Author: iagardener55

El día de independencia de México de España; the day of independence of Mexico from Spain.

It took 11 years for Mexico to be free of the hold that Spain had on the people here. It was not a continuous, day in, day out sort of war, but more of battles here, and there. The effect was the same though; almost 1 million Mexican soldiers were killed, along with thousands of innocent civilians.

The celebrations started at 10am, with a series of jets flying overhead at 11am. It sounded like they were about a meter above the condo, but Ivan assures me it’s just the sound of them passing farther away, bouncing off all of the buildings in the neighborhood.

The jets flying overhead reminded me of the July 4th air shows of the Blue Angels in Bettendorf, Iowa, where we used to live.

The condo, however, is eerily quiet today. I’m guessing that folks are out, and about, with family members, enjoying their day off of work. We’re enjoying the peace, and quiet. 😉

Until next time, stay vigilant. That’s how I’m ending my posts for the next little while; stay vigilant. It encompasses all of the other things I used to say.

Stay vigilant.

I go into the pantry about half a dozen, to a dozen or more times a day, every day.

Over the past few months things have gotten crazily out of control in said pantry. Let me show you what I mean.

I can’t tell you how much more relaxed my brain is, just looking at these photos even. When I walk into the pantry, I take a moment to just smile. It makes me smile.

Having the things I use most frequently at hand, easily accessible, is going to be amazing. So much more efficient. For me, as busy as I am, hahaha, I can get so much more done if things are organized.

The few hours it took me to get the pantry cleaned, and organized, again, was well worth the time, and the effort.

Until next time, you know what to do, so, please, do it.

I’ve been “naked” for the past week, and didn’t know what to do about it.

Well, as it turned out, not much.

By naked, I mean that my Apple Watch died, ran completely out of charge, (though it was connected to the charging cable), was recharged, and sort of resurrected. When it was recharged, however, it no longer recognized the correct time, and no longer was paired with my phone.

As I have become quite dependent, well absurdly really, on the immediate information my watch allows me, it has been devastating for me not to have access to it.

I have been doing research on why it doesn’t charge correctly anymore, how to reset it to the phone I’m currently using, how to “unpair” it from my original phone, (if that was the problem), how to

Well, you name it, I tried to figure out how to fix it.

I was disparate, and am unable to afford either a new watch, or phone at the moment so something had to work.

After much prayer, and deliberation, I found a quick fix on the watch itself. By now, however, the charge was only at 26%, and decreasing, on the charging mechanism, as I watched it.

The info on the watch asked if I wanted to reset the watch without the paired phone. Well hell. I didn’t know what I wanted to do much less how to do it. So, I gave that a shot.

The watch was of no use as it was so why not give that a try? What could it hurt?

I followed the instructions, deleted all of the information I had on the watch, and thanks to God, the watch started pairing with the phone.

Mind you, the phone is the phone we bought Ivan before we left Iowa, so it’s 6, maybe 7 years old, and way out of touch with my needs, but it’s all I have so I had to make it work.

The only other problem I had was the charging cable. It just kept discharging, and the phone was now down to 15%, and in low power mode. How else could I charge it?

I looked on Amazon to find another charging mechanism that would get here ASAP, and, as it happens, I saw the trifold charger that I bought 2, or 3 years ago, the one that I used in Los Altos when we’d go. Well, damn. I had that in my pouch that’s attached to the side of my chair. Got it out, plugged it in, put the watch in the proper place, and Bob’s your uncle.

The watch is at 34%, and climbing as I type this. The phone is next to it, also charging, and giving the watch an update. Sometime this afternoon I should be back to using both. Thank you Jesus.

Until next time, enjoy the peace the recent election has afforded us.

Post script: not only has my watch been restored to good health, but I have been able to re-download the Audible app. to my phone. It has seen fit to pair the phone, and my cheapo earbuds to it (the watch), so that I can control whatever I’m listening to, as well as adjusting the volume! Yay! What a day. Now I can, once again, walk and listen to my books.

Doubtful.

Here’s a thought, why don’t you just leave now, and leave all of your houses, and properties to all of the illegals that have been welcomed into our country without being vetted, and given more sustenance than our military veterans, our homeless people, or our own underfed, undereducated citizens!!

These individuals are in no certain order as I have compiled this list by listening, and reading several different websites, and YT channels over the past few weeks.

All of them have said in the past, that if Donald J. Trump were to be re-elected as President of the United States, they’d move out of the country. Have any of them fulfilled that statement?

Enjoy.

Robert DeNiro, Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Bahar, and several others from The View, Rachel Maddow, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Hamill, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Richard Marx, Alec Baldwin, Pink, Ron Howard, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah, Cardi B, Lizzo, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Barbra Streisand, Cher, Hillary Clinton, Amy Schumer, Lady Gaga, Bill Gates, Madonna, Jane Fonda, Kim Kardashian, Hunter Biden, Samuel L. Jackson, Miley Cyrus, Travis Kelce, Bobby Althoff, Rashida Tlaib, Stormy Daniels, Anthony Fauci, Eminem, Ellen DeGeneres, Sean Penn, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep, Kevin Spacey, Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee, Billy Joe Armstrong, Bono, Jennifer Garner, JLo, Andy Cohen, Brian Cranston, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kathy Griffin, Michael Keaton, Richard Gere, Rosie O’Donnell, John Stamos, Stephen King, Eva Longoria, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Spike Lee, Sean Astin, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, John Stewart, Bill Maher, Alyssa Milano, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Cuban, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Hanks, and AOC.

GOOD RIDDANCE.

Whatever will we do without all of you?!?

I, for one, won’t even know when you’ve gone.

I hope you all have wonderful lives somewhere else in the world other than in the country that has tolerated you, and your ridiculous behavior, and given you whatever modicum of success you think you’ve achieved.

Good luck with that.

Until next time, be happy, and hopeful again.

Post script: ok, so I’m not quite back to regular scripting. I’m still too angry at the lying individuals in the Democrat Party. There are so many of them.

I am in need of replacing the plastic seals around some of my glass containers, but I can’t find them on Amazon.com.mx, or any other site.

I don’t know what to call them, so if you know what they’re called, or where I can find them to order some, please let me know. They are 3 1/2” x 3 1/2” each. Some of them are getting all chewed up with years of use. The photo you’ll see in a moment is of a container we’ve used for the past 10ish years. It’s in definite need of replacing.

Until next time, be happy.

I just had to quickly share this with you folks.

It’s just too funny to pass it up.

Ivan was watching “shorts” on YT the other night, and he was sitting in his chair laughing up a storm.

He came over to where I was, in our bedroom, on my computer also, and told me this.

“A cop pulls over this drunk woman, and tells her to say the alphabet starting with M.” She looks at him and says Malphabet.

Another one has the cop, talking to the drunk driver through her open window, also a female. He says to her, “didn’t you hear me tell you to pullover, several times?” She looks him square in the eyes, and said “yes, sir. I did. But this is a cardigan”. I thought I was going to lose it.

Hope those made you chuckle.

Until next time, stay safe.

We got together, as a nation of intelligent individuals, and reelected the man who will

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

I’m so proud to be an American, I just about can’t stand it. (I almost started typing the popular song, you know the one), but it’s true. We rallied, and got Donald J. Trump back in the White House, for another 4 GREAT years, right where he belongs.

Watch, over the next year, how much the nation grows, how the US, once again, reclaims the right to be called a leader of the free world, how the country begins economic regrowth, begins using our own fossil fuels, brings foreign-made products back to the US, along with the jobs needed to make those products.

Watch how President Trump cleans up all of the havoc, and chaos the illegals have caused. Watch how quickly he finds, and rids the country of those individuals that are looting, raping, killing our US citizens; that are taking jobs away from our citizens.

Thank you America for starting the healing process.

With J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, Tucker Carlson, and Joe Rogan, etc. to help “drain the swamp”, it’s going to be an amazing 4 years. I can’t wait to watch everything unfold. Hope you enjoy the peace, and prosperity promised with this win.

Until next time, remember that WE DID IT!!! Stay safe people.

Post script: I will now return to regularly scheduled programming.

I just took this screenshot of an X post by a Danish man.

What the heck? What’s to stop anyone from going city to city voting hundreds of times? If you aren’t required to show ID, and have your name recorded as having voted, then where does it end?

Wake up America. This is not right. This should not be happening. Our forefathers are doing somersaults in their graves over this.

There is nothing just, or fair, even, about walking blithely into a voting booth, and voting without the responsibility of having acknowledged who you are. Your vote should absolutely be private, however, being registered should not. This is a disgrace.

Please, don’t ever think your vote doesn’t count, it most certainly does. So do it, get out there, and vote. Our future economy depends on it.

Until next time, fight, fight, fight.

A Song For You.

Ivan called me over to “his” room recently to have me listen, for the umpteenth time, to a song by Leon Russell called “A Song For You”.

Great. Lovely. I’ve heard it about 50 times, at least, and know all of the words, but, when he gave me his ear pieces, and started the song, I heard the piano, all of the piano, in my right ear; my 80% deaf right ear.

Of course I started crying, how could I not? I only hear sounds in that ear that are high up on the scale. I haven’t heard anything like that in almost 10 years. I could hear the song in stereo!!

I have no idea how, or why I’ve lost my hearing in that ear but I have. I try not to make much fuss about it, but it can be quite debilitating at times. It was bad when I was still working, and had my head turned the wrong way, being unable to hear, completely, an order given, a specimen identification needed, or a response to a question being asked. It’s not really much different trying to living with Ivan, and trying to hear him.

I can’t hear well. Not until I heard Leon Russell, and his piano. I had to come immediately to my desk and put down all of this so I wouldn’t forget it.

It was amazing.

I took my hearing for granted, as we, probably, all do, until it started to leave me. I feel it is also at the root of my dizzy spells, and my difficulty with my equilibrium. Oh well. Such is life.

Until next time, stay safe.

That the current President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, is not in a competent state of mind?

Yet, he has control of the nuclear missile launch codes!!

Have you seen yesterdays episode of Jesse Watters from Fox News? No? Why not? Don’t tell me you’re still watching legacy media. Come on. I’ve taught you better than that.

Watch this, and let it sink in. There are only 3 more days before you need to vote this group out of office. That includes Kamala Harris.

https://youtu.be/ma7j_nvjYw0?si=9hIpsN8FOaaLYMtW

Kissing the babies is no big deal, but the “message” he tried to give to the people in Philadelphia was just more of the same that we’ve seen, and heard over the past 3 years. Even CNN is reporting that he needs to stop going out in public, and just stay home.

Not only that, but White House officials tried to change the official Presidential transcript of the message where the President called Trump supporters garbage. That is a violation of the Presidential Records Act. In other words, that, too, is illegal. Do you see the pattern?

We took care of a family member with Alzheimer’s, and it was not pretty. The constant attention required, the reassurance needed when there were ideas that wouldn’t go away, that weren’t real, weren’t true.

It’s heart breaking to see the decline of robust individuals, but it happens. It’s happening to our President.

Why hasn’t Kamala, along with either/both parties of Congress, voted Biden out of office with the 25th amendment? They wanted to do that with Donald Trump when he was the President, and he’s as sharp as a tack, even now.

Donald Trump is a billionaire for a reason. He knows how to do a deal, legally, and has been doing so for 40+ years. That’s how he gets the attention of foreign government leaders. That’s how he forces places like China to pay huge tariffs on things that used to be produced in the US, but are now only produced there. And with child, and slave labor.

Here in Mexico City, we have spoken with a few individuals we’ve recently met, and they are so disappointed in the current US government. The prices here have been increasing steadily over the past few years, things we used to get easily from the US we no longer are able to order.

They can’t believe how ridiculous having the border unmanned is, legally, and how so many millions of illegals have been allowed into the US. They also say they’re glad the illegals have gone to the US, and are no longer a burden to the Northern states of Mexico.

Here, however, when there was the most recent Presidential election, (you may remember that because we couldn’t buy alcohol for 3 days prior to the election, but we didn’t know why), no one was allowed to vote without identification. Period. No ID, no vote. Go home, don’t come back without it.

I don’t know for sure, but I doubt there are many countries in the world where an individual voting for the leader of that country can do so without identification. It just doesn’t make any sense.

And in the US, it’s not only unconstitutional, (not un Constitutional), it’s illegal in most states. Why is that so hard to understand? Also, why isn’t it illegal in all states?

Do what you think is best, but do it with an open, educated mind. Are you really better off now than you were when Donald Trump was President?

I truly doubt it.

Until next time, stay safe.

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