Good day (31)

Hi Cathy,

We had normal telephones here until some kind folks stole the copper cables once too often. Telkom then decided they could not give us a service. Mobiles don't work here but a small company called Edelnet came to our rescue. We now have one of their towers on the hill opposite us and broadband transmitted from there. We also have a VOIP phone. The whole thing cost R3000 to install and monthly we pay aboutR475 including calls and uncapped internet. Their calls are cheaper than Telkom and way cheaper than the mobile operators. For example we can phone London for 50 cents/minute. In pounds that is nearly nothing - probaly about 3p.

Maybe there is someone in Pretoria supplying a similar service? Have a good evening all. Goodnight

they just caught an group of  7 people  over on the other side of west Portland... stealing cars and cutting them into pieces... to sell to metal dealers for money.  It was an "sting operation" the police had set up. See, doesn't pay to buy an new car anymore, i tmay be chopped up before you get it paid for...we have human trash disposers out there working....I can see it now..".Honey, I could use some money for shopping"..".Here you go!"...hands her an door handle or two.

I understand that Nelson Mandella is in the hosptial...one of our so called "predictors" thought he had passed on earlier last year...we had to tell her that he was just "fine" back then....so this morning she's telling us she is for some reason one year ahead of herself... so we all wished this guy an speedy recovery....as what she saw afterward was an lot of world chaos going on...and it would start from an incident in "Africa".  Oc course burning the others guy "Koran" hasn't helped much....do you think they will forgive us?.. several high key officials have issued statements to the idea that we are sorry the military did such an thing to begin with...that we would indeed be angry if the shoe were on the other foot and someone burned our bible. There are many of us not liking what we are seeing our miltary are doing these days anyway in other countries....and I might add that I think we have already killed off our best soldiers perhaps in other countries....the ones we have now maybe what's "left" more or less to say... then again, it's not easy to be constantly under the war chemicals everyone is using these days also. Lasers and what have you.  They come back having been "Programmed" in thier minds also...and go on killing rampages over here also. Thier wives, thier kids, they lash out at anyone when it all "pops" out of their heads....and they go beserk. Between the crime and the just plain "nutty" people our prison's and hosptials aren't big enough to hold them all...let alone pay thier medical bills for them. It's for darn sure that they won't give us jobs any more with much of an health insurance backing us either.

We had snow this morning...but then again...it is February. Not enough to stay around, but expect more of it with the rain showers predicted and the temperatures down below the mid-30's...but Mt. Hood needs this for our summer water supply...so we live with it.I'm not unhappy with it. They were said to expect 11 inches and blizzard conditions up there today. Many of our senior citizens that live in eastern Oregon take their RV's to Mt. Hood in the summer where itis always cooler because they can't afford air conditioning also. They can be some of the nicest people to sit by an campfire and talk to.I ran into such an group...helped me set up our tent also. Gave us coffee, we sat and talked for an bit. Felt secure around them also.

I go for the day...my wrist is hurting me...on the puter to much perhaps. Talk later. 

see...I should of just stayed here an talked to everyone all day long...I get off the internet and hubby gets an call that his co-worker and the guy helped him get this job..Richard Chord died today...I think maybe it's about an month ago he told my hubby he had just found out he had cancer spreading through his body. Of course you know...let my hubby get tears in his eyes, I wanna cry with him...I called my kids and they came over to be with us for an while once they heard. We have an grandson with us tonight...down on grandpa's computer...playing games with him.  They had worked together in two nurseries for about 45 years...they say to like your job and then like whom your working with everyday... to be happy. He leaves behind "Barbara" who looks an lot like Sarah Palin in ways and many kids...one son whom operates his own nursery in Washington State. So it is the day goes on... an closes for an busier day later on.... after the arrangements are made for Dick. You know they guys over the years have put in an heck of an lot of hours to keep these businesses running. I can remember when they worked for Pete...that in the winter time it was Dick and Barb meeting my hubby in the warehouse to keep the nursery stock from feezing in the worse of snow storms....so we had an paycheck later on also. They forecasted snow down to the 500 foot level tonight around these parts. I wonder if there's any decent TV on tonight also.

Good morning...I have an question....do the castle's over there with family portraits ever put them up to be seen by the public...so we get to see the pictures of possible ancestors? My sister asked me that yesterday.

Husband's long time working assoicate..Richard (Dick) Chord passed away yesterday...they have worked together for about 40 some plus years, dick was the saleman divison, and my hubby was inventory and shipping part of things in the office... and he took it rather hard in ways. Had it not been for Dick helping my husband in ways, he might not have the job he has now...Dick left the last job with Pete and my hubby was the next one to go..then the company folded. Can you imagine having in 30 years of carreer work and then one day to wake up to nothing..nada...zero. The boss took an so called "risk".... and it didnt' pan out as he had hoped it would. He couldn't make his loan he'd gotten "solvent" to keep going on in business any longer. An real problem of small business, and yet they hired quite an few people as they did the nursery business in the terms of millions of trees going out twice an year...thanks to tissue culture cloning. His boss was into house construction also..as an second source of imcome...perhaps the risk he took? I think he retired. Hubby's boss now lives very frugually...but is an even bigger nursery then his former boss. His company survives on the talents of older professionals in the business doing work part time for him...going into retirement... plus an younger work crew...including his son backing up the physical part of things. Pete was an adopted son, his wealth came from those parents beforehand giving him their wealth....where the rest of us have had to earn our way in life. I was reading over in Crystallinks.com one time of these CEO's families and what an beating they are taking these days...both in losing their companies and in being accused of crimes within the business and how they are so many times doing the sucide route...both the Ceo's and the family members... because they can't cope in today's world. Shall we hope things change for the better here soon?...say an little prayer..we have an snow forcast coming up...not to be much they don't think...I'm going back into writing/reading some more...so may not be in as much....have an good week if I'm not in for an day or so.

I decided to come back in this morning....Oscar night was quite the show...and Meryl streep won best actress for playing the role of Margaret Thatcher in "Iron Lady"....oscars also went out to Iran, for the best foreign film and I see an Pakistanian lady and another gentleman won for an animated movie also. Ladies looked nice, nothing to wild was worn...and I saw something else last night...the introduction a couple of times of those diamonds dangling down on the neck of those pretty ladies in long gowns....something I much remember in my youth...the "glory days" of Hollywood's riches.

I then read 2,498 individual genealogy inquires in LoudonCo., va and went to bed in the wee hours of the morning...and am taking today off more or less...I just finsished looking over the pictures of Kent County that John Lawerance posted and several other people and Leeds Castle, has quite an few people in my notes, and that of Caterbury Cathedral also. Louden Co., Virginia is the outskirt of Washignton D. C...but it also gave it's name to several Forts in early history also. I would guess about 1/4 of the enteries I read last night where not what they seemed to be....but rather people trying to change thier own history because they don't really know it...or desire to control another...couple of them were arguing over that part of it.

I decided to come back because my sister's asking me about the pictures inside the castle's of seeing the people that owned them or lived in them....I think she was asking me if POE had thumbprint pictures of the owners of the castle's along with it's history that it posts about them. What an awesome job that would be for Ron and his family. Pictures were so prized back in the early days...paintings paintings particularly. Tapestry can be added also, including rugs and drapes. They helped to make the stone work of those castle's an little brighter and up-lifting on dark rainy days I do suppose. Many are lost talents to today's generation.  Well..need to get going for now..... Hope your day is going well.

Congratulations....I think our family additions are done now until the grandkids get to  marrying age and that's an few years off right now. They aren't even into advanced higher schooling as of yet. but did read this morning that someone had predicted an huge quake for San Francisco about the time William and Kate's baby is born...and as someone said....it's only in the "Enquirer" recently she was preganant and lost the baby...we think that publication is an bunch of "crapoloa" most the time over here. Other then that, everything is very still outside....as rain and snow comes in for the next couple of days....it's "Kitty Hawks" day here soon...leap year...ladies...go get your man!...kind of like Daisey Mae doing in little Abner, hillbilly style.She seemed to know how to have the upper hand in the situation. Ron should turn over this thread to celebrate leap year...as an "extra" day this year...to Good Day 32.

Hi everyone, hope you are having a wonderful day.

Congratulations to you Rob on the birth of your grandson, and glad to hear all is going well.

Nice to read all your messages Shirley, keep well and out of trouble, lol.