The Cleaning Debate

I love my husband a whole lot but some times we disagree on alot of things. (Yes that is normal in marriage.) Today was one of those days.

It started like this. Hubby "You know that kitchen needs to be cleaned before yall go on vacation so we can process those pigs while you are gone."

Me "Yes It is on my list today. I am going to wipe every thing down and degrease as I go."

Hubby " Ok go to the store and get me a sponge mop and some scrub pads."

Me "OK."

I come back to find he has taken the stove out of the cabinet and flipped the cabinet up side down to clean under it. This starts the discussion on wiping down and degreasing.  I say my kitchen is clean if there is no food on the counter, floor and ceiling. I also said I would do it.

I think the obsessive, compulsive bug bit my hubby in his butt today. He pulled out counters and cleaned under them, behind them, and then the walls and ceilings too.

My kitchen is now in my living room. The cabinets are back in place. The ceiling is clean, and I am having to wash all he dishes that were in the cabinet (minding their own business and not hurting any one) because he got degreaser all over every thing. (we have to do this by hand as we have no dish washer.)

He gets on to me for grease in my kitchen in nooks and crannies. UUMM it is a kitchen and that happens. Plus I do not have a vent hood for my stove. Hubby built my cabinets so I have no where to put one just yet.

To top all of this off when I said something about making a mistake telling hubby I was cleaning the kitchen today I get some one tweeting  me Bible Verses. @Waylandcook words, they are to obey their husbands as they would obey the Lord, in everything (Ephesians 5:24). http://fiys.s0.lt/0oMhM

By the end of the day I was ready to go off. I have cooled off a little now but now I am a few days behind and we leave for vacation in 9 days. I swear men do not think. He actually told me I had been slacking. UUMM There are only so many hours in a day and I can not spend them with a tooth brush in hand and cleaning under a stove. Just saying.

Finding Fault While Not Sleeping

I was laying in bed awake last night with the wheels spinning in my head. I got to thinking about comments that I read from a twitter conversation. (Not a party but a weekly conversation get together.) This was from people who up til now I had respect for and read their weekly conversations. I normally don't participate because of family time so I go back and read them later. This week they were discussing Vegetarians and Vegans impact on their business of raising meat animals They were talking about the pushing of veganisim and vegetarianism on people ex specially the youth.

I find fault in this theory. I know several vegans and vegetarians thru the Internet. They have never ever once pushed their life style on me. They have web sites and conversation boards for you to learn from. Most of them have their own theories as to why they do not eat meat or use meat by products (eggs,cheese,milk).  They have never told me I should be one, or hold a gun to my head , or looked down on me for eating meat.

There is at least one big media, lobbying association that I know of that puts ads in magazines, on TV, the Internet , and get big celebrities to push their agenda. This is who is pushing Veganism to the masses and trying to pass laws that make it hard for farmers to sell meat. This association along with one other want farm animals to rank as pets and earn the same respect. Peta and the Humane Society. The Humane Society is the group this group slammed this year for over half their funds going to lobbying for laws against meat farming instead of saving the animals they say they do. Peta uses a large amount of their money on advertising. so I think maybe they should find fault where the problem lies. Instead of blaming people that choose for personal reasons not to eat meat.

Handme

This blog is completely random. It is what ever is on my mind for the day. That could be any thing from family to news events to the unknown.  I judge no one on what they are or what they do as long as it does not harm others. I follow all kinds of people on Twitter. The main reason for this is to learn about the world.  I love to hear others views and let them prove to me why they think they are right.

So today is the Guard dog on the farm. He is on my mind because he was being playful today and feeling good. While I sat on the porch I watched him play with the kids and love up to them. He has one problem. He does not think he is a dog. He views him self one of the kids. He is not allowed in the house due to his size and his battles with skunks about once a month.

This is Handme. His job here is Life Stock Guardian and Child Guardian. He is good at his job. He will let nothing get thru to the kids nor the pigs. The chickens (which steal his food from time to time) are on their own. When we first got Handme he was a Goat Protector. He can round up Pigs with the greatest of ease. He will not let any one come past the bridge if the kids are out side except the utility meter reader and UPS. (The UPS man bribed him with milk bones so he is ok in his book.)

Handme is part Pyrenees and part something else. We think his dad was Pyrenees Chow mix. We got Handme when Wesley was 2 years old. Hubby's brother gave him to us. We asked Wesley what to name him he said Handme and it stuck. Of course he just wanted us to hand him the dog.  Handme patrols a wide area. Two neighbors benefit from him too. But he also expects Sunday Breakfast from one family. (They feed him Breakfast every Sunday.)

Handme does not like Armadillos, Skunks, Raccoons, Coyotes and Opossums . He runs everything off once. If they come back then it is fair game for him to destroy.  He has come back from battle bloody but most of the time it is not his blood. He has had an ear that was sliced up pretty bad but it was a coon that he fought.

Handme's favorite food is left overs from dinner. He normally gets a plate for of his own. He does not like dog food but will eat it if he has to.