tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:11:25 +0000odds and endsThe Party Of The People.DogsLiberal IdiocypoliticsAdventures In Aging.Gun stuffHe Has Grandbaby PicturesMedical StuffRun For Your LivesThe WarDear WashingtonThe Time MachineGolden years my butt.RecipesWarThe Stupid PartyThe Blog Familyinfernal machinesScattershootingMoneyOut Of Their MindsAdventures In Sobriety in Alcoholics AnonymousBloggy BusinessGlow Bull WarmingCowboy Action ShootingCowboy ActionThe Religion of PiecesAnother Meme.Cowboy Action Shooting.NASCARwhining girlyboy Muslimshttp://shakeypete.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Peter)Blogger882125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-6729481011532623379Thu, 08 Oct 2015 01:37:00 +00002015-10-07T20:37:18.506-05:00Dear Washington So the pentulent punk is stomping his foot again and threatening to issue executive orders. The pencilneck keeps forgetting that he can only order his staff around, you'd think a "constitutional scholar"would know that if he wanted to make law he should have stayed in the legislative branch. Of course he did nothing there, did he? Useless ass.  Seriously, if these idiots wanted to http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2015/10/barry-why-are-you-yelling-at-everyone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-407374724823496355Tue, 22 Sep 2015 18:31:00 +00002015-09-22T13:38:08.522-05:00Bloggy Business I'm still wondering if it's worth trying to revive this blog. Once upon a time there was a Site Meter and I could see that a few people read this thing. Seems the dog ate Site Meter and so that's gone, and there are no comments, so, is this worth the effort?http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2015/09/is-anyone-out-there.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-4323883463396836192Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:20:00 +00002015-09-19T14:21:06.695-05:00Gun stuff The Sharps is probably the most famous of the old west rifles that was the least made. It's roots were in a percussion breechloading rifle used in the War of Northern Aggression by the Blue, before the development of the brass reloadable cartridge. The Sharps model of 1848 was not liked by the big brass of the Army, it was too easy to fire quickly and the high brass feared that the troops http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-sharps-model-of-1874.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-3528550412655791442Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:52:00 +00002015-09-17T11:53:28.981-05:00politics The Donald is still, when last I  heard, leading in the Republican polls and the Washington Republicans are in a quandary about it all, they simply cannot understand.  After all, there is no record of Trump being conservative, or even being center-right, if anything he's always been a crony capitalist. A little history might be in order. In '06 the economy was doing fine and http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2015/09/trump.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-6211442120769222584Thu, 17 Sep 2015 04:43:00 +00002015-09-16T23:43:38.690-05:00In the spring Maria Isabella and I decided to take a trip, she had some surgery coming up and, at our age such things are always a crapshoot so we wanted a fling, just in case. So we took a drive out to Grand Junction, Colorado with a stop in Dodge City on the waay. We first stopped in Dodge city, it looked nothing like the set in Gunsmoke. I guess Climate Change has made the difference. Thehttp://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2015/09/winchester-92-short-rifle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-7528805540639340341Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:23:00 +00002015-09-15T23:23:21.284-05:00 Hello, world. I've been out of pocket for almost two years now, recovering from my late wife's death.I'm wondering if this blog is worth trying to revive or if, perhaps I should start a new one or just keep on with Facebook with family.  Those who have been through this know just how depressing loss of a spouse is. I will not claim any great strength but I did manage to avoid drink http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2015/09/is-this-worth-reviving.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-376469814896027214Sat, 05 Oct 2013 18:29:00 +00002013-10-05T13:29:34.283-05:00Dear Washington Barry, I know I haven't written you lately although I'm pretty sure the NSA keeps you updated on what we in flyover country are up too, but there are a couple of things that seem to have slipped your mind. I know you are busy, what with golf and multimillion dollar vacations so let me remind you of a few things.  You still claim to be a constitutional scholar so first let me remind http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/10/dear-barry-yet-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-2170830058857326483Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:13:00 +00002013-09-20T17:13:35.251-05:00Adventures In Aging. I made it back to the VA yesterday , seems as if I'm still alive. Then I drove up to my daughter and her family for a visit. They are nice enough to have put me on their family plan so now I have a new phone and number. Friends and relatives should e-mail me for the number. Not that it will do much good, seems I spend abouut half my time wandering through the house looking for where I left http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/09/two-steps-foward-step-and-half-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-1816196041153603941Sat, 07 Sep 2013 02:52:00 +00002013-09-06T21:52:48.371-05:00War So Obama and some of the left want to bomb Syria. On one side in Syria are the Ba'athist  bunch of Assad, only a step or two removed from the old National Socialists of Germany. On the other side are the people allied with the alQ bunch. In the middle are the ordinary people trying to live their lives and raise their families.  So Obama wants to send some of those very expensive http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/09/so-which-side-do-we-bomb.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-2419660982867049208Thu, 05 Sep 2013 20:16:00 +00002013-09-05T19:38:49.280-05:00odds and ends When I called yesterday to make a (partial) payment on my bill I cried about not having my at home Internet working. They sent a tech and and it's going now.  In other news I am almost finished filling out the paperwork to get my little sliver of Linda Lou's pension, not a whole lot but it will help. And it's a week and five days before I get up to the kids and pick up my new phone, http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/09/got-my-internet-at-home-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-2667440451343059594Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:16:00 +00002013-08-18T22:16:03.777-05:00Adventures In Aging.Golden years my butt.I got my mountain of pills in the mail from the VA. The good news is that the poor, long-suffering taxpayer is giving them to me. The bad news is that they've switched a few of the pills and I'm having to re-acclimate to the new ones. So I'm kind of sleepy and unmotivated.  In other news, either we bumped the sat receiver with the lawn tractor or the ground has shifted, still have to go http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/08/bumped-sat-dish-for-intertoobz-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-4773254970312777385Tue, 13 Aug 2013 00:24:00 +00002013-08-12T19:28:27.881-05:00Golden years my butt. For some reason I cannot connect with the Internet at home, believe it's some kind of solar flares or sunspots or something.  carried the laptop over here to Patsy's, along with a crockpot full of chili and beans. She's providing the corn tortillas. Not the best I've ever made but not the worst, either.  I went to the VA Hospital for my vesting physical, my health care will be http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/08/sunspots-or-something.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-5887852999837045817Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:32:00 +00002013-08-09T17:33:35.463-05:00Golden years my butt. I had my appointment with the VA for mty vesting physical, the one where I beg and plead for them to take over my medical care as my monthly pills run half of my income.  Now I had the paper from the VA, I had a postcard from the VA, both telling me the time, place and date. So I took a long nap, got up and stayed awake the rest of the night so I wouldn't oversleep/  So, I got http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/08/mind-like-chicken.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-8967079184347121382Sat, 03 Aug 2013 23:06:00 +00002013-08-03T22:36:14.889-05:00Adventures In Aging. I got an E-mail note from the un-named blogger at Middleoftheright.blogspot.com  wondering how I'm doing. I guess I'm doing as well as one could expect.  I'm somewhat depressed, of course, lonely and am still fighting to get my money straight. This coming Thursday I report to the VA Hospital n Dallas for the physical where I beg the grateful Nation for my monthly supply o' pills.http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/08/im-just-fine-except.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-5351182736459642017Sun, 14 Jul 2013 03:43:00 +00002013-07-13T22:43:44.514-05:00Golden years my butt.So Wednesday I was on my way to the VA Hospital in Dallas to apply for medical care, now that my insurance had changed my monthly pills went from around seventy five bucks a month to somewhere north of four hundred. On the way there I had stopped at the credit union to check out how I could keep track of my balace online the way Linda Lou used to. Well I found out that I cannot do that until I http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/07/stupid-bank-stupid-government.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-1522988449863053143Fri, 05 Jul 2013 17:41:00 +00002013-07-05T12:42:58.166-05:00Adventures In Sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous It's been a while but I am back going to meetings, early in sobriety I was told that when one hits a rough patch, one should double up on AA meetings, so, there I was. Of course, some of the folks there don't really believe that someone with nearly twenty-eight years would still need support. Then I drove home at shortly after nine PM, didn't have it in me to stop near the lake and watch http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/07/back-to-going-to-meetings0.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-1830264964455902627Sun, 30 Jun 2013 04:32:00 +00002013-06-29T23:32:40.250-05:00 Yesterday I went to Dean and Stephanie's house to meet with all four of Linda Lou's children, my stepchildren and her two nephews and her niece. That was the closest thing the family will have to a funeral for we do not believe in enriching funeral directors. Some day soon we'll have a little get-together of our friends in the Program for Linda Lou died with almost 25 and a half years cleanhttp://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/06/just-numb.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-8673681448330344870Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:12:00 +00002013-06-26T18:12:01.543-05:00  Linda went home today, about thirty minutes after they disconnected the ventilator. I discovered that they could not do the tracheostomy because they were sure she would have died during the procedure. At any rate she never regained consciousness and died peacefully. The hospital people did everything they could think of.  Linda Lou was the daughter of Emit Elmer and Jesse Mae http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/06/linda-lou-davis-112345-62613.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-8358726834754128435Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:01:00 +00002013-06-25T15:01:19.652-05:00 Well it's about over. Linda Lou's Kidneys have failed and her blood count has gone south. The Docs tell me that within five or six hours after we stop life support she'll be gone.  I'm keeping her on life support for long enough for the twins to get here.http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/06/say-goodnight-linda-lou.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-660785161052516548Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:51:00 +00002013-06-16T18:51:28.937-05:00Adventures In Aging.Medical Stuff This morning the hospital peeps lowered Linda Lou's Oxygen* level in her ventilator from 100% to 70% and her Oxygen levels in her blood stayed fine. So they then turned the sedative drip off to see how she would breathe on her own. That's when Stephanie and I went home for lunch.  We got back and the hospital staff had turned the sedative drip back on, seems that Linda Lou was http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/06/very-slow-progress.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-7928638943485906343Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:41:00 +00002013-06-15T13:42:24.015-05:00Medical Stuff Linda Lou is still heavily sedated, asleep (unconscious?) almost all day and night, still intubated with a ventilator. The good news is that the MRSA is finally knocked down, little progress with the pneumonia, so far. My hope is that the anti MRSA drug down to a holding level the anti-pneumonia meds might work a little better. Of course they've fed her so many antibiotics that they've http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/06/one-step-forward-one-step-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-572623328023743790Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:09:00 +00002013-06-12T11:09:45.775-05:00Adventures In Aging.Medical Stuff S yesterday I was having my first cup o' coffee and the case manager from HealthSouth called and wanted to know how Linda Lou was. I suggested she walk down the hall and ask her, whereupon she explained that LL had been taken to the hospital. So after I told her that the folks at HealthSouth were too durned important to tell me about minor details such as life, death and emergencyhttp://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/06/another-bunch-of-straw-poor-camel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-3671185396561383846Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:13:00 +00002013-06-05T20:13:03.976-05:00Dear Washington Ralph, I know we don't talk much, you being busy in Congress and all but here is something I don't understand, maybe you can help me here. It's been a long time since Civics class in high school but I seem to remember that the Federal Government can't spend a nickle without that nickle coming through the House of Representatives.  Yet here we have the Justice(?) Department spying on http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/06/dear-ralph.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-2271404540560058821Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:30:00 +00002013-06-02T20:10:38.139-05:00Golden years my butt.Medical Stuff So the other day the medical types decided to send Linda Lou back to the hospital where she got her knee rebuilt. This hospital, Dallas Memorial is right off the LBJ Freeway in an inner ring Suburb on the north side of Big D. I don't remember when they built this road, I simply know that it's been under revision and repair since they opened it. So, first they had to wait an entire day http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/06/adventures-in-suburbia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12479469.post-5289449284017818454Wed, 29 May 2013 22:09:00 +00002013-05-29T17:14:12.698-05:00  So Sunday night they decided to transfer Linda Lou to a big hospital in Dallas while they were putting her in the ambulance the big lump on the "healed" incision on her ankle started draining all sorts of blood, pus and corruption, So, eventually they got that cleaned out and got her to a fancy hospital in north Dallas, later Bingo T. Pug and I showed up her at our daughter's house in a http://shakeypete.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-most-fun-since-bear-chased-uncle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Peter)2