"After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser." (Franklin)

.....Well I suppose I have to write a post on this blog more often--(I hate when people pronounce the "t" in "often). I have had at least 5 readers who have asked me to continue this blog, so I must even though it's difficult.  I mean because there are tremors in my hand, I keep pressing the wrong keys--oops! There it goes again. Now I have to backspace and delete the wrong letters.

.....Today we went to the Westchester Country Club where there is a banquet building and selected the kind of dining we will entertain our guests with on Feb. 28.  Hold the date.  I did not mind not having a party because if my family comes, it will cost them a lot of money just to come for dinner!  I have four in California, about eight in Maryland, and three in the Navy--including one guy who just started walking I presume.  And of course there are cousins all over the place--and one cuz I never met who lives in England, of all places.  Too many Muslims there.  But I don't think she will come to the party; too far and too expensive. 

.....I suppose you all know that I fell for the sixth time a couple of weeks ago.  I had too much trouble getting out of the house with one hand on the walker, one hand trying lock the door, and the screen door resting on my butt; so the walker tipped over and I went with it.  I did a number with the skin on my arm and both knees.  RH+ called 911 and off to the ER they took me.  I was there for a few hours while the dressed my wounds and sent me home.  Now I have a nurse coming every other day to change the dressings.  I fell, but of course I already broke both hips from falls on two cruises, so at least I was fortunate not to have three hips.

.....Now, I have something political to say.  The Republican party--and particularly the Tea Party is destroying our government, and making us the laughing stock of the world.  There is no doubt in my mind that this wing of the GOP is fiercely racist, and doing everything they can to keep Obama from getting anything done.  At one time in Boston, a tea party tossed all the tea in the ocean.  Now, perhaps the Republican Tea Party, itself, ought to be tossed in the Ocean.  Oh, I have a better idea; allow the states whose government is irrational and racist secede from the Union.  Then the UnUnighted State's government would be smaller and thus find it more easily to function.  There.  I said it.  What is happening in our Congress these days is Un-American.