Today See The Good

So, I went searching for my blog after years of inactivity on it.  Breaking into it was another adventure.. 

This action was provoked into motion from a friend who posted about her daughter jumping in the rain. an I remembered long ago writing a snippet, here, about that very activity.

Puddle jumping, for the most part,  is a lost pleasure among all but little children.  Too bad.  Adults who still aim their feet to intentionally jump into the heart of a puddle still know how to enjoy the rain.  I live in Pittsburgh and it rains a bunch, so ...................  

Enter Covid19 2020.

We have all been either essential and working out in the petri dish, or staying safe at home working while the essential do all they can to keep others safe.

From my small'ish world, my observation has been that the people who have been ordered to hang out at home are looking for activities to do while being at home and not out socializing.  I have noted that my people have  re-discovered the joy of simple things.  Talking, and more importantly, listening to each other.  Learning from our children, taking time to truly enjoy who they are. We have learned to have fun with less, and appreciate what we have.  Our priorities have changed.

I am thankful for refocusing on the good that we have all around us. The air smells cleaner.  The birds are still singing.  The SON is shining through this and we are coming out better.

The good stuff was missed for so long.  

family bonding reading crafting cooking sewing farming (planting seeds) blowing bubbles PUDDLE JUMPING folding washing helping laughing snuggling  sending letters and love

kindness

accountability for overall good

respect for others

........................and SO MUCH more.

original post from 2009

https://snogirllygoeskeyboardhappy.blogspot.com/2009/06/pure-joy-of-puddles.html

Lisa e By Design. so long time...........

Whats been going on in our lives.

1. Work, work, work, and more work. 
2. Both of us are power sellers on EBAY, as a side gig.
3. My Lil' girl is now a mom; I am Grammie!
4. I have much more gray hair but it is dyed a funky dark maroonish color and I only notice it when I forget to get my hair dyed.
5. We are busy running here n there. 
6. Our Dog Dweezil Claymont Eichenlaub has more friends on his facebook page than us
7. I just started a lil' jewelry creating business.
8. I fell off the fitness wagon and am fatter than ever.  I really think its time to get back on the freakin wagon.

that wraps it up.

Peace

Yay for Her

This has been a very stressful year for a multitude of reasons.

We have had multiple "life events" occur.

At once.

Saturday, we saw the sun.

It was bright and the air was cleansing.

Our daughter graduated college.

God is Good.

I Miss My Cat

I really miss her. 

 She was put to sleep a few Wednesday's ago.  She was 20 and we loved her very much.

Her name was Pumpkin.

Pumpkin was from a litter of two.

 Her mother was my brother's cat, and her name was Bones.  Bones was a really skinny cat and my brother had taken her in to be spayed and declawed. 

The day the operations were done, my brother came home and heard meowing. 

He finally found the source. 

Bones was pregnant and not even the vet knew.  She delivered her kittens, most likely, the day she went to be spayed. 

My brother found two little kittens. 

He called the vet and went to pick up Bones. Without even being concerned that she just had surgery, she immediately went to find the kittens and began nursing and taking care of them.

The kittens were born on Halloween.

   We picked the littlest one, and named her Pumpkin.

My Mother got the other one and called her Annie (for Little Orphan Annie).

Bones lived a short life of only 7 years.

Annie lived to the good old age of 14 years old.

Pumpkin, well, she lived until she was 20.

A good many years ago we were told she was in renal failure and would not live long.  She proved that vet wrong. 

She lived a good life and the time had come.  She started to struggle.  I  loved her too much to allow that to continue.

I miss you Pumpkin, I really do.

I miss how you curled up and snuggled with me when I sat down.

I miss how you put your paw on my face, just to have contact with me when you slept.

I miss how demanding you were when you wanted something, and miss how annoying you could be to make sure you got your demands full- filled.

I miss feeling the comfort of your purr, but

I know you are in a better place.

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Nothing like self promotion. this is my passion. vintage costume jewelry. I just make a magnificent score from craigslist. I met an amwsome man, Trevor, who had some old things he wanted to rehome. Hubby and I are going through them now. I am thrilled. such a wonderful group of fun vintage stuff. funny, its true. one mans junk is another man's treasure. thank you TREVOR!!! http://snogirllysharesglitteryglam.blogspot.com/

Buy a dog a bone and Dinner is Served, Sorta.

I bought a nice bone for my Dweezil.

Figured I should cook it a bit.

(We all know the horror of consuming undercooked meat-although I don't ever remember seeing a furry creature cooking their road kill before consumption)

Threw that bone in the crock pot this AM with about two pounds of mini carrots (that were just hanging out in the fridge getting older by the day) along with a whole garlic bulb (yeah, I took off the skin- I cut the tip right off the bulb, NUKE it for 35 sexonds, OOPS seconds, and squeeze the cloves out, and mash those suckers  with a fork), three "near the point of no return" red onions (peeled too, a few layers down, as the outer layers had seen better days), a can of Rotel tomatoes, about a cuppa lentils, a bunch of herbs including OREGANO, BASIL, ROSEMARY, a half pound package of "clearance"(past the desired date of purchase) lean beef and

a bit of
H2O.

Hit START and eight hours later, we had an amazingly delish dinner

and

BTW

the Dweezil dog,

YEPPERS, he LOVED his nicely seasoned bone!!

Such a healthy nearly freegan type meal.

These ingredients sans the ROTEL tomatoes, could have been  made  from a

JACKPOT  DUMPSTER DIVE

outside

of

your favorite Grocery STORE

Oh yeah, plus we had homemade whole wheat bread (naked) with it.

Super!

What a waste and people go to bed hungry

Today I was at Sam's Club. 

While I was getting my bag of fresh broccoli, I saw the produce team member  getting ready to dispose of one flatbed and a big cart stacked full of blemished produce.

I saw lemons, lettuce, tons of mushrooms, broccoli, onions, green beans, apples, oranges, carrots, peppers and  much more.

I know that Sam's puts all trash, including all of this good food in a compactor outside. 

It frustrates me knowing all of this food goes to waste.

Yes, I know they do it to protect themselves from a lawsuit if someone gets ill (so they say).

 I also know people go to bed hungry. 

I also know I would be more than willing, in fact happy to pay a discounted price, for blemished produce.  I used to purchase blemished produce at a supermarket by the big box full. What I bought, we used and passed on to others.  This is nutritious food that in no way needed to be tossed. 

During the time I was browsing Sams  produce, this team member was disposing what appeared to be well over two hundred pounds of food.

Some grocery stores do not use compactors, and people rummage through the dumpsters to find food. When I lived in New Jersey, a grocery store there did not compact but did pour bleach on all food that hit the dumpster.  They did this to avoid people scavenging through the toss offs.

This waste makes me sad. 

If we are wealthy enough to just toss out less than perfect food in America, there should be no hunger here either.