GREEN LIVING IS THE LIFE FOR ME.........

I am in the process of creating a blog/possible podcast of Local markets for produce/eggs/livestock and also linking with Green and sustainable living in WNY. Tours of farms, flea markets, farmers markets etc to bring WNY back to buying and supporting local industry. I have lots of ideas and lots to learn to get this off the ground!!!! I will post the new site so .....Look for me soon.........

And THIS is why I love WNY!!! Where else can you take a pic like this driving down Transit road? hmmmmmmmmm? 

THIS is why I love home!!!! Me and my cousin Ursula!!!!!!!!!! 

I SWEAR 2 minutes after I took this pic the large branch hanging down fell and blocked off my driveway during the terrible Oct 13 Surprise Storm. 

On Friday Oct 13 Blizzard 

On one of our walks somewhere over the rainbow.... 

The canal behind our house. 

We ARE somewhere over the rainbow Toto......

I always loved the version of the song Over the rainbow sung by Israel Kamakawiwo. It always sounded so haunting....sooo sad....unattainable. I AM somewhere over the rainbow. I am happier now than I have been in a very long time. I love my new home, my new neighborhood, my life! I thank God every day for my wonderful life. Its just the simple things that make me happy. I have been given a second chance on something I never should have turned my back on and I am not going to take it for granted.................

Dr Wayne Dyer Quotes

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find.
I am realistic - I expect miracles.
If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.
It's never crowded along the extra mile.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
"Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?"

Cyndie quote: If you ever want to change your life for the good, find peace........read Dr Dyers Books, listen to him on Hayhouseradio.com. What a phenominal man with excellent things to say. Each sentance like drops of sun on your mind, rays of light in your life.

Our new deck!!!  

Playing in the new back yard 

Tug of war at home 

My boys again..... 

Are you in your favorite tree? 

A Squirrel in the Desert

What is feeling at home in the world? You can't rearrange the world to fit your taste, you just have to find a place that feels like home to you. When you dont't feel at home in the world, you feel there is something wrong with you and the world doesn't feel right either. Now here's the good news. You're fine, nothing is wrong with you! You are just a squirrel in the desert!
I love squirrels, it is fun to watch them run up trees, across telephone lines, hopping thru the back yard. Jasper and Jeffery love to chase them, for some reason they never learn to LOOK UP once they get to the tree. I can see every day that a squirrel is perfectly at home in a world of trees. But imagine taking that squirrel and plunking him down in the middle of the desert. This wonderful animal will suddenly feel depressed, anxious and confused, completely at a loss. There are plenty of animals that make a home in the desert, but not the squirrel. There is nothing really wrong with that downcast squirrel in the desert. He's perfect. But he's only perfect when he's at home, in a place with lots of trees. In the desert the squirrel is an unhappy misfit. Now imagine doing something stupid: taking that squirrel and taking him to a thereapist so he will feel better. You could do squirrel therapy forever, but as long as he is in the desert he is going to be miserable. But if you just pick him up and put him in a place with lots of trees he is at home and happy! That was me in Denver, I was a squirrel in the desert. I really belong here with the trees. I never left because I hated it here, actually I really loved my life here in NY. I just thought that well, if Im happy here, I can be ecstatic somewhere else!!!! I am greatful for my journey. I don't consider it negative or a bad choice. It was a path taken and returned on. I consider myself extremely lucky to be able to come back. It says alot for my character to be able to be welcomed back by so many open arms of friendship. I cherish my cousin Urs and it is so good to see her smiling face every day at work.....and I cherish each and every NY smile I come across in my ordinary squirrel life..............


If you liked the story about the squirrels you would love the book I got the idea from. Everything Happens for a Reason by Mira Kirshenbaum

frankly my dear........

 

...Tomorrow is another day........

I can't let him go. I can't. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh I can't think about this now! I'll go crazy if I do! I'll think about it tomorrow. (She closes the door.) But I must think about it. I must think about it. What is there to do? (She falls forward onto the ascending stairs.) What is there that matters?
Crestfallen, she stops and then resourcefully and determinedly finds her true direction in the final lines of the film. She was never the type to admit defeat - so she refuses to acknowledge defeat in Rhett's rejection of her. Ghost-like voices of important men from her past remind her of the source of her strength in the soil of Tara. She hears her father Gerald: "Land's the only thing that matters, it's the only thing that lasts." Ashley: "Something you love better than me, though you may not know it. Tara." And Rhett: "It's from this you get your strength, the red earth of Tara." Each speech is repeated with increasing tempo and volume. Scarlett realizes that even if she doesn't get Rhett back, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength.
...Tara!...Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!

Went to a Rockies game at Coors field.

It was like a summer night! Warm, clear. Hot Dog smell, peanuts. Nothing like a major league baseball game! It was really fun.

Rockies won too.