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Friday, July 24, 2009
Food Storage & Emergency Preparation
I am really thinking of starting a new blog spot. I have realized that there is so much information out there that used to be passed down through generations. It has now been almost lost. And if anything happened would anyone know how to do the little simplistic things? We are all so used to technology and pre-made foods. I think it is very important to share everything that we know and see if we can help others. I want to start this site to share and educate. I'm hoping that I can find others who are willing to contribute. I hope to have it up and running in the next week. Updates to follow.....
Moons & Rivas
We had friends over for the last few days. It was amazing. Usually when you have a house full of people you go crazy....but this was different. It was the most wonderful time we have had in a long time. Teresa Moon and Chelsea Rivas are like sisters to me now. This weekend brought us so much closer than I could ever imagine. I am even starting to think about spending Holidays with them and their families. I am so excited to have a growing extended family.
Blog?
So it seems that I have forgotten about my blog for a while. And I have some good stuff to say too. Lets see if I can update and remember......
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Summer?
We got our pool up and running in the spring. I was hoping it was because we would be swimming in it a lot. I think I have been in it a whopping two times. I clean it more than I get to play in it. The saddest thing is that I can look out the window and see it glistening in the sunshine. It is so pretty and refreshing looking. I remember summers as a kid....they lasted forever and you never had anything you had to do. Being a parent totally changes that equation. My schedule is booked for the next 3 weeks. I hope I get to swim in the pool before it starts to snow again :D
Monday, July 13, 2009
July 12th in Salem
Yesterday was a pretty exciting day. It rained!!! And although you may think that that is not a big thing in Oregon....It was for Salem. Since 1892 it has not rained on this day. Yesterday....It was a downpour. Thunder, Lightning and all. What a great day it was :D
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Teenagers
I realized I haven't blogged much about Britanie lately. Our house has been all in an uproar with Gauper....I hope I'm not neglecting my parental roles with my concern for my little man :(
I find myself reflecting upon how NORMAL of a teenager Britanie is. Funny how I expected it to be much more difficult. I guess that most moms would be frustrated with the way their teenagers react to things. (Good or bad) I find that every time there is a problem...it makes me smile. I realize that her pre-pippert life didn't affect her as bad as it could have. She seems to respond to things the same way any teen would. (Clothes, Music, Rules) Unless anyone is going to admit that their parents LOVED their kind of music.....Or NEVER had a problem with clothing issues. If there is that perfect family out there....I'd like to meet them. They might need therapy.
For now I am happy with a dysfunctional adult. That is the way it is supposed to be. How else are we supposed to learn to deal with the real world? Life is good :D
I find myself reflecting upon how NORMAL of a teenager Britanie is. Funny how I expected it to be much more difficult. I guess that most moms would be frustrated with the way their teenagers react to things. (Good or bad) I find that every time there is a problem...it makes me smile. I realize that her pre-pippert life didn't affect her as bad as it could have. She seems to respond to things the same way any teen would. (Clothes, Music, Rules) Unless anyone is going to admit that their parents LOVED their kind of music.....Or NEVER had a problem with clothing issues. If there is that perfect family out there....I'd like to meet them. They might need therapy.
For now I am happy with a dysfunctional adult. That is the way it is supposed to be. How else are we supposed to learn to deal with the real world? Life is good :D
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Unconditional love?
You know how people tell you that dogs are the kind of animals that give you unconditional love? No matter what you do...they think you are the most amazing thing to ever happen to them. They love you despite yourself. I have a dog that defies that rule. Gauper. He has had a rough week with surgery, possible cancer and horrible tasting pain meds. This little guy holds a grudge. He will look at everything he eats....taste tests it....and then chews it up into tiny, tiny little pieces before he swallows. If you are the one who gave him the medicine....he will not eat his breakfast or dinner if you are the one feeding him. He sits and pouts all day long just staring at you giving you the 'pup eyes'. Sometimes he won't even look you in the face. I remember a few times when he was younger he would do something wrong....like digging a hole in the yard. We would reprimand him and he would pout for hours until you apologized to him. Then he would be back to his normal self. It just makes me feel extra guilty. And I suppose he knows that too :D
Sunday, July 5, 2009
I know it is long.....
But, it really does surprise me that not many people know it. Take a moment to read the declaration. I hated this kind of stuff in school....but now that I can choose what I read....it is kind of interesting :D
The Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 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 of 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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 of 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Happy 4th
Anyone read the Declaration of Independence? It is something my dad always did. I'm not sure who does that anymore. Or even who can say the first sentence. Dan tried and named like five different speeches or documents before he came up with it. Just curious if anyone else knew before they looked it up on the computer. Have a great weekend!!! :D
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Hilary Weeks---This is my dream but out of my price range :(
I have just finished writing three Christmas songs for a new Christmas CD releasing this year. I have 11 pages of songwriting notes from the new songs I have written. They include all the thoughts, scribbles, scratches, ideas and changes that have created these three new songs. I have NEVER done something like this before, because my songwriting notes are personal, but I would like to auction off those pages. Included with the 11 pages I would like to auction an opportunity for the purchaser to attend a session at the studio while we record this Christmas CD and a private concert to be used in any way you would like. I would be glad to sing for your family and friends or your company Christmas party or whatever you’d like. The proceeds, in their entirety, will be donated to the Huish family to help pay for the funeral costs. The bidding will start at $1000. You can place a bid on ebay or by following this link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=280363819969
The auction will end Monday, July 6th at midnight.
Spread the word to any one you know that might be interested and perhaps together we can help create another little miracle for this wonderful family.
Blog to you soon,
Hilary
The auction will end Monday, July 6th at midnight.
Spread the word to any one you know that might be interested and perhaps together we can help create another little miracle for this wonderful family.
Blog to you soon,
Hilary
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Gauper
Last week I noticed a suspicious lump on Gauper. I took him into the Vet and was informed it was a mass cell tumor. Unsure if it is cancerous yet. He goes in for surgery on Thursday. Once they remove it they will be able to tell if it is cancer. They also found a bacterial infection (I'm beginning to hate that phrase). He will have to be neutered too. Today I took him in for pre-op blood work and he now has two more masses to remove. I'm really struggling on this one. He was my first baby. He will be eleven in September and they are telling me if this is cancer he might not make his birthday. I cannot seem to hold him enough. I've taken tons of pictures and videos. (Which are pretty boring....he doesn't do much) As much as I don't want to say good-bye to him...I find myself grateful for the 10+ years I have had with him. He is handsome and wonderful. The best dog ever (excluding Kestra and Elphaba of course:)) I just don't want him to suffer. They have offered Chemo but, I don't think I want to put him through all of that. His quality of life doesn't change much with or without it. 18 months is all he might have. I want him to be happy and lovable to the very end. Not miserable. I never wanted to make this decision. I hope I don't have to. Maybe he will be ok...after they cut three big holes in him and take away his manhood. He'll be mad at me of course....but it is unconditional madness right? It comes with 100% love. The kind of love only a dog can give. He has been my nurse maid through all of my struggles. He has been my lifeline. Now it is my turn. I will do anything for him.
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