Happy D-Blog Day!

 Today is the annual DBlog Day.  The topic for those that do not scrapbook is: Why you feel the Diabetes Online Community is so important? especially to you personally?  Give examples of other diabetes involvement may you have, on or offline, how it helped you etc… How do you think “we” as an online community can band together to reach broader audiences to help even more people living with or affected by diabetes.

 I love this topic of discussion.  The reason I like it so much is that I am an outcast of the Diabetes Online Community.  The first part, Why you feel the Diabetes Online Community is so important?  I like how everything from food to working out and everything in between is discussed online.  The things I have learned to do and the supplies that help have been proven by others and they share their knowledge so that I don't have to make the same mistakes.  I love to share my camping and survival techniques so that other diabetics can propperly take a poop in the woods.

 I love the picture above.  Who would ever think about blinging out a gun rack?  Part two: Give examples of other diabetes involvement may you have, on or offline, how it helped you etc.  I have helped others cook in cast iron, to be aware of people with diseases, and live my life as an example of how diabetes does not slow me down one bit.  I want to be looked to as someone who will try almost anything once and am not scared to get my hands dirty volunteering.  Then there is the people I have taught how to poop in the woods.

 How do you think “we” as an online community can band together to reach broader audiences to help even more people living with or affected by diabetes.  I think the best thing "we" as an online community can do is stop being the usual web dwellers where websites and blogs, and communities stop arguing with each other and form a more open to everyone group of PWD's that bring our individual specialties to the table.  I get tired of emails from other diabetic bloggers telling me I am wrong or online communities yelling at me.  The internet is the easiest way to be angry and as diabetics we are already angry enough.  Lets put positive vibes on the internet and show each other what we have learned or ask for advice.  The best things I do with my diabetes I learned from others.

I just love Scentsy Frog.  He is always in the truck and buckled up!  I should get one of those diabetes bears and buckle him in the back with Scentsy Frog.

I think Princess Riley PuffinStuff and Archie say it best here.  Just relax and when your owner drops laundry on the floor make a dog bed out of it.  Archie wants to be a human so bad.  Look how he even makes a pillow and covers himself just like we do.  In the end we all still have diabetes and if you are reading this there still is hope for you and I.  Good luck everyone and happy diabetes blog day!

Am I the only One?

 So last weekend in Smithville, Texas at my Aunt and Uncles house I come across a garage sale.  OK so the garage sale was across the street and it was a guy with rusty stuff for sale.  I had to dig through his goods to see what he had.

 He showed me some benches he builds out of old lumber and they looked OK.  I just was not in the mood to pick up benches for 20 bucks.  He had boxes of old door hardware.  At the bottom of his door knob box he had this rusty door knob set that had a bullet hole in it.  I was instantly memorized.  He told me I could just have the door knob for free but, I wanted it to be a fair sale so I gave him a dollar.

With my awesome bullet hole door knob in hand I headed back to my Aunt and Uncles house for my grandmothers 95th birthday party and showed everyone what I had.  What I was greeted with was alot of wow, why did you give money for that, and why is there a bullet hole in it.  I was the only one that thought this was cool.  Then when I got back home to give it to my wife she had the same response.  In the end I was the only person that was thinking, why is this old door knob shot and how cool this is?  Why did someone shoot it?  Was his wife cheating on him?  How old is this?  Everyone else just thought I spent a quality dollar on some rust. 

Fire, Fire!

 Sorry everyone, last week I was tied up with work and did not have the opportunity to post on Thursday and Friday.  This past weekend I went and visited family in the Texas Hill country.  We celebrated my grandmothers 95th birthday.  On the way from Bastrop to Smithville we drove through one of this summers Texas wildfires remains..

 These pictures start about a half mile from town and end about six miles down the road.  This scene was amazing how much earth was burned.  All the leaves you see are not fall foliage.  This is Loblolly pine country and it is all pine trees that are green all year long.  Everything that is brown should be green.  The stories from my uncle and cousins were amazing how this fire just exploded across the countryside.

 What devastation to one economy.  All of my life I used to love the drive from Bastrop to Smithville and now what will become of this area.  Now I know the pine tree is almost considered a weed in the tree world for how fast they grow but for at least ten years this area will have to contend with erosion control and loss of economies.  People live in these towns as sleeper comunities and drive to Austin for work.  They have two state parks that were nestled back in these woods. 

In the end we have to just be thankfull for the time we had and do our part to help the citizens whose lives were changed with this great fire.  We can all help by volunteering, donating money, educating, and preparing ourselves for emergencies.