A Waiting for The Witches and Goblin to Come

I found this story or at Hidden Haven Homestead it was posted on Peggy blog the 30th of October.
Please read this request from a mom and send a postcard to her son telling things GoGo Beans did while visiting your area.

Mom's Request

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GoGo Pork n Beans is the name my son gave to his best friend, an angry looking monkey from Target who has been since discontinued. A few weeks ago Go Go Beans (which is his nickname) was left on an airplane.After personally searching the lost and found in both Denver and Phoenix, we've determined that this monkey is kaput. I've contacted Target and they're not helpful in the slightest. I have searched ebay, posted to craigslist and searched through 87 pages of pictures of plush monkeys on froogle.com. No go go beans.Go Go Beans was a birthday present for my son's 1st birthday, so 2 years ago is when they made it. Cuddle Zone made it exclusively for Target.Noah now knows that Go Go Beans stayed on the plane to see the world. Our hope is that we can find Go Go Beans (or a twin) and all will be well with the world. Go Go beans is the central character of all of Noah's bedtime stories. I even mentioned him in a listing, he's that important So the other night Noah asked if we could write him a letter. I said yes. I now bring to you, that letter that he dictated to me all by his little self (btw, his third birthday is Sept 16th)
:Dear Go Go Beans,We want to give you a birthday. (he had me draw a cake with two candles) I hope you're having fun on the airplane. I miss you and I miss you on the airplane. Plane. And I miss you on the ride of the airplane. And I love you *SO* much.Candles. Birthday Cake. Happy Birthday Go Go Beans. Clock. Email us, please. Trees. Mountains. Milk. Buttermilk and chocolate milk. Regular milk. Frog and Giraffe miss you. I miss Go Go Beans. I want you to come home soon. Tell him that I miss you. Milk. Frog and Giraffe and now candlesticks.Love,Noah
Here's where all of you come in. We'd like Go Go Beans to write back to him saying what a great time he is having and hey look at this post card from all of these cool places I'm visiting If anyone wants to help out, that'd be REALLY RAD Thanks guys -stacey

Her son's address :
Noah Gordon
2242 E. Harvard St
Phoenix, AZ 85006

Lets all send Noah a postcard full of GoGo Beans adventures . Take a few minute it send a post card to Noah. I sure will

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I got an e-mail from my Aunt Eve info on 2008 our family reunion in Alaska. Statement...I want to go...goodie goodie gum drops The town of ninilchick is where the reunion is being held and looks like a neat place to visit

We never get many or any trick or treaters. So this year we’ll passing out Take five Candy bar. But I’ll bet we will get to eat most of them
My Aunt Eve makes an outstanding Popcorn balls. So after work I’m going to stop by and help her.

My client Callie daughter Patty was born on Halloween and I got her a little Jewelry box for her 8th birthday.
Patty is sure almost a 180 degree what I was when I was her age. She a girly girl and I was basically a tom boy. The only thing I see what we are like at the same age we both like to do crafty types of things.

Fun Things are Happening on Blogger Land

In blogg land two wonderful people is hosting a swap one is an ornament and a stocking exchange.

I’m strongly considering hosting a bucket party swap this spring. More toward Spring I’ll explain what a “bucket party” is.

The stocking exchange is over at Hidden Haven Homestead Peggy wanting to know who is interested in a stocking exchange. It sounds fun and I’m in.

I had to try my camera on the night setting. So I went out and look a picture of the snow.
This morning I went out and took a picture of our 1st snow of the season. The hay field isn’t cover with a white blanket. It got down to 10 during the nite.

The ornament exchange over at Stranded in the mountain

I add some new blogger friends to my Coffee Pals and take a minute and check out their bloggs.
Jaspenelle Is part of dragon fly. I like to read ordinary people bloggs.
Then over at Nio I add her homestead site called howling hill.
I’m adding one more blogger Wendy over at happily home.
Wendy has a cool quiz over at her site called... foot print quiz .
Anyone who doesn’t mind or actual getting their hands in soil. To me they deserve a “gold star”

Pocket Book Says "Ouch"

Unknown reason why I can’t get any of my photos to down load. But if I shut down the computer maybe it will work.
But before I do that I thought I would type today blogg in word perfect. Statement...Oh I perfer plain ole word

Murphy and I went to the Gardenia Center to the Sunday service today theme was on “The creator had reason to make us all different”Maybe at different time I’ll blogg about this but not today.
I brought a dump cake for coffee hour and someone brought Halloween Cookies and someone brought muffins.

Murphy and I bought a few things for the home.
Before we left I made a list of things we needed. Honest time..I’m a person who goes into a place and only buys what is on that list, 98% of the time
The list was pretty short my check didn’t come in the mail. It better be here by Monday or I’ll be calling, payroll.

I want to buy a few Thanksgiving decoration such as pilgram, Indains or even a little statue of the mayflower.
But our pocket book said nooooo nooooo nooooo.
So we got boring practical stuff such as toilet paper, a belt for Bart, boxers for Sawyer, Halloween Candy, and a big ole organic chocolate bar. All of this stuff came from Wal Mart

We bought two things out of home depot. Some .47¢ bracketed, two set of them for some curtain and new out door light for our front steps. The one we had before just plain up gave up the ghost.
We had to get one for under $20 bucks and I’m not a big fan of this light but our pocket book said it all we could afford. Confession time...The one I like cost right around $50. I just went over to home depot site and see if I could find a picture of it. No luck.

In both store I looked at some of the Christmas decoration and awed at it all. Window shopping and dreaming what one may have or want is free.

Weather report, Here in North Idaho the wind is howling and we have snow flurries nothing yet is sticking to the ground. I'm back for anther up date on the snow it sticking to the ground.

Getting Ready for Ole Man Winter

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On the south side of the house we cut one of lilac bushes way back, down to the ground and it dead. Statement....I’m hoping it dead as a door nail Before my mom got this house which she brought from my cousin Pablo and he planted two lilac against the south side of the house. With the lilac there it’s been a real pain.
I like to dig a runner off the other lilac bush which is still alive and move it between the house and mail box. Then cut it way back and let it die.
But now I’m digging up an ole lilac stump and I thought it would be pretty easy. Honest time...I was wrong. Plenty of tap root that goes all over under ground.
After I get lilac stumps dug up I like to plant some roses, peonies, and rhododendron plus add our fossils.
It got quite a bit of work to get it to that stage that I can start planting

Both Murphy and my day off of work and I needed to get some things done around the place before the cold snap comes in.
The weather on televison said, in couple of days it should get down to the teens.

So I dug up my gladiolus and my one dahlia bulb and as I was digging up the dahlia and stuck the shovel right into the dahlia bulb and cut it right into half.
I cut back the gay feathers back to the ground level

Early Afternoon Murphy, Bart and I went up to our place on the North Bench to look around.
Bart went hunting for a deer, it buck season until the 1st of November then it comes either sex. No deer.
Murphy and I looked around and found some items we would like to take back to our home in Pleasant Valley. But we decide we need to haul some stuff to the dump, burn, yard sale it Statement time...I have know ideal when I’ll have time for a yard sale Or give it to one second hand store.
As I was walking threw the woods I spot some trees that could possible be future Christmas trees. I need to go out later and flag some.

It's a Blogger Facts

Never know what you will learn out in the bloggers land. I’ve picked up bits and piece of useful information.

This week I’ve learned:

Over at Claires Garden I’ve never heard of a doll house holiday. Statement.... Oh what fun that would be and go and do a hands on project with a group of peopleClair has such cool picture and I had to ask if anyone has “Trashy Places” and she answered back well what I learn is how to use the word “blot” in different context “generally the whole village is thought of as a blot as there is so much violence/drinking/drugs going on”

Over at Strand in the Mountain from Kathleen she posted a recipe for Russian Tea, which my Mom. Use to make russian tea when I was young.
I never thought of this, “ Foggy Windshields: Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!”

Over at Purple Moon Garden. Rose and Kelly posted a link to a cool site called Angel Food Ministeries which helps feed the hungry. Idaho is a poor state and it not listed but not many West of Mississippi is listed either. If I remember when nest time I’m at Community Action Center( food bank) I’ll tell the lady who runs it about this program.

Autumns Meadow Their two things I found interesting. On one of her posting in her blog, is about a book called Wisdom of the heart by Alan Cohen. I want purchase this book sometime. She put up a recipe called “Kitty litter Cake” well one of my mom first cousin brought this to a family reunion. Honest time..There a large percentage of people in my family will snub their noses at anything new of different. When my mom brought the russian tea to a family dinner a lot of them thought it was different I wouldn’t try it. Any how I thought, the Kitty litter Cake was great and funny

Over at Nio As I’ve blogged about my oldest son Sawyer will be going off to college the fall of 2007. Nio blogged about her dealing with the college she attending Volgon Home Planet Honest time...To put our boys threw college we will need to get help by Grants, loans and scholarships. We just don’t have the money to fork out When It come time to fill out financial aid forms I’m going to let our accountant do it.

Never know what a person can learn out in blogger land

Thirteen Thursday #11

13 GOALS OF A WITCH
1.Know thyself
2.Know the craft
3.Learn
4.Apply knowledge with wisdom
5.Achieve balance
6.Keep thy words in order
7.Keep thy thoughts in good order
8.Celebrate life
9.Attune with the cycles of the Earth
10.Breathe and eat correctly
11.Exercise the body
12.Meditate
13.Honor the Goddess and the God

Who Will Idaho New Congress Person Be.

Last night Murphy and I watch the Idaho debates on public T.V for
US Representative, 1st Congressional District. It was actual a 90 Minute debate and I didn’t know the debates was going on.

The one I don’t want in there is Bill Sali As I watching the debates he said that their was “no such thing as global warming”. Plus I have no degree in economics as he does but I’m afraid that his ideal of economics would be disaster for the disable and the working pour. His ideal is to cut tax and spending and never said which program should be cut. It sad truth that we here in the United States do have pour or low income people for what ever reason and Bill economics will divide our country more in class. The haves and have nots

Larry Grant is one I’m voting for. To put it in nut shell “ Dubya and his cronies is breaking the law when he is eavesdropping” and Larry did menchin this. Plus I like send as you go. Yes I understand there are times that you need to charge or barrow money in life. But we as a country and as people barrow and charge way to much. When a candidate talks about jobs or the news make statement Example...Last month 4,000 new jobs were created My question is are they livable wages jobs. Larry does talk about living wages. I feel this man is more in middle of the road the Bill Sali and not as narrow minded and is open and will listen to people that may not agree with his ideology

A new candidate is stepping on the political stage is Andy Hedden-Nicely I heard him once on North Idaho form. And I was quite impress with his take on middle east. I feel he has the same ideal as Larry Grant and even a little more. The sad truth Idaho is a real red state and some people feels that the G.O.P is “God Only Party” and the democrats is “party of the devil” Honest time...This is the first time I’ve seen other political signs and bumper stickers from other political party other then the republicans

Here is statement from three of candidates Bill Sali Larry Grant Andy Hedden-Nicely In all fairness anther candidate is running for congress is Dave Olson and click here to read his Statement Dave does not have a web page

Bad Spiritual Habits

Actually I was going to blog about this closer to Samhain/Halloween. To me Halloween is also a time to redo one self spiritual or get rid of your bad spiritual habits.
Yes my soul needs some work on.

The three area I like to work on is: I hold grudges, I only forgive people part way, and if someone doesn’t excepted my apologies I get pissed at them

If some one pisses me off bad enough, which isn’t very often. I won’t hold what they did in the pass to me. Confession time....I’ll keep an eye and ear open if they do something else to me Then I’ll have to do something to them to teach them a lesson or make sure I’m one up on them or two.
At times I’ll even tell the person that I’m pissed at what I’ll do to them if they screw up, I learn this from my mom. A conversation might went like this when I was a teenager.
Mom: “You need to be home by Midnight”
Peppy: “ Look lady I’m going to a party and I’ll be home at one”
Mom: “ Is it a kegger?”
Peppy: “Yes, and what the hell are you going to do about it” As I’m walking toward the front door.
Mom: “ If your not in by Midnight, You’ll be grounded for two weeks”
Peppy: “ You wouldn’t have the nerve”
Mom: “Try me”
Well we both kept our words and I’d come home at one and I’d get grounded. Confession time...I a least knew where I stood with my mom, which I respect” I try to do the same I want my friends and oppositions know where I stand.
No I don’t hold grudges on pass but I sure do in future.

I’ll forgive people for the pass but like my grudges I’m also keeping and eye and ear open for some slip up and I can take back my forgiveness.
Confession time...My father never every forgave me for being such a nasty teenager As I was growing up he would down talk me and basically told me that I was a piece of shit.
He never trusted me and always looking for some minor mistake I’d do and then he would hold a grudge and so he would have reason not to forgive me.
I think he went to the grave and never real forgave me. I'm hoping I'm wrong. What I hope that happen he forgave me and admitted his faults before he pass on.
Honest time...I know I don’t look or snoop on people to find their faults
If I truly forgave people I wouldn't keep and eye and ear open to take back my forgiveness that I granted them

The last thing if I admit my short coming or when I wrong someone and willing to bury the hacket.
If they’re not willing to except my apologizes Honest time..It actual pisses me off and I want to get even and get one up on the S.O.B.
I need to learn and over come. If I’m in the wrong and admit my short coming and or say I’m sorry. The person(s) that I admit my fault to apologize to and if they don’t excepted it. It not my problem it come theirs

I’m not turning the other check so someone can shit on me either. My spiritual self is tarnished and I know I need not hold grudges or take back forgiveness that hasn’t happen and propley never will.
Plain and simple if someone don’t except your apology or when you admit your short comings it then becomes their problem and not your anymore

An Hour In The Morning and Evening

Organization went pretty good today. I’ve complained in pass about I do home care and Honest time...After cleaning my clients home I have no desire to do mine, simple because I’m so burned out
Well this morning I did an hour of cleaning my own home. I finish loading the dishwasher, swept the kitchen and dinning area, vacuumed the hall way and the living room, wiped off the glass end tables plus the coffee table, front of funky china hutch, wipe the front of T.V and did a quick whip over the kitchen counters.
Sort of on the hour thing I did load color laundry and hung them on the line to dry.
At this point I like the one hour cleaning my own home. I’ll do an hour this evening and call it good.
Then on my days off I can put more into my home and yard. This way I don’t think I’ll feel as over whelmed

I had all sorts of ideal what I was going to blogg about this evening and now I can’t remember a single one of them. The only excuse I have “I’ve gotten a brain fart” I guess I did figure something to blogg about

Jack Pumpkin Spice Ale

I picked up some Jack Pumpkin Spice Ale At first this ale has a nice gingerly taste but does not last long.
As I prefer a lighter beer or ale.
This ale I would give it a B-. If they was more spices in it. Personal I would then raise the grade up

Once again Murphy and I went out to get more fossil and unusual shape rock. It looks like we going have to start anther flower bed.
We’re always coming up with new ideal what we would like to do. But it always seem we’re lacking money, time or knowledge. Sometime all three.

Last few times I tired to load more then one picture into blogger I didn’t get any where at this point one is doing fine.
On one of my setting on camera, behind class. I took picture out my front window to see what happen.
As you can see the trees in front yard is turning a nice goldish yellow

Sixty Years Together

Uncle Melvin and Aunt Bea celebrate 60 years of marriage. They had 4 boys and no girl. Aunt Bea always want a girl.
When I was younger they lived on a farm with cattle, horses, ducks, chickens, dog, and a yellow cat. In the summer months I’d go spend two weeks they’re and when they went out and feed the livestock I got to take feed down to edge of the pond and poured it in and so the ducks could eat.
First time I quite didn’t understand about the duck food and I dumped the grain in middle of their drive way and Uncle Melvin didn’t get up set with me.
I thought it was great they had a pond which I went swimming in. My Aunt Bea for about two weeks fussed and played beautician on my hair. Statement...My grandparents hardly had any granddaughters so all of us girls someone has always monkeyed around with our hair
I’m not sure which way this event went. I think I went to the pond for my swim and soon as I got in my Aunt Bea had to curl and style my hair. I just don’t think it would be the other way around.
I remember once I went horse back riding with their 3rd son and one of their daughter-in-law. Who divorce their son and she still has connection with the family.
Well everything started to go ok and the horse I was riding was name Midge well she turned around and took off toward the barn and I was pulling back on the reins hard. Their daughter-in-law was trying to get the horse to stop.
Uncle Melvin starts to run kitty corner before the turn. Stood in the road and Midge came to a stop. One of their boys took and rode the horse. I wanted to keep riding.
Honest time...I got my own horse later on and actual became a fairly good rider. I actually like to get anther horse about 6 to 10 year old gelding about 15.2 to 16 hands
You hear about people gripping about their Mother-in-law. My Aunt Bea treated her Mother-in-law real well.
My Grandmother (Bea Mother-in-law) had 3 sons that real didn’t do diddle for their own mom.
Aunt Bea made sure her phone bill was paid, visits her, and took her places

Bring in the Target

For some reason I'm not sure what going on. It taking ever in a day to load picture. Like I said this camera got more bells and whistle on it.
This is a picture of Bart and Murphy bring in a targret.

Grease Monkey

Before I had any children and I wanted 8 of them at one time and I said my children would never fight.
Well I was wrong and when they where younger in grade school they use to fight all the time.
I’m total clueless what happen now Sawyer is 18 and Bart is 15 I haven’t heard an unkind word, a dirty look or a sour note from either one of them.

Today both boys worked happily on their Toyota pickups. Bart bought oil and I don’t know if he got around changing the oil.
Not sure what wrong with Sawyer Toyota it won’t start and I’d guess it’s something simple and just can’t figure it out. So any one with any ideals why it won’t start.

In North Idaho it hunting season and Sawyer went to town to get some bullets. I’m personal not a hunter. But I do like game meat mostly elk.
Later this afternoon the boys set up a target and site in one the rifles.
But before they shot the gun our goofy dog butch with his tail wagging went out toward the target barking at it. Honest time...I don’t know what he has trying to prove Yesterday he came running in form the hay field and it been raining and as he ran up our wet steps to our home he slip and got caught between the steps. He limped around for less then 15 minutes but he ok now

I add two more bloggers to my coffee pals Kathleen Marie and Ligeia

At this time I’m reading Writting Spirit by Lynn Andrews.
I’m hoping to learn how to put a little more paza in my blogg or write as my true self. Combination of both.
Somedays I edit and edit. But after 3 to 5 edits I say the “phooey” I can’t be on the computer all day looking for imperfections

Note from Peppy: For some reason I can't get the picture to load, will try posting them tommorow

More Gizmos on this Camera

Wednesday our new Camera had a arrive. We're learning all the bells and whistle on it. Butch our dog was first picture we took with the camera

Thirteen thursday #10

Thirteen Things about Blog Hoping Part II My green dream Steph lives in New Hampshire and has an blogg on homesteading and I like to stop by and see what she up to. Plus her other blogg are swell also Life on the ridge. Now I’m off to anther blog. Home light Sarah is my first time visiting and I’m going to take minutes and look around looks like she got three part to her blog gray Never been to this blog either. Sounds like their pretty busy family M larson is new to the blogger world sure to stop by and say “Hi” I remember when I first start to blogg I wondered if anyone real lived out in blogger world. Now I’m heading back to gray and trying anther path Cher Café This looks like a new blogg for Cher. Check her profile and there is 4 other bloggs. Now I’m off again Let see I’m going back to my green dream and see where I go next Stella Oh the 31st of August she had baby boy and he is a keeper. “I'll let mama rest” Lacy lives in Texas. She been blogging about guerrilla gardening. Don’t know where I’ll end up next. Juli who lives in florida. Looks like her life is more quitter now as so is mine. So off to anther blog Mogils Not sure who is who. I bet Mogli is the pooch. He sure look like he having a blast. Everyone needs to have some fun in their life. Let see if the next person is having fun Phoenix oh the picture he has is worth a million words. I’m clueless where I’m going next B/sistersshoes I like all around blogg. Sounds like she writes what every fancy her. Once again off on trip threw blogg land Amethyst first blogg that I landed out of the United States. Looks like she writes about everyday things. Now for my last stop where every that my be Poet Mom I admire people who does poetry but never could get the words down right.

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Christmas Ornament Exchange

Kathleen Marie is hosting a Christmas Ornament Exchange
It sounds fun and I like having fun.

boat

The other part of the service at Gardenia center was a group chant, which I don’t know the words to. Then we had mediation lead by one of the members.
This mediation been done more then once.

your on an island of Ok I can’t remember the island name but it has something to do with opposite of enlightens
There is boat of what every you want. And you going out on sea of wisdom. You are at the helm of this boat and you can take who every you want on it

First time I did this boat mediation I was in over grown row boat with no oars, just a hand held rudder. It was overly crowed and the sea had large swells

Then the next time I did this mediation. The boat I and others went out was larger. Plus I brought oars along.
I can’t make out the faces in the boat. But right before we launch the boat my brother in law Earl is standing on the beach. Confession time... I’ve got some personal issues with Earl and his family I hem hauled around and finely spoke up and said “ get in I can’t leave you stranded on this island”
The sea still have large swells in it

As an after thought about my brother in law Earl if he was running the boat would he leave me on the island or throw me in the water.
Recently his family been civilized toward us and if he act uncivilized towards anyone. Would I shoved him in the sea.

This is something I need to work on interior self being. For example...If W does blank to me and W tells me that they’re sorry. I’d except their apology but the whole time in my mind I’m thinking....”you better not let it happen again or they’ll be penalty for you to pay
I guess I do hold grudges and or watching my back way to much

A Note, I just took a peak at amazon to see where my camra was at. Well it in Spokane Washington it scan in their at 2:28 AM this morning, which is about 2 hour drive from here

Jaguar

When I was at the gardenia center Sunday service. (10/15/06) In the inspiration was on Shamanism

We acquire skills of a Jaguar spiritual.

This was done in a mediation state and what I have in bold print is where my mind is a where of

Your in Peru in grassy field setting on Jaguar To me in this picture is rock cliff of dark grey rocks and the Jaguar is starting to run threw this grassy field toward a water fall. As the Jaguar takes off I fall off I get up and sweep my self off and walk quickly to the waterfall as I get their the Jaguar is not insight
Their this beautiful water fall I’d say about 3 or 4 feet across. Not sure of the height. I don’t pay that much Attention to height of the falls but notice the width of the fall. So why do I notice the width of the falls but not height of the falls? I wade in water not paying in much detail of what’s in the water it up to almost my knees.
I wade out of the water and sit on a rock looking into the water notice that every pebble is all the exact same size (oval) slightly off white and I guess the size of robin egg

I don’t know why I fell of the Jaguar. But I did get to the water I don’t know if I’m a stubborn person or a determent person.
Why did I notice the width of the falls but never notice the height. Why is something picture that us as individual will notice, differently then others
The pebbles are all the same and as human we are same also. I believe we are all the same, put the grass, the rocks and everything else had different shape or size to it and we are met to be different in every way physical and spiritual

In the inspiration speech she talked about different areas. Confession time when I meditate I start my insight North, goes around the following East, South, and West. Well for some reason I feel uneasy in the South.
So I went to the a wicca web site and typed in the word “South Spirit” and came up with two article click here and click here I just type in the word “south” and came up with this

Linear Life Is Sometime Necessary

Yesterday I finished cleaning my patriotic flower bed. Only wishing I had more to plant in there.
This flower bed is planted more linear then my other. Confession time...On my yellow and purple flower bed I stand some where around it and toss the bulb in and that’s where it goes. If it plant or seed I toss a rock in it and plant where it lands
My hodge podge flower bed is where I feel where it needs a home.
I planted 8 white tulips and sprinkled some love in the mist seeds.

Today Murphy and I went to the gardenia center in Sandpoint. Next two days I’ll blogg about my meditation trip on jaguar and a boat. But I’ll share some short writings they have in their Sunday Service program

He/She who lives in memories alone is unaware of where of he/she is

You cannot lose your way because there is no way but His/Her, and nowhere can you go except to Him/Her

Forgivingness is the great release from time

Forgive the past and let it go for it is gone

In the basement their they have metaphysical book store and last Sunday I order Llewllyn’s Witches Calender 2007 and it came in and so picked it up today.
Honest time...This is the first time I bought a calender for my self. I always thought it was waste of money that I could get serval of them for free.
But I’ve never had any problem buying a calender for a gift to give to someone
I looked personal important dates such as birthdays and see what is in the calender for that dated.

Tad Bits of Stuff and a Zebra too

Today I thought I would share a few things with you all. My cousin Fabiana send me an e-mail of these good sounding cookies. I usual don’t agree with her political

Neimanmarcus honest time...I can’t afford to shop their and if I could I don’t know if I would any how I like looking at their Christmas catalog for kicks and giggles if you don't already know, is a very expensive store.
They sell your typical $8.00 T-shirt for $50.00. Let's let them have
it! THIS IS A TRUE STORY!!

My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Neiman-Marcus Cafe in
Dallas, and decided to have a small dessert. Because both of us are
such cookie lovers, we decided to try the Neiman-Marcus cookie. It was
so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe, and the
waitress said, with a small frown, "I'm afraid not, but you can buy the
recipe."
Well, I asked how much and she responded, "Only two fifty - it's a great
deal!" I agreed and asked her to just add it to my tab. Thirty days
later, I received my VISA statement, and the Neiman-Marcus charge was
$285.00!! I looked again, and I remembered I had only spent $9.95 for
two salads and about $20.00 for a scarf. As I glanced at the bottom of
the statement, it said, "Cookie Recipe-$250.00". That was outrageous!

I called Neiman's Accounting Department and told them the waitress said
it was "two fifty", which clearly does not mean "two hundred and fifty
dollars" by any reasonable interpretation of the phrase. Neiman-Marcus
refused to budge. They would not refund my money because, according to
them, "What the waitress told you is not our problem. You have already
seen the recipe. We absolutely will not refund your money at this
point."
I explained to the Accounting Department lady the criminal statutes
which govern fraud in the state of Texas. I threatened to report them
to Better Business Bureau and the Texas Attorney General's office foe
engaging in fraud. I was basically told, "Do what you want. Don't
bother thinking of how you can get even, and don't bother trying to get
any of your money back." I just said, "Okay, you folks got my $250, and
now I'm going to have $250 worth of fun." I told her that I was going
to see to it that every cookie lover in the United States with an e-mail
account has a $250 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus.....for free!!! She
replied, "I wish you wouldn't do this." I said, "Well, perhaps you
should have thought of that before you ripped me off!!" and slammed down
the phone. So here it is.
PLEASE, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of.
I don't want Neiman-Marcus to ever make another penny off of this recipe!!!!

NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES

This recipe makes 112 cookies. (Recipe can be halved)


2 cups butter
24 oz. chocolate chips
4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
2 cups sugar
1- 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
5 cups blended oatmeal
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)


Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder. In a large
mixing bowl cream the butter and both sugars. Add the eggs and vanilla.
Mix together with the flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda.
Add the chocolate chips, Hershey Bar (grated), and nuts. Roll into
balls, and place 2" apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375
degrees.

I like going to Lee Seat freebies web page to get small free things. Sample size only things. Read carefully everything you do. This is where I got free example of magic wall easer. honest time... I haven’t been ripe off from any of these offers, your not going to get anything of real value all way under $5.00 but most of the stuff is pretty neat

I got this e-mail news letter on Halloween ideals

Honest time...I like to buy things and if I can save a few pennies I’m in favor of that So anther place I like to frequent dollar stretcher

Again and Again

Yesterday I had fun blogg hoping honest time...I have trouble coming up with list it seems I don’t dislike 13 things and I like way over 13 things in category.
But it seems that some thirteen Thursday have pretty neat list such as Tinkerbell, cross and quill “ oh how I’d like to do Mr. Linky on mine just like on cross and quill does. Candy Mix
Unless I come up with something different I’ll propbly will go blogg hoping again for Thirteen Thursday

I just wish I could stay home for a few days. Last Wednesday I took both of the boys to wal mart vision center to have their annual eye exam.
I’m one who never wore glasses but now I ware 125 reading glasses. I’m not sure what all goes into an eye exam.
The cost goes as follow Diag Exam 59.00 and Exam 36.00 times that by two. Plus I two boxes of contacts for Sawyer at $15.96 each which will last him six months.
Bart had trouble with his last set of contact and they gave him a different brand to try out so today we went back to the walmart vision center and he seemed happy with these contacts.
They had one box in stock so in three months will have to go back and get some. Bart was a little more expensive over $20.00 a box.
honest time...when the ranged me up at til I was in shocked how much it cost

As I was at Wal mart I picked up few items. Haven’t put up any thing for Halloween and after paying for contacts plus ordering a camera once again as always we cash strapped.
So I got a .97¢ window clingers which where all jack o’ lanterns. I got other Halloween decoration but it hidden on my basement stairs. Confession time...I just need to get organized easier said then done.
I do have a small scarecrow sitting on my dinning room shelf.

I picked up a few other items as I was at wal mart. Garbage bags, dark chocolate, orbit gum and incense trio package of Dragon’s blood, opulent opium and ylang yland.

I got the house picked up a little consider all the running around I did. This morning I took Bart into the Bonners Ferry Fire department so he could help his follow scout get his Eagle Merit badge their putting in some kind of monument for firefighters.
As he was doing this I went over to my friend Peggy but she wasn’t home. Her newly married daughter Nicole and her husband is living with her.
I know their will be a job opening for mangers of the Bonners Ferry Apartment and I told them and gave them the fax number.
I swung by my sister in law Faith place to talk to her.But Faith wasn't home either. One time Murphy Nephew Sam and his wife came out looking for work and wanted to move out west.
Sam done maintence work before and his wife Amy got degree in theater and minor in administration. Sandpoint point is more of arts farts community then Bonners ferry, still close by.
I have no ideal how to get hold of Sam and Amy plus I don’t know if they want to live out here still

I ask Sawyer to pull up my sweet peas steak well he got two of them out but the other one he didn’t get out. I know sometime you have to put a pipe wrench on the steak and pull like crazy strait up to the sky.
I told Sawyer about using the pipe wrench I don’t if he didn’t pay any attention to me or though I was nut for suggesting using a pipe wrench

Thirteen Thursday #8

Thirteen Things about blogg hoping. I have some blogger friends that I call my coffee pals. I decide to start with madcapmum and I’ll see how many new blogger I can find. 1. Madcap who lives in Canada and Wednesday she wrote about North Korea and she makes beautiful quilts. Then from madcap I’m going to 2. Wendy who lives in Maine on her blogg she wrote about the comedies on pbs. I person like the one with I just can’t think of it. The one with they misprounce her name and call her Mrs. Buckett. Now let see where I go next. “ Dead end so I’ll go back to madcap.” 3 Laura Who lives in Canada. In her blogg resent for blogged about environment. To be quite honest I haven’t read her in great details. Gee I’m going back to madcap and trying a different path. 4 e4 who lives in Ohio and got picture of some tomatoes being dehydrarted. Oh I like all most any thing to do with homesteading. Now let see where I’m off to now 5 Beo who lives in Wisconsin and yes we use to catch rain water and melt snow. Boy I’m back to madcap. 6 wild side home Not sure were wild side lives. This blogg is switching over to Beta blogger. Now let see who I’ll peak in on. 7. Clairsgarden who lives in Scottland and she one of what I call my coffee pals. She has beautiful gardening stuff she had a picture of a prime rose. Now let see where I head to next 8. Michael who lives in Quebec. His blogg was on Kayaking and it is the first blogg I every read on Kayaking. Now off to anther blogg it ended being a dead end so back to madcap 9. Wayne who lives in Georgia. Who has a picture of a saddleback caterpiller. Never seen or heard of one. Never know what kind of info you can get from blog hoping. Let see where I’ll be off to next 10. Out side in I have no ideal where I’m at. Nice picture I even try to guess the picture of the city. I’m leaving this blogg and see where I’m heading to next. 11. dhama bums I’m not sure where this blogg is out of. But I know I’ve bumped into it before. Looks like they been busy siding a house. Two more stops and I’ll be back to my blogg. 12 Phil who lives in Seattle. I knew the banner picture that’s the space needle and Mount Rainer in the back ground. It sound like he spend some time in Milwaukee. Now for the last hop. 13. Meg Who lives in British Columbia. And the only thing I have to say about the world political climate is grrrrrrr. 1. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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It Only a 188 Bucks

Should I or Should I not, Should I or Should I not, Should I or Should I not, Should I or Should I not.
Well I did it that is I order a Olympus sp 500
They where on sale at Amazon for $188.11

I kept debating with my self if I should or should not get this camera or should say “when to get this camera.
Question and facts was going threw my mind.
Well it on sale now and I was going to wait until Monday to order it and with Murphy law it would of went off sale Sunday evening and I’d have to pay the full price.
Then if I order it now something would happen and we would be financial pickle.
honest time...Isn’t it awful that we real can’t afford to gamble with less then $200 that I’m afraid that we might put a financial hardship on us
Murphy and I was on the poor side for people living in the United States. Someday I should blogg about that. In lot of ways life was better, thats one side of the coin.
Confession time...I use to wake up every morning and looked at life as one adventure didn’t matter what obstacles that I faced it was part of life and it was an adventure

I order a Picture card (128mb)
I was going to order AC adapter But I just didn’t feel comfortable at this time getting one. So this will be my next thing that I’ll get for the camera.
There is other things I’d like to get put I don’t know when

Purple for Spring

I’m trying to get my home in somewhat in order confession time...I’ve seen it a lot worst
My client Callie gets 15¾ hours a week and I had 7¾ of over time so I only worked 3 hours and used 2 hours of my overtime. If and when Callie moves and if I have anytime left I won’t be able to collected on it

When Butch and I was out for our walk which was shorter then usual. I notice how the trees are turning colors.
One of my favor when it turns is Tamarack Larch. It between full fall color of bright yellowish gold. It greyish green with little tint of yellow. When other pines are mixed in with those pine needles contrast a bright forest green

I’ve been doing a little bit in my flower beds. Yesterday Murphy helped me pull out my trills that my sweet peas are growing on. Now we need to pull out metal steaks that was holding the trills up. It will take a pipe wrench to get steaks out.
I did some cleaning in that flower beds but once the steaks are out I could do a better job and finish it up
All of my zinnia got frosted out so I pull them out and where my zinnia was I put in deep dark purple tulips.

Murphy and I went out to gather fossil and rocks. We’re getting quite the collection of fossils and rocks and I’d like to do a rose, azalea, and peonies flower bed on the southside of my home, with some fossils and rocks.
But with the strong possibility that Callie might be moving and Murphy will be laid off at tree nursery money might be come tighter.

Looking at Life as an Adventure

I got all of our out standing bills up to date. I was planning to get anther camera. Then at work Murphy law slapped me in the face.
The mangers of the Apartment is going to Priest River to mange anther HUD apartment for more money.
The mangers at the Apartments are real down to earth people but I don’t blame them for wanting to move.
My client Callie wants to get out of Bonners Ferry and I don’t blame her one bit so she asked for an application to the apartments in Priest River.
Their serval reason why Callie wants to leave the Bonners Area.
1) become more independent.
2) be way from her mom but still be close enough to her mom so visiting isn’t out of the question
3) be closer to her sister Eris (in Priest River she’ll be in between her mom and sister)
4) She would like to meet a male that she develop a relationship. She wonder if their anyone out in world for her. (Doug who is her daughter patty dad. I can perfectly understand why she wouldn’t want permeant relationship with- I haven’t decided that Doug doesn’t know what reality is or choices not to live with in reality)
All the reason above I understand why she wants to move

Honest time...I want to be laid off because I want to get few minor project done around here With both of us laid off money will be a factor not time.
So if I purchase the camera now it could put us in somewhat of money trap. But on the other side of the coin. “There will be no perfect time to do the camera”

Confession time... Majority of the time things in life never bothered me all that much I’d look at everything in life as an adventure I think if I had that mind set again of life is one big adventure I’d wouldn’t be having such anxiety attacks.

Spiritual Karma

Today my friend Quenelle and I went to the Sunday Service at the Gardenia Center It hit home when the last speaker who speaking on “spiritual Karma”
Confession time...I bitch and complain about other people being mean and nasty in spirit But I can be nasty and mean in spirit. If someone wrongs me in a certain way I’ll think of nasty things I can do to them.
My recent one I think of Nasty to is to Murphy Brother Earl.
Example of my wrong thinking...If Earl or Tadita does or acts this way I’ll have to do_______ to them
I should just plain work on forgiving them. Honest time...I’m total afraid that if I total forgave them they would look at a sign weakness and use it to their advantage I need to work on my negative spirit toward them. Yes I’m doing better but I still have some spiritual healing. Yes they have their short coming and won’t admitt to them oh well my grandma Olive was also a grudge holding person and never forgave anyone even if she played a part in the situation.
It plays less and less in my mind so there real less and less I want to do nasty and mean things to them.
This is an area I could work on is my thinking that I want to do mean and nasty things to Earl.
I have healed some after Murphy tried to bury the hatchet I guess I have to be patient with them and listen to my own spirit guide

Well on the way home Quenelle I stop at the Liquid World just to look around she got a pair of slippers for under 3 bucks.
I found some wall paper boarder that would go in my dinning area. But when I walked in their I told my self I wasn’t going to buy anything.
I did order a calender threw their bookstore, llewellyn witches calender Plus I’m planning to buy a digital camera

My Halloween Costume Quiz (I think not)

Your Haloween Costume Should Be

A Girl Scout

What Should You Be For Halloween?

Needs More Then A Fly By Cleaning

It seem since I only work part time I’m lucky to get the surface clean. I got home Thursday a little after 12 and did a few things Like clean both bath rooms. Unloaded and loaded the dishwasher. Went and clean somewhat by my barn/shed is. I took out my dead sweet peas. Their a little bit of color with my sweet peas. Confession time...I just couldn’t pull up all my sweet peas the reason is I see all the leaves turning color here and know soon things will be bare and no color, or very little of it depending on what kind of winter we have.

I know next year I won’t be growing sweet peas flowers in their. That flower bed is going to become my patriotic flower bed. Up against the red barn/shed I’ll grow blue and white flowers. See I have a little patriotic in me.
I already have white mums planted and there in full bloom now. Bought some white tulips to go in later.

I tired one of the fruity spirit dump cake who also did Holiday cooking blogger style
Murphy just raved how good the dump cake is and so simple to do. Next time I’d drain the pineapples.

So for dinner it was just Murphy and I we just clean out the fridge for dinner. Nuked some left over spagahtti, pork chops, and broccoli plus a little bit of cranberries.
Sawyer is out and Bart is on roofing.

I got this picture of Mountain lake scene that I would like to hang on my living room wall. It odd shape I’ve been having a difficult time finding a frame.
It 15 X 24 inches. I looked in wal mart and Ben Franklin store neither one had the size I was needing. Ben Franklin has custom made frames. Honest time...A little pricy for me and I’m not that fond of the painting
The other day I pick up two small octagon picture at one of our local thrift store (Animal shelter) which are swans. I paid $1.89 each. After looking and moving them around my wall. I decided I need to go back into the thrift store and get a glass globe scones to go with the picture. I hope they didn’t sell the globe scones.
Plus I picked up a giraffe mask you see I collect giraffes

Now it Friday and I’ve done some chores around the place honest time....I’m so burn out on doing housework
I love my client Callie and she is great gal. But after I clean her place I don’t have any motivation to clean my home.

I keep saying I’m going to put my self on routine. Confession time...I don’t which I despise more a strict routine or scatter brain life
The real promblem I see with a strict routine their no bend in down to wire routine and the scatter brain routine nothing get done

Both of our boys pick up this week. Sawyer trade some Mud Bogging tires for a 83 Toyota pick up and Bart got a 84 Toyota pick up for $500.

It sure most be nice to get toys.
Murphy and I sure can’t do that. We a least got all of our bill up to date. I should be able to get a camera off of Amazon and pay off less then 4 payment.
I’m putting it on credit card and on my next pay period. I should give the bank $100 for my next 3 pay peroids. The 4th payment will be less. I feel comfortable even if an emergency comes up and I need to use the credit card

Thursday Thirteen #9

Thirteen Things about Bumper Stickers I've seen lately 1 Larry Grant for Congress 2 Butch Otter for governor 3 Jerry Brady for governor 4 Recycling so simple, it works 5. Save our lake...stop the rock mind 6. Kerry-Edward 7. Impeach Bush 8. No By Way-Don't sacrifice our waterfront 9. Live Aloha 10. Left has never been so right 11. Equal rights are not special rights 12 Xena for President 13 Get over it 1. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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Date Pecan Balls

Over at over whelm with joy is hosting a holiday style blogger style.
I have never did anything like this before and it sounds like fun.
All the recipes that are exchange are tried and true.
At a latter date I may post more recipes.

I got this recipe from my Aunt Eve.

Date Pecan Balls

1 cup of soft butter
½ cup sugar
2 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups sifted flour
2 cups of ground pecans
1 cup of whole dates, cut up ( I grind mine)

Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla and mix. Add flour and mix. Blend in pecans and dates. Roll a teaspoon of dough into balls. Refrigerate balls for 1-2 hours. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. On top shelf of oven. Watch close. Remove from oven and roll balls into powdered sugar. Let cool and
re roll or sprinkle with powder sugar.

tagged..Dessert and Cookies

Fall Odds and Ends

We only had one out standing bill which was to the One spirit book club. Yesterday I receive my last book which was writing spirit by Lynn Andrews.
Not sure when I’ll get a chance to read it.

Now I feel more comfortable on purchasing a camera

My client Callie and her daughter Patty is gong over to Washington to visit Nanna (Patty Grandma) Nanna went over to stay with some friends. Our local school is having a few days off starting Thursday so Callie and Patty are planing to go over.

I had this crazy ideal to paint my kitchen cabinets. Since I’ll go back to work next Monday. Their other things needs to be taken care of around here.

The other day we were up visiting our friends Earl and Quenelle. She gave me two Chinese Lanterns that I planted out in my hodge podge flower bed.
She also gave me some lavender Poppy seeds I sprinkled them on my hodge podge bed and my purple and yellow flower bed.
I got quite a few poppy seeds left over and plan to share the abundants of.
I clean out part of my flower bed by the barn/shed I was going pull up my trills which my sweet peas are growing on and I couldn’t get it up by my self.
The only thing is in full bloom out there is white mums. I thought this was a cool site about plant magic

I’m thinking of not doing my other blogg keeping it going I’m thinking of adding anther category to my main blogg. Haven’t yet decided what to called it.

I was blogg hoping and went over and visited Peas Corner> Peas Corner which I’ll add later to my sidebar.
Threw her I found this neat little thing that over whelm with joy is hosting a holiday cooking blogger style.

Flying Out of the Nest

Saturday evening our local high school had their home coming dance and both of our boys looked handsome.
I feel Murphy and I did a good job of raising them Confession time...although we are far from being perfect

Knowing that we did a good job with our boys. We taught them good value, be honest, be respectful. Be tolerant, and stand up for what you believe in.

As the boys got older and showed they were responsible for the freedom we gave them we gave them more freedom.
Sawyer is 18 and we never had any major problems with him. Sure we had a few minor incidents honest time...Actual they were somewhat funny and I’ll blogg about them some other time.
Bart who is 15 needs to be in by 10. Less they are special reason such as a group activity.
Then if Bart does good on that we will increase his curfew.

When both boys are gone I feel sad and lonely Confession time...I thinking I’m starting to go threw empty nest. syndrome.
I knew the boys would leave home and start a life of their own.
Honest time....At one time I want 8 children and I couldn’t get Murphy to go along with that ideal. But in todays world and society it isn’t possible

September Weather

The warmest day in September was on the 8th, 86.4 fernhiet
The coldest day in September was on the 23rd, 23.8 fernheit
The aveage high for the month of September was 74.5 and lowest average is 49.9 fernheight