seriouslyscorpio

thoughts of the moment and of my life


SAY WHAT…….


Gas too high for your liking….

Electricity up a little more than usual…

Pot roast is $9.00 a pound instead of $3.00…

Bacon is $8.00 for 12 oz….

Spring vacation and everyone wants a $2000 trip……

Can’t afford another streaming service….

Dang, another trip to return wrong size to Amazon….

…………………………………

You aren’t dead….

You still have a place to live….

You still have a job to drive to…..

Your husband is not fighting for your country’s life…..

There’s soup and peanut butter…..

You can leave your home and not listen for bombs….

You can catch up on TV shows and save the 2 grand

Your friend/family’s body not laying in a street somewhere….

BE THANKFUL! BE AN AMERICAN! JOIN THE MAJORITY
WHO CRY FOR UKRAINE!


PITIFUL!!


Let’s see…. Use US oil reserve or watch Ukraine die……gee……what shall I do…..

Let’s see…. Decide what is best for the world or lose some friends that voted you in..gee…what shall you do

Let’s see…. Admit it is deliberate murder in Ukraine…..or think you are saving face by going to a meet’in ………………………gee….what shall you do

Let’s see…. Put off those environmental shock statements or use natural resources of our own to save ……………………….lives today and countries tomorrow……gee…what shall you do

Let’s see…. Be innovative…or have a cocktail at a Washington DC ‘want to be seen’ spot…gee…what shall ………………………you do

Let’s see…. If you were voted in to do a congressional job…do it…..or keep say’in….need to get those ……………… oars in the water….gee… what shall you do

Let’s see…. Time to become independent with our energy …… or continue whining about paying more…gee, what shall we do

Let’s see…. Put off the outing over spring vacation to save lives and freedoms for those dying for a freedom you take for granted….gee…what shall you do..

Let’s see…. If you are in a job working for me, quit writing bills for a new bathroom in your hometown park…….and work on working together with the other party….or you will be gone…..gee..what shall you do


MASKS……SHMASKS…….


Tonight on the news, it was discussed that those who are ‘learnED’ say that in a small study children could be a little slower in learning how to talk…..If no one had EVER worn a mask before until COVID and the study suggested this…..I would still need more info……HOWEVER, how many people in this world of ours….I said this world….have worn masks their whole life…because of sickness, smog, etc. and still speak fine…..oh please….Lets worry about hunger, sex trade, people illegally coming across our borders, and people shooting people…..


LINCOLN………HISTORY CHANNEL…..NOW


Turn off the sitcoms and learn about history….lincoln…..how times are still a’chang’in……how people felt about slavery then compared to now….great series……take the time…..thanks


NFL….CAN”T GOVERN JACK….AND FOR SURE DOESN’T WORRY ABOUT JILL!


Just can’t pass this one up…how sad it is than an organization of the NFL’s so-called caliber, cannot count on its own morals and ethics enough to respect women and is still proving it does not want to improve its position…

The children living in fear from men who ‘hurt’ them or the women in their lives, should always be remembered by the men of the NFL ,who think they are being looked up to….as some are still little in mind and cold as stone. Time for a change that s long overdue.


ARE YOU RICHER?…….


You are richer today than you were yesterday—–if you have laughed often, given something, forgiven even more, made a new friend, or made stepping-stones stones of stumbling blocks. If you have thought more in terms of ‘thee’ instead of ‘me’, or if you have managed to be cheerful, even if you were too weary, then yes, you are indeed richer.

You are richer tonight than you were this morning — if you have taken time to trace the handiwork of God inside the commonplace things of life, or if you have learned to count out things you really cannot count on. You are richer if you became blind to the faults in friend or foe.

You are far richer if a little child has smiled at you and a stray dog has licked your hand for they truly are God’s ‘go between’. Look now and always for the best in others for the others will give their best to you.

(found this in a note from someone)


SPRINGTIME AT THE BEACH


Walk on the beach almost every morning from January on and you will find astonishing things are happening. Babies babies everywhere..seems their moms are sticking together and bunches of little ones are in the shallows…..For whatever reasons (I have a lot of questions when I leave this world) some of the little ones will make it to adult hood and some will not. Some little guys and gals will outgrow their first home and find other accommodations leaving the smaller ones to the younger ones. The beach is so alive this time of year and yet all one hears are the waves breaking and the shore birds arguing.

Look for your favorites and get those postcards that show the most popular found on Ft Myers Beach. These islands are the best for shelling and the assortment changes with the season. If you pick up a beauty, always check to see if someone is at home. If there is a living creature enjoying his new digs….put it down gently and walk away. I’m sure it is the ‘best’ you’ve seen that morning but it is still out of bounds. Not only is it AGAINST THE LAW it is just not nice to kill a little animal/sea creature. We need them for the waters we love the others who LIVE in those clear waters.

So enjoy….ooh and ahh and look into their tiny homes to watch their eyes look back. Keep them in their homes and their neighborhood……and if you remember markings….you will see them again next year and the next….Just kidding…………..maybe


AFTER A WHILE….


Veronia A. Shoffstall

After a while, you learn the subtle difference

Between holding a hand and chaining a soul

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning

And company doesn’t mean security

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts

And presents aren’t promises

And you begin to accept your defeats

With your head up and your eyes open

With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child

And you learn to build all your roads on today

Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans.

And futures have a way of falling down midflight

After a while you learn that sunshine can

burn if you get too close

So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul

Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers

And you learn that you really can endure

And you learn and learn

With every goodbye, you learn


IS IT SEWING (OR SOWING OR SUEING MAYBE, SEWAGE)??


Took a giant step yesterday and tried (successfully) to repair my $99 sewing machine (or is it sowing or suing). More than a few years ago…I bought this sweetheart for something to do….and I did get busy, mostly making table throws (that is a small tablecloth), and other dumb stuff, to sell in my antique space. Well, it was fun, for awhile.

It suddenly began acting up (the machine) deciding sewing was not what it wanted to do…I think pissing me off was what it meant to do (am speaking softly now, cause it is in the next room). Well, I retired from sewing (sowing) until I saw some great ideas using imperfect linen and making new things to sell.

I calmly went back to the little guy and decided that I was going to ‘fix him’ in more ways than one. It seems, that in assembly, there was a weak spot in the plastic and that spot had turned in to a crack. Now that crack could have been anywhere but where it was, (right where the thread likes to lay when using the machine. So the machine, knowing it would make me mad, started breaking my thread by luring it into the little plastic crack. There went the machine, there went the tension (not mine), and there went sewing (sowing) and hence, the divorce….until yesterday.

The glue came out, the bright overheads came on, and the surgery began. With an ever sophisticated toothpick (wood, not plastic) the procedure continued for maybe 2 minutes. Upon completion it was properly propped, so the glue would glue and glue in the right place.

Today, after checking on the patient a couple of times, the surgery was deemed a success, I took a rag from the rag bag in the garage and proceed to sew (or sow or sue) my way down its sides. Three times without breaking, with proper tension and, especially no cussing.

It’s a good day!


WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE A CHRISTIAN……


(FROM A CO-WORKER…..A LONG TIME AGO)

The co-worker replied…….It is like being a pumpkin

God picks you up from the patch, brings you in, and washes all dirt off of you,

Then He scoops out all the yucky stuff.

He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, anything that hurts others and then He carves you a smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see……

Now it is your turn to pass the pumpkin, pumpkin…..