NOT JOE

I'm NOT "Joe the Plummer"!!!!

****I PAY MY TAXIES****

Go Vote

I'm waiting till tuesday.

Craig & I like to go together and hopefully stand in a loooooong line.

Voting is your birthright, so use it, don't lose it

OBAMA--- OBAMA ALL THE WAY.

Rays

This is the jersey that the Devil Rays wore on thier openning day!
I think is was in 1997. Where I was working, we framed a jersey everyday for a year.
The jerseys was auctioned off for charity. Since I did most of the work, Randy gave me
a jersey. The Rays was very picky on the jersey count too.
When I wasn't working on them they had to be kept locked up.
NOW the Rays are playing in the World series!!!!!!

Sandy's Kitty Corner: Moon over Tampa

Sandy's Kitty Corner: Moon over Tampa

Moon over Tampa

This is what Jim's moon looks like at my house!
(bad photographer, low battery)

Hair cut

I took photos with my camera on laptop, see Star is helpin'
After putting it off for weeks,I went and goy my hair cut.

Old Times at Laurelbrook

School Banquet-----------I'm 2 on left front row, ------------ Me on left
----------------------- Sister Linda in red (4 right)-----------------------

I was going through some old photos and I came across these.
They brought back the bad old days at slave camp LB!!!
This is a BIG deal at LB, kinda like a school prom, but without the dance or a real date with someone you might like. You were paired up with a guy of the Zollinger 's choice.
I was always paired with the sorriest guy in school, you know, the one who picks his nose. Hell, my regular dinning room seat was with Claudia, I know she couldn't help it, but this poor very over weight girl smelled and she had skin rash that flaked off and she scratched ALL the time.
Oh well, back to the prom. All the girls that year had to sew their dress, along with all the other jobs you had. and if you didn't have folks to buy the material & sewing notions, you could do EXTRA work, like babysit the Zollinger's brats, and then the school would get your stuff for you. NO, you didn't get to go to Dayton and buy your own stuff, you might run away and try getting LB in trouble. ha ha
Gotta go see if Slave Camp LB has gone to court yet.
See Ya
ps new photos on pica

Craig's Day

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BESTEST HUBBY IN THE WORLD !!!
OXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Flowers for Mitsy

Good bye Mitsy


King Tut and Mollee May have been told about you, Mitsy
and they will be watching over you.

You can go to link to read about Mitsy
http://clayfootsteps.blogspot.com/

Mother Mary

photo by sandy z

click on photo to enlarge

more photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/SandyZike/

I've been BLESSED!!!!!!! (lol)
Look , this dove on my backyard bird feeder has the "Mother Mary" on her chest.
Sure wish I could catch her and sell her on EBay, I could get rich. I know there's a lot of folks out in the world, unlike me, who'd believe its a MIRACLE. Craig says that Doves are good to eat, I personally don't care to find out if that's true. I like the Cardinal's and Parrots the best, they are loud and colorful. I wake up to the music from the birds everyday, lots better than the dogs next door.

Laurelbrook--(LB)

I see that slave camp Laurelbrook has a new bolg site
http://laurelbrook22.adventistschoolconnect.org./
The school has a court date starting the week of August 18.
Sure wish I could be there to watch them get whatever hell the Gov. can give them.
All those folks who read Linda's blog and was upset on her observation of how the churches have changed over the years should spend some time at Laurelbrook!!!!! Laurelbrook is no better then the poor folks in Texas where the state came in & took all the kids. The only difference, that I see, is LB only has high school age kids to do ALL the SLAVE jobs. Plus the kids are not allowed to have boyfriend/girlfriend relationship, unless you want to do free labor, after you have worked 6 hours and school for 4 hours , (dig up a tree stump). I see they had 5 kids graduated this year, poor things, now they need to take the GED test to get into any normal college.
For the Government folks who read my blog, PLEASE call me!!! I'm on your side, 30 plus years later I still hate LB, Bob & Ruthie Z, The Olsons( for killing my dog) and all it stands for.

Spring Time

photo by Sandy Z

Daddy Cardinal

Baby Cardinal photo by SandyZ
Spring, to me, is the best time of the year. The flowers are in bloom and the trees are bright green with all thier new leaves. Every spring I get to watch the Daddy cardinal teach the baby how to eat from the feeder. Here is a photo I got of the baby. I was surprized he was even looking at me. Enjoy Spring!!!
To see more photos go to my web album; http://picasaweb.google.com/SandyZike

New Babies!!!

One Red male, Two females


CherryBarb Fish We have triplets!!!!
yep, our Cherry Barb laid about 300 eggs and we ended up with 3 babies. That is very good because you suppose to seperate the fish from the eggs and feed the new babies just hatched brine shrimp.

Baby is on the light rock next to the tip of the red rock (click on him to enlarge.)

Work in progress

We have been working on a 75 gallon fish tank for some time. First we moved my tiny, no window, kitchen to my 8x10, with window, utility room. Installed a tankless water heater and a reverse osmosis system. Lucky we had water and electric from the old sink being there. We ran the tubing to the ice maker and to my new sink for cooking & drinking. Its still a work in progress. My kids gave us lots of rock and we had some wood & stones so now we have bunches of hiding places for my fishies. We've been getting the tank seeded with bio balls from our 30 gal. tank. We added 3 fishies to the tank and a few plants and all seem to be doing ok.
to see photos go to my site

Fun Web site

I have added new photos to my site if you'd like to check them out.
I also found this fun site to take little test from your brain smarts to drug smarts.
All you nurses should do good on that test, ha ha I don't care if I do bad on these test I just blame it on LEAD poisoning as a child, before moving to Carver Creek. There we didn't have painted walls, come to think about it we didn't even have walls the frist year, but we did have snow on the bed, and kreo oil on the school room floors.
http://www.am-i-dumb.com/

Season Greetings

Another year is almost to come to an end and time to say hello to all my family and friends.

Craig & I had a good year, along with our pets, BoBo, Buster, Ringo, & Star.
Craig, Star, & I went on a wonderful road trip. We took off the interstate and went the scene route. Through the Blue Ridge Mt.s & Chattahoochee Nat'l Forest. Stayed the night in Sweetwater TN. where Star got to have frenchie fries for supper, and her favorite,"awful waffles" with butter & syrup for breakfast. Then we went through the Appalachian Mts and Daniel Boone Nat'l Forest and on to visit Linda & Jim in Ohio. We stayed for 2 nights in a guess apartment , thanks Linda & Jim, and had a short but nice visit. We went to see the colorful leaves and to see the dam. For supper we went to a great buffet, Jim even took food home for ChingChing & Sheba.

Star got to have her photo shoot by Linda

Then we went to my sister-in-laws in Jeffersonville, IN. Bev took me to the largest Halloween shop, 2 floors, where I got this huge SNAKE. Of course I wore it around my neck to pass out candy!!!! The adults was more scared then the kids.

I also got to meet Aunt Shirley and cuz'n Jeri Ann. I've already told Craig for my b'day (6/15) I need a ticket so I can to go junkin' with Jeri Ann. (Any one who wants to donate to the cause feel free to do so, ha ha) We stayed at the Comfort Inn near Bevs. She has 2 cutie doggies and Star might have hurt them if left alone. Star got to get pampered at daycare, even watch movies, while we went around town with Bev.

From Bev's we went to Makers Mark Brewery in KY. ( they was closed) then we went to Lookout Mt. in Tn/GA and drove around the mt top to see ALL those houses hangin' over the edge. We went by the SDA church at Wildwood and across the RR tracks to see if I could find where I lived when I was 3 or 4. Linda talks about it in her book http://dustyangels.blogspot.com/

I didn't find the basement against the tracks this time but way back in 1970 when I lived near there I did. I just wanted to get a photo, but oh well its best to let dead dogs lie.(how ever that sayin' goes)We stayed overnight at our friends Revis & Deb in Daytona Beach. Deb make lasagna for supper and good pina colatas, and Revis made me a fire!!!
We had a great trip but was glad to be back in MY water bed!!!

Cuz'n Cindy and hubby, Fred, took great care of the cats and the house while we were away, Thanks again.

I've spent my year enjoying being a house wife and taking care of the pets. I'm still waiting for a court date for SS Disability. Craig is working still at Otero Engineering designing new shopping mall parking lots and all the drainage and such. Thy do every thing up to 3 foot from the building.

Thats what been happenin in my life, not to much to complain about, just glad to have a happy, loving home.

Wishing you lots of goodies from Santa and a GREAT new year.

T-Day at The Aarons

Revis and Deb have been friends of ours for several years and it is always a pleasure to go vist them. They live near Daytona, FL, 2 1/2 hour drive, on a large parsel of land, you can even shoot the guns and NO COPS!!! Star loves to run free and I think she fell in love with Revis because he's always doing something outside and she's following right behind him. until she got a sandspur in her paw.
We had a great dinner and good conversation, Star was even allowed to sit in her stroller buy the table. Dave, Deb's brother-in-law, kept coming to the other end of the table just to feed Star turkey. We all had a wonderful time. Thanks Deb, Revis & Toni
Check out the photos;http://picasaweb.google.com/SandyZike/TDayAtTheAarons

Fall is Here

Fall is here and I'm counting the days till we get to see the fall colors while traveling up north. I hope to find some Indian moccasin when going through the Cherokee Nat'l Forest. We're also going to Danial Boone Forest, at lest to Williamsburg KY. We will be traveling interstate part way but the scenic roads between Atlanta & Sweetwater TN. Then to Jim & Linda's and on to Bev's. On the way back will stop at Chattanooga, Wildwood GA, stay overnite around Macon then off the interstate and go to Waycross GA, then to Revis & Deb, stay overnite then HOME!!

Wendy will be staying at our place and take care of the 3 cats.

Check out the photos I've added to my albums on PICASA

Gone Tankless

I got my pantry at last.

When we moved the kitchen to another room and put the hot-water tank in my pantry, Craig promised someday, when they got cheaper, we'd replace it with a tank-less water-heater.

Five years later, that day has come.

Now we are putting in a reverse osmosis system to the ice maker and the 75 gallon fish tank we're setting up.

Have a GREAT FRIDAY 13

Ring of Babies

When Bobby was living in Gainesville, in this most beautiful home with a pool, I plucked this two leaf palm plant growing out from the side of a large palm. I planted it and not thinking in about ten years it would grow and do so good. Will now it has babies!!! They are ALL around the trunk. I've never seen one reproduce like this one has. We was talking about move it because it was in the way of the screen porch & AC. Now we really have to dig it up and move it so it can spread way out.

Linda Left!!!

Linda is standing by our Grandpa/Dad. This photo was taken in 1918 and is still in the original frame. We're sitting on the bench behind the print shop in Ybor City where we played, or hid from Grandma, as kids.

I was great to have Linda here awhile. We got to go back in time. Visiting with high school friends, and going to places we lived & played at as young kids.

Star says don't leave me out!!!!! I loved have my Aunt Linda here too. When we went to bed last night Star went to Linda's bed looking and barking for Her Auntie. I had to show her Linda was gone and she finely came to bed.