Retro Wednesday

I am so excited!  I planned ahead for this retro opportunity!  Found this picture and remembered that a year or two of high school thinking of different ways to make my word count per minute increase trying to blow my classes mind! ;oD
Vintage ELECTRIC Typewriter!! Thank you Etsy.com and I apologize that I have lost the contact info for the  seller! I will do better next time

My porch, my thoughts

My blog, well its my blog right! It is my space, my house with my favorite porch and floor plan and cats. It is like a summer Saturday state of mind.  You actually could sit on this porch and folks you know or don’t know might walk by and share a thought, a bit of news, a joke or even some compliment on my bohemian herb garden growing on the side of the porch. We spend a lot of time here dabbling in creativity to express our simple pleasure of just being here.

My blog home is unlike my real home of suburbia.  We spend a lot of time working to put the kids in the school that we CHOSE to send them to.  When we have hours or days at home we have to get the chores done to keep the health department away and the home owners association appeased and make it like a home.  Oh then also look for times and plans to enjoy the company of others.

So today as I can smile because I spent 4 hours cleaning and clearing the garage so that we can actually get two cars in it.  Oh the stuff we collected over  6 years just amazes me.  But what absolutely freaks me out is how attached my MAN gets to stuff such as empty boxes, empty gallon jugs of antifreeze, bubble packing material, any screw or bolt or rubber washers, electric plugs.  He hates it that I will so demandingly throw an perfectly good box away, yep card board box. 

Yesterday I was at the point of a complete tearful breakdown because he took something out of the garbage and said, “We might need this one day”.  Some days I admit I dream of just packing my stuff and leaving and telling him when he is ready to choose me and simplicity to call.  He has a hording mental disorder.  I have even had to give him one of the bedrooms as a “cave” for his treasures of computers, computer parts, oh my gosh one day I will take a pic of it and blog on it!  
Yes any time I run out of words or thoughts that would be a perfect thing to talk about. 

I wish I could explain to him in a way he would understand that everything must have a place and be in its place.  If it doesn’t fit then something must go to make room for it…

What goes around comes around.  If we share what we don’t need or use with others then what we need will come back.   I do truly believe this

Which sort of leads into a thought that I have had ever since I started paying attention to the politics of this great endangered nation.  The hippies that I always admired as I was growing up didn’t want more government and certainly didn’t trust the government AT ALL.  Like the ones on “The Farm”, coming together to share with their talents, treasures with others.  They certainly would NOT expect the government to take care of them or their brothers.  It confuses me that this same generation is now embracing the Barrack Hussein Obama Administration.  They would pull together for those that needed assistance.

I definitely believe we should, the corporations should take care to be good stewards of the natural resources.  But laws, fines, taxes will make the industry unable to fairly trade a prices to that will enable jobs which will destroy families and futures.  Some time ago I heard someone say that you can not make laws that will create good people.  The bad will still find ways to be corrupt.

It is so frustrating to me at airports now.  Because of some very very evil people it is very complicated and continues to be complicated just to get on a freaken airplane.  And all those that are “good” obey the laws and the security abuses because its for a bigger cause- the safety of our great nation and her people.  Meanwhile the type of evil we are trying to capture with this safety tricks well they moved on to another way of bringing forth their evil before we even came up with the first security idea in an airport.

Fear is a very powerful motivator and it is used by our government and our President. While moving military after 9/11 made sense and very honestly I was so glad we had a Texas Cowboy as president to do something to get those responsible. 
BHO President speaks on health care reform but he doesn’t accept any ideas but more government.  That confuses me…not oblabla and his stupidity but the stupidity of our great people.  They simply buy in that he is the first to think of this need and his idea must be the best.  Meanwhile he told the physicians in his meeting with them that he couldn’t do any thing about their malpractice abuses or any of their ideas.  They applaud him and he goes and says the government will offer his option. He also takes credit for anything good but complicated issues he blames past president, I mean how long can people accept this? back to health care...

Any body volunteering go to a Veterans Hospital? It is government care, anyone been to a public clinic run by their state or county.  They should get improved care there.  There are several physicians that have come up with pages and pages of ideas to stop the corruption of Medicaid and Medicare and yet those that I would think to be so smart, educated people smile and sing for more oblabla.  It is like he has them in a freakin trance.

Some of my liberal friends have befriended me on political views.  Funny, Liberals, I would really applaud you if you were so close minded and gullible to trust the government.  I was going to keep my porch here free of too much political opinion but it is current events, it is bothersome, and if more rational educated people would speak their minds maybe more close minded would at least think and stop following.

Our education system for God’s Sake is run by the government.  Our teachers have very little opportunity to be teachers except in the preformed ideas of what our government or their union tells them to.  Now the President will come into the classrooms with government created lesson plans…Ah, I am just thankful that I home schooled and my children can think for themselves and I pray that when they have children they take the education of their children top priority!   

God Bless America! And may our Founding Fathers pray for our Nation! 

Garden Fairy of Mine

garden fairy
Originally uploaded by krze24

This little fairy is silly and she just freakin makes me smile every time I see her. She has "flown" around my "gardens" for oh close to 10 years???can it really be? We have been here going on 7 years and 2 years in Texas...and yep I bought her in Texas. WOW no wonder she needed some color adjustments.


She hovers the plants and reminds me in the winter that spring will come back with butterflies and colors. It has alway bothered me that she wore her heals but what ever makes her happy.


She was the start of my bohemian type garden I started in Texas. We had a tiny little backyard that was in a brand new neighborhood of soon to be over 1000 houses! Did I like it NO, I agreed to it because my sweet husband loved the house. Anyway ...


My garden out there had this little lady, lots of different types of plants, bushes, trees (they dont have many out there ya know), and it was curvy not straight across the back yard. I would look at the big fence and want to plant cows and pastures, or fields of purple flowers, anything to remind me of something besides that stupid boring fence.


I found an old 5 step staircase that must've been pulled off a house during construction and put it in my van. My family was sure I had totally lost my mind but It screamed to be yellow with stenciled ivy coming down the stairs and spilling over. I placed real pots of ferns and geraniums on the other side of each step like I would've for a front porch and called it my "Stair way to heaven". Wind chimes were every where I could hang them and we had this oh 15 foot steel mobile with planet and stars that blew in that wild Texas winds!


Finally we decided that Texas was a nice place to visit but I didnt want to live there and have our boys back here in Georgia. Some crying, begging and a tempertantrum or two or three and my husband agreed to come back here. AHHHH...home but not quiet.


this house is not where we want to be forever. It had nothing on our lists of MUST HAVES when we bought it, but it was affordable and reasonably close to the school for our girls. So this little metal busy lady reminds me my bohemian type home is still out there and she will be ready to help me decorate it.