I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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The governor actually said it is personal responsibility and that the state should not be telling people what to do! Texas is not really looking all that good in relation to the number of Covid infections now.... I have little hope that things won't be worse before they are better.
exbrnxgrl, when our son first came to Texas for college, we saw lots of pickup trucks with guns in gun racks but they don't seem to be as common now. Probably because too many have concealed carry permits! We likely would not be here if not for family-- our son met and married a Texan; with 5 children it was getting problematic for them to visit us in California so we moved to be closer. Love our house and our neighbors but not the politics!
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The housing situation is definitely easier in TX. I have lived in CA (Santa Clara Co.) for over 30 years. Even back then we knew we couldn’t even buy a dog house for what we sold our house in TX for. I live in a 3 bedroom townhouse in San Jose that I bought 13 years ago. I couldn’t afford to buy it now. Crazy, isn’t it? I do not miss the oppressive heat and humidity but I miss Tex-Mex food (Cal-Mex is pretty good too!) and Louisiana Cajun and Creole food.
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For those in Texas and Mississippi (and Florida of course) I am really sorry your state leadership is just so poor and awful that it is putting all of you at risk. I don't get it at all. Who says you need a brain to function, it is clear from these actions that you do not.
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. -Anne Frank
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I feel for all who are living under crazy Governors in your states. Really, I don't know why they must go against science all the time, but seem to be following the worst of the worst in their party and know-towing to the orange thing that is gone and not coming back. Hopefully, they end up with heartache for their actions.
Had second Moderna yesterday. Started having some reaction after getting home from Marion VA where we go for a lot of our care It is 73 miles or to the south of us. Anyway, I withstood most of the intermittent headache/bodyaches etc. Awoke at 1:30 a.m. Up and had some dry heaves. Waited until morning and a bout of losing some stomach materials ( not too much ) and finally took a couple of Excedrin. Now feeling pretty good. I just let the pain go on too long.
Divine, it is a long story but I joined the Army in 1964. Parents could only afford college/trade school for one of us and as was her usual my sister insisted she be the one. She was 15 months older than me. So, I signed on the doted line for the Wacs. At that time the only place they trained was Ft. McClelland which was in Anniston, Ala. You might know ( she did things like this to me often ) once I arrived there my sister backed out of the further schooling.
After basic, I went back to Ft. McClelland for Clerk-Typist school which I hated. A's one day, F's the next. They offered me another school if I wanted but I would have to take what came.
Fortunately for me, Medical Corpsman. School was at Ft. Sam Houston, Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio, Tx. I excelled in school and was given my choice of where to be assigned. Despite the heat, I really enjoyed Texas. Our barracks was not far from one side of the post and on the edge was Brackenridge Botanical Gardens. No fence -- just the post property stopped and the Gardens began. Often on week-ends a sm. group I was a part of took blankets, soft drinks, snacks, guitars and spend long lazy afternoons in a quiet part of the park where few people wandered. Some of my fondest memories were of my time spent in San Antonio and while I doubt I'd want to live there I'll never regret the time I spent there.
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I'm not at all keen on seeing this orange thing any more when it can be helped, but I do enjoy reading memes like this one since it is so richly and highly deserved. I hope it comes to something.
When I look at some pictures I instantly recall that saying about " a face only a mother could love " and I think in this case it could be said any time he is seen.
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McConnell and the Reps. party are so very much into doing what they darn well please rather than what people need. They are seriously out of touch with what is going on these days -- so warped by the other 'fellow' that they just by-pass even the mere pretense that they are in Washington to 'help' their constituents. I'm wondering just how long that dirigible is going to fly.
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Jackie, thank you for sharing a bit of your personal story about joining WAC. It's so interesting and impressive! Did you grow up in Illinois? Was heading to Alabama and then Texas your first time away from home and your parents? For the time, 1964, it seems very adventurous for a young woman to join the Army. It sounds like your parents were okay with you and your sister not immediately getting married and having children right out of high school, which is all society expected (insisted) women aspire to at the time. Did you meet your husband while serving? What a great story about spending your off time in a botanical garden. I'm enamored with them, seek them out if we're traveling and have visited numerous ones. Most definitely a little slice of heaven on earth.
Btw, 73 miles to travel to get your vaccine is quite a distance! Glad that your reaction to the shot didn't last too long.
When I was 19, I lived in east Texas for a few short months with one of my sisters who was married with small children. It was out in the middle of nowhere, way too un-happening for someone my age. When Mr. Wrong, who was the reason I tried getting away from Ohio, showed up in Texas, it took little time for him to convince me to head to Californian. It truly seems like another lifetime. I remember the exact date we went, August 17, 1977, because it was the day Elvis died, and that's all every single radio station talked about our entire long drive across Texas. Immediately upon getting to California, for the first time ever, I met another person with my name, Camille. (Most of the rest of my disastrous year there is forgettable and I moved back, alone, to Ohio.)
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What interesting stories! Divine, my DS is dating the nicest girl whose name is Camille (if it doesn't work out, I think I will have to adopt her for myself!). One of my dad's neighborhood friends (who is now 100 years old and with whom I still correspond), joined the Army Nurse Corp during WWII (and was in the active reserves through the early 1950s). She was stationed in Hawaii and has many stories of her war time adventures. She eventually settled in San Diego (she was an only child. After the war she called her parents in Iowa and told them if they wanted to see her they better move to California, she was NOT going back to the cold and snow!). She married at the age of 30, had a couple kids, stayed in nursing, and did a lot of traveling. Quite a modern woman for that time! My family visited hers when I was young, and I spent an afternoon with her when I was in California a couple years ago. She is delightful!
Enough stories, I guess since it's March 4th, I better turn on the news to see if Donald Trump has magically (demonically) been reinstated as president.
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True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation of the experience of living.
Let each day be a time to learn new appreciation for life.
To learn more about ourselves and the nature of life.
To learn what brings happiness to ourselves and to those around us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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As I will be watching the new for the ahem' second coming of the orange fellow I will make my remarks brief. Yes, I was born in the town I now live in, but grew up three miles away in a little town ( 200 people in its heyday ) called Glenridge. Here is how small towns can work. It was called Glenridge all my life and only after I left did I find out the real name was Junction City. I hated that -- sounded to me like Kitty was going to come running out of the Long Branch Saloon. That was what the town was most famous for too -- an old coal mine and in my childhood -- 3 saloons.
My mother was ( sometimes quietly, sometimes not so much ) fairly progressive for her time and really did believe marriage was fine but not necessarily too soon. She and my Dad always hoped I'd make a career out of the Army but it was never my intention. I still marvel at times myself, even now, that I had the 'gumption' to just take off. It was a fantastic experience. My folks, after both my sister and I were gone, moved out to southern California and later when my first marriage failed ( met him at the last post and he was Air Force ) I went out there as well. My ex ( though we were then still married )followed me, but after a couple of yrs. there I gave up and after 10 yrs. divorced. He introduced me to the husband I'm married to now and we have been married 46 yrs. Guess the second time is the charm.
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Did anyone really know whose pocket everyone else was supposed to be in ???
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Ruth, what a wonderful story about your dad's neighborhood friend. She definitely was a modern woman for her time and then to now be 100 which in itself is quite impressive!
Jackie, apparently you inherited your progressive views from your mom. And congratulations on 46 years of marriage!
Since I was born in May, my mom named me after a flower, the camellia. How she arrived at that one I don't know because camellias don't grow in Ohio. It wasn't until I got to California in '77 that I saw a real camellia; they seemed to grow everywhere there, very pretty. One more bit of trivia—I once bought a car from a man named Camille.
Ruth, your sentence about looking at the news to see if the former prez had magically become the current one made me laugh quite a bit.
It seems like Texas Gov Abbott lifting the mask mandate is a big kick in the face to Biden after Joe came to Texas' aide so quickly during their crisis just a couple weeks ago. He even spoke to Abbott on the phone (no communicating via tweets). Abbott shows that he won't play fair. It really sucks. Doesn't care to get along. What a shame.
I saw that Alabama's governor, though, is extending their mask mandate.
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Well, I've waited all day -- but uh it seems we remain with the President we all elected fair and square. That is as it should be. I'm still quite convinced that the other orange guy is going to be far too busy to waste time being a ( or trying to act like ) a president. It does seem like many of the current higher profile ( like for instance Ron Johnson ) seem intent on just doing whatever will get in Biden's way. Johnson was making every word of the covid stimulus/relief bill be read knowing that whatever they on his side do , it will pass.
It is going to be a bad look for anyone, or maybe I should say, 81 million people who voted for Biden to watch the Reps. do all in their power to try and detract for all the good things we know could be done for all of us. Well, not all 81 million will care about all of it, but I think most were well aware who got in the way of anything good before and who is still trying to get in the way. While I don't want to rush too far ahead it would seem like there may be a lot to learn in 2022 about how people are viewing what the Reps. do right now. Doesn't mean we are off the hook -- we will make mistakes, but trying to keep poor people not only poor, but out of work and sick isn't the look anyone should be going for right now.
I liked Ruth's story as well. I have always adored people older than me ( not so many of those kind now since I'm 75 myself ) because I seemed to have always learned so much from them. I also have always admired the name Camille although I didn't know anyone by that name until I moved to southern California in the early 70's. Moved back here in 1997 and here I will stay. I liked that you ended up in a Texas town in the middle of nowhere too. Sometimes I think those can be the nicest and often pretty safe as well. Back in the day police were seldom needed because small towns had a way of taking care of themselves though I'm not sure it would work out that way now.
At any rate -- I will go to bed tonight happy with Biden at the helm. He has already ( despite the doom and gloom crowd ) been able to do so much. I'm getting a mite on the antsy side though with the Reps. who are hoping to thwart him. I hope that can be overcome. We really need that " For the People " to be passed. Doesn't sound like it will be at all easy if it is possible.
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Should I set up a Zoom for Saturday?
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OK by me!
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Evil is all around us, I do believe that we are in a spiritual warfare,
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I will post the Zoom link for tomorrow's coffee in the morning. Same time, 11:30 Central.
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