Good Day "56"

Good morning...do I ever understand's Ruth plight with the affordable car. I have never felt an new car should cost more then $8,000 dollars and I think these days it they should be electric as much as gasoline.Oregon has the third highest gasoline prices in the USA. Where go people go to get money they need  if they don't have it, they already say the average American is spending more then 43 per cent of what they earn. Most of ir on groceries and health issues and education....everything my relatives and in-law's are into..not not myhubby line of nursery products. Company salesmen are in town this week. The doctor yesterday told me the year before that he would rather switch me over to another statin for lowering cloestrol...the over the counter cholestrol pills I'm taking he said were useless..but that not the information I'm getting from people using them  They told me that my blood pressure was 155 over 90 yesterday...I had to by an new blood pressure register today....$50.....came home and took my blood pressure....135 over 72....so I go in here pretty soon to get my cholestrol pills renewed..back to like they were   two years ago.. when I first went to see him..plus an new round of diabetes pills...and I have no idea what the hell they do at the labs...cause they always send out the most rediculous lab tests to me. I weight about 10 pounds less then I did last year with diabetes type readings from hell, that I have noway to susbtauate in reality. ..and are closer to when I was nearly dead and getting operated on...years ago. he's sits there trying to do and kind of educational  lesson on me of the readings..while I tell him I have no idea what this lab test is all about. Last year they told me I didn't have any salt reading that it was below the line for normal. this time it's normal...but not the Glucose/Cholestrol readings. So I put  up with this an see if I can lost another 5 pounds...cause they claim if you lose 10 per cent of your weight if your pre-diabeteic, it goes back to normal again. I knew why he didn't give the "Crestor"..it says onit absoultely no alcohol consumption. Anway, yesterday the pharmacy said the testing strips for the glucose monitor are $65, she was going to see if she could find someone that would lower the cost...and the rest of the meds should be something like close to $100 or thereabouts....and so there goes the car around my house forever most likely....can't be supporting the drugs and buying material things on an Social Security income these days exactly. I'm waiting for the lottery win also....have been my entire life. It dropped 20 degrees again over night. Bend Oregon had huge hail storm thatleft it's citzens walking around with bruised arms...and 2 feet of hail.So they put out video's of snowboardin gin theri front years in flip flops and shorts. Outter skirts of the river in Pheonix, Arizona is flooding through an housing neighborhood there also. Duh...go take an picture...and hope your house don't float downstream. Can't thinnk of anything else to do?....except just watch I guess. I go for now. I just spent nearly $200 this morning on the food and the equiptment to test out my new to be diet by tomarrow....and this is without this afternoon's pills and testing tape. Gesh...if I had the money I'd go to Anwick Castle for an vacation...but I'd need the health also...and the security to know I'd get there an back safely again...but gosh, Ilook at it's on-line video and I feel like it's "home" to me for some reason.

I go for now...have an good day! 

Gasoline?

Aren't you using the gas from Fracking Shirley? I thought it was very big in the States now.

Yes, it appears to be..and who owns the company but Canada. They have an reason for wanting the pipe line down along the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains..it has nothing to do with needing the oil..it's got to do with cleaning out the underground geology for mining Gold. See what you learn writing books. The shale makes it expenisve to drill there, so they need an gas shortage and high prices to help things along. Most of California's  working oil rigs are Canadian owned also.

But I didn't come in for that...I was doing some history writing...I did an little paper for my Doctor...on the Hobson name...as twice they married the Lawson's...as we have often wondered if they were an varriant Lawson name also. So I was into Suffolk Co., England tonight looking things over there..as they say someof my materinal family lines tend to say they are from Kent and Suffolk Co's are and there's an element and an tie at with Ireland...which I now understand also. I got into the Burgh name married into the Lawson as later on Borough...name of there Manor House...legacy of the Lawson Barronets of today. They tell me that the name of de Burgh (William De Burgh)..also later went into the lineage of the name of Burke. So I was writing an bit of my thoughts as to what that web site say about the area.. British History on line, about the Hundred of  Lothingland in Suffolk County. The area was an very old and ancient like 600's area of Roman Fort and occupation. Off an on it belonged ot the Kings of England. Then it wenr into the Pole family and the mess they got themselves into with King Henry VIII and himall but obilterating the entire family...because Gilbert Pole was about to be made into an Cardinal at Caterbury and they stopped it so he couldn't divorce Cahterine of Aragon.  I had just sent off the papers of the reason why and what powerful ties she had back then in all of Europe. How I felt that George PLanegant 's daughter that married into this Pole family was said to of stashed her only surviving son into Caterbury Cathederal ..and that connections with the new translated French documents released to the LDS church in Salt Lake...gave an many an led to follw them. As I think we have an Thomas Lewisson may of been this Pole child...the Lawson genealogy says that Thomas is the start of the name of Lawson.So I'm going along looking over church history of the area...and I'm thinking of the Burk name also, because we had an neighbor by that name at one time. Actually my sister in-law passed last year had the first house across from this family...and my parents bought the house next to what she owned back then. Walt, the son, was 10 years old back then..he would grow up to have both his son's in our Boy Scout Troop. Walt passed away recently also...it was about the saddest and strangeous funeral, I'd ever been to. People tryng to give ulogies to Walt breaking down in mid sentence crying. But thisstorm raging outside was weird, it was like God himself was making an statement of agitation. Trees were falling like tootpicks all over the place and huge one at that.  Wasn't raining, it was more like hurricane force winds...no lightening...just wind stripping everything.By the time we got home we had three trees down on our main artery street...power out. We had went to one of Walt's son kind of country western wedding there...first one I'd ever attended with that theme...at that time the pastor was an woman named "Dorothy"..my mother's name...and she was replaced by the current preacher, whom told us of Walt's " humbleness" of being the man to pick him for the church preacher. I thought, here's an kid at age 10 I could hear screaming from being whipped by his drunken father for not doing his homework ..with an belt with an brass buckle on it...an ...yes, I called the police. They came out an hauled him off to sobber up somewhat. as I was at his funeral, I was thinking of all those things...and how if it wasn't Bigalow, it was Walt cooking for the grand final Scout show at summer Camp. So I'm reading this history on line from Britain...and looking what they have on the Burke family...and jumping into local churches...and how you can see the Norwich Catheral and 70 other ones with an telesope from Burgh Cathederal....and then I read...the great storm in the area...1800's area was noted for it's having brought down one millions trees in Suffolk Co., and goes on to read that Rendelsham and Bentwaters Airforce bases are near by also....England's UFO story and an half. It comes out to having "ties" with Ireland also. Some island said to off one time been off the shore of Ireland in really ancient history. I had recently seen whom I thought was "Walt"...and was saying to him that eastern Oregon livestock needs desparate help because of the wildfires. Walt when he was alive ran one of our County fairs in the livestock division...he supervised also the State Fair animal shows also in the background helping them. At his son's wedding, he roasted an full sized Hog for this country ho-down. Guys in thier western shirts, him in an old time black suit of the 1800's period, the girls in boots also besides the guys....cotton dresses of the period, behind an backdrop of bales of Hay and an wagon wheel and wild flowers...and all of them..cowboy hats. Guest sat on bales of hay also. But anyway..strange as to how England cane make me think of Walt and Oregon...and two wild windstorms. You ever get the one million trees that came down in England re-planted? 

Interesting post again Shirley and as for the trees, well yes they did replant a lot of the trees lost, but whether it was a million as per what was actually lost, I don't know.

In reality, I doubt it!

Hi to all POEsters, have a good day if you can.

I use to help Justin B cooking the nightly desert in Scout camp...and Walt with the final Scout week dinner, when all the parents showed up with their families...we grilled chicken for hours one time. While Dorthea and Sharon did side dishes. In some ways..those were good ole days.

Unless you look into the area's past history and understand it you will never know the importance of the area. I believe most likley that King Authur's Knights were there at one time also...if anything crossing over from France...and perhaps the Holy Grail. An mystery surrounds the area also...why are the UFO's there? 

Afternoon everyone, hope you are all having a good day 

I notice my green square picture has vanished, I'll try it again later. 

All OK here thanks James. Hope you enjoyed your fish and chips 

David has just set off to go fishing - river not sea so no fish tonight. I'm just considering going for a walk being as the weather is nice.