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I'm vaccinated and ready to travel again. I have been in the Lake Chapala area. Today I am in Guadalajara tomorrow I will be in Guanajuato. The cathedral de Guadalajara in the central part of the city is in the background. This a great part of the city to walk around in and there are good restaurants everywhere. Really good street stands for food too. Stuff is cheap here and the people are friendly. Life is good.

are we now living in a world controlled by a rogue army of police that make the rules up as they go along ,,
why do i ask ,well it appears that peoples beliefs are being tossed aside by this virus , not that i am a believer in any religion ,but in saying that ,those that do believe in what ever they wish too ,should be free to do so with out the interference by the police,
this happened on good friday in briton where by a service was stopped by the police on the grounds of social distancing ,,first of all these officers were stood less than a metre apart ,,thats taking the urine for starters ,secondly heaven if there is such a place it is not two metres away ,,,so sadly people you have to do your praying at home ,,,because there is a new god in town called the police ,,,,amen adios chow or what ever ,,it is goodbye freedom ,,,

Wow. Is about all I can say and in addition, what an eye opener to life. I have been living in blindness. Well, I have been living from a perspective of a pampered person. I have discovered first hand how growing up with both mom and dad around guiding me...being there for me....giving me a moral compass...being an open refuge at any time...showing me how to use my moral compass...etc.

What a beautiful upbringing. We were poor granted, we didn't have much....but we had a large family of 10 use and we all get along together even to this day.


Now to the eye opener.

Talking with a lady this weekend. She is 27. While sobbing her eyes out...she over and over proclaimed to me that "I have nothing, I have nothing." She wants a guy to love her. Puzzled...she was with a guy at the bar already. She explained that he was essentially a piece of crap, abusive, controlling, and he told her that he will be seeing other women also. She explained to me that she didn't know who her father was..her mother was a horrible person and she was raised by her grandparents who are now not wanting anything to do with her. She kept on saying, she is a strong woman. She does not know what a loving relationship even is...she never seen one and knows nothing about it. She had learned the street way on how to survive basically.

There are so many luxuries one has that has a strong supportive base if life happens to temporarily overcome you vs. ...somebody having nothing to fall back on.

It was a sad experience. She left with a smile with the abusive man. (putting on her happy face disguise.)

Some terrible realities out in life.

I try to keep the kibble cat food in the woodshed to the point of nothing left to lay around for the night. Altho day can still be an issue. Like the other afternoon when I look and there is a coon sitting in the satellite dish I use sideways for bird feeder. And it is happily chowing down seeds. Of course by the time I get around the back way with rifle..long gone.
Then one night, go out to put wood on and there is an opossum eating kibble next to the cats. The week prior I shot one in the barn. Was able to shoot this one too. Deep snow out back so just toss out behind shed til thaw. Go out another night, there is another blasted possum. Shot that one, tossed into snow too.
Look out a couple days later and the last one if half eaten. Went out and tried to determine tracks. 4 toes, no 5, 4? Claws so not cat. Coyote, nah, would have hauled away. Fox?
That possum is all gone and something dug the older one out of the snow. My guy has idea...set up trail camera. Oh..yeah! Duh. And there when I looked thenext day were two coons.
I have learned that basically nothing eats possum except Southerners. And the way to prepare is to cage and feed clean food for a week since a possum eats anything, rotted, dead of any disease and more.
I also have grown up thinking of coons as a clean animal. Eats mice, chickens, eggs, fruit, veggies. Washes it food when available. Bread not tho.
But, dead possums? So researched it. They are scavengers, opportunists, omnivores. Eat anything. And to think I ate coon as a child. Tasty. Til mom refused to spend 2 hours making sure every bit of fat was off or it tainted the meat.
Set live trap. Apple and rotten egg. Both gone, trap not tripped. Blast those paws. So re-set with apple wired in a suet cage. Week and no coon. Nor sign of. Maybe smart and returned to river. But, soon snow will be gone and hens get to come out in daytime.
I know last coon was so big and smart, had to borrow trap from neighbor to catch. Bad part is cats around so can't bait with any food cats like. Did end up catching one lately before this episode. Boarder said he left her out when he did 5am wood fill. And it had sat in the shed for days with an apple. Dumb cat. They do learn tho to stay out after in once or twice.
I hate varmints!

I am appalled at how far ads are going.
And I thought: "I don`t feel like a prude or old fashioned, but WOW... Is nothing or anything private any more? Nothing is left to cover a person.
( I see things as small as a band aid barely covering someone`s back-side)....why bother?!
Are commercial ad companies starving??? Seeing an ad of a girl shaving much too close to her crouch, is mostly not something people are anxious to look at. Soon, we may see everything & it won`t matter, when nothing is sacred (well maybe some men who want to see much more, or doesn`t care what shows....& anything goes!!
I was taught to cover my "privates", when I was young, & taught mu 5 kids the same....You have to value what your body is for. It taught me to have the best part of me be special & not shown. The institution of being less covered, is -anything goes as long as there is money in it. Nessie G.

i came across a tv show called judge judy ,,,well what can i say ..i can say this absolutely shocking that the tax payers money is being abused by people on welfare ,social security ,and the likes ,,
these payments are supposedly there to help people out in hard times ,all well and good ,but and a big but at that ,,is that the system is totally flawed and more so abused ,by greed, laziness, freeloaders , and every scumbag that wishes to abuse tax payers hard earned money, these people are virtually living rent free or paying very little as that is also subsidised ,,surely it is time for the people dishing out this money to wake up to the abuse that is going on ,,
maybe a solution would be to put a bounty on the heads of these freeloaders ,
like twenty percent of the money saved by turning these scumbags in,
the genuine people on benefits would have no worries ,,just sort out the freeloaders who are sitting back laughing at the system and more so at the hard working tax payer who is footing the bill for their easy life style,
surely there must be a way of getting these lazy no good layabouts to do some work in the local community to justify the help that they receive ,,,,
and don,t even get me started on the ones abusing the disability payments ,,,,,grrrrr it makes a tax payers blood boil ,,,,,,

Do we ever truly get over losing something or someone we thought a lot of?

I had one of my cats put down recently, she had a heart attack. I have lost a lot of cats over the years but this one is sticking to me more so. This cat was what some people would call a misfit but she was a true one person cat, me and only me she would approach. I guess it was a special bond I had with her and I still look for her sitting on top of the laptop in the bedroom.

Will need a bit more time I guess.

...for TV, I use a Yagi UHF/VHF. FM antenna, with rotator, at tree top, and since the girls have been out on their own, don't have satellite or cable. So the kiddos talked me into getting a Roku stick, effectively turning this 10 year old flat screen TV, to a Mensa TV.
Easy to see why the cable/satellite TV companies are panicking, and sending out all sorts of mail special offers, if one signs up for several years, and contributes a pound of flesh. I'm SO impressed with this new technology in my life. Sure, the newest items such as first run movies can be had at a price. But all sorts of domestic and foreign offerings are free. The variety is large.
Mostly watch documentaries, and classic/foreign films. Just saw one by Werner Herzog on Russians living in the back woods of the Taiga, with near total self sufficiency, and few modern conveniences. Hunters, trappers and victory gardeners, during the two months of summer.
Gratitude, wisdom and perspective. The film is appropriately called, the Happy People of the Taiga.
And here I thought my lifestyles have always been mostly self sufficient. Worth viewing.

For many years I had the same stylist. She once moved to another salon and I followed her. Only 2 times in all those years did I sit with a different stylist... 'happy scissors' and the Latina with the Brazilian but lift. Moving 45 miles north wasn't trouble as I scheduled my haircuts when I had business in Miami.
COVID comes around, businesses were closed under lock-down. Nearly 14 months have passed and haircuts were local. My spouse has more than 20 years cutting hair for her son. While I didn't complain, I lost my original style. I don't follow fashion and patiently waited for the right time.
We had shopping in Miami yesterday and my stylist was working. the timing worked out and it was a happy reunion. I know she and her boyfriend struggled for a few months, but they were able to hold it together.
I got my style back and she got a $20 tip.

The best part of going to the salon is the news that none of the stylists had COVID.

There are 3 entrances to my community, 2 main ones with a guardhouse and one private gate (no guard) that requires a resident sticker I.D. for access. The private gate is closest to my travels so I use it most often. Like a mini border checkpoint, there are two arms spaced only for a single car. The scanner detects a car and the first arm lifts allowing you to drive in. It drops and the second one opens. Behind all that is a security gate that opens as the first arm rises. Usually it's fully opened as the second arm rises. If not, you have to wait a second or two to proceed into the intersection of a 3-way stop.
The problem is cars on one side wanting to exit ignore the stop sign and charge into the intersection. With the gate open, my vision is blocked. I can see the stop sign but not the approaching cars.
To avoid a collision, I have to crawl into the intersection to allow ample time to stop when someone runs the stop sign.
My association president told me that gate handles more traffic than the other two combined. I'm thinking to compose a letter asking them to put a second stop sign and possibly a flashing light similar to the non-resident access on the other side of the community.
That would keep those who are Octagonally Impaired on alert!



Yeah, I know Octagonally isn't in the dictionary.