Goodnight Irene

This Photo Was Taken On Nantucket Island This Date of August 28th. Tropical Storm Irene Was Forecasted To Pass Through The Island Today. It Was Considered A Hurricane Until It Reached The East Coast Of The United States. New York Braced Itself For The Worse And Was Busy Preparing In Case It Happened. It Weakened And Everyone There Breathed A Sigh Of Relief.
As We Are In The Midst Of Hurricane Season I Am Sure There Will Be Others To Follow. I'm Thankful It Passed Through Without A Lot Of Destruction.
Goodnight Irene....

You May Not Remember Me, But...

That's How My Personal Message Began On Facebook To A Woman I Don't Recall Meeting. Actually In Full I Sent Her A Message On Facebook That Read I Doubt If You Remember Me But I Slept With You And Your Sister.
My Mother Sent Me A Message Earlier In The Day Letting Me Know Of Twin Girls That Were Born About The Same Time I Was. Apparently As Newborns, We All Shared The Hospital Nursery Together. Being The Jokester That I Am I Had To Send These Women This Message.
I May Or May Not Get A Response From Either Of These Sisters But It Was Fun Sending This Note To Them. An Opportunity I Just Could Not Pass Up.
I Would Not Be The Person That I Am Today Without Being A Little Onery. Those Who Know Me Best Wouldn't Expect Anything Less.
Your Smile For The Day.........

Dad, He Is Always There

What Would I Ever Do Without My Father? I Imagine I Would Be Lost. Whenever Somebody Has A Problem The First Person They Call Is Dad.
I Had A Small Mishap At My Home On Thursday. Dad Brought Me Breakfast On Friday Morning Like He Does Every Friday. I Told Him Of My Problem And Shortly After Breakfast He Headed Over There To Inspect The Problem And Find The Solution. Of Course This Is Only One Example Of Many That He Has Been There For.
One Day Dad Will Be Gone And Then I Wonder What Others Would Do Without His Presence. I Hope It's Many Years From Now. However Each Day He Gets Older And He Can't Do The Things He Use To Do. I Appreciate Everything He Does For Me.

The Difference A Year Can Make

Just One Year Ago Bobby Was Pulling In Fish From A Boat On Lake Vermilion. Him And His Friend Matt Went Catfishing A Lot Last Summer. This Photo Was Just One Example Of His Catch. I Can Still Remember The First Time I Took Bobby Fishing. He Started Out The Same Way I Did. The Basics Of Learning To Be Smarter Than The Fish. A Cane Pole And A Bobber. It Didn't Take Him Very Long Before He Graduated To His Own Pole.
Reminiscing Is Something I Do Often. However That's Not The Reason For The Writing Of This Blog. My Reason Is Detailed At The Conclusion.
In A Previous Blog I Told How I Planted A Rose Of Sharon In Memory Of Bobby On His Birthday. We Have Had A Very Dry Summer This Year. I Watered His Bush Every Other Day. Today It Bloomed For The Very First Time. I Was Totally Shocked Because I Was More Concerned In Getting It Use To It's New Home. Blooming This Year Was The Last Thing I Expected. I Don't Need A Bloom To Remind Me Of My Son. However, Life Goes On. Bobby Was Full Of Life. This Bloom Represents The Life Bobby Had. The End Result As Sad As It Is Can't Be Ignored.
As In Every Good Book Has It's Ending. No Different Than Bobby's Life. It Came To An End Like Mine Will Some Day. I Have No Idea When That Will Be. I Do Hope However Something I Said Or Done Will Leave An Impression On Someone's Life. I Hope To Leave Memories For Someone To Reminisce Someday. That Bloom Brought A Smile To My Face. It Was The Last Thing I Expected. That's My Point. You May Think When You Awake Each Day It Will Be Like Any Other. Life Is Full Of Surprises.

They Were, I Am......

On August 17Th Of 1952 My Parents, Harvey & Shirley Were Married. Without These Two I Would Not Be In Existence. Today They Celebrate 59 Years Of Marriage.
Because Of This Union I Have Two Brothers And Two Sisters, One Deceased. Today I Congratulate You Both On This Milestone. I Hope You Have A Wonderful Day Of Celebration.

How's The Weather?

I Am At My Wits End. We Need Rain Here In The Midwest. We Got A Lot Of It In The Early Spring. My Complaint Is The Forecast. These Meteorologist Just Can't Seem To Get It Right.
I Know I Just Recently Blogged About Weather Predictions. I Have Not Conducted A Sale In Weeks. I Have Sat Out The Past Three Friday's. The First Friday Was Due To The Extreme Heat. The Most Recent Friday's Have Predicted Rain. No Rain. I Would Have No Complaint If It Rained. I Sit And Study The Weather Patterns, The Fronts, etc, Anything And Everything That Pertains To Friday.
It's Becoming A Struggle Trying To Stay Afloat Without Revenue. Gas Is Not Cheap These Days. I Have Reached The Point Where I Don't Know What To Do. Of Course It's Forecasted To Rain Again This Friday Too. Do I Believe The Forecast Or Do I Set Up In Spite Of His Prediction? It's A Royal Pain When It Rains On The Church Parking Lot. There Is So Much Involved In A Typical Sale Without Dealing With Rain. Once You Put Rain Into The Picture, Everything Changes.
I Find Myself Stressed Out The Moment They Put Rain In The Forecast. Today Is Only Monday For Crying Out Loud! A Lot Can Change Between Now And Friday.
In The Meantime I Pull My Hair Out Trying To Figure Out What To Do.
Why Does Life Have To Be This Complicated?

That's It!! I'm Mowing In The Dark Next Time

Once A Week I Mow Grass. The Grass I Mow Consist Of Three Different Properties. I Have No Problems With Two Of Them. The One I Dread The Most Is The Church. It Seems The Moment I Pull Into The Parking Lot Somebody Is Bound To Pull In Behind Me. Allow Me To Tell You I Am Some What A Well Known Figure Associated With This Church. I Can't Seem To Accomplish Getting The Mowing Done In Record Time. I Have People Interrupting My Mowing All The Time With Their Questions. It's Not That I'm Unwilling To Be Helpful, I Just Can't Seem To Get My Mowing Done.
The Only Solution Is To Mow After Dark. Nobody Would Expect That. Would They?

Help When You Can. Know When To Stop

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Help When You Can. Know When To Stop
by McGregor Miller on Monday, August 1, 2011 at 7:45am

I have $1,000.00 in the bank. It's not a lot but it's there in case something unexpected happens. My friend John's car broke down. He didn't ask to help but I knew he needed that car to get him to work every day. It was costly but it had to be done. What are friends for?

My neighbor's house caught on fire and they were devastated. Their lives seemed hopeless now that everything in their life was destroyed in the fire. They needed immediate help before the insurance kicked in. With only the clothes on their back they were in desperate need for new ones. They were poor and could not afford a hotel room. Someone should help them. They can't help themselves.

My thousand dollars is no longer in the bank. As a matter of fact I'm living with a deficit.

I became distracted by other people's problems I found myself not able to pay all of my bills this month. I had to take out a small loan to get my bills caught up. The interest rate will eat away but it can't be helped. The money has to come from some place.

To make matters worse my friend was arrested for battery. He's got an attitude and is in desperate need for anger management. He needs bail money. If he doesn't get out of jail he will lose his job.

The United States had a massive bank account. Since we became the worlds humanitarian to help struggling nations for natural disaster relief. Unfortunately other countries are not as giving. Without their contribution to help we find the need to offer more assistance. If it were us needing the help we would appreciate other nations coming to our aid. I wonder how many actually would.

Our Country has decided to be the Top Cop. If a Country has a leader who does things that are not in the best interest of their country, it's the opinion of our country to remove him from power. We live in a democracy and this is the only life we know. However other country's know no other life than what they live. What right do we have to go in there and tell those people their leader is a mean person and we are going to find a better life for them?

This is no different than a Baptist telling a Jew he way of life is wrong.

Just because the man responsible for the 911 attacks fled to Afghanistan I see no reason in going to war in that country because he fled there. He becomes America's most wanted. You don't create havoc and destroy what took them years to build.

The wars in the east have lasted thousand of years. Who are we to intervene? Let nature takes it's course like it has for those thousands of years.

Our national debt is depleted. We don't have enough money to pay all the bills. Raise the Federal debt ceiling is the solution. That's until you find you will have to raise it again later on down the road. We knew this day would come.

If we spent the billions of dollars fighting all of these wars, and helping all of these helpless country's, ALONE, in time there would be no money for us. These billions of dollars should have been spent right here in the good ol USA!

Adequate healthcare for everybody. Jobs, jobs, jobs! Domestic oil! American made companies. Programs to help educate people for the workforce. A waitress going to college at night to further herself in life. If the United States were to invest more into ourselves we would get more.

We can't have these programs because we are spending your money to fight these wars.

The entire focus on this issue involves not having enough money to take care of ourselves. If we as a country focus more on our own welfare, worry less about others we would not be in the situation we are in today. I agree spending is the biggest issue. Let's start by getting our troops back home. The people from the east will continue to fight one another for as long as they breathe. I say we need to police less and help ourselves more. I believe the economy would be in better shape than what it is today. Today's action in my opinion just applied band aid on the problem. The problem will not just go away. We will revisit this situation again before the end of this year. We as people need to make noise in our dissatisfaction in being on all this foreign soil.

Just saying....my words.
Just call me mac.

Redneck Tuck

The Danville Dan's Were Having A "Redneck" Night At The Danville Stadium Last Night. The Danville Dan's Is A Collegiate Level Baseball Team That Is Situated In Danville Illinois.
The Above Photo Is Of My Brother Tuck. He Is A Part Time Stadium Announcer For The Danville Dan's. Last Night Was Redneck Night For The Evening. They Encouraged People To Dress Up Or Dress Down For The Occasion. Previously They Had A Hawaiian Night. This Time Tuck And Others Wore Shirts To Fit The Occasion.
It Ended Up Nobody Came To The Stadium, Redneck Style. Just Tuck. So There Sat Tuck In His Bib Overall's Hat With Braids, With Toilet Paper Sticking Out From His Behind. I Imagine The Majority Of Those In Attendance Had No Idea It Was Redneck Night. There Sat Tuck.
If You Know Tuck, Let Me Warn You How Shy He Is. Not!! Tuck Of Course Took The Non Compliance In Stride. He Must Have Been Stared At By Many Last Night. They May Have Wondered What He Looked Like Before He Dressed Up For The Ballgame.
Tuck Has A Great Sense Of Humor. He Knows I Would Never Laugh At Him, But Allowing Me To Laugh With Him Is Priceless!
You Made My Day Bro! The Years We Had Shared Through The Many Years Of Knowing One Another Would Give Me A Months Of Writing Blogs. Maybe Another One On A Different Day.
Yahoo, Mountain Dew?

Up Your Nose With A Rubber Hose!

I Use To Say That To Vent My Frustration. Today I Take Aim At Any And All Weather People. Included Are The So Called Meteorologist. How About Don't Pee On My Leg And Tell Me It's Raining.....
Ok, Let's Get To The Root Of My Problem. I Host An Outside Weekly Rummage Sale. I Depend On The Weather People To Do What They Are Trained To Do. I Don't Pay Attention To The Radio Stations Disk Jockey's Report Because It's Their Job To Read Whatever Is Put Under Their Nose. I Do However Expect A Certain Amount Of Professionalism From Those Who Went To School To Become A Meteorologist. All Of Their Fancy Equipment, Maps, Illustrations, Graphics, Are Useless If They Cannot Make A More Accurate Prediction. There Was A Time I Was Having A Sale When Out Of No Where Rain Began Pouring Down. It Was Not Predicted. The Weatherman Didn't Even Say,,,Oops!
I Have Cancelled Sales Because It Was Forecasted To Rain. Sometimes It Would Not Rain At All.
So You Think It's The Meteorologist I Am Attacking? Partly. I Guess One Of The Worse Situations Is When Somebody Approaches Me After It Did Not Rain. They Say, You know, It Did Not Rain. Yes I Know This. Your Point? You Could Have Set Up Because I Knew It Wasn't Going To Rain. Do You Think I Care If They Knew It Wasn't Going To Rain? I Rely On Trained People To Determine Whether It's Going To Rain. Certainly Not A Backyard Weather Predictor. If They Don't Get It Right My Frustration Is Pointed Toward Them.
Every Time I Sit A Week Out It Cost Me. The Sales Are What Bring Revenue In To Pay For Gas And Other Cost To Keep Me Going. Not Only Is It Frustrating, It's Very Costly When I Have To Cancel.
It Infuriates Me When Someone Rubs My Nose In It After It Does Not Rain On The Day I Cancel. Like, Hey I Told You So...
I Really Would Like To Have A Job With Cool Looking Graphics And Instruments Just To Tell You What The Weather Did Yesterday. Get Paid 60-70,000.00 A Year! That Would Be Fantastic!
Realistically I Would Prefer The Naysayers To Just Mind Their Own Business. I Seem To Get It From All Angles Throughout The Summer.
I Think From Now On When I Cancel A Sale Because Of Forecasted Rain, I Will Just Tell People I Didn't Feel Well. Maybe I Just Wanted The Day Off. I Don't Appreciate Being Proved Wrong When I Rely On Someone Who Is Suppose To Be Right!
I Have Been Playing The Rain Game For Years Now. The Bottom Line Is All Of That Stuff That Fills The Parking Lot Is Not Their Responsibility. It Takes Me 2 Hours To Set Up And 2 1/2 Hours To Shut Down. That Is 4 1/2 Hours Just Opening And Closing.
Starting Today I Refuse To Let Anybody Get Under My Skin When It Comes To My Decisions On Whether I Have A Sale Or Not. You Never Know, I May Decide To Have A Sale Just Once A Month. I May Decide To Have A Sale In The Middle Of The Night. Whatever I Decide Will Be My Decision And That's The Way It Is.