Let's Get Tim Tebow

Yes I am a female and I love the NFL!

My rant and questions are why did the Jets release Tim Tebow? I mean why did you even trade for him to begin with? Perhaps the easiest answer to this question is you traded for him because you knew he would sell. His merchandise, his personality, his overall rating as a player who sells is high.

Now after the draft is over and most if not all teams have got their man at the QB position you release him. WTF?

Seriously wtf. Comment below and let us know what you think of Tim's release and where you think he should go now. We would like to hear from you. Send to your twitter followers, you facebook friends and family as well. Chime in!

Drought That's What it's All About Just Ask Pebbles

Remember when? Yeah, well me either it appears, but it seems like it used to be much hotter in what I know of as the "Dog Days of Summer"! Not really as it has been very very hot these past few seasons of summer. However this winter or in the past couple of weeks actually we have even had some snow. Now that is a little unusual if you compare it to the past few years. So at least the 20 inches of snow we received will help a little this springtime. Hopefully the wheat, Kansas is known as the wheat state, will get off to a good start this year.

Lately here in the Midwest at least in our neck of the woods, July and for that matter, June as well has been much hotter than August. Sometimes I wonder why this is but for the most part it's not that important. I am not a farmer, I don't work outdoors very often and fortunately I can for the most part spend most of my time indoors. So no it really does not affect me that much. But I do pay bills and the electric bill is less expensive the past couple of years in the month of August compared to June/July.

I think we had over 25 days at or above 100 degrees for June/July of 2012. Needless to say we broke a few records in the last couple of years due to the heat and heat index.

As I said we did get some snow and a little rain with more in the forecast, but still not nearly enough to make up for the lack of it in the past couple of years . I think we are something like 20 inches below normal in rainfall for the past couple of years. I know it is like this all over the Midwest. We have 105 counties in our state and this past or last summer Marshall county was considered as a drought disaster county which unfortunately puts all Kansas counties in this declaration. The Governor made the following statement that day.

"The updated drought declaration has all 105 counties in an emergency status. This status triggers the Kansas Water Office (KWO) and Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) to issue a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for emergency use of state fishing lake storage under conditions of drought emergency declared by the Governor. This action was recommended by Tracy Streeter, Director of the KWO and Chair of the Governor’s Drought Response Team.

Our focus at this time is to ensure communities, livestock producers and farmers have the available resources they need,” said Tracy Streeter, Director of the Kansas Water Office and Chair of the Governor’s Drought Response Team. “This MOU would allow small communities and producers to pump water from certain state fishing lakes to provide some relief if they are in dire need of water."

"As fields, pastures and stock ponds get drier in this drought, we must do everything in our power to assure livestock,” said Dale Rodman, Kansas Secretary of Agriculture. “This declaration takes an important step to provide an additional water source for livestock and going forward we will continue working with all stakeholders to help producers cope with and recover from this drought."

So what has it been like in your neck of the woods? Let's hope that it begins to rain and the heat lightens up this summer. Comment below and let us know what your area has been like. Most of all thanks for stopping in and reading and taking the time to send this to your facebook family/friends and tweet it out to your followers. Your participation and feedback is important to us. I know we don't always tell you how much we appreciate your stopping in and visiting our blog but we are very grateful that you do. Always know that we read each comment even though we don't always reply back. Thanks from the Admin. Staff here at Mommy Chrissy Plus 2 Blog.

(That is my dog, "Pebbles" and she sure stays close to the fan and water dish in the summer. LOL)

Spring is in The Air

I don't know where you are from or currently residing but where I am here in Kansas the weather has been unseasonably warm and Spring is just around the corner.

The temperatures have been a little above normal but not unlike the past few years. They talk about the Green House Effect or to define a little more clearly, The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions. Since part of this re-radiation is back towards the surface and the lower atmosphere, it results in an elevation of the average surface temperature above what it would be in the absence of the gases. And yes the temperatures they have been above average and of course that means less frozen grounds and grass a little greener for this time of the year.

Not only that, each morning when I walk outside or take my morning bicycle ride I have heard a lot of birds beginning to chirp and make an all too familiar sound of, "Spring is in The Air."

I don't know about you but for us this is a wonderful thing. I mean I personally don't care for a cold ass winter where the wind blows up my bum and causes me to grit my teeth and wear an extra layer of clothing. Brrrrrr I can not wait for it to get a little warmer even and for the grass to not only green up but I'm ready to mow. Yes I said that, "I'm ready to begin mowing the lawn."

How about you? How's the temperatures and the weather been in your neck of the woods? One thing that is for certain is we could use much more precipitation and moisture for the ground and winter wheat etc... If there is a downside to all of this, and I'm not sure how the warmer weather has effected it, but we NEED MORE MOISTURE! Rain dance, do us a rain dance please.

Until then I will just listen to the sounds of the singing birds in the air and hope for rain but most of all warmer weather. I dislike winter more and more each year. How about you?

Chime in and let us know how you feel about the weather in your neck of the woods and are you getting any moisture. Our lakes, ponds and the likes are way, way too low.

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How I Start My Day

Today was really no different than yesterday, except I felt better physically and health wise. But other than that I started the day off with a few pleases to the God of my understanding and of course will say my thank you at the end of the day when I lay my head down for a night of rest.

I try to always satisfy my soul and emotions as the day progresses or actually as any situation occurs that may be leaving me uncomfortable. "Don't hold any resentments, unresolved anger, hurt, jealousy, or painful emotions prior to falling asleep each night", is my example to live by. No I didn't come up with this on my own it was taught to me by one of my mentors and valuable friends who've I have been fortunate enough  to cross paths with in this journey we call life.

You see here again it goes along with my 'Understanding of God' as I've been freely given to choose to live by or not. It's a process not an event. It hasn't just happened overnight and for that I am grateful. I may not have had the ability to understand it so freely nor the will to accept all that power(less) and knowledge at once.

So back to today, because really isn't that all we have is TODAY?

After a few pleases and some thank you, I start my day off usually pretty much the same. Some think it's boring, unexciting and some think it's a little odd to have such a belief system. I say it's a way of life that freely gives me choices/decisions that are healthy and uneventful.

Again, who likes to curl up with your pillow and be resentful at some event that happened throughout the day that you may or may not had the choice to change if you could. It reminds me of a song by Foreigner:

Title- I Want to Know What Love Is

I gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I'm older
Aaaah woah-ah-aah


Now this mountain I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
And through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder


In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely life

Don't ask me how that got thrown in there but it came to mind as I was plugging away. And it is a great song by a fantastic group. However the point is don't start your day or end your day without reaching out to someone or some thing that will give you love, knowledge, power and is greater than you.

Have anything to add? Feel free to comment and or send to your facebook friends and twitter followers.

Stop Worrying About What to Wear

Sometimes it is very difficult in making the decision of what to wear. At least for some folks. For me, well I do sometimes just grab the next available thing hanging in the closet and go with it. Others like my significant other takes time, changes a couple of times and then asks the unanswerable question, "honey does this go together", or "does this look alright"?
 
 

 
Well of course it goes together and of course it looks alright. What else am I suppose to say? I know I'm suppose to be honest but I generally have to watch my honesty with some as I have been called brutal honest. That at times leaves a mark.

So I tend to give myself permission to be a little less than honest or a little above what I think in my honesty. Like the old man and his wife who just came up out of the cyclone cellar to find his home and everything in ruins. He says, "hey look ma, nothing the matter here, isn't it grand the wind stopped blowing"?

So I guess you get my point, only the old fart wasn't being dishonest with his wife he was being dishonest with his self. He really seen nothing wrong when in fact they had lost everything. Trust me, if you read back to a few months ago or last summer you will see that I went through a tornado and we lost pretty much everything. At that time it wasn't important to decide what we was going to wear, it was important to just have a little something to wear and for that we were grateful!

The next time you look into your wardrobe or closet, where ever you keep your next outfit, just remember it's more important to have it than what others are going to think about what you have on. Sure we get caught up in what others think way too often.

I say give yourself permission to be happy, comfortable and grateful on a daily basis!

Winter Wonderland

This past week it has been in the 70 degree temperature range for most of the early and late afternoons. Not much wind and plenty of sunshine. Hey the grass was even beginning to green up a little. I had made the comment to a friend of mine that if it kept up we would have to dig the mower out and give it a once over so that it didn't get too high. NOT!

Obviously in the middle of January that is not going to happen but wow it has been such a fabulous Fall and Winter so far this year. Late 2011 was unseasonably warm and so far we have broken some records for the high temperatures.

However today and the rest of the week it is suppose to be colder than a well diggers behind and today it has already proven to take this much colder turn. For example today or last night it was down to around 14 degrees with 20 mile an hour winds so the temperature felt like 0 degrees. It also began to snow and ice some but hasn't amounted to too much thank goodness.

It is very cold out today as compared to this time last week but hey like I stated it is January and it is expected! I am so ready for spring and summer though, if you like the cold you can have this.

How is your neck of the woods? Has it been unseasonably warm so far this year and not much precipitation. That is another thing we have not had very much snow of course with the warmer weather but we have not had very much rain either. We need some rain and or plenty of snow. The ponds and lakes here are looking a little bare around the edges.

Give us a shout and let us know about your temps and what it is like in your area. Or better yet leave a comment in regards to your favorite time of the year. Send to your twitter followers and or your facebook friends as well. Most of all thanks for stopping in and taking the time to read. May your blessings be many and your troubles be few!