Is area 51 real?

We have heard about UFO's since the 1950's.  Is there any truth to the legend that area 51 has a UFO and Outer Space alien?
Do the Soviets have an answer about UFO's?
Will we ever know if it is true?

First fruit from fig tree

Today I picked the first two fig's from my fig tree. I opened them first to look for bugs or worms.  They tasted good.   It is funny that the tree that is seven years old hasn't produced any fruit and the tree that is five years old just produced its second crop.  Last year I wasn't home and the people that tended my yard said the birds got all the fig's.

After the rain.

My father gave me this plant.

Can you see the toad?

I like the look of the mushrooms.

Grandma Di's Pancakes

One cup flour, one tablespoon sugar, one egg, one teaspoon vanilla extract, one and a half cup milk, two tablespoons shortening.  Mix ingredients and place in hot skillet with tablespoon of oil.  When they bubble and after the bubbles are bursting, flip over.  Pick up to see if the underside is toasty brown.  When done place on plate and top with your choice of topping.

Door basket decorations

My sister has started making door basket's.  

She also made some for Christmas with battery operated lights.

I plan to take the time to make a few for friends.

This is a wonderful idea for door decorations in retirement homes.

How to get rid of Resentment

To get rid of resentment learn how to forgive.  Forgiving doesn't mean they must apologise.

Forgiveness is a Choice
By: Robert Enright

I would recommend this book to everyone able to read.  It could be helpful for school age students as well as parents, spouses , employees, business people, and the elderly.

Some more of what I learned from the book.
Repressing bad events in our life may cause anger.

I have found myself transferring my anger from the person that deserves it onto someone else.
Does my anger make me feel afraid? Yes sometimes when I snap and say something mean to someone instead of the person that hurt me.  My health has been affected by my resentment and anger at the person that hurt me or a loved one.  I have been obsessed by the crime against my loved one's and myself.  My life and my family's life changed when the crime against us happened.  Because of the crime I do not trust people or myself to judge people and I have distanced myself from everyone. I also went through shame.  People judged me badly.  People thought I was not truthful about the crime.  I was so hurt, disappointed, shocked, angry at how people judged and treated me.  I am also angry at myself because I blame myself for being stupid enough to trust and not stop the crime.  I have guilt because if I had done something different it would not have happened.  I have become cynical and paranoid.  I now believe everyone is out to use and hurt me and my family.  I am scared of everyone and believe that every thing that goes wrong was planed or done by the criminal either directly or indirectly.  My body hurts.  I have closed myself off from people.  I don't like people because they are mean.  I feel unsafe and depressed.

How to get rid of resentment and forgive!
In forgiveness we must know why we are forgiving.  What was done to be forgiven for and how it affected us.  The more we forgive the less angry we will be.  Forgiveness is a lifelong commitment to do all the time.  Continued bad relationships ,one after the other cause deep hurt and resentment.  To forgive all those continued resentments you must do it a little at a time and continue t o work on it.  The deeper you are hurt the longer it takes to forgive and heal.  You also must forgive yourself.

Mental healing and forgiving takes time.
Forgiveness is not giving in, pretending it didn't happen, forgetting, justifying, or saying it was OK.

Fix it

If you don't know what you are doing wrong you can't fix it.

What is doing this to my garden

Hand bag finished

Excruciating Pain

I only have a few days to wait for my root canal.  I'm concerned now that the symptoms got bad from my allergic reaction to Amoxicilyn.
I have used home remedy's to stop the pain but they didn't work.
I do know the pain is aggravated by chewing, cold, heat and air.
I hope the infection was gone when they took me off the Amoxicillin.

Swine-pox

Swine-pox'  A disease of domesticated swine caused by  a virus similar to that causing cowpox and smallpox and characterized by skin lesions.