A nod to public relations...................

Today I had a good turn done to me...I took my nearly 14 year old car into a Body Shop/
Painting company here in my home town...It is a place we have done business with one
other time and one my daughter used twice upon our recommendation. I had scrapped my
car on the passenger side.... on a post while doing the lamest parking job ever....The kid gave
me an estimate and I told him it was highish and not affordable...could I please talk to the
manager. Well one of the owners came out and saw the scratch...he told me to wait inside
and he would see what he could do with it....When he came to get me and I saw that he had
removed the markings on this uglyest of scratches (and in his suit yet!) it was almost perfect and undetectable I was beyond happy...he would not let me pay him even a little. I went back in the office with him...intent on giving the whole office an ear full on what a gift their boss has...for public relations coupled with kindness...the office listened intently...not having seen such a scene anytime in recent history....I told them to take in what they just heard from a grateful customer and realize what a super and generous boss they had....an unusual boss indeed...
Sharing my story with the happy ending....hope you like....
See you dear folks....in the funny paper..................Louisa

Here's some "Stuff" I want to share..........................

Hope you all had a good and restful and happy
Thanksgiving with loved ones and friends....
Haven't been on here lately...why...just cuz...not
much to report has entered my often tired yet still fertile
brain...but today I feel okay to share my small but
for me adequate words....Hope they are of some interest
to you my vast and very important to me followers...
Read that a women named Antonia Brenner, 86 has recently
died...why was she in the news...here's the why...she was an
American nun who abandoned a life of privilege to provide care 
and comfort to prisoners in Tijuana, Mexico's La Mesa penitentiary
for more than 30 years...That is some mighty big hearted human being....La Mesa will miss her and her sweet dedication to her fellow human being greatly....
Here's a saying that I like ...chosen out of my small but treasured collection....Raise your words not your voice....rain makes flowers 
grow...not thunder................. 
Going to muster up the interest and motivation to apply for the second time to an art fare down this a way...by the beach....got to try to sell my vast collection of small and some larger bird houses that God has put in my mind and heart to paint...I say that hoping to not sound overly dramatic...because for me this painting "thing" that has come into my life if truly God sent...I am loving it and loving any sale that comes my way...Did I tell you that last month...
I sold $227 worth of this and that of my work at a local art and craft show... I was doing the senior artist happy dance...

with even a few foot clicks...you know ala Gene Kelly...So I will post some of my latest larger bird houses...for your hopefully viewing pleasure......In the meant time I will see you dear's in the funny papers.......Louisa

Happy happy to see this wonderful invention............

Happy to see this on the news...An invention called Ekso Suit;
a paralyzed person who is paralyzed from the waist down; 
 wearing this suit is able to stand and walk, with canes...imagine that...
imagine that...Hope this incredible technology is available to all our paralyzed
 veterans and the general public in the very near future. How I appreciate and admire
the brain power and the skill, etc. that went into this Ekso Suit design.
Thank God for the people who have the desire and inclination to do 
inventing....especially inventions that give human kind a new lease and
out look on life...Hurray to all involved in this endeavor.  I did see this on a
from the waist down paralyzed veteran...he was thrilled to be standing and
walking while wearing this suit...Google Ekso Suit for more information on
this..
God Bless and many thanks to all our veterans, this Veterans Day, a special shout out to my dear
son for his service to our country in the 2003 Iraq war....God Bless you..
Until next time....take good care....you folks out there.....Louisa.....................

This is what I your humble blogger....Louisa has been up to......

Last Sat. and Sunday 10-19 & 20th....I spent
at an art fare that was in a building at a church....
My space was miniscule....having cost me $50
smackers back in sign up month of July or so...
So I had to arrange on my two side by side card
tables covered with my old and faithful and still
pretty green satiny table cloth....my 2 grids...newly
made to stand by the capable carpentry hands of my
other half....(before this request that he fulfilled for me...
I had to lean them on something or other) anyhoo....my
small fold up stool....just the right size for my ancient derriere...
(Dang wish I had brought a cushion)...so the table held my assorted
painted tiles...small and medium size...my numerous small and 1 lrg. birdhouses...my 6 small...very small canvases....my larger
canvases held precariously on the grid thingy by some mickey mouse clippy things I found in the garage......my paintings in frames I was forced (because of lack of space) to lean up against anything that was sturdy enough to hold them....as the peeps walked by I got up and sort of stood to the side so that they could better see my lovely works of art...( my thoughts and those of a few my staunch fans)...and sure enough in this progression of looky-loos....people did indeed buy things from yours truly....to the tune of $227.00....this amazing and exciting sum made on the first day....
Now my second day there...which was the next day Sunday...I sold zip....let me repeat...zip-o-la....and when all is said and done...I was not an unhappy camper....my first day was so glorious for me...so
rewarding for me ...not only monetarily...but mentally....because I saw now and then when someone bought something that yes indeed there is a market for what I have named my "Absolute Doodling"..
Art....any of you who may have seen one of my previous blogs...where I have posted pictures of my paintings...well you will
know what this is all about....I'm on the look out for more venues to take my "Absolute Doodling" art to....and so I continue to paint that which I CAN paint....I'm happy about it all.....Maybe I will try to
post a few of my paintings tonight..........
Well you all....I will see you again in the funny papers, no doubt....

I like it there.....Take care...............Louisa

Reading is good........

Have happiness at your core...be high on life...These are not
my original thoughts...Though I love them...They belong to
Cary Grant...One of my favorite of all time actors of long ago...
After reading the Bio of Leo Tolstoy and Mrs. Tolstoy...Dreary....
As they were at each others throats constantly....then the Bio of
Eleanore Roosevelt....a bit to much politics to suit me...but she is
an outstanding example of a women who wanted to do for others...
to help many ...to do for her country...Lovely women....So at the
library I come across this book about Cary Grant written by his
only child... his daughter Jennifer.. It is wonderful in that she tells me that her father was loving, warm, interested, sentimental, gracious and a sweetheart of a man and father....No Mommy Dearest here...How refreshing and uplifting....a true tribute of love and marvelous memories for her father.... I chose well!!

Well peeps....( are you out there) That's all I got. Sometimes I feel like the well is running dry...and then into my mind pops well what I write here....I hope you like what I write....but if you are not one of my hundreds of fans....so be it...You know my writing is a good thing...in this respect....Dang I like it.....When all is said and done...I think that is what really counts...I mean if I wrote "stuff" and it left me cold ....that is not a good feeling...a good thing...so anyhoo.....I hope to see you all in the funny papers......Louisa
I

Young man with integrity.....................

Just saw this.....Joey a young man working at
a Dairy Queen in Minnesota...worked there...by
the way since he was 14....and now at nineteen...
he is the store manager....Right there a good 
story of a young man who worked hard and 
put forth the kind of effort and focus that his
superiors saw and rewarded with the promotion
to manager at the tender age of nineteen...Wait
though there is more to this story....one day Joey
saw that his regular customer came in for an ice
cream cone...this customer happens to be a blind
man....in the course of paying...the blind man
unbeknownst to himself dropped a $20 dollar
bill on the floor... the lady behind him picked it
up thinking no one saw...she put it in her purse...
denying that she had picked it up when Joey told
her he saw all this.....she immediately left...Joey
had a bad feeling for this blind man...losing this
substantial amount of money....so he reached into
his own pocked and gave him a $20 dollar bill...
Many customers saw this and reported it to whatever
news concern...and guess who Joey got a call from...
none other than Warren Buffet....well it turns out that
Mr. (very wealthy) Buffet owns all the Dairy Queens...
Mr. Buffets high praise for his young and unique
employee was greatly appreciated by Joey. Plus Mr. 
Buffet invited him ( all expenses paid) to the next Dairy 
Queen shareholders meeting....a smiling Joey accepted
with much anticipation.
In his interview with the press...they asked Joey what he
enjoyed doing during his time off...Joey told them
how much he loved and enjoyed the Nascar races...
and low and behold who does he hear from next....
Daytona 500 race peeps themselves inviting him to
the race....(once again all expenses paid)....very happy
and grateful was a smiling and very appreciative Joey...So sorry
I did not get this young mans last name...Still his story is
one of how awesome and full of righteous virtue our amazing
youth have in them when they see a wrong and do what is in
there heart to right it....Hats off to Joey..... and good young people 
everywhere....and those that are not " Good".....need our prayers and help and encouragement for a better future............
Until next time...I will sign off and hope that my blogging
times continue even though there is a stretch of time in between my
 blogs these days....not a sign of disinterest.... no...no...no...but more having to do with you know this and that...
Louisa.....

 

What Can I Do For You Today...............

What can I do for you today....can I hold your hand
so you don't feel alone...can I listen with sympathy...with
empathy...with all of me....can I speak to you with words
of comfort and hope...helping you to cope...can I lift you 
up with a prayer from my heart...can I be there for you
from the very start....Yes I want to...For Gods telling me
it cost nothing...to give of oneself...the reward will tug
at your heart....that's the lovely part....................................
Hope you my dear ones....out there.....somewhere out
there... like my newest poem ...let me know......Louisa....

Think before you speak...............

Not for me of course...I can not be bothered 
with such a reasonable thought to derail incredibly
poor judgement that can turn out to make you or
moiw in this case look like the proverbial jackass...
Oh that I could learn to count to ten...it is not as if
I have not had enough time to do so... to know how important
it is, etc. ....What happens when I am beset with blinding and unbridled hurt feelings...my common sense brain turns off and I
go into stupid and selfish mode...this is where I'm
comfortable and where I behave with the most 
shameful melt down...this side of a three year old... and inevitably where the most regrettable behavior shines through...this is where I feel my most martyred self...from the mountain top I would go ...if I could...to shout to the world how I have been maligned and thrown to the lions....
Oh that I could do that count to ten thing....maybe next time...for I know there will be a next time...their waiting out there to cause me great pain..... with a box of kleenex for my crocodile tears.....
Well I feel better ....my loud and self serving rant has me feeling
vindicated and ready to put on the protective boxing gloves...NOT...
See you dear folks....are you out there!!!!!? in the funny papers...
Louisa....................................................................................

Good hearted people..............

This story in the news....a couple in Lake Huges, Calif.
have a camp ....and this camp provides a place for inner-
city kids to go to.....These inner-city kids have the time of
their lives...swimming ( some have never been swimming)...
playing games...doing crafts...going hiking....boating...all
provided by this amazing couple and  their staff...so that these kids can have the time of their lives away from the inner-city environment that is often full of gangs and fear and loneliness
and misery....God Bless this couple.....
Night..............Louisa
 

Black Memory....

Thinking with prayers of all those who lost loved
ones on 9-11..............So much heartache and misery can
be had at the hand of evilness....This in itself is a hideous
fact that breaks the heart of most of man kind...................

Best things in life are free...................................

Just want to share how God has blessed me
lately....and that is with His amazing sky's of
the last few weeks....every time I go out of my
house to do errands, etc....I have the delightful
and beautiful sight of big marshmellow clouds
around the edges of the sky...big thick dreamy
clouds....you know the kind you could jump in
and not fall through....and in the center of the sky
soft floating ....swirling clouds.....I'm surprised that
I did not have a few accidents while driving around
town....and then there's the evening where the clouds
were salmon colored with the sunset....peachy with bright yellow  or gold edges...so beautiful that it took my breath away...I did 
not let this sight tantalize me for a short little bitty time...
oh no...I took my patio chair and put it in the center of my
back yard...and I sat there and took in this beauty that was
my gift from God at that moment....I sat there and looked up
at this beautiful sky....until it was all gone...and I was sad 
when it was all gone...as if a valuable gem had slipped away from me into the ocean...only this sunset I would see again...and it would be beautiful again and it would be different...I can hardly wait.....
I know you all know what I'm talking about...because everyone has seen a beautiful sunset....Please your next sunset...let it envelope you and rejoice in this ultimate beautiful gift....
Goodnight and see you all in the funny papers.......Louisa......

Heart warming story..............

Want to share this story...because it is a true
example of someones heart that is oh so in the
right place....
A man in Denver, Colorado was upset at seeing
so many homeless people in his community...and 
so he came up with this idea...he made all the 
arrangements to secure a local ball park field, including
baseball equipment, etc...then he went around to all the
homeless people and invited them to come to that baseball
field to play baseball...they came...many...many came to 
part take in this pass time...bringing to their lives a much
needed diversion from their troubles...
So here is a man who had an idea to do something for others...
He brought his idea to fruition and that makes him unique indeed.
And that makes him a lovely example for us all...I salute him and say God Bless you...................
Hasta Luego amigos........................Louisa
 

Here's my opinion!.................

Today on this blurb and that one...I saw that
Miley Cyrus performed a number at some music
show that was in the opinion of many ....raunchy
and in the poorest of taste...Listen up here Miley...
you want to grow up...sure we all did when we were
your age....but to cheapen yourself and behave with
out a care in the world as to how others would perceive
you...how others would think about your image as a
young women...is the height of not using your brain...
stupid is what it is....Why are you so entirely fixed on
the notion that you have to be some kind of sex bomb...
to be successful and happy...It is a mistake.....take a 
look around you Miley and see who is advising you...
where are your parents...do they think this behavior is
acceptable  for their daughter....you are a pretty
young women who can sing.......concentrate on
that and leave the titilating gyrations to the strippers....
or you will end up a laughing stalk.....Wake up.....
My opinion....not because I'm old...but because I can
see and what I see here is simply ...not a good choice.....
See ya all later......maybe in the funny papers....Louisa

Trivia ......all I got....

Couple of things...folks....are you out there?

Reading about Leo and Sonya...that would be the
Tolstoy's ....oh boy their relationship was way way
up or way way down...they had moved away from
each other emotionally and really in so many important
ways....especially when Mr. Tolstoy professed to find
Jesus...wanting to give all his earthly possession away..
This not setting well with Sonya....this and so many other
often bizarre things in their life causing them pain and 
anguish and just down right misery....They had 13 children...
yes that was 13...with two  of them passing away....
It is a good read but not a fun read....I just want to take them to a good therapist...
Well that was Louisa's book report....Next I want to read about
Elinore Roosevelt....and the incomparable Mother Teresa....

Here where I reside in So. Cal....the heat is kicking up at the 
almost end of August and I no like.....heat and me don't get along....
And with that said I hope where ever you are...that you are as 
cool as you want to be....................
 See ya all in the funny papers.....Louisa...................

Hard to accept............

Yes hard to accept what is laughingly
called entertainment today....I just 
read a review that the movie starring
Jennifer Aniston...in this movie we are
treated to the sight of someones testicle...
my...my...my...certainly an important and necessary part of the script...this is very
sad and disheartening...what the young people are watching (even very young) today at the movies....
For me my favorites will always be the old classics of the 30's 40's and 50's....it is
the infamous 60's when morality in the entertainment industry took a nose dive...never to return...Young people only know the entertainment industry of today completely devoid of decent
logic...Sad..sad..very sad indeed....
 Until next time........Louisa

Books....Glorious books...................

Yes books are glorious...for the pleasure the
bring us...the diversion they bring us...often
much needed...
I just finished reading about the Lincolns...
their relationship was full of drama and pathos...
very complicated relationship they had...
Just now I'm starting a book about Leo Tolstoy
and his wife Sonya...they two had a love/hate
relationship...very contentious. Should be 
interesting learning about this popular Russian
author and his life....
Next I want to read the biography's of Mother Teresa
and Elinore Roosevelt....you can see I love to read about
people and their lives....a favorite genre for me...
So happy for the increased reading that I have been
doing these years...as I said above...to be able to pick
up a book and read for whatever amount of time...takes
us away to new horizons and new revelations...so good
to have available to us....So here's to reading...Do you
know that the most important invention ever....was the
printing press.....this I read sometime back...without it
where would civilization be....
You read it here..............see you all my hundreds of readers
in the "funny papers"....thanks to the printing press....
Louisa

Invision........

According to Websters Dictionary:
Envision....to imagine something 
not yet in existence...........
I have done this as long as I can
remember...
Envision.....almost every large 
dinner I have ever undertaken,
i.e. even down to which pots &
pans to use...the way the table
will look and so on....envisioning
many different recipes that would
be best to make, etc....
Envisioning directions to go somewhere...
Envisioning a serious subject that I will
be discussing with a family member or
friend....envisioning how I will look in
that particular outfit or that other outfit...
Envisioning how happy someone will be
when I do something nice for them...or
say something nice to them.
Envisioning how my grandchildren will
look as they get older....I love envisioning.
To me it is an important component to use
for just about anything.....
You heard it here.....See you folks in the
funny papers.......Louisa

Music to feed the soul......................

Do yourselves a favor and rent these movies...
to enjoy music and lyrics that are out of this 
world amazing and lovely and stupendous...
Music that will send your senses to a higher
plane and you will come away...with  an 
appreciation of what music and lyrics can
do for the human soul......the very talented
and amazing Oscar Hammerstein and the
equally talented composer Richard Rogers...
collaborated on these incomparable musical
landmarks.......
Showboat....Oklahoma....South Pacific....
The King and I.....The Sound Of Music....
These are my favorites....
Hope you do rent them ....
Ciao....and see you in the funny papers...
Louisa.............................
 

Some things on this mind.................

Just read this in Stockton, Calif. an employee finds
$10,500 in an envelope among clothing donations at a 
Goodwill store, and her intact and lovely conscious moves
her to tell authorities in order to find the owner of this sub-
stancial amount of money...this young women feeling that
the owners of this money will be so happy to recover it...
Goodwill says she perhaps is in for a 10% reward...and
rightly so...I hope this young women is very proud of her
self...she did the right thing and I for one salute her.....

Folks don't ever give up on those lovely little African Violet plants.........
After over one year that it did not bloom again...it is now in
full bloom...(more buds than ever before) beautiful little 
pink flowers...and 5 or 6 little buds to go...I am just delighted
to see this little plant that I mooned over and watered faithfully....put out a little bud some weeks ago...and then another and another...it does my heart good that I did not 
give up on it...and toss it...which I never could have done...but oh what a sweet reward for just hoping it would bloom again one day....These are the small pleasures of
life here for Louisa...and they are so marvelous...
Best to you all my hundreds of readers out there....see you
dears in the funny papers...........Louisa....Lent my camera out or I would surly take a picture of it....I should name it...think I will call it ...Faith....ever faithful..............

A poem for you..................."Imagine"
Imagine a world without trees...flowers...
birds or bees...how barren it would be...
how still...how quite for you and for me...
Imagine if you will...no green...no flower
color galore...all that no more...no
vegetation of any kind...I think I would
lose my mind...not to see flowers of
magnificent design...not to see trees of any
kind...the rose...the redwoods... not to be seen...
not to be held in the highest esteem...Lost to
the world as in a bad dream...a pitiful thought...
and that's all it is...I thank you dear Lord...
creator of all...you have given us such beauty...
for our eyes to behold...we thank you...we
thank you...there more precious than gold.............
My poem written today Friday. Aug. 2nd, 2013....
I love writing them...since 2000 having been doing
so............Hope you enjoyed it dear folks...
Love and see you in the funny papers......
Louisa....................................

Wild life in my back yard..............

And many and varied they are...the animals in
my back yard....I mean I live in the city...and we have 
had the ever favorite squirrels....the rather creepy possum...
though no picture of this creature...Oh how many of you
have had a hawk land in their tree....with the screetch of
the regular bird life having a loud bird fit over this uninvited
bird.... alerting us...and we came running... they do not like the hawk....and several sightings of the cute faced racoon.....eating out of our cat's dish with abandon, and even looking at us as we carefully kneel to watch this cutie eat with it's paws...picking up the cat food with two paws... like cupped together....very interesting to see...still this is not a visit by the racoon that we welcome on a regular basis....And then there is our beloved Egret....haven't seen her much lately...as I told you few blogs back...she has come to our tree...sitting their to see if it's all clear to pop down into our neighbors yard....you see that is where the koi pond is.....not meant to get a koi Mr. Egret.......cuz   The neighbors there see the bird and then they open the door and the dog's come zooming out and of course the bird flies away....did I tell you that the 3 dogs are hound dogs...Story for another time...................................

Animal pictures to follow....all but the possum....so  our animals will now be out here for all the world to see...So my animal story is now finished....Good night and see you in the funny papers.....Louisa

Getting old is not for wimps!!!.............................

And so another birthday is upon me...my 71st...and I am happy....
some lovely relatives I wish were here aren't...left me much to soon...
I'm lonesome for my sister Elizabeth...my mother as well....
Most of you out there know the pain and the heartache of losing
a loved one....It is so hard...my sister Liz has been gone almost
14 years now....seems that long ....she was older than me by only
1 year...so we were very close....best friends really....It's hard
very hard to be without her in my life...she was only 58 when
she passed and I 57.....So love...love...love your family members
and cherish every moment that you are together...I imagine you
all do that already....
In my old age...oh let me use a phrase that I adore...I stole it
from the  actor Peter O'toole...he said while giving a speech for
an award that was given to him....He said as I "Totter Into Antiquity"....
Love that ....I'm okay with Tottering Into Antiquity...I will Totter as
long as the good Lord gives me tottering privileges .....to do so...
And so on July 24th, 1942 at Saint Vincents Hospital in New York City....
I came into this world....That's my story and I'm sticking to it.....
See you folks in the funny papers.... Louisa............P.S. here I am about
five years old....Yep...Easter picture.....what a cutie.....

Ho-Hum............

Well haven't been on lately...why....no reason other than time has
come and gone and I have not been blogger mindful....Right now
concentrating on how to unload... better word sell my 20 or so
paintings....my last attempt at an art fare...produced 3 sales...
one small bird house for $5.00 and 2 canvases....for $20 each...
these last two bought by a young man recently transferred to
Calif. from Boston....why he was interested in my paintings
I will never know...he just didn't look the type...what type
would be interested in my paintings...shoot I don't know....
I will put some pictures of my paintings on here...anyone
interested....hollar.....my dear daughter is going to help me
put them on Itsy....all I know is I need to get them sold come
heck or high water....it's like unfinished business...and I like
putting the dough (meager tho it is) in a grandchild's education
fund.....Here goes...Okay kids.....going to close for tonight...See 
you all in the funny papers............Louisa

Are you crafty?........................

Are you crafty....I am...which I have already
documented before here on my lovely blog....
So today I am just going to share a few craft
ideas that I saw on Pinterest...I know I'm going to pilfer some of their ideas to share here with you all....They won't mind...
First of all...If you crochet...oh my oh my...there are about a trillion things you can make if ya should be up on that skill....
If not...maybe you would like to...Glue new pencils all around a tall jar...and you have a novel vase....you know electrical outlets...paint a little cute mustache under plug part...so cute...Glue pennies on the kitchen floor...beautiful...but this project would require many massages for a sore back.....Have to have many helpers..
Pour food colors in Elmer's glue...then brush on any glass object you have or you buy...so pretty the end results...I love this one...take your old ugly card table that is still serviceable..unscrew the top...cover with your favorite plastic table cloth..forgot how they secured it underneath...then screw it back on the base and walla...a good looking card table...you now have. You know those racks you get for the garage to hang your brooms and mops on...well hang it in kitchen or inside pantry door and your bottles of herbs...perfectly squeeze into the slots... .Icicle type Christmas lights...spray with glitter...then fasten around a hula hoop...hang from inside patio cover... this is some spectacular lighting fixture.....and last but not least...for a photograph... for new parents...fathers open hand...mothers open hand in front of his...then baby's open hand in front of mommas..I'd not ever seen this before and it is a beautiful visual...I suppose if there are older children ....there hands could be there also...but I saw it with the 3 hands...
Darlings I will leave you for now...good night and see you in the funny papers..........Louisa

See the Children......................

Today while driving home from errands...
I see at the local park...that the water play area...
is pouring in the air ...like Old Faithful...and the 
children are frolicking in this water play land....
Jumping and squealing like it is the best fun ever.
So good to know that the city provides this water
play area for the summer... next best thing for them
to being in a pool full of cool water....I'm happy
for this....knowing the children are happy....
Yup....not asking for much....
See you folks in the funny papers.........
Louisa

Butterflies...Oh boy....blows your mind.......................

This blue...brighter though...I saw a butterfly this color...
What I did was google ...butterflies...and oh my...what I
say truly blew my mind...The only butterfly I'm familiar
with is the Monarch...this butterfly is beautiful...but you
know what... there are more beautiful ones...when they come
out of their cocoon..(this in in self is miraculous ) and start to
unfurl their wings...you see an insect that is painted by the 
hand of God Himself....circles with in circles...dots...dashes of
color..outlined in black...every thing symmetrical...colors that
are impossible to imagine....all this in an insect...
Love is like a butterfly....It goes where it
pleases....and it pleases wherever it goes...
Author unknown.............. 
I invite you to take a look at the remarkable butterfly....An insect
feast for your eyes.....You heard it here....................
Good Night................Louisa 

Nostalgia= going down memory lane.............................

Hi folks.......
Have you ever taken out one of the family albums...
or just picked one up for any reason and opened it...
and then your a gonner for the next few hours....my
children's pictures  especially bring me hours of memorable
page turning...What I did when my first child was born...our
albums were full of her entirely ...four years later the second child's
baby picture's went into her own album's...and the third child the 
same...an album just for that child...because of this I have better than 10 album's for each child....so A.G.J....that is album gazing joy.......is dangerous in less I have an afternoon with out much in it that is necessary to do...and as I totter into antiquity...(Thanks Peter O'Toole...if you have been reading my blog you will know why that reference!) anyhoo...I often have such an afternoon now and again....Many of you will know that joy that I am talking about...it is infectious ( infecting myself ...that is) it's one of a kind and the best way to spend what ever time one wants to devote to it....My parents were prolific picture takers...I am the last of 7 children...so unfortunately pictures of little ol me are in short supply...I'm not complaining...I'm happy for what there is... so that my children can see what mom looked like in her youth...etc... to this day I am happy that my sense of order and for my sanity as well... that I put all these pictures (also another half doz. albums...that I title family....) in their respective albums all along the way....no photos in box's for me...not my style for picture viewing....I do not intend to be critical of those that have there pictures in box's...because we all operate on our own comfortable process level....My only concern is that the young people of these days....do not necessarily go in for all these printed out pictures...instead have all there treasured pics in an electronic form...Really nice idea...to late for me...but it makes sense...to cut down on exactly what I will be leaving my children when my number is up....a boat load of albums...I have jokingly told them if they are not interested in them...that they go into the casket with me...Just kidding of course...( especially since these days I'm leaning toward cremation...well that for another day) so instead I have purchased a nice looking container...rattan and such...one for each of the children albums...and they can cart those away to put in a corner of their home... one day...Because we all know when their children are grown...they will LOVE this boat load of album's....Amen.....
See you my dears....( are you out there somewhere?) in the funny papers.......and keep taking those pictures..............Louisa
 

Laughing.........Whats that!!

I was thinking of the last time I laughed...a big fat
hardy down to your toes type laugh...I can't remember
what made me laugh like that ( dang I wish I could remember)
what I do remember is how I felt....sort of self-conscious...I know what an odd thing to feel....I also felt bizarre...and strange..! I know...I know...why would I have all those unusual feelings just because I had the biggest laugh of a few years...Well I do know this....I rarely laugh...real big type laugh...hardly ever....why is that....It takes something spectacularly funny to produce a big knee slapping laugh...I do laugh now and then but they are more like giggles and are very brief and do not bring on the odd reactions of above....
Definitions of the word laugh... from the dictionary....to make the sounds and facial movements that express mirth....to be amused by.....The trouble is there are more studies now than ever before...that say that laughing is therapeutic.....that it promotes good health....So it behooves us all to go out of our way to watch something funny....hear something funny....Really think about it....when was the last time you laughed real hard out loud...by yourself or with others..Get going....work on it.
Did you hear about the skeleton...who went into the bar and ordered a beer and a mop....I know...that was capital D. Dud.....
Laugh and the world laughs with you...with me...with us......
Let me know about a big laugh you had...I want to know....
 See you in the funny papers....dear folks.....Louisa

Somethings on my mind....this Saturday...........

How things change...for instance 4th of July....
was when the kids were little...or when the
grandchildren were near....was lots of fun....now
as I Totter into Antiquity...( this line stolen from Peter
O'Toole...the actor...for those of you in my vast audience
who may not know him....) as I totter into antiquity...I don't seem to be interested much in the lovelyness of sparkling magic in the sky....It's okay...I've had my day there....
Other thing I was thinking about recently...I don't fancy myself very skilled at anything much...I'm truly modest and enjoy some self-critical time now and then...more now than then....anyway one thing I take great pride in...or just pride in...is my driving...though I have had several minor accidents in my 50 years of driving...I've been thinking lately how skilled I feel behind the wheel...when I back out and have to turn the wheel to exit a spot...I marvel that I did not skim the back finder of the car next to me...or when I pull into a parking spot...it is tight but I'm not afraid...I pull in seemingly on top of the car next to me...yet I turn the wheel in such a way that I glide into the spot and for the thousand time I have done so...On the freeway I move into this lane or that with care and with out a feeling of anxiety...rarely do I have anxiety on the freeway...I zoom down my lane ( with a happy refrain!!) and I know that I like to go fastish....but when the thingy hits 80 I do panic a bit and ease off the gas pedal...saying whoa....who are you a race driver or something...Much of my praying takes place when I have a bit of a drive here or there...my daily prayer that I have been praying at least 20 faithful years...by myself in the car with no distractions and no one talking to me etc....my daily ritual of thanksgiving prayer takes place and when that is finished I might put on the radio or listen to my I-pod ( if on a long distance drive) so driving is very special to me...I do not take it for granted and I am blessed to have this means of independence at my disposal. One thing I am not skilled at ...at all...is direction...I can get turned around and confused with little provocation...
It is a maddening trait that I lack the ability to figure out north south...east or west with ease or with confidence. At any rate long may I be able to drive with safe and satisfying results...
Well there it is.....my entry for today....hope it is not to boring ...to mundane...but that is who I am....I'm not unhappy with my entry...cuz I have to go with what is on my mind...what the brain cells dictate and such...( I love the word such)...sometimes it is just this....
Maybe I'll find a picture to add....Let's see what I can find...It is this one of a street sign called Louise...close to Louisa...what ever..............See you all in the funny papers......Louisa

 

Movie Stars.............

Some might think this a subject that is
devoid of important content....not so for 
me....all my life starting at 12 when I saw
the movie "River Of No Return" with Marilyn Monroe"...I who was the all time geek and 
self-conscious child with many things about my self that I was unhappy about...Seeing this movie at this sensitive age...was a trip to a beauteous place for me...I thought that Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful human being I had ever seen....And that is where my love affair with the movies...( mind you the movie of the 30's...40's...50's and beyond that it is hit and miss) started....Let me if I may...list a few of the actors that I hold in high favor for some scene or other that I believe they excelled in and beyond excelled...
Helen Hunt....Somethings Got to Give...a scene where she is crying is done with superb realism...and I marvel at how she did it every time I have seen it.... A short dialog done by Rene Zellwegger in "Cold Mountain"...very short and oh so full of anguish and pain......marvelous Rene.....Marilyn in a scene with the actor Don Murray...from "Bus Stop"...some saliva trails out of her mouth while she is speaking a very poignant speech...never have seen that before...such realism and very effective a piece of acting it was....Dang there are at least two more ...but they have left my fragile memory bank...Bank closed...Certainly Meryl Streep has done accents like no other actress has done...after seeing Meryl in so many parts...I like to recognize the little bits of " Schtick" she does...running her hand over her face...scratching her head...things like that...Marlon Brando was famous for that...there wanting to be very natural...very human like, etc....but when an actor has a role that calls for crying...there is not better evidence of an actors ability than one who can cry and cry to make your heart break...I saw the wonderful actor Cary Grant cry in one of his movies of the 30"s...he is trying to adopt a child and they want to take it back...to see Cary cry and very effectively was a plus in my movie viewing memory...he only did it once...
Anyway my point is that the movies ...for me the movies of old are a wonderful way for me  to be entertained....I enjoy a "good movie"...again some current...but especially those of the past...
It is a treat and a good escape for one or two hours.....That's what I feel and I'm sticking to it....
Love from a movie fan....see you buds in the funny papers..............Louisa