Here I got out of my nice warm soft bed. Dressed in 3 unflattering layers, loaded up my camera, grabbed my sleepy hubby and dog and off we went. To a wet gray dreary day. Not a good picture taking day at all. So here are some pictures from last year.


I am happy to see Helen is feeling good enough to leave a short post after her back surgery. So glad everything went well. Please pop by and tell her to get well soon. Check out her early morning picture. Now that is one worth posting. Glad your doing well Helen.

Sunrise

I am up and dressed warm and ready to go. Yesterday the sunrise was so pretty. Purple sky with pumpkin colored oranges and gold on the bottom. I want a picture of that. So today...out of my nice warm bed early and we are going to the river so I can get some shots. Probably will be overcast and gray. We shall see. Hopefully it will be beautiful and I will see what this new canon can do.

In The Shadow Of The Moon

We just watched the movie In The Shadow Of The Moon . It is a documentary and really good. About the astronaut landing on the moon with interviews of the men now. I think it is about a year old but the insights these men got from their great journey. Anyway. If you haven't seen I recommend it.

Political rant, read....... or don't

Now I know you don't want to read this in a nice friendly Blog like mine but when I heard this loud and clear, LOUD AND CLEARLY I just had to have my little say. Because this is what had been behind the words and now is out front loud and clear.

I studied communism and socialism in school and on my own. I recognize these words. All communist leaders have spoken them. Now we have someone running for the president of the United States speaking them. That scares me. We already are in a financial crisis. I refuse to redistribute my wealth any more then I already have. Should my BIL who hasn't worked in years be entitled to the same amount of money I have or you have just because he shared the same country as me? Listen to words spoken below. Is this really what we want? I pray not

For a great explaination of what I am talking about read this article. What is communism.

Now listen to what Barack Obama says and check out this video. Yes, I guess I am taking a stand. No... I am not thrilled with McCain, but I would vote for Sarah Palin for president.

Getting closer to Socialism and Communism, Barack Obama wants higher taxes on the “wealthy,” and the money will essentially be redistributed to the not-so-wealthy.

Obama says: “It’s not that I want to punish your success; I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you that they’ve got a chance at success, too.”

He also says: “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Open Range

We saw this on a ranch in North Dakota. It is hard to read the sign but it says open range, LOL. I love it!

I didn't go to work last night until 11. It must be the cold weather but my body feels like it has been hit by a truck. I can barely use my left hand and my back is out. I will be having surgery on my hand and wrist hopefully this year but in cold weather it sure flares up. I don't need to watch the weather.

It was very busy at work. 3 patients came in at once and we had some critical patients already. I had to be charge so it made for a busy night. I am glad it is over. One more night and I can rest.

It has been rainy and cold. Last week I got my outside plants in. We made a place for them in the basement and my husband hooked up the artificial lights to keep them alive. We have them on a timer so it stays on 10 hours. The plants seem to like it OK. They are just so large now it is hard to have them in doors upstairs.

Well I see the stocks are going up slightly. Too soon to get hopeful but........ I am by nature a hopeful person. When they get high enough I will cash them in and put it in my safety deposit box. At least there they won't go down.

Well, my ibuprofen is starting to work as is my sleeping pill. Take care all. Have a great day.

Tired of the rain? Check out the flowers.

I finally got around to moving my flower journal over. I like looking at the colors in the dead of wnter to remind me of whats around the color. Check it out. I had to keep it plain to get the pictures full size. I might do the same in my photo album also. Anyone know how to change the color of the background?

Rant

My husband heard a little blib about how the government is thinking one way to bail out the banks etc is to start taxing our 401's and IRA's. He only heard a small thing on it and hasn't hear anything else, but if the talks out there it is probably being discussed.

That just ticks me off. We had it crammed down our throats about how Social Security wasn't going to be there for us and we had to all start be pro-active about saving for our retirement. Invest invest invest and save. So we all get scared and put money in our IRA's, buy stock and become mini stock brokers so what. Our government can steal that money from us also like they stole our Social Security money! Money that if they would have left untouched, because remember...we pay into it our entire lifes, we would all be able to retire and live the good life.

Since when did we become a country that survived on loans. Is the reason we can help out countries that are in trouble because they are calling in their loans on us? We borrow money from them, they borrow money from us and where does it come from. Like people who borrow money for the expensive house they have no possible way to pay for our country and others borrow money they don't have. So they steal it from us. Those of us who work every day and whose only dream is to put a little aside and have enough to not starve when they retire.

This whole thing makes me sick. This is not what we have a government for. Both sides are screwing the people they were elected to protect. Taxing us more is not the answer. Maybe a new party would be. One that puts the people first.

AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH. I am just ticked. Now also my health insurance at work is going to double and triple their out of pocket expenses for the employee's. It is like a huge cut in pay. I won't be able to afford to go to a doctor unless I am on my death bed.

This is another thing that was great that the government and insurance companies have completely destroyed. We had the best health care in the world and then they let the insurance companies run it. They let them decide what you could and could not have done to you and how much time it would take you to recover. The costs have skyrocketed since DRG's and you no longer have a family doctor who knows you and can give you more then 5 minutes of their time to treat and diagnose you. And that is a very scary thing.

This nurse who just spend 12.5 hours with you know more about your illness and physical condition then your doctor will from their 5 minute hands off approach they are allowed by the insurance companies. The doctors are required to run people through like on a assembly line. So they order thousands of dollars worth of lab and the costs go higher and higher. To even see my doctor is rare. I see the PA or one of the 12 other doctors in the office. So they don't get to know you and the ball gets dropped on tests and follow up one doctor made you promise to do. You get sick of the run around and lack of care and concern and don't go anymore. And then your labeled non-compliant.

The old doctors grew fed up and some I know left the field, but the new Doctors think it is the norm. To young to remember the Doctor offices of old with your Doctor, a nurse or 2 and the receptionist at the desk.



So boy. Didn't I get off work in a swell mood. I am just sick over the way things are going. A election isn't going to fix this mess. There is a good chance it will make it worse. Brother can you spare a dime.

Well, I have been up 15.5 hours. Time for bed. Maybe I won't feel so much like chicken little when I wake up. Maybe the sky isn't falling.