your box arrived today, its sitting in the frontroom. but i got to tell you something :) when it arrived and our postman was wondering what was going on i told him it was yours, all the things you couldnt pack in your duffle bag LOL the kids were behind me and they knew it was from you to you or so it seemed, as the post man and i were getting it into the house. a little voice screamed from behind"HURRY UP GET IT IN HERE OPEN IT UP AND LET UNCLE IRA OUT!!!!!!!!! I KNOW HE IS IN THERE CAUSE HE SENT HIMSELF HOME TO US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! " guess who screamed that one? if you said timmy or laura your dead wrong LOL if you said mandy pie you got it right on the nail head LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL she got very mad at me when i wouldnt open it up and let you outtttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! roflmao. all i can say is there is a little girl here wondering were your at . so you better hurry up and get here LOLOLOLOL
i love ya tons and i am glad your back in the usa. so is she but she is awondering where in the usa LOL cant seem to get her to get that one right. oh well you tell her next time you talk to her LOL good luck uncle ira ;)))))LOL
see you later hugs and prayers from me your ma :)))))))))


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My wonderful news

I can't speak now can barely type. My daughter called me this am and told me my son in the navy is back in the USA. So I won't be here to long.
This past year has been a tough on one our family with 3 sons in the military. Never knowing what will happen next. Its something I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Though I am proud of them for what they had to do and stand firmly behind them in it all. Sleepless nights, endless days wondering where they are. What is going on if their ok or not. Or waiting for that one letter that would reach home finally and reading it over and over until the pages are so wrinkled there almost unreadable. Hoping for a phone call cringing when it rings. Not wanting to answer the door, afraid too. I never knew until I got news he was heading home how badly this all affected me. It was then I finally slept though the night. And smiled again and found laughter with out forcing it. Only then I began to do some of the things I used to do. And then I figured out some others I could get involved with something new instead of old.
Personally I am so glad for the net and all those that supported me though this ,put up with me when I froze up on them and couldn’t move. Prodded me back into living some sort of life again. And got me on my feet and were there for me when I cried or worried and told me everything would be ok. Though they knew at that time I couldn’t actually believe it. Asked about them all and worried right along with me. With out them I wouldn’t have made it this far for sure. They kept me going sometimes just through the motions of life itself and knew eventually those motions would be come real again. Those are the angels in my life. Those are the prayer warriors that god placed in my life when I first plugged in a web TV some 5 yrs ago. For such a time as this. The tears rolled freely down onto my computer keyboard this am uncontrollably nothing I could do to stop them. Relief from a mother’s heart to know one more of them is going to be ok. Well be home soon and I will get to once again hug the boy that left home ,joined the military and is now a young man :) but still my son. Thank you lord for your protection over this past year for keeping him and his brothers safe. For returning him home to me untouched and ok. Thanks for the angels you placed in my life. With that I will go wait for his phone call and listen to his voice, which I haven’t heard in over a month now. Nor have I seen him in a year. And eventually you will return to us his brother in the miltary,who is over seas as well:) right? :))))))))))) Ok I am gone going to go hug my sons dog ( actually our family dog he claims is his :) and share the news with him :)

Still painting :)

Today we hit the fabric store again. Personally l love all this help I am getting from the grand’s on this painting deal. Nothing like young imaginations for sure.
One thing about painting you can always do it over if you don’t like it. We have two tables to paint and we already did one with a sponge effect but pa wouldn’t let us do the other one in the chalkboard we wanted so we decided among ourselves to go find as many of those rubber stamps as we could in leaf patterns and do both tables with those. Took out the sponge and did the table in yellow in a smear effect and then took a tube of green paint placed it in a dish and showed the kids what to do then I just stood back LOL they took over in a drove because there little cousins came over to visit for awhile. And Walla we now have this table on its way with a nice green leaf pattern done by them. Several more colors of leaves down and we will be done. Should come out well too. And they are having a blast. Once we done with this one then we drag out the next one and make it almost the same. Though I doubt seriously they will be identical but the kids will always appreciate what they did as well as the adults that can sit and say decorated by the kids here. Ages 5 through 11 and there are 5 of them working on this project today. Then it’s on to recover plain old wooden knobs for dresser drawers here. I found out they can sure work with polymer clay too. Make some really cool patterns so will be having them do that and help me cover those wooden knobs we bought today. Along with working on quits too. And of course keeping up with summer homework. Got one on the leap pad working on reading each day, one on the black board working on letters and numbers and one reading up on abacuses and learning how to use that. Caring for pets and doing fun things and our summer is going to be one we will always remember for sure. We also let them pick out two different pieces of fat quarters each ,at the fabric store. So when we have a table to work on soon we will be planning our fist quilt too.
Not one funny story about Alaska for you that I can think of today. Sorry about that. Just having a blast with the kids here. Got to scoot got the patio swing covers to re dye in dark green.

Painting in Alaska
It was supposed to be a day of painting here. We all woke up to lists of things to get done. Shopping lists consisting of paint for the patio, an orbital sander so we could sand down the patio table and refinish it. As well as and assortment of other shopping items. Like paper plates and iced tea.
After several hours out running around gathering up all the things we thought we needed. And having a car full of kids and of course our dog that absolutely refuses to be left at home. We finally got home. But as things go it was the wrong kind of sand paper for the sander so out the door hubby goes with the grandson in tow to remedy that. And out I go onto the patio with the grand daughters to scrub down the patio deck of all the dirt and clutter of what was left of leaves and things to make sure it was ready to paint again. A chore I don’t actually like to do but one that comes up about every two years or so. Three of us hosing it down and running the deck brush over it and then were in for a while to relax while it dries. Started a game of scrabble with the older granddaughter. And in comes hubby. Seems he is announcing there is a huge water leak in the city main. Right on our street. So I go out to look. And yep there sure the heck is one. Right straight across the road from side walk to side walk and water pouring every where into the street and getting worse every min. the neighbors drive way was flooding fast as the curb was high enough to deflect it from our yard but was running straight down into there drive way , basement and yard. Which is set lower then ours. And there is this mt. like piece of cement that is in front of their driveway that is growing by the min looking as though it’s a volcano ready to burst any second. For fear of it doing so and cement being thrown in the air in any direction I take the kids into the house and wait for the city to show up and take care of their flood. All I can say is any thoughts we had of painting the patio deck were totally gone for the day. So we spent the day working on the table instead.
Got that just about done and here comes the rain. Hubby's words as we scrambled to grab all our things was that is the last time I will buy paint when it is sun shinning out LOL

The scrabble game was a blast though. My grand daughter laid down a letter s on the board on a triple word score and got 63 points geshhhhhhhh did I ever have a hard time trying to catch up with her on that one. Never actually did her last word for that game was the word win. Grrrrrrr last letters I pulled were rid and of all things shit. LOL tell you what that sure told me a ton about how my game was going LOL
Like I said life in my neck of the world is never dull.

The Big Bear Pie Store

Several years back when we were living in a trailer park one of our neighbors decided to spend a nice summer day baking fresh pies. We could smell the aroma from our kitchen windows. Wasn’t a bad idea until we got her phone call. Asking us for help. Seems she put the pies in her open kitchen window to let them cool down. Well her kitchen window was right by her front door. And along comes her first customer for pies. A huge bear. She called to say she has already given him one of her pies hoping he would go away. But he hadn’t yet left. Please come help her out. So hubby went outside ( brave man sure wasn’t going to be me ) and goes to shoo the bear away. By the time he got there the bear had gone and only after eating all the neighbors pies. LOL

Oh the trials of learning . LOL I have been looking around at the blogs on line and found some really good reading. Buttttttt have no clue how to make such pretty pages as I have seen as I go. Oh well in time I guess. Not even sure if I am doing this right or anyone is even bothering to read this but that is ok it's all more for me then anyone else. Oh yea sure you say she is sitting there writting all of this because she likes to talk to herself LOL And do you think she will figure out where the heck her spell ck is at . LOL
All joking aside and yes I did figure out where I can do this first and get spell ck.
I hate to grip cause I know others have far hotter weather then we do. So I won't even try. But yesterday it hit 78 here by 5 pm. Now that doesn't seem bad at all. Except I live about two blocks or so from the nearest body of water and our humidity here gets really high so when it hits78 its about the same as 100 in dry heat . We have even been known to push the 90's here too.
Our days are getting longer too. So it won' be long now and the sun will be out more and more during the evenings. I have seen it as bright as high noon at 1 am and then darkend for around 2 hours and then the sun comes right back up again. Our heat here does'nt go away either until the sun goes down. Most of the time were lucky our cooler moments are early in the am. Tide changes bring us some nice cool breezes that helps us get through it all though. So about twice during my waking days I get the chance to cool down a bit .
Well time to put on my running shoes so to speek and chase grandchildren around . If I get the chance to get back in again this week and blog my heart out I will be dang lucky. :) SOOOOOOOOO let the summer fun begin :)
Enjoy yourself where ever you are and what ever weather you have :)

Summer mode in Alaska ,

Tell you what Iunderstand how come we here hybernate like bears in the winter time .LOL Rule of thumb no matter where you live in alaska is this. if it is nice out, warm enough to venture out at all and sun shinning , it's concidered almost a sin to stay inside. Soooooo once the weather is nice no one is inside. Except for me of course for alittle while Tonger today.
wanted to work on email and this blog and then i will be out working on my tan.
this week saw our grandson graduating from high school. that was such a mess. they picked me up at 1. after dropping him off to get his cap and gown and family tickets. only to find when we got there no one knew where his cap and gown were located at so it was run in circles for an hour to find them. we were sent from person to person only to be sent on. geshhhh what a mess . when we did locate those then it was the case of the missing tickets. so he stood there watching the last of the family members go into the gym and knew even if he would walk his family being myself his auntie and gf wouldnt be able to get in. so he said lets leave i am not doing this with out my family. admirable yep not bad at all. one of the ladies that was taking tickets from people going in knew him and my daughter his auntie so after talking to her we were able to get in. soooooooo happy to say he walked got his deploma and graduated.

now as far as funny stories. i once got on a city bus with my children when they were younger it was one of the things we liked to do in the evenings take a bus ride and watch the sun go down. well one lady got on the bus and sat across from us this predated the tourist busses we have all over here in the summertime full of tourists. well time goes on and this lady decides to talk to me. that is ok i am not an unfriendly person. exept she had no intentions of being kind or talking nicely instead she wanted to complain. she told me it was horrible how people came to see our city and we didnt clean up. all this as a city sweeper went slowly by in the other lane going the opposit direction. i didnt say a word as i though ok here we go. she was loud enough everyone that was sitting near us including the bus driver could hear her. she went on to say she had been out to see our glacier and it was dirty as anything she had ever seen. and we should be ahamed of oursleves. i still sat there with out a word and tried not to bust up laughing. then she announced that everyone in our city should have gotten out there at spring time before our tourist's showed up and gotten up there with brooms and swept off all the dirt. and hosed it down so it would sparke like it should for our visistors. i remained silent. eventually she got off the bus leaving all of us regular city folks on the bus. the doors closed and then we pulled away and then all you could hear was a roar of laughter as we took off down the road. the bus driver turned around at the next stop light and told me you did a good job dealing with her so when are we all heading out to sweep that glacier and then broke out in laughter. LOL now if you dont happen to know anything about a glacier let me tell you now there is no way i will ever climb on one of those things for no one and sweep it of anything. those things are nothing but huge ice cubes that have deep cravaces in them you could fall into besides there to to cold for this grandma to even concider walking on . then of course there is the calving of them not even going to be on one when it decides its time to do that when a huge cunk of it falls off into the lake below.. :))))) tell you some people should for sure read there brocures before they visit another area or if nothing else learn something about the place and the culture there going to go see and leave there culture baggage at home where it belongs. LOL had she even bothered to stop at the visitors center at the glacier she would have taken the time to learn a ton of wonderful things about glaciers and what goes on LOL :) oh well made for a very interesting and funny time for us to say the least .
ok enough said i am out of here its sunshinning here and i want to go work on my tan. where ever your at you enjoy your day see you when i can :)

my great porcippine adventure.

about two years ago hubby and i went out shopping for a pot and pan rack to go over our stove in the basement. we found one brought it home and installed it. he said would be nice if we had all our cast iron pots and pans hanging from this . so i said sure would be let me dig them out of all the camping gear. so off i go over to the other end of the basement where we had this shelf that is about 5 ft off the ground where we keep all the camping gear. i grab the light cord to put the light on so i can see only it isnt working the light bulb is out. so i go to the next light to pull that cord and nothing again . i grab the flash light and think ok i can do this. point it ahead of me towards the shelf which i am now standing about two feet from facing it only to see this huge procippine sitting there on the camping gear looking straight at me. i jump back yell there is a porcippine here on the shelf. hubby says no it cant be must be a cat . he isnt moving to help me at all just talking to me from the stove area. i tell him no its not a cat i know what a blank blank cat looks like this is a procippine and its a big one. he comes over to see i am still backing away from it slowly. dont want this thing upset with me, i dont want a face full of quills. hubby sees what it is and gets me out of there asap. we go upstairs cause the thing was backing away too. and call the animal control. he gets off the phone says they wont come ,told me to call fish and game. said they no longer pull porcippines out of peoples houses. so he calls fish and game they tell him the same thing tell him to call the state troppers who pass him along to the city police. this is getting fustrating so i tell him call the animal control again tell them they have to help us .i cant have this here in the house with the children coming to stay today tell them i run a babysitting service for the kids and i need this out of here asap. so he does. and they agree to come over.
now our basement is all dirt with a 6 ft celing in places we were able at that to make space for something of a rec room , insolte it and the like ,but in actuality its still a dirt basement. not to cold in the winter with the help fo a stove down there. so the animal control people show up and the chase is on. around and around all of them go with flash lights in hand. they corner the thing in a corner and the next thing i hear is this scream out of one of the guys . he got a leg full of porcipine quills out of it all. poor thing. we later had to plug several holes in the walls where the cats had dug them to use as cat doors in the night and day to get in and out of. grrrrrrrrrrrr. i tell you life in alaska is never dull ,winter ,summer or fall.

one other time about oh maybe 5 years back or so give or take . were driving home from our daughters place after a night of playing uno with the family . have to cross the bridge to do so. and in the middle of the road is this black thing . an animal about the size of a german shepard. sitting on its hind legs in the middle of the road. we slow down and i ask what the heck is that? i couldnt tell in the dark. hubby says its a porcippine . we had to stop and wait for it to cross the road before we proceed. well this thing decided to use the walk way on the bridge going in the same direction as we were. we dove over the bridge and came down toward the stop light only to see a teen aged boy using the crossing walk for the bridge ,in the opposite direction. i told hubby we better stop and warn him there is a porcippine using that path. he is to tired says the kid will see him soon enough . i am alittle upset and were still driving. not slowing down. i look over my shoulder in the direction the kid is at only to see moments later he is jumping over the railing into the middle of the bridge . guess he saw the proccpine walking towards him :))))))) and off the kid ran LOL

The debate is still looming over my grandsons head today as to weather or not he is actually going to walk in the graduation. but if he does i took the time to call the high school and someone there said there holding 4 tickets for his family. its now all up to him the event will take place sat if he so chooses.

so on another note. wild life in alaska set aside for the am. and now its pets LOL as a grandma i have had to take on some pets over the years. one that i will talk about today is a hamster i bought my grandson at christmas time. now i am usually not into anything that even remotely looks like a reptile or a rat. but this is something i chose to give him because he has had these before. and i got rather tired of" everyone has a pet but me" this is a white dwarf hamster. and he livesin the book case in his little world cage in our frontroom, because he was keeping my grandson up at night with his wheel and mike was throwing pillows at him so i removed him and was told if he leaves my bedroom he isnt coming back. no problem . mr hamster cant help his habits so i took him in the frontroom in the middle of the night and looked around " where the heck do i keep him?" i was thinking. can't leave him here the cats will get him so i quickly made space in the childrens book case for him that used to be a what the heck is it called ,oh well for lack of words one of those dinner plate huts with closeing glass doors on it and several drawers below those. my mom used to keep her collectables in it and so did i until i began to babysit the younger set of grandchildren then i turned it into a keep your books in here your project stuff, crayons and movies and the like. games you name it . well i redid it all and now mr hamseter lives above all their books in there.
ok we have a dog , cat, two gold fish and two birds and of course mr hamster .
this am i am on the phone long distance talking to my grandsons ma down south in the lower 48 and sitting in my bedroom when this what looked like a white mouse goes streaking across the floor along side my bed. across the room from me. ok normal female reaction jump up in a panic and scream. add to that i hung up the phone in the middle of the converstation. leaving my daughter to wonder in another state what the heck was going on. i run into hubbies bedroom in a panic and tell him " help me i need help come quickly!' he looks at me with this look of " please discribe help to me " and away we go as were going i tell him i am not sure but its either mr hamster or a white rat in my room. LOL we get in there and i am of course the first one in and i see him run across the floor the other way. hubby didnt so he goes out to ck his cage and sees he isnt there and tells me i think its mr hamster ,so we hunt for him around the bed. he says well he isnt here are you sure it was him. seems like it should because i dont see him in his cage i will have to look more through the saw dust in there. he turns to leave the room and there goes mr hamster under the desk. hubby finally gets him in hand and puts him away. all the while telling him him had one heck of an adventure. we have no clue how long he has been out or where he has been or even if the family cat chased him all night LOL most of this hamster hunt i spent standing on the bed or chair. geshhhhhhhhhhhhh life in grandmas petting zoo . LOL
of course there was last summer , when i got roped into taking care of the class bunny. oh what fun that was. we turned him loose one day in the frontroom so he could get out of his cage and get exerscse. our cockerspaniel decided it was time to make him run so here is the dog chasing the bunny around in circles. along comes our simeese cat . walking boldly into the frontroom the rabit saw her and away they went the bunny is chasing the cat and the dog is chasing the bunny LOL if only i had a camera handy that would have been a wonderful kodak moment to catch. oh well they spent the summer doing that one on a regular basis. this year i refused to take any anamals to babysit for the summer . even though my grand daughter called me up begging me " but grandma there doves. i will help out" noooooooooooo and i stuck to it. we got enough here to care for as it is her mas birds have three little bitty babies .as it is we will have to begin hand feeding soon.
i did get back to my daughter on the phone and of course she laughed her but off about the mr hamseter thing . and also the high school to find out more about graduation this sat and of course my grandson on what he wants to do . i will have to know soon so i can pay for the cap and gown . right now its up in the air. somehow i dont think with the broken hand thing he wants to walk. and i of course wont force him too . he said if he doesnt he will ck into one of those picture sudios and have his picture taken in cap and gown for the family. his auntie told me this am he isnt feeling very well has a tummy flue going along with the hand . maybe its the meds they are giving him . but he did say he is cking in to see what is oging on at the high school so i will know more later. next post i will tell you a story about a procippine:)

awesome news today, i have a grandson here 19 yrs old has lived with us for 5 years. he moved out about two months ago on his own. hey the news around here lately just gets better all the time. will about two weeks ago he called me to say he didnt think he was graduating trom high school his year. i was dissapointed but told him ok well maybe next year :) we did our best to get him through the dissapointment he was feeling over it all because it was only 1/2 a credit he had stuggled with all year long in algebra . and we all knew he could do this. well i got a call from him today saying he had just gotten a call too. from the high school telling him he is in FACT graduating this year. yahoooooooooo i am so tickled pink for him . only catch is this. the high school here has limited space on events like this so each student is given only 6 tickets for their family members and they have to choose who can attend and who can't . been there done that one three years ago when my youngest son who is in the navy graduated from highs school here. well my grandson went on to say there are no tickets left. all of them are gone so they asked him if he wanted to walk and he said no if my family can't be there then i see no reason to do so. well i got to thinking about it and called him up and told him if you want to walk you do so. and i would like for you to do this. your the one that is graduating not us. we all know your graduating too. this is your moment and we know you want to share this with us . but you should do this its an awesome cerimony you will never forget. its your finalization to 12 years of schooling. a closer to one part of your life and and event that opens a new one. dont rob yourself of this just because your family couldnt go . he said he will call them in the am and see if he can still walk but told me the cap and gown cost alot i told him dont worry about that i will cover it for you if you want to walk then you walk ok. for yourself an no one else. heck there were times when we began this whole journey they told me he wouldnt make it with out speical education . he fought to do his schooling in the main stream and because that is what he wanted and i thought he could do this i fought along with him to make sure he did it his way. so hey he more then earned his deploma for sure. and with good grades. not awesome but they are bs. and c's what more could he ask for or me for that matter.
see i told you grip in the am log in the good things you want to happen and then go grab the day and once you have set aside all that bothers you in the end you will see some awesome things come out of what looked like a gloomy day. :))))))))))) ok now that i talked your ears off all day off and on i am out of here going to go ck my emails and enjoy my clam chowder soup for dinner :)))))))))) catch you all when i can and i have more awesome news to share or if i can think of something funny to add about life in alaska :)

my hubby and my brother who has been gone now for years, used to go looking for a boat to fish in. they haunted all the yard sales in town, read all the adds in the local papers and searched though all the notes on the for sales boards at the local grociery stores looking for a boat they could afford. well low and behold one sat afternoon in the summer of heck if i know what year they finally found a two man dingy they could afford. they were like little children with their new find . had to drag it around in a truck and show it off to everyone they could think of before they took it out on its maiden voyage at the shrine of st theresas, some 20 odd miles or so out the road. hubby was in his thirties then making my brother about the same age ,he was two years older then him. anyway, off they went on a nice sunny day to play in the ocean. time goes on evening comes and here come the two of them back home no dingy in tow. " where is your dingy i ask?" well here is what i got told. they took it out launched it got in. paddled out as far as they pleased and sat back fishing poles in hand to enjoy the moment and the possible fish they would catch and bring home to cook, smoke or what ever they choose. only the dingy had a leak and they did'nt know it. wasnt to long and their feet were getting wet from the water coming into the tiny boat. they took out their trusty cans and began to bail and then once they thought they had all the water out, back to fishing they went. more time goes by and more water arrives inside there tiny boat and out ocmes the cans again. but this time the water rushes in at a higher rate of speed. now its up to the seats and their britches are soaked , as well as their shoes and gear. it was hopless the dingy was sinking fast with them in it. well they bailed fast dove in the cold alaskan water and swam for shore. ok not to bad except that when they finished there tail of wow the next thing out of there mouths was they both had lost there wallets in the sinking of their boat . and in those wallets were their pay cks they had'nt yet cashed. dang it all anyway took us some time to get them re-issued and made for a rather tough month for my brother financially and of course needless to say they never bought a bargin boat again ever LOL

ok lets get to the comedy of life here..........
i live in downtown juneau ok and in the summer it gets very interesting here. of course we have a huge tourist industry that bulges the poputation of our town to the edges during tourist months. from may to oct. each year. along with that comes life with the wild life here. black bears mostly some porcipines and a ton of eagles .
about two years ago i saw this huge picture like poster in a store window courious i went up close to see it and saw this black bear causually walking past the red dog solon in down town juneau at lunch time . there were people in all the windows peeking out to see this site as the bear lifted the lid on the trash can the city had near the door and took out a mac donalds meal someone had thrown in there . all i did was smile :)
a year before that hubby went to open the door in the am to leave for work. only to find this huge black bear sitting on our front step he said the bear looked like he was enjoying himself watching the mountians and the sun coming up. so he closed the door and got another cup of coffee. sat and drank it then figured maybe the bear was gone by now. went to see but the bear was still there. so off for one more cup of mud and then back to ck . he said this went on for awhile to the point he thought he would be late for work. then he got mad went to the door opened it up, inches from the bear he told that bear to please leave cause your making me late for work i cant even get past you. only to see the bear turn to him with a look of what the heck is work! ck out this sunrise here man slow down LOL needless to say this called for another cup of coffee and a phone call into work telling his boss i cant come in until this bear leaves the porch. not to long after that the bear did leave and all was well one more time in hubbys life :)
you just never know about bears here ,they dont care what time of day or night it is. they walk around as though they own the town and if your in there way you better move. we have seen them across the street from the court house and state legs building . of couse who would eat lunch there right got to hand it to those bears they know what tough meals those people would make LOL
oh but last year it got down right funny LOL
i was laying on the couch sleeping, sometimes i do that. fall asleep watching tv and dont move off the couch. i hear hubby moving around and think ok he is letting the dog out . not uncommon for this early in the am. but the next thing i hear is him leaving. i roll over and try to go back to sleep only the yelling has started. so i sit up . the yelling goes on. so i am now very couriuous as to what the heck is going on . about that time here comes hubby back in the door with the dog in tow. in his boxer shorts no less and nothing more. as it goes hubby had heard a bear at our trash box and gone to shoo it off. opening the door thinking ok i can handle this from here ,i yell he leaves, i go back to bed. WRONGGGG! instead of going as planned our chicken dog decides this is his moment of true courage and runs outside going between hubbys legs to get there. and off he goes down the street chasing the bear. who is running like his life depended on it. well hubby was worried about our chicken dog so with out thinking out he runs out side to retireve the dog .now its him chasing the dog who is chasing the bear in of all things his boxer shorts. LOl and in our neighborhood live ,across the street a dentist ,a preacher and a judge, a baker and lawyers. oh this is jucie for sure. good thing no one was awake or on the streets too or someone would have fainted from the sear laughter of it all for sure LOL dang good thing the bear didnt pass away from shock LOL

Don't even ask me what i am doing here ok. some of us just need a place to place thoughts rolling around in our heads . On that note i say when you wake up in the morning you should begin the day with writting down your goals and then your grips and leave them all there except of course your goals.
what is life in Alaska like for me you may ask? Interesting to say the least. i could sit and tell you some very funny stories about living here for sure. and eventually i will. But for now my concern is just this one day in my other wise mundain life LOL
It begins early enough for me up at sometimes 4, 5 or 6 and all with out the aide of an alarm clock something i trained myself to do years ago as a young mother. And now to think i am a great grandma at a very early age. leaves one to think where the heck did time run off too. i make the coffee ,sit with hubby and talk about possible plans not un- normal i think for most couples and then off we go to do the daily thing, work, care for kids, house work and the like . Only to end it totaly exahusted and so tired sometimes sleep evades us both.
iIwas thinking about chores the other day and wrote that when i was in my 20's i read an article about doing chores and it gave how many times in one persons life they would wash a drinking glass. LOL i went on to say i about stopped washing dishes at that time. and went out to buy paper cups instead. all the while thinking who are they really kidding so what. can't be right cause their talking about one drinking glass and what if that one drinking glass is broken along the way to the end goal their talking about. LOL
we all have dreams of life and how its supposed to go for us when we grow up. right? sometimes those don't come out just as we planned for them to go. ok i am rambling here for lack of a better term but trying to begin this blog is'nt and easy task. anyway, i watch my children and grands grow up and wonder sometimes if some of the things they are dreaming of for themselves in an economy such as it is will even come to light for them. after all the prices of things across the board are so steep its a wonder grown children can even leave home anymore until there ready to retire. makes one look at the american dream and how dead it really is. rent anywhere form $700 a month to heck i have heard of $4,000 seriously. and leaves me to wonder what the heck are you renting and what sort of job would you have to have to be able to rent that kind of place . The tolets must be made of gold LOL sure is'nt the run of the mill home for that much. And then of course the prices over and above all that to make sure you feed your face and have the bare eccentials of daily life. come on where are any of the kids trying to move out going to get that kind of cash.
ok date my in age, i remember when rent was 75 bucks a month for a flate and you got 5 bedrooms and all utilities with that too. All you had to do was plug in your tv and have your phone brought in and you were set. of course truth be know i was a starving student back then stuggling to make it though college. Now i am older by far and supposedly wiser and still poor as a church mouse LOL but the fact is i am still here. and that is what counts right?
i remember first moving back to alaska in the 80's and cking out the prices of cars, brand new of course. About passed out from laughter they wanted 12,000 back then for a brand new car. oh ,cool ,guess what not even going to give you a dime for one cause my first house i bought back in the 60's cost a whooping 12,000 totally, on a 30 year morgage and all we were paying was 112 a month for it back then. cars went for 2 grand brand new. no way was i going to hand over that kind of money for a car. which we all know begins to depreciate once you drive it off the lot so why throw money into something that isnt going to give back more then a meassily few bucks on your investment right? needless to say i have done alot of walking over the years and alot of never driving around though i do hold a drivers licence anyway LOL
but then i talked to my mother a few years later on and asked her how come she was so livid over the price she paid out in house taxes only to be told its horrible i found out in talking to her she paid out about 1.000 back then. not to bad said me to me. but then i in talking to her i found out her and dad paid 1,000 for their home in the 30's what a shocker that was i then understood what bothered her so much about house taxes for her it was a nightmare for sure because each year she paid the city the same price she paid long ago for the orginal price of her home. wowza what a shocker that is kinda makes you wonder where its all leading to when you grow old huh. gosh i sure hope it doesnt get that out of hand.
ok enough complaining aready :)))))))) what will today bring for me? the snuggles and compionship of a sweet grand daughter ,time ,to write in the blog. more rain of course. and then there is time to relax maybe i hope. seriously it happens once in a while in my hectic life :) the kids get out of school today yahooooo summer time and games, making quilts and nature walks taking pictures around town enjoying life as it is and what ever it brings my way. camping out under the stars ,maybe some fishing, living like huck finn and tom. Hey i can buy that one for sure. so what is important to me? placing all the things that bug the crap out of me down as soon as i can before i begin my day and then just grabbing the day and the things i wish i could do and running out there and making some of those nicer things happen. with that i will sign out. have a wonderful day where ever your at and enjoy your life to the best you can see you again when i find something to share :)
ps :what is going to make me happy? the best of all for me this month is my son in the navy comes home on leave for a month yahooooooo havent seen him for a year all this mess we have had every where boy its going to be a good month for sure. all bad thigs move on down the road this mom, grandma, great-grandma and of course wife is going to have a blast dungens crab feed here i comeeeeeeeeee:)))))))))) yahoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!