Friday

  I had my 2 grandkids and soon to be step grandchild spend the night the other night.   We had so much fun.   Keep up with 3 active kids is great exercise.   They are only going to be here for 6 more days so I want as much time possible.

  The morning we picked them up we went to the farmers market for fresh vegetables for supper.   The littlest one said,  I didn't know we could go grocery shopping outside.  So cute.   None of them had ever been to the farmers market so I was explaining why you should support your local growers and to buy chemical free as often as possible.   Which we did.

    Grass fed beef raised the old fashion way and sooooo good.  Free range chickens,  fresh eggs and the vegetables,  oh they were wonderful.   The youngest is a true tomato lover so we let pick the ones she wanted.   They let her taste the 3 varieties of cherry tomatoes they had,  sweet yellow,  chocolate browns or traditional cherry tomatoes.    We ended up with the best yellow tomatoes which we ate like candy off and on all day.

    I am still eating to lose weight like I did before.   No diet.   Just counting calories and trying to eat fresh and nothing out of prepackaged box.    I bought a ton of fresh strawberries,  blueberries, raspberries and banana's and froze them.   Then for breakfast I take a cup of Blue Diamond Almond milk,  toss in some blueberries, strawberries, a banana, and raspberries and have the best smoothie without all the calories and sugar of a boughten one.   It is yummy.

    For supper that night we had chicken and shrimp kabobs with fresh corn on the cob.  It was so much fun.

    Then yesterday we went to the funeral of a friend of ours.   He died from cancer he got from handling Agent Orange in the Vietnam War.   He has been fighting it for the last 10 years.   Such a great guy.   Wars are terrible things.  And the casualties keep taking place.  So that was a sad day.

      Today I am going to PT for my wrist and then the doc to get these old knees checked out.  I am hoping they can give me some exercises to fix them up without needing any surgery.   I am starting to itch to get back to work.   I want my old check back and I miss my job. 

    Well,  I am going to get ready.  I hope everyone is having a great summer.  I am.

Hello

  Not really,  I don't want my friends to be fat.  Just heavier then me, LOL.

  Hello everyone.    I am back and will pop around all the journals.   Life gets so busy this time of year.   And I have been busy with the grandchildren and PT for my wrist.   Friday I am finally seeing the doc about my knee's.    Having them both go out was the last straw.   Maybe it is the exercising I am doing.   It would help if I could ride my bike.  Oh well,  in 3 weeks I can ride again.

   Sunday RAGBRAI left from here.

  

We went out early and I got a ton of shots.   It was fun watching thousands upon thousands of bicyclists all take off.  All but me, boo hoo.   They came in all sizes and ages,  from as far away as Germany and Japan.  From Florida and California.    Ride across Iowa.  It is a good time.

I am still on the losing weight band wagon but it has slowed way down with my knees hurting so bad.   I have been doing my exercises in the pool though.  And this time of year the vegetables at the farmers market are awesome.   We have been having a feast of fresh vegetables,  in fact the kids and us are going this morning to get some for kabobs we will grill for supper tonight.

  The grandkids are here for 2 more weeks.   It has been so fun.   They are such good kids and I will miss them a lot when they leave.  I sure wish they lived closer.

Well,  I had better get ready.  We are picking up the kids early so they can go to the farmers market with us and then they are all spending the night.  4 kids,  hummm.  I haven't had to watch 4 kids for decades.  That will count as my exercise for today.   Take care all.

When Our Justice Department Fails us

   By now everyone has heard how our justice department refused to let the New Black Panthers be charged for their equal rights crimes. 

  Growing up I was proud of how far our country had come getting equal rights for women, blacks, minorities.   I always felt we should all have the same treatment provided all humans.  And we had gotten there for the most part.  Until 2009.  Until our new administration.

   Apparently now you can only charge people with a crime if they are white against a minority.   With President Bush a crime was a crime.   With this administration it is only a crime if your a "cracker".   It is perfectly OK for armed people to intimidate you at the voting booths as long as your not white.  The new KKK wears black robes.  And it is sooooo sad.   We had come so far.  We have slipped backward 50 years.  Even our Justice Department has sunk into the mud of racism.   We have to get back equal rights.  For everyone.  No matter what color,  no matter what sex.  For the future of this country.

  And now the Agriculture Dept.  admits they are also practice discrimination by not helping white farmers who are being foreclosed on.   Now there are some people who will laugh and say hows it feel to have the shoe on the other foot.   It feels like racism to me.   It feels like old times,  the bad times.  It feels wrong.   As wrong as it did not letting minorities ride on the bus or go through the front door.  It brings tears to my eyes.   Let vote this administration out of office.   Lets clean up Washington.   Lets make our country the Best place in the world to live.

  Check out this video.
  Also I don't like them changing the wording of Freedom of Religion.   Now our new President wants it to be Freedom of Worship.  What happened to the Freedom of Religion law.  Is this the beginning of ridding us of that.   I have heard the wording freedom of worship before.  I believe it was used in Russia.  We have to change this.  Is there anyone left yet who doesn't realize how bad this has gotten and how bad it going to get?

Sioux Falls Jazzfest

     We went to the Jazzfest on Friday and had a great time.   The music was great.  We saw Davina and The Vagabonds a great energetic band with great vocals and great horns.   Then next was Trombone Shorty and Orleans Ave,  I love horn players and this band was sooooo good.  There were 10's of thousands of people there and the entire place was so energized.   The last performers of this night were Los Lobos which were great as usual and Trombone Shorty and his band jammed a few songs with them.   I would have loved to go to all 3 nights but it was over 100 degree's yesterday and heat and humidity that high kicks up my asthma big time.  

   Click on the links to hear a sampling of what we heard.  It was great great great.   Yesterday I took the kids to Chucky Cheese since it was way to hot to do anything else and then we came home and they played in the pool.   I have been loving having the kids here.   Keeps me busy.  

  Monday I get my stitches out.   I can't wait to get in the pool also.  It is suppose to be hot all week.  We are cleaning it today and refilling it to get ready.  

   Hope everyone is having  a great summer so far. 

The Fence

 

 

Which side of the fence?

If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!

If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.

If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.  

If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.

If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.  

 

If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.

If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.  

 

If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.

If a Democrat is down-and-out, he wonders who is going to take care of him.  

 

If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.

Democrats demand that those they don't like be shut down.  

 

If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. 

A Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.

 

If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.

A Democrat demands that the rest of us pay for his.  

 

If a Republican reads this, he'll forward it so his friends know how to vote in November!

A Democrat will delete it because he's "offended".  

 

Well, I forwarded it. 

 I got this in an email and liked it. 

Comments

Since I still have my troll creeping along the bottom of my posts I still have to edit my comments.   So unfortunately when I rid myself of the troll droll and try to save everyone else's comments,  only one comment will save.   But I love getting all your comments and thanks for your well wishes on my weight loss and recovery.  Love ya all,  but not you troll face.

Hello all

    Hi everyone.   It's been awhile.   I got my short arm cast off yesterday and am typing with 2 hands, what fun.  My incision looks good, just bruised and swollen and worse is over.   Now to see if it fixed my problem.

   The grandkids are still here and we are having a blast.   Yesterday we may won ton chips using whey low sugar sub. and cinnamon and then some out of dill and salt.   Great chips to dip into the hummus.  The kids had never had hummus but really liked it.  And they couldn't tell the whey low was a sugar substitute and loved them.   The later we made cookies.  Not low fat, LOL but they had fun.   I am keeping them so busy they don't miss the TV we don't have.  It has been so fun having them around again.

   I went to OT yesterday on my hand.  I still have the stitches in and won't get those out until Monday so we are watching them carefully since I have a tendency to react to them.  So far so good.  And I am back to doing my workouts.  No weights yet because I can't with this wrist but I am doing well 1 week after surgery.

    So I see Al Franken had a large convicted felon following on the last election,  I bet even dead people liked and voted for him, what a huge surprise.   And they say they can't do anything about it?   Why not.   Why can't we do anything about voting fraud?   Why is he still in office and why is he still on the payroll?   Would you be?  Would I.   I am so sick of the entire corrupt mess.

  Yesterday top news about Mel Gibson yelling at his girlfriend but you also had a Black panther advocating killing all cracker babies and being threatening at the voter polls and you don't hear nary a thing.   KKK in black robes but that's OK?  Racial hate is never OK.  Never.  No matter what race but apparently we have gone back 60 years. 

   I was watching a jazz show the other day and I couldn't help but notice that musicians alway's get along regardless of race.   They admire each other based on their talents and skill, not on their color.   We should all learn from them.

  Oh, and I have had another visit from the census taker.  3rd one so far.   What's up with that.  Makes you wonder about how accurate that will be when they can't even cross you off the list when they have seen you.  Info is still the same.  2 adults, one male, one female.  Ta.

    Well I have been slowly catching up on the blogs.   With the kids here I don't seem to get on the computer much.  Hope everyone is doing well.