Turkey Trot

This morning we took an ATV ride to the top of our property and on the road we saw some big turkeys trotting ahead. When they spotted us they took off on a run.... we were unable to catch up with them. I barely caught them going up into the National Forest that joins our place....

















I took this picture after the sunset, about 4:30. In the background it shows the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains in Montana and it's also the view from our future home site...fingers crossed.

OGGI NEVICA !!!!

Yippee ! It's snowing tonight! Last night it was windy as hell, 30 mph, woke us up all night. I hate wind, makes my lips chapped, my hair all staticky and then we have to pick up all the debris in the yard. Wah.

And the stock market...yes, it's taking a mighty dump again. The big three car makers want a bailout after their CEO's fly into Washington in their private jets. Thankfully, the powers that be are wanting them to have a "plan"....While I hate to see the little guys outta jobs because of greedy CEO's and unions I just can't image how this government will feed it's own people without these three ....of course we'll get more loans from China ...

But what really pisses me off is that some guy or gal working on the conveyor line (aka: the little guy) makes as much as me with my degree, and some make more!!! Now don't get me wrong, they work hard but I've been there and done that. It's pretty mindless work most of the time but I do know it can be a PIA.

News Flash! Fanny and Freddie are suspending evictions until the holiday season is over. Yes, go spend your money on presents so you'll have a nice Christmas and act like nothings wrong...but come Jan 2009 we're bootin your patoot. Trust me, that is the California way.

Whilst.....

Whilst...I love that word, a word I've never used until today. It sounds so proper..and if you know me... proper I'm not...well, only if it's absolutely necessary.

I've always had fear of being labeled as a snob or just screwing up with the pronunciation or meaning of words, you know those "BIG" words....Plus, my Dad could never pronounce words like aluminum and four syllables were torture for him. I always felt his pain and I think that stemmed from his speaking Sicilian and English as a child and then being torn out of school by his crappy brother to work on the family ranch. He had such a bright future, well liked and class president in his junior year...but he was never able to graduate. His brother even pulled a few strings with someone on the Air force enlistment board to pull him out due to family issues...the issue...his brother needed some slave labor.
Grrr..

I think my issues with language was a crappy education and partly familial...is that possible? I never learned correct sentence structure or I just wasn't paying attention. Ya think? Sure we knew the noun, pronoun, adj, subject, verbs but not the rules of structure. And what the hell was a dangling participle? Ok, I've now broken down and currently reading this site...Guide to Grammar and Style. Help is on the way but at my age I hope I can retain half of it.

I subscribe to Websters Online dictionary, "word of the day". How exciting is that? Some words I already know, some I'd never use. At least it's not spam.

Ok..now it time to go pack the bags for my trip to Idaho in the morning... Yippee!

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposals..

Egads... well, the Terminator is making some changes...and he's a republican !!!

...But, I'm afraid the taxpayers of California will be none to happy with ole Arnie....We have this huge deficit..hummm, hey lets close the borders and stop all the free rides, that should save a few billion right there.

If you want to see more tax payers leave the state then keep raising the taxes and registrations....tsk,tsk,tsk...cut the registrations in 2003 and end up in a deficit of 6 billion a year and now you wanna increase it again....fickle boy.

Sandpoint, Idaho news...or lack of it

OK, Obama has won but could the local paper or sandpointonline.com print that in the headlines? No, we get the local yokel crap on drug busts...

While Idaho is a very red state with a whopping four electoral votes...I was disappointed in their lack of respect towards the new President-elect. At least McCain had the dignity and respect in his concession speech to congratulate Obama.

Not only did Obama win the electoral vote he won the popular vote, but low and behold Sandpoint has ignored that. There is still the picture of Sarah Palin and an article that mentions she was a resident her first three months of life, like she has real ties to Sandpoint . That's a joke.

So I will now end my subscription to the Daily Bee and continue to make comments on the sandpointonline.com editorial pages...

Manolo Blahnik and Camo...ahhhhh

I told my hubby I needed new hunting shoes....I showed him these...only $665.00 at Neiman Marcus....no response...dang.

Yee haa ! What a weekend.

So this weekend my son, grand daughter and niece drove out from Seattle,WA to visit us here in north Idaho. We did a bit of fishing, horse back riding, ATV riding and checked out the Wolfpeople shop down the road. (They're hybrid wolfs.)

I included a pix of one of our horses...the grass is always green on the other side of the fence!

Eva

OBAMA Wins...McCain BOMBS in Debate

OMG...how many times can I say this....plenty. The Obama-McCain debate tonight was, again, graded by a group of uncommitted Ohio state voters....on the scale McCain was mainly flat lining while Obama rose above to receive the highest marks. What was really amazing was that of the twenty five people selected about thirteen said they would vote McCain...now that is just pitiful. They give Obama high marks on almost everything but would vote McCain? And, the questions these people asked afterwards... just embarrassing. They couldn't even comprehend that fact that these two nominees can't get any more specific than they already have and they seemed like if they were given a free toaster that would have swayed their vote. E gads!!!!

As usual with the Repbulican ticket they, McCain and Palin, do not...repeat, do not stay on track with the questions. Not only that.. McCain didn't even pay attention to repeated remarks from Obama. I fear for this country if McCain wins, we will be the world police and globally despised even more so, economically challenged beyond my retirement years, and the middle class will be no more. It will be the rich or the poor. Period.

How many times did McCain try to kiss-ass to the military guy who asked a question...OMG. Then McCain mentions this "precondition" crap by Obama on talks to other countries like Iran...Obama made one "thank you" to the military guy then moved on to the question asked...

Question: What don't you know and how will you learn it....Obama, he does know that is wife as the best answer to that! He didn't know why we were the supposed liberators in the middle east...we weren't, but that's what the Bush bucket heads told us. What's at stake is the US needing fundamental change...

Mcain on the other hand...he again, talked about his military service and asks the American people to rest on his record...yikes! Please, read his record and you will see he's all about taxing the middle class, giving tax breaks to the corporations and
keeping his lobbiest buddies(who, by the way are also on his campaign payroll) happy.
Be afraid, be very afraid.

OBAMA WINS THE DEBATE!!!! "That one"

Post debate commentary; Even the Republican analyst thought McCain didn't fair well! He was condescending to the American public and his attempts of humor weren't appreciated.
Also mentioned was that Tom Brokow, the moderator, was not very fair to Obama
(no kiddin).
Obama stayed and listened and talked to the audience afterwards but McCain left. He didn't even attempt to shake hands and his wife snubbed Michele Obama!

Poll numbers resulted in people who watched.
38% Democrates
31% Republians
Who did best 54% Obama, McCain 30%
Favorable for Obmama, the percentages went up but McCain stayed the same.