Hip, Hip, Hooray!!

My genius husband figured ut what i was doing wrong, and so now we can visit again.

First of all. my second cousin Michele hit a deer today with her new car. Hope all is well, eventually.

Now on to Colorado. I do not know how many fireman are fighting those fires just now, but i pray for each and every man and woman of them. They have spouses and kids and other family members home waiting for word they are safe. Some can't help their family evacuate because they must fight the fire. SOme have lost their homes, jobs and everything they ever owned. People are missing, pets are missing, the flames are high and all they can do is continue to fight. God bless everyone in any way involved in that mess.

Today may go down in history as the day every American citizen can have and will have health care of some sort.Insurance companies are damned scared as their stranglehold over 300 million or so people hangs in the balance. They of course already have the best health care in the world and we pay for it.

My God itis good to have a place t vent again.God bless my president, long may he reign.

it hurts, but its true

After i vented about pimply the other  day what does she do? She hands me a whole bag of Go Cat for Molly. It is for indoor cats and her cats hated it. So, i do feel a bit guilty, and i will tell you a funny story.


The other morning i saw her cat running across the road. He often tries to get in or out of the house as Murette is leaving, but this was different. Next i saw a nice young lady walking two Westies i believe. The cat knew they had a limited lead, and sat there free as a jaybird tormenting them. Cats is evil, but you gotta love them.
The neighbors across the street had ,lovely vines growing n their house over two floors where many birds nested and sang, preparing for the new eggs. Yup you guessed it, they tore it all down, which is their right, but sadly for several mornings i watched the birds return hunting for their spot. In comic justice the house looks cruddy now, and just like all the others. Oh i guess we don't know what we have until it is gone.
Blessings.

Syria,the non-Oil based disaster

I sure wish that I was wrong, and i sure wish  America truly did police the world. I wish all the UN nations were truly interested in the welfare of all the earth's citizens. Meanwhile, back in the real world, there is Syria.It's own government is waging war on its people. War. Genocide. With impunity.
IN the days of old, we would not even hear of such things. Their was no mass media poking into every news story looking for ratings and/or to sell their version of the truth. But in this internet age, we cannot pretend not to know, as the bodies cry out to God for revenge. Their homes are burned, their cattle and pets slaughtered, and they are killed like these aforementioned animals. Yes women, yes children, yes old and infirmed. Mowed down, without the recognition of their brotherhood as a nation, or their basic freedoms as men.
Will Russia or China help, well if you call selling Assad more weapons helping then they are quite involved.
i am not saying which or either side is right. I really do not know ideologically, but ideas are not being killed here. Often I hear Americans say,"we need to go to Washington and take our nation back",and I wonder if someone somewhere in Syria said the same thing. Their is a price for freedom, yes, but this is human butchery with no possible redeeming value. We in the west will abhor it, but we will turn our heads and sleep tonight.
But God is watching.

Pimply Murette strikes again...

I always got by knowing that although we bicker, we basically care for one another in our ride to the hospital for dialysis. Wrong and epic fail. I have finally found a woman who absolutely cares only for herself. I didn't think it was possible.
When our polite long-suffering driver finally had to speak to pimply for never being near ready when he appears to fetch her, mind you Wrathy and I are always at the curb,her reply was that she didn't ask them to wait outside. This is especially heinous because the last pick-up is an elderly woman with many aches and pains that so far the doctors can't fix.
This woman also finds we all have time to wait around whilst she must have a cigarette. She got really cross when the driver(who has small kids f his own,and transports other sick patients) asked her not to smoke seated in his car. Now she does not technically smoke in the car, she swings her legs out and sits on the edge of the seat, but Cathy who must wait for the driver to find a chair to transport her upstairs, sits in the smoke and does not complain.
This woman abuses all the kindnesses of free transport and the other passengers. The driver has a run finished before he does our 7 am run to the hospital, then in the afternoon makes a run to campbelltown for another dialysis patient.

£3,000.

The PRFC needs to raise this amount to match funding from another source. Saturday we had a fun day. We also had a lot of fun.Some were not able to be there because of holidays or a hospital stay, but the weather and the staff cooperated so that our guests could have fun, and see a bit of what we are about.
We are a family.We bicker hard and we play hard, but we unite when one of us is in bother or need. I pick on Percy's pink shirts, and Gary's pierced nipples, but i treasure their friendship loyalty to my Jim.
Many of the boys on Jims team when he was a coach are men now with families started of their own. I hope to be around when their kids play fro Paisley. Just now the Powrie's and Conroy's are making new stars for the future, and Alfie and Grace and Sophie will show them the ropes when the times come, and the circle moves on.
We lost Tom and Craig, but that is part of the circle of life too. Hillary and I were able to fight back and go on, and that's part of the cycle too.
Itis a lot of money in a way, but if it makes the club strong nough for our kids to enjoy it as we have, so be it.

Blessings

Distractions

Hello fellow earth travelers. I do not have much time just now, whilst we had company from America I let some chores slip, and now i must pay the piper. So just a quick note for now, so you know all is well.


I put on some weight during my holiday, and i feel winded and low energy so my best form of safe aerobics is housework. I am soon at it. Just to say my cousins wife Tammy Brazie is looking for her daughter, so please pray. We all can do that.


Also, the PRFC is having a family day on Saturday June 9,2012, and all are welcome. Previously i had said there was a slave auction, but that is rescheduled for another time. (updates to follow).


Lastly I just want to thank Jim for his kindness to my family during their visit. We tithed at the Murrayfield store. Wait till you see all we got. Speaking of sports, please pray that the current football internationals will be free from spectator violence and racism. It really takes away from the game, and innocent people get hurt as well as the brawlers.


Blessings

the visit is over now back to work

Those of you who know me outside of my blog know i have had visitors this week for the Jubilee Queens weekend,so I have not yet had a chance to share my outsiders view to the monarchy. My queen left this morning for Philadelphia then Syracuse, and my youngest left for Greece. I am sitting here alone, JIm at the rugby club, and the cat and I tiptoeing around enjoying the pieces of quiet.


I know you think it should be peace and quiet, but there are pieces of my life all over the floor and waste bin now. I learnt quite a lot abut myself that every one thought was self-evident, but i truly didn't realize. Maybe because of my advanced age i am ready to face some home truths, or maybe people needed to show themselves to me so I could see the truth.


I do not have a way to look objectively at my past. The people who raised me did not like each other the way they should. They did not like me the way they should either. They both came from some odd circumstances, so it is too late now to point fingers, we can't go back and start over, and one of them is long dead.


All i know is God was good to me. I married someone who could love me unconditionally. He proves it when he loves my family, as they joke about things to avoid showing true emotions. Jim is the first person in my life to give me choices and with that let me understand consequences. Also, Mom and Bill got a chance to see me for the first time with my sons. The boys made us well proud. They were raised well. NO credit to me, they were 10 and 16 when we met. They also take good care of me, and I would never come to harm when they are near. I felt sorry for them because Mom and Bill don't have that relationship with their kids. I am blessed.


Pray for Micheles' family as they suffered a death this week. Pray for Barbie and Ciara. Pray for Sue and Dwayne. Pray for the elections. It doesn't matter f you know all these people, God knows. Thanks i will try to write more tomorrow


Blessings.

I have been distracted...

I have not blogged in a week, as I have been preparing for my brother and Mom to visit from NY. I am not gonna lie to you, the stress also caused a meltdown in my own personality unique to a kidney patient under stress. Then the drugs to counteract that lead to problems of the opposite nature,(let's be adults) that made me feel like i was walking around with a cork inside me. So with all of that and a house to clean top to bottom (no pun intended), I let my writing go.


With my Dad now gone, there is now just the three of us to remember all the years at 23 Preston St, Camden , NY. This is the first time the three of us have been together in over ten years. JIm has never been with all three of us at once before. We have told stories, sang and ate our way across renfrewshire so far. After along tiring flight we kinda laid low yesterday, but today I intend to show them my Scotland. My adopted country has so much to offer that i hardly know which direction to head first. Had there been time, i definitely would have shown the Skye, the place i want my ashes scattered. I want one day to become part of that landscape that was so beautiful and healing for me.


I could (if time permitted) show them the Paisley Abbey and spend a day there. Same with the Burrell Collection. If this was not the Jubilee weekend, I could take them to the Paisley Rugby Football Club and show them where we spend so much of our free time, (alas this weekend it is closed). I would show them the Weaver's Cottage, a place that shows the home life of a weaver, and the garden where he grew the plants to dye his wool,etc, incredible place.


See my dilemma, so many places, and they are only here till Tuesday am. SO it is more about what to leave out than what to show them, or who. One thing is for sure, I am 100% American as our my guests, but after ten years here with JIm, I am proud of my adopted homeland, its people and its ways. Scotland is about its people, no two alike, yet united in a love of country and family and life. There is an energy unique to itself, from the islands, highlands and lowlands. I hope i don't tire, as I am gonna pack their days with memories so that when i write, they will still smell the heather and broom growing free. I will teach them Glasgow rhymes with go and not cow, and show them lambs and heiland coo.


If you see us in our travels, please walk right up and say hello. We come from a nation of story-tellers,and we would love to hear yours.


Blessings.