Wordless Wednesday and photo day 106

why I am not blogging a lot

does life really have a way of making you say WOW!!













This song, has new meaning after the last couple of weeks.
first of all my shoulder surgery has been post-phoned due
to abnormality on EKG WHAT??  I have to see cardio
for surgery clearance before surgery...ME:  WHY cant
we just do the surgery and let me be out of this HORRIBLE
PAIN...Now, I can't see cardiologist until July 21 and Surgery
is scheduled for July 31.
Dad went to the ER on July 11 for swelling of the legs *He had gained
4 lbs over night* I get to the ER to find dad had swelling 6-7"
above the knee..OH dear Lord!! admitted to hospital,  bring mom home
as she is still not getting around very well after breaking hip :(
Sat when I get up there he had lost 400 ML of fluids, Sun was 4100 ml
by time he came home MONDAY he had lost over a gallon of fluids
yayy its coming off ankles still swollen but they say with rest it will come off

Today, Tuesday, dad had cardio appointment,  now keep in mind dad is a
a diabetic, I was in no way shape or form prepared for what I was about to
hear, I think I am still in shock
Dad, goes to get blood work every 3-6 months and has always been told he is
doing great and too keep up the great work....
NOW ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?

today we were told, dad has chronic kidney problems that are irreversible
due to the diabetes me I know looking shocked, and said to dad
in front of dr, your primary care dr has not mentioned this? DAD and MOM
both NO>..i do not like their primary care dr at all and even more now.
we were also told dad has cardiomyopathy on the lower left side of heart
in english...it means his heart is severely damaged due to a heart attack
last Sept or Oct.  again it is irreversible  the only thing they can do
is keep him on heart pills *that keep him from getting a deep breath
and causing heart to speed up* AKA beta blocker*  and 80 mg of lassix
a day.   limited to 2000 mg of salt per day, heck you can eat a single piece
of bread and get that!.
SO, now I know the reason surgery was post phoned so that I can
once again take care of my aging/ailing parents.
I think I am still in shock over this, and want to cry but know I have to
be strong for my parents,  I have always been the strong one in the family
keeping us held together,   please pray for him, and mom....they will
be celebrating their 60th anniversary this year at Christmas Time.

so this is why I haven't been blogging a lot lately, but I am going to
try to do my hops this week,

PEACE OUT have a GROOVY hump day!!

photo a day 105 beautiful sunset

what a beautiful sunset for July we are having
fall like sunsets and fall like temps (it is 59 now)
the high for tomorrow low 70's can't complain for
those kind of temps for middle of July
Sat and Sun this week it was 103 and 101 HOT

Hope everybody is having a great summer

wordless wednesday

look what I found hidden away by

 the blue whale in Catoosa OK
you can read about blue on the link below

I remembered these mushrooms being
here when blue was in his prime
but since had been grown over by shrub
brush, weeds etc.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_of_Catoosa

 http://route66news.com/2011/01/30/the-blue-whales-magical-mushrooms/ you can read
about the mushrooms here.

Happy 238 th Birthday America

Enjoy your Independence Day holiday everyone.

Two hundred and thirty eight years ago in New York City George Washington  was busy preparing for the coming Battle of Brooklyn, the disastrous  results of which very nearly snuffed out the dreams of American Independence before the war ever properly got rolling.

Meanwhile in Philadelphia the Second Continental Congress had just passed the momentous resolution that the thirteen former North American colonies of England were now free and independent states, part of the newly formed United States of America.  Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston had been selected by Congress to draft a document setting forth such resolution in writing.

Resolutions documenting votes of legislative bodies are drafted on a routine basis, and then as now the vote approving the resolution was seen as the momentous event, not the written document memorializing the vote.   Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced the Independence Resolution to Congress on June 7, 1776 that was eventually adopted on July 2, 1776.   The two most prominent members of the drafting committee, Adams and Franklin, persuaded Jefferson to be the primary author largely because he was the second youngest on the Committee, next to Livingston, and Livingston was not an eloquent writer. The Declaration was at heart a dreary list of grievances against King George, listing one after another mean things the King did to his colonies justifying the break.  Franklin and Adams, both older, far better known and more accomplished than Jefferson, did not relish the task of what was viewed as a bureaucratic, legalistic necessity, formally documenting the great event which had occurred by vote of Congress July 2.  Only Jefferson’s soaring prose of surpassing eloquence in the Preamble lifted the document out of the obscurity it was likely headed for and transformed it into one of the world’s most famous documents. Had Adams or Franklin recognized at the time how important and famous the document would eventually become, they would surely have insisted on their own authorship. As it was, they thought they had more important things to attend to and left the drudge work of drafting a turgid list of grievances to the younger Jefferson, essentially the young intern in the matter.

Jefferson took the assignment and produced one of the most famous passages in all of history:

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4th, 1776

The Unanimous Declaration
of the Thirteen United States of America

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness....

While at the time these lofty ideals were only applicable in practice to a small minority of propertied white men, and the country still struggles to live up to them to this day, they nonetheless created an expectation and a standard, an image for this grand experiment in representative government  to try to live up to.  All these years later the words of the Declaration remain inspirational and aspirational not only to Americans but to countries around the world, many of which  modeled their own later experiments in representative democracy, in part, on the original fledgling efforts of the first such government since ancient Athens.

While enjoying your fireworks and your barbecues, perhaps take just a moment to remember what has become one of the most famous and inspirational documents in human history, the Declaration of Independence, and reflect on the enormity of the risks taken by those colonists so long ago, who indeed literally pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to wage a war for independence against the greatest military power on earth.  In so doing, they gave birth to a new nation, the likes of which the world had never seen before.

Happy Birthday America.

Thankful Thursday

"Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."

Romans 12:21

Thankful Thursday no better place to be

cooler temps

doggies *who love me unconditionally*

off for a few days at work

friends just checking in

tv to watch

water to keep us from being thirsty

food in fridge

dependable vehicles

there are lots more things I am thankful for with the way my shoulder feels I can't

stay on the puter too long.

PRAYER REQUEST 

safe travels for the ones who are traveling

having rotator surgery next Thur  *I may not be blogging much for a bit after that*

parents health

that we get rain

no fires from fireworks tomorrow

hope everybody stays safe and has a very happy 4th

Happy Birthday America

wordless Wednesday

Deuteronomy 24:15

At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall thesun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.