Sat. Sept. 12th...Spinal Decompression at SpinalAid of Guilderland, NY

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Friday, Sept 11th... We Shall Not Forget... 2001 to 2009... Nor... Forever.....

That day eight years ago will never be forgotten by any living American now or forever! It was a day that we were violated... attacked in our home land...every innocent American was moved and changed from that day forward... Forever!
I no longer want to be a trusting person...eager to invite foreign people to our shores, eager to share “life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as before. Let them stay in their own land and kill one another. Bring our troops home and quit sacrificing our own for a culture full of filth and killing. To hell with their freedoms; especially at the cost of our children’s freedom and lives. Our forefathers fought and died in wars, as immigrants fought at their side, to protect the very freedoms our ancestors fought and died for and they came here to enjoy. Those immigrants chose to learn our language and join into our culture. They adopted the American flag as their own and waved no other...EVER. They worked hard and became us... naturalized Americans, but in the end...simply...real Americans, willing to defend their newly adopted country with their lives.
Now we are faced with a real threat of a foreign people who are not interested in us as a people, a culture or a land. They do not want to become like us. All they are interested in is killing everything and everybody in the world that is not of their belief. How do we ever deal with a people that place no value on life and believe they are rewarded, by a God, with virgins as payment for their killing deeds? There is no sanity or hope for dealing with a people that thinks God rewards them for killing innocent men, women and children...especially with such a vial, filthy delight of killing for the reward of innocent virgin girls...and all in God’s name? A God that hates everything they are speaking of and doing? A God that hates anyone that spills innocent blood and lives by the sword? This God asks that we don’t kill and that we love one another.
This God also tells us that we may have to fight wars to protect the innocent and defeat evil...
I know...as do many others, that you cannot simply fight these evil ones by conventional methods, for they hide behind the innocent, with no regard for their safety.
Bring all our troops home. Guard our own borders with our military and crush any enemy that comes to our homeland. With our complete military here at home and every citizen armed, outside evil would be a fool to approach us.
Let the foreign trouble makers who want to change America, go home and speak the language they want, live the way they want to and kill each other in their own country.
Every time we allow someone to speak about changing our schools, our laws, our national Anthem, our cultural history, we are allowing them to spit on our forefather’s graves and our son’s graves, after they gave their lives to protect what we slowly allow others to give away or trod into the dirt.
Americans are loving, kind, intelligent people from all walks of life, who are smart enough to embrace freedom and immigrants willing to swear allegiance and allow them to become Americans, yet expel illegal aliens wishing to change America. We need to start expelling trouble making leeches who feed on America.

We’ll Never Forget What Was Done To America on September 11th 2001 When War Was Declared Upon Us In Our Own Homeland!!!

Thurs. Sept 10th... What a Great Visit we Had With Ellie Steffen in Woodstock...

We arrived at Ellie Steffens door step at the agreed upon time of 2:00 pm this afternoon. As Always, we enjoyed our visit with this amazing lady to the fullest.
We chatted about our last visit and the many things which transpired during the time between then and now and spent a bit of time in her spacious back yard looking at the beauty of a warm autumn afternoon in the artist’s Mecca of upstate New York. Upon returning to Ellie’s Gallery, Vick and I were treated to a showing of her artwork comprised of many canvas’ portraying “sisters”...both the one I showed on my earlier post and the many she unveiled today...both with faces and without. She did a series of herself posing with a dear childhood friend at the age of six, then as teenagers and as grownups in their sixties...Most interesting and as beautiful as one could ever hope to see. Ellie is a major inspiration to both Vicki and I and we love to chat with her about her art and hear the love story of her beloved Bernard...love of her life who unfortunately, passed away with Lou Gehrig’s disease, very shortly after their marriage.
Ellie follows our blog and loves to see the activities Vick and I are involved in here, the animals and stories written in the blog when she has time to tune in to us. We are looking forward to her visit with us for a dinner date. We will relish her visit when she can come to see us. What a great and talented artist friend we have found in Ellie Steffen...and we are far the richer to know her.
Tomorrow I fear we will have to seek dry spaces within the house, because they are calling for some nasty weather from the strange traveling storm off the coast of New York and Delaware tomorrow. Seems we are to get some serious wind and rain for the biggest part of the day, so we will choose to work in the barn installing lighting and receptacles upstairs or just cuddle on the couch for awhile.
Gee, the nights are getting cooler and starting earlier and earlier... tonight it was completely dark by 8:15...and will soon be dark by 8:00. The seasons, they are a changin’...

Thurs. Sept 10th... Looks like a Really Good Day to visit Ellie in Woodstock...

Sisters By Ellie Steffen

Today Vick wants to go to Woodstock to see a private art showing of a good friend, Ellie Steffen. Ellie lives in Woodstock and has her gallery there, so we visit every now and then. She does some beautiful artwork and has displayed her masterpieces in numerous venues throughout New York. She was an art teacher in the city for years and now is retired and just enjoys creating her art work. Sometimes when she displays her artwork, she also displays some of Bernard’s work, her late husband who was also a famous artist. We always enjoy visiting Ellie and will have her come to our house for dinner as soon as she can make it.

When we return from Woodstock, perhaps we will work a bit on the lumber order we’ll need to place, so were ready when we can start working on the porch deck for the gift shop. Once the drain pipe is completed... we will need it.

Wed. Sept 9th... A Busy Day Leaves Me Shaking My Head in Disbelief... Oh Boy...

Boy oh boy... September just got here and already it’s a third of the way gone, with October only about twenty days away. I can’t believe how fast my life is burning away on the calendar... days are as minutes. How I’d love to experience a few years like the ones I endured as a child. Boy......I remember how I had to wait and wait and wait for my twelfth birthday so I could go hunting with the rest of our family back in the sixties... I remember thinking that those years were longer than anything, as I started waiting at the age of ten...watching my uncles and grandparents join my Mom and Dad, as they all went out to hunt on the first day of buck season, every year in Pennsylvania.
God, I can still remember thinking I would never turn twelve. Those years lasted sooooooooooooo long and so much happened within your life at that time. School was a curse that seemed to be a lifelong affliction that would never end and looking forward to turning sixteen so I could drive, was almost as unreal as imagining that we were millionaires, owning yachts or expensive two seated sports cars......something that surely would never come in our lifetime. Why, a week was almost longer than we could endure...while waiting for the few weekly TV shows to roll around. We waited for what seemed like forever for shows like Gunsmoke, Have gun will travel, The Ed Sullivan Show andThe Red Skelton Show. cartoons lasted all day every Saturday and church all day on Sunday. Nothing ever seemed to change and everything seemed to move in slow motion. Summer vacation was a decade long and a school year was an eternity. Now a year whisks by in a weeks time it seems.
Today we entertained Joan, our friend from Doctor Michael Paster’s Chiropractic office in Guilderland. Vick told Joan she would enjoy teaching her how to do stained glass projects and Joan offered to teach me and Vick about Pastel painting. I’m also going to get her set up with a better web site so she can sell her lovely artwork on line. Right now, she is at http://joanjonesgallery.com/index.html but she doesn’t get very much traffic. We will get her site set up like I did for Dr. Paster at http://www.spinalaidguild.com or secondly, like we did at his other site at http://www.capitalregionchiropractors.com to increase her hits too. Mike actually got a new patient the day we published his site to the web.
I worked around the farm while Joan and Vicki worked on stained glass, because we had Joe our hired hand here again today to finish the old duck and chicken house cleaning and she and I went to Agway to get wood chips to put down in the cleaned areas, bags of layer pellets and crushed corn for the birds. We also ordered two tons of wood pellets for winter while we were there. Now I will have to re-arrange the tractor shed to accept them when Paul delivers them in a day or so.
After Joe finished the house cleaning... I set him loose with a mattock and a spade shovel to dig the footer drain around the hospice gift shop. I helped a little there by bucketing out a bunch of dirt with the Cub Cadet to lighten his load. We will lay perforated 4” flex, drain pipe around the ditch and cut the ends into the 12” drain running under the center of the building. That will completely drain any and all water away from the concrete pad, keeping it from freezing and heaving in the winter time. Now...when we get the drain in and the ditch backfilled, we can resume building the deck and porch roof posts and headers to install the other roof rafters and order the steel roofing. Once that is done, we can install the board and batten, windows and doors. Then we can work inside this winter, installing insulating and wiring, etc., etc., etc.
All we’ll have to do then is put up with Greene County’s bullshit inspections and palm greasing and we can complete the gift shop, stock it and have the grand opening.
Thank God the gift shop will then be done and good old New York State can suck money away from the hospice patients by charging a sales tax on everything we sell to benefit the Columbia-Greene County Hospice Program. (And New York State) How sad they have to stick their hand into the pockets of dying people and take money earmarked to purchase and provide palliative care drugs and such...... There is no shame at the New York State tax bureau is there? Screw us until we’re dead and gone... then get the estate and family!
Anyway...... at least we’re trying our best to get everything in place and running to start collecting funds to help the hospice program; however, we meet with expensive opposition or roadblocks every step of the way, in everything we attempt to do. We will endure and succeed though. That’s a guarantee!!

Tuesday Sept. 8th... Back on the farm again... fall is rapidly approaching... It’s cool

We were in Latham today for Vick’s Dad’s doctor’s appointment, then went to Arlene’s Art Supply on Fuller Street for Vick to buy some matt material for pictures... After she bought what she wanted, we headed for home by way of Altamont and Pisano’s Pizza, where we bought pizza for lunch. It was great as always... There is no better pizza in Upstate New York than you can get from Pisano’s and Vick swears that even in the city...only the original...in Canarsie, has better pizza. (She’d know as, she ate tons of it there as a young teenager)
Right now she is on-line, reading about her childhood times in Canarsie and about “Ruby the Knishman” a vendor that all the kids fondly remember...Ruby was a grungy, dirty old guy that sold hot knishes and cold drinks. Vick found the site while looking at Canarsie.com and spent a long time laughing and reminiscing about Ruby and his filthy mustard stick, his dirty hands and how she constantly offered him a quarter to show Richie, (her brother) how he could pop his glass eye out. What educational and valued memories she has.........
How funny it would be if any of you folks reading this, would have heard of and remembered Ruby, screaming in his booming voice, “Get your hot Knishes...I want to send my wife to Florida!” or any of the other memorable statements made by ol’ Ruby, in that booming voice he had.
Vick has found a spot where you are to email your very own “Ruby stories” to the webmaster of the site and she is now doing so. I can’t wait to see what comes from her memories once she starts to recall them. It’s quite funny to hear when she and Richie start to reminisce about all those old times with Ruby "the knishman" in Canarsie, New York.

Well, today was the beginning of the end as far as summer vacation goes... Most kids will have started school today or, at the latest, tomorrow, commencing the fall season even further... The evenings are getting more and more brisk and the morning have that little sting of chill that causes the leaves to crinkle, turn colors and fall. The frost will soon be on the pumpkin and the smells of apple and harvest will be swirling in the autumn air. As I said before many times, Vicki and I have been waiting for this time of year and we will partake of any and all events we can find in the way of autumn harvest activities. We’ll surely be making a few trips to Vermont to enjoy the real feel of autumn that always abounds among the New England states this time of year.
I’d sure like to see a live Moose up there among the colored foliage......

Tues. Sept. 8th... This morning we have a doctor’s appointment in Albany...

The appointment is fairly early and we will be leaving soon, so I will post a blog this evening telling about our holiday weekend and what is happening..... Gotta go and feed, water and check the critters... Later....

Sunday Sept 6th... It’s been a long week, a Busy weekend and I’m takin’ A Break...

We had a long week of workin’ on the book, preparing for company and getting ready for the Bar-B-Q and I’m beat... I’m gonna take a break from blogging for a day or so to rest and enjoy Labor Day. Be back blogging on Tuesday Morning.
Thanks again Bill Loraine & Andrew......you guys were a tremendous help at the Bar-B-Q and after.....