Reznjun

heres a picture of the stand we had at the gathering.  it was indeed a family thing as other stands were. my sister had beaded items and moccasins. my nephew had painted shields. my brother had his history books. i had roaches and hand drums. my sister in law had necklaces. an elderly lady from canada had quill work. her baskets were some of the best i seen. i told her it took me 30 years for my roaches to get this good. she said it took her 70 years for her baskets to get that good. she was a true artist. a friend of ours asked if we would allow her to display her craft. we said yeah. i still think our pow wow would benefit from having our people display their art work. viewing the stands is part of the pow wow experience. but they price it out of range for the average injun.

i heard we had over 3 thou at our gathering. i registered many of them the first day. i liked being about to greet many of our visitors. they had a picture of me and my brothers posing with a buffalo head in the gathering program. so i was joking with many visitors that i would autograph it. about 100 of them took me up on that. i was just playing but they said go ahead. most people like to laugh.

i got to see an old friend at the gathering. not many left from the old days. many of them have passed on. i think about my bros that are gone all the time. we ran together for years. kept losing them til now there arent many left. upside is i have made many new friends over the years.

i was suppose to have jury duty the other week. i put a road trip on hold because of that. the night before i called and they said to report two weeks later. so i did. they said sorry the hotline was down but you dont have to report anymore. wtf. i called the number they listed and was told it wasnt the jury hotline, it was the court. they could have said no jury duty. instead i had to drive up there and back. 45 minutes out of my life i will never get back. i dont even get the 10 bucks plus mileage. instead of bailing out businesses we should fix our government. the bureaucracy is a big problem.

i finally got the tribe to link to my site. it only took half a year. apparently no one was answering the requests on our site.  so i linked their site on my links too. i always thought our website could have been up dated more often. now they have someone working on the site. that is apparent by the photos and updates on the gathering. i even noticed a picture of me on one of the pages. it dont take much to add something. i only spend like 10 minutes writing an average blog.

while visiting one of our northern brothers at the gathering i heard a quote i have to pass along. he said “religion is for the people that are afraid to go to hell, spirituality is for the ones that have been there”. i liked that.

my mower went tribal again. i was trying to be a nice guy. my elderly neighbor needed some tall grass mowed by his tobacco patch. so i volunteered to cut it. bad idea but the thought was correct. the thick grass caused my belt to break. so now its in the shop again. that repair guy knows me by my first name. it looks like no one lives here, my lawn is so overgrown.

my computer is acting up again. too many people are messing with it. my guests have free reign in my home.  i had over 4 thousand songs. i lost half of them. when they connect an ipod, it messes with the program and zaps whatever is in the folder. my photo program wont open now. i need it to edit my pictures i post on my site. my dvd creator wont add the audio to it. i cant post the hand drum contest from the gathering. all these things have worked perfectly. they dont now. so i have to pay to fix it. i added a log in screen with a pass word to my computer now. hate to be a bad guy but being a nice guy is messing up my window to the world. i need my machine for my blog and my business.

been busy with the gathering and funerals. had to put off my chores that need to be done here. my corn needs to be dried as well as my pumpkins. that will take several days. i will start on that today. i also have to pick whatever vegetables that are ready. its looks like alot of them are ready. gotta get busy.