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OUR SENIOR MOMENT is a blog site by Wayne M. Patten. The intention herewith is to be serious when warranted, have as much fun as we can, bring forth accurate information not always disseminated honestly - and to poke fun at everyone's ability to have blank fruitless moments - young and older. You can participate by sending along your comments. Just keep them clean. I reserve the right to fire back :-)

Also - If you wish to contact me privately with blog ideas or a point that you would like to share here, you are welcome to email me at ourseniormoment@gmail.com.


"My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves Planet Earth"

(WMP)

My loyalty and patriotism is loyalty and patriotism to one's country - not to its institutions or its office holders. The country, its states, counties, cities, towns and villages are the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing. America, in all its being, is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal and patriotic toward - not its leaders.

(WMP)






Whom Is Controlling Whom


There is a “power-group” in every town that spends everyone’s tax dollars. There is also “always” another extravagantly more powerful group authorizing the first group to spend those millions of dollars. We call the first cohort “Voters” - the second “Non-Voters.” Staying home is an unbelievably influential act.


SO - BEFORE YOU HEAD-OUT; PLEASE CHECK THE HOLY WEATHER: (click here) http://home.att.net/~hideaway_today/t133/noah.htm

OR - JUST PERK YOURSELF UP:

http://www3.telus.net/public/a7a55952/thoughts.htm


WMP

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Blog Author: Wayne M. Patten
Born December 20, 1938 in Anson, Maine. (Do not send cards - Only Money) Mother claimed I was invented at Chem-Lab at Madison High School. Time is proving her claim may be true. Enjoys Nature, Animals (includiing people), reading, writing and working. Owns a small in-home assisted living company locted in New Hampshire. Getting old and feeble but strength and memory return upon seeing beautiful women.
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HOW DO I KNOW, WHERE DO I GO, HOW DO I GET OFF

My younger and more talented friend, Lara Bricker, a columnist and reporter for Seacoast Media Group (Portsmouth Herald, Exeter Newsletter, etc.) once wrote,"Wayne Patten has an opinion about everything." I thought about suing her butt off then decided her impish smile and ability to make me laugh inside is more important. TO HELL WITH THE LAWSUIT! That's a good place for all lawsuits. Besides, Lara is correct. I find life exciting and interesting - just about everything interest me. And I surely have some kind of voiced opinion about just about everything drawing my attention. Especially religion and politics. This is natural for me - I favor those subjects shunned as unsafe to discuss. Oh! Well! It keeps life's currents swirling - which generates sustaining oxygen. To see Lara's impish smile go to her blog site at http://brickersblog.blogspot.com/ or click on her link above.

November 26, 2007

GOLDFINCH

This morning I sipped my black coffee and studied the Goldfinch at their feeding stations that I long since placed along the rear wood line. (Society really should find something more productive for us old duffers to do.) The Finch's beautiful bright yellow plumage is pretty much gone. Nonetheless, I find them interesting year-round because of their weird bobbing like flight maneuvers.

The Institute of Biological Sciences says that the color changes are due to plumage wear and breakage thus revealing the bright yellow at the base of the rachillae (the feather stem) during the Spring of the year.

WELL!! - here goes an opinion forming. I decided to study nature for myself. You know - Wayne's Way. Back in October I began to notice the Finch's' yellow color turning a shade of light green. I had not paid attention before, thus this caught my attention. This morning I observed the Finch are nearly light brown. A whole new study scheme formed in my mind. I began to wonder if light level played any part in this coloration change. Yes, I ignored the Institute of Biological Sciences! So I decided to note the color events from September 21st through December 21st (Winter Equinox). I will then pay attention from December 21st to March 21st. If the Finch's bright yellow is at the same level next March 2008 as it was during September 2007, I will know BioOne is wrong and I am correct.

How's that for fool proof scientific study? And I didn't go to college for it! It is just so Natural for me!

If you would like to be one of my disciples just hang out YourTube of thistle seed and study. I don't want to hear your report though. In this study only I can be right - Way Right.

WMP

Posted by Blog Author: Wayne M. Patten at Monday, November 26, 2007

5 comments:

Laura said...

Wayne I love you. I will have to dress John Edwards up like a Goldfinch to have you vote for him. Yes, I am campaigning for him. Have to get my 2 cents in as well. If you want to spend quality time with me, vote for him and volunteer. We will have many special moments together while going door to door. Love ya. xo

26/11/07 4:00 PM
Our Senior Moment said...

Laura - Glad to discover you are involved (with the political process). The Edwards team arelucky people - because - as I have witnessed, when you get involved you do a bang-up job, like all the money you raised for the American Cancer Society. Hooray for You! Ask John if he will dismantle the five super military base in various stages of completion now being built in Iraq. It will take one-hundred-thousand troops to man these bases throughout the coming years.

27/11/07 8:53 AM
Crisis Queen of Old said...

Do I see you two agreeing on something?? Wow, I have been gone WAY too long!

27/11/07 1:34 PM
Our Senior Moment said...

Crisis Queen of Old.
Age will do it every time.
Wayne

27/11/07 3:09 PM
Lara Bricker said...

I think that was Laura of the wine store, not I

27/11/07 4:39 PM

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