house with the wood stove keeping the house around 70 degrees. I love wood heat. This weekend it was so cold that some bottles of Lipton's green tea that I keep in the garage, because it's cold out there, were frozen solid. There was also some diet Lipton's green tea out there that for some reason was not frozen. I took it out of the carton and as soon as I did that it started freezing. It was so wei

I'm sitting here trying to think about what to write. Blank. I did have some good conversations today about things like the planet. I saw a bit of a program called After People I think. The part I saw was what the oceans would be like 50, 100 and more years after there were no more people. There would be an abundance of everything in the oceans. The Seagull populations would decrease for awhile because there would not be all the wasted food we put in landfills for them to eat. After an amount of time their populations would come back to a better amount. After about 100 years the metals in bridges and things like the Eiffel Tower would erode so much they would fall down. I'm trying to remember how many years it would take for sky scrapers to fall. Eventually everything would fall and be covered with natural vegetation. It will be a very beautiful place to see. To bad there will be no people to see it. I also had conversations about the elections. Who will be a better presiden

It another moody Monday. People at work were a little quiet today. Why? The Packers lost. It's a little quiet around home too. There's always next season. I just found out today I'm going to be a great aunt. My older sisters daughter just found out she's expecting. Yeah for her! They were planning on getting married in Oct.,but now it will be sooner I think. Her future husband and father of her child, says one down, one to go. He wants to have 6 or 7 kids. We'll see if he feels the same way when he's getting up at night to comfort the baby, change diapers and those 2am feedings. I believe in small families. Two kids tops. There are so many people in the world now. This little planet can't handle so many humans. Here's a pondering thought. What if all the things happening now a days are mother natures way of trying to get us to change and reduce our numbers. She will continue to do the most horrible things. Not just weather but things like more earth

Trudy Bell is 11 years old. She is the middle child of three. There is her older sister Janet who is 14 and her younger brother Ben who is 8. She often feels like she gets the short end of the stick being the middle child. Janet, is alway thought of as the pretty one. Like all older sisters she is always bossing Trudy around. She finds ways to get out of doing things making Trudy end up with more then her share of the chores. When Trudy complains her parents don't listen to her. Ben is like most younger brothers a real pain in the butt. He is always finding ways to make things harder for Trudy. Getting in the way, playing around when there are chores to be done. Trudy and her family live on a farm just outside of ( A town yet to be named ). They live on a farm that has been in the family for many years. They live in the big house and her grandparents live in a smaller house on the other side of the woods. They've lived in the bigger house ever since Trudy could remember. Her g

As we go through life we we can be known as someone who gives or someone who takes. What are you? Some people are always giving, giving things and giving of themselves. Some give because it makes them feel good. Some give only if they know there is a big reward for them. Some give back when they have been given help. Some give to others to present a false image. Some only give a small fraction compared to what they've taken from others. Takers very rarely give anything back. Most feel they deserve everything they want without doing anything to earn it. And when they are pressured to do something back they come up with every excuse under the sun. They say they are to hurt to do anything , they don't have time , they make it hard to find them or they just pretend they didn't hear you. Where do I fit in? I'm not a taker. I do a lot of thing to help people when I can. If I'm thanked in some way it's fine if not, that's OK too. I feel better if I'm being hel

Last night I watched the last part of Comanche Moon. I want to say that Steve Zahn was amazing. He got the voice and actions down. He put a lot of work into becoming this character. He also makes a very good cowboy. He is one of those actors I would love to be able to sit down with and just talk to him. Sit around the campfire and just talk about anything and everything. Relax.I'm not sure if he has a family, I'll have to look him up. But all would be welcome. So to Steve Zahn, keep up the good work. Yesterday I said I would include a picture of the trees with snow. This a picture from my front window. My husband and I planted these trees about 23 years ago. They make a good wind break and the birds and rabbits love the hide in them and who knows what else. Our outside dog has his house next to them. This way he always has protection from wind and extra shade in the summer. I'm trying to figure out what to write. I have brain lock. I could write about the frustrating day I

I was going to post yesterday but I was busy doing house things. Today I'm a little more tired then I thought I would be. that's what I get for staying up until ten watching Comanche Moon. I had to record it for the husband who works 2nd shift. I will have to do it again tonight. Plus I might go to rehearsal but then again I might not. It's suppose to start snowing tonight. We are under a winter storm watch or warning. If it does snow and hang on the trees I'll take a picture and post it. There is something about newly fallen snow hanging on trees that is just so pretty. And when the sun shines, it just makes everything look fresh. How many times have you found yourself thinking about people from your past? More times then you want to admit I bet. I found myself today with those very thoughts. Why? I don't know. Boredom I guess. Not to say I wasn't busy, I was. My legs are very tired. I walked a few miles today. I thought about people I haven't seen in a

My day started out with me feeling little ticked off because of something that came in the mail Saturday. It was a letter making it sound like it was a paper saying I was a co signer for a student loan for my oldest daughter. I had her call to find out what was going on. They said they were TRYING to get us to take a loan out with them. The only thing they succeeded in doing was ticking me off. I just might take it to someone who can look at it and tell me I won't have something to worry about in the future. I never sighed anything but I'm sure that the way they worded the letter was way over the line. I've been thinking about my story, I think I'll be changing somethings about it. When I get it figured out I'll start to write it here. I'm still thinking about becoming the assistant director for the play. I might go tomorrow night, tonight they are just reading the lines for the first time together as a cast. Most people at work were happy that the Packers won

Good news, I will still be able to write as often as I am now. I will be be running the back stage of the play. Plus I've been offered to be the assistant director. I'm thinking about doing that. At least I won't have any lines to remember, not to say if I do become the assistant director the lines won't get stuck in my head. This looks like it will be a kind of quiet weekend except for the fact that the Packers are playing today. So I will be hanging around the house doing housework before the game starts. Go Pack Go! I've been trying to develop some characters for a story I would like to write some day. The story would be called The Door of Wonders. It's about a young girl who discovers an old log cabin in the backwoods of her grandparents farm in the 1960's. Her name is Trudy. She is the middle child of three. One older sister and a younger brother. She often feels like she doesn't matter. It starts out with her parents moving them to her grandparents

No new news for me today. I'm little tired. I might be getting involved with the next local theater play. If I end up with a part I will not be writing to much. But I want to try and at least put a thought of the day up. Here is the thought of the day: "All cats are grey at night."

Wednesday is the day to whine. Today's whine is about perfume. Some people wear so much perfume it almost sucks all the oxygen out of the room. You can smell them ten feet away with your back to them. Your eyes burn, your throat feels dry, you start to feel light headed. I just want to ask why do you have to wear so much? A little dab will do ya. You don't have to take a bath in it. Maybe you feel it's your force field. Or maybe it's your way of getting people to fall at your feet gasping for air to make you feel like they are bowing to you. Maybe it's just people repellent. There are some people that have to wear it for medical reasons. I forgive you. Just choose a pleasant smell. I don't want to smell the perfume ten minutes before you arrive. Or hours after you've left. Todays thought: "In magic, as in all things, it is focus and intent which make it work."

I like to refer to Tuesday's as Ticked off Tuesday because more times then not people are more easily ticked off, at least where I work it happens. One person I talked to said it's true. Tuesday is the day when things seam to go wrong. He even said that when the world ends it will be on a Tuesday. But not all bad things happen on Tuesdays, it just seams more expected. I wasn't ticked off today, just a little tired. I was thinking today about all the things that have been happening in the last few days. Like a tornado in the southern part of Wisconsin. That hasn't happened for about 15 years. And a 100 car pile up down near Madison. Two people were killed. The bus that went over the edge in Utah that killed 8 people. A volcano that erupted Ecuador. The weather in California. The six snowmobile rs that were lost then found in Colorado. Britney Spears looking for attention in all the wrong ways. The primaries in New Hampshire. The missing hiker found dead. To much b

I like to refer to Mondays as Mad Moody Mondays. People are usually very moody on Mondays. They either spend the weekend finding a way to do nothing but drink or they are doing housework they didn't do do during the week or took a weekend trip somewhere. Or couldn't find anything to do and spent the weekend in front of the TV. Or maybe they are into snowmobiling right now and have to squeeze in as much as they can before it melts away, which is happening today. Or just plain not getting much sleep Sunday night. Where do I fit in? Well, I don't drink, smoke or do drugs, so I don't have a hang over on Mondays. I take the weekend as it comes and what ever I feel like doing. I'm not into snowmobiling but I do like to get outside when it's kind of nice. I'm one of those people who feels kind of good on Mondays, so I can be a bit too chipper for some people. I was wrong about my niece. She took most of her Christmas decorations down. There is still one tree that&#

Sunday morning. It's was 5:47am when I started this and everyone else is still in bed. I wish I could sleep later on the weekends but my body is so use to getting up early that it's almost imposable for me to stay in bed until at least 6am. At least it's nice and quiet. The dog is still in bed too. The cats are all somewhere else too. We also have three cats in the house they are: Cletus, Minni Me and Jazz. Cletus likes to play fetch with a supper ball but because fawn also likes to go after things the only place we can throw the ball is down the basement steps. He does bring it back. Minni likes to hide in the basement most of the day. She is the one that hates the dog the most. She is the oldest Jazz is the youngest. He can cause the most trouble. He knocks things down. Climbs into the ceiling in the basement over my oldest ones room. Sometimes it can be a real circus around here. Cletus and fawn like to play tag every now and then. The one place the cats go that the dog

I was thinking all day if I should ponder something or write something. I decided to do a little of both. First I will ponder about the next president. Right now I feel that the best chose would be a ticket with Oboma and Edwards on it. Why? I don't know it's just a feeling I have. Which to be which? I'm not sure right now. It's a tie in my book. But like I said the mud slinging will only get worse as the year goes on. They will all do it, which in my book is the biggest turn off. The second ponder I have is about Britney. That woman needs so much help right now. She needs to get away from all that she knows and go some place where she can get her head screwed on better. Find people who will not use her in ways that encourage her to disrespect herself. That and there should be laws that say the paparazzi must stay so far away from celebrities especially when they are driving a car. It all has to do with safety reasons. That's enough pondering for one day. I have a

Why make them? To me it's almost always a false promise we make to ourselves. We say we are going to eat less, go to a gym more, stop smoking etc. etc... They are good things to want to do but do we always have to expect things to change over a short period of time? We don't like to wait for anything any more. Most of the time my life feels like it is in fast forward. I would like to slow way down really enjoy life the way it should be. But the older you get the faster time flies. Now for the next 11 months we will have to listen to all those people who want to be president. As time goes on the mud slinging will get dirtier and dirtier. Maybe one of my resolutions should be less TV. Just to save myself the head ache of listening to them. Who will make the best president? I'm sure a woman would be nice. Or even the first black president would be good. One thing I will say is keep religion totally out of it. Number 1 thing is taking care of this country and doing better thing

I want to wish all who read this a year that will be the most amazing year ever. I started it the same way I always do. With my eyes shut and the lights off. I was going to stay up later then usual but I've got a dog, her name is Fawn, who is use to me going to bed around 9pm and she gets a little insistant about going to bed at about the same time. I've got an old scrap book that I think my grandmother made back in 1935 or 36. There are a lot of pictures about a big snow storm . Now those where winters. There are also a few poems that were cut out a newspaper. I thought I'd write one out. This one is titled: On Going South for the winter written by Edger A. Guest 1936 The rich from winters rage have fled, To lands where skies are soft and blue And blossoms deck the paths they tread. The rich will laugh the winter through. I sit within my sheltered nook And watch the snowdrifts piling high. As through my window pane I look I see the poor go trudging by. Upon the corner of