Reznjun

yesterday my great niece taliyah came to visit me. well injun way she would be my grand daughter. taliyah is the daughter of my niece caroline and her husband sonny. i enjoyed holding taliyah. i have been around little children my entire life. i love kids, even more so now that mine have grown up and have gone out on their own. i have many nieces and nephews, now they are having kids. so i am called misho by many. that kinda ages me somewhat. i enjoy that. i still remember the days back when i didnt think i would live to be thirty years old. at the time i didnt know that  straightening my act out would prolong my life. since then i have come to appreciate life. holding young babies makes me feel young.

i enjoyed visiting all afternoon with my sister and nieces. i ran a sweat last week for some bros. we were talking while we waited on the rocks to heat up. i was telling them how our people used to visit all the time. i remember the days when people would come to visit and stay all day. then they would spend the night. then start visiting again the next day. now we have cell phones, email, etc. and we dont visit like we used to, just too busy i guess. it is usually hi goodbye nice seeing  you kind of conversation with modern technology. i think we lost something we need to get back. i know i still love to visit with people.

i was walking with my dog konugish the past few days. i stop at the bridge by the creek. i usually notice animals. the other day i seen that someone had tossed a deer carcass over the bridge railing. it lie in the water. seemed like a waste to me. some hunters just dont respect the life they took. i told my dog that, he seemed to grasped that better than whoever throw the carcass into the water did.

speaking of my dog, my other dog the one with no name finally left this earth. she was just so old. it was just time for her to go. she barely got around. she used to follow me everywhere, walking, to the mail box and to the timber. she went with me for years until she just couldnt anymore. i dont know how long that dog lived here, at least ten years. she was a throw away dog  no one wanted. i took her and gave her a home. for that she was good to me. i will miss that dog. so will konugish. he acted lonesome for a few days.

i read that surfing on the internet may help the brain from aging. if that is the case then i am doing my brain a world of good. i surf the net daily. it was hell not to have my computer on line for the past week. damn that company that is ripping us off. still havent heard from them. they musta thought i was gonna pay them with food stamps, beads or something. i learned long ago to spend my money where it is appreciated.

i have been taking the seed off my late corn i dried on the cob. my dad gave me an antique that does the job. i kept borrowing his every year. you put the ear with the corn on it into an opening then turn the handle. the cob revolves thru the inside while the kernels of corn are removed. it beats taking it off by hand. i have a canner full now and still have more to do. i may have another canner full. i will save the best for seed next year. then i will make some kakasuwabo. plenty of that. then i will make some lye corn. gallons of that. so i am still enjoying the corn harvest i had this year. i saved most of my produce by drying , canning or freezing. i had enough to give lots of it away. who knows what the next growing season will be like.

the leaves on the trees are turning color. i like the colors. nature is saying it is fall now. gotta get ready for winter.