Jeez, we all slept late today, Sissy our dog finally came in to my room and stuck her cold wet nose in my face and told me to get up and feed her. I apologized and went right to it and got her fed and flushed out her water outside because the damn birds not only drink out of it but poop in it.

We had a great time in Texas yesterday at a great, fantastic county fair, complete with…jeez, almost everything you could want except for the standard carnival rides. They did have pony rides for my girls and many other activities that they jumped right in.

I had many revealing and heartfelt talks with fellow Texans and a few with ignorant lefties who you could not convince of any truths if you hit them over the head with them [which I did verbally]. I gave away all my propaganda and as the evening progressed, I kept an eye out for any that was discarded or thrown in the trash cans.

NOT one did I see.

We topped the evening off with a visit to a very large [great] Mexican restaurant who one of my long lost friends [who I ran into at the fair] treated us to. We can’t afford this kind of eating anymore and it was a treat for us to be invited along with his wife and daughter. We ate and ate and ate some more, until I was almost embarrassed.

Anyway we came home happy and tired and thankful.

I have a couple of links for this Sunday morning. After Church today we talked about [as we always do] what we learned. My oldest grand daughter said she learned that in times past Christians had been murdered and ran out of their places of worship but that it didn’t stop them from loving Jesus. My youngest grand daughter said that she had learned that God and good men protect children from the bad men that would do them harm.

I told them that I had learned that my beliefs in God had to sustain and help me get through each day and that in bad times they had to enable me to not only get by but to protect my family and my country [Republic].

Sorry if discussion of religion offends anyone. I can only hope that you have something very powerful in your life to sustain you if you don’t have religion. Be aware that our Islamic enemies have an overpowering influence in their lives to push them to enable Islam to prevail over non-muslims [infidels].

And please, please be also be aware that our enemies within our Nation have their own religion. A very selfish and ignorant religion that encompasses socialism, communism and statism. That they do not love America and Americans should make your blood run hot and your desire to protect America from them be foremost in your mind and your life.

Because if we average, middle of the road, ignored and distained Americans don’t stop them no one will.

It is up to you and me. Don’t leave this fight for our lives and our Republic’s life for your children and grand children to suffer and fight

Make it your fight now and until you die, I will be there with you as well as millions of other Americans who vow to protect and preserve our Republic.

Papa Ray