A good chance…

This post is here in its entirety!!!

Support Scott Brown for Senate,

Even if You Don't Live in Massachusetts.

Scott Brown's race for Teddy Kennedy's Senate seat is our best hope of defeating the Obamacare takeover of the economy, without resorting to state nullification and/or a court battle regarding constitutionality. Electing him takes away the 60 vote supermajority enjoyed by the Democrats. They will only have 59 votes.
You don't live in Massachusetts? No problem. You can still contribute to his campaign. You can make phone calls for him. You can talk about him on Twitter (@ScottBrownMA) and on your blog.

THIS IS THE BATTLE WE NEED TO FIGHT TODAY. ALL OF YOU'ALL WHO TALK ABOUT FIGHTING, HERE IS YOUR CHANCE. SHOW ME WHAT YOU'VE GOT! The special election in January 19th. Today is January 6th. That gives us exactly 12 campaigning days to push this man to victory. Help, help, help!

You can do your part right now. Brown’s campaign site is here. His donation page is here. There’s a grass-roots “moneybomb” fundraiser for Brown on January 11.

Fight the SEIU and Demcare corruption. Help do the job the national GOP fund-raising organizations won’t do. With two weeks until the special election date in Massachusetts, there isn’t a moment to waste.

Happy Birthday Lindsey!!!

Today is my daughter’s birthday, please wish her a wonderful day!!!

Sassy sings to her…

Yes, those curls are natural, she got them from her Grandaddy…

Lindsey’s “little” brother is her best friend..

Sassy will do anything for her “Mom”…

Lindsey is quite an animal lover…

Happy Birthday Lindsey,

thank you for making my life complete,

and giving  joy to all of us

Love you, Mom

Some year end and New Year highlights…

We were all so happy to see the end of 2009 and welcome in the new year of 2010 that attending a New Year’s Eve Party just seemed like the “right” thing to do…so we “did” and had a wonderful time (except for the champagne toast, it wasn’t so good"). Next year we’ll have to procure some good champagne for our toast to the new year.

The first day of 2010 found us reuniting with old friends and classmates for an early lunch and reunion planning session. Regardless of the photos, we really did some hard work and finalized some important details for our 2010 High School reunion.

Just a couple of shots of the white squirrels from our back yard this fall…the bottom shot looks like he has pink eyes but they really don’t…

Greg’s Favorite Dip

This is Greg, an OCCHS classmate of mine, who has been a great part of our reconnection of OCCHS classmates recently. We held a planning committee meeting yesterday and had a great time.

Greg, said he was having a “bad hair day”, but I think he was looking pretty good…Greg shared his favorite dip recipe with us…he uses equal parts of salsa and mayonnaise to make a dip for dipping palm hearts…sounds yummy!!!

Can’t you tell we had lots of “serious” decisions to be made!!!

OOpps..this was the “serious” photo of of the decision making process…of course serious planning requires sustenance…

Here’s Paula and Nancy getting the meal ready for us…and wow did we have a wonderful meal!!!

How could anyone not have fun in such a special home, Jackie and Lou always open their beautiful century old home for us. See that beautiful pork loin that Jackie cooked for us…it was wonderful and Paula even threatened to put the leftovers in her handbag to take home!!! Salads, creamed spinach, buffalo wing dip, blackeye pea salad that Lou made, cooked cabbage and cornbread, home made chocolate chip muffins made by James’s wife and lots of other scrumptious food made our New Years’ Day meeting so special.

This is Nancy, my childhood  bff, isn’t she gorgeous, and what a horsewoman!!!

Paula, Nancy and James…what a great bunch of friends!!!

Gregg and me with our backs to you, Linda (the brains), Paula, Nancy, Jackie (our hostess) and James working hard..while Michael and Lou took care of the dishes (gotta love two husbands who will do this)…

All members of the OCCHS Class of 1970…we’re doing this again February 13, 11am to 1 pm…call me, Jackie, or any of the other attendees for info…

My Year In Review

Cindy at My Romantic Home is hosting a review party…it should be a “blast from the past”…

I started blogging this year…actually I opened my blog in September of 2008 but never got the courage to post anything until February 2009. Yes, sometimes it takes some courage to start something new. I had found blogs during the fall of 2008. My husband was working  in Memphis and could only come home on weekends. That was a difficult time and I guess I was seeking something to fill up the emptiness. I did…I found blogging and was off …timidly at first…

Buddy, Zoe and white squirrels think they are the most photographed animals in the world!!!

How many photos do I have of  Zoe…many, many…she was a puppy here…before she changed colors…

 

I found a lot of new things that I liked and some that I was not comfortable with. I loved photography from the moment I got my Canon Rebel for my birthday in January…that is still a love story…I think photography has become my creative outlet. I once painted with oils and acrylics and had my own business for many years. I’ve just not been able to paint for some reason since the death of my first husband. I wanted to and tried to but haven’t been able to find that “special” creativity that it takes. Hopefully, one day I will return to painting but for now my effort to learn photography skills is my outlet.

I also have been forced to become politically active this year. I was always interested in politics and kept up with things but never felt any desire to become active. I’m certainly not the only person in our country that has felt that need this year. Our country has awakened to politics like no other time in my life.  One of the highlights of my life was attending the 9-12 Tea Party March on Washington, D.C. I did things that I had never even thought of and it was even more special because my son and my best friend and her daughter were there with me. I think I may have lost a whole lot of my shyness on that trip. I also realized that this great country has millions of great people who are a lot like me. 2.1 million people attended that march even though no news outlet or government agency would publicly acknowledge the numbers. I saw it and I couldn’t believe it.

 

I’ve been so fortunate to photograph so many people this year (and so many puppy dogs) and have been able to share them with my blogging buddies. They’ve all been so patient with me as I learn and sometimes try silly things with them, but miracle of miracles, sometimes they were actually pretty good photos.

Having friends read things about my family and my life has been, well, different. I’ve always received nice comments about these things and appreciated it. Sharing personal details of my life has been difficult but it has also been a source of healing and personal growth that I never imagined when I started blogging. I just thought the photos were so cool on all the  blogs I visited and I wanted to learn how to take such cool shots.

This is getting entirely too long so, in a nutshell…thank you for being my blogging friends, its been a great experience!!!

See all of you in 2010!!!