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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