Very good- Sharing from a fellow blogger and a favorite author

I am sharing this from a fellow blogger and one of my favorite authors. http://miraleesdesk.blogspot.com/This is such a great thing to read and share.

Do You Remember When?

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older

woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today.

Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to

the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and

sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and

over. So they really were recycled.

But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we

reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags,

was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks.

This was to ensure that public property, (the books

provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our

scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown

paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every

store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't

climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two

blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the

throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling

machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry

our clothes back in our early days.

Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters,

not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every

room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief

(remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In

the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have

electric machines to do everything for us.

When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail,

we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it,

not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then,

we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn.

We used a push mower that ran on human power.

We exercised by working so we didn't need to

go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup

or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled

writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the

razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just

because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their

bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour

taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire

bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a

computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites

23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old

folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

Day 5-I love architecture

So I should have taken a picture of me and Eric or his truck leaving or something but I plum forgot this am after getting up at 4:30 to take Eric to work:(  I am going to miss him like crazy!!!

So I decided I would take a drive after my physical therapy and take some pics of some of the houses I love around the town I was working in.  I love the architecture in this huge subdivision.  It is a jumble of rustic, country, log, rock, tin, and many other neat elements.  I have so many ideas for my dream home when I am rich(A girl can dream:)) I wish I had a better camera to catch more of the details but here are a couple of my favorites!!

I LOVE THIS PLACE!!! It is a jumble of many elements but looks so awesome all together.  You got logs, you got chinking, you got worm wood, you got tin, it is AMAZING!!!!

I just want to sit on that upper porch staring at the mountain!!!

OH and that would be this mountain:)

I wish the cars weren't parked there but I love the barn door looking garage doors and the addition of some rock!!!

Day 4- Gonna Miss My Handsome:(

I know it isn't a new picture but it is a picture of me and my Handsome on our wedding day!!!! This was the best day ever! It was the day we made the commitment to ourselves, the world and the LORD that we would be together forever:)  I will miss him sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much while he is working in North Dakota:(  But I am very thankful that I have a husband who wants to do what is best for us and willing to work so hard to take care of us.  He is my best friend and I will miss him like crazy!!!!!

Picture a Day- Day 3- I promise it won't be all animals:)

Duke Loves him a frappacino:)  This dog has an obsession with whip cream.  He goes crazy. When he was about 3 months old I gave him his first squirt of whip cream from the can and he has been hooked every since.  One morning we pulled up to the coffee shop and ordered our drinks on the way up to a job interview for Eric last year and when the lady turned on the espresso machine Duke leaped across the truck and over Eric and half way through the window- preceding to scare the begeesus out of the ladies in the coffee shop.  We had to then explain he was not rabid or trying to eat them, that he thought the espresso machine was a giant can of whiped cream by the sound:)  They then thought it was funny and gave him his own "pup"accino!!!! Which is a small cup of whipped cream.  So this dog needs a 12 step program like his mom:)

Picture A Day- Day 2 Some crazy critters

This is Duke, Target and Bear cuddling on the bed!!

We just love our little sister:)

Picture a day I totally failed on with Breal:)

So I had planned on doing a picture a day with a GREAT friend of mine miss Breal over at Be Real.  But when we started my camera wasn't working and our old computer wouldn't upload stuff.  But now that we have the new computer and such I think I should step up and do what I said I was going to do with my amazingly, beautiful, talented friend Breal:)  Here is my picture for today...

My husband put this one on facebook and had this caption...

"this is what $300 of horse shit looks like"

Oh that man:)  But this is another load of expensive hay.  We sure loved South Dakota hay prices:)

Another Dr update

So still no answers about the nerve issues. So now I will have more testing and some in Denver done. I do have the cysts on my neck and they are on nerves but they not sure that is what is causing it.  So more tests will be needed.  Now they are just going through work comp to get that all scheduled.
   But they also made not of some spots in my bones and ribs and a spot in my right kidney.  So with my history of cancer they are of course concerned.  Since I don't have insurance we are trying to figure out how to get the ct scans and such done.  I am working on us high risk pool.  Thanks to everyone who has been praying!!!