Diana Sinclair
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Location: USA | quotePosted at 16:14 on 3rd February 2009 On 3rd February 2009 15:28, Stephanie Jackson wrote: On 3rd February 2009 13:36, Diana Sinclair wrote: On 3rd February 2009 11:22, Stephanie Jackson wrote: Wow Diana - you've started something here!!! Hope things get better for you soon Diana. I lived on my own for 7 years after splitting from my 1st husband. It is tough. I had to pay him out for his share of the house and everything in it (and prices of houses were inflated at the time - I wouldn't mind if he had bothered to work for the time we were together!). Then a couple of years later I lost my job and that's when Martin and myself started the business which was hard going for a few years. Luckily for me I bought my 1st house when prices were low so I managed to pay the mortgage somehow. Your rent truly sounds like a massive drain on resources. I hope you get the break you truly deserve,
Thanks Steph! 
Some how I seem to have given everyone the idea that I am unhappy alone; that's not true. I may get lonely sometimes, and I do think it would be nice to have someone to kiss good night, share a cup of coffee with, or to just sit in companionable silence as we each read our favorite books, but I am not languishing away. If I meet someone, great! But if not, I refuse to put my life on hold and live as a miserable wretch! LOL! 
It is tough money wise on your own though -
That is so true! I keep looking at other people and wondering how they manage and then I realize most of them have partners who help shoulder the burden. Having said that, I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person! |
Shirley K. Lawson
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Location: USA | quotePosted at 20:48 on 3rd February 2009 On 3rd February 2009 15:28, Stephanie Jackson wrote: On 3rd February 2009 13:36, Diana Sinclair wrote: On 3rd February 2009 11:22, Stephanie Jackson wrote: Wow Diana - you've started something here!!! Hope things get better for you soon Diana. I lived on my own for 7 years after splitting from my 1st husband. It is tough. I had to pay him out for his share of the house and everything in it (and prices of houses were inflated at the time - I wouldn't mind if he had bothered to work for the time we were together!). Then a couple of years later I lost my job and that's when Martin and myself started the business which was hard going for a few years. Luckily for me I bought my 1st house when prices were low so I managed to pay the mortgage somehow. Your rent truly sounds like a massive drain on resources. I hope you get the break you truly deserve,
Thanks Steph!
Some how I seem to have given everyone the idea that I am unhappy alone; that's not true. I may get lonely sometimes, and I do think it would be nice to have someone to kiss good night, share a cup of coffee with, or to just sit in companionable silence as we each read our favorite books, but I am not languishing away. If I meet someone, great! But if not, I refuse to put my life on hold and live as a miserable wretch! LOL!
You haven't given me the wrong idea Diana, I was very happy on my own too - I loved doing my own thing - coming in when I wanted and watching what I wanted on the TV!!! LOL. It is tough money wise on your own though - although my 1st husband got me into debt so I was so much better off without him!
You know, since I've had the heart problems everyone has kind went around me more or less in this house, and the doctor has told me, slow down if you want to make it a bit longer and start taking care of yourself, instead of everyone else, so I am and I do. there are times when I'mleft to myself and there'e times I immensly enjoy it also. Like right now. I still have two huge dogs, and a coupleof cats, the birds and the fish hanging around me..and they are companions of an sort in their own way. I decorate my house according to the next Holiday to keep my mind off it being nothing but an time to go eat more so then acknowledge otherwise...I'd like to build an birdhouse right now...for the patio out front, and today my eagels are out flying around in the air, Spring is coming perhaps? Thing is, if you can't be happy with yourself, how can you be happy with others. My walking through the area is getting me to know many of the people live in the houses around me also. I enjoy nature. I should be doing my meditation studies also...I think keeping your mind and hands busy is an asset.
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Sue H
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Location: USA | quotePosted at 21:02 on 3rd February 2009 On 3rd February 2009 20:48, Shirley K. Lawson wrote:
Thing is, if you can't be happy with yourself, how can you be happy with others.
Never a truer word spoken Shirley. And what kind of eagles do you have flying around? |
Krissy
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Location: USA | quotePosted at 19:58 on 4th February 2009 On 3rd February 2009 16:14, Diana Sinclair wrote: On 3rd February 2009 15:28, Stephanie Jackson wrote: On 3rd February 2009 13:36, Diana Sinclair wrote: On 3rd February 2009 11:22, Stephanie Jackson wrote: Wow Diana - you've started something here!!! Hope things get better for you soon Diana. I lived on my own for 7 years after splitting from my 1st husband. It is tough. I had to pay him out for his share of the house and everything in it (and prices of houses were inflated at the time - I wouldn't mind if he had bothered to work for the time we were together!). Then a couple of years later I lost my job and that's when Martin and myself started the business which was hard going for a few years. Luckily for me I bought my 1st house when prices were low so I managed to pay the mortgage somehow. Your rent truly sounds like a massive drain on resources. I hope you get the break you truly deserve,
Thanks Steph!
Some how I seem to have given everyone the idea that I am unhappy alone; that's not true. I may get lonely sometimes, and I do think it would be nice to have someone to kiss good night, share a cup of coffee with, or to just sit in companionable silence as we each read our favorite books, but I am not languishing away. If I meet someone, great! But if not, I refuse to put my life on hold and live as a miserable wretch! LOL!
It is tough money wise on your own though -
That is so true! I keep looking at other people and wondering how they manage and then I realize most of them have partners who help shoulder the burden. Having said that, I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person!
I agree with you Diana!! It may be tough money wise but most importantly, I am happy. That's worth loads more than any amount of money! |
Shirley K. Lawson
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Location: USA | quotePosted at 20:37 on 5th February 2009 On 3rd February 2009 21:02, Sue H. wrote: On 3rd February 2009 20:48, Shirley K. Lawson wrote:
Thing is, if you can't be happy with yourself, how can you be happy with others.
Never a truer word spoken Shirley. And what kind of eagles do you have flying around?
American Bald headed Eagles I think, it's unusual to see them so low, ususally they are real high in the sky and flying around, we have to keep an eye on our small animals, such as "cats" when they are out you know. Thanks why I wondered if they were maybe after an squirrl to eat , being where they were. |
Shirley K. Lawson
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Location: USA | quotePosted at 20:41 on 5th February 2009 .... I just bought the binoculars yesterday to take an better look and they up and took off on me...but Spring is a coming, so they'll be back most likely. If I'mlucky maybe they will nest there, but I doubt it with the highway below these trees. |
Diana Sinclair
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Location: USA | quotePosted at 19:28 on 6th February 2009 There's not much more impressive than seeing a Bald Eagle in flight. Beautiful! |
Shirley K. Lawson
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Location: USA | quotePosted at 20:59 on 6th February 2009 Yes, they swirl around and tip an wing downward and most the time they are so high that they look tiny, but you know if an regular bird were up that high that you'd never be able to see it at all...one year in an snow storm I put out food and the younger one stopped by..his wing span as he took off was literally the whole end of the deck itself..the adutls if they fly low looked near like an small airplane in their shadow they make going over. Just an really awesome sight to see, they have been moving out of our area due to the housing going in and the lack of farmland/tree nursery lands for them to catch wild rabbits/mice. I have always enjoyed seeing them...even if I do have to keep an eye on my cats. |
Diana Sinclair
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Location: USA | quotePosted at 21:36 on 6th February 2009 |
Shirley K. Lawson
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Location: USA | quotePosted at 09:16 on 8th February 2009 An "Eagle" is my Native Ameircan totem animal...they say that you and theylivemuch the same, by "spirit" as they teach you the ways of the world...and so it is "Eagles" are birds and I am an "flighty" Gemini in nature also, eagles "mate" for life, I'll be celebrating my 43 rd wedding anniversay here soon, eagles are rare to have more then two chicks an year, I have one son, they represent "vision"... just as John Denver's song mentioned, though I think heartwise, I like John's Song of "Rocky Mountian High" better, it's suited to my nature...onceI dreamed I was flying in our area as an Eagle, it "felt"wonderful...I looked down and I saw an "bear" trying to pull the wool over another animals eyes, so as to over-take him, and I knew it wouldn' t be so, and it wasn't...the "vision"played out later on by people. Eagles are also saidto be the untouchables by somepeople, high,andlofty, unto themselves,but they see the world like unlikeotherson the land...thereopinons often reflect that, they are predators in what they need to survive. They can see from yards above an river to dropdown in anprecise spot to bring up an huge salmon in their talons. Because they don't breed excessively, they are not many, an federally protected, and the Native Ameircans use to pay homage to their visionary talents, th echief wore their feathers for his ceremonial head gear. Eagles are "in the open"kind of birds also, no "behind closed doorstype"....they wont'stab you in the back, unless they need to in orderto survivethemselves...andisn't thatso "American"in ways also? They are federally protectedbirds also, you better not get caught trying ot shootone down either. Keen of eye, they see the unseen somedays. They have good so called "insight" most the time. Such are Eagles. |
