Ponder Pages

Another Saturday morning. My oldest should be home soon. She works third shift at the local grocery store. She usually comes home and goes to bed not to long later. Most of the time she is still in bed at 5 or 6 in the pm. She just got home this minute. She filled me in on some of the people who show up at 2am usually drunk. Like this one guy bought some imitation crab meat and started opening it up before he bought it. After he paid for it he offered her some. She politely said no. He and his friend stumbled out of the store. She was really more concerned this weekend with maybe getting hit on by drunk cowboys. There is a rodeo just outside of town this week. But so far no drunk cowboys, just drunk locals. On Memorial Day I was sitting out on my back deck in the morning reading a book with my dog Fawn standing on my lap looking over my shoulder. Suddenly she starts growling and whining. I thought it was this wild cat that lives in our shed, but it wasn't, it was a hen turkey. It&#

It's another Saturday morning. I think this is becoming a habit. The weekend is really the only time I feel like writing. Right now the husband is out trying to hunt another turkey. He has not had any luck this time. It's kind of late in the season and I think most of the hens are already sitting on eggs or about to. The one other bad thing about hunting this late in the season is wood ticks. The one thing I hate about this time of year. All I have to do is think about them or hear someone say they had one on them and I start feeling like I have one crawling on me. And he did have one on him last night. Today it looks like it's going to be a beautiful day. A great day to plant my garden. This year we will be planting a bigger garden. Like potatoes, corn, green and yellow beans, radishes, lettuce, carrots and peas. I also plan on growing some gourds, pumpkins and sunflowers. One year I had a a row of sunflowers planted and something stole all but maybe 6 of the seeds before

It's a quiet Sunday morning and once again everyone is still sleeping. The sun is starting to come up and the birds are singing outside. The green grass is wet with dew and the wind is still. The leaves on the trees are finally starting to come out more and more. I look forward to the trees being full once again. I can't wait to see how colorful the lilac bush will be this year. I just wish it would flower longer but it only lasts a few weeks. Last weekend the found the body of the Jean Viken who went missing back on January 29th. She was found in Sawyer county by a couple of fishermen about 20 miles away from where her van was found on Feb. 6th. She had been shot a number of times. She was found in the local national forest. I knew it would not end well. What mother would suddenly in the middle of cooking, leave her house never to return willingly. I'm sure the husband was involved. They were in the process of getting a divorce when she went missing. He already has a girlf

As I sit here I'm thinking about all the things that have been going on in the world lately. Like Myanmar. Why are their leaders so reluctant to let people in to help? What are they afraid of? Or it is their way of controlling and making the people that much more depend on them to survive? By refusing help they are only weakening themselves. There is no respect in that kind of control. Maybe they are afraid that countries like the United States want to come in there and preach a different religion. Allot of aid people are linked to religious groups. They do have a habit of always including their religious views in their help. If they wait to long there will be no one left to defend their country. If the cyclone didn't hurt them the aftermath of illness caused by the conditions left behind will make the whole country weak and easy to take over by an evil doer, who ever that could be. I was also thinking about that volcano in Chile. How bad will things get down there? And is it

Another Saturday morning and all through the house everyone is snoring but me. The sun is starting to come up, it's cloudy and there is rain coming down. At least it's not snowing. I do wish the temps would warm back up. It's only been in the 50's. I want to have the high 60's and mid 70's back. I wonder if the frog eggs survived the cold we have been having since the frogs had their fun the day it was so warm here. I'll have to go check on them later. My husband is happy he got a turkey on Thursday. It was 26 pound and it had one inch spurs. The beard was 8 inches long. I guess we'll be having turkey one of theses days. There are more turkeys that keep showing up in the field next to us but he can not get any more right now so he just has fun trying to call one closer with one of his turkey calls. It's kind of interesting watching a tom turkey come running across the field trying to find a female to strut for. I have a neighbor to the south who had