At Last!

Finally, a moment's peace....

In the wee hours of the night, after work is done, daughter is back in the dorm, cat is in for the night, kitchen floor is mopped, trash is out in the can, laundry is folded, bills are paid, tomorrow's to-do-list is made, I sit here with my back to the television. In the semi-darkness of the room, I type and listen to the PBS program about eagles. If I close my eyes for a moment, I can picture how the night sky looked tonight when I got out of the truck to come into the house after work. Sometimes I forget how beautiful the stars look and how crisp and clean the air smells when it's cold outside. Seems like I've been going non-stop for days. Honestly, I think it's because I haven't been alone enough to hear myself think. So now, this is the time for me to relax~ and let the random thoughts fly!

I'm a devote follower of theDaily Coyote blog. Shreve Stockton is a talented writer/photographer. Her story is rather unique and her animals have captured my heart. She, just recently, was featured in People Magazine! I just discovered another blog, accidentally, simply by clicking on a link that appears under "My Favorite Blogs" on another blog I check in on regularly... Sharon is Sharing. The blog I discovered, Sevensto, is written by a wonderful woman who came over from Sweden in 1946 at the age of eighteen. Her stories about her childhood, growing up, later as an immigrant in America, and her life as a physical therapist are fascinating and poignant. She's a "name dropper" as she is first to admit, celebrities and even a president are in the list of names! She also happens to be Shreve's grandmother! Talk about a small blogosphere!

I actually got to go to a Boston Bruins hockey game November 5th, but haven't had time to even write one word about it until now. I hadn't been to an ice hockey game in more than 20 years. It was a great night, we had great seats, it was a great game, and I fell in love with the game all over again!

I also got a chance to spend time with my mother, brother and his wife, when we took a scenic train ride on the Cape Cod Railroad. It was a nice trip, seeing the cranberry bogs, marshes, views of areas that one doesn't usually get from driving the streets.

I had Jimmy Johnson #48 in the last NASCAR pool of the season. The race was this afternoon and Jimmy was favored to win, not only the race but the Chase points as well. I had every hope of coming into some do re mi, but alas, it was not to be. He won the Championship (points leader) but not the race... .

I'm cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year. Not a huge crowd mind you, just five or six people. I am a bit nervous about it, as I haven't cooked a Thanksgiving Dinner in 11 years. (The same length of time I've been back on Cape - ten minutes from Mom and Dad's house). So of course, Mom's been cooking every holiday and I've been sucking it up like a spoiled brat. Well, this year, I don't have to work on Thanksgiving and I thought it would be nice to give her a break. Only it's not REALLY a break because she's still baking pies, making her famous jello fruit salad, bringing rolls, V-8 juice, stuffed dates and lord knows what else. All I have to do is cook the turkey, stuffing, potatoes and a couple of vegetables. Oh and clean the house so it passes inspection. Ha ha.

And of course, I have been following all the news blogs, seeing some things that are very disturbing - an increase in racism, legislation being passed by the state that borders on the unbelievable and well,the general state of the country... and now the change in the bailout plan.

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I sure hope they know what they are doing.

Well the cat is snoring, I'm getting sleepy so I'll take my leave of you now...
Thanks for stopping by!

Sylvania 300 - NASCAR

I was very lucky to be able to attend last Sunday's NASCAR race in Loudon, NH! With the remnants of the hurricane threatening to rain out the race, it was looking like we'd be driving up, just for the sake of driving. The weather reports promised that the rain would move out in time for the 2pm race to start... and they were right! Just about noon, it quit raining, although still overcast and extremely humid. We marched the mile and a half from the parking lot to the track.

I don't think you can even see up as high as our seats were! I have a fear of heights, but I conquered it, and once we were up in our seats.... what a view!

Our friends were sitting at the Start/Finish Line and sent us via cellphone camera a picture of their favorite driver, Dale Earnhart (#88) as he whizzed by them!

Jimmy Johnson,(#48)my favorite driver, nearly took the race, but with only 3 laps to go, Greg Biffle, (#16) slipped by him with a classic move to take the race. Here's a shot of him performing the "burnout" that every driver does after winning a race!

Diamond Rio sang the National Anthem, and the customary military jets flew over (obscured by the clouds but still loud and awesome!) Senator McCain was in attendance, spoke at the opening and although I waved, cheered and clapped, he just couldn't see or hear me amongst the other one hundred thousand fans! He didn't really get a huge cheering reaction as most folks from these here parts are partial to the Democratic Party. Still, folks were polite, no boo-ing hissing or catcalls were heard... much to my relief, and still, scattered amidst it all, were the few unabashed Republicans... clapping, hootin and hollerin! Just think, I was at a NASCAR race with, possibly the next president of the United States?!
It was a good race, and even if it did take an hour and a half just to get out of the parking lot, I don't regret the experience for a moment!

Mish Mash

I've been really struggling with a topic to post about. I have surfed all over the internet for several days, and have found many interesting articles and posts. But that's just it; it's already been written about, disscussed, commented on. I was crushed to hear about Harvey Korman passing away. The Carol Burnett show was one of my favorites back in the day. Politics are in the forefront of many blogs that I've been reading, the deal with the delagates, Obama finding a new church, the Mynmar government refusing aid. Sports has been exciting; watching the Red Sox win, the Celtics are playing well,NASCAR had a heck of a race at Dover (a crash involving eleven cars knocked out alot of the top contenders), and of course the Redwings are only one away from the Stanley Cup! I've been on wild tangents too. On NFO's sight a very well written post about how The Democrat Party has become the Lawyers Party got some good comments and in one I found a link which, after reading, prompted me to do some research into the The Federal Reserve. I also ended up on a Charlestown SC Fire Department tangent because I watched a brief clip on TV about the Summerfield basketball team winning the state championship. You see, their coach Louis Mulkey was one of the nine firefighters killed in the Super Store fire in 2007. Some one sent me this Speed Typing Test so I spent nearly half an hour playing with that.
So you can see I've been all over the place... yesterday was just the same. I ended up researching Muslim Distribution of Shia and Sunni Populations and of course had to stop in and see how Phoenix was doing on Mars.
Okay, okay... I'll stop now! Borderline ADHD I know!

Tony Stewart Broke My Heart

2 laps to go... Tony's in the lead.... come on baby... make mamma some spending money!



Nooooooooo!!!!!!




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