Life With Jules, and other stuff

You may not get another chance. Yea, this is a lesson we learn in life. Sometimes more than once.  I recently learned that one of my elder cousins passed away.😢 He had health issues the past few years, was in his early 70s. We met through a common interest a little over 20 years ago: family history. He contacted me through my Ancestry.com account because of common ancestors. It was actually quite fun getting to know someone who knew SO much about my family history. I've always had a love of history and especially my family history. And he had a WEALTH of information. I was living in Flagstaff (AZ) at the time and he was a lifelong Florida resident. He mailed me a book in those early days with so much information that I had to put it in a 3-ring binder, lol. He was the family historian.  We met in person, finally, in 2007 at a family reunion in Bushnell (FL). It was so exciting! I met so many relatives that I had only known on paper until then. They are my extended family here...

Today is the day that Jesus entered into Jerusalem for the final week of his life. We celebrate it as Palm Sunday. Several of the Gospels talk about the crowds laying down palm leaves in front of his donkey as he rode into town that day. The Gospel of Luke talks about the people laying down their garments. As the pastor said in church this morning, can you imagine if today were "Garment Sunday" instead?  The Triumphal Entry (John 12:12-13) 12  The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13  took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord !’ The King of Israel!” The Triumphal Entry (Matthew 21:1-9) 21  Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to a ]">[ a ] Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2  saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donke...

Well, my Sandy had her little adventure outdoors a couple of weeks ago and has been struck with fleas. She doesn't go outdoors at all if I have my way; well accept to sit on her chair in the screen porch. The chef decided to let her out in the grass for a little one day. Yup! That's all it took. A few minutes of grassy time and whammo! FLEAS!! I didn't think much about her adventure until last Sunday night when she was just scratching and biting and scratching some more. She also was afraid of certain pieces of furniture, including MY BED. Never is she afraid of my bed. She lives to sleep on it. That's when it dawned on me that she must have fleas. So, I told the chef and Sandy got a flea bath (Dawn dish detergent is great at getting rid of them) and a nice new flea collar (I get Seresto or whatever the heck it's called). She's a happy cat again. 😊 In other news, we have a rat somewhere in the trailer. Or at least we did. I hope it got out; however it got in. I...

So far I am not impressed with the new administration. Promises made. Promises broken. Not surprised. His mouthpiece (Psaki) is not ... she's just not. As some might say, she's "extra", lol. But I'll circle back to that. 😒 I miss Kelly McEnany!!! At least she came prepared to speak with the press.  Seriously though. Biden has done so much damage already. And he's losing what's left of his thinking processes. Yes, I went there. I really do believe the 25th will be invoked before he reaches 100 days. Then we will have even worse as president: Kamala Harris. 😱 She doesn't like America. She has an even worse record than Biden in the Senate. Scary! So, what has Biden done since taking the oath. He has shut down Keystone costing 1000s of jobs. He has reversed the ban on transgendered competing in women's sports making it an uneven playing field for real women to get scholarships for college. He has opened the borders so illegals can come across willy n...

Today, America inaugurated a new President and Vice President. It's funny. For four years all I heard from people was "Not my president" about President Trump. Friends and family who didn't like him it was always "not my president." So now I have a choice. I can be a better person and not repeat that to them or I can say "not my president" when Biden does something they don't like. I haven't yet decided, but I'm leaning toward the latter.  Not very Christian of me, but my God forgives. Today was an historic day. The new Vice President is (unfortunately) the first female, African- and Asian- American to hold this position. You might wonder why I say unfortunately. It is simply because this country is not ready for a female to hold the position of Vice President or even President. We. Are. Not. Ready. No, I don't particularly care for her either, but that's a whole other issue. Maybe I will discuss it in another post sometime. For...

Well, America made a definitive mark in history this week. We became more of an eyesore on the world stage thanks to a bunch of people who thought they were acting on the behalf of our sitting president. While I have been a supporter of President Trump the past few years and believe he has done a great job in this role, I do not condone the violent actions that took place at our Capitol on Wednesday afternoon/evening. I do not believe, however, that the people who rioted were actually Trump supporters. I feel they were anarchists embedded within the group who were peacefully marching to the Capitol building that day. I don't blame Trump for what happened there on Wednesday. I blame the Capitol Police for their failure to have enough manpower at the ready. They knew that Trump was holding a rally just down the road. They knew that some might be pumped up after. They should have been more prepared and had better security at the Capitol building including National Guard members, FBI, ...

I cannot believe it is 2021! Last year flew by so quickly despite the pandemic. Our nation has seen so many changes, good and bad. I'll let you decide. As for me, I am still employed thankfully. I had a boss who once said "be careful what you wish for" and I once wished I could work from home. Well, as of March 23, 2020 I have been doing exactly that - for both jobs. And I loathe it! But at least I am employed so I can't complain much, lol. It's been a bit difficult adjusting to this work-from-home even 9 and a half months later. I don't really have a great set-up for a home office, but I make do. My sleeping habits were already horrible because of PTSD issues and bouts of insomnia. Working from home has only made it worse because my bedroom doubles as my home office. So I spend the majority of my days in my room. On the bright side, I made it through the year without any serious illness. I truly believe I had the illness the week of Christmas and the week aft...