Good day (30)!

You didn't say how many years Sue although I seem to remember it was close to ours (45 last week in Oct)

Anyway congratulations dear friend

Yeah right, Ron. If I had gotten married 45 years ago, I would have been about five. No, it was our 27th wedding anniversary.

Thank you James, we did indeed celebrate in style. San Francisco is renowned for its food, and we indulged in fresh seafood everyday. It was wonderful! 

James, you sound like my brother..his name is James also but we call him Jim...he says he regrets getting married last year..they were fighting and split up briefly before it even turned an year...but she's not working and he always was for making the best money deals off others..they work at it continually though. I prefer not to get involved myself to tell the truth. She may of married him for an house, as he had it when they met.. and he may of married her for her paycheck, as she had an really good job back then also...not exactly sure.

Good for the vacation Sue...I'm going on year 4 without one so far, but you never know.... "maybe...." someday.

I went shopping today and ran across an "Happy Holidays" at Lowes.....in their Christmas decorations....now I've been telling myself that my hubby is getting to old to have to hang lights two stories up.. outside on an skinny ladder...he could stop doing that. So I bought this...says Happy Holidays in green and green leaves and red poinsettas flowers down below the words back lit by 250 mini lights in the same colors as the feature they back. I tell myself that this I could make an possible looking post card for the front of my house. Frame it in white mini-lights...but I may be able to put it like that in the center of my house between the upstairs and the downsrairs also....I'll work some later on it. If I made it postcard for the lawn, I could add an  lighted deer on one side and an light shape like an tree on one end of it. The words are 72 inches long. Much easier to put out in my yard then hanging stuff on the house.

Holloween was taken down early this morning except for the Scare-crows and the pilgrim people for Thanksgiving...and an few related items of "thanksgiving" theme. In sissy's room tonight with her electric blanket on for an bit...I shut it off after it gets the bedding warm...and hope to recoup what I missed on "Dancing with the Stars" last night...here pretty soon. He's off to Scouts for the night...and I'm glad of it. So I watch Jepoardy and Wheel of Fortune until it comes on...... So talk to all later on.

Scare crows hang around my silk tree...and the pilgrim people are wood carved...I have some Native Americans I'll have to find and add to it all as well. Wednesday mornig it dips to below freezing on the west side of Portland and city center...."Occupy Portland" could use some hand warmers in an bigger size for their sleeping out in those tents. I was watching them making bread on TV...and I think of when we were kids how Wonder Bread use to distribute free small loads of bread still warm from the baking. Warm bread and Beef Stew sounds good when it's freezing outside. I know, we use to do "Snow Camp" up at Mt.Hood with the scouts in January/Feburary every year to teach them how to make "snow caves" and seal them shut. Though tey tried out numerous other ways of building techiniques. Pat Bigelow made an triangle gadget...with an floor in it. folded up....he use to go for an low spot in the ground with snow above him and three trees to nail or rope hang this thing off for his bed and put his gear down below out of the weather and wind...where he build an fire that the heat rose upwards to his little triangle...but still all used hand warmers and coat warmers anyway. First snow up there is coming in now....freeze first in the lower elevations. Will start at the 2,500 foot level in the mountains around around Wednesday all along the Pacific West Coast. What was it the Native American ladies use to tell me...never stay in those mountains in the winter if you can move elsewhere....stay in the valleys but up high off river banks. Dig yourself into it slightly if you can..on an ledge... and if an tree falls..it will go over your head and not into your tipi. You can go above it and make drainage routes on each side for the rain if need be. Safer from preditor animals also if they have to challenge an climb to get to you. Sounds exactly like how an cougar would move in the forrest...slgihtly up higher off or on the ground...looking over things as it roams. Probably easier to deal with it in an bow and arrow situation also if it was about to pounce on you. Well, time for me to go..I think the bedding is toasty warm now...talk later on.

Hi Shirley,
Thank you very much for thinking of me,It is really wonderful to hear
that my friend who living at the other end of the world and i had never seen her.I am very grateful indeed.

Hi everyone..It's a great day today.