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Hello friends!  Well, three posts so far this week, I almost think I'm finding my blog voice..maybe it's like the more you do something, the easier it is..I've never been much of a writer..some folks just make the words flow, me, not so much.  I was never interested in the creative writing type classes in school..so I think what I am best at is just telling it like it is.  You know the old saying, What You See is What You Get.

I'm taking a Facebook break.  It's time.  Facebook should be fun and informative.  Friends reaching out to friends, enjoying bits and pieces of each others lives..Lately I'm finding it more political, folks bashing each other in public, and personally being dragged in the mud.  I don't deserve to be drug though the mud.  It's such a long story but what I will say is in most things in my long (62 years) life, I have tried to do the right thing and whatever I have taken on I have done the best of my ability..No one is perfect, and I surely am not.  But when I find myself on the receiving end of crap, well it's time for a break!  I don't know how many of you are Facebook friends with me, but please I need to stay in touch, so shoot me a message if you need my email or cell number..I treasure my Facebook friends..and I'll be back at some point.. Think this is a good time to do some more reading than I have been, do some sewing that is calling my name, and spending quality time with my husband withoug having my nose buried in my laptop or my phone..time is too precious to waste and that is what I am going to say about that!

Today is Veteran's Day, and my dear husband Carl is a veteran of the Vietnam era..He served in the Army from 1966 to 1969, I have always been proud of his service, which he was in way before he met me.. He never talked much about it, and being busy raising our sons, working and just trying to keep out heads above water, his time in the service just didn't come up much.  In recent years he has been diagnosed with PTSD, and thank goodness for the VA.  The VA gets a lot of flak, but in our experience it has been a godsend with good doctors and therapy..He is doing much better..and is a proud veteran!  Hope everyone had the opportunity to thank a Veteran if one is in your life today.  And I did what I always try to do, take him for a special Veteran's lunch.  Today we went to Chili's.  They had a special menu for Veterans, and wow was that restaurant full of proud veterans and their spouses, or significant others.. Nice camaradie!  Many restaurants celebrate our Veterans, so different when these service members, especially those who served in the Vietnam era, were treated when they returned home.. We are thankful they are now celebrated as they should be.

There is my handsome hubby, many moons ago...

I did survive the dentist yesterday..I have a wonderful student dentist and he always makes me laugh..and when I left yesterday he gave me a big hug.  His name is Douglas and his family is from Kenya..I am going back next week, and I'm sure I'll have at least one or two more appointments before Christmas, and I am definitely going to find him a gift.  He truly is enjoyable and his stories just crack me up..

Well, time to settle down and enjoy some tv this evening.  I dug out my kindle and it's battery is dead, naturally, so need to charge it.  I have a couple books in it that I've been wanting to read...now is a good chance to do that!

Love you all!

Barb