Feb7/2021 Time to Pull the Curtain

 

    In the Wizard of Oz, the dog is the one that pulls the curtain  aside revealing the jerk with the big mouth. Our ego is like that so called wizard. Always jumping in with the big mouth.  First things first, when your emotions are worked up , its time to count to 10. A little down time to think things through. Are my future words going to help me in the near future.  It's  hard to do but necessary.  Your life will be a lot smoother. Working on this is the best thing you can do  for yourself. Take a deep breath and ask spirit for help in your upsettment. Spirit can smooth the way.  It will be a little less bumpy for you.  The 10 count is your default  setting. Use it frequently.

    By taking 10 minutes  for yourself  in the morning you help with the future minutes  of your day.  Just try to think of peacefull  thoughts. The mind will jump around, and that's normal and ok. The important thing is to take those 10 minutes. You allow  the ego to take a back seat.  Once you get the  ego into the back seat the trick is not to let it drive.

    Nothing comes to you until you have a thought. All scientific inventions start here. The same with you.  Figure out what you want, think about it, then make it happen. Have faith that it will happen. Do an action everyday to get closer to it. Once you have it. Your confidence  will soar.  Your life  has no where to go but up.  If anyone tells you otherwise, then   in your mind you say it will be done. Your actions today carry you to a better future for you.

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Feb6/2021 Keep on Keeping on

    It's  super  bowl time again. I always hope for a good game. I hope for the future that they can through technology  lessen the risks of concussion to it's players.  This should be their number 1 goal.

    Pierre-Paul who plays for the Buccaneers  overcame big obstacles  to reach top ranks of defensive players. His mantra is put God first and don't  give up.  That's  it in a nut shell. This guy puts his heart into everything he does.  That is the right attitude.

    A friend of mine gave me a card once.. The front of the card had  a picture of a large Huron ( its  a water bird) trying to swallow  a frog. At the last second  the frog reaches down and grabs the huron's neck. The words on the card are never give up.  When  I'm  up against it, I always  think on that card.

     The piano helps 106 yr old  Collette Maze from France to be active. Her music lifts her spirit staying in touch with the life force. She will release her 6th album of piano music.

    These people are tuned in.  They  have selected for themselves the best part of the cake. They are beacons for the rest of us. They shine their light on fertile grounds where others can flourish. Consistency and dedication   and a strong knowing is what is required. 

    Do something in the morning to uplift you and set a positive mood for the day. By doing this day after day, your attitude will rise up, making a better future for yourself. The goal is to enjoy life with less worry. 

Feb02/2021 Door #3 Please

 

    The prize was  in door 3.  Yesterday  caught  Let's  Make  a Deal. The guy won close to 11 grand in high end household appliances.  He did good.  Now it was time for the big deal of the day.  One of the prizes was a new car. They go to the contestant who won the most money wise during the show. The guy says yes. He wants the car.  And gives up his 11 grand appliances.  3 doors,  one is the car and the other doors are material goods worth 3,000 and the other door  around 6 thousand.  So your odds are 1 in 3. Not that good.  Say you have a box  of 100 cookies 67 cookies are sugar and 33 are chocolate chip. You like chocolate chip.  You get 1 pick to draw a chocolate chipper. They're  67 cookies in there blocking your way. This is where a bird in hand is worth more than 2 in the bush. But our hero wants that car. He picks door 1. Camping equipment  about 3 grand, his loss in value is about 8 grand. Car is behind door 3. He tells the host it was his first thought to pick 3, his mind talked him out of it.

    When were presented with a dilemma  try to go with what your mind came up with first. The mind then quickly tries to play the devil advocate.  Then you start  to vacillate.  Your in no man's land now.

    Yesterday I'm  cutting the neck off a plastic bottle with a utility knife. Don't  ask me why. I know to draw the knife away from me. I hold  the bottle near the neck drawing across and down.  Halfway  through I'm  thinking be carefulI  now. My mind says use the scissor.  I'm  98% through just 1 more  draw of the knife. The knife goes up and catches my finger. Get the scissor and finish the cut of the plastic. Go to sink sqeeze out excess blood then wrap tight with paper towel. Then use bandaid.  But it's  an old package. The bandaid doesn't  stick to itself, so I use scotch tape  on top of the bandaid, worked great. See. My mind talked me out of grabbing the scissors. Takes a lot of practice  to go with that first thought. You think you learned it then the next day you forget once again.  Dang!

    Ask spirit for help before you get of bed in the morning. Spend a couple minutes doing it. Help will be at the ready. You come upon a situation. You make  a decision  but it didn't  work out for you. Or maybe it did. Say you didn't  win that motorcycle but maybe spirit saw that you would get into a bad accident with it, so  it took it away. One never knows. But always keep pushing to make your life  better. Be consistent in the morning  with the ask.  Day in and day out. Watch your life then change in increments.

Jan31/2021. BIRD in SNOW

     

    Today is the last day of the month.  It's been 1 crazy month.  In my book just 2 more months of cold weather. Today were suppose to get around 6 inches of snow.  First time this winter I had to top off the bird feeders at 3:30 pm. A little bit of snow in the air  and  the birds know where their fail safe stations are in the neighborhood. They don't  say  thanks but I know they are gratefull.  Tuff being a bird these days unpredictable  weather, loss of habitat  and bad chemicals in the air.  Since 1970 there are now 3 billion  less birds in North America.  No good.  We are definitely not the best stewards  of the land. In our wake there is air pollution, water pollution, land erosion, global warming and plastic pollution. More  and more people, who want more and more stuff.  It sure doesn't  look  good for Mother Earth.  The solution  is to start implementing  God's  plan.  How?  By asking. Where to start?  You start at square 1 . Fix you first.  Good things will begin to follow.  Anything done in fear will fall apart.  You put love into anything you do and you get a fantastic result. Start with a small thing first. Then add on to it.

    One solution  is to make less plastic. Try to use replacement products.  I know they're  working on getting rid of the plastic grocery bag. Thats good, it's  a good start. Plastics break down into micro pl a stics. They enter the food chain of life. It's  a very bad  thing. When a product is created  one should think about it along the lines of cradle to grave. A safe place to put it when done. No matter how difficult  the predicament there is always an answer for it. Be creative. 

    The blue jay is pretty.  Not too smart though. When a hawk pays a visit overhead. He or she has a freak out starts squawking  loudly , jumps up into the air and tries to make a run for it. Sometimes he gets away and sometimes not. The last 15yrs its been mostly Bluejays feathers on the ground not alot of feathers.  I guess the hawk carts it away. Never once have I seen cardinal feathers on the ground. I saw a hawk glide over the ridge of my house and come down over the feeder, birds flew for their lives. What a smart hawk he used the house ridge as a baffle to limit his exposure. They are silent during an attack. And they are in glide mode no flapping wings. When a hawk comes cardinals stay silent and fly horizontal into my hedge of conifer trees.  Now there's  a smart bird. Small birds will head for cover. But they know for the most part that they're  not much of a meal. One day at age 10 I guess I got up  Saturday at dawn. The light was starting to chase the dark away, the sun had not rose yet. Exited the front door and went along the side of my house where there were holly trees. I came across a big owl who had just launched himself into the air.  It was a slow pump of his wings that lifted him up. He was big 6ft wingspan.  The little birds were all around him chirping like crazy. They completely  went all around him. They stayed a foot away. Each finch left a little space between them. They were  above the owl and below him. The owl was laboring to gain flight, yet he paid them no mind. It was a sight I never would forget.  That was a good positive experience with the bird kingdom. Been trying to help them out ever since.

    I like having them around the yard. If you would like the same.  Get a small bird feeder with small perches. The little birds have a better chance against the big birds. Use reg bird feed and add some black oil seeds to it. Black oil is the best for birds. Peanuts not so good health wise. They may like them but it isn't good for them. I store my feed in separate  galvanized garbage cans with the lid. Keeps the animals from chewing through it. Works great.  I put it atop three bricks to cut down on rust of can. Place a squirrel  baffel at a ht of 4.5 ft above ground then mount feeder above it. Make sure there are no overhanging tree branches over feeder. These  squirrels know their stuff. Make sure the seed can is 5 ft away as well. They can use the can as a spring board to get over t he baffle.  With birds you have to be consistent when it comes to feeding them. They will put you on their itinerary.  Which will be good for you. Also use bird baths and suet cages.  Suet is about 5 inx5in?, I then put it in the freezer. From there when I'm  ready its less messy to put the suet into a suet cage. I then hook it to a pole above the squirrel baffle.  Works great.     GOOD LUCK!

Jan/22/2021 We Bided Our Time

  

     For the last 4 years waiting on Biden to come save us from ourselves. It was a close call  for democracy. We were a couple creeps away from having a real situation on our hands.  No common sense by so many. So frightening  it all is.  When you chip away the veneer all you have left is plain  all fear.  Oh and how destructive  fear can be. Like a cancer it eats away  at the pure and beautiful  and goodness. Like a lion tamer one must be on top of his game  to combat the forces of I'll mannered men. So close and another 4 more years  of him would have saw the death of the U S A, as we knew it.

    When my mother died,  pop got a minister to do the officiating.  I was talking to him after the service . He said this was so different, I said what do you mean?. This funeral was  pleasant to minister. He said most  funerals are about recriminations. I said you got to be kidding me,  no not kidding unfortunately.  Really,  fighting amongst yourselves  in front of the deceased.  How despicable. You can't  even get along in your own family and you expect  the country and nations to get along? We got a long way to go.

    Eighty years ago almost, this nation entered WW11.  Four years later 407,000 US deaths. In 1 year we lost close to 420,000 US civilians to the corona virus.  Eighty years ago the US pulled together. This time around not so much. First responders get an A plus.  The rest of us far less. Something as simple as wearing a mask is a problem for us. How selfish is that. There are no words to be said.

    One of the first things we learn in life is tell the truth , take responsibility for our words and actions. These 2 things are what the US is based on. Remove those 2 things  and you have chaos  and evil infecting the country. A  bad apple has been placed in our midst and already its  corrupting  our moral  backbone.  Frightening  times are here. Uphold  truth at all cost and in all things, no matter what. God is watching. Do your part no matter who you are. Do it for God and not your self interest.  Look at the dollar bill see what it says on it,  in God we Trust. It doesn't  say any particular man it says GOD. Remember that most of all.

    Lets  go back to WW11. The year 1934 Germany. It was called the night of the long knives. Hitler had 2 competing  military units one was the SS the other the SA. He used the gestapo and the SS to crush the SA kill it's  leader and 1000 other sympathizers. This action gave Hitler greater controll of the army and the Reichstag which was like our congress. It was like a coup. The German people paid in blood  for those actions. They suffered  after WW1 big time. Did they learn their lesson.  No Way ,     they were back at it again 20 years later.  That's why they ban the nazi party to this day. They no the evil the extreme  right did to their country. The extreme left can do the same. They stir up emotions and use it to pummel their neighbors.  Enough is enough. When the evil becomes  to great, then it will require good men to once again put down the barbarians. 

Jan15/2021 Sure Ain't No Groundhog

 

     It was the end days of my first house. In the process of moving.  I lived near a deep stream. I'm  at the small bridge over the stream looking down at the water.  What's  that groundhog doing in the stream.  I stare in wonder, then I realize that's  no groundhog that's a beaver. That will be a problem for the next owner. It was the first beaver I'd  seen in the wild.

     There was a TV show called Leave it to Beaver. I liked this show alot.  For the most part it was like my life. This fictional family showed  how family life could be   a great positive experience.  The actors were cast perfectly.  People who watched the elder Cleavers  could pattern their life after them.. This show has been on the air every year since 1957. It has something going for it.  The Cleavers all pulled together. The boys would always say to one another dad is going to yell at you when he gets home. It never happened. I don't  know why they would say that. Ward was always on their side giving them increments of responsibility.  Always nurturing that was  June and Ward.

    Some people say the local was midwest but I say it was California.  More clues pointed to Calif. They talked about grizzly bears which aren't  found in the midwest. The boys brought up surfing better done in the ocean. A road named  rt 7 which actually existed at that time in Calif.  And Beaver takes a bus trip east stopping in Arizona first. Oh and there was never any snow on the ground.

     The show ended around 1963 and Mathers went on to high school in real life. He joined ROTC. He wanted to be a marine  but when he wanted to fight in Vietnam, the powers that be wouldn't  let him. They thought if he got killed it would be too sad for America to bear. Think on that awhile.  Too sad to bear. That should of been a thought for all the 18 year old kids out there.  Exactly how we're they defending America way way over there. After 8 years over  there was nothing accomplished  except the demise of 55 thousand Americans and countless wounded. A terrible  price was had.  Before you do anything in life ask God is this right for me. Then pursue the answer.

    A friend of mine saw how my family was. He lamented my family was nothing like yours. I said it's  ok   you can start your family off on the right track. Then your kids will give to their kids a better more fun loving way of life. But it has to start with you. The kids will watch you and not so much listen to what you have to say but your actions they will remember most of all. Be mindfull. Then you too can have the Cleaver life.

    You are the director of your life. You don't  like what you see..... then change it.  Rewrite the script and take  out the actors you don't  like and put in some better actors. You have the power when it comes to your life. Start to write a new and better script ..... you deserve it.

    

Jan9/2021 Yippy Yappy flaggy

 

     I haven't seen a Trump bumper sticker,  yard sign or flag since Jan 6 th.  They were ubiquitous  up until the 6th.  Back in Oct they were everywhere.  The most obnoxious were the big pickup trucks sporting double Trump flags tucked into each corner next to the tailgate.  These flags were 3 ft by 5 ft.  When the truck was moving at a good clip, they would flap feverishly down the road. It looked like one ginormous  heavy bird trying to become air borne.  If it ever made it up into the great beyond, it would have been a sight to behold.  I've  seen these trucks  for the last 4 mos. But not lately.  I drove by a rich person house yesterday, he always had a Trump sign that looked like it was part of the mailbox pedestal. The sign totally disappeared.  Today I saw my first Trump bumper sticker. Still holding on for dear life to the bumper. It was a construction pickup.

    Back in 2017, there was a photo of a military transport on an interstate  in the midwest, affixed  to one the truck's rear was a Trump flag flapping in the air.  I said oh oh,  it's  going to be a rough 4 years ahead.

    Then came the wall.  Did Mexico pay for it? That's a big NO. They took money from the military and gave it to the wall builders.  The Mexicans bought battery  operated Sawzalls and cut thru it. They also made ladders to climb over it. And  of course  digging tunnels under it. Then pressuring Ukraine. Then impeachment. Then the botched covid response and unnecessary  deaths.  New Zealand did it, good response  minimal infections. They got on it from the get go. Yes they have less people but they took the bull by the bull horns. Our response team in China was removed by Trump.  No valuable information was forthcoming.  It was the worse response among all countries.  We pay the price to this day.  Me too movement,  George Floyd and kids in cages.  What  was the common denominator?  Add it all up,  it spells Trump.

     Hopefully we will survive all this and  be better off in the future days. When you get through a close call in life,  say like a car accident. You are so gratefull. You may say something like,   Thankyou God!  The last 4 yrs have seen many car crashes. Hopefully soon I will be able to breathe again! Hopefully common sense will return with civility.