These Days

The weather is better and my yard is crying out for attention. I sit here and think of what needs to be done. My body says nope not today! I have to try and coax my 2 sons to help. Good luck with that. We have had some rain for the last couple of days and there are flowers blooming that we planted up to 2 years ago and this is their first time to bloom. The azaleas are in bloom and the crepe myrtles have leaves. they are one of my favorites next to the azaleas. The roses are doing well too. I just wish my sons liked yard work. LOL

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The Phone Company

Thunder storms are an act of God.  They make ya remember just how small you really are.  Scares ya, and makes you comfort the ones you love and try and make the dog to stop trembling.  Maybe the dog knows more than us?

We live with storms, that's a given.  Occassionally the weather plays havoc with the applicances we take for granted, one being the telephone.  When it stops working you find yourself at the mercy of the phone company.  You call right away, on a different phone of course, most likely a cell phone.  I don't know why we have 2 phones. You call and they say they will be by in a couple of days and if it's not inside your house where the problem is, it's free but if it's inside $85.00 will be applied to the bill.  Ok, I can deal with that.  You wait the time agreed upon by them and the phone still isnt fixed.  The phone rings constantly if its on the cradle and if you take it off it sounds like a lawn mower.  You call em back and they inform you they fixed it.  I let them hear what I have coming out of the receiver because I don't want them to think I'm lying or something.  I'm told they will be by in about....2 more days.  God help us.......and the phone company.

Sadness in my Heart

I feel a sadness and a sense of loss.  I often have these bouts of gloom and they weigh heavily on my heart from time to time.  All is dark and my heart lays heavy within my chest.  I do hope that the spirit of the Lord will lift me up and I will be troubled no more

Pickin' Em Up, Puttin Em Down

I gave this entry something that came to me while I sat here trying to think up a title.  The brain is a funny thing, it reminds me of a computer that has been wired wrong.  Maybe it is just my brain that functions that way.  I can be anywhere at any given time and a thought will pop up from nowhere or a memory.  Aint that weird?  I had this thought just come sliding in to home of the time when I was in the Army and was on a forced march.  If I remember correctly they were all forced.  I wonder what the other kind of marches they had?  Anyways I was about give out and the Sarge yelled pick em up put em down!!!!  I wonder if he meant me.  I just remember the heat and sweat and being bone tired.  It was just a hell of a way to make a livin' I tell you!!  It may be just the fact of getting older or maybe the PTSD I suffer  from that makes me always most of the time think about the Army.  I don't know.  I miss my friends.  I feel like the ones still alive are passing away more and more.  I miss em that's all.

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