l'chayim (here's to life!),

This morning I got up to my 54th birthday....Not much on birthdays, for myself, or any other day, for myself, for that matter, but a strange thing happened as I awoke.....I remembered immediatley that my friend Barbara Miller woke up on her 54th birthday and called me to take her to the doctor...she had known for several months that she had breast cancer, but was not willing to face the fact untill she saw blood....I came to get her, we had some breakfast and I took her to the doctor for them to tell her what she already knew....she fought a hard fight for the next 6 months and then died on July 4th, 1998....I can't even see fireworks now without missing her ......she was born on December 18th and shares a birthday with my very first grandaughter, Isabella....She also share the same death year with the same grandaughter.....my 5th grandchild was born 2 days ago, and my 2nd grandchilds birthday will be in 5 days....Its kinda weird how life seems so connected at times.....I really have nothing different to say today than I always say.....life is short....what really matters IS life and that lived with people you love....and those are few and far bettween.....so go today and every day.....and love those who are yours to love....I miss Barb...I miss Bella....I didn't have enough time with either one of them....and I want to say I love you guys and gals in my life....you all know who you are hopefully, or else I need to take more of my own advice!! So heres lookin at you Barbie...L'CHAYIM...TO LIFE!

WELCOME DEACON THOMAS!

Check out our newest addition to the Humphreys clan!! Born June 23rd at 10:09 cst, 21 inches and 7 pounds 10 ounces, looking just like his big sister too!! Look on my "phoneybaloney" blog to the right and see the beauty God has bestowed on us!!!

First Girly Bike Trip

My first girly bike trip was not long, but was a fun thing to try at my age!! I had to pay attention to the highway signs, and THAT in Oklahoma is a real feat in itself!! We started out in rain on Monday morning and ended with sweltering humidity and thunderstorms all around us at 9 p.m. Tuesday evening. The ominous clouds and lightening hurried us down the road at a fast pace...we lost some items of sentimental value on the way, but picked up some great memories along the road. The road is a place of memories....no matter if it is a highway or a life....memories is what you have when everything else goes to pot. Keep them and cherish them and go out and make MORE of them at every opportunity...life is too short.
p.s. this is my friend Edwina!
1)"Mr. Gawer" and his drugstore in Guthrie-
2)Shelter in the storm in Kellyville-
3)What girls do, even on bike trips!

Name that tune,but not you ricky!!

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.

While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.

But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.

do dah, do dah

Well, I just got through working a full time, actual PAYING WITH MONEY, job for a week!! Yep. A full 8 hour day, 6 day week with pay. I don't know HOW IN THE HELL you people do it!!! I DID it, but man, it almost made me thankful to be married to a workaholic!!! I think it is the PEOPLE I had to deal with ...you know, the ones who think their stuff don't stink! The ones who are so far above you in life that you need a ladder just to see into their hollow eyes!! Well, as dad has always said, "I would never last", and it is true....at least dealing with people...I think I am more of a manual labor type....I would rather dig in the dirt, mow the lawn, take care of the garden, the animals, HECK, I'd rather muck the stalls out than deal with humanity I think!!! What is freakin wrong with people today?!!! B-U-S-Y!! And for what?!!!! What will it get them in the end?! More $$$?!!!! For what?! To keep BUSY till they keel over?!!! They totally MISS LIFE!! I guess that IS life for them, but not for me. I am not sure what life IS about for me, but it is not the prestige or prizes of this putrid paltry people that I dealt with this week. Yes, some were paying attention to their lives, but not many. And we wonder why we are in all the messes we are in today. Same as always. Yadayadayada.....It is thunderstorming today....dark clouds just rolled in....lightening cracking and thunder rolling....a good old oklahoma storm.....maybe it has infulenced my pessimissim about people, but I don't think so.....sounds pretty dosen't it though?!!! And we are all about making things look better than they really are in life.....so, do what you have to do to please the"man", but be sure to pay attention to your own life and enrich it by being still....quiet....listening.