A legend about the Cherokee

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian? Here is a little story I found. It is about the rite of passage. His father takes him into the forest,blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it.  He cannot cry out for help to anyone. once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of  this experience  as each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally  terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises around him. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth,and shook his stump,but he sat stoically,never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!

Finally,after a horrific night, the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been on watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm. We, too, are never alone. Even though we don’t know it, our Heavenly Father is watching over us, sitting on the stump  beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.

The moral of the story is: Just because you can’t see God doesn’t mean He is not there.

 ” For we walk by faith,not by sight”   2 Corinthians 5:7

Spring and random thoughts

I finally found out about the crazy paper thief at my job. He has admitted he has a bad problem and is getting help. He is a strange guy. I really hope the dude gets better and will be glad when he is gone. He really thought he could get away with it and my intuition was right on. When I first met him I did not like him and I usually like everyone. I had a busy week so far. I moved my office with help from some people we hired for the day. It was fun to move and now I work with two other ladies and I see more of the other people I work with too because they are all just down the building and around the corner. Today I got everything set the way I like it and now am settled in. I am in a yellow office. The main reason I moved is because the two ladies had to move out of their building too. The people that are moving into their old area are getting out of the building my boss owns. We are going to move into that building in September but first it has to be renovated. We will have to move one more time but it was not as bad or as hard as I thought so I really don’t mind moving again. I am stiff and sore but only because I really lifted a lot of cardboard boxes. My husband knew I was moving and made supper. I took a relaxing bath and then watched Idol. Spring is definitely here as my dog Zeke is getting muddy paws. My dog has big feet! The mopping of my kitchen has begun. I did a poop scoop search as more snow has melted as I am sure a lot of dog owners do. I spotted my first robin of the year over the weekend and today I heard one! I have daffodils and tiger lilies and hyacinths sprouting along with fresh green little blades of grass!

more soon: I have to read emails yet tonight.

The Mystery of the Missing Paper

It all started right around the time we hired two new guys at work. One was a computer guy who went to college, the other guy was hired because he was the nephew of our boss. He and I worked in the same building. The computer guy worked everywhere we had offices so he was in and out alot. I was real surprised when I had to order paper for our building as we never had a lot of use for it. I ordered some though and then I started to keep an eye on the reams by checking the boxes every Friday. I started to notice the printers getting lower each week too and that in itself was surprising. Sure enough a ream or two continued to be missing each week. I told the manager above me and she alerted my boss. My boss called me and I explained what I was noticing. She sent out an email to all employees saying how much she paid for the paper and the honesty of all that worked for her. She made her point because for awhile the paper thief stopped. I had my suspicions that it was the guy that worked with me. My boss on the other hand and a few others thought it was the new computer guy. Well our boss went on vacation and the paper thief hit again while she was gone. We started keeping a count on the printers, we were amazed as some days the thief printed off over two to four hundred sheets! What could he be printing we wondered. We now knew why a whole ream would be gone,one ream has five hundred sheets. We also deducted that the only one that was available to do this was the guy I worked with. He knew I left early so he printed when I left, he also had access to the other area where my boss worked and he worked there when she was on vacation too. So we knew it was him and waited to tell the boss when she came back. It was not what we all thought, he did not get fired. Can you believe it? He had a talking to and the boss said it was taken care of. We know relatives are a sticky situation but a thief and you still want him around! We all are real disappointed. We don’t  want him around, we don’t know what he printed a ton of. Could it have been books? We are puzzled with how she took care of it, wouldn’t you fire him, she knew her toner cartridges were out more than normal as she told someone else about it. The cost of that is more than the boxes of paper which we all estimated to be around six thousand and counting. We shall see how things go as everyone knows he is the thief. Anyone else work with a known thief?

Menominee Wind

I was looking at the Midwest Horse Fair and saw this beautiful horse among many other stallions that are also amazing.Here is what it said:

Menominee Pines Farm
N9322 Anacker Rd
Portage, WI 53901
608.981.2451

Menominee Wind is a 1999 grullo IBHA SUPREME CHAMPION STALLION.  He is homozygous for the black gene.  “Windy” is consistently throwing foals with wonderful color and conformation.  They are so teachable and have great minds & dispositions.  They grab the judge’s attention everytime they are shown.  Check out our website for much more information!

Windy’s foal, Menominee Windigo, is being shown at yearling lungeline in the Buckskin Demo at Midwest Horse Fair.  If you want to take a good look at what Menominee Wind produces take time to see “Diggy.”  We think he is awesome! 
http://www.menomineepinesfarm.com

The Human Body

  I was listening to my favorite radio station and they said there was an exhibit down in Milwaukee,Wisconsin. Guess what it has real dead bodies in it! Yes you heard me right. I was fascinated as I would really love to see this. I have no queasy feeling about seeing this. I see a naked bodyevery day, lol. The guy ’s name is Gunther von Hagen and he invented a process called Plastination. Here’s the link:    http://www.mpm.edu/bodyworlds/           It’s called the Body World Exhibit and has video on it so you can see what it looks like to go if you think you may not want to see it. I think it would be a good idea for all of us to see this as you can see what your body actually is under your skin.            

Retro is Hot!

Does anyone else feel like me? I really like the old retro items companies are using on anything from lunch boxes to letters to bags. My newest find is the Mobile Edge Maddie Powers Cutebug Laptop Messenger Bag,see the picture. Wow I love it! I don’t get paid to advertise this bag or anything I just love this bag!

Live Your Dream

I was browsing thru one of my magazines this weekend and this site caught my eye.It’s called Live your Dream Campaign. I thought I’d pass it along to anyone who cares to visit it. It’s a volunteer organization for business and professional women,inspires women to live their dreams and also encourages them to pass their good fortune on to others.You can enter contests and create a personal plan to achieve your dream. It was a gorgeous weekend here,warmer temps and sunny. I did some early spring cleaning and rearranged my living room. It was fun and I like all that I did accomplish.

Road Protection?

New Auto Security System Will Not Allow Car To Start If Driver Is Nick Nolte

Wisconsin’s Snowy Winter

With fairly reasonable temperatures this is the winter to go sledding, skiing and all the other outdoor winter sports. I am a Mom and my sons and husband usually do the snow-blowing. I will make a path in the backyard for myself to go all the way to the back. My dogs like to go to the border of our yard to do their business so I have my doo container back there and my handy pooper scooper.  I pick it all up daily and with my work shoes on sometimes I need to have a path in order not to get my shoes soaked. I am luck enough to go home for my lunchtime and I let my dogs out then. My Shih Tzu’s have little bladders and they are so happy to see me then. I have really enjoyed this winter with the tree branches laden with snow and all. I think everyone in blog-land knows someone in Wisconsin that personally has had car trouble or driven into a ditch this year. My husband is an excellent driver but he works out in Denmark and the roads in the country this winter are real slick. He did drive our truck into a ditch and had to be pulled out.  A lot of his co workers had the same fate. This is a good winter for parents of little sledders to make hot chocolate for your little troopers when they come in all rosy faced and soaking wet.  I remember those times at my Gram’s home. We would all line up and climb aboard a huge toboggan. The hill seemed gigantic back then. I had my own sled with the steel runners  you could sit and steer with your feet. Going speedy down the hill and flying over a bump to land without crashing was our goal back then. We then would all go to Gram’s as her home was real close to the hill. My Gram always had hot cocoa on the stove ,the real homemade kind! I would be all excited and happy. My Gram would usually be pulling hot muffins out or freshly baked cookies. It was fantastic.

Meeting the Unknown

I have been enjoying my time on the Internet as of late. I have found new blogs to read and laugh over and others that remind me of my life when I had my sons all little and I was running around after them and trying to work. Ah yes, why did I always seem to have pets thrown into an already very busy life? I guess because I adore them and wanted to make a pets life better for them. I would rescue pets when I was real little and I tried to hide dogs and cats under my bed in my room. My Mom was very faithful in making us say our prayers before going to bed and I would rush through mine real fast in hopes she would not hear or see the animal. She always would find out and make a fuss and take the stray outside. I found our cat Minnie who ran away one winter on us way over by the school. I took her home and then she had a litter of kittens. We had four kittens we named Ennie,Meany,Miney, and Moe. We kept Moe and gave away Minnie and the rest as we were moving and my Mom let us keep him as he couldn’t have kittens I think. He was an all black cat and long haired. I grew up with him during my teen years and loved him alot. Someone ran him over and he came home all crushed but still alive, my Mom had to take him to the vet who told her that it was no life for him to be brain injured so he was put to sleep. I have two cats now,my older brother has a cat and my younger sister has a cat too.  My middle brother has dogs.  I think all of us grew to love animals and I think we all will always have at least one pet to love. I had my son give Zeke a bath today. It was well needed as he was getting too doggie smelling. My other two had baths given by me as I can handle them,they are tiny and I did that last week.

more soon: going to hit the hay with my little friends.