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- I never thought that I would ever vote for a Republican.
And *I* never thought I'd vote for a Democrat. But last fall, voting in a Presidential election for the 14th time, my ballot choices were mostly Democrats, starting with Joe.
I never thought I'd consider registering as a Democrat, but now I think I may do that this year. The Republican Party that shared (and shaped) my beliefs has disappeared.
I never thought I'd tuck a Kleenex up my sleeve like my mom used to do. But I found myself doing that the other day, when there was simply nowhere else to put it.
I never thought I'd get to the point where I don't know 80% of the hosts and 99% of the musical acts on Saturday Night Live.
I never thought I'd tuck a Kleenex up my sleeve like my mom used to do. But I found myself doing that the other day, when there was simply nowhere else to put it.
The first time I started doing this, my husband realized that I had turned into his mother. Heeeeheeehee...
But really, things run more when you are older and you need Kleenex. Also, when you were young, you just used your shirtsleeve.
I never thought I'd tuck a Kleenex up my sleeve like my mom used to do. But I found myself doing that the other day, when there was simply nowhere else to put it.
I've taken to keeping a Kleenex in my bra, never thought I'd do that.
1. I never imagined getting a chronic, debilitating disease.
2. Never in any imagination would I forsee the uttering of these words "DH is outside shooting squirrels right now." But alas, that is currently occuring. (I'm glad, they are trying to raid my garden)
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And *I* never thought I'd vote for a Democrat. But last fall, voting in a Presidential election for the 14th time, my ballot choices were mostly Democrats, starting with Joe.
I never thought I'd consider registering as a Democrat, but now I think I may do that this year. The Republican Party that shared (and shaped) my beliefs has disappeared.
Same here, I've been registered as a repub for as long as I've been registered...but last year I cast a vote for a dem...because all of the repubs running for the position were acting too stupid about #Covid.
I never anticipated saying or thinking "I'm too old for this" unless it was sky-diving or mogul-skiing. Now it's like when the bus takes off before I can sit down.
That is one of the reasons (in blue) that I had to stop taking the city metro buses. There were other reasons I had to stop though too. And it's a great city metro bus system. Taking off before you are seated causes a bunch of problems and potential problems.
Same here, I've been registered as a repub for as long as I've been registered...but last year I cast a vote for a dem...because all of the repubs running for the position were acting too stupid about #Covid.
Me, I vote for what the odds are at the time. Been thinking "tactically" since the 2004 election because the stakes have gotten that serious.
In 2000, I voted for Nader, a belief that if he won, it would be someone to dead lock things for a while, slow them down. But then 9-11 happened and things became too serious to waste one's only chance on hope alone.
NOW, did I ever think I would be viewing voting that way instead of this or that party alone? I don't think so EXCEPT, at one time it worked on hope that no matter who number 1 was, there were still other factors to keep it under control. I am no longer as optimistic.
I certainly have no love for Hillary Clinton....but I voted for her in the primary for I certainly didn't want Mr. Obama to get the nomination. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, odds, and all that stuff.
On other fronts, it may not have been that I never thought it would be but rather, I just didn't calculate things out that far. In Sunday school and even in the service, they asked me if I was always going to be unmarried, if I wanted to be alone forever. While on the list of possibilities there was the one of "falling heads over heels in love", it has turned out the way those others were seeing.
I go back over the years, endlessly, asking the question of why it turned out this way, that for the answers I get, "Is that really the way it is?", where my prowess generates "those that feel me near, close their blinds and change their minds", and about the only consoling factor is that I didn't cause it by running away from the altar. In its own, reassuring way, not a decision I made, just the way it turned out.
Right now, now that I have lost my membership card to Mount Olympus, I suppose there is another set of "did I ever think" conditions in effect.......did I ever think I would have to approach life using an entirely different set of parameters?
Last edited by TamaraSavannah; 06-26-2021 at 06:44 PM..
Never in any imagination would I forsee the uttering of these words "DH is outside shooting squirrels right now." But alas, that is currently occuring. (I'm glad, they are trying to raid my garden)
I find it ironic that a gardener is glad their husband is busy killing "nature's gardener."
While squirrels usually won’t go after large animals such as rats, they have been known to go after birds, insects (such as crickets ), and mice. Mice provide a valuable source of protein and fat to squirrels, and squirrels will sometimes attack mice so that they have a warm, fresh source of food during the summer months.
If you wonder, “Will mice eat my vegetable garden?”, the answer is a resounding, “yes.” Mice are opportunistic and vegetable damage is one of the common mouse garden problems.
Crickets occasionally invade gardens, causing damage to vegetables. Normally, they migrate in from weedy areas that are drying up and cause damage only for a short time. Large numbers can destroy several rows of seedlings in a day or two.
A constant denominator in gardening is the presence of birds no matter where a vegetable garden is located. The birds can be any species from pigeons that are famous for ravaging cabbages, crows or magpies that have a special relationship with sweet corn, and pheasants that dig up potatoes plants to have a go at the tubers.
Squirrels also help keep other garden pests in check...Im just saying...
Last edited by ComeCloser; 06-26-2021 at 06:47 PM..
1. I never imagined getting a chronic, debilitating disease.
Lupus ?
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