Passing of Time

"Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away." --- Cernuda y Bidon Cernuda

Here it is Thanksgiving 2008. WOW... where has the year gone?

As I sit here this morning I can't help but think back to the Thanksgivings of my childhood. I remember the families getting together at Granny Roberts. When I close my eyes I can still hear the sounds and smells of the day. It was truly a day of fun for us kids and as we got older it was a full morning of hunting. Oh it would be so cold outside, but Jeff and Iwould put on layer after layer on to keep warm then Dad and Uncle Leroy would take to the woods. It's hard for me to believe that was over 40 years ago. I surly miss Jeff and Uncle Leroy.

It was on Thanksgiving morning 22 years ago and about this time of the morning that we got a call from Mom telling us that Carla and Gene had a little boy... Thomas Jasper Lee. We were getting ready to go see Granny Carrin that morning. Things you remember...

Today I am thankful for my family the ones with me here and those who make their home elsewhere. They are all so special and I wish we could all be together today like we were 40 some years ago.

Today I am also thankful that I've got a little money to spend on Christmas.. after what I read yesterday... well all I can say is if you're a able body.. working 40-50 hours a week... get ready... hold on to your a$$.... 'the man has spoken' --- Obama says he'll have economic plan on his 1st day -- AP - Wed Nov 26, 3:43 PM ET CHICAGO - President-elect Barack Obama pledged on Wednesday to have an economic plan ready for action on the nation's financial crisis on his first day in office. "Help is on the way," he declared. ---- LET THE GREAT GIVE AWAY BEGIN. --- and while we're at it let's also do this--- let's blame everything on President Bush---Bush's Last Days: The Lamest Duck Wed Nov 26, 10:05 AM ET -- Bush's disappearing act during the economic crisis is a fitting coda to a failed presidency. I am so sick and tired of everything being blamed on this one man. I feel like President Bush has done the best he could... Who remembers oh no BA!!S Jimmy Carter... talk about a failure or Clinton... that was 8 years of nothing but women chasing at our expense...

Ok, I'm getting down off my soap box and going to start cooking. I just hope I'm wrong about the next 4 years, but never while a Rep was in office did we have a cut in pay at my job. NOT so with so with the Dem.... just think about that... May God watch over us...