Reason why?

The day after Thanksgiving.

Official start of the Christmas season.

Till this very day I wonder why a grown woman and man with sons my age tell me an innocent 5 year old that Santa wasn't going too visit me because I didn't receive a letter from him like their boys did.

I think about it every Christmas.

Assholes!

I like it

I know it.

I'm a boring person.

Always have been always will be.

Never been to war,never jumped out of a airplane,never been drunk,never smoked dope,never been in a police car chase,never been shot at(but a man did pull out a gun on my Daddy once and I wasn't scared for me but for Daddy)never cut up to much in school,never did anything I knew would worry me later,never will I be like Tony Soprano,never will I complain(not to you anyway)etc and etc.

Yes I'm just your everyday boring person who likes things quite,likes being alone at times,likes watching the sun set, likes puppies and kittens,likes being around people I like,likes comfort food(burgers,fries,beans peas,cornbread and since yesterday that delicious creamy cheese broccoli and smoky bacon soup)likes knowing what is right what is wrong and likes having God in my life,likes having you in my life(smiling)likes having sweet memories mixed in with the bad ones,likes the smell of honeysuckle on a star filled summer night peppered with fireflies,etc and etc.

Yes this is me John Lee Haynes...and I like it.

Wimps and weaklings

Wimps and weaklings.

Compared to old school rioters of years gone by this is the rioters of Ferguson.

I watched as 12 big ole boys tried to flip a Dodge subcompact Po Po car over and they barely got the thing up on 2 wheels.

Back in the ole days of rioting give Momma a 40 ouncer and she could flip them huge Crown Vic's by herself like they were Matchbox cars.

If you are going to steal do it big.

Back in the LA riots folks had style and class.

I remember seeing a huge 60 inch Sony TV hanging out the trunk of a Plymouth Duster.

Today's Ferguson rioters have set their sights way low.

The first place they hit was Dollar Tree.

Send them back to rioting 101 and learn how it's done old style.

Peoples done got old

Peoples done got old.

I was looking around on Facebook,really I was searching for folks I knew from East Newnan,Ga.

People I was so called friends with back in the 60's.That was a sarcastic remark excuse me.

After deep thought I've come to the conclusion really they weren't that nicest of people.

As I lay here drinking hot tea with just a taste of honey and lemon listening to the Ramones on YouTube my mind is free and clear.

I can and will say those people back in the day I really don't like now or then.

So should I invite them to be my friends on Facebook....nahh that ain't going to happen.

You ain't all that

It erks me when someone walks by,you say hello and get no response.

Could it be they are deaf and just didn't hear me?

Could it be they were so busy in deep thought all outside communication was shut out?

Could it be they felt saying hello in return wasn't worthy of their time?

Could it be whatever?

I can forgive but forgetting is another thing.

Besides you really ain't all that.

Lost innocence

51 years ago, November 22nd,1963,a simpler time,a Friday,about 2 pm est,a cloudy but mild day,11 years old in the 6th grade at East Newnan Elementary life as we had known it changed.

President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas,Texas.

Principal Hemphil announced over the loud speaker in each class room that the President was dead.

It started raining and turned cold that afternoon.

All TV networks, just 3 at that time,in black and white broadcast around the clock news,updates,interviews with witnesses and speculation about who or what had killed JFK.

I watched live on TV Saturday as Lee Harvey Oswald the accused assassin was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.

It has been called the end of Camelot.

America had lost it innocence.

Opportunity

Room available.

For that special person a special opportunity.

Come join us down in room 31 SW where your every need will be met.

Special consideration given if you have kin folk who work at the Krystal or Taco Bell that visit often and are very generous.

Inquire within to our resident manager Paul.

If you are that special one come on down.

Baby it's cold outside

18 degrees this morning in LaGrange.

That is cold for here this time of the year.

I had to decide if breakfast or staying under warm covers which one was the best choice.

When I was a kid for heat we had coal burning fireplaces or a pot belly stove and later on when the city ran gas lines to houses space heaters.

Never was heat left on at night.

Those patch quilts piled so high it felt like being encased in cement kept you warm.

Those cold mornings and the first steps on bare painted wood floors made  emergency runs to the bathroom just that an emergency.

No wonder carpeted floors became a big hit.

Ernie the biker dude

I have a friend here at the old folks home let's just call him Ernie the biker dude.

Ernie is 6 months younger than me and I really enjoy our chats we have each day sitting around the TV.

The biker dude looks the part.Rings on each finger,chains around the neck and bracelets on each wrist,ear rings and a body covered with tattoos shaved head and beard.He looks like that singer from Judas Priest really.

When it starts lighting I tend to give Ernie the biker dude plenty of room cause I just know wearing all that silver jewelry he would be an excellent conductor for electricity.

He tells of his adventures in his life and I just know my evil twin and Ernie could be blood brothers or maybe twins separated at birth.

On one of his fingers he wears a ring that caught my attention a skull with red eyes.

We have a hand shake deal.

If I kick the bucket first he can have my prized possession this computer.Now if he gives up the ghost first that silver skull ring with red eyes is mine.

A blaze of glory

Laying here in bed last night looking out the window nature provided me with a light show of no comparison to any thing man made.

A shooting star streaked across the sky moving east to west.

It seemed to be low and slow almost stopping so I could enjoy it longer.

A flash and poof it was gone.

I got to thinking,that shooting star was like man,bright,fast moving then in a blaze of glory it was gone only to be left as a memory to be enjoyed later.

Just for laughs

Laying here in bed waiting on breakfast watching it rain and the wind blow the BlueJay bird wind chime out my bedside window something caught my attention.

Down the hall people were laughing.Each laugh was different like voices I could tell who the laugh belonged to.

Some laughs were the tiny almost embarrassed to be laughing laughs,others were the snorting kind I don't care who's listening types.

Some laughs were pleasant others that make your skin crawl like fingernails scraping a blackboard type of laugh.

But the best laughs of all are a baby's laugh.

Set me free

Shadows pass by me
Chill down my spine
Something there I can't see
Maybe I'm losing my mind

I feel there is evil
Here with me
Surely I'm bedeviled
Jesus set me free

Goings on at the old folks home

Weekly round up of the goings on at the old folks home.

Ms A. the Lady who threw a cup of ice water in my face awhile back has had her wheelchair fixed and she no longer goes round and round in circles like a ship with a broke rudder.She is on the move and it worries me when I know that little old Lady is behind me some where out of sight.She spends her free time hollering help and just like that little boy who cried wolf one day help will be needed for real but her cries for help will go unnoticed.

Rufus was acting like a dufus and the Po Po's took him away.His piano and guitar playing will be missed...nahh.

Ms P. does her nightly laps around the mall area in her wheelchair.She is huffing and puffing like Fred Sandford who would say "this is the big one Elizabeth".I just know she will fall out with a heart attack some afternoon.Each lap she makes my foot manages getting run over least once.

Mr R. is back from his vacation at the hospital and I'm trying to convince him to leave me one of his rings the one which is a skull with red eyes in his will.You know just in case.

Gary J. reelected resident president.Again no one else wants the job so the incumbent had no opposition.

Eating fried chicken

Nurse Amber bless your heart
How can I say thank you where do I start
What you brought back from town
Makes me feel like jumping around

Big Chick chicken and crinkle fries
From this bed I will arise
Talk about food that's good
Eating fried chicken in the hood

A big surprise for me

Talk about being surprised I was.

It all took place last Saturday at lunch.As always and always on this day my order for hotdogs was put in to the kitchen.

What happened was rarer than snow in Georgia in July or stranger than me thinking a politician is honest and looking out for my best interest.

I was took back friends.

Opening my lunch plate top there they were two of the prettiest fried or baked or microwaved who cares big ole corndogs.

Flashback.

It was an New Year's eve and off to the Krystal I went.Not even out of the drive thru yet and I was munching on a cornpup and then it happened,stars were seen maybe I even blacked out for a few micro seconds,the humanity of it all,I had bit down on the cornpup stick and loosen my $1000 implanted front tooth yeah the tooth that the dog ate years later.

But my lust for corndogs hasn't ceased.

I've already put my order in for hotdogs today join me friends in hoping for more corndogs and lots of mustard.

Redneck ways explained

Redneck ways explained:

1.Shaving your beard off...disguise...hiding from your wife or the Po Po's.

2.Wearing of socks...somebody done died and you have to dress up for the funeral.

3.Feast for sore eyes...swiping the last buttered biscuit from Bubba.

4.Question...why did you shoot Larry Bill...answer...he was wearing a camo hat,camo face mask,camo coat,camo pants and camo boots...I didn't see'em.

5.In the dog house...place you go that's much nicer than at home with the wife and kids.

6.Here is where you can add a saying... ain't easy is it?

7.Redneck woman's way of showing her love for you...holding your  backy spit cup made from a Folgers coffee can when driving the F150 on bumpy roads.

8.Git...what I better do after numbers 5 and 7.

Clink clank

Something in my life is missing.

On a cold clear winters night laying in bed half way between sleep and awake the sound of a train,whistle blowing and tracks rattling with bells ringing.

 I don't hear them hear.

That clink clank of the train on the track I hoped would never stop or least till falling asleep.

Shootin and Cookin

Congratulations to my friend who now has her own Saturday afternoon TV show.

Watch for it at 4 pm weekly on your local Fox TV station.

The name of the show is Shootin and Cookin.

Tune in each week and find out what's been shot and how she will cook it.Here is a sneak preview.

Doesn't get any better

It doesn't get any better than this.

Fall days especially fall afternoons.The colors of trees with browns,oranges and yellow leaves.That brisk refreshing air on a fall evening when you take a deep breath and your nostrils are filled with the chillness  and the simple joy of wood smoke from someone's fireplace or the burning of fallen leaves.

In your front porch rocker watching the suns last shimering rays as it sets in the west being replaced by a star filled sky so big and bright you feel like reaching up and grabbing one.

Peace has come to you.

Old folks and drugs

The Bible said to drink a little wine for thou stomachs sake.

Now why don't we follow rules the Bible has set forth?

I think that instead of loading us old folks up with these high power drugs that have all these awful side effects give us all a little glass of wine before bedtime some folks maybe would need two glasses to relax and get everyone in a happy mood.

While pouring our drinks how about a little smoke of that medical marijuana for our bad eyes and aching joints.

Natural medications instead of those synthetic man made killer drugs that the big pharmaceutical companies say we should take.

 Come on now wouldn't you rather see Grandma and Grandpa dancing around having a bit of fun and being happy instead of having that dead fish stare in their eyes?

Catastrophe at old folks home

A catastrophe at the old folks home was avoided today.

Seems some of the residents here took a trip to Burger King for Whoppers and fries on the bus borrowed from our big sister nursing home across town.

All goes well till the return trip back.Seems the remote hand control for the wheelchair lift was left dangling outside of the bus according to our on the spot reporter rendering it un usable.

Those on wheelchairs were trapped on the bus and had to be rescued. From my understanding there were a few tense moments among the trappees.

Gary J in his big power chair was one of the trappees and our reporter on the spot has of yet not had a chance to interview him yet getting his first hand impression of the event.

From my understanding all were rescued.

Our on the spot reporter with their box of crayons and a piece of scrap paper renders this photo of the scene.

The good the bad

Car bursts into flames after wreck at Checkers - Lagrange Daily News - lagrangenews.com

The good...no one hurt

The bad...Big Bufords just went on sale 2 for $5

Strange

Looking out my window a few minutes ago I seen something.

Was it a flock of white/silvery birds flying in formation or...

The strange thing was they disappeared,just vanished,poof very quickly.

Watcha talking bout Willis

I should have known.

Past few days here at the old folks home I've had some interesting conversations.

I guess you could call them interesting,different for sure but mostly just confusing.A few of the residents have  engaged me in conversations and it's like they are speaking some unknown foreign long forgotten language.

I could not make heads or tails out of what they were saying.They could have been speaking French or something but I just could not understand them.

I was so glad,after agreeing with what ever it was they were talking about they finished up and moved along.

Another resident rolls up and starts their story just like I'm suppose to know what they are talking about.It seems I'm missing something and when I ask what they are talking about it's like they don't hear me and continue with their story.

Silly me.

I totally missed it.

Now I know why the confusion.

Last night was the Beaver/Frosty full moon.

Word scares me

That word scares me.

The C word.

Cancer.

In my Daddy's family just about all of them died of it.It has even started in my generation with several cousins having it now or have died from it.

Every little ache or pain I get I think of Daddy.Lung an bone cancer killed him.I remember the pain he had.

It was hard watching him in pain and wasting away.Daddy had always been big and strong.

In his family Grandpa,Daddy,Aunt Gladys,Aunt Ruby,Aunt Myrtle and Aunt Eula all died with one type or another cancer.

Yes that word strikes fear in me.

He hates dogs

All the dogs on Juniper Street knew when Joe(I won't use his last name)was close by.

Joe was the dog catcher back then in the late 1950's.

Seems the dogs had their own way of saying Joe was coming.Barking was relayed one by one warning other dogs of impeding danger.

I seen Joe take out his rifle and blindly shoot at a fleeing dog through a neighbors yard once.Where that bullet ended up who knows.

Good news was the dog escaped.

Forward to the 2000's.

A neighbor had a dog with several puppies.They were kept in a pen next to another neighbor's property line.

There is always one in a neighborhood,the one that don't like anybody or anything.

Neighbor called dog catcher and long story short he sided with hate everything neighbor and the dogs,Momma and puppies were removed.

Now this dog catcher who was about 300 pounds looking like a Samurai wrestler puts a choke collar on Momma and leads her to his dog catching truck.

Well Momma I guess doesn't want to go and is a bit uncontrolable and 300 pound takes out his baton and is in motion to wack Momma dog.

The scene brings back memories of Joe and his rifle.

So I'm thinking putting 1 plus 1 togather and have come to the conclusion that to be a dog catcher one has to be a dog hater.

Jesus was a Republican?

I just don't understand.

Where in the Bible does it say Jesus was a Republican?

The way people are talking this morning  he was.

First off let me say I'm not a Democrat or Republican if I'm anything call me an Independent.

What I don't like about party politics is just that they are for the party they belong with and the American people are far down the list of who they work for.

Being honest both parties have done good both have done bad.

I have faith in the American people but none in the political system.

Never on Saturday

Think I'm turning into a ...

Just about all my life I  have been one almost.

Lately it has been showing up more and more in my life and the way I think.

Yes Dear ones put down that Big Mac,slide that T bone off to the side of your plate,take that chicken and give it a good fling,I sure don't want you to choke when I break the news to you.

I'm not 100% yet but just about ready to turn that corner.Coming out of the closet you could say.

Friends are you sitting down?

Here goes hold on.

I'm a uh one of those you know please don't judge me okay out loud and proud here goes...

VEGETARIANS!!!

There I've said it and now I'm free  from living that double life.

No more whoppers for me,not even one of those small square Krystal burgers who I have been having a love affair with since the age of 10.

From now on the only food that touches my lips will be cauliflower and steamed carrots.

Except on Saturdays at lunch when hot dogs are served here at the old folks home.

MSNBC FOX CNN

What's wrong with me
I watch MSNBC on TV
That morning joe
He is in the know

You can keep Fox
The anchor Ladies are pretty
O'Riley and Smith
For brains they have rocks

Now CNN
I watch it from now and then
The mouth of the south Ted Turner
I think we are kin

I so miss Walter Cronkite
Him I believed
And that's the way it is
He would say each night

Rudeness in the 1st degree

Rudeness in the 1st degree
Talking about you Wille T
Swiping the remote like a dog grabbing a bone
Acting like you were home

Others watching a football game
You changed the channel to something lame
Women's basketball
Talking about having gall

Playing that radio loud all night
That's another thing that's not right
Even with my headphones on
Still it doesn't drown it out

So be considerate be nice
Before you flick them channels think twice
I know you have short attention span
Come on now act like a man

Messing with God's doings

Stop messing with God's doings.

Man in his high opinion of himself always messes things up.

Take this time changing thing.Daylight savings time regular time all that other time stuff.

I think we are now on what I always called sun time.The way God planned it and if that's the way He wanted it leave it alone.

So we fell back in time this morning.Come spring it will spring ahead.It confuses me and this morn up at my regular time which would be 7 am yesterday it was now 6 am and that meant 2 more hours till breakfast.

Confused and my stomach growling I sure wish the powers that be just stop messing with God's plan of things.

Time waits for no one

A new month.

November has come in hard here in Georgia.Right now the temperature is 44 degrees with cloudy skies and wind gust up to 32 mph.

Thanksgiving will be here soon,my favorite holiday.

Time waits for no one 2015 is just about here.