Those voices

Never have I seen anything I could not explain,maybe a few kin folks from Alabama have confused me,but in general all has been easy to cifer.

No ghost,demons with horns,UFO's,loud talkers from north Alabama that get on your nerves,nothing,maybe a few UFO's but do we have to talk about them?

Things heard is a different story.

Those things that go bump into the night.Things you hope are just your brain working over time.

Those things.The scary things.Things that could be real.

Scary things I know.

I'm sane enough to put the weird and crazy stuff away putting them in a box outta the reach of those not stable.

I have heard the dark side a few times.This doesn't have to mean crazy stuff but things that go on in real but strange life.

Examples.

Several times voices have been heard.The most disturbing was Momma calling my name in the darkness of a room.Never answer those people or what they really are she would always tell me.

Voices calling somebody you can't see but hear them walking down a long hall in woman high heels.I even look but no one was there.

I had a eye witness to this one.This was an old farm like  house where I was living at the time.One night I was awaken by a group of people doing what I thought was praying but it wasn't praying but  I call chanting.My witness heard them also.

This happened daily for a long time.Each afternoon someone having their after supper pipe smoke would fill the room with sweet wonder smoke.They are missed.

There are more,all true,but I had to save room for those Alabama folks and their UFO tales.

And Happy Halloween to you!

Always something

As Roseanne Rosannadanna would say on Saturday Night Live"it's always something".

I know the feeling.

Please bare with me even though you have heard my story before,maybe too many times.

Food.

Yes food.I will try making this quick as possible.

I have a serious problem going on here.

Food turns me off!

Momma said that food is just one of lives little pleasures.She was so right.

Yes it's true,this ain't no April Fool joke,all food,or the side effects of medicine have killed my desire for food.Once I would crave the foods I like,burgers,fries,on and on.Comfort food but honest it just gags me thinking of it.

I hope soon I will get back to my love of food.It's not fun.

James Brown said...

I feel good.

Today is October 26th and about two months I've been taking a break from the blog.Nothing amazing to write about but a few things have passed by my plate in the recent past.

I was dying...

ICU for four months and two days of it I just knew my fife was over.

Scared and miserable...

That's what I was.Double pneumonia they called it.I won't get into the details but I was in pretty bad shape for awhile.

I had a lot of things going in my body but the worse thing was shortness of breath.For two days I could not get my breath.Relief came only after long needles where used for draining fluid from my lungs.Thank God for Doctors and Nurses who have their hands touched that can do things like this and know how to treat people.

Gasping for air I admit scared I was.

I hope it never happens again but if it does please Lord let my suffering be quick not as Jesus had to endure on the cross.

Yum

Seen this morning...a fat boy's dream...truckload of McDonalds french fries!

Highwaymen

I'll be back again and again and again ...

Mouth waters

Daddy I'm thinking about how good it would be having a hamburger cooked by you right now.

Big slice of sweet onion,mustard and catsup,home fries and a big dill pickle on the side,your way of cooking a burger.

Now for the secret way you made them.

Take the buns and dip them in the grease when they are ready to eat.

My mouth waters thinking of one.

Pink tasty stuff

It's pink,tasty and goes down smooth like melted ice cream.

Raspberry sherbet.

I started my own little experiment with food the other day.Thursday it was because that's the day that delicious food item is served at supper.

Do you know that when it's melted it looks and taste just like Pepto Bismol?Yeah that medicine used for upset stomach and such.I had the such part of the problem if you get my drift.

The experiment.

Last Thursday I decided to forgo the beefy cheesy mac and just have the raspberry sherbet.

I have had better than good results with that combo and decided it was the Thursday supper time beef cheesy mac that had to go.

But in the end I have been wrong...again.

About 4 am the world was turning over and over like in the soap opera "as the world turns"...sick I was.

So another food experiment goes by the way side.

Beefy cheesy mac was not the culprit.

Warning...that pink medicine tasty stuff did not help at all it just added to my problem.

Part of my soul

What you or anyone else may say I don't care!

Try taking away the respect I have for this man will be a waste of time.

Jacob Haynes my Great Great Grand Pa.

He lost a leg at Vicksburg during the civil war where he was taken prisoner.

That alone reserves respect.

Now comes uninformed people black and white who want to tarnish the memory of soldiers who fought for what ever reason.Remove any trace that they ever lived.

It will not work.

My Great Great Grandpa will always be part of my living soul.You or anybody can't take my feelings away.

Devils Advocate

Being the Devils Advocate.

When things are not going the way you would have them or another point of view.

The opposite.

An example.When people act in a way that disturb you because they know better and I just want to tell them that they are a being first class you know whats.

The way some treat others.

What about those who use caustic words towards those who are powerless how do you think they feel,how would you feel?

No I won't go into details but really you know who you are.Don't you feel ashamed the may you treat people who depend on you for what ever reason and being slack in your job is a way of life?

Maybe I should stop now before I say what needs to be said.

Burger

A hamburger has always been my favorite food.

Comfort food you might say.Add crinkle cut fries and I was in blissful Heaven just add a little ice cold Co Cola and the world is good far as I'm concerned.

Come Sundays I have changed my mind.

Three weeks out of the month for our evening Sunday meal hamburgers are served.

No onion,maybe a dill pickle,lucky if get a slice of cheese,mustard and ketchup maybe and round it out with what is called baby bakers which are small baked potatoes.

I want a Big Mac or Whopper with fries or a Krystal with a bowl of chilli a couple of Big Bufords from Checkers loaded with bacon would be wonderful.

Please no more of these Twin Fountain Sunday delights.

Missing

Where have all the lighting bugs gone?

Sounds good

Lately food hasn't tasted good to me.

Maybe it's the food.Maybe it's something going on with my body.Maybe it's just the food is not to my liking.

But this item of food does sound good.

A hamburger steak cooked like Momma would,with homemade brown gravy loaded with chipped raw onions, crinkle cut fries and some brown and serve rolls.

I can't live on buttermilk and cornbread alone.

The joke

Tales from Hotel California.

Listen if you will and tales of our lives I shall divulge.Tales that will shock you,tales that will make you cry,the happy and outrageous,and tales that just make you wonder.

Join the lives of us,the old,the disabled,your sick and just plain out tired,those who have been left alone and forgotten by those who say they care and love you.

Hotel California I loving call this place of tears,a place where the majority of us will end our days.A place where we never thought being alone at the mercy of others to care for us meeting the basic needs of life.

But life has a cruel joke to play on some of us.

Never did we want any part of this joke.

When I'm sixty four

Yay!

It's my Birthday.

I made it to 63.

If I'm not careful I will be an old guy one day.

Freedom

There is an advantage being alone.

Sure I miss people in my life but dwelling on it serves no purpose.

Freedom is just a word for nothing else to loose the song said.And lot in my life has been lost.

And there is a sort of freedom I live.No one left to mourn for,none left to worry about,freedom in a strange way.

Know it well

I dream of the past.

There is a certain spot,on a certain road,in a certain town were history seems to come alive for me.

Every since I was a boy this place seems like time stands still,for a second I know I'm reliving me life.

Deja Vu.

Tall red clay hills,green trees,dusty roads,the season is summer.

This I know well.

The feeling

The feeling.

I'm sure everyone has had this feeling one time or another in their life.

The feeling that something is going to happen.A feeling so strong it can't be ignored.A feeling of dread.

Out of the blue mine came unexpected without warning.No time to think,no time to worry,no time to hide.

Like all things in life you can only deal with it.

The thrill is gone

Things have changed in the last year for me.

Take writing for example…the fun has gone.

No longer do  I rush each morning to get that story or idea started.Now if I do have an idea to write about soon my story gets lost in the train of thought.

Fact is I have lost interest.

As B.B. King said…the thrill is gone!

My Sweet Lord

Controversy!

Have you noticed whats going on with our food?

Look on your meal ticket tell me what is different.Look closely,do you see anything?

No not extra carrots,not more zucchini or squash,that awful beef with rice with gravy sprinkled with hidden mushrooms is still on the menu,chicken hasn't disappeared,chicken legs and that mumbo jumbo laced with carrots is still here.

What may you ask is out of the ordinary?

Milk!!!

Milk is missing from our menu.No skim,fat free,2%,or sweet milk and My Sweet Lord help us no buttermilk with our cornbread.

Milk has disappeared.It's not listed on our tea,coffee or juice menu.

Inquiring minds wonder what happened.

Life without milk and cornbread think about it!

M&M's

What a sweet dream Mr.James my roomie had last night.

Seems his dream was about working at a food distributor place.He worked all night packing boxes of M&M candy.

Mr.James don't forget me in your dreams.

I'm partial to chocolate peanut M&M's.