WELL SHE DID IT AGAIN

🎕On Sunday, beautiful day for Mother's Day; although a bit chilly earlier in the day, it became very pleasant soon enough.

I had asked for Mother's Day,  new plants to go outside in the flower garden. We picked up some beautiful flowers and hope that my black thumb, like my mom, is turning that good shade of green.  I looked like I knew what I was doing anyways.   I had taken my new garden barrow out, my hoe, shovel and potting soil and proceeded down the hill to collect some plants that I had planted last year and bring them around to the side of the fence where I was going plant the new ones.   Why, I thought it was a great day to plant during that time of day, no idea, but I did anyway. Digging them holes in this red dirt on this land that used to be a rock quarry for the railroad, not easy. But, I finally got them in the ground and grabbed  the water hose to spray my pretty little plants and give them a good bath. 

Well you know I have the knack of doing and getting into things that I should pay attention to, well this time no different . I had put the hose down to grab another handful of potting soil and I stepped back and felt water going up my body, what does this one do...........  Of course, look up to see where the water was coming from only to find that I had stepped on the spray nozzle and it was giving me a bath, ground up. YOU know that is not the whole of the story, instead of taking my foot off the nozzle, I, yes, I grabbed for the hose. It had taken a minute to realize what I had done and politely took my size 8 off that nozzle, wet as a drenched cat, walked calmly up the hill with my barrow in tow hoping  no one saw my little scene.

All I do is shake my head and just smile...  What are you gonna do?  Some days it's just too fun living in my head.   :) 

Thanks------

Find your history

This story goes back over 40 years. My grandmother wanted to know our history and started with a few others, delving into our forefathers. Who are we? Where did we come from? 

Many days at the Lee County Library and many nights of writing letters to perspective relatives, she went all in to this unknown journey.  She had asked me if I wanted to go and help, but what does a young 18-20 year old say; Uh-Noo why do I want to know about the past? Famous last words to a now 50 something, that is dying to know the history of our families.

My grandmother's journey and her extensive research found that we are related to Princess Diana, the Black Prince of England, Pocahontas, a famous Pirate and Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand and also could be related to Edgar Allan Poe amongst others. Well, now this was cool to find out but still, I was not that interested in finding much less helping my dear, tired grandmother unearthing our families history. Long nights and days she had spent and now this was long before any computer or cell phone. Phone calls and letters up the ying yang, trying to find the answers. She had loads of notebooks filled with research and loaned them out frequently. 

By the time she had gotten sick and could not remember to whom she loaned them to, they were gone. After her death, mom had came over to the house and we happened to talk about grandma and her research and she, my mother, asked me if we could find our history..  Now, this happened the year, when computers were coming into homes. I said yes, I can do what I can and see where it leads. I worked for a while, as much as the WWW would or could take me back then and came up with very little and I would report back to my mother and keep going when I found the time; being a mother of 3 and going to school and working 2 jobs was taking up quite a lot of time.

I have picked it up time and again over the years with my mother's side of the family, after her death in 1999 and then as my dad laid dying, he asked if I could find out about his side of the family and I started working on it. Calling family members and writing to them by email has been tedious and a long process that it is very frustrating to tell you that I am only as far as my great grandfather, William A Hankins, bless him, I am struggling to find the answers to this question, Who are We?...   I know we are part Native American, but during my research I found that not only on my Hankins side but the Green side as well, both Green's are native American.  And now it seems that my mother's side her, father, maybe part native American as well.  Great findings, if, if I can find the link to the chain. 

Finding your history is something that shows you not only who you are and where you came from but it also tells you stories, stories of those left behind that give you a sense of feeling that you had gotten hold of something written by a family member over 100 years ago. The news may not always be good but still, it shows you how the years of days gone by was for those living in that period of time.

If you ever wonder who, where and why you are here, check out your history. You may find as I have the 1st President of these United States and the 1st King of Scotland and an Indian Princess may be in your blood as well. 

Go, Seek, Find, Tell your past which can become your children's future. 

Thanks,

 

International Women's Day

Today is a day for all women as well as the month of March.  International Women's Day.


A day to celebrate women of all creeds, shapes and sizes.  We women, throughout, have played an important part in history.  Most of us with that female instinct are cook, chief and bottle washer at their homes. We are doctors, nurses, planners, directors, maids, taxi drivers, and everything thing else thrown at us during the day.  We never get paid - well monetarily - but our payment is far more rewarding.

Women throughout history have made a significant contribution to our world.  whether it be a ruler of a kingdom, scientist, faith healer, warrior, artist or just mom and wife. We all make a difference, everyday. Everyday each of us gets up and not only take care of the family but the house and the pocketbook but we also have outside jobs that we do everyday and when that day ends our clocks do not; we collect the children, make dinner, help out with homework, clean house, and get every one safe and snug in their beds. We are never praised or hardly ever, it's what we do for those we love and love to do. We, women, can move mountains and would fight to the death for those issues/persons that matter most to us.


So, today I salute to all Women all around the world that made a difference to this world.




Thanks,

 

One Blue Shoe, One Black Shoe

One Blue Shoe, One Black Shoe

One morning, after hardly any sleep from my almost 2 year old daughter, she loved getting up in the middle of the night and want to play with mommy;  I drag myself out of bed. Still half asleep and feeling as if I had been on an all night binge and feeling like crap on a cracker, I rub my blurry eyes, which by the way did not help and made my way to the kitchen for a hot cup of coffee before getting up my toddler for daycare.

Well, that didn't help. Coffee? Call this coffee? More like sedation, wanted to go crawl back into my bed and pull the covers over my head and sleep. No, I said to myself time to get moving and have to open up this morning at McRae's.

I take a nice hot shower which hardly helped at all and dragged myself into my daughters bedroom to give her a bath and of course she has bright eyes and a great big smile.. OOOO I wanted to pinch this little precious babies, head off.. As mom's and dad's usually say to themselves and rarely out loud. Hey, it makes you feel a bit better and then you come to your senses..  After her bath, I had taken her to the kitchen for her breakfast and then I ran into the bedroom to grab her clothes and for me to get dressed and throw on makeup. 

Going to be late, I said to myself and rushed to brush my hair and teeth as well as my child's, grabbed her shoes to put on in the car and went into my closet and did not turn on the light, found two matching shoes and out the door I ran with daughter in tow.

Made it to the daycare on time and barely made it to work, clocked in, turned on my register and started my day at work.  We had a promotion of fashion watches during that week and it had been half way through my morning shift when I went out to the table and noticed that I needed to add more on the display, reached down underneath the table to pull out the watches when what do you know, I noticed?  I had one blue shoe and one black shoe...  Oh my goodness!!  Are you kidding me?  It felt as if I had my bloomers tucked inside my pantyhose, that noticeable and yet not one single person mentioned it to me.  Couldn't go home to change my shoes, so I just sucked it up and had to laugh at myself and went on my day as if nothing was wrong; although I stood behind my counter as much as possible so others could not see. 

From then on I made sure on the night before work, I pulled my "matching" shoes out of the closet to put on the next day.  Lesson learned. 

Thank you,

One

2016

2016 started out being okay.  January as we all know, for most of us, starts out as a bunch of resolutions that we try to keep but they often get lost during the year.  I try to keep the losing weight but by February and Valentine's Day, it usually goes out the window and I do try to re-visit that one- to no avail.
Some of us make resolutions of changing our lives whether it be a new job, making more money or maybe wanting to finally get to stay at home or maybe something not so drastic, but maybe new hairstyle or dressing differently or taking up a new hobby. 
During the first part of 2016, we had debates of all the candidates; trying to narrow down our nominees for President This was not at all fun, we became more divided with the crappy person we have as our so-called leader in chief and the person that the other party had as their nominee, total disrespect, lying, cheating, and rigging the system to get them ahead, but thank god the people saw through it this time and we prevailed to nominate and win.
Our Country/World and people have been through a lot this past year, hell past 8 years. It has been more divided  with more socialistic ideals. We condemn our friends and kissed up to our foes. More tragedy from all over the world with terrorist taking over and killing the most innocent of us. How can or could we get to this point? Sad, really, to think this is going on without any push back. I pray now we will get back on track.
It was a rollercoaster of a year. Our ups and downs were more than most could handle. We have had more entertainment personalities pass this year, more than we have had in a long while, some were shocking.
This sounds doom and gloom but there were some good things that happened to our world, our country, our states, our homes, our families; we can find the good or positive in each or maybe just one. It's there if we take a look.
This year is finally coming to an end and for a great many of us, we say good riddance and keep moving. We are ready for a New Year with NOW hope for the future, but it will take each and every one of us to make that change for the better.
Seek and ye shall find. We have the power to change, to be there for one another, to give a hand when a hand is needed. So make this new year of 2017 be a happy one and leave the old where it needs to be; in the past.

Happy New Year, everyone.  Love and Peace is my wish for us all.  

Where is Etiquette?

Does anyone know etiquette anymore??


Who teaches or demands that their children speak when spoken to or "yes/no ma'am, sir".?
Who opens the door for elderly or women anymore?
Where is general respect?
What happened to God and Country first?
Who greets anyone or introduces anymore with the proper etiquette?
Who sits properly or walk up and down the stairs/steps properly.. 
Who has proper hand shakes anymore?
Who gets in and out of the car properly, anymore?
or answers the telephone, properly?
where is what happens behind closed doors, stays private?

Most of you will not have a clue to what this is others we have forgotten. Forgotten the fundamental basis of our humanity. We are taught to treat people as we want them to treat us..........now, what does that mean?  The comings and goings of this world is totally upside down. It means nothing to a great deal of people.

We were taught to spare the rod and spoil the child.......  but now, just try it and see where it gets you. See where not using this old adage has gotten our youth.......  Me, Me, Me and no respect for anyone or anything.

Etiquette is to be maintained in order to live and prosper in a productive society. 

It bothers the heck out of me to here a young kid when asked a question what comes out of their mouths is YEAH or NO... that is a big pet peeve of mine. You sit up straight, knees closed, shoulders back and head held high and be respectful.

Etiquette doesn't take much effort. It takes a willingness of showing that you have common sense and respect for the fellow man. We need to get back to the basics of humanity. Period.

Thanks------

Mad as Hell

Mad as Hell with all that is going on in this world today. It's crazy and we are heading down a path of no return. Sadly. We have become so desensitized with this digital age that death or doing the right thing is nothing. We have no souls. No morals. No respect. No tolerance. It's madness.   Going to hell in a hand basket and we are delivering the basket, folks. 

The young ones of today, granted not all, are the generation that when the crap hits the fan down the road, these young ones will not have any way of helping/protecting anyone, let alone, themselves.  My generation, we are not totally faultless. When things were good and all the games and phones started coming about, most of us, wanted our kids to have what we didn't at that age.   Bad idea. No?

Political Correctness is killing us. At an extreme rate. Bunch of cry babies. Can't do anything but complain about something but the bad thing is .. Don't know what the hell they are complaining about.   Bad or no information. Sheep led to slaughter.

These killings today.......ISIS and Police and the innocent black lives in Chicago....What gives anyone the right to take a life because they feel like it?  Because they are angry?  Because of race?   Folks, life is too precious... it's a Miracle.... but these that go out and take a life, are evil, evil, evil..   No one seems to take a stand.  Why? because we have stood back in the shadows for far too long and allowed this ... this crap to happen.. Now it's at our doorsteps.  There is plenty of blame to go around.   ISIS, I have another rant about this crazy group. 

We need to sit down and have a freaking conversation about race...........  Indians were the first slaves in this country........  Irish were slaves......... Not all slaves were treated badly, I know for a fact some that were slaves in my family were given land after years of service to the families, they were loyal and stood beside the families that had been widowed or widowers.   The land is here in Alabama... and other states.   Know your facts and learn before you speak out hatred.    NAACP was  started by a group of socialist whites. Has anyone ever figured out why we keep electing the same type of people and getting the same results?   Simple.......either you like where you are and don't want any better and that entitlement mentality or you are too afraid to break away from the rest to find the truth and the facts. All we have ever been told is the bad but that is the liberal way.  Ignorance is bliss.

Schools do not teach anymore, the truth of our history is being covered up or not taught at all. If we do not learn from our past or ignore it.......  We are doomed to repeat it.  Sadly we are, today. 

Does any of these out protesting doesn't matter what color you are..  when you are arrested, that is stupid within itself.......  Does it not click that NOW you have a record....  Negative marks when finding a job? Stupid.. Stupid... Ill-informed or no human decency what so ever. 

  There are some  that want nothing but control over the people and their money.   They are winning folks.  They keep us in turmoil to show the rest of the world... see..  we need more government control like  other countries..  I said it in the 80's and I say it now..  We have too many rights. We need to go back to the basic principles and bring the Lord back and stop.  Stop this nonsense, this crap. It's time to take a stand for humanity, God, country and world. 

This is not a Black and White problem...........it's a Human problem. 

Step up ...........take a stand........  

Thank you.............