Kansas Girl

Today was our yearly riverfest and pokerrun and the bikers rode 136 miles.I didn’t ride this year,it was just too hot for me.If it cools off I’ll go down to the street dance later.Wondered down to the street dance around 10 pm and danced to a couple songs.The band was called Bourbon Street and they were pretty cool..We left around midnight.It was fun.Have a great day.

My silly granddaughter Jess.She’s really a lot of fun and quite a doll too.

Most people in the United States celebrate the 4th of July, but do you know exactly why the holiday is so important to our country? Imagine how you would feel if someone older than you (maybe an older sister or brother) kept telling you what to do all of the time and kept taking more and more of your allowance. That is how the colonists felt in the years leading up to 1776. Great Britain kept trying to make the colonists follow more rules and pay higher taxes. People started getting mad and began making plans to be able to make their own rules. They no longer wanted Great Britain to be able to tell them what to do, so they decided to tell Great Britain that they were becoming an independent country. (To be independent means to take care of yourself, making your own rules and providing for your own needs.)

The Congress met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and they appointed a committee (a group of people working together to do a specific job) to write a formal document that would tell Great Britain that the Americans had decided to govern themselves. The committee asked Thomas Jefferson to write a draft (first try) of the document, so he worked for days, in absolute secret, until he had written a document that he thought said everything important that the committee had discussed. On June 28, 1776, the committee met to read Jefferson’s “fair” copy (he put his best ideas together and wrote them neatly.) They revised (made some changes) the document and declared their independence on July 2, 1776. They officially adopted it (made it theirs) on July 4, 1776. That is why we call it “Independence Day.” Congress ordered that all members must sign the Declaration of Independence and they all began signing the “official” copy on August 2, 1776. In January of the next year, Congress sent signed copies to all of the states.

The Declaration of Independence is more than just a piece of paper. It is a symbol of our country’s independence and commitment to certain ideas. A symbol is something that stands for something else. Most people can look at a certain little “swoosh” and know that it stands for “Nike.” Well, the signers of the Declaration of Independence wanted the citizens of the United States to have a document that spelled out what was important to our leaders and citizens. They wanted us to be able to look at the Declaration of Independence and immediately think of the goals we should always be working for, and about the people who have fought so hard to make these ideas possible. The people who signed the Declaration risked being hanged for treason by the leaders in Great Britain. They had to be very brave to sign something that would be considered a crime! So every time we look at the Declaration of Independence, we should think about all of the effort and ideas that went into the document, and about the courage it took for these people to stand up for what they knew was right — independence!

7-01-2010
The bug affects well-established Windows XP operating system. Hi-tech criminals are “escalating” attacks on an unpatched bug in the Windows XP help and support system.Microsoft said it had seen more than 10,000 machines hit by the attack that, so far, it has not found a fix for Windows. PCs falling victim will have control of that machine handed over to attackers.Microsoft said the attacks had gone from theoretical to ‘Nightmare’ attack real very quickly and urged users to take steps to protect themselves.Microsoft revealed the upturn in attacks in a blog post saying that it had been monitoring activity around the loophole since it was first revealed on 10 June.

Found by Google engineer Travis Ormandy, the loophole revolves around the Help and Support system built into XP. Mr Ormandy found that it was possible to exploit its ability to give remote aid and apply fixes to ailing machines.Initially, said Microsoft, it only saw “innocuous” attacks by researchers attempting to replicate what Mr Ormandy had found.Real exploits turned up on 15 June and these have been enthusiastically adopted by hi-tech criminals.Writing on the Microsoft Security Centre blog, Holly Stewart said it had started seeing “seemingly-automated, randomly-generated” web pages that host the exploit.A variety of trojans, spam tools and viruses are being downloaded to compromised machines, she said.

Rik Ferguson, senior security researcher at Trend Micro, said: “It’s certainly very serious and is now being actively exploited by what appears to be several different groups as you can see from the multiple payloads being delivered.”Carole Thierault, senior security consultant at Sophos, said attacks like this were a “nightmare” to defend against if people did not regularly update or use anti-virus.Statistics gathered by Microsoft suggest Portugal was taking the brunt of the attacks but users in Russia and Croatia were also being hit. More than 10,000 machines had been hit at least once by the attack, it found.To avoid falling victim, Microsoft advised users to turn off the part of the Help and Support system that is vulnerable. It has produced an automated tool that can do this for users.Mr Ferguson from Trend Micro said there were other steps users could take to stay safe.

“It is important to ensure that your security software is capable of identifying and blocking malicious websites,” he said, “as you can be sure that the criminals behind this will be constantly updating their malicious files to try and avoid traditional security.”Microsoft said it was working on a lasting fix for the loophole.

1. Your horn sticks on the freeway behind 32 Hell’s Angels motorcyclists.
2. You’ve been at work 3 hours before you notice that your fly is open or your blouse unbuttoned.
3. Your twin sister forgets your birthday.
4. Your birthday cake collapses from the weight of the candles.
5. You call the suicide prevention hotline and they put you on hold.
6. You have to sit down to brush your teeth in the morning.
7. Everyone avoids you the morning after the company office party.
8. Your income tax refund check bounces.
9. The bird singing outside your window is a vulture.
10. You wake up and your braces are stuck together.
11. Your blind date turns out to be your ex-wife/husband.

11. Your blind date turns out to be your ex-wife/husband.
12. You put both contacts into the same eye.
13. Your mother approves of the person you’re dating.
14. Your doctor tells you that you’re allergic to chocolate.
15. You have to borrow from your Visa card to pay your MasterCard.
16. Nothing you own is actually paid for.
17. Everyone loves your driver’s license picture, but you think it looks awful.
18. The health inspector condemns your office coffee maker.
19. You invite the peeping Tom in… and he says no.
20. The Gypsy fortune teller offers to refund your money when she sees your future.

Thursday Posting a picture of my beautiful red clematis.I think they are one of my favorite flowers in the garden.This paticular theme is quite different.You have to click on the blog title to leave a comment.I’ve never seen one like this before.Have a great day!

Tuesday Hi Everyone,posting a picture of my Clematis Jody and Alicia got for me a year ago on Mother’s day.They are so vivid and beautiful.



Trying to go for forward on my marriage and not look back but gosh it sure is hard sometimes.Have a good day everyone…Hugs

Wednesday 5-12-2010 Just working on my blog today and wishing everyone a Happy Wednesday!!



Sig Country Delights

Mood

Thursday 3-25-2010 It’s been a long time since I posted and as lot has happened,too much to go into detail.I filed for a divorce the 17th of February and jack and I have reconciled our marriage and going to give it a try again.Wish us luck.Christmas was wonderful and not long ago my daughter moved here from where she was living so I’m close to her now and can drive over and see her when ever I can.Jack bought me a 2002 PT Cruiser and the color is Hawaiian gold,really pretty.I love driving it.I’ll try to do better at posting from now on.I’ve neglected my blog way to long.Thanks for stopping by.Hugs

Saturday 12-19-2009 Hi Everyone,
It’s a shame how I have neglected my blog for sooo long.Try to do better in the future.I had that durn flu for so long and finally had to have prednisone to get over the asthmatic bronchitis.Never want that again.Our Thanksgiving was spent at my oldest granddaughter’s Jessy.Her boyfriend smoked a turkey on his grill and it was just yummy.The whole dinner was great and we had an awesome time together.Jess just had to take us for a ride on the four wheeler.Too wild a ride for me.She couldn’t get me back on the durn thing,no way.Jody and Alicia are having Christmas Eve supper at their house and I’m going to take a spice cake with cream cheese frosting.I so have to go on a diet after christmas,big time.Jack’s surgery on his knee was very successful and he can walk normal now.No locking up anymore and that’s good.Here’s wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Blessed and Happy New Year.Big Hugs

Wed 10-21-2009
Hi Everyone
Just posting a short one today to let everyone know I’m still around.I just haven’t had much of anything exciting to write about.I’m slowly getting over this durn cold I’ve had but I think there are a lot of people down with this stuff.I finally feel better than I have for a while.I think our winter has arrived here.Today is rain and more rain and maybe some snow tomorrow.Awful early don’t you think?Jack’s knee went out on him again lastnight and he sees a Doctor today about it.Hope he can get it taken care of.Hard for him to walk let alone work.Take care and have a great day.Till later,hugs n smiles.

Lillyskites