Oh My Moon and Stars...Or...

...An Intellectual Pursuit of a Politically Incorrect Pile of Poop.

The 'Moon and Stars' must be realigning or spinning out of their ancient paths today to get my attention, because it's been ages since I paid much attention to my 'Daily Horoscope', but this morning I glanced down my 'InterNet Homepage' and read....

You'll be most interested by intellectual pursuits today, so feel free to put off plans for frivolous activities if you can.  Instead of shopping at the mall, pick up a book and settle into a comfy chair.  Instead of vegging out on the couch to some reality TV, check out what's on the History channel.  And instead of having a gossip session with friends, start a political conversation.  Your brain is hungry for stimulation and challenges, and it won't be settled until it gets it.

Never have I been so glad to follow my Horoscopes advice...'feel free to put off plans for frivolous activities if you can'...Oh Boy, Can I!!!  No washing and hanging out for me today...Yay!!!

'Instead of shopping at the mall, pick up a book and settle into a comfy chair'.  I never shop at the mall...I'm a Goodwill Hunter, and I do have a stack of books from my favorite Used Book Shop.  Then there's my Free Downloads on my Kindle...I'm currently reading AtoZer Rinelle Grey's Restless Rescuer.  It's HERE on Amazon.  It's a SciFy Romance...perfect for a Moon and Stars reading day.

Instead of vegging out on the couch to some reality TV, check out what's on the History channel.  That will be easy this evening, which is about the only time I watch TV....since the only reality show I watch is over for the season.  Survivor Caramoan winner, John Cochran, cinched my vote with "Don't say anything about my Mom, Jeff"!   About the History Channel...it just might be the best thing on TV, and if you are wondering about my favorite programs...that's them to the right.  More of my 'Moon and Stars' weirdness!

And instead of having a gossip session with friends, start a polictical conversation.  Now that's a good one!  I am about the most 'Politically Incorrect' person you will ever meet, and I seldom if ever discuss politics with anyone except HiHoney, my husband, and then only because it makes him LOL!!!  However, since I've been encouraged to speak out about politics, I'll say a few things in this post about my 'Political Viewpoint' on a current issue.  This is a one time thing ya'll, so remember my tendency to write 'Irreverently and Politcally Incorrectly' about topics I hold dear to my heart or don't know the first thing about. 

 

When you look at this picture...what do you see?   I'm sure you know a leading question when you see one, but it pretty much will give you a sense of how my visual mind works.  So here goes.

 

As a Genealogist, I believe that history repeats itself and as a politically incorrector, I believe what goes around comes around and in the coming around it picks up alot of stuff/junk relative to the times.  FYI...I did not get here via a Time Machine...although I'd give it a try, and I've not come across any Tsoukalos' in my Family Tree, but I'm pretty sure Mike and Frank are distant cousins from my mama's Iowa Picker roots.

 

I'm going to relate the watering trough to the recent headlines concerning, of all things a 'Tax Exempt Tea Party'.  I've never thrown a fancy Tea Party, so I was pretty surprised that anyone who did or does can get a Tax Break for accepting donations of name brand teas.  I'm no conissour of tea, but I do know about and have sipped (filled my trough) with one or two expensive exotic teas.  I am a nonpartisan member of a 'Wednesday Knitting Tea Party' where donations/samples of plain and exotic teas fill our trough.  I wonder if we would qualify for a tax exempt status, afterall we do have Tea Party in our title, and I'm telling you now, yarn is not cheap!

 

One of the things I really treasure about our Wednesday Knitting Tea Party is the 'Yarn Stash'...another full trough.  However, it never occurred to me to delve any further into a skeins integrity other than coming from a fine wool sheep, a domestic Alpaca or an industrial acrylic.  Imagine the scandal that would be created with the 'laundering of secret yarns'.  That would become a greater scandal than any misconduct of the WKT. 

 

You know there is alot more to the picture than the watering trough, right?  Of course there is!  It's the quintessental visual example of  'A picture is worth a thousand words' for the posed questions...

When you look at this picture what do you see? 

Do you see a Water Trough or Piles of Poop?
Are either worthy of investigating further?
Do Piles of Poop stink to high heaven?
Your brain is hungry for stimulation and challenges, and it won't be settled until it gets it.
Oh My Moon and Stars...my brain is over stimulated!!!

 What do I know...I'm just a nonpartisan heifer from Texas who takes pictures of Piles of Poop!

SkyVue Drive In...On The AtoZ Road Trip

Betcha didn't know about the Sky Vue Drive In Picture Show...or even that there were any left still in operation.

Sure enough, there is a least this one in Lamesa, Texas, and as you can see showing the latest

 Hollywood Movie of 2013...The Great Gatsby!

It's like a trip back to the 1950's and 60's when a whole carload could see a movie for $5 or less.  Last night at the Sky Vue the charge was $5 per person and children under 5 Free...what a bargin. The SkyVue was established in 1948, is well know throughout the state of Texas and New Mexico.  It is one of a handful of Drive In Theaters remaining in Texas today.  Generation after generation of folks keep coming back to the Sky Vue for the 'Outdoor Movie' experience and the SkyVue's Legendary Chihuahua Sandwich made right there in the concession stand.  The stacked fried corn torillas filled with homemade chili, onions, shredded cabbage and pimento chees with a jalapeno pepper on the side is a speciality that keeps em coming back......HERE is the Recipe.  HERE is Map and More about the SkyVue DriveIn.

I passed by the SkyVue Saturday while OnThe Road to Hobbs, New Mexico,

and immediately thought about The AtoZ RoadTripsters. 

 

I'm on the AtoZ RoadTrip today...here's the Blogs I've visited. 

Sandy at Oozing Out of My Ears 

Kathy at Swagger

Yolanda Renee at Defending The Pen

Kimberly at Inspirefly
Mark at Left and Write

 

More Amazing Blogs On My

AtoZ Blog Roll

Friday Faces...First Dunked and Dyed Ancestors

'Through it all, Lucy Eunice, the future Mrs. John Ichabod Pittman, made a complete turnaround from buckskin to bonnets and the only lasting influence from the Mohawk days was the Name she called her children, their children, and their childrens children.'

~from...Making Tracks Out of Virginia~

If you read that post on Tracks of My Georgia Ancestors, you know that 'Heathen' is the name my 4xGreat Grandmother retained from her months of living with the Mohawks. 

It's a wonder that I am here at all.  Just think, if Lucy's mother Martha, had not had the good sense to threaten her husband Daniel with...
"I'm leaving, Daniel. You can stay or go, but know this...if you stay, your heathen kids are staying with you."
...why I might have been born with a head full of black hair standing straight out from my scalp....hmmmm!!!  The other scenerio of my impending existence and Lucy's hooking up with John Ichabod, hung on the Baptismal Dunking in a backwoods creek.  Like I said, it's a wonder I'm here at all!

Fortunately for me, that Baptismal Dunking brought together Two Ancestor Families who for generations took to the dunking like ducks in a pond.  You see, Lucy and John Ichabod's Daddys were the FIRST Dyed In The Wool and Dunked Southern Baptist in our family.  Their history has been well documented in all kinds of Georgia Baptist History books and Genealogy Resources, and of course I'm obliged to share and further document these Two 5xGreat Grandfathers on Tracks of My Georgia Ancestors.

You too, are welcome to read my research and documentation.  I will say, though, that because my Aunt Savannah insisted on it being written with the utmost respect and regard for the Facts, Religion and Family Histories, there are no 'SueFictionFootnotes'.  

I respectfully submit the following Tracks of My Georgia Ancestors Posts

 with deep regard for the facts and appreciation of my

Ancestors Religous and Genealogical History.

Baptist Patriarch Daniel Marshall

Georgia Notable Ancestors

You are also invited to view the

Newly Made Over

Tracks of My Texas Ancestors

Rattlesnake Butte on AtoZ RoadTrip

 

On The AtoZ RoadTrip

I visited these Awesome Blogs:

Kat's Retirement Journey

Stephany Forgue Houghtlin

Josie Two Shoes

Anglers Rest

Chalk Outlines 

 

Rinelle Grey

Her New Book

 



Hitchin' A Ride on the AtoZ RoadTrip

What a surprise to see the AtoZ Road Trip sign out in the Middle of Nowhere, Texas on 

Highway 190 between Ozona and Eldorado.

Just in case you haven't traveled down this two lane highway before, I'm tellin' you it's a long

70 miles of pretty much what you see in this photo I snapped last weekend.

Those *'Three Smiley Gals' have a headstart on me, but

seeing that sign inspired me to get going on my own AtoZ Road Trip.

*Smiley Gals...Shannon The Warrior Muse, Tina Life Is Good and Nicole The Mad Lab Post

AtoZ Blogging Challenge RoadTrip Post

I did mention that Hwy 190 was 70 miles of the SameOle~SameOle scenery...right?

I get bored shooting the SameOle mesquites, roadside weeds and asphalt.

Windshield Road Kill makes for a nice change.  I call this one 'Splat'.

Okay...back to the AtoZ Road Trip.

Before I could get on the road, I had a visit from a Fellow Texan

 who I hadn't meet during the month of April on the Challenge.

Bethie at Creating Wordlenik

She popped in on my Mother's Day Tribute To Ancestor Grandmothers and left a comment.

I returned her visit and found her on the AtoZ RoadTrip with a Trail of MapLinks she had visited.

CollectInTexas Gal was there...Thanks, Bethie...along with several others I have not yet met.

So, I decided to 'HitchARide' with Bethie and follow her Trail of AtoZ Blog Links!

(she started at the top of THIS list...in case you want to check it out)

Did I mention that it was 70 miles from Ozona to Eldorado with Nada-Zip-Nothing between but

mesquite, scrub brush, cactus, weeds, rocks, jack rabbits, skunks, buzzards and these TWO??!!!

I heard him say to her as we drove by....

"Are we there yet?"



Mother's Day Tribute To Ancestor Grandmothers

A Mothers love, how sweet the name!
What is a Mothers love?
A noble, pure and tender flame
Extended from Above.
James Montgomery...Mother's Day Card...May 1914

The Modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in Grafton, West Virginia.  She then began a campaign to make 'Mother's Day' a recognized holiday in the United States. 

In 1914, the second Sunday in May was officially declared 'Mother's Day' in the United States, and was adopted by other countries and is now celebrated all over the world.  In this tradition, each person offers a gift, card, or rememberance toward their mothers grandmothers, and/or maternal figure of mother's day.

A Mother is...

Someone who cares when others care less.           

Someone who encourages when others ridicule.   

Someone who defends when others condemn.       

 Someone with patience when others are impatient.

    Someone who gives security in a world of insecurity.

 Someone who is accepting when others reject.        

 

A mother is a friend for all time, to cherish and protect,

as her achievements will linger for generations....



'A Mother is...' is a card from my Great Grandmother Martha Jane Marley Carroll's Album.

It was tucked in behind a photo of her mother, Mary Josephine Marley Leatherwood, my 3x Great Grandmother.

From this Mother~Daughter line descended my Paternal Grandmother,

Effie Estella Carroll Pittman.

Her marriage to Columbus Chapel Pittman from Cobb County, Georgia,

merged two Southern families whose roots have been traced back to

 Colonial America's Thirteen Original Colonies and the First Generation Pittmans born in America

John I. and Mary Polly Rowe Pittman.

You are invited to read 'My Mother's Day Tribute' to my 5xGreat Grandmother

Mary Polly Rowe Pittman

A Mother Is...Someone Who Defends

Wordless Wed...Texas Chicken Farm

Whaaaaat!!! You were expecting ART???

It's on Monday's Post...Two Posts Down.