11 Nov 2009 8:08 PM

In honor of those who have served to  set us free...
We salute you!

For those who have served and fallen to keep us free....
We remember.....

For you who are fighting to make sure we stay free.....
We honor you!!!

Let's take a minute on this day to stop, reflect, remember,  and pray for those who are giving  their time, their life, their all, to keep us free!

Veteran's Day, November 11, 2009

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3 Nov 2009 5:27 PM

To most , this experience is not new, for you have done it many times...

  To some, it takes planning and you look forward to it; others it is unplanned and you just jump on for the ride; To some, it's  good for a few hours of relaxing; then there are those of you , that  it's just something you have to do, so you lay back and wait for it to be over; and  there are those who  just sleep through it, knowing it won't last.

  Then there are others like myself who have waited a whole life time to experience the pleasure, the excitement and the thrill of it all...

  As I walked toward SW, I did it with anticipation! Was I  nervous? You bet, for this was MY FIRST TIME!  This was my first experience and I didn't know exactly what would take place or what to expect. But I knew I  wanted to be pleased, I wanted to be accepted, and not turned away,and I was giving myself, my life, my all, to someone else to be in charge of me.....

  My heart was  racing, my hands were moist, and my legs were wobbly, just thinking about what I was  fixing to do. Very soon, there would  be no turning back. My mind is running in several directions at once. Do I really want this to happen? Am I going to go through with it? Have I made the right decision and can I carry it through to the end? My chance for turning around and walking off is about to end. I must decide now. If I continue going through the door, there will be no turning back.My life will be changed. I will no longer be one who have never experienced this, but will be among those who have made the same commitment.

I am finally there....
    I am getting more nervous by the minute.  The time  has come, and now there will be  no turning back. My decision has been made...

    I have walked through the door; I am greeted warmly.  I am offered a seat. I sat down, get comfortable and watch with anticipation. I am offered a drink, which I accept. At first everything is very  quiet, then the subdued talking begins. Everything is going so fast!  My feelings are mixed, and I am soaring above the clouds, and  my heart is fluttering.

    Again I think, this is it,  this is what I have been waiting for; I am anxious, I am excited. I am overwhelmed with the newness of it all! Will it always be this way; with the fun, pleasure, and thrill that this FIRST TIME is? Maybe or maybe not...
  After all,  this is my first time riding on an  airplane!
 

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7 Sep 2009 2:55 PM

Hi everyone, hope all is well.....
  Now  I can say, I've seen a new thing! Have any of you heard of Cow Chip Bingo?
Being raised in the country all my life, and being my age, I thought I  have seen and heard of most things  but i think this may have topped  as one of the most ... ah  (it has me searching for words) one of most unique games, I  have experienced seen played.
I have heard of Cow Chip Bingo before, but not really being interested in it, I never questioned how this game is played. In my mind, I was thinking  there would be  numbers called out with dry chips placed on a  board....ha ha was I in for a surprise!
First of all,  there were a hundred squares marked off on the ground. Each of these squares were sold to players who wanted to play the game .And as I understood, there  would be given  first, second and third place prizes.
Next comes the cow, yes the fair's  prize steer! They say he  was  just a young thing , but from where I sat, he looked huge to me.... Well, anyway, the purpose of this game was  for the bull to produce the chips,  yeah, I laughed too!
  Any way, you could feel the tension in the air, who would be the lucky winners?  So we waited and we waited, and we waited some more.....this cow must have been cleaned out, because he was in no hurry to help us out. After minutes of  hundreds of eyes watching and people getting restless, the officials started discussing what to do. I'm thinking  change cows, or give the poor guy a laxative. In the end they decide to change cows, so they start leading this bull out of the arena, to bring in another. I look  at my friend, and say, watch when they take him out..... Guess what, I was right! He had no more been led out of the pen, that he decides to let the chips fall, lol. By this time  they are running behind schedule, so they decide to hold off the game until later in the day. I  had saw enough , so I didn't stick around to see who won.
  Oh what us Americans do for entertainment! ....

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7 Sep 2009 8:57 AM

Being from a rural area, one of the  highlights of the year,  is our local County Fair!
      Every Fall, for miles around people rush to the fairgrounds on Labor Day week-end  to see what kind of events are  lined up  for  our enjoyment.
    Of course, there is always the annual events and activities, like the parade,  horseshoe pitching, the county queen pageant,  arm wrestling,  and the highlight of the evening being  the  bull riding.
      Each year, there is a theme to go along with the events taken place that given year. Well, this year being no exception, the theme picked was chickens. There were all kinds of games for the very young to the oldest, including chicken races, chicken dances and the most eggs-citing country  band for our musical entertainment. Then there was the sexiest chicken legs contest. We had males from the age of six through the age of  seventy four! My what a variety of  legs did we get to view. Along with the showing of legs, they also had to  perform  a chicken dance for  the judges, whom were the County Fair Queen and her court. It was a fun event, and I didn't realize chicken legs looked so different or that rooster's could crow so wildly. You can guess, the younger boy or the older gentleman didn't win! lol.
    And each year I  let my wilder side come out...I look forward to the bull riding and eating  the best funnel cake around..  Well, I don't mean I ride  the bulls,  I like watching cowboys from near and far, crawling on the backs of those big fierce and charging  bulls and trying with all their strength,  to hang on for the few seconds it takes to win. Well this year, the weather decided not to  cooperate, and just an hour before the bull riding was to begin, the heavens opened up and it began to pour down rain.Needless to say, the  bulls were happy! and the cowboys went home with less money in their pockets. I did get to eat my funnel cake, even if i did have to stand out in the rain and wait in line for  a while!
Oh, and one of my grandsons, got  the Grand Championship of the 4-H pig showing! What a proud grandma... 
It was  a fun week-end for all... another year at the County Fair.
  And I did have another first,  while there.  I'll tell you about in another blog...it deserves its own page, lol.
 

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29 Aug 2009 1:12 AM

  Are we ever to old to try something new, to do something for the first time? Is it like teaching an old dog new tricks? Well, I decided in 2009, that I was gonna do some things  for the first time. Some of them are small things, things that no one else would be interested in, like eating certain foods for the first time, getting a professional massage, etc, and getting my hair colored, (oops)!
Then there are  the bigger things like  meeting and going on vacation with someone I met on the internet, which  turned out awesome. Also being on Over Fifties is also a first for me, and writing blogs.... Well , I never dreamed, it would be something I would do as a first. I must say, I am enjoying it  very much. It is so exciting to read what others have to say, to see ones personality come out in written form. And the biggest first for me will be coming in October, which I will tell you about after the fact.
  Have any of you had the experience of trying  something new, just because you want to? My list grows longer each day,  and I just have to decide what I want to try next! After all, why let life pass me by?
  But first, I have to.....

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