Impossible News
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The pseudonym / persona of “Blabby” was created by my wife for a kind of first person over the backyard fence talk about everything and anything. She was having fun with it and had some great ideas for this blog. Unfortunately while there is one or two of them that I might use as a basis for a project of my own, I will not be doing anything with them here. This is both the first and last post I expect to write here.
This is so incredibly hard for me to write, so please forgive me if it’s more broken rambling than anything else.
My wife Lura went to be with the Lord last Tuesday, Dec 30 2008 at a little after 4:30pm central time.
I still can’t believe it’s true, I keep expecting to wake up from some nightmare induced by trying to sleep in the impossibly uncomfortable accommodations that White River Medical Center in Batesville provides for the family member who is staying with the patient. I suppose they might be passable for most people but I haven’t slept lying down for years because of sleep apnea (and before you mention it, I cannot tolerate CPAP, I’ve tried it.) and back pain, trying to achieve the sleeping position that I need was nearly impossible and always painful, never very restful. I didn’t get a lot of sleep and less rest.
She had fallen in a parking lot a few days before Thanksgiving when her cane slipped out from under her as she walked around the back of the car. She wrote several posts about that and a lot of what happened afterward on her blog “Off The Cuff” ( http://offthecuff.lurasbookcase.com/ ) and more posts on another of her blogs, “Window Shopper” ( http://shopper.purrfectdomains.com/ ) and in her last post on her Christian blog “God’s Topshelf” ( http://godstopshelf.com/ )
Even though she had hardly been scratched and as a hospital trip a few days later confirmed, had not broken anything, it caused her incredible amounts of pain. A couple days after that, along with the expected bruising, blisters started to appear about halfway between her left knee and ankle. The entire area was very painful and sensitive to touch. I had to “tent” the covers over the area so that nothing would touch it.
She ended up being taken care of mostly by me along with the folks from the home health care place who came out to check on her, take pics of the bruise and blisters.
The doctor had decided it was cellulitis and she was treated with antibiotics and strong painkillers. hydrocodone to start with and when that proved not enough, two 15mg MS Contin (morphine sulfate) pills a day. Other than that the only thing to be done was keep the leg elevated because of the risk of her having another blood clot like the one that she’d had last august. She didn’t have one at the time though, they checked for that when they took the xrays looking for breaks.
By the beginning of the 2nd week of December the home health nurse said she thought the blisters looked a lot worse and she took another set of pictures to show the doctor. Once he’d seen them he said that Lura needed to be in the hospital right away to get it looked at and treated.
On the 11th or 12th (It’s kinda blurred to me and I’m not sure of the exact day right now.), we called an ambulance to transport her to the hospital because getting her into the car to drive there would have been entirely too difficult and painful for her. Because the ambulance could not allow me to ride along with her because of something about their insurance and there wouldn’t have been enough room for me and what I had to bring along, my brother drove me to the hospital after they left.
Note: on top of all this, at that same time I had been dealing with crippling migraines and severe jaw pain for a couple of weeks or more and had a very difficult time with nearly everything because of them.
When I got to the hospital she was just arriving at the ER, after a seemingly interminable time for examinations and tests, they admitted her and we moved up to the PCU (progressive care unit).
I think it was the next day they took her to surgery. They had to not just open the blisters but it was necessary to clean out some dead and infected tissue. They applied something called a “Wound VAC” which is basically a vacuum pump that kept the wound (about 2 inches deep and 6 inches across) drained. I can’t tell you how much I hated seeing that hose coming out of the plastic taped to her leg, almost as much as I hated seeing that wound.
They then proceeded to take her back to surgery about every couple of days to check the wound, clean out any more dead tissue they could find and replace the wound VAC. The surgeon was actually pleased with how the procedures went as well as the progress she was making. Each trip to surgery had less junk to remove and they were satisfied that she was beginning to heal.
We both found it frustrating that no matter what, it was expected to be a long process with as much as three or four weeks in the hospital with these surgeries going on before they thought that she might have progressed far enough to go home and back to home health care. It’s also true that because she was diabetic (technically anyway, more borderline than anything) the healing was expected to be slower than for other people. I was told that complete healing and recovery would probably take as long as a year and a half.
By Sunday Dec 28th, I finally needed to go home for at least a day to do some laundry, clean up, get some real sleep and tend to a few household things. I had nearly become a walking zombie due to lack of sleep and a list of aches and pains to long to mention. Despite this very real need, I hated the idea of leaving her there by herself even for a single day because there were things that I was trying to help with that the nursing staff, good hearted though they were for the most part, were just too busy to be as quick to do certain things as she needed.
By the time I got home it was obvious that I was more than just sore and tired, I had come down with a rather nasty intestinal flu complete with a 100 degree + fever, chills and what I call “Explosive Diarrhea”. Needless to say, my one day stop at home got extended by several days.
I kept in touch by phone and she was continuing to do better. By Tuesday I felt better enough that I expected to return to the hospital Wednesday. I spoke to her on the phone that morning. She was tired but otherwise feeling good. She was scheduled for another surgery late that afternoon / evening.
A few minutes after 4pm I got a phone call from the charge nurse. Lura had been out of bed to use the bedside commode. They were helping her back to bed when she complained of being dizzy and collapsed. She told me that they had intubated her and were moving her to ICU.
I made two phone calls to inform family and put in a prayer request for her. When I hung up the phone from the second call, the phone immediately rang. (this was roughly half an hour after the first call) I saw the caller ID was the hospital and expected it to be the charge nurse again with an update. My blood ran cold when I found out it was a doctor, they never call patient’s relatives themselves, they have their office staff do it. I knew this couldn’t possibly be good news.
He told me that she had she had coded for 30 minutes and they were not able to revive her. He said how sorry he was to have to tell me this and the rest of what he said faded into a blur as I hung up to make the same two calls I had earlier to tell them this impossible news.
The next day when I went to the hospital to pick up her things I spoke to the charge nurse that had called me. She told me (sounding like she had been present for most of it) that Lura had regained consciousness for a minute or two after she fell and was awake and talking. Her heart was going slower and slower until she finally lost consciousness again and they started CPR.
I haven’t seen or heard anything official about the cause but the rest of the family and I have what I think is a reasonable theory. While in the hospital she had to be taken off of the blood thinner she was on because of the central line they had put in, the repeated surgeries and the wound itself. Combine that with the fact that she’d already had a blood clot in her leg last summer and was at high risk for developing them and it is very probable that a new blood clot had formed and very likely had broken loose when she fell.
I know that she did not suffer other than the pain and embarrassment of falling, especially in that situation. She hated falling and it was something that she frequently was worried about, especially since she had the DVT last August.
I’ll be posting this story on a few email lists and forums that she participated in and on her MySpace and Facebook pages. I will also post it on all of her blogs after which I do not expect to ever post on any of them again with one exception.
She has an enormous amount of Bible study notes that she has written over the years, a lot of which she had intended to use to write either Articles for her Christian ministry page “Lura’s Bookcase” or her Christian blog “God’s Topshelf”. Because I know she wanted this stuff posted I intend to keep those notes and as I go over them, post them on God’s Topshelf.
I’ll be doing it partly as a memorial to her but mostly out of respect for the fact that she wanted to reach the unbelievers as well as help believers, especially new Christians, learn and grown in The Lord and His will. She knew that we are living in the last days and fully expected the days of tribulation foretold in Revelation and the soon return of Jesus the Anointed One.
She also would not want me to sit and waste away in mourning and grief. Rather, she would prefer that I continue her (and my own) work in the Lord and reach as many as possible while there is still time.
Another reason for doing this is that over recent years my own efforts in this regard have fallen victim to many, many distractions, problems and even laziness that seem to flow like raging river through the need to get so many things done. Therefore I think that it’s reasonable to make an effort to at least set aside a few hours a week to be dedicated to getting back to doing the work that God has set for me to do.
I sincerely hope, pray and believe that her writings will touch the lives of many, bring the unbeliever to accept Jesus and bring Christians to a greater knowledge of Him and His Love and will.
I would also ask that when you speak of me and this situation, that you not say things like, “he lost his wife”. I have not lost her at all. I know exactly where she is and that I will see her again. Her pain is ended forever, mine will fade with time (a lot of it I think) and life will (*MUST*) go on.
As long as this is, there is much still left unsaid, however I have spent nearly the entire day writing this and my heart and mind are nearly spent for the day. It has been, without doubt, the hardest thing I have ever had to write yet it had to be written. She would have done no less.
in Him,
Edward Langenback
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Creatures Great And Small
When I walk out into the backyard, it’s so great to see the local creatures like squirrels and birds. Once in a while we get to see the deer families though I suspect this year it will be harder to see them since the local government did their best to wipe them out. Admittedly, the deer population was getting a bit large which is a danger to themselves and to vehicles. We have blind corners, hills, curves and all sorts of ways for the deer to come out of the woods and surprise someone. It is understood that they need to be cut down a bit. Yet, I feel sad that the local government saw fit to have hunters killing the deer families off right in the village, sometimes off of a porch. It does not seem right somehow.
Standing here in the backyard, I can hear the rustle of the trees and what sounds like whispering. I have thought for a long while now that sound carries a long way here. See, we live with a woods behind our house here, right next to the fence. See it? I can’t help thinking that there are a good many other creatures out there that are not showing themselves in the daylight. Of course, we do see the squirrels that jump onto our house from that tree right there. Then they go out front and leap from one tree to another. Isn’t that something?
It’s much harder for me to go to the store these days. After I was in the hospital, my energy hasn’t really come back. I suppose some of it could be because I have not done as much exercise as I should. Yet, I find it harder and harder to get up off the couch especially when I have a lot of work to do on the computer. The only rest I seem to get these days is when I come out back to the fence to talk to you.
Tomorrow, we head to see my Mom. After that, we go on to the store. Getting to be about time for Thanksgiving, you know. We usually have a pretty good spread then. Turkey and all the trimmings are the normal meal plans. We always cook up our green bean casserole and the scalloped corn for the party. It’s going to be less formal this year for which I am grateful, I think. The only bad part about the whole thing is that with the saying good bye to Thanksgiving, we have to look toward Christmas. Now, I have to say that I love the reason for the season. My Savior’s birthday is fine. That works very nicely even though it’s quite likely that He was born sometime in August. But with all that commercial thing going on, I hate to get in there and try to come up with presents for all sorts of folks. Happens every year…but this one. This year is going to be pretty slim. But that’s all right too. Maybe this way, some of the people who are younger might actually get an idea of what Christmas is really all about.
Well, I can see that our favorite show is about to come on the television. It’s time to go in before they come looking to see if I lost my way back inside. This time is good. See you soon back at the backyard fence! Take care.
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Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
Sometimes, there are days when nothing goes right. Nothing is right with the world, yours or in total. Days like that….for want of a better word….suck. I know you can understand what I’m talking about. Everything hits at once. EVERYTHING! The car won’t start when you have to head for an appointment you simply cannot miss. All these days, you felt great but today is just not right. You don’t even know why. You feel sick or just haven’t got the energy to do one more thing for yourself or anyone else. Yes, those days happen to everyone, I think.
What’s wrong today? Actually, today is a good day. Things are better but I have to tell you, it was not so a few days ago. Our internet connection totally bombed on us. We had trouble talking with the internet provider’s help desk too. Not everyone knows what you have wrong and sometimes they don’t care enough to do anything about it even if that’s their job. It was a rough time since we do a lot of things online.
What’s that? Did you hear that? What the heck was it? You know, sometimes I think I hear someone talking here at the backyard fence when it isn’t you or me. So weird. Am I losing it? I certainly hope not. Still, it is strange, almost like the trees talking to each other. I don’t know. Maybe I spent too much time watching Lord of the Rings movies or reading the books. I love both the movies and the books. I recommend them! Do you know what I’m talking about here? The Ents, looked like talking trees. Those were the tree herders, those that came alive when the characters needed them most. It feels like I’m being watched, not creepy though. It gives me a feeling of well being actually, a feeling not unlike having a guardian. Does that sound strange to you? Maybe but that’s what I feel right now.
Some things are just wrong from the start. And now that I said that, I cannot think of a single thing to say about that. Wait, I have it. Wrong is someone cutting in front of you just as you try to get into that parking place you waited for in that long three or four minutes that person was taking to put bags in the car. Wrong is sitting at a table in a restaurant and getting a full nose of smoke from some individual who simply does not care what others feel. Wrong is someone from a so-called help desk that tells you that you are wrong and that there is nothing wrong with their equipment or settings, that you did it all badly and to get a life whether it was that way for real or not. Wrong is doing whatever a person can to frustrate another. Wrong is slamming into a car with another car and then making sure they know you did it, that you have no insurance at all and don’t intend to do anything about it, no matter what. Wrong is standing in a narrow aisle in the store chatting with a friend while carts and people stack up around you, wanting to have what’s on that one shelf you just have to block with your big tail.
Actually, I could probably go on and on about this. However, since I do feel better about today, I thought I would stop and let the warm breeze help to make me feel better all around. Oh wait, the fall is slowly seeping away and winter is about to hit. The trees are becoming, some already, totally naked of any leaves at all. We do have one weird thing that happens here, or at least I think it’s weird. Some trees, I have no clue what they are, hold onto their leaves until the spring when you can expect another time of leaf falling when the new leaves come out. I have never seen this before we moved here. Strange.
Hey, look at the time. I have to attend a concert sometime today and I simply must look better than I do with my apron on. So, it’s time to go back inside but I want to be sure and see you here at the backyard fence really soon. Thanks for listening.
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Just Relaxing Or Maybe Just Chillin’
No, that isn’t usually the way I talk but it seemed right since I’m just standing here in the backyard doing nothing of real interest to anyone. When we lean over the fence and talk together, I feel like we have a lot in common, things are going good or not good but we are somehow in it together. At least it seems that way to me.
The world is going to hell in a hand basket. Does it seem that way to you too? No, it isn’t just because of the presidential election results, though that could add to it considerably. It’s just that everything appears to be happening at once. The housing market went down the tubes, then the lenders, then the stock market, now the car companies too. Where does it end? Can the new administration get us back on track? Actually, I would say that it is not going to be as easy as the campaign promises made it sound. Some of these things going on are years in the making. Do you honestly think that they will be cured by a new president right off the bat? Nope. Not going to happen that way. I don’t think he realizes how much power he does not actually have. Most people love to blame the guy at the top for the world’s ills. Not everything that has happened is George W. Bush’s fault although to hear people tell it, he invented the word suffering and then put it on us all. No, didn’t work that way. He did put into operation some things that I know we will certainly regret some day and that might be soon. No, he did have to put some of those things into operation with the crisis of September 11th happening.
But now we have a President that we have no clue who he is, what he is about, yet lots of people bought his story and his promises. I am going to sit back and watch what happens because I know that he cannot possibly do all of what he says he would. That is reality. He has to answer to congress. That alone will cut back on some of those promises. You know, I think that even the most dedicated, honest person on the face of the earth could promise something but then get into that office of President and find out that they couldn’t fulfill the promise no matter how much they wanted to do so since the congress will not always go along with the President. I do not care how weighted down with Democrats this congress is, if they do not want to cooperate with the new President, they won’t do it. Just think back to all those great bills that could have passed but the congress wanted to talk about it, work on it, change it and eventually IF the bill succeeded in getting through the morass of crap in both bodies and sent to the President for signature, you can bet that is not the same bill that was started. Most of those who backed the original bill would not necessarily even recognize the one that got signed. Sad. Scary stuff.
Well, having just looked at my watch, I have to get in and start supper. If I don’t, they will be after me to get it going. Oh bother. I think I will take some time to just sit and watch the sunset tonight. So, take care and we will meet back here at the backyard fence again soon. Bye!
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Over And Over Again
We have a great anticipation over a contest that should be announced today. Yet, those who are supposed to do that tend to put things off and put them off more. It’s promised but they do not deliver what they say they will. That is not only annoying but it’s also somewhat rude. I know. I need to be more compassionate about them. And I am. It’s likely that those people have things to do. They are busy people. And so, I sit at the computer loading a page over and over and over again with the same results each time. There is no change. No results. Sigh.
Isn’t that about the same as what we went through this last 21 or 22 months with the campaign? Over and over and over, we got to see some candidate or another talking about what they would do if they got into the White House. The problem is that they didn’t. Most of them didn’t anyway. I heard that there would be riots if Mr. Obama didn’t get in. Hmmm. That sounds terrible and disturbing. It’s as if someone or people wanted to influence the way people voted. Fortunately, most people did not hear about it. There were some riots, small and not reported much. But we sure heard the promises. Promises are something most people see no problem in breaking. Most do not see the importance of keeping promises. I have discovered much to my dismay that most politicians are good at promises and very bad at keeping them.
Aren’t we all at least relieved that the whole thing is over? Would this have been the outcome if there had not been that long of a campaign? I don’t know. All I know is that I am so glad not to see anymore political ads, no more slam bangs of the opponents, no more telling us all about what they promise to do while saying that the other people could not possibly do it themselves.
I think I’m just standing here spouting nonsense by now. Guess that’s what happens when you end up listening to the media and the pundits and the candidates for that long. So, I think I will simply go inside and hope that tomorrow is a brighter day. I will say this. We live in a dangerous time. Very dangerous. Our country could change in the twinkling of an eye but it might not be what you always wanted. Might not be that at all. More like a nightmare. Well, bye for now. See ya back here at the backyard fence real soon.
politics, president elect, riots, promises, political ads
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Thanksgiving Is Less Than A Month Away!
With things happening all over the place and here too, is it any wonder I lost track of Thanksgiving. But it surely is coming on fast. It’s about time to start planning the meal that everyone seems to look forward to each year. With someone making pies and the turkey, I have the job of making the vegetable dishes. Not a bad deal really. I usually fix a green bean dish and a corn dish, both of which get eaten up pretty fast. Of course, by that time the group is so full they can’t eat the pie that has been driving everyone nuts for the past several hours. Nope. You have to wait. We usually eat around 1-2pm. And we get our pie somewhere in the late afternoon so that’s not so bad either.
You notice how low the gas prices are getting? Me too. I just wish we could have them at the lowest point. See, where we live is a pretty economically challenged area. Some areas of the country still have jobs available or there are resources to find that will help a person or family that has a financial or other crisis. Not so here. We live in a rural area where they really don’t have a whole lot of help. You got to go way over there or way up yonder to get any type of assistance. I think a few years ago, we were number 49 out of 50 states for how poor we were and are. So, if the gas prices were at the lowest here, it would be really helpful. Now don’t get me wrong. The prices are going down. Down is good regardless of how much it goes down since it’s lower than it was. I am not ungrateful.
What I am tired of is that blasted election. Get it over with already. Yes, I am tired of hearing about all the things they are going to do when they get in office. But the trouble is that they won’t do it. They never ever really do it, you know. That’s just to get them elected. Reality sets in somewhere in January when they move into the big office and find out how little power that office really has anymore. Those promises are going to have to be given through the congress. You ever notice them agreeing on much of anything lately? They didn’t even agree with the bailout thing. How is one guy going to get them to agree enough to do all that promising they are doing? Well, I was just thinking about it, is all.
I think it’s time to go in and start planning my Thanksgiving meal. If I do not do this soon, the ingredients won’t be available. I know this since I ran into that problem a few years ago. Now I don’t dilly dally around. We go to the store and get that finished! We get that turkey and other things way before they’re all gone. And now is certainly the time while the rest of the people around here are so focused on this other thing they call a holiday. I don’t. It’s not right to celebrate such a dark thing. And that’s all I got to say about that. So, see ya again across the backyard fence real soon.
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A Video To Share With You
Now I know that standing here at the backyard fence, we usually don’t bring our videos to watch but this one is sorta special to me. I entered this contest, see, and it was about your hometown. They wanted to see who could make the best video, if possible, of their hometowns. You could be funny and have one that wasn’t nice but they preferred the nice ones. My daughter has a really good friend of many years who is a singer. He did a few songs at a party not long ago and had it recorded for his group. He sent that wav file to her and she sent it to me. That is what has pretty much made the video work. I am hoping you like it as much as I did making it. So, I will step away from the backyard fence and you can watch this video of my hometown.
Whether ya liked it or not, please let me know what ya thought. Put that in the comments section. And be nice here. If you aren’t, the comment doesn’t stay. You won’t see it at all since I moderate everything!! That’s all for today from the backyard fence. Time to get the dishes done so I can sit down and read something awesome. Hope you liked the video. Enjoy!
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Baby Toys Not Like They Used To Be
Have you noticed that buying baby toys is completely different than it used to be even a few years ago? In fact, most things are so different than what they were a few years ago. However, I did not have to do much about baby toys until recently. Our extended family has a new baby who needs good toys. She is able to grasp things now and needs something to do with her hands which are exploring everywhere. But you know what? Everything I looked at, no matter where I looked….that’s Walmart, eBay and assorted other places, almost all of the toys were made in China. That country has been trying to poison and kill us for the last more than a year now, probably much longer. How would we know? We only now are noticing the recalls and problems coming from there.
I am telling you that this country is going to be in serious trouble if we do nothing about the problem…not really JUST a problem, it’s a catastrophe. Just think about this. Almost ALL the toys I found for baby were made in China. Almost ALL. Meaning that the few that I could find that were not made in China were older toys. OLDER TOYS. On eBay they call them vintage sometimes. The names that you are confident in, that you trust, have toys made in China on the shelves. Until I was shopping for a baby, it just did not occur to me to look for that. But now that I see it there, I am going to be looking at all manufacturing labels. I will no longer buy one thing from China. NOT ONE THING! It’s even more aggravating than it sounds. China has an import/export deal with the U.S. We import all we can and they tell us to take a hike when our goods go there. They only allow a small number of items from the U.S. into their precious country. Why aren’t we doing the same thing? WHY???
On another front, the election campaigning seems to be heating up. We have already voted so I don’t feel the need to watch much of the campaigning. I saw most of the last debate. I saw most of the vice presidential debate. I made up my mind some time ago that there was just something not right about one of the candidates. There is the fact that no one knows much about him. No one has a clue what his voting record is on certain subjects. I don’t see putting what I would consider to be an imperfect stranger into the White House office. That would be dangerous, don’t you think? Most people want to say he’s a breath of fresh air. I think something stinks.
I see by the rising of the sun that I need to get inside and get my slow cooker meal in gear. Can’t have a meal if you don’t get it started! So, I guess we can talk over the backyard fence again real soon. Can’t wait to talk to ya again!
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Disgusted With China And Other Stuff
I am so disgusted with China. There was another recall on the news tonight. Did you see it? It had to do with baby cribs made in China that the sides come down unexpectedly and the baby gets caught in the side. It has resulted in a couple of children dying over that. After all the things that have been in the news about China, don’t you think we ought to say NO to them exporting their products to us? I have been watching our purchases at the store. So many things are labeled made in China. Have you noticed that too? I cannot believe we have allowed our country to be run over by those people who are wanting to kill us! But that is happening. We can see it. They tried to poison our pets, our babies, us and we just let more products into the country anyway. Why isn’t someone saying something in congress about this? We probably should talk to our congresspeople, shouldn’t we.
Did you notice also on the news that there are record numbers of people voting early for this election coming up in a couple of weeks? Yep. We both decided we didn’t want to stand in those awful lines you get on voting day so we went on over to vote early. Want to know what happened? We stood in a line, that’s what happened. Of course, it was a smaller line but a line nevertheless. And guess what? Our state has finally come into the twenty first century with the rest of us now. New voting machines. We always had to sit down with a pencil and the voting ballot and vote that way. I never minded that but I expect they wanted to count the votes sometime the same night as voting day. Counting paper ballots must be time consuming. This way, it’s a lot easier….unless the machines mess up, that is.
I stopped listening to those two candidates and all their he said, she said stuff. Frankly, I wanted to know what they were going to do that made sense. Half of what they talk about, they can’t do even in the White House without a whole bunch of other people agreeing with them. Congress has to approve and make the bills that they are talking about. Sometimes, the President doesn’t get along with congress that well. The biggest thing they’ve done recently was that bailout. Otherwise, they pretty much spend their time either sitting and collecting their paychecks or running around trying to get reelected.
Oops, the news is about on. I had better go for now. They always want their supper around the news time. Reminds me of my grandfather who would yell at everyone to be quiet when the news was on. Bye for now, see ya back here at the backyard fence again soon.
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Let Me Tell You A Secret
Actually, it’s not much of a secret but here it is. You will be the first to know that I am sorta depressed. I have no idea why except that nothing….until a little while ago…….was working out very well. See, I am making a video for this contest. It should be fun and was fun until….everything seemed to go wrong. The pictures weren’t what I wanted, someone else had the same idea. You get the drift, I’m sure. Then, the things I wanted in the pictures were not working out either. For instance, I want a picture and video of deer in our yard. Honestly, the deer have been in the yard for years. Whole families of deer including the little guys with spots. We saw them in the spring and the fall quite often. Wishing we had a video camera, we would watch until they left. Now we have a video camera. Guess what? No deer. None. Nada.
I wanted a picture of the local waterfall which is absolutely beautiful if you catch it at the right time of day. Of course, now we have little rain so the thing is a trickle that you cannot see on the video. Sigh. I was looking for old pictures of structures here in the area. When I looked online, nothing. We live in a tourist area. You would think there would be pictures of the old town and things like when the town was formed. That sort of thing. Uh huh. Nothing. None. Nada. The thing is I have this awesome vocal to go with the video. It would fit just fine with it. But without awesome content, it’s just another lame video.
Okay, this is depressing even to me. I will stop that. I did get some good news. A blog I worked really hard on has been accepted at my work. Very nice. It will be great. I guess this isn’t much of a secret. More like a “cry on my shoulder” sort of thing. Yep. And I have not really wanted to do that but then this is my backyard fence conversation, isn’t it? You would do that too, right? There would be more things about your relatives and the economy. So, lets go there.
Gas prices should be taking a bigger dive after what I saw on the news about oil per barrel hitting lower than it has in a year, under $70. So, does that mean our pump pain will get smaller? Maybe not. The oil companies coupled with OPEC do not want us happier so they are willing to leave prices as is while cutting production. That ought to make people love them more, don’t you think? Oil companies are at the bottom of the food chain, in my not-so-humble opinion. They are feeding on the country’s problems and adding to them abundantly. It was sort of the cherry on the top concerning people who were trying desperately to keep their homes while big oil drained everyone of any shot of recovering at all.
Did it sound like I was back in gear now? Yep, guessing I am at that. The debate, what I saw of it, was more of the same in some respects though Mr. McCain came out swinging this time, something he should have done prior to this if he was wanting to win, I’m thinking. They shot at each other but no one scored heavily against the other, not really. From what I can see, it’s anyone’s guess who will win. Only thing is, if Mr. McCain wins, we might get taxed on our medical coverage. If Mr. Obama wins, we will surely get more taxes. It is not a pretty picture here but there is a person who will do the right thing, I’m believing. Can’t tell you. That would be giving away another secret. One at a time.
Well, I guess I had better get inside and start the makings for supper. Yes, it is early but I wanted to put that stuff into a slow cooker. It will please the natives. And that’s what it’s all about in families, right? Talk to you again sometime across the backyard fence.
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