G'day everyone, Dutch here! Welcome to my little place in the Universe! Had a busy weekend which I'll touch on briefly....Checked out some Don Williams music (I like the singer, can't ya tell) and come across a Marty Robbins song, soooooooooooooo gonna start with Don (early Don) and finish with Marty...

Sooooooooooooo put your troubles aside, pull up a chair a visit a spell....

Here's what my place in the Universe looked like when I went ventured out to check the weather this early AM....

Kim and family with the dogs, Piper and Buddy, spent the weekend...it was too bad the weather wasn't a little more friendly and eveyone could get outside... by Sunday, being cooped up in the house for two days, the four dogs patience was wearing thin and cabin fever was setting in for everyone...but it went well, everyone survived, made plans, etc...Kim, bless her heart, did some shoveling to help out....

This is what things looked like after the storm event...

the above picture I took just before doing my weather thing......snowfall wasn't all that bad, the issue is the wind...the snow was powdery and blew everywhere.....

everyone waited till the wind calmed down and then started the removal...

I cleared a path for the dogs so they could get out in the back yard..they walked where I had made a path to measure snow,etc......

I thought my shoveling was over until yesterday I was walking Bree and Daisy when I noticed my neighbor Shirley trying to dig out her driveway...She is in her 80's and dealing with breast cancer....of all the good towns people who preach being a good Christian, a good neighbor, a good American, with all their snow blowers, plows, etc..not one...NOT ONE..volunteered to help or even bother to ask if Shirley needed and help.... but I forget that this country is a land of "image"....sooooo I left them to their sorry world, grabbed a shovel and started shoveling again, Shirley was in tears and said "some neighbors, huh" and I said yes ma'am...and after a couple of breaks I got it cleared....

sooooooooooooooooo don't come preaching to me about how great this country is and try to sell an image, people, I got better things to do with my time....

Was also asked whether I'll vote in the primary, and I said no....I am an independant and I'm not going to vote for the good of any party, as I watch this political scenerio play out I observe every organization or group out looking for their own interests...the candidates are campaigning to get votes and change with the wind... I will vote in the November election like I have for most of the last half century (not everyone can say that) and I'll vote for what I think is good for the COUNTRY.....in a voice LOUD AND CLEAR....nuff said.....

Cooked a ham over the weekend... putting up my recipe for leftover ham if anyone is interested....

Well, I've rambled on enough, have things to do sooooooooooooooo everyone have a smilin' goooooooooooooood day full of Peace Love and Happiness and I'll see you next time if the good Lord's willing and the creeks don't rise....

The floor is yours, Marty......