This is a good analogy to consider

This is a good analogy.

ARE WE BECOMING A NATION OF WILD PIGS?

Catching Wild Pigs
A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.. While we continually lose our freedoms -- just a little at a time.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

Also, if you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this email, but God help you when the gate slams shut!

Keep your eyes on the newly elected politicians who are about to slam the gate on America.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have"



Thomas Jefferson

place to look to see contents of bills before congress

I, Rose, wanted to share this site with you in case you are interested in what the bills are before congress. You can do a line by line reading, if you want to, to see where the money is going from bill number 1. Go ahead and take a look at how Congress wants to spend money. It would be nice if the language was simpler. I can see why there are some members of congress who do not know what the bills even say. It's the staffers who do the writing, I guess, and they are probably lawyers.

http://fdsys.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action;jsessionid=270e613aa69bb36bfe95c618fb4f56d71bfa12ab0bf184c39320788fba8c8889.e38Kb3eQa30NbO0RbhqTchqLbNb0?collectionCode=BILLS&browsePath=111%2Fhr%2F[%3B99]&isCollapsed=false&leafLevelBrowse=false&isDocumentResults=true

I copied and pasted the above into the address space, seems rather long. It is the government printing office site. Anyway, you can read what each bill contains if you want to.

Another interesting site is
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/officials/congress/?district=06&lvl=C&azip=85234&state=AZ from here you can find out your representatives and send them emails and tell them how you feel about different things, just in case you are interested in doing that.

I hope this helps you become more interested in the congress and what is being done in our country.

news

This is Rose writing. I made a short posting and wanted to add the picture to each paragraph as I typed it but that didn't work so I have started this posting. This is a picture of Deneen's hot tub that she turned into a raised garden bed. We were there today on our garden tour. Vegetables look great, don't they?












Bob had a birthday recently and I made him a black forest cherry cake. It was really yummy. Our home teachers came that evening as did Lydia, Peter and Eve so we had a nice celebration.















Another picture shows Eve high on the ladder. She wanted to see what the oranges looked like when they grew so high in the tree. We have really enjoyed the grapefruit and oranges and are so happy that we can share them with family and friends. When Ann (my sister) came from Orem UT the end of January we sent lots of citrus to family members who live in NM and UT. It was great to have Ann visit and show off our house. We do love it here at the "Triangle Ranch". It really is resort living. So if you are coming to the Phoenix area, give us a call and come visit.







We have picked lemons from various people's trees and squeezed them so I have lots of lemon juice in the freezer that makes really tasty lemonade. Stacie, a neighbor, loaned me her juicer attachment that works on my bosch machine and it makes the work go really really fast.



We do have company coming next week. Rosemary, Virginia and Nick are coming from CA so we will have a dinner get-together with other family members in the area.

Then we will have friends coming on the 29th all the way from HI. It will be great to visit with them and catch up on old times (we knew them in Germany).

We will be making a trip to Salt Lake City, UT area the first part of April. We are excited to see family members and hopefully lots of friends too.



Notice our pretty almond tree all in bloom. Surely hope it won't be too many years before we get almonds off this tree. Bob has worked hard to get the garden to grow and we do have things coming up in the raised beds. Gardening in this soil is a bit difficult but I am sure we will learn as we continue to try new things.








We took the cover off the pool and we are just waiting for it to get 70 degrees so we can start exercising in it again. Hopefully by 28 March it will be warm enough to go swimming as we plan to celebrate Eve's 5th birthday with a pool and pizza party. It will be a special day for her as her other grandparents will also be in attendance as they recently moved to Tucson.

Last week we had an exciting week, at least for me, because we had a visit from Connie Giauque, she was a missionary in Hungary at the same time we were there. Then the next day we visited with an uncle and his wife that I had not seen since 1970. The next day we visited and had lunch with a high school friend, Betty, that I hadn't seen since high school days. I had heard from her or about her from an aunt from time to time but it was neat to see her again and to meet her husband. It is always rewarding to visit with our girls and their families who live here in the area. Bob's brother also comes by often and helps out with projects. It is good to be with family.

My goal is to visit all the women in our Windrift Congregation. I love to get to know people. Everyone has a fun story to share! So I have been making visits. I am the compassionate service leader for our church (ward). My job is to ask people to help serve others when there is illness, or some other need. I want to know the sisters so I will know who I should call when help is needed.




The last picture is a beautiful house that we drive by when we go see an aunt and uncle so we thought we would just share it with you. It is located in a lovely neighborhood that has its own landing strip for airplanes.


One other thing, I have forwarded emails about the political situation, social security and various other things and I know that I have not checked snopes.com but I feel the United States is in trouble. I think we all need to become better educated and we need to speak up for our rights and our freedoms or they may become limited. So much is going on in the world today and it concerns me. Somehow I need to make a difference but I am not sure how I can so if you have any suggestions of what I could do, let me know. In the future if you see an email from me and you are tired of getting them just quickly delete it and don't waste your time if it bothers you and then forgive me for sending it.

Garden tour

Hello everyone! This is Rose writing and I thought I would share a few of our activities with you. Today we went to two garden tours. It is fun to see how different and beautiful each of them are. Deneen's front yard is very colorful. Her HOA told her she had too many "weeds" in her front yard. Most of the homes in her area have rocks or gravel in the front, the side and in the back. She has that too but she also has beautiful wild flowers.