Posted in Daily Happenings
I have quite a few blogs that I frequent and comment on. I am a talker and there is very little chance I will visit a blog and not say something! Today I tought I would spotlight a couple of blogs and their posts that really hit home. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
The first one is Lynnae at From Under the Clutter. The post I have it linked to is awesome. I encourage you to check out the rest of her blog as she covers lots of different thoughts and ideas.
The next one is Grace for Gayle- she is in the middle of answering a whole bunch of questions from other bloggers. Her answers are great!
Number three is Ornaments of Grace. This is a hugely attention getting post that I just had to link to. Don’t forget to check out the rest of her blog.
And the last one for today is- Antique Mommy. I know that many of you already know about her blog but the post I have it linked to goes really well with the post by Ornaments of Grace.
MEXICAN GOV’T. REVEALS PLANS FOR TRANS NORTH AMERICAN CORRIDOR
By Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
October 8, 2007
NewsWithViews.com
In the midst of the current presidential race, American voters are being denied information regarding alleged plans to merge the three nations of North America — the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Not only are most political leaders in both major parties failing to discuss allegations of an impending North American Union, but the mainstream news media are failing to examine what promises to be THE major news story of the 21st Century.
Meanwhile, the Mexican government has revealed to its own citizens that Mexico has entered extensive discussions with government officials in Texas and top representatives from the Bush administration to extend what it called the Trans-Texas Corridor into Mexico, with a plan to connect to the Mexican ports on the Pacific, including Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas.
In fact, the official website of the Mexican northeastern state of Nuevo León contains multiple reports that José Natividad Gonzáles Parás, governor of the Mexican state of Nuevo León, has actively discussed these plans with numerous US government officials, including Texas’ state and local officeholders.
“All one needs to do is to look at the social mass viewpoint on Americans themselves by their own media as well as media outlets in other countries,” Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning actor Michael Moriarty told NewsWithViews.com during an exclusive interview.
“Americans are looked at [sic] majoritively speaking, as gun-toting, constitution quoting, trigger happy [sic] misinformee’s. Yet, carrying a gun is the first and foremost sign of being a truly free person. The view that Americans are stupid is a widely held one, yet they are one of the last bastions of freedom left to view,” added the former Law & Order star.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice all discussed the extension of the Trans-Texas Corridor into Mexico to create what’s called a “Trans North America Corridor.”
In fact, just last August during a trip to Mexico, Perry made news in the conservative news media by calling the idea of building a fence along the US-Mexico border “idiocy.”
“Largely unreported in the American press were meetings Perry held in Mexico with Gonzáles Parás in which the two discussed extending the corridor into Mexico,” said Moriarty.
“In their private meetings, the pair thoroughly discussed extending Trans-Texas Corridor into Mexico,” said Moriarty during his NWV interview.
“We have had interaction with the governor of Texas,” Gonzáles Parás said on the government web site. “We have had a very productive relationship with Rick Perry, who is also interested in what we can do to continue that which is known as the Trans-Texas Corridor, that in reality is the corridor of North America, the Trans North America Corridor, that includes railroads, bridges, passenger automobile highways, and truck highway lanes.”
Gonzáles Parás further explained the extension of TTC-35 into Mexico would connect through Monterrey, a city which he suggested would function as a hub for truck-freight traffic. Monterrey is the capital of Nuevo León.
“One of the themes that merited the most attention on the part of the two governors was the development of the infrastructure needed for the competitive development of the region as it relates to developing the Trans-Texas Corridor in connection with the project we call the Corridor of Northeastern Mexico,” the Nuevo León government web site reported Gonzáles Parás saying Sept. 1, at the conclusion of Perry’s visit.
“Gonzáles Parás is reportedly pursuing plans to establish Monterrey as an ‘inland port’ where international container freight cargo, largely delivered into Mexico via the Mexican ports on the Pacific, could be transported via a Trans North America Corridor into the United States via Laredo, Texas,” claims Moriarty, who’s been following this story closely.
Once on I-35, the Mexican trucks transporting the Chinese containers could travel north, heading toward US inland ports are being established by the Free Trade Alliance San Antonio in San Antonio and in Kansas City by the Kansas City SmartPort.
On May 24, Gonzáles Parás announced during his meetings in Austin, Perry had agreed the envisioned Trans North America Corridor would pass through Laredo and connect with San Antonio, just as Mexico ultimately planned to extend the superhighway south into Colombia.
“We have also worked in Monterrey to create an inland port, a metropolitan center for moving rapidly the commercial traffic from Monterrey to the inland port at San Antonio,” Gonzáles Parás said in the state-published interview.
“For this strategic project to be accomplished, we have been working with the federal government in Mexico as well as holding discussions with the secretary of transportation and the secretary of state in the United States,” he said.
Similar comments made by Gonzáles Parás at a press conference in Mexico that first announced Transportes Olympic had been selected as the first trucking firm to cross the border in the Mexican truck-demonstration project.
This week’s Tackle it Tuesday is the sight that greets me when we come in the side door. This is also where the laundry room is so I am constantly trying get baskets of laundry through here. I have to get this outta of the way and taken care of.
As for last week’s Tackle it Tuesday- I did get it completed. I would post a picture but all you would see is a wall. LOL I went through the tub of kids’ shoes. Some I tossed (eww), some I put aside for the yard sale and the nice ones I put into individual baggies and marked the size. Now I don’t have to search for the other shoe and what size it is. I went through the tub of papers and junk and threw a whole bunch away and filed what I needed to. Purging feels so envigorating!!!!!! :) The third tub is future homeschooling materials that I have to store somewhere besides the house for now. Just not enough room.
Woo Hoo! I love Tackle it Tuesday. I am getting stuff done all over the place. Between this and Meandering Monday I am getting the kick in the pants I needed.
Here is the before of the laundry room (last week’s tackle):
And here is the after:
It felt so good to clean that up. I am amazed with how much stuff was left by the previous owner and we just never got rid of. Yikes!
My Tackle it Tuesday for this week is a pile of tubs and junk that you see right when you walk in the door. We have to walk around it and I just need to get it gone through and outta here.
What is your Tackle it Tuesday project? Don’t have one? Head over to 5 Min for Mom and get inspired!
Monday Meanderings is a way to use your blog to keep yourself accountable for the week ahead. I tend to to be more diligent if I’m sticking it out here for all to see. Simply pick 5 things each week that will better help you to tackle the week ahead. Click here to read an explanation of the guidelines.
Bible Study/Devotions~ *Hubby and I are interested in doing a weekly bible study together. We just got a new study guide on Romans and this is the week to start!
*continue prayer journal
Must Do ~
*go through the boxes in my room and get them out into one of the sheds.
*get the two tubs in the living room gone through and also put into one of the sheds.
*oil all of the wood in the house
*take several homeschooling materials that are reproducible to the library and make copies.
*make Ms. Banana’s birthday gift
*weed the front gardens
*fresh bedding for the chicken/duck house
*make a birthday cake for Ms. Banana
*prepare for company this weekend
Zone ~
*A good scrubbing of the master bathroom (I know it is the same as last week but I just got so overloaded that I just got to do a wipe down. This week it will get scrubbed!)
Train Them Up ~
*The kids and I have been talking about a new birthday idea. For each birthday of theirs we are going to buy a book for the library and donate it. The libraries seem to have plenty of worldly books so we are interested them in aquiring a few more Godly ones.
Menu Planning ~
*I have already planned my menu for the week- Here it is.
*I need to buy a Sunday paper for coupons as Monday the 8th is my grocery shopping day.
I am sitting here on the sofa taking a few moments break and watching my newest tv hero- Paula Deen @ Paula’s Home Cooking. (She comes on the food network at 1pm and 4pm weekdays) I am very new to the food network and I just love her cooking, her attitude and her passion for Elvis. Who doesn’t love Elvis?! She is making chocolate chip cookies, chocolate fudge pie and chocolate suflee. Gayle, doesn’t that just make you want to swoon!!??
Anyway, time for the homestead. We have had a hard loss this week on our little farmlette. Our male mallard duck (Studly Duck) is gone. He was there on Tuesday. We locked the chickens and ducks up that night. When Short Man (8) let them out Wed. morning Studly Duck was not there. I don’t know if he just didn’t make it into the chicken house the previous night or what. He was my only male duck. We still have Daisy and Webigail but no more Studly Duck. I have 3 eggs in the incubator right now. They are about 2 weeks away from hatching. I had 4 but one went kaput on me and I chunked it last night. Chances are pretty good that there is a male in there. We shall see.
We have had 18 chickens now survive to teenagerhood. I have identified several as roosters but we appear to have a good number of hens. They will start laying in about 2 months. This spring I will gather and incubate about 45-50 eggs. Once those have hatched I am going to collect the duck eggs as well and incubate however many I can get.
Chickens are not bright. Mr. Muscles (dh) made a great nesting box for me. It came out better than I imagined. Here it is.
See the bottom right box? Somehow 8 chickens keep piling in there. I went down the other night to close them up and decided to check on them. I noticed they were all on the nesting box and not on the roosts. I started pulling chickens out of that one box. At first I thought there was just 2 or 3 in there but the more I pulled out the more surprised I was. In all there were 8!! There are 4 roosts and 7 other boxes in that chicken house. Sheesh!
I am off for now. It has been a hugely productive day and I want to keep that streak alive. :) The tomato plants are absolutely covered and they need to be picked. I have to save the seeds out of the 2 upper garden ones. One of them is an heirloom from Germany. I am really excited about saving that one. Until later.
I have to say that this is the best SS I have been involved in yet. You have been magnificent! I got my box today and I just loved it. You are so good at feeding my new hobby. I am anxious to use all the great scrapbooking stuff. I was just contemplating making a "start of the school year" page. How cool is that?!
Ok, I have my package now............................WHO ARE YOU?????????????????????????
Monday Meanderings is a way to use your blog to keep yourself accountable for the week ahead. I tend to to be more diligent if I’m sticking it out here for all to see. Simply pick 5 things each week that will better help you to tackle the week ahead. Click here to read an explanation of the guidelines.
Bible Study/Devotions~ I already do a daily morning bible reading. I just got into doing this. I was doing it at night. What I would like to add now is having a daily prayer list. I have a ton of notebooks around. I need to get one out and write down the people and situations I am told about that need prayer.
Must Do ~
*get all of the boxes off of the porch and into the shed.
*I am almost done with my Tackle it Tuesday area but I need to make that last push to finish the last of it and pick out my new Tackle it Tuesday area.
*go through the boxes in my room and get them out into one of the sheds.
*get the two tubs in the living room gone through and also put into one of the sheds.
*strip the kids’ beds and wash and line dry all of the linens.
*get a couple of packages and a card or two mailed out.
*take several homeschooling materials that are reproducible to the library and make copies.
Zone ~
*A good scrubbing of the master bathroom
Train Them Up ~
*We do our bible study on Tuesday and I want to continue with that and the devotions and verse writing we do each morning. I like the way this is working out for us.
Menu Planning ~
*I have already planned my menu for the week- Here it is.
We are constantly being given hand me downs by wonderful people but sometimes they do not always look so great. A friend of mine told me a great way of really cleaning them and I have to say that it works! Load up whatever it is that you need washed and refreshed- I usually do this right before I go to bed. Do not add laundry detergent at this time. All you put in is a cup of oxiclean liquid or clorox 2. Allow the washer to fill and wash enough to distribute throughout the clothing. Stop the washer. Let it set. You can leave it anywhere from 2-8 hours depending on the stains and if you are going to let them set overnight. When you are ready to restart the clothes just add detergent then and let it wash as normal. I have done this with clothing of every size and it gets them so clean! I even do this with a front load washer. I choose to put the washer on rinse and spin then restart it with detergent but you do not have to. It works great for me and I hope you have just as great of a success!
For more tips on all kinds of things visit Shannon at Rocks in My Dryer.
This is my first Tackle it Tuesday post but I am running with it!
I have several loads of laundry that have to be done.
I have two areas of homeschooling supplies, materials, arts and crafts, projects and such that have to be reorganized and moved around. Mr. Muscles is helping me to get another shelf set up and all of this stuff will be gone through, reorganized in the appropriate tubs and put on different shelves according to their uses. These are the before pictures. These are the projects I am tackling this week and I will take some after pictures then.
I have to thank Organizing Junkie for helping me to find several great ideas for organizing our junk, er, materials and 5 Min for Mom for helping to get me tackling the issue! You can check out both sites for ideas, tips and tricks that they and others use.
Yet another giveaway. This one is a homeschool giveaway so head over to Friendship Alley to leave a comment to win a whole group of great books and materials.
You know what I am going to say next, don’t ‘cha? Go, get, go and leave a comment!!!
Someone is feeling generous! (Say that with a song in your voice please)
Head over to Organized Chaos to win a Custom Sketch of anyone you choose. All you have to do is comment and post a little info about it on your blog. We have to spread the work, ya know!
She is a closet artist- who knew!! And she is very good.
Thank you, thank you for the beautiful bag! My 10 year old daughter has already tried to talk me out of it. Hubby immeadiately put the scarecrow on top of the computer desk to start our fall decorations. And the candy corns, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, the candy corns. My hips are growing just thinking about them!! LOL Love those things. :)
Thank so much for all of the wonderful gifts that you sent. You are just too much!
Ok, I found another giveaway! Heather at Heather’s Brain is giving away some absolutely yummy Home and Garden candles so head over check them out and leave a comment. Go, go, go!!!
Ya’ll know how much I love to do tags and memes and Proverbs 22:6 Academy tagged me for a historical one. Too cool! I am such a huge history buff (I love the movie National Treasure). Here are the rules. Go to wikipedia and type in the day and month of your birthday excluding the year. Then you are to list 3 events, two births and one holiday that occured on your birthday. If you read this then you are tagged by me. No ifs, ands or buts! Leave me a comment so I can come and read your birthday history.
Here is mine:
Events-1184 BC - Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse , 1704 - The first regular newspaper in the United States, the Boston, Massachusetts New-Letter, is published and 1907 - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey, for the exclusive use of his employees is opened.
Births- 1905 - Robert Penn Warren, American poet and 1942 - Barbra Streisand, American singer/actress
Holiday- Australia - Kapyong Day a day of remembrance for Korean War veterans, named after the Battle of Kapyong in 1951
With 6 children I find that we have a lot of “stuff” for them to play with, learn with and the like. One of their favorite things to do are puzzles. Puzzle boxes, though, do not last at all. They tear at the corners and then start spitting pieces all over the place. The boxes also take up a lot of shelf space and shelf space is at a premium here! When we get a new puzzle (or new to us) I get an appropriate sized plastic storage baggie to put it in. I cut the picture of the puzzle off of the box and put it facing out in the bag and then fill the bag with the puzzle pieces. The picture lets you know which puzzle is in there and how many pieces it has. I have a clear tub (15 qt.) for the puzzles that has over 20 puzzles in it. They take up far less space and we lose far fewer pieces. Hope it works just as well for you!~RhenFor more great ideas head over to Rocks in My Dryer!
Posted in Daily Happenings
I have been reading blogs about where people were, how they remember now and what it all means to them. The posts have all been the same yet different just as the people who write them. I have enjoyed reading them. It just shows how connected we all are in God’s world.
My September 11th is a bittersweet one. I will always remember the feelings, mourn those who were lost and pray for their families who are still living day by day with their tragedy. I remember getting a phone call from my mom telling me to turn it to the news- Now! I remember tuning in just in time to see the second plane hit live. I remember hugging my kids and praying for all the people who were in the towers, the pentagon, and the 4th plane. I also remember what I was doing when my mom called. I was dancing with Ms. Firecracker celebrating her 1st birthday. I remember feeling guilty for celebrating when so many people were hurting. How could we not celebrate her birthday? She could not understand what was going on. Something that sticks in my mind is the look on peoples’ faces when they ask her birthday and she says September 11th. We have started a birthday tradition of tying a yellow ribbon in memory of those souls who were taken and saying a prayer for those who were called home and those who are still affected by that day. We have tried to find a way to combine the celebration of a major blessing in our lives with remembering the tragedy that happened on her first birthday. I don’t want her to look at her birthday as a bad day. I want her to enjoy her birthday but understand its signifigance for our country. I want her to love the day God chose for her to make her entrance but also to remember those who were called home.
Our September 11th is a day of celebration, rememberance, prayer and love of God, family and country. That is the best we can do. I hope it is enough for her and for the memories of September 11, 2001.
