A heads up to my friends.....

This is a photo of my grand daughter Aurora. Pink is her favorite color, and she loves horses (has her own chocolate paint) kittens (has her own kitten) puppies (has a five year old puppy named Thumbalina her mommy got her) and pumpkins. She grew the pictured pumpkin all by herself. She named the pumpkin Petunia. She is also sporting a shiner (black eye) from a boy at school trying to take her ball away from her at recess. She kept the ball, even after he head-butted her. I love "Rory" more than life itself. She, her two brothers, he cousins over in Antlers, and her cousins up on the north east coast. These youngsters give my life meaning. I may have sounded a tad depressed yesterday, and I was, but....I will not go gently into the night. I live for the lovings I receive from my grandkids. They rock my world.

PEACE!!!

Third time ain't a charm....

If any of my relatives read this, please do not let my mother know what I write here. Mom has lung cancer, it is stable (meaning not progressing, she can live years yet, but her plate is overfilled). As I write this, I am battling skin cancer. I will not go through chemo again. This is the third time I am having to deal with cancer. The first time it was prostate and kidney. That one almost got me. The second time was skin cancer. So is this one. I have it on my chest, my back and elsewhere. I will go back to the doctors really soon. My last bout was a little over four years ago. Malignant, and I battled it myself with bloodroot and chelation. Now? I am bone tired and weary. It is not fun having absolutely no energy and being in pain constantly. I will win this one or will have given it my best effort. I used raw local honey as a topical, it helped, but now the rash and pustules are back. Death holds no terror for me, been there, done that. I just want to hang around for my grand children. They give me joy.

PEACE!!!

I have a wonderful family....

My cousin, Jimmie Green, did me a service that only a relative would know how to do. Jimmie is quite a young man. He is very talented, but the thing he did, was to place photographs of my family (grandfather, grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins) on his facebook page. Let me tell you right now, it brought tears to my eyes seeing all my kindred dead. The memories just flooded my brain. Soooooo, Jimmie, if you ever read this, you too are very precious to me. Love you cousin.

PEACE!!!

YEEEAAAAHHH....RIIIIIGGGGHHHHTTTT!!!

This image says it all.....Peace!

A True Chicken$#it Story

I have a very good friend who manages some cabins, lodges, and a motel, for another very good friend of mine. Jim has been around southern Oklahoma all his life. Before he and his lovely wife moved to the home they have now, they lived in the apartment at the office of the Canyon Breeze Motel, at exit 51, on Interstate 35, south of Davis, OK. Whew, man that is a mouth full. Across from the motel is Honey Creek, the same creek which feeds the falls at Turner Falls Park. From my earliest memories, there was an iron topped bridge crossing that creek, so you could drive the scenic drive along the top of the Arbuckle Mountains. Well, the state of Oklahoma had better ideas, they removed the old fully functioning bridge, and built a concrete one in it's place.

While all that construction was going on, there was a hen that came to visit Jim and his wife at the motel on a daily basis. Jim took to feeding the hen on the hunch that she had some eggs she was sitting on. Sure enough, one day, she showed up with a bunch of chicks tagging along behind her. She mothered the chicks until they grew to the point they were adult chickens. One of the chicks turned out to be a Ban-tum rooster. Jim named the rooster Cogburn...pun intended. All the other poultry but Cogburn got eaten by foxes, coyotes, and such. He survived!

Well, Rooster Cogburn is now a regular attendee at the world famous, Arbuckle Mountain Fried Pies, the store behind the motel. In the photo above, he is standing on the table in front of the store, waiting patiently, for a hand out. Even though folks put out chicken feed, he likes those fried pies a lot more. Just thought I would share a bit of my world.

PEACE!!!

It is late, I am tired, but.....

The grandkids are all in their beds, it is late, and Nanna and Paw Paw are retiring for the night. Blessings upon all of you.

PEACE OUT Y'ALL!!!

Say it ain't so.....

I bought the family plan at Netflix. I will still subscribe to their service, but, I am not happy. It only costs $7.99 per month to stream movies and such, but, you can only do so one item at a time. Not that I am greedy, it is just that if the grandkids are watching something on the television in the den, I can't watch a different offering from them on the computer in my bedroom.

PEACE!!!