Lonesome

Hey how are you great I hope. I am Lonesome things have changed so severly around here Im the only one around now. Garry died then my Stepfather died now Mom is in the hospital has been for 5 weeks. There sending her to health south for more rehabilitation she fell the morning of her Husbands funeral and broke her pelvic in 3 places.
Man talking about weird it has been. My son-in-law had Brain surgery he's doing great and I am going nuts. By the way thats doing great to.
It's starting to get warm I am ready to be able to get outside and work in the flowers something to occupy my mind with. I am ready for some good things to happen.
Great looking Guy ride up on his stead and sweep me off my feet onto his horse and we will ride off in the sunset.
YEP thats going to happen!!!!
OK got this out of my system think I will go to bed. Talk to you in a few days. NIGHT!!!

6 Months Later

Hi been a long time since I have been on here. So many things have happened. I told you about Garry dying. Well my stepfather went in the hospital the day before he died. He never came home went into a nursying home was in bad shape and he died about 3 weeks ago. The day off his funeral my Mom fell we made her go to the services even tho she said she hurt bad. Becaucse she had said earlier she wasn't going.
Mom has dimentia in the later stages. Sunday when she woke up she couldn't hardly move it was rough getting her around that day. Like to never got her to bed so Monday morning when we woke she was really in pain called the ambulance and sent her to the hospital. She had 3 breaks in her pelvic bone. She is still in the hospital in the rehab Nursing part. She;s getting better slow but sure.
Would be nice if she was just able to get around on the walker help herself to the potty and get dressed. Just to move would be great for her.
Last week my son-in-law had Brain Surgery he's doing great getting better faster than the doctors thought he would. Be back Tomorrow Tired Night...

Been a long Time...

Hi been quite awhile since I have been on here. My ex-husband I was taking care of died a month ago. It was very hard watching that happen but Lung Cancer doesn't care what it does to you.
Makes you think of things you had forgotten things you didn't want to think of and how your life could have been different and his.
Had a lot of help at that time in my life my 3 adult kids helped me as well as getting threw it theirselves. There such great kids and parents and it's hard letting go.
Hope everyone is well and healthy God has given us a good life and I know there will be a better one waiting for us i think of how he is doing and I know he's doing great.
My prayers are with everyone that is sick or has loved ones sick God Bless All.

First day of Spring

Hi hope everyone is well today is the first day of spring I am so ready for warm nice weather. Where you can just get outside and feel better. I have over the course of the last few weeks moved out to my Mom's and Stepfathers to take care of them. Also I have moved my ex-husband in downstairs he has lung cancer. My life is so different than what it was so much sickness. Just want everyone to feel better and enjoy the summer.
I know it's not going to happen lung cancer has a good hold on him already. Stepfather is fighting good 6 stinits in his heart in the last 2 months. Mom seems to be doing the best. But I'm tough I'll hang in there. if you have went threw taking care of the sick and elderly you know what it's about.
Going to build me a Greenhouse not a real big one about a 10 by 12 I could grow flowers and vegetables i love that would make me feel better!
Well just wanted to talk for a second if you want to talk do so i would enjoy it. Thanks Have a great day.

Todays News

Hi did you watch the News today? Microsoft is trying to buy Yahoo for 44 Billion Dollars can you imagine that. There wanting to get bigger than Google with an estimated worth of over 100 Billion Dollars. Just blows my mind. I'm sure there's a office building or 2 for Yahoo where these guys started Yahoo on the computer you know there's no real estate or office buildings.
Two young Men started Google look at what there worth same way just great minds!
Also EXON MOBILE showed the most income last year than anyone else. Wonder Why were paying high prices for GAS!!!!
Just makes you wonder we have people starving to death in our country homeless and now your starting to read about a lot of the guys coming back from Iran being homeless. It's just now right where does the fair come in to it. I have worked all my life got by never starved done fairly good and then you hear about all the others. I quit watching the news for a long time just about ready to stop again.
Well have a good night take care talk to you later....

Toots Lemonade Stand

Oh I forgot I have a link on here now to TOOTS LEMONADE STAND it has lots and lots of items on it from a lot of different stores. Look at it and see what you think It's so CUTE. When you get time check it out and let me know what you think.

Thoughts in General

What do you think about HILLARY I'm voting for her no problem with it at all. Obama just took South Carolina but that's just a little hill to climb.
I think she will make a great president she knows what she's doing. She's ready to go to work as soon as she takes office.
I like Obama to but no I'm not voting for him.
Heath Ledger was such a good looking man I loved watching him. I would hate to think he killed himself why do they do that? I mean they get to the point where they make all this money have all the opportunites to do whatever they want and then kill themselves. I don't understand that.
I haven't felt good for 3 weeks got sick went to the doctor's 3 times then I started getting sick again yesterday. There's no end to it and I don't think I'll take the flu shot this year I did last year and I started getting sick. I know there's nothing in it to make you sick but i have had a time. It's all about medicines and Insurance if you don't have Insurance your shot. They are trying to get a bill passed this year to make it more affordable for those who don't have insurance more affordable to get. That will really help a lot.
Well there's a movie on I want to see I'll put up another one tomorrow. Have a great day.

Sorry I'M Behind!

Hi haven't been on here been busy with Mom. Stepfather is doing great 5 stints in his heart 85 yrs. old and going good.
Mom is doing great except for the dimentia which I think is getting worse. But she has good days and bad days.

Merry Christmas to the sick and all the families.

Hi haven't been able to work on the computer now for about 3 weeks and I miss it. My step-father is in the hospital and my Mom has Dimentia so she's doing bad and I have been staying with her. Older people need a lot of help when they get sick and I am doing a lot with her. She can't remember anything hardly and he's getting the same way plus having a heart attack on top of it.
Were doing Christmas Eve so all my grandkids can have Christmas with us all together. There so cute opening the packages did I say I have 7 of them? I do and Love them all. I know there's a lot of you with sick parents and grandparents it's hard. You give up your time and what your doing to help them and sometimes they act as tho they just don't care. I know she does but sometimes I don't feel it.

I didn't even get to put my tree up so I decorated Mom's big one and it's very pretty. Made peanut butter balls last night and there very TASTY. She doesn't enjoy anything seems like just wants him home and I wish he was to for her. Well just wanted to put down some thoughts I have been having this is about all I can think of all the time I think my nerves are just about shot.
Have a great Christmas and New Year I am thankful for my life I'm healthy to a certain point and enjoy the Holidays. Take care say a prayer for all overseas fighting for all the homeless we have here and for the sick. God Bless******

Quiet Appreciation of Life

Hi My birthday dinner with my daughters and family was great. The dinner was just wonderful we drank 5 bottles of wine(threw the entire evening) in Italy there dinners can last 3 hours and longer. Beautiful birthday cards and gifts and the knowledge that I have raised 3 wonderful children. My daughters Jody and Jessica with my brothers wife Debbie spent the evening with me. I am a blessed person to be able to live and be as healthy as I am. I love walking outside and just marveling at the sky how blue, the crisp morning air, and the quiet of the country. My Mother lives in the country I go out every other day and see her and when your outside with no cars or noise the birds sing to you and you can just marvel at the magnificent world we have.
God didn't start the war man did we have lost a great many good people trying to defend what we take for granted. A Mother's love is a wonderful thing and to take her children away from her is awful I couldn't stand it.
Kinda melodramatic right now just thinking of life and death. Guess some birthdays do that.
Just wanted to pass on a few thoughts I have been having. We need to enjoy every day we have in what ever way we want to. Talk to you later have a new recipe I'm going to put up!

My Birthday

HI hinging on a new dimension for me in a couple days i wonder what it will feel like! Not really wanting to change numbers it's a lot better than the alternative of not being able to do so. So I am approaching it with the outlook that life will change but for the better. My daughters always have me a Birthday dinner just them (there's 2 of them) and me and a good friend. Last year it was Pauline she's a sweetie but a lot older and just doesn't enjoy the wine thing like we do. This year it's Debbie my brothers girlfriend she's younger and enjoy's different things. We have Italian because all 4 of us want to go to Italy very much. I want to travel Tuscany there's so many cities I really want to see. The country is so laid back kinda like we are here in West Virginia. I watch the travel channel and have read books on it and one day we are going to go. WELL BE SUCH A HIGH!!!! I thought the cruise this summer to Alaska was great but this will be better than anything.
Anyway back to the dinner we have cheeses and wine a different main course each time I think this time there doing a shrimp and pasta --Pasta Puttanesca--with Spring Salad w/dressing--Bruschetta which is very good--Wine--Marinated Fresh Mozzerella and Olives--for dessert Deep Fried Wantons just this sound divine or what? YUMMY!!!
It's great just having the girls a while without the kids or husbands where we can talk and spend some mommy time. If you have any great Italian dishes you would like to share feel free to respond with them. Have a great day after Thanksgiving day!!!
Blackberry Wine is a great wine to have for dinner it's dry and I like mine at room temperature.

ALASKA

I went on a cruise this summer to Alaska it was so wonderful if you haven't ever taken a cruise what are you waiting for? You get waited on taken on shore cruises. Seen some wonderful sights had icebergs floating around the ship not huge ones but icebergs. The seafood was divine I love lobster and Shrimp Crab legs are to die for. I had Alaskan King Crab legs HUGE. YUMMY!!!
We rode a train up the mountain to the gold rush area looked like we were hanging on by the track but it was beautiful up there. I saw vast Glaciers that are melting the guides showed where they used to be and where there at now and they have went down a great deal. There's a lot to Global Warming because it's happening NOW.
When I figure out how to post my pictures I'll put up some from Alaska it was truly BEAUTIFUL there. Hope all had a great Thanksgiving we did and I have put up my Cranberry Tart Cake recipe for you.
Since were all women let me know what you think of Hillary for president. I would like to hear your views on it. Talk to you tomorrow....

Cranberry Tart Cake Recipe

Your Dry ingredients
21/2 cups Self rising flour
1 cup walnuts
2 cups Cranberries fresh in bag or add entire bag of cranberries it will just make it better
2 oranges (juiced) reserving liquid add 1 cup sugar to it and sit aside i use more than 2 oranges
ground up orange rind about a cup
small box date's cup them up smaller
1 cup sugar
Your Wet ingredients
2lg eggs
3/4cup oil
1 cup buttermilk
Mix all dry ingredients together
Mix all wet ingredients together it's better if you beat the eggs first them add them
Add your wet ingredients to dry ingredients mixing good by hand
Grease and flour tube pan it's what I use make's the cake look great
Pour mixture in pan and bake for 1 hour in a 350 degree oven
Cool-Remove
Take orange juice with cup of sugar and heat in saucepan don't boil when it's good and hot drizzle over cake and wrap in aluminum foil.
You'll have a cake that is just WONDERFUL it will become your Holiday special Cake.
Remember it's the CRANBERRIES that make it special!!! ENJOY!!!

View from a Woman on Thanksgiving Day Cranberries

When you stay up late on the night before Thanksgiving making your own personal Cake's and Pie's. You want your family to enjoy what you fixed but you also want them to remember those special recipes MOM fixed each year. How the cranberries had to be good fresh cranberries for her Cranberry Tart Cake she fixes for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Well this year our local supermarket I guess found a good deal on some kind of cranberries (other than Ocean Spray) that left in the fridge 2 days would turn into weeping soggy little mounds of disgust. Where you had to go to the supermarket that evening and buy the same weeping soggy little mounds of disgust for your cake recipe. If fixed and cooked as soon as possible the cake came out great but don't let them sit!
Everyone loved the cake as I hoped they would again. Everyone enjoyed Dinner and Dessert we always have a lot of good food for Thanksgiving. When all the dishes are cleaned up and everyone has leftovers, and all go home you can sit down with a cup of coffee and think what a great thanksgiving it was and what we all have to be thankful for. You can think about what could have been a mess if the cranberries hadn't worked out. I'm blessed that all my family was here this year I know there's a lot of people that didn't have family members home to worry over a bunch of soggy cranberries, and I wish all there loved ones well I hope all of them can come home soon and be with loved ones, but also I wish the guy selling the lousy cranberries at a low price had a great big bunch of them dumped on his head we'd see how long they lasted. If you want I'll put my Cranberry Tart Cake recipe here and you can try it you'll love it. Talk to you later.