Well, well, well. The Tenaha, TX police are accused of extorting money and valuables from travelers passing through their area.
Of course, we all know what a wonderful job law enforcement does when they have the added incentive of confiscating property from others.
And we all know that all law enforcement officers are men of unimpeachable character, so there should be absolutely no reason to question their actions in this (or any other) matter.
Yeah, right...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
A Quiet Sunday
DH and the kids are gone to a family reunion today, so I'm all by my lonesome. I can actually hear myself think, for a change! I would have gone with them, but I'm on call for the next couple of weeks and I didn't want to get too far from home, just in case.
So I'm taking this opportunity to get some blogging done. Is everyone out there having a good time watching the empire beginning to crumble? I know I sure am. We may not be in the best preparatory shape, but we certainly aren't in the worst, either.
And gas prices are dropping like a lead balloon around here. My husband has been saying all along that before the election, gas would be below $3.00 a gallon and everything would be going quietly in Iraq. I've managed to swing him from being a die-hard Republican to being a Libertarian. I'm still working on de-capitalizing the L. ;-) In the meantime, he's out there telling everybody he meets that there is a third choice in the election.
This has been a banner year for our garden. We have never had much luck growing green beans--they don't germinate well, and don't produce well. Someone told us that they grow pinto beans and pick them while they are green and small to use like green beans. So we tried it and they really are good! Pintos grow great in our acidic soil, so now we have all the "green beans" we want. Enough to share some with our "milk man." We've got plans to break even more soil to grown peas and beans next year.
Right now, we have pintos, black beans, and purple hull peas coming on, and I planted spinach and lettuce last weekend. I've also been picking the last of our bell peppers.
We're slowly sliding into autumn. The trees are just beginning to turn. I've noticed the bluebirds are back, and there's a little phoebe bird that sits on our phone wire singing "fee-bee, fee-bee, pee-wit!" He sounds like a small sqeaky toy.
Yes, indeed. The world keeps turning in spite of what "they" say...
So I'm taking this opportunity to get some blogging done. Is everyone out there having a good time watching the empire beginning to crumble? I know I sure am. We may not be in the best preparatory shape, but we certainly aren't in the worst, either.
And gas prices are dropping like a lead balloon around here. My husband has been saying all along that before the election, gas would be below $3.00 a gallon and everything would be going quietly in Iraq. I've managed to swing him from being a die-hard Republican to being a Libertarian. I'm still working on de-capitalizing the L. ;-) In the meantime, he's out there telling everybody he meets that there is a third choice in the election.
This has been a banner year for our garden. We have never had much luck growing green beans--they don't germinate well, and don't produce well. Someone told us that they grow pinto beans and pick them while they are green and small to use like green beans. So we tried it and they really are good! Pintos grow great in our acidic soil, so now we have all the "green beans" we want. Enough to share some with our "milk man." We've got plans to break even more soil to grown peas and beans next year.
Right now, we have pintos, black beans, and purple hull peas coming on, and I planted spinach and lettuce last weekend. I've also been picking the last of our bell peppers.
We're slowly sliding into autumn. The trees are just beginning to turn. I've noticed the bluebirds are back, and there's a little phoebe bird that sits on our phone wire singing "fee-bee, fee-bee, pee-wit!" He sounds like a small sqeaky toy.
Yes, indeed. The world keeps turning in spite of what "they" say...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
So much to do...
Projects in the works:
- knitting for a friend (for $)
- planning a sweater for dh (need more needles...)
- drawing plans for a house
- building a website for my hubby
- trying to keep up with my website and blogs
- getting back to home schooling
- the usual midwife stuff: prenatals, classes, births (but not much lately)
- reading, studying, researching
- trying to be social when I can
My husband just pointed something out...
My husband is watching Joe Biden speak at the Democratic convention. My husband says:
"It's really interesting to hear someone who has been a congressman for over 20 years tell us what a bad job the government is doing for us."
Yep.
"It's really interesting to hear someone who has been a congressman for over 20 years tell us what a bad job the government is doing for us."
Yep.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
It was hot, but it was worth it...
Our family went to a local watermelon festival today. In addition we had my daughter's two best friends with us. There was a parade, karaoke, free watermelon, and booths with crafts, food, games and gifts.
One of the booths was rented by the city library and they were selling used books. My son and I dug through the boxes to see what we could find. Here is what I came out with:
So, even though it was close to 100 degrees out there, I'm glad we went.
Oh, and the watermelon was good, too! :-)
One of the booths was rented by the city library and they were selling used books. My son and I dug through the boxes to see what we could find. Here is what I came out with:
- The Superior Person's Book of Words - this one is for my oldest daughter who likes to throw big words around. Lots of big words with humorous examples of when to use them;
- Tips for the Lazy Gardener - hundreds of time and effort saving tips for gardening;
- The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had - I'm going to read this one before I send it along to my oldest daughter; and,
- River-Horse: A Voyage Across America - this one I snatched up fast because it is by William Least Heat-Moon, who wrote Blue Highways. I blogged about that book quite a while back. I didn't know he had written more books!
So, even though it was close to 100 degrees out there, I'm glad we went.
Oh, and the watermelon was good, too! :-)
Monday, June 23, 2008
A Recommendation for Mac owners
My 6-year-old iMac computer went kablooey recently. It simply would not boot up.
After trying all that I could to access the drive and get my data off of it, I finally sent the whole thing off to a company in Memphis. They diagnosed a crashed hard drive, but were able to recover all of my information from it. While they had it, I figured I might as well upgrade.
So for a little over $325 (including shipping both ways), I got a much improved Macintosh back--newer OS, bigger hard drive, and more RAM. The cost to take it to the closest "Apple approved" repair place, 80 miles away, would have been $300, just for the hard drive recovery. And the turn around was quicker than I expected: they received it on a Thursday and I got it back the following Thursday.
The company I sent it to was Operator Headgap Systems. They sell refurbished macs, do repairs and upgrades, sell parts, and have a great tech support line. There is also a pretty good tech page on their website with lots of good information on upgrades, hardware, and software.
They went above and beyond the service I expected, and I am very pleased with their work. I highly recommend them if you have a Macintosh that needs work.
After trying all that I could to access the drive and get my data off of it, I finally sent the whole thing off to a company in Memphis. They diagnosed a crashed hard drive, but were able to recover all of my information from it. While they had it, I figured I might as well upgrade.
So for a little over $325 (including shipping both ways), I got a much improved Macintosh back--newer OS, bigger hard drive, and more RAM. The cost to take it to the closest "Apple approved" repair place, 80 miles away, would have been $300, just for the hard drive recovery. And the turn around was quicker than I expected: they received it on a Thursday and I got it back the following Thursday.
The company I sent it to was Operator Headgap Systems. They sell refurbished macs, do repairs and upgrades, sell parts, and have a great tech support line. There is also a pretty good tech page on their website with lots of good information on upgrades, hardware, and software.
They went above and beyond the service I expected, and I am very pleased with their work. I highly recommend them if you have a Macintosh that needs work.
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