Ammolite The Canadian Gem

One harsh winter the Buffalo disappeared from the region where the Blackfoot Indians lived.
Young women-collecting firewood heard beautiful singing in the distance. She followed the voice and found an Ammonite stone under a Cottonwood tree.
The stone told her that it was a powerful medicine and if she would take it back to the tribe, it would provide the much-needed food for the Blackfoot Indians
She followed the instruction and the next day a large heard of buffalos where seen nearby.
From then on, the Blackfoot Indians used the stone for hunting ceremonies and as a medicine wrapped in buffalo skin.
As a Canadian, I am very proud of our gem, which is found and mined in Alberta Canada by the Korite Company. Millions of years of tectonic pressure created this brilliant gem from the fossilized remains of the Ammonite shell. Extremely rare and elegant the color of Ammolite glow with the beauty of the rainbow and it changes color as the light falls on it.
The value of Ammolite increases every year and it is not only an heirloom but also a glittering addition to any jewellery collection.

The Red Tent

The Red Tent is a biblical fiction about women in biblical times. The Red Tent was the place where women gathered together for they cycle of birth, menses and illnesess.
It is a fascinating book hard to put down, I know it was for me.
Buy the Red Tent I highly recomended and you will enjoy it emmensley.


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Back To School Soon

No matter where you are located your child or children's will start a new school year soon or after Labour Day. This is an exiting time for both parents and children's.
The transition from a long and fun filled summer to back to school with arranging car pool, early wake up, homework after school activities is quite an adjustment to everybody. So Mom and Dad don't pull out your hair and panic. Sit down with your kids discuss and accept rules, and schedules, STICK TO YOUR GROUNDS and don't cave in and you will have a much smoother back to school transition time.
In the other hand if you have teenagers you have to apply diplomacy, humor understanding and patience.

Back To School

It seems that summer is getting shorter and shorter every year, especially if you are a kid or a parent of a kid. The transition into a new school is greeted with great anticipation, mixed feelings and fear.
Keep in mind that back to school not only affects the children but the whole family unit as well. Discussing and accepting rules and shedules will make this transition easier .

Back To School

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DISNEY GAMES & BOOKS

The other day I visited a friend and together we vent to see her grandchildren. They had a very large playroom in the finished basement and it was littered with toys, all kind of toys. wind up toys, mechanical toys computerized toys stuffed toys games books. All this for two children.
I remember when I was a child, I had a rag doll a pram for her and wooden toys and blocks. When we played alone or with other children we used a lot of imagination.
I wonder, where we better off or to days children are with large playrooms filled to the brim with toys ? What you think. would be interesting to hear some of your comment.

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Renovation

I needed two drawers in my small gale kitchen to de clatter the counter tops and free some cupboard space. A new handyman was recommended by a friend who assured me that he is fantastic, and he was, also very meticulous. Drove me crazy.

He build two deep drawers and on the top of it under the counter a fake drawer and when I pull that out it is a table for eating.
After the kitchen was done all off a sudden the living room needed painting and after that the bedroom and bathroom.
Now i am in a mess but it will look wonderful and I am happy and BROKE

How I slow down the aging process

It is possible you know, but you have to be very determined and change some things in your life style.
I believe age is just a number, also the two words I CAN`T has to be eliminated from your vocabulary and be replaced with words like I WILL.
I`LL TRY, I DO MY B EST.
10 years ago a very well equipped gym opened in my neighborhood.
I joined and eversince I go reularly 5 days a week. I swim one mile every day, and work out 45min 2-3 times a week in the gym. On those days I only swim 1 km.
I keep very busy attending my balcony garden, selling jewelry on ebay
being an affiliate asociate with Amazon.com.
I chat with my garndchildrens all grown up and my 18mo old great granddauhter often on Skype
As you can see there is no room for boredom or feeling sorry for myself;
I live alone and I am fiercly independent.
It is not easy to fight age BUT SURE IT IS DOABLE

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My Balcony Garden

I started this blog with my balcony garden, but I had no comments so I gave it up. Giving up is not my nature, so I am back again.
I always loved to garden and when I was working I lived with my son and his family in a duplex and under my living room window I had a rock garden.
I am a social worker and worked with single parents family and teen age mothers. It was a stresful job and working in my rock garden after work was very therapeutic.
21 years ago I moved from that duplex into a small condo with a 60 sq. foot balcony. For 21 years every spring I transform that balcony into a very collorful place of refuge and I live there practically all summer.I
read, listen to music, take a nap every afternoon when I come home from
the gym where I swim one mile 5 days a week, or paint when I am in the mood.
In month of May I visit my favorite nursery and pick the dominant color
and work the other colors around that.This year the dominant color is orange and yes the work is still very therapeutic.
It is hard work specially when you are 85 which I keep fergeting. It took me 10 hors to plant and arrange everything and I was fine... but the next morning I could hardly move. My knees and back was kiling me. It took a whole week to get back to normal. Anyway I learned my lesson.
I believe that gardening which is good for the soul and swiming which is good for the body slows down the aging process. Try it sometime and if you do be consistent or it won't work.

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite's death ends something larger and more profound then a single life or even a geneartion.
He was a proxy for the nation and stood for a world that no longer
exists.
NY Times

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