just checking in

early am here in Colorado. As always I’m up and starting the day. How are you all? May the next 24 hours be bright for you.

nothing much has changed here. the lawn remains unmowed, the dishes stacked, the floors unvacumed– I will get to it …eventually. work is the same, it plugs along. hopefully my middle child has obtained a job. the offer she has sounds good, just waiting to hear about the pay.

we made it thought thanksgiving, and next up is Christmas. there was a country western song about 20 or 30 years ago, not sure the title but the lines that stuck with me are "hard candy Christmas….if we can make it though December, every thing will be ok."hard candy Christmas. cause that’s all you can afford. and its a really tough time of year when you don’t have any money. I mean NONE. I have been there, and am there this year. I mentioned a few posts back about the pinto bean thanksgiving. that was again about 30 years or so back. My husband and I were out of work. we had spent the summer working for his relatives build a fence line. we were living with his mom at the time. (the words mother in law will forever make me flinch) anyhow. his relatives held a thanksgiving at their place and everyone invited, except our family. We didn’t have money for a turkey, dressing, and all that goes with it. We had pinto beans and flour. so that is what we had pinto beans and fry bread. we moved out of there shortly there after and in the Spring we loaded up the kids, dogs, and bedding and moved to Alaska. the fact that his family turned their back son my husband is twice sad, as when we first married he used to brag that "if the times get tough, you can count on my family". ah…. no.

we lived in Alaska, far away from his family. I stayed 7 years but moved back after the divorce. he maintained a home there till he died. and after the divorce, (he remarried week after the divorce was final)…he and his wife had a place in Mexico –on the beach. He did talk to his family again. and visit with them, I am told. my kids told me he would sit apart though, not sharing in their stories. which was never like him before the pinto bean thanksgiving. I am prob. the only one left alive that recalls those times. I am sure his relatives have the same memory of those times. So I can say, that its all ancient history now. Just time gone by. and there you have it TIME.

that keeps moving on. the aches and pains of today, are lost after 20 or 30 years…mostly.

another old saying back in the 70’s was "Keep your sunny side up and your petals to the metal" the last was regarding driving … it means "keep moving on"