Today's the Day!

All of the negative news about Facebook has had a bit of an impact around our house.  Today is the day that my facebook activities end.  I'm sad.  I love my friends, watching my children's posts and see photos of my grandchildren and great grandchildren.  It is a very difficult thing to give up. 

But..

I would kinda like to keep peace in the household..lol   Enough said.

We have been here in our new home 9 months now and it has been a definite up and down transition.  Old friends have been missed terribly and new friends made.  The roller coaster of "Do you want to move back?" or "Do you want to stay here?" ...  At the age we are now it's not  a surprise.  Change of any kind is a difficult proposition.  But the decision has been made and all is settling into it's proper perspective.  :)

It's almost time again for the "Fairy Ring" of mushrooms that would come after every rain last year.  Have to say I love it...lol   Fairies are one of my favorite things.  :)   I find it curious .. to say the least... that even when the mushrooms are not there, the grass is a bit of a different color inside that ring.  You can still see where it is.. hmm

We took out the old cellar that required a pump to keep the water out.. the water level here is so high that anything underground usually requires a pump.  We put a new cellar into the center of the garage... we don't have to get wet to go to the cellar.. :)   A good thing.  The bad thing.. we had to widen the garage door so both cars could get in without running over it.   Have to say that with tornado season upon us I am tooooo happy to have it. 

Tomorrow... our screened in back porch.  I just know you are enthralled and can't wait to see and hear about it.. roflol  Anyway,  The weather man keeps saying we are in for some rain, but I really have seen nothing more than what our sprinkler system put out.. hmmph .. 

Hello to all my buddies.. sending hugs out to everyone out there.  Hope your Spring is looking wonderful.. :) 

Pro Aging?

I saw a commercial on tv last night. It was thought provoking to say the least. Dove soap products has launched a campaign trying to bring a little reason back into the idea of personal beauty and the beauty of aging. No 12 year old models that look like they've been starved for a month to fit into the skin tight designer jeans...looking for all the world like cocaine junkies. No 99 pound pregnant youngster showing her tummy (naked, I might add). So many ads...not to mention total nudity that is seen in prime time movies, sit coms, dramas every night of the week... showing men and women supposedly naked in the shower with all the curves close up. But not this commercial...

It has been banned in it's complete form... the ad I saw had equipment... people..whatever... standing in the way of the models in this ad. At the end of the ad the audience was told that to see the complete ad you must go online. It's here. Why is that? Yes...they were nude. But no more nude than the youngsters posing in the showers for other soap commercials. Nothing was shown that was not shown in the shower commercials or body lotion commercials or the women's shaving products commercials. No titillating views of any kind, any where. Why was this commercial banned? The women were between 50 and 65. All sizes, shapes and colors. Tastefully filmed and wonderfully affirming.

There is a discussion board re: this ad. In reading through some of the comments on the board, I was struck by one woman's thoughts on the fact that as one grows older she becomes "invisible". Suddenly there is nothing pertinent to her on the television..no ads except 12 to 27 year olds.. no clothes except in the specialty stores. Thought provoking...

Read Deb R's thoughts on this at Red Shoe Ramblings...

What do you think?