My Mom, Anna, who was extremely talented and hard working, could sew anything and everything. She made cloths for my sisters and taught
them to sew. I made a blanket out of
feed gunny sacks for my 4-H calf one time; that was the extent of my
sewing. I remember her having a pattern
and pinning it to the material and then cutting out the parts and then sewing
them together. That always fascinated
me. It seemed to always work like
putting a puzzle together. I assume it
is still done the same today. Ya gotta
have a pattern for most anything, I think.
Soooo where do you get your patterns for the things you do in your
life? Really!
MaryMary, one positive, aggressive, sweet gal said—Ya gotta
have a plan; the better your plan the better your life will be. And if you don’t
know where you are going, any road will take you there. Look around at your friends, neighbors,
family members and acquaintance; they are different, all different. You get to decide which pattern you are going
to use. Such is life.
A friend from the metro said to me--The squirrels make such
a mess to my flower gardens and damage my flowers which I pay a lot of money
for and plus I put a lot of work into making them look good. Sooooo she catches them in a live trap and
takes them across the river or otherwise they will just come back (i.e. she
thinks). She has caught 75 squirrels
soooo far this year. Wow! that’s a lot
of squirrels let me tell ya! Let’s see, it’s about 6 miles round trip to across
the river X 75 trips which is 450 miles at 25 miles per gallon which amounts to
18 gallons of gas at $2.30 a gallon which amounts to a gas cost of $41.30 plus
the wear and tear of her car plus maybe 37.5 hours of her time. She is one tenderhearted gal alright. I was invited to friends for dinner and told them
this squirrel story. He said that raccoons
have been damaging things around the farmyard and been making a mess soooo he
started trapping them. He has trapped in his live trap 22 raccoons soooo far
this year. They are pretty feisty when I find them in the trap but when I take
them out of the trap behind the grove, they lay on their backs nice and calm;
probably that .22 caliber shot to the head might of made a difference (i.e. they
don’t come back for sure; it’s deep in rural Butler County folks). My friend
from the metro told me that squirrels can’t remember where they hide their
nuts. They find them by digging and
digging and find them by chance—I didn’t know that! The stuff I learn is just
amazing; just amazing!
I seem to be attracted to and like to be around and in many cases be
friends of many of you folks who are on fire (i.e. have a lot of gumption). Being on fire meaning, you folks are always
doing something in a positive way (i.e. you are always after it and getting it
done). I seem to have many friends who
are just that way. Why do I like this
characteristic in folks? I really don’t know but I do. There seems to be a pattern in my thinking. It
appears that certain folks have successes (i.e. and sadly, failures) that are
repeated over and over again and again. Look around, it doesn’t take a rocket
scientist to figure that out. Yes, there
seems to be a pattern.
I have a friend who I tell her she intrigues me. I mean that, she intrigues me. She fascinates
me. I don’t completely understand
her. Why is she the way she is? Is she really that real? Is she always this happy? What’s her past and
why does she think like she does? Why
does she act the way she does? What’s
her blueprint? She stimulates my
thinking for sure. I see a gal walking
her dog quite often on Gray Street which is behind my house. I have known her for over 50 years. I knew her parents, know her teen age years,
her sibling, her first husband, her second husband and some about her life
(i.e. good and bad). She is always friendly and kind to me. I wonder almost every time I see her walking
her dog what she is thinking. I would
really like to have a conversation with her and have her talk about her life to
me. I think it would be very interesting. I don’t think it will happen. BUT I just might ask her someday (i.e. give
her an opportunity). I just might do that. And she might like to tell me about
her life, maybe! Sometimes it feels good to say what we think. I have a friend who told me recently—I love
my wife a lot but I can get soooo mad at her sometimes. Maybe it felt good for him to express that to
me. Yikes!
Have you ever been in a mess or am the mess (i.e. the mess is in the
mirror)? Yikes, it’s messy when that
happens for sure. JanMyFriend took notes
of Pastor Dave’s message when in MN and she let me have them. Here are parts of them. Maybe you might find them helpful in your
life. They pertain to me for sure. It appears that that the world and America is
in a mess. We don’t hear much or
anything about maybe we should turn to God with our mess. The media still thinks the government can fix
everything. Now that is messy to think
about. How can anyone win?
We were invited to friends’ family while in MN for a
delicious dinner and great conversation.
They are a conservative God fearing, 40ish age family but they joined
the National Rifle Association. They
bought guns and are learning to use them.
She is a sweet, petite gal. I
have a hard time seeing her with a gun or guns.
People are scared folks. Soooo I
asked my golf buddy Wednesday about this and he told me guns are in big demand and even hard to get. Ammo is also
hard to get; folks are getting a supply.
That doesn’t sound good. Does it! People are scared it appears. This sounds
like a mess. It could be another wild
west shoot out! ItchieBitchie, delivers all news like it is good, says—Come on
erv, that will never happen. I live in a
gated community; we will just lock the gate and call the police!
I recently had a fun time. Four of us played pb and a friend
brought along some of his home-made wines and we drank wine after pb. Another friend brought along a spread of hors
d’oeuvres (i.e. impressive and good).
Here is what is really funny—I brought a box of wheat thins in a plastic
grocery bag (i.e. way out classed—what a hoot).
ANYWAY, what a great time we had.
The wine friend’s wife told us something interesting. She told us that she and a friend are walking
every street in Cedar Falls. Wow! What a fun adventure and goal. That’s a lot of miles. I think that is very stimulating in soooooo
many ways. These folks are good folks
with good hearts, for sure. The outing was very stimulating, at least to me
(i.e. maybe it was the wine haha). Hey,
I learned to put dryer static sheets in cars or equipment to keep mice out
during the winter—the wine guy says it really works and makes your car smell
good tooooo (i.e. or it was the wine talking).
I was invited for dinner at friends and
they told me that their daughter (i.e. 40ish with three children) wanted to
lose some weight. She walked 8 miles a
day but lost no weight. Then she started
counting calories and now she can get into her jeans of three years ago. Moral of the story—You can’t walk 8 miles and
continue to eat the pigoutplatter and expect to lose weight. I was coming home from the golf course in my
golf cart recently and stopped to talk to some friends in the street. She told me that she had hip replacement and
went on a diet and lost 40 pounds and feels a lot better. Her husband said—And because of her I lost 30
pounds and can breath a lot better.
Soooooo I guess it can be done. There
seems to be a pattern here!
Years ago in our community we had a guy who his buddies
would get him going (i.e. get him all excited) by telling him all kinds of
stuff. None of it was true but he did not know what was true or what was fable.
It was a game. It seemed like his buddies enjoyed the game, but it was not good
for this guy. SusieQ, who seems to be on
point a lot, says—I’m very vulnerable in believing things that aren’t true; I
believe most anything and my life shows it. Another thing, it’s fun to see
people who have peace when the storm is really fierce (i.e. there is something
that these folks have that others don’t, it appears—they seem to know what is
real and what isn’t, my opinion). It is
like weather; weather is a great bluffer.
It appears the same is true of our human society, things can look dark
a.k.a. a mess, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. Like my
mentor use to say—When things are good, folks think they will always be good
and when things are bad, folks think they will always be bad. But it changes! The unexpected can happen and usually
does.
I think some messes are good. You might not. Do you want to be told to do things and how
to do them? CrazyBarbie, who can lose
track of what is important, thinks she is God and knows everything. She doesn’t. I like freedoms (e.g. freedom to
send your kids to school or do it on line).
Ya, it’s a mess but maybe that’s about as good as it gets. There are always people unhappy about
something and there are always folks complaining about something (i.e.
particular when there is money involved and/or it’s political or it’s a
power/ego issue). I read in the paper,
soooo it must be right, that some countries have kids going to school and
without face masks. JoeBlow, who can be
a real problem, says--But what do they know, we are a lot smarter and besides,
we have unions that have a lot of power and seem to know a lot.
TheRadicalBabe says—They were just
spewing words! It was all scripted, like mechanical! I have had several folks
tell me that they think (i.e. their opinions) that once the election is over,
the virus thing will not be heard about much anymore (i.e. like a 100 mph fast
ball—zoooom, it went right by me). And
the crowd went wild! What do you think?
That is what I thought.
“You gain strength, courage and
confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you can not
do.” --
Eleanor Roosevelt
Have a FUN day my friends unless you
have other plans. (-:
erv
MyFriendJean says-- It is
easy to make a mess, if you’re not the one who has to clean it up.
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