Photo Friday - The Letter E
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Posted:Jun 4, 2021 2:59 am
Last Updated:Jun 11, 2021 3:44 pm 21202 Views
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Urban Chickens were not permitted in the town I live before selling the house and moving a few towns away. Happily chickens are allowed in WSS, WV.
I buy them from my step-, an ROTC instructor from my spiritual community or the preacher's wife. It assures that the eggs from cage free or free roaming chickens in the case of the ROTC instructor.
Ironically, it is the Chicken that helps the Haitian people rise out of desperate circumstances. Eggs are an inexpensive protein and if the chickens reproduce fast enough they can be protein too. The manure can fertilize the crops. It can also be a source of income.
My grandparents raised chicken - all free roaming - and I learned to love those early morning Cock-A-Doodle-Doos.
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The Abundance of Cat Fish Scammers
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Posted:Jun 1, 2021 8:48 am
Last Updated:Jun 2, 2021 4:58 pm 19536 Views
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Do you get messages from abundance of profiles that are too good to be true.
I am sure that these catfish send carbon copy messages to every female or visa versa that they can.
I have to laugh when they declare that I am a flawless beauty (only as young as I feel) Yeah Right!!! If I were inclined to get into another relationship. I don't want Mr. Perfect
I am not going to pretend to be Ms. Perfect. What's the point? Mr. Phony pretending to be Mr. Too Good to be true because he is. Am I a skeptic or just realistic? I do love that iggie box.
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Karma and the Dumb A$$? Law
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Posted:May 31, 2021 3:01 am
Last Updated:Jun 1, 2021 10:31 pm 19638 Views
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BumFiretrUCK, Nevada - April MMVII
It must be Karma. I should have NEVER called that tailgating trucker a dumb a$$. Kassr the opinionated c00kie man was frequently correct in some of his assessments. Most likely, it was my fault the Trucker was tailgating me despite the fact that I was going 70 miles per hour.
I really don't know the Scenerio although, I've frequently heard Gene the dufus truckdriver (bless his heart) dubiously bless Sunday School Drivers.
I agreed meet a friend for java and at the Silver Strike Casino Coffee Shop. Just before I was getting ready drive the car into the parking lot - The Bubble Gum Lights flash behind .
Maam, You made a wide turn at the stop light. How much have you had to drink.
Sorry Officer, I don't drink anything alcoholic at . Thinking myself, "it's dark and I am used driving big a$$ trucks
Maam, License, Registration, and Proof of Insurance
"OPPS! I think I left my license by the computer at home when I was looking at it when filing for an on-line job
" Okay, Maam, Name and Social Security Number and keep looking for that proof of insurance""
I finally found the license but could not locate the proof of insurance.
"Okay Maam, It not that I don't believe you but you need step out of the car and do a field sobrierty test"
I felt like asking the officer how well he would fare doing those dumb tests as I completed the field sobrierty tests.
"Are you Sure that you haven't been drinking! Maam"
"No Sir! I absolutely don't drink!"
He goes back the police car and get bored when he does the crimimal background check . I have a 1982 "Disturbing the Peace" Conviction from my Hoochy Kootchy Dancing Days.
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Okay Maam, I am writing you a ticket for no insurance, Send proof the court and it will go away"
"No Problem, Officer"
I signed the ticket and the Law went away.
By the time I made it the Silver Strike, the coffee shop was closed. My gentleman friend and I chatted over a cup of coffee at the bar. Indeed, I was drinking. I was drinking COFFEE!
He was standing by his car in the parking lot watching the cop make take the field sobriety test. He was laughing.
This will be a great story to tell at the next Step Meeting. 
Have you ever been stopped by the Law for Drunk Driving when you were actually not drunk. Did the Officer believe you?
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Spiritual Intoxication & the Man in the Family Afterwards
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Posted:May 30, 2021 10:38 am
Last Updated:May 31, 2021 5:05 am 17588 Views
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Maybe I should be giving some of these religious nuts a break. They find something so wonderous that they want to share it with everyone else to the point of pushing it on them. I've been there but grew out of it.
I remember my late husband who grew up Catholic. He endured abuse at the hands of a nun in Catholic School. He told me horror stories about "Sister Natalie." She told him that he would amount to nothing. Later, he went to visit her when he got his Electrician Journeyman Card. Grumpy was against all forms of organized religion and spiritual beliefs UNTIL I started going to NA Sweat Lodges and exploring Pagan aka early European spirituality. He became zealous to the point of becoming a pain in the azzzzzz. My older joked about an old man waving a stick in the air. Nevertheless, for someone who has NO spiritual connection, it was an improvement. I joined a NA group and he joked about having feathers on his kilt since I am the one with the NA ancestry. I never told him that it was the Scotts who wore kilts not the Irish. He wouldn't join me in the Sweat Lodge but he did help the Firekeeper.
I have been thinking about some of the recent "Jesus" blogs and comparing them to the man in the Family Afterwards. I just realized that Old Grumpy was going through that experience too.
Assume on the other hand that father has, at the outset, a stirring spiritual experience. Overnight, as it were, he is a different man. He becomes a religious enthusiast. He is unable to focus on anything else. As soon as his sobriety begins to be taken as a matter of course, the family may look at their strange new dad with apprehension, then with irritation. There is talk about spiritual matters morning, noon and night. He may demand that the family find God in a hurry, or exhibit amazing indifference to them and say he is above worldly considerations. He may tell mother, who has been religious all her life, that she doesn't know what it's all about, and that she had better get his brand of spirituality while there is yet time.
Those of us who have spent much time in the world of spiritual make-believe have eventually seen the childishness of it. This dream has been replaced by a growing sense of purpose, accomplished by a growing consciousness of the power of God in our lives. AA Big Book - The Family Afterwards
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Response to Hypocrite central. Cursing people one minute, & praising God the next
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Posted:May 29, 2021 12:12 am
Last Updated:May 31, 2021 5:02 am 17874 Views
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People don't seek divine guidance (Christian or otherwise) because they are flawless individuals with perfect lives. Many seek divine guidance precisely because of the fact that they ARE flawed and their lives are Chaotic.
Some people struggle more than others. I have sat in 12 Step meetings and watched people relapse again and again. Nevertheless, they pick themselves back up and start over again. Eventually, they get it.
I have a friend who is a Pastor's wife. It is a total miracle that I have have such a friendship but nevertheless..............
She posted this on her wall and it makes sense, although I am not quite this conservative - the goal is to be better than where I came from.
If you're having sex before marriage, go to church anyway. If you are a drug addict trying to beat addiction, go to church anyway. If you were out drunk all night the night before, go to church anyway. If you aren't sure what gender you prefer, go to church anyway. If you can't quit that disgusting habit, go to church anyway. Church is a hospital for the broken, lost, empty, confused, desperate, and rejected. Every sinner has a future, and every Saint has a past. How do we break the chains of addiction and bondage? By prayer, prayer for you and prayer with you! There isn't a single person in the 4 walls of the church that doesn't have something they hate or regret about their past. We've all made mistakes, and will continue to, BUT His Grace is enough! There's things that I'd never want to admit out loud about myself, but God knows. And He loves me none the less. So whatever you've done, whatever you're doing, whatever you will do....go to church anyway, it might just change your life!
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CBD's & Conversations With Alexa
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Posted:May 28, 2021 10:28 pm
Last Updated:May 30, 2021 8:29 am 17245 Views
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Interesting today. Last week I order a product on-line with plans to pick it up the store. This is a body lotion with lavender, green tea, coco butter, AND 2000MG CBD. When I got to the store, I purchased Gummy Chews with 750MG CBD.
The CBD is deprived from Hemp which is a cousin of Marijuana. It has the benefits of medical Marijuana minus the buzz. The last thing in the world that I want is to become a senior junkie which some doctors seems to be notorious for trying to turn me into one.
My plan is to give this a try and ditch at least one of the allopathic medications which don't seem to work anyway.
It is kind of ironic because medical Marijuana is legal in West Virginia but there are no legal distributors. I know a retired Marine who has a Medical Marijuana from another state. He really needs it. Still, he has to it illegibly.
I talked to the owner who told that when the State Government finally gets off it's azzzzzzzzzzzzzz, that she will get a permit to distribute it legally.
Personally, I am opposed to drug laws, especially those involving Marijuana. It's a source of revenue for barristers and jailers while doing nothing to help those with addiction.
I am a teetotaler because it is a choice that works best for me but I don't have to support the reinstatement of prohibition laws that deprive others who have different choices.
Some people who drink alcohol become alcoholics while most don't. The same with Marijuana recreational or otherwise.
After an interesting conversation with the business owner - I came home and started talking to Alexis. I usually ask her to find my phone if I lost it. I will ask her to play the music of Stephen Halpern during Silent Worship at our Zoom Meetings. I ask Alexis about the weather or how to spell a word.
Sometimes, I will ask Alexis some of the most bizarre questions just for amusement . So I asked her, "Where can I go to get "laid?" The answers, Laid Back Store in Virginia, Laid Back Cat in North Carolina, Laid Back Cafe in Maryland, Laid Back Pub in Pennsylvania.
I am not sure that Alexa understood the question so I got a little more direct. "Alexia, Where can I go to find S*X?!" She sent to Florida. 
The reason I asked this question is because there is a blogger on this site who is insisting that I am interest in seducing another blogger. This is someone that I've never met, seen, or spoken to. Far as I know, he lives in another state a considerable distance away. I am sure that her motivation is slander and libel but it more a reflection of her character than it is mine. Poor her. 
Realistically, if I were truly interested in sensual gratification, all I have to do is call one of my 's friends who live a few miles away. If I take the train to Atlanta, I could interest one of my older 's friends.
In reality, all I am interested in is the local antique dealer who is closer to my age accompanying to the Opera. I will be so glad when they start livestreaming it into the Greenbrier Valley Theater Again.
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Photo Friday - The Letter D
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Posted:May 27, 2021 11:23 pm
Last Updated:May 29, 2021 1:40 am 17943 Views
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Dandelions make the bees happy.
Decluttering Challenge - Oh Joy
Donald Trump's Natal Chart Explains It All
Dragon Eyes - My Dad taught how cook them and later he show my how do the same.
Dogs- The Gnome Steal Thug and Ole Fred
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Throw Back Thursday - Playing Nice On The SFF Campus
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Posted:May 26, 2021 11:06 pm
Last Updated:Jun 19, 2021 5:54 pm 16703 Views
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Playing Nice The SFF Campus
Posted:May , 2006 1:01 am
Last Updated:Feb 26, 20 5:31 pm
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Behind every profile is a living breathing human being who deserves be treated with kindness and respect.
Folks this site are dealing with many different challenges that life life's terms can present.
physical and/or emotional pain. loneliness
marriages go south or spouses go the spirit world. Isolation - We need friends cyber or otherwise.
There is always the quest for the "Great Love Connection" which seems exist for a few.
There are Frogs, Frogs, and more Frogs. Individuals who are less than honest about their marital status. Perhaps they don’t want consummate a relationship beyond the webcam.
There are female frogs who want empty a man’s wallet. Meeting for coffee and dating can feel like a job interview.
It takes major league faith move forward and take a chance love again.
Some individuals response life life’s terms by drinking, snorting, popping, inserting mind altering chemicals or perhaps they get their jollies making others the site feel like they are "less than."
Nobody deserves be ridiculed because of different political views, different spiritual beliefs, body sizes and shapes or how well they articulate or spell.
Playing nice is responding comments even with differing opinions respectfully. Personal attacks suck swampwater. Just my not so humble opinion.
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Photo Friday The Letter C for Cemeteries and Cathedrals
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Posted:May 21, 2021 3:06 am
Last Updated:May 21, 2021 6:26 pm 15915 Views
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As a History Buff and Genealogist, I often find myself exploring old cemeteries.
When I was visiting Arlington Cemetary in Washington D.C. - I found the mortal remains of an old boyfriend. He lied about his age. He was three years younger than my father and they served in Korea at about the same time.
There are an abundance of old battlegrounds in West Virginia. I've notice that these battleground all have an intense stillness. There is Droop Mountain and the Battle of Lewisburg and even the site that I live where there was a Confederate hospital.
A few years ago, I took the train to Baltimore to visit the Cathedral where the mortal remains of my late husband's famous cousin, Cardinal James Gibbons. I lit a candle to honor Grumpy and his mother.
When Grumpy knew that he was heading for the other side, he was concerned that his mother would do a Catholic Funeral for him. I promised him that I would make sure that that didn't happen. He wanted to be dropped into the Pacific Ocean. I jokingly told him that I would toss him in the Greenbrier River and call it good, Of course that didn't happen.
I mailed his mortal remain to Kansas. His biological transported him by motorcycle to Colorado. They caravanned to California for a family reunion and into the Pacific Ocean, he went. He got the send off that he wanted. My boys (his step-sons) and I had a simple picnic in the park. It has been my experience that family funerals can be full of drama and we managed to avoid most of that.
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