An accident, an unexpected and undesirable event, is a known but mostly ignored possibility in everyone's everyday life and this is a fact. Most always, after one has occurred, we look back and can pretty much see how we might have avoided the depressing happening but it's too late then.
Sad to say, our industrious work obsessed neighbor, Dale, has been lying in the hospital since last evening waiting for the treatment of a broken hip. He was in New Haven on a ladder installing a new garage door when the tool he was using did something unexpected causing Dale to fall from the ladder. A hip replacement or hip repair will be determined after they go in to look at the damage sometime this morning.
We talked with him this morning, tho he didn't seem very happy we weren't able to detect much sadness either. This, in all probability, was due to the morphine they've been giving him.
I expect him to be out of commission for some time to come and his lawn down here needs to be mowed now. Wonder who might take care of that little chore? I've got two strong arms/legs, I can help. You bet'cha.
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom. -Clarence Darrow
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Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
May 30
We made it to another bow bow day. Add the missing letter would make it bowl bowl day but there is usually more bow than bowl. Of course for me and the last 50 times I can't even claim to bowl bowl as my results are too affected by bo bo's. I plan to try to do less barking today which might lower the bo's enough that I can claim to have bowled for once.
We got our road sealed and the cracks filled yesterday. It really looks pretty good. Thinking the change in appearance could bring on a name change Dory and I worked on a few to present to the neighbors at our next meeting. We finally gave up the idea all together but one of the thoughts was maybe to rename it Obama street but we decided the street is too black for that making it one of the first to get kicked out.
Appleblossom sounds a little chinkish to me but what the heck, it has worked fine so far.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. -Richard Milhous Nixon
We got our road sealed and the cracks filled yesterday. It really looks pretty good. Thinking the change in appearance could bring on a name change Dory and I worked on a few to present to the neighbors at our next meeting. We finally gave up the idea all together but one of the thoughts was maybe to rename it Obama street but we decided the street is too black for that making it one of the first to get kicked out.
Appleblossom sounds a little chinkish to me but what the heck, it has worked fine so far.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. -Richard Milhous Nixon
Thursday, May 29, 2008
May 29
A good way to help a good day be a little better is to try finding something to admire in every view that your eyes take in. At least for the first hour or so but longer or even all day would be better. I try this and find that the looking does slow one down enough to smell the flowers and to soak in a little of the glory.
Ha, even a snake has qualities to be admired if you take the time to really look at it. To some this is not a feasible option unless the snake is behind a glass enclosure or lying on the ground with it's head cut off. Most have really interesting patterns over their bodies in case you've never taken the time to look.
I know there are some questions forming in your minds like this one. In my pursuit of finding something to admire in every view how do I avoid looking into a mirror as I prepare for the day? The answer is I don't. I simply pick up the electric shaver with it's trim lines and put it to my face before I look into the mirror. Tho I don't like to shave, this neat object does a fine job and I do admire the results obtained by its use.
Yeah, during my shower I pretty much keep my eyes closed. Having washed it for over 60 years I'm familiar enough to clean the whole thing with my eyes shut and towel off too.
Over a day's time, for a variety of reasons, there are so many many seen things that can be admired. Tho beauty might top the list, it may only serve to slow you enough that you can see beyond it to the really admirable qualities. It's just too bad most of us are too busy or too preoccupied to take a few seconds to appreciate the little gifts that our eyes present.
There is nothing that I know more than very little about but if simple patter was worth cash money and I could find a buyer we might better be able to afford our few trips to town, don't you know.
Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. -Pau (Pablo) Casals
Ha, even a snake has qualities to be admired if you take the time to really look at it. To some this is not a feasible option unless the snake is behind a glass enclosure or lying on the ground with it's head cut off. Most have really interesting patterns over their bodies in case you've never taken the time to look.
I know there are some questions forming in your minds like this one. In my pursuit of finding something to admire in every view how do I avoid looking into a mirror as I prepare for the day? The answer is I don't. I simply pick up the electric shaver with it's trim lines and put it to my face before I look into the mirror. Tho I don't like to shave, this neat object does a fine job and I do admire the results obtained by its use.
Yeah, during my shower I pretty much keep my eyes closed. Having washed it for over 60 years I'm familiar enough to clean the whole thing with my eyes shut and towel off too.
Over a day's time, for a variety of reasons, there are so many many seen things that can be admired. Tho beauty might top the list, it may only serve to slow you enough that you can see beyond it to the really admirable qualities. It's just too bad most of us are too busy or too preoccupied to take a few seconds to appreciate the little gifts that our eyes present.
There is nothing that I know more than very little about but if simple patter was worth cash money and I could find a buyer we might better be able to afford our few trips to town, don't you know.
Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. -Pau (Pablo) Casals
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
May 28
66° 49° 82° 55° 89°
Whether I'm sitting in the old recliner or on a hard chair at McDonalds I been hearing a lot of strange creaking and cracking, even without my hearing amplifiers inserted. I had added the task of finding out what causes these strange sounds to my endeavors and I believe it finally paid off.
Common is our weather changing to a large degree over the days. An example is our next few days with today's high around 66* down to a low tonight of 49*. Then we jump to a high of around 82* tomorrow before it falls to near 55*. Friday the forecasted high is for 89*.
You know, in all things there is an expansion with heat and a contraction with cold. What I've been hearing are the natural consequences, of both the young and old bones and joints, to the rapidly changing temperatures in our little corner of the world. Elementary my dear.
Heck, I don't know how I'm so apt at figuring these strange things out either. Just a natural art I suppose.
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure: A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. -Anne Dudley Bradstreet
Whether I'm sitting in the old recliner or on a hard chair at McDonalds I been hearing a lot of strange creaking and cracking, even without my hearing amplifiers inserted. I had added the task of finding out what causes these strange sounds to my endeavors and I believe it finally paid off.
Common is our weather changing to a large degree over the days. An example is our next few days with today's high around 66* down to a low tonight of 49*. Then we jump to a high of around 82* tomorrow before it falls to near 55*. Friday the forecasted high is for 89*.
You know, in all things there is an expansion with heat and a contraction with cold. What I've been hearing are the natural consequences, of both the young and old bones and joints, to the rapidly changing temperatures in our little corner of the world. Elementary my dear.
Heck, I don't know how I'm so apt at figuring these strange things out either. Just a natural art I suppose.
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure: A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. -Anne Dudley Bradstreet
May 27
You know how 'ist' is added on to the end of a some words which then describes it is one who performs a specified action. You know like biologist, lobbyist, novelist or dentist. Yes, dentist! One who performs the specified action of putting a dent in the old wallet. And let me tell you the dent is becoming so great that my thoughts leaning toward a less costly path, like pulling all the damn high priced teeth and replacing them with a set of dentures.
Guess the lean hasn't tottered me enough to fall that way just yet as we're off to Jeff City and my probably eighty plus dollar visit to the dent specialist located there.
If we have any cash left over, a $2.50 meal at the senior center may well happen. Some of those meals are pretty good but even where they're not, they fill the empty space fairly well tho the stuff usually isn't what a overweight dieter should be eating.
"Dieters -- People that are thick and tired of it" - Source Unknown
Guess the lean hasn't tottered me enough to fall that way just yet as we're off to Jeff City and my probably eighty plus dollar visit to the dent specialist located there.
If we have any cash left over, a $2.50 meal at the senior center may well happen. Some of those meals are pretty good but even where they're not, they fill the empty space fairly well tho the stuff usually isn't what a overweight dieter should be eating.
"Dieters -- People that are thick and tired of it" - Source Unknown
Monday, May 26, 2008
May 26
Doobie doobie doo or doobie doobie dah is the question. My mind leans toward the dah. Mostly because of yesterday's freshly mown lawn that then experienced the use of a weed-eater on the weeds and the removal of all the wayward ivy around it's perimeter. Later the lawn felt the caressing breeze as the back harnessed blower removed all the possible growth stunting debris off it and down the hill.
For my body the blower is a blessing in a way. The weight of it on my back helps the poor thing regain the almost upright position that gets so severely abused as I am forced to bend over radically to remove the ivy as well as the lesser bend to push and pull the lawn mower. It really doesn't seem to matter just how you cut it, for at least two days after, tiny chunks as well at big hunks of body parts still perform their duets of protest as groans provide some ill sounding music with a few grunts drumming in every so often. I'm telling you it is a sad sad song but 'pain gone' does add something else to look forward to.
Most mother's take pretty good care of their own and it happened here this morning around 3 am, as mother nature slipped in and treated the freshly cut with a refreshing slathering of rain water. But for me this means that sooner instead of later, I'll need to go out and cut their little fricken heads off again. ....... .And with gasoline so high......
Doobie doobie just came down the stairs and she'll probably jam a few doo's in the place of my dreamed of dah. I still think it's possible for me to arrange for a few dah's amongst all the doo's. Do do do dah-de-a, hope you also a dah today.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.~Ralph Waldo Emerson
For my body the blower is a blessing in a way. The weight of it on my back helps the poor thing regain the almost upright position that gets so severely abused as I am forced to bend over radically to remove the ivy as well as the lesser bend to push and pull the lawn mower. It really doesn't seem to matter just how you cut it, for at least two days after, tiny chunks as well at big hunks of body parts still perform their duets of protest as groans provide some ill sounding music with a few grunts drumming in every so often. I'm telling you it is a sad sad song but 'pain gone' does add something else to look forward to.
Most mother's take pretty good care of their own and it happened here this morning around 3 am, as mother nature slipped in and treated the freshly cut with a refreshing slathering of rain water. But for me this means that sooner instead of later, I'll need to go out and cut their little fricken heads off again. ....... .And with gasoline so high......
Doobie doobie just came down the stairs and she'll probably jam a few doo's in the place of my dreamed of dah. I still think it's possible for me to arrange for a few dah's amongst all the doo's. Do do do dah-de-a, hope you also a dah today.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday, May 23, 2008
May 23
Yippee! A holiday weekend. A time for some to completely forget the job and attempt appeasing their desires for pleasure at whatever the cost. Most without much regard for those lying in or anywhere near their path toward that selfish goal. Most likely the majority of those eager beaver's will awaken Tuesday morning with half a hangover still throbbing in their heads, accompanied with sore muscles and a painful sunburn. On the way to work, in some pain and sitting on their flattened wallet they'll be trying to convince themselves that a great, happy and wonderful time was had by all. Yes, this I know for I have been there or at least very close.
While they report to their jobs, those poor folks near the great flash of life that whizzed by during the weekend will be down repairing docks and cleaning things up as best they can lolling happily in the knowledge that the worst is over for several months.
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us." -Joan Borysenko
While they report to their jobs, those poor folks near the great flash of life that whizzed by during the weekend will be down repairing docks and cleaning things up as best they can lolling happily in the knowledge that the worst is over for several months.
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us." -Joan Borysenko
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
May 20
Really never paid too much attention to Missouri's four seasons when we worked but retirement gives a person time to pay attention and smell the flowers so to speak.
Spring started creeping in awhile back perking up all the birds and animals adore for the opposite sex. Cool but warming, the Missouri times are beginning to look perfect. Then out of nowhere comes all this yellow pollen shit covering everything and at the same time slipping into your nostrils causing uncontrollable sneezing and also irritating your eyes. Can hardly wait to get past this miserable period.
Wow, when you get past it into the summer, the Missouri times seem to be near perfect. Then all of a sudden you find yourself staying in the house more. Then you realize that we've been covered by some very hot and humid heat. Out in it for long and the drops of perspiration begin running down your back, feeling like crawling ticks. Breathing that old hot and humid stuff creates a need for more effort just to get your needed panting breaths. Can hardly wait to get past this miserable stuff.
Oh at last, Autumn, the cooling has begun and things are just about as perfect as one could imagine. Then bamo, from the sky these ugly brown things come floating in from everywhere covering the ground and anything else in the outdoors. This requires a pretty good amount of labor to move the leaves into a pile to burn. The next day you find another covering lying there waiting for you. This goes on day after day and wading thru the leaves you discover that the crawling feelings you have are real ticks that had been hiding in the leaves just waiting for you. Can hardly wait for all the leaves to fall so we can get past this tick infested misery.
Yippee, winter, it is getting a little colder but we have some nice days in the mix and the leaves are fewer and the cold has lessened the chance for picking up a tick. Couldn't hardly ask for anything better than this. Then one morning you wake to a beautiful virgin white looking world. What was isn't in just a short order as you go out to move the turned ugly slushy crap off the drive, porch and sidewalks. What a chore as the cold wind whistles around you numbing your hands, nose and ears. Next morning you get up to find everything covered with it again. Good grief! what is taking spring so long? I can hardly wait until all this nasty white crap gets replaced with the spring time yellow. Trading one aggravation for a different one sounds pretty good if we can just get out of this terribly miserable cold.
Missouri or Miserie, it is still a great place to live!
"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." -Kin Hubbard
Spring started creeping in awhile back perking up all the birds and animals adore for the opposite sex. Cool but warming, the Missouri times are beginning to look perfect. Then out of nowhere comes all this yellow pollen shit covering everything and at the same time slipping into your nostrils causing uncontrollable sneezing and also irritating your eyes. Can hardly wait to get past this miserable period.
Wow, when you get past it into the summer, the Missouri times seem to be near perfect. Then all of a sudden you find yourself staying in the house more. Then you realize that we've been covered by some very hot and humid heat. Out in it for long and the drops of perspiration begin running down your back, feeling like crawling ticks. Breathing that old hot and humid stuff creates a need for more effort just to get your needed panting breaths. Can hardly wait to get past this miserable stuff.
Oh at last, Autumn, the cooling has begun and things are just about as perfect as one could imagine. Then bamo, from the sky these ugly brown things come floating in from everywhere covering the ground and anything else in the outdoors. This requires a pretty good amount of labor to move the leaves into a pile to burn. The next day you find another covering lying there waiting for you. This goes on day after day and wading thru the leaves you discover that the crawling feelings you have are real ticks that had been hiding in the leaves just waiting for you. Can hardly wait for all the leaves to fall so we can get past this tick infested misery.
Yippee, winter, it is getting a little colder but we have some nice days in the mix and the leaves are fewer and the cold has lessened the chance for picking up a tick. Couldn't hardly ask for anything better than this. Then one morning you wake to a beautiful virgin white looking world. What was isn't in just a short order as you go out to move the turned ugly slushy crap off the drive, porch and sidewalks. What a chore as the cold wind whistles around you numbing your hands, nose and ears. Next morning you get up to find everything covered with it again. Good grief! what is taking spring so long? I can hardly wait until all this nasty white crap gets replaced with the spring time yellow. Trading one aggravation for a different one sounds pretty good if we can just get out of this terribly miserable cold.
Missouri or Miserie, it is still a great place to live!
"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." -Kin Hubbard
Monday, May 19, 2008
May 19
Seems like all kinds of birds want to use the Purple Martin bird house on our dock but yesterday morning took the cake. As I was getting our coffee I looked out the kitchen window as usual but observed a very unusual sight. A duck was sitting on top of the bird house! I'm pretty sure it wasn't checking it out for a nesting place, more like checking out what so many birds found so interesting. Odd it may be.
Odd might not be is the fact that after spending several hours Saturday and a good part of yesterday sweating and laboring, helping our neighbor's Struebbe to take down and then rebuild a large portion of their concrete block wall, I gained a pound. Shoot, I could take a whiff of a sweet smelling flower and gain half a pound anytime.
Today, if our company, (nieces and family's) doesn't come, it will be back to the wall for me. If the good Lord is willing and the creeks don't rise we should finish it up today. I think I mean finish the wall and not finish my back but all kinds of possibilities abound when you're old and retired.
We've got the lawn to mow again, ivy and bushes to trim and a general blowing off debris from the road, porches and walks but that may need to wait another day.
"I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work." -William Ernest Hocking
Odd might not be is the fact that after spending several hours Saturday and a good part of yesterday sweating and laboring, helping our neighbor's Struebbe to take down and then rebuild a large portion of their concrete block wall, I gained a pound. Shoot, I could take a whiff of a sweet smelling flower and gain half a pound anytime.
Today, if our company, (nieces and family's) doesn't come, it will be back to the wall for me. If the good Lord is willing and the creeks don't rise we should finish it up today. I think I mean finish the wall and not finish my back but all kinds of possibilities abound when you're old and retired.
We've got the lawn to mow again, ivy and bushes to trim and a general blowing off debris from the road, porches and walks but that may need to wait another day.
"I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work." -William Ernest Hocking
Saturday, May 17, 2008
May 17
An achy breaky back and a tender flattened butt resulting from sitting on some crowded and awfully hard bleacher seats but our duty was done and well worth the discomfort if you ask me. Watching a granddaughter graduate from high school is a very satisfying event. Can hardly wait to sit in some more hard seats as we watch her graduate from college in a few years.
A very good day in the making here as the ugly mood tuggers aren't out in full force yet. These include two smaller seawall step lying snakes along with the gas price numb rich boaters and wave runner riders. I'm sure they will all be crawling out of their holes and getting to it pretty soon.
Have caught a limit of Crappie that I need to clean and have a, help Dale with redoing part of his block wall, project on my list for today. So must get out there beyond the achy back and tender butt pronto..........
"Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first." - Brooks Atkinson
A very good day in the making here as the ugly mood tuggers aren't out in full force yet. These include two smaller seawall step lying snakes along with the gas price numb rich boaters and wave runner riders. I'm sure they will all be crawling out of their holes and getting to it pretty soon.
Have caught a limit of Crappie that I need to clean and have a, help Dale with redoing part of his block wall, project on my list for today. So must get out there beyond the achy back and tender butt pronto..........
"Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first." - Brooks Atkinson
Friday, May 16, 2008
May 16
One day .7 inches of rain, the next day .5 inches and then the next day, hey that's today and we've got sunshine! It began being pretty cool and foggy but as the fog dissipates the temps are raising. Talk about waking up in a new world everyday, we actually do.
If variety is the spice of life I must say that it's stimulating effect here is causing us to overtax our energy reserves. We're experimenting now with adding some different spices in an attempt to slow things down.
This morning I had some ultra hot Beaver that made my eyes water and my nose to run. Had me gasping for a little extra breath too. Beaver extra hot Chinese mustard packed by Beaverton Foods in Beaverton, Oregon. Man was it good! That on my eggs along with some Reese Hot Jalapeno Jelly on my toast really augmented the spice in my life but things will probably slow down later today or early in the morning.
I can see it now, me sitting in that tiny little room as the words 'fire in the hole, fire in the hole" reverberate off the close walls and shower door.
With the very high cost of gasoline we may haft to sell our house and move closer to town, because Glenda wants to go bowling no matter the cost. After bowling we plan on heading to Auxvasse to watch sweet granddaughter Kaytlyn graduate form high school.
Kids sure don't stay kids very long anymore! Seems like it took me forever to grow up of which Glenda tells me is still a work in process.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. -General Douglas MacArthur
If variety is the spice of life I must say that it's stimulating effect here is causing us to overtax our energy reserves. We're experimenting now with adding some different spices in an attempt to slow things down.
This morning I had some ultra hot Beaver that made my eyes water and my nose to run. Had me gasping for a little extra breath too. Beaver extra hot Chinese mustard packed by Beaverton Foods in Beaverton, Oregon. Man was it good! That on my eggs along with some Reese Hot Jalapeno Jelly on my toast really augmented the spice in my life but things will probably slow down later today or early in the morning.
I can see it now, me sitting in that tiny little room as the words 'fire in the hole, fire in the hole" reverberate off the close walls and shower door.
With the very high cost of gasoline we may haft to sell our house and move closer to town, because Glenda wants to go bowling no matter the cost. After bowling we plan on heading to Auxvasse to watch sweet granddaughter Kaytlyn graduate form high school.
Kids sure don't stay kids very long anymore! Seems like it took me forever to grow up of which Glenda tells me is still a work in process.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. -General Douglas MacArthur
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
May 14
Made it back just fine from our overnight trip in Boonville. A good time was had by all.......I think. Lena didn't act like she felt very good but she was still playing when we left.
Just happened I was lucky enough to be at one of the right machines at the right time, holding a queen of hearts and on the next click of the button it dealt me the other four needed for a royal flush. That $212.36 win allowed us to stay up and play later than normal.
We still had a few bucks to play the next morning and even then brought some of it home. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to pay for the fuel used to get there and back but it has been my experience that a little bit of negativity mixed in the fray tends to accentuate the positive.
Gasoline around here is $3.599 per gallon but we have a need and the time for a visit to the Hy-Vee grocery store where we'll get a 3 cent per gallon discount which could result in a savings of as much as 45 cents to be used the next time which could take us a little over three miles down the road............WHOOPEE DOOO DAMN WHAT A SHAM!
It seems some powerful people, whom the cost of oil doesn't affect as we the tax payers pay for theirs, would prefer a screwing of us lower peons by the oil producing countries than to drill for our own oil.
Filibusters by Senate Democrats continue to keep the measure to drill in the Artic National wildlife Refuge from coming to a vote. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with eight million acres of the refuge designated as Wilderness Area. The 1980 expansion of the refuge designated only 1.5 million acres of the coastal plain as the 1002 area but no drilling yet allowed. A wonderful place I guess, but one that will not be seen by very many people ever because there are presently no roads within or leading into the refuge.
Drilling for oil has cleaned up and come a long way but the chance that a bucket or two might discolor or create a cleanable mess is way more worrisome than the lives of all the U S of A's lowly citizens.
Geez! You don't need a spoon to gag me!
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg." -Anon.
Just happened I was lucky enough to be at one of the right machines at the right time, holding a queen of hearts and on the next click of the button it dealt me the other four needed for a royal flush. That $212.36 win allowed us to stay up and play later than normal.
We still had a few bucks to play the next morning and even then brought some of it home. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to pay for the fuel used to get there and back but it has been my experience that a little bit of negativity mixed in the fray tends to accentuate the positive.
Gasoline around here is $3.599 per gallon but we have a need and the time for a visit to the Hy-Vee grocery store where we'll get a 3 cent per gallon discount which could result in a savings of as much as 45 cents to be used the next time which could take us a little over three miles down the road............WHOOPEE DOOO DAMN WHAT A SHAM!
It seems some powerful people, whom the cost of oil doesn't affect as we the tax payers pay for theirs, would prefer a screwing of us lower peons by the oil producing countries than to drill for our own oil.
Filibusters by Senate Democrats continue to keep the measure to drill in the Artic National wildlife Refuge from coming to a vote. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with eight million acres of the refuge designated as Wilderness Area. The 1980 expansion of the refuge designated only 1.5 million acres of the coastal plain as the 1002 area but no drilling yet allowed. A wonderful place I guess, but one that will not be seen by very many people ever because there are presently no roads within or leading into the refuge.
Drilling for oil has cleaned up and come a long way but the chance that a bucket or two might discolor or create a cleanable mess is way more worrisome than the lives of all the U S of A's lowly citizens.
Geez! You don't need a spoon to gag me!
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg." -Anon.
Monday, May 12, 2008
May 12
A good time can't really be forced but with the proper attitude you can make yourself think it is when it ain't. Glenda is dangling in front of me on a stick, a bag containing several days worth of happiness and it appears that I'll need to drive to Boonville to reach it.
The alternative doesn't sound too good. If I don't reach the bag by noon she said that she will flush it down the stool and I could look forward to a bunch of very crappy days around here.
We didn't get to see Lena on mother's day so we're going to meet her in Boonville. The plan includes all of us spending the night there in some Lena provided free rooms. Also there is promised, lot's and lot's of free food. As great as the frees sound, in the end spending will probably be the more potent word.
What the heck? Free all you can eat food, served along with a huge bag of happiness is quite an incentive. No matter what it might cost......I'm outta here!
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." -Benjamin Franklin
The alternative doesn't sound too good. If I don't reach the bag by noon she said that she will flush it down the stool and I could look forward to a bunch of very crappy days around here.
We didn't get to see Lena on mother's day so we're going to meet her in Boonville. The plan includes all of us spending the night there in some Lena provided free rooms. Also there is promised, lot's and lot's of free food. As great as the frees sound, in the end spending will probably be the more potent word.
What the heck? Free all you can eat food, served along with a huge bag of happiness is quite an incentive. No matter what it might cost......I'm outta here!
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." -Benjamin Franklin
Sunday, May 11, 2008
May 11
Whole lot of shaking going on around here! I even saw a whole bunch of good guys in the lake. Well, I really didn't see the guys but I did see a heck of a lot of white caps. This hard wind even has my back aching! When I stepped outside earlier I saw our lawn looking like a mini forest with all the blown down limbs and sticks. I think somehow my eyes passed that view to my back enabling it to realize that it would soon be called on big time causing an ache to begin as a protest.
A backache is still a lot better than the ugly headache that the guy living up on 'Y' road near Parker Marine must have with a tree blown down on his house.
HAPPY DAY to all you MOTHERS but let's not forget to treat the fathers kindly and give thanks to the good Lord for without them motherhood would never have been.
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. -Aristotle
A backache is still a lot better than the ugly headache that the guy living up on 'Y' road near Parker Marine must have with a tree blown down on his house.
HAPPY DAY to all you MOTHERS but let's not forget to treat the fathers kindly and give thanks to the good Lord for without them motherhood would never have been.
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. -Aristotle
May 10
Yesterday was a cool, damp, cloudy kind of day with some rain thrown in and today looks like, and sounds pretty much like, a repeat. That is as far as the weather goes. Yesterday, we braved the elements and traversed to the big city of Eldon but today I'm going to sit in this nice warm room in my recliner. No harsh weather to contend with as I let the book I'm reading take me to the west coast and the Los Angles area. Lawless is the name of the book and it has me pretty well involved with cops, lawyer's and murder. I will say that so far the trip hasn't been all that exciting.
I'm not sure where Glenda will go from the safety of our home but later this evening we will both probably go to Darlington, SC to watch the Dodge Challenger 500 at the Darlington Raceway. We don't expect to have any parking problems and our television will allow us to see almost all the race and some parts of the it more than once.
Pity those spending all that money to sit there amongst a very large gathering and only getting periodic flashes of the race as the cars whiz by. The flash is so quick that they'll very seldom know who they just saw. However, I'm here to tell you that race car noise is better than a country song.
The expenses for our home will go on whether we're in it or not so all this exciting in house traveling comes at no extra cost and possibly generates a huge savings.
Travel, be it by auto, book or television is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.~Unknown
I'm not sure where Glenda will go from the safety of our home but later this evening we will both probably go to Darlington, SC to watch the Dodge Challenger 500 at the Darlington Raceway. We don't expect to have any parking problems and our television will allow us to see almost all the race and some parts of the it more than once.
Pity those spending all that money to sit there amongst a very large gathering and only getting periodic flashes of the race as the cars whiz by. The flash is so quick that they'll very seldom know who they just saw. However, I'm here to tell you that race car noise is better than a country song.
The expenses for our home will go on whether we're in it or not so all this exciting in house traveling comes at no extra cost and possibly generates a huge savings.
Travel, be it by auto, book or television is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.~Unknown
Friday, May 09, 2008
May 9
Doggone it, I may need to start wearing glasses! Not much worse than wondering if you really saw what you think you've seen and I'm having that problem this morning. I had a problem interrupting what I thought my eyes might have seen just awhile ago. The eyes tried to tell me that the sun was peaking out of the clouds but when the old sluggish mind finally got the head turned that way again to confirm it, there was not such a thing there. I don't really want to wear glasses but I don't want to go out in a swim suit for a little tan and end up getting rained on either.
You may have already noticed, it's a slow day around here too.
May go with Glenda to the bowling alley but if they decide, as one wants, to count every nine pin knock down as a strike, Glenda may need to hitch a ride home with Ruthie. Did you ever hear anything so dumb as nine pins being a strike? Of course you might finish sooner and throw fewer balls but I've heard how so many come and mostly bowl for the exercise so whats the deal? If you want less exercise don't bowl all three games! Geez, where is my knife?
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now it's complete because it's ended here'.-Frank Herbert
You may have already noticed, it's a slow day around here too.
May go with Glenda to the bowling alley but if they decide, as one wants, to count every nine pin knock down as a strike, Glenda may need to hitch a ride home with Ruthie. Did you ever hear anything so dumb as nine pins being a strike? Of course you might finish sooner and throw fewer balls but I've heard how so many come and mostly bowl for the exercise so whats the deal? If you want less exercise don't bowl all three games! Geez, where is my knife?
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now it's complete because it's ended here'.-Frank Herbert
Thursday, May 08, 2008
May 8
Got up this morning and while getting our coffee I looked out the kitchen window and the rarity of the sight almost brought me to my knees. Can you believe, it appeared to be very cloudy and rain drops were peppering the glass. This time we've only accumulated 1.6 inches in our little precipitation measuring device but it is still messing around. So far this year I think we're only about 13.4 inches over normal.
So many differing opinions about so many things and with some being very hard 'damn you' if you disagree opinions, makes weather about the only safe topic to type about. I'm sure there are a few more but can't think of them now. Sure, now and then if it is said right, you might get away with whipping up a few words containing some possible miss-interpreted sexual inferences and get a raised brow or two but buddy don't you slip over into religion, politics or unionism subjects!
"I believe, for every drop of rain that falls, A flower grows"... and with each one, my allergy symptoms increase diluting my flower beauty receptors, eyes and nose, ability.
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet.~Robert Louis Stevenson
So many differing opinions about so many things and with some being very hard 'damn you' if you disagree opinions, makes weather about the only safe topic to type about. I'm sure there are a few more but can't think of them now. Sure, now and then if it is said right, you might get away with whipping up a few words containing some possible miss-interpreted sexual inferences and get a raised brow or two but buddy don't you slip over into religion, politics or unionism subjects!
"I believe, for every drop of rain that falls, A flower grows"... and with each one, my allergy symptoms increase diluting my flower beauty receptors, eyes and nose, ability.
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet.~Robert Louis Stevenson
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
May 7
No one knows what is written in their book or when it will close on them but I'm proud to tell you Glenda's book is still open! She is a great test passer! She passed everything they checked yesterday and one of the doctors scooted back the next visit to a year from now. I think the other doctor might be a bit enamored by her and wants to feel her over again in six months. Just a chest x-ray is the only other check scheduled.
Today we'll sit around and wait for the 3 to 5 inches of rain that is forecast for this evening, tonight and tomorrow. With each of us having several good books to read and a Netflix movie to watch we'll not sit sadly!
Fishing is as good as ever but catching isn't so hot. I've only been able to catch one fish a day. At this rate it'll take a month for me to catch and hold the allocated 30 fish possession limit.
We speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind. -Robert Bolt
Today we'll sit around and wait for the 3 to 5 inches of rain that is forecast for this evening, tonight and tomorrow. With each of us having several good books to read and a Netflix movie to watch we'll not sit sadly!
Fishing is as good as ever but catching isn't so hot. I've only been able to catch one fish a day. At this rate it'll take a month for me to catch and hold the allocated 30 fish possession limit.
We speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind. -Robert Bolt
May 6
Movin on out of here this morning. Glenda has her six month check over scheduled at 9:30 in Columbia. No problems that we're aware of and we trust both doctors will conclude the same as they verify this.
We have got to hurry up to get there so we'll be able to wait restfully. They do call them waiting rooms don't they.
The weather man must be a city dude because he is suggesting folks carry an umbrella with them today. We're both pretty sweet but we fear no rain. We isn't correct with I fear no rain being more like it. I'll drop Glenda off under the overhang at the door then go park the car. If rain happens to be present at the time it might speed my meandering gait to a slow dash but no umbrella for me please.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? -George Carlin
We have got to hurry up to get there so we'll be able to wait restfully. They do call them waiting rooms don't they.
The weather man must be a city dude because he is suggesting folks carry an umbrella with them today. We're both pretty sweet but we fear no rain. We isn't correct with I fear no rain being more like it. I'll drop Glenda off under the overhang at the door then go park the car. If rain happens to be present at the time it might speed my meandering gait to a slow dash but no umbrella for me please.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? -George Carlin
Monday, May 05, 2008
May 5
Every day we are allocated we should be equally thankful for, including those sparsely sprinkled days containing any amount of negative happenings. Any day that you can live through has got to be classified as a good day and should one contain a little of the 'rather nots' you still can't go in chopping around on the good. Another day lived is a good day whether you like it or not.
With all of life's trillion daily influencers pulling and pushing, trying to sway you this way or that, doesn't it make you feel powerful to realize that you have sole control? No matter what, it always comes down to you and you alone how you want to set your sails for the day. Set them properly and you'll scantly notice any troubled waters.
Shoot, when I started this I was only going to say how Monday's are about the greatest day of the week since retiring. Followed closely by Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The other three days are of course good, but they don't quite lift us up to the height of great. Just about the opposite of the working job holding days, huh?
"There's no reason people who work have to be resigned to situations and endure circumstances when we all possess the power to create better futures." -John Renesch
With all of life's trillion daily influencers pulling and pushing, trying to sway you this way or that, doesn't it make you feel powerful to realize that you have sole control? No matter what, it always comes down to you and you alone how you want to set your sails for the day. Set them properly and you'll scantly notice any troubled waters.
Shoot, when I started this I was only going to say how Monday's are about the greatest day of the week since retiring. Followed closely by Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The other three days are of course good, but they don't quite lift us up to the height of great. Just about the opposite of the working job holding days, huh?
"There's no reason people who work have to be resigned to situations and endure circumstances when we all possess the power to create better futures." -John Renesch
Sunday, May 04, 2008
May 4
Sometime during the early morning hours it must have gotten very very cloudy as it looks like a bunch of the clouds were forced out and fell to the ground. Couldn't hardly see the boat dock but I think this lower altitude must be a killer for them because they seem to be dying off now.
I thought I had a lot of things to type this morning but I've had the old memory pulling up files and they all seem to be empty. I must have used up all the subjects yesterday when we were out and about and amongst the gathering after the funeral. As fast as I was poking fried chicken into my mouth I can't figure out how I could empty the files but I guess I did. Must have gone against proper etiquette and spoke with my mouth full.
Anyway, I'm pretty taleless this morning for which we must credit Glenda for a huge share of the blame. You're welcome!
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. -Kurt Vonnegut
I thought I had a lot of things to type this morning but I've had the old memory pulling up files and they all seem to be empty. I must have used up all the subjects yesterday when we were out and about and amongst the gathering after the funeral. As fast as I was poking fried chicken into my mouth I can't figure out how I could empty the files but I guess I did. Must have gone against proper etiquette and spoke with my mouth full.
Anyway, I'm pretty taleless this morning for which we must credit Glenda for a huge share of the blame. You're welcome!
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. -Kurt Vonnegut
Friday, May 02, 2008
May 2
As I sit here trying to come up with a little tale to tell, my ignorant mind stumbled over the word tail. With that word I got to thinking how close it was to be something coming from a butt-hole. I've noticed that a good one can be used as cover for a butt-hole and all that got me wondering where and how the word tale originated. Don't know that I want to use it anymore.
A half hearted attempt to look it up gave me no help but I think it must have come from how you go about telling someone something. Once in a while you tell someone something it can be said they've been told but other times when you tell something it's gets said you told a tale.
Oh just forget it! This butt-hole is now finished with this tale-tail or whatever. I knew I was pretty well finished before I started but it's hard to stop a leak and my poor old mind is cursed with a pretty constant leak as I'm sure most of you all well know.
Four tenths inch of rain so far this morning and it looks like it might be raining on our parade to Eldon for the big bowling event that includes a bring a dish dinner with the bowling alley proprietors providing the meat.
After bowling, a long time friend of Glenda's unexpected demise has us going to the funeral home in Jeff to the visitation tonight and back for the funeral tomorrow.
You know it seems that death is always hanging around just looking for a way in. You certainly don't want to take a chance of providing that opening by being negligent in taking your prescribed medications, especially those for high blood pressure! Being negligent can increases greatly, your tale being told prematurely.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. -Isaac Asimov
A half hearted attempt to look it up gave me no help but I think it must have come from how you go about telling someone something. Once in a while you tell someone something it can be said they've been told but other times when you tell something it's gets said you told a tale.
Oh just forget it! This butt-hole is now finished with this tale-tail or whatever. I knew I was pretty well finished before I started but it's hard to stop a leak and my poor old mind is cursed with a pretty constant leak as I'm sure most of you all well know.
Four tenths inch of rain so far this morning and it looks like it might be raining on our parade to Eldon for the big bowling event that includes a bring a dish dinner with the bowling alley proprietors providing the meat.
After bowling, a long time friend of Glenda's unexpected demise has us going to the funeral home in Jeff to the visitation tonight and back for the funeral tomorrow.
You know it seems that death is always hanging around just looking for a way in. You certainly don't want to take a chance of providing that opening by being negligent in taking your prescribed medications, especially those for high blood pressure! Being negligent can increases greatly, your tale being told prematurely.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. -Isaac Asimov
May 1
We, like so many others live with hope being a major user of the minds resources. A hope realized releases space for more hope as does a hope that as been thrashed around, modified then re-modified over and over again until it finally withers up and disappears from your head.
Like most I've had several of each but one small hope, that I'm holding on to and have for years, hasn't shriveled up yet. This then could be one of the things tying up the thought process that really hampers my ability to put anything worthwhile down on this page.
I can't help but think the long held hope might be realized as people become more and more familiar with their computers. My undying hope is that as time goes, folks will discover the little button on the upper left that has "create mail" written on it. Then when they do, I hope that they will realize enough pleasure in their own personal creations that they'll discontinue the use of the stupid, "forward," button that so many use to send mostly sick jokes and crap, false warnings, unusable petitions or those "send to five others with-in 5 minutes for good things to happen," kind of things.
You too probably see some of that forwarded crap of today being the same that you received as long as five years or more ago and it just keeps on, coming back and coming back and coming back. Hardly any of it was worth the read the first time. If there could be a way to count them over the years, I believe everyone would be astounded with the results.
Oh well to know, however the method, that there are still live people out there means quite a bit.
"Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last." - Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Like most I've had several of each but one small hope, that I'm holding on to and have for years, hasn't shriveled up yet. This then could be one of the things tying up the thought process that really hampers my ability to put anything worthwhile down on this page.
I can't help but think the long held hope might be realized as people become more and more familiar with their computers. My undying hope is that as time goes, folks will discover the little button on the upper left that has "create mail" written on it. Then when they do, I hope that they will realize enough pleasure in their own personal creations that they'll discontinue the use of the stupid, "forward," button that so many use to send mostly sick jokes and crap, false warnings, unusable petitions or those "send to five others with-in 5 minutes for good things to happen," kind of things.
You too probably see some of that forwarded crap of today being the same that you received as long as five years or more ago and it just keeps on, coming back and coming back and coming back. Hardly any of it was worth the read the first time. If there could be a way to count them over the years, I believe everyone would be astounded with the results.
Oh well to know, however the method, that there are still live people out there means quite a bit.
"Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last." - Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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