Hard headed and set in my ways...

I'm in for a treat.Being a sheltered born and bred Southerner there are a few things in life never have I experienced.

Snow for example.Ain't never seen much of that.Big tall sky scrapers.Crowds of people like in downtown NYC.

Food.I have been called curious cause somethings I haven't tried just because it just didn't look right.Maybe being hard headed and set in my ways explains me some what.

Well there is a volunteer here named Ray who is from way up there in the state of Maine.He was in the restaurant business and still does some catering I think.Lately we have been talking about food.Lobster to be exact.Never ever have I ate lobster or crab meat.Ray has kin still living up in Maine and they sent him 200 lobsters on dry ice.Ray said his Mom would give him lobster juice instead of milk in his baby bottle.He is making lobster crab rolls and has promised me one.I shall report back to you of my opinion of it soon as it arrives.

Sayings

Sayings.Those little words of wisdom.Daddy would say if they can live with it I can live without it.Momma always said some folks have to cut you down to make themselves look bigger.

When finding fault with someone she would remind me that it might not be them it might be you.

Sayings.Words to live by.

Standing Rock,Alabama

A small place in Alabama,Standing Rock.I lived there from age 3 till 5 years old.

Story is the Indians left this stone here when being removed from the territory to mark the Trail of Tears.

It is said that if the rock ever falls or is removed the world will come to and end.

Sapsucker part deux

The other day I wrote about mistakenly thinking I had been called a redneck sapsucker.That clicked on a switch in my brain and brought back a memory.

When I was a boy me and Daddy did what he called loafing.Momma worked the evening shift in the mills and he the day shift.

We would spend our afternoons visiting folks.Kin,people from church or just really anybody.That is a long lost art today,visiting folks.

Riding in the car it seemed this would always happen.Someone would pull in front of us,cut you off or do something that made Daddy mad.

You sapsucker he would call them.That was his word.Looking at me he would say "if you had not been in the car I would let him hit me".Every time Daddy would say that.

So just a friendly warning.Be careful.There are a lot of sapsuckers out there!

Rattling of the door

The wind did howl last night.After getting a shower and back into my room the window next to my bed was opened for a bit.It was stuffy in here and the fresh cool air on my face was nice.

Well talk about interesting it was.Temperature dropped like a rock and the wind was howling.It sounded like someone in misery taking their last few precious breaths of life.

The door to our room was shut and with the wind howling the door would rattle like someone was trying to open it.The rattling of the door,drop in temperature and the moaning of the wind was the perfect back drop to a good story.

Chips,BBQ chips

Chips.BBQ potato chips.That's what is on my mind today.

Those tangy sweet chips.

Guess this proves I'm just a simple man.With all that's going on in the world,all the trials,tribulations and test that we have,chips,BBQ chips is all I'm thinking of.

Back then

Someone told me once I was living in the past.Now what is wrong with that? The past is where my life is and where the happiest times of my life are.

I enjoy watching old TV shows and movies of my youth.Back when things seemed so innocent.Back when life was good.Not saying life's not good now.Don't get me wrong.

Back then when ......well I don't have a word to describe it.

It is a feeling I guess more than anything.Memories.

Redneck sapsucker

Laying here in bed watching a program about birds guess I dozed off.I heard someone loudly say redneck sapsucker.That woke me up.Oh it was the bird program.For a minute I thought someone was calling me.

Lazarus

Lazarus.Jesus was his friend.Often I have thought about Lazarus.

Death.I read where the Bible said death is a deep sleep.In the grave we stay till the rapture(the rapture is not mentioned in the Bible) and Jesus returns.The dead in Christ shall rise from the grave first meeting Jesus in the sky then all else shall follow.

Back to Lazarus.Some say our soul at the moment of death goes for judgment.And Jesus told the thief who was crucified with him that he would join him in paradise that evening.

It's all very confusing.I'm sure people asked Lazarus what was it like.Death.Never have I read what or if he said anything.

Something to think about.

Boat ride from Hell

Once in my life I have been deep sea fishing.I ain't going back.Panama City,Florida back in 1972 so I would have been 20 at the time.

Really I just wanted to go along for the ride,fishing wasn't the most important thing on my mind.A friend had just bought a brand new sparkling 72 Chevrolet Monte Carlo.Yellow with green vinyl top.

Off we went and ended up in PC.

Morning came and leaving the hotel we had breakfast.Mistake number 1.Greasy eggs,sausage and grits.Things where let's say stormy that morn.A boat had been chartered but because hurricane warnings were in effect the Captain he gave our money back saying he wasn't that brave.Smartest man I had met that day.

So we found another boat,one of those big ones that had 30 or so folks that didn't have any better sense than we did and off into the Atlantic ocean we went.Mistake number 2.

Long as land could be seen I was fine,no problem.A little further out we passed a huge old rusty ship that was bobbing up and down like one of those little balls on the end of your cane fishing pole when a fish was nibbling on your bait.That should have been a warning if I was smart.

That little charted fishing boat would rise up and down like it was on a see saw.When the back end where we ended up it came down it sounded like the boat was hitting cement.

There was a canteen on the boat.Mistake number 3.The smell of greasy fried food combined with the up down motion of the boat well is what you call SEA SICK.

It was awful.Shoot me I thought.Can't take much of this.Dry heaves.I'm dying.My friend later said he seen people turn green.

The guy doing the cooking said he knew he was going to Hell when he died but least he didn't get SEA SICK.

That boat stayed out in the ocean for 8 full agonizing awful hours.No body fished.

The boat ride from Hell as I refer to it.

Now telling my boss of the time this story he said the perfect cure for being SEA SICK is to eat soda crackers while sitting under a Palm tree.

Smart man.That's why he was the boss.

Milestone

Another milestone has been reached here on this silly blog.1001 post since 2010.

Feeling comes over me

153 years ago.93 years before this life I live started.Something happened.It changed this country.Still to this day it's being relived through decedents.

No matter how hard we try it cannot be changed.

Sometimes this feeling comes over me that I was there when it all happened.Something is heard.Something is seen and for a fleeting second I'm taken back there.

Deja Vu.

Bundled up

Bundled up in my hoodie and sweatpants my sunglasses on I ventured outside today .It was windy and a bit cool but when the sun shined directly on me it felt nice.

Sitting by the cement pond(really it's nice rocks)at the veranda(fancy name for a covered shed)I had time to reflect and charge my internal batteries.

The sky was cobalt blue with fast moving puffy white clouds.The ground was water logged with standing water from all the rain of late.The water fountain was full to the brim.

 Guess I was trying out for Walmart door greeter cause everyone who walked into the building I spoke to.

A mystery

A mystery has developed.For the past year and 14 days and a few hours TFH is where I call home.

Everyday at meal time you are given a slip of paper describing what your meal is.

This is the mystery.Everyday at supper that little slip of paper list 1 each parsley.In all of my year and 14 days and a few hours never,never ever have I got parsley with my supper.

I just want to know,really the parsley is not needed but who is getting my parsley?

Just another unsolved mystery of the world.

Lord you know

Lord you know
What I'm about
I'm not one
Who prays and shouts

You know my heart
What I hold dear
You know me
And my fears

Lord you know
What I do
What I do wrong
When I'm being true

Lord you know
I'm not the man
That I could be
I am what you see

Lord give me the grace
The courage I need
For things I face
You I want to please

Citizens arrest!

Last night looking out the window here at the old folks home something caught my eye.The police had someone stopped and it looked liked a ticket was given.

What happened next reminded me of The Andy Griffith show.One episode Barney gave someone maybe Goober a ticket for making an u turn.

Well you knew it was coming but at the end of the show guess what?Barney made an u turn and Goober seen it and ran after Barney hollering Citizens arrest!Citizens arrest!

Back to last night and the traffic stop.After the ticket was wrote,the offender had drove off,the policeman turned off his blue lights and big bright spotlight guess what?Yep you guessed it.He made an u turn.

 Citizens arrest!Citizens arrest!

40 days and 40 nights

40 days and 40 nights.That is how long God let in rain when he destroyed those wicked people on Earth.Now is it a consequence or what that is how long Georgia lawmakers are in session.

40 days and 40 nights.Guess what one of our elected chieftains is trying to push through the legislature?

Get this.He wants former and current lawmakers to have a right that no other Georgians have.This guy wants them to have a special privilege of being able to carry a firearm,if they have a concealed weapon permit into the Capitol building.

I can't do that.You can't do that.But they should be able this guy said.

I thought that $300 fee just to be able to converse with our leaders was ridiculous(they did drop the fee to $25)but wanting specials laws for themselves is well what would be a good word,you pick one of your choice.

40 days and 40 nights.Lord help us.

Divine intervention

Divine intervention.Sometimes it is needed.Take supper of Tuesday.It was a turkey sandwich and chicken noodle soup.

Now that turkey must have been Alabama road kill turkey because it was awful.The soup the same.So I had this bright idea.

I ordered my free Papa Johns pizza.Large thin crust with peperoni.All I had to pay was delivery charge and a small tip.

Now for the divine intervention part.Jesus took 3 fish and a loaf of bread and fed the multitudes.That pizza didn't feed the multitudes but I did share.Slice for me,roommates and the rest for who ever who wanted it.Just wish that there had been enough for all.

Whiny and childish

Some people never do wrong.They think.I won't mention any names but I was reading about this well know singer who shall remain nameless who dates all these people,breaks up with them and then writes a little song about each break up.

Gee wiz is this person just using these folks for song material? I for one was never impressed with the singers songs.To me they sounded whiny and childish but they sure sell lots of songs I hear.Maybe they are just targeting their songs to whiny childish fans.

Lot of folks are like that.Never seeing the good or sacrifices some make for their benefit but only seeing the things they didn't like.

Whiny and childish they are.

Why I wonder

Some things I don't understand.I just seen a man jogging down the road.Maybe it was up the road.It is cold.This man was wearing a hoodie but also short pants.I notice the mail man or mail person doing the same thing.Snow or ice on the ground they are all bundled up like normal people and yep you guessed it they will be wearing short pants.It's like wearing a belt with suspenders on your pants.Kinda defeating the purpose it seems.

Why I wonder.

While on the subject of jogging,years ago Daddy and me would be some where and a jogger would be seen.Daddy I would ask,why don't you start jogging.His answer was if they followed him around in the mill each day they wouldn't feel like jogging.

To be fair it's not only the joggers and mail people I wonder about sometimes.This morning temp was 30 degrees with a wind and what do I see? Some guy on his Harley put putting down the road.Maybe it was up the road.He had to be freezing.

But least he didn't have on short pants.

SPECIAL !

Happy birthday Gail.Well this photo let me think.We spent many a summer's day on that screened in porch looking through the Sears&Roebucks catalog playing this page is mine that page is yours.Back in the old days when Sears sold donkeys,monkeys and dogs and other neat stuff.Another fun thing was to sit on the roof of that old barn in back of Grandma's and watch wrecks at the corner of Dallis and Truittt.Yes we where what folks call SPECIAL these days.Remember?Those hot summer days waiting on Pete the ice cream man and hoping someone would take pity on us and buy us a Popsicle.Going to the store for Grandma,any change left over is yours she would say.Back then you could buy candy or cookie for a penny.If you was lucky enough was left over for a hamburger and dill pickle out that jar from Smokey's.So Cousin Happy Birthday and many more for you!

Old Butt Buster

A little red wine is good for you I read.Even the bible said take a little wine for thy stomachs sake.I'm a tea toatler but maybe a glass of wine would be more sensible than all these medications we take.

Chocolate is good for you also I'm told.Guess the trick is moderation on all things.

So bring on a bottle of Old Butt Buster chilled wine from the corner convience store and get me a couple large Hershey bars.

Just for my health you know.

Peaceful

My simple wish.Just to lean against a Pine Tree on a cold clear day at sunset.Roaring campfire warming my bones.Looking at the colors of the sky.Red,pink,blue and black.

Time just to relax,think,reflect.Smell of woodsmoke filling my senses.

Peaceful.

Free sample

Looking out the big window so far today the Doritos and CoCola truck making their deliveries I've seen.The Keebler cookie(made by elves)truck will most likely be around soon also.

Wonder if they give out samples.The milkman when there was such a thing did when I was a kid.Down on Juniper Street on a Saturday a gang of kids would gather around the milk truck begging for samples.Good ole Mr milkman would most always give us a chocolate milk in those little single serve bottles.

Maybe it's the rain

Feeling unwelcome.A few times in my life I've had that feeling.Been a few years ago but the feeling is awful.Makes you feel like climbing under the nearest rock.

Once or twice when I was a kid some folks made me feel that way.

Some folks just have no manners.Met a few like that also in my life.Off the top of their heads they can be the cruelest little animals with 2 legs walking God's good green Earth.

Don't know why I'm on this subject this morning .Maybe it's the rain.

Don't pet the bunny

Car eating bunnies in Colorado.I've heard it all now.I can go sit it the corner and wait.

Seems out in Denver,Co at the airport bunny rabbits are eating cars in the parking lot.

The bunnies like sitting under the warm cars and while getting warm they must want a little snack so they eat the cars.The ignition wires of the cars to be specific.

Needless to say they are becoming a pest.

Don't pet the bunny.

She is free

The light on the ceiling.About the size of a 50 cent piece.I seen it again on Friday.I knew what it meant.

The first time that light was seen was last July.I'm not sure if it was before or after Rabbit had died.Rabbit(Robert) was a roommate.Afterwards every so often I would get the smell of roses really strong.Seems no else could.

Daytime Friday laying in bed looking up there it was again,that light.I just seen it a few seconds and it was gone.

 Friday a resident here who had moved back to her home state of Ohio died.I was told yesterday.


 She is now free of that terrible disease of ALS.

Wall Of Shame

 Here I go.On my soapbox this morning.The subject is insurance companies.Just seen on TV that insurance companies are holding back on paying folks whose homes where damaged or destroyed in hurricane Sandy.

Shame on them! Insurance comes under that evil but necessary category.Let me give you an example of my dealings with them.

Back in 1992 my Daddy had surgery for lung cancer.The cancer had spread.Daddy had a disability type insurance that he payed for monthly.

Now get this.My folks really needed those benefits they had payed for but you know what? The insurance company refused to hold up their end of the deal.We where told they would not pay because Daddy previously had cancer.LIE!!!

After months of calls and visit my Mom God rest her soul lost it in the insurance manager office one day and blessed every one in the office out I later heard.

Listen to this.The manger then reach in his desk and started pulling out checks that my folks should have been receiving all along.

At the funeral the undertaker made the comment to Momma one of the insurance companies had sure payed off real quick.Guess which one?

So long story short.I put those insurance companies in the same boat as politicians,crooked cops,lawyers and such.

I shall engraved their name on the Wall Of Shame.

Price reduced

Now it only cost $25 to speak with our elected Georgia lawmakers.Down from the original $300.

What a joke.

Where is it

Ok I'm waiting.Where is it at?Woke up at 5am looking for it.It's cloudy,temp dropping,wind picking up.

Where is that SNOW !

Something is going on

Something is going on folks.A meteorite explodes over Russia and people are hurt and buildings damaged.Something was seen over San Francisco,fireball of some type.Friday an asteroid half the size of a football field flew by the 3rd rock from the Sun,Earth.

Read about a couple of earthquakes this week.Pretty good size ones.I noticed the birds are really acting strange.Flocks of them flying somewhere.I'm seeing birds that are not native of this area also.

Tornadoes in Georgia hurricane Sandy up north.

I always say nothing shocks me anymore but some things sure surprise me.

Someone is trying to get our attention.

Pink bubbly stuff

Valentine's Day at TFH. Now let me say from the start what I did and said not remembered by me this morning.

It all started when the pink bubbly was passed out.The champagne flowed like Niagara Falls around the old home place yesterday.Me not being a partaker of alcohol thought I was drinking fruit punch with bubbles.Seems I was wrong.

This morning I was told,now none of this I remember, about how I became my alter ego John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever and turned into a dancing machine under the lighted disco ball that hung from the ceiling.

Seems I danced the night away with everything that had long hair and was pretty.So if I did all this I can't say one way or another I just don't remember.

Someone said I had my own little kissing booth in the corner and was giving away free kisses to all the nice pretty Ladies.Again I have no memory of this.

So the moral of this story is stay away from the pink bubbly stuff.It ain't fruit punch.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Surprise

Salmon and biscuits
I just got
Homemade fried taters
Not them tots

It was so good
Way Momma fried them
Life is great
Here in da hood

So Ms Cheetos
Do this for me
Hug Your Husbands neck
I'm writing him a big ole check

Just give me time
To get out of town
My checks seem to
Bounce all around

Judge Jury Excutioner

This rogue cop thing out in California is well, interesting.I wonder what the real story is and what really happened the other day when maybe they think he was killed in a fire,accidental fire I hear.

I know he is accused of killing 4 people but something just don't seem right.Just my opinion.Everyone has one of those.But in this day and age just because someone in authority said it's this way not that way doesn't make it absolute truth.

I understand the police out there where mad,their comrades had been killed by the hands of one of their own.I understand they where scared.Who wouldn't be when someone who is very capable has threaten to kill them.

Hope the real truth and nothing but the truth comes out in the following days.

Here is your hug

Valentine Day can be a cruel thing.I remember back when in grade school on this day and Valentine cards where given out.Thinking back some kids didn't get a card.That had to hurt their feelings.

So if that was you back then I'm sorry and here is a big hug from me on this Valentine's Day.

Valentine Day

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Happy Valentine's day
This is for you

Didn't get you flowers
Forgot the candy
Sometimes a bad memory
Comes in handy

Think of the money I saved
Think of the weight you didn't gain
This is your gift
A poem by John Haynes

Some call me cheap
I prefer thrifty
Those roses
Just make you weep

Just looking out for you
Doing whats best
Everything I said
Is just in jest

You are great
You are fine
Happy Valentine Day
Glad your a friend of mine

Cops and doughnuts

Thief steals Krispy Kreme doughnut truck.Cops with blue lights and sirens chase thief in Krispy Kreme doughnut stolen truck.

Let me think.Cops and doughnuts.

Got to be a joke in there some where.

One step away

One step away.Through the years I have thought about what it would be like being homeless.

Living in a paste board box under a bridge some where.Nothing is guaranteed in this life except one day dying.Everything else is up to chance.

One day on top of the world next the bottom can fall out.Easy thing that can happen.

Maybe people should not have that as a matter of fact that it will never happen to me type of attitude.

Folks jumped out of buildings back during the depression and way things have looked past few years maybe another one could happen.One terrorist could could change the life style of us all.Taking away all we take for granted.Most folks are just 1 paycheck away from living under that bridge.

This is my plan.I'm looking for a clean used paste board box and sticking it under my bed just in case.

Talk about shock

All things considered I've been lucky when it comes to loved ones and death.Both my Parents where on the Hospice program in their final days and I had time to prepare myself.But you know when that day came when they did die it was a shock.

What I'm getting at here is this.Even though I was prepared really I wasn't.

Last weekend here in LaGrange 5 people died in a horrific head on crash.The horror of having someone you love taken from your life without warning must be the most awful thing.Here one moment gone next.Talk about shock.

It's something we must try to be prepared for I guess.Just don't let your love ones or friends leave without letting them know how much you love and cherish them.

Enough said

Rainy days and Mondays.Enough said.But they don't get me down like the Carpenters sang about.

I like the rain.Just not a lot all at once.This is scary weather.Right now at 733 AM it's 60 degrees.Just right conditions for a tornado.

Mondays don't bother me.Just another name for another day of the week.They are all about the same now.

The clouds are moving fast from the south.Think I will just watch them for awhile.

Don't take much

I'm lazy today.Still laying in my comfy bed.The wind is really howling and I like it.It would not take much for that to get my imagination going.

Dark night,lighting,thunder the wind howling like it is now.Flash of lighting and I see a figure standing at the door with an ax in his hands.....

See don't take much to get me going.

It is good

Just let me say from the start I wish peace and joy for you.I have that inner peace today and I will say nothing can compare with that feeling.

Breakfast was good,coffee was hot,room was warm and I dozed right off back to sleep.

I know there will be more test,trials and tribulations left to come in this old world but if I can keep this inner peace I will make it through them all.

At the moment I'm not lacking anything and it is good.

I will try

It's Friday.It's cool out.But least the rain has stopped I think.Nothing is on my mind this morning as I drink my 2nd cup of coffee.

That's not quite true.There is always something on my mind.Just putting down what I feel can sometimes be difficult.I try to think before speaking and the same way with writing but often it don't work.So just be careful what you say and write it might come back on you someday.

Lately I've been reflecting on things.Things I could do better that I don't.I haven't been reading my Bible much lately and I feel guilty.Plenty of time I have and it's just fell by the wayside.I haven't been showing Brotherly love to some like I should.That is wrong.I haven't been praising Jesus and giving thanks like I should.I have thoughts that are wrong.I pray daily for help in that category.I need to repent daily,constantly.I need to devote every second of each day to doing what God and His son Jesus have commanded me to do.

I'm so thankful for the love and understanding that Jesus has for me,you.

I will try living my life each day as best I can.

Coronary halitosis

Seems I have done it again.Let my mind run free and look at the trouble I'm in.

My thoughts where on those things in the photo.Homemade biscuits with gravy,white gravy with lots of black pepper on top.

Maybe a few slices of strick o lean and a couple of fried eggs.Big bowl of buttery grits with salt and hot fresh coffee.

Just thinking of a meal like this is enough to cause coronary halitosis or something just as bad.

The last time I had strick o lean the person cooking it I forgot to mention it to her that it needs to be soaked before cooking.I ate it,it was delicious,bit salty. I didn't let on that it made me so dizzy I had trouble getting up out of my chair.My BP was most likely off the scale.

Another thing about biscuits and gravy.Professional truck drivers know this and won't eat biscuits and gravy while working.It puts you to sleep.Does me anyway.

So as life goes if it taste good chances are pretty good it's bad for you.

Skip the biscuits and gravy.Some butter pecan ice cream would be good or how about chocolate......

Long gone

Now this brings back memories.Hanson's on Old Airport road here in LaGrange.

Curb service and if your group was large enough a private room could be had for your meal.

A neat thing about the curb service was that Hanson's was next door to LaGrange Drive Inn.

Be lucky enough to be at Hanson's on weekends and you could get dinner and a movie for the price of one!

Guess it's like a lot of things in life,the good things never last.Both of those places are now long gone.But that's what makes up our memories.

Boiled okra and squash

Boiled okra and squash.Let me say from the start I learned years ago to never say never.But eating boiled okra and squash might come under that category of maybe never.

Momma cooked that southern thing of peas mixed with whole stalks of okra often.I like many others either passed on that or did like me dip the okra out.

That other thing ...squash.Boiled with onions added.I would eat that but it had to be cause I was really hungry.

But if you take okra and squash and batter them with corn meal or flour and deep fry them is a whole different story.Walmart sells battered fried okra and I can eat it like popcorn.

Take the name okra. All my life and till this day I and the old folks call it okree.Another thing about okree,everyone needs the opportunity of cutting okra on a hot August afternoon,temperature hovering around 100,sweat pouring off your head and face and making the mistake of wiping the sweat off with your okra cutting hand.It stings.

Never say never.

She caught him

Store employee chases down a bratty kid and gives him a whipping.Well now ain't this interesting.Seems this 8 year old kid was running around the store and threw a cookie jar at the Lady clerk.

She caught him.Took off her belt and gave him a much needed spanking I think.The kid's Dad seen it all and called the Cops.

Now.You are not supposed to lay a hand on someone's else kid for starts.Maybe the line was crossed there.I bet this little angel has never been corrected by his parents a day in his life.

But I do admire the clerk for taking matters into her own hands.

I would have been more pleased if she had took that belt to the kid's uncaring so called Dad.

Fly by

Now I don't want to scare you but have you heard?On February 15th a big space rock, asteroid,is making a fly by of planet Earth.

Won't hit us the experts say.Just another close call it seems.Sure have been a lot of these close call fly bys lately.

There is a theory that the dinosaurs where wiped out many moons ago by one of these big space rocks hitting Earth.

Hope the experts are right.But you know I have this theory on things.

Don't be afraid of what they tell you.Be very scared of the things they don't tell.

It arrived

Well Dear friends I have news.Good news.Yes the skies have opened up and blessings have been bestowed on yours truly.

Never in my long life have I been so blessed with the opportunity of maybe a life time.

It happened last night friend.I got it.Yes it arrived.I won't keep you in suspense any longer Dear ones.It was that email.The email of all emails.I had to hunt for it because mysteriously it had ended up in my spam/junk mail folder.But after careful searching it was found.

Are you sitting down friends?If not please do.Here goes.Ready?

I won a free pizza,1 large 1 topping of my choice from Papa Johns.Yes seems me and another million folks choose heads in the super bowl coin toss and have been rewarded with a free pizza.

There is only one thing better than pizza.Free pizza!

Pulling the trigger

The talk has been going around for years.Every time there is a shooting incident people jump on the band wagon wanting to ban guns.There is always somebody who blames the gun makers.People got to realize it's the crazy person pulling the trigger that is killing people.

What if every time a drunk person gets in a car and kills someone in a wreck Ford,GM etc where blamed for the deaths.No one wants cars banned do they?

Guns like cars are tools.Person using them are the problem not the tools.
 

Mouth waters

I don't like fish or seafood of any type.Well maybe a small whole deep fried catfish I would eat.Small and well done please.

When folks would have a fish fry my favorite thing was the trimmings.Crinkle cut fries,onion rings,slaw and hush puppies.

My mouth waters just thinking of those golden brown fried just right hush puppies.

Years ago when working the evening shift at the water filter plant getting home after midnight,starving and not being the best of a cook this would be my favorite meal.Take a couple taters,peel and slice into home fries.While they where in the pan a frying the hush puppies would be made.Corn meal,chopped up onion,dab of ketchup pour in some buttermilk and mix all ingredients well.Roll out the hush puppies into balls and when the taters where done drop them in the boiling Wesson oil.While the frying is going on slice some cabbage and mix in some mayo and sprinkle with black pepper for the slaw.I found it easier to buy frozen onion rings and keep them till needed rather than making home made ones.

There you have it.One of my all time favorite comfort foods.Good,easy and fills you up.

Can be arranged

The president of Iran has volunteered to be sent into space.Hmmm. Let me think.Yep that can be arranged.

Super Bowl

Night the lights went out
Down in New Orleans
Super Dome went black
Ravens then got slack

49's came back strong
For awhile they could do no wrong
But the Ravens would win
In the end

But who turned off the lights
That no one knows
This I think this I dread
Could it be ghost of Katrina dead

No reason

I can't think of a reason for getting out of bed today.

Think laying here watching movies and TV on the computer is about as good it will get today.I've switched wheelchairs.Now using Karen's who left to go back home to Ohio.It really rolls and turns better than the one I was using.Plus the high back helps when my neck hurts.Think I will commandeer it if no one minds.

Way to windy and cold for sitting out at the veranda at the cement pond also.Yep think just staying in this comfortable bed is the thing to do today.

There is always tomorrow.

Same dream

Same dream.Same place.Another page added.Is this going to be a book?

Hot fresh coffee

A rainy night in Georgia.Sounds like a song doesn't it? I have been a little sad today.For one reason or another it has been one of those days.

My spirits have just been lifted! Ms Weaver just brought me a Styrofoam cup of hot fresh coffee.

Life is bearable once more.

Dream

For a week or so now I keep having the same dream.Each time it's different but the same if that makes sense.

I'm always at the same place.Just a different part of that same place.I think the same people are there each time.Last night someone not familiar to me was there.

I know the people.This is what bothers me.Someone who should be there is not.Each time I dream this I can't see this person.

Another thing most if not all of my dreams are about people who have passed on.The people in these dreams are alive.

Or should be.

Missing

Something is not right
I see it in my dreams
Someone is missing
I don't know what it means

Monster

 A lady has her face smashed in with candlesticks.Her fingers are chopped off to steal her rings while still alive.Then she is stabbed multiple times till dead.

Sounds like the work of a monster.The monster turns out to be a woman.She is to be executed in Texas after 14 years on death row.

The monster is suspected of 2 other murders in years past.Her choice  of weapons in these cases was a claw hammer and another a meat tenderizer was used.The fingers of her victims where also chopped off for their jewelry in these cases.

I have no sympathy for the monster.

My Heaven

I wrote about this once before.Heaven for me.Watching the local TV call in program what someone said brought it all back.

The person was talking about watching his Grandma churn butter.I remember watching Grandma Haynes do that on the back porch of their house in Randolph County,Alabama.

Only 3 years old at the time but I can see it all so clearly in my mind.I see Uncle Leon's old Nash car sitting under the big Willow tree in the backyard.Everyone sitting on the back porch.Oh how I would love to go back to that time just to sit and listen once more to my Parents,Grand Parents,Aunts,Uncles and Cousins.

I can see the old barn in the back,seems like it was slanted and kids where warned to stay out of it.There was a wagon inside and a hay loft where we played.Grey John the mule was housed there.I can see what was to me the biggest sky ever.So blue and clear.The old faded out porch full of splinters that I would stick into my bare feet.

That would be Heaven for me.No golden streets or big mansions needed.Just give me that back porch where all my kin would be.Just let me sit on the steps of the old porch and listen to them talk and laugh.

My Heaven.

YAY!

There is a tornado thingy going on as I write this.Residents and staff are huddled up in the hallway.It's raining,wind blowing,thunder and lighting and tornado sirens are blowing.

I got lucky,staying in my room YAY!.The blind to the big window was pulled so whats going on out side I can't say.

The crazies

I'm afflicted with hygeephogie this morning.Scratchy throat,sneezies and headache.Maybe that explains my mood today.

These silly Georgia politicians.Now it cost $300 just to speak with one.They say you have to pay and register as a lobbyist just to have the pleasure of having a conversation with our elected chieftains.

No way Hosea.I would consider paying to have them impeached or recalled.Ain't them folks we send to the big town HotLanta that sit under the gold dome for just a few days each year suppose to be working for us not vicer versa?

Now whats good for the goose is good for the gander I hear.Maybe every time they send an email,make a phone call or stick those ugly campaign signs up wanting a vote they should first pay each and everyone of us $300.

Now while I'm venting,what is wrong with this picture.The powers in charge still haven't acted on relief money for those people affected by Hurricane Sandy.That was over a month ago.It's winter time up there and people have no power for heat etc.I could get dirty here but wont lower myself to politicians level.

Help us Lord the crazies are running the asylum.

Kim Chop Suey

This just ain't right.Why on God's good earth are people just standing around and twiddling their thumbs and not disgusted and mad about this.

Talking about North Korea.I read where things there have got so bad people are having to eat their children.They are starving.Why hasn't the USA,United Nations or somebody,anybody doing something about this.

Who cares what little fat boy dictator Kim Suey or what ever his name is thinks.Do a Bin Laden on him.If he could be found and treated with extreme prejudice surely finding Porky Pig oh excuse me Kim Chop Suey or what ever his name is should be easy.

Never mind that Porky wants to build missiles and shoot em at the United States.He looks like a pig and acts worse than a pig.Least pigs have a bit of intelligence.

So catch ole Porky,oops Kim Chop Suey,bad boy,and least have a big ole Texas size BBQ with Porky being the main course.Poetic justice.

Squeaking of the staff's shoes

Had my shower and someone brought me a hot fresh made cup of coffee.Just laying here reflecting on life in general.Nothing outstanding is going on at the old folks home tonight.Real quiet as a matter of fact.

This coffee is great Ms W thank you.The flu bug is making it's rounds here.Lot of residents and staff have been hit with it and it's no fun they say.Knock on wood don't want to jinx it but so far I'm ok I think.

Strange but I have noticed that ambulances seem to come around before or after meal time.A few folks have been taken out lately.The flu I guess.Mr B 95 years old,one of my roomies has it I think.He seemed to be struggling with breathing this morn and was given a breathing treatment and is doing much better it seems.

Really it's to quiet around here tonight.The only thing heard is the squeaking of the staff's shoes on the waxed hard floors and the TV in the mall area.

Guess this will do it for tonight.

Baby buffalos

I was watching the local TV station this morning.They have a call in folksy type program.I learned something.

Someone called in and was wanting a couple of baby buffalo.At first I thought this was a joke or put on because right before this Forrest Gump or someone pretending to be him called in.Forrest had a pretty good joke to tell.Seems his Uncle has been charged with murder.Forrest's Uncle told the judge he didn't mean to kill the man.Seems he took sandpaper and rubbed it all over the guy.I just wanted to rough him up a bit Forrest's Uncle said.

Ok back to the buffalo story.The man wanted a couple of baby buffalo to use for herding his cows.Seems they can do a good job and wear down the 200 or 300 hundred cows real easy.Can't use grown buffalo cause they are bigger than a horse.What happens to the baby buffalo when they grow up I don't know.A few years ago I did see one in a pasture here but last time by there it was gone.

Buffalo burgers maybe?

Junk-a-holic

I like junk food.It's not a popular thing to admit these days when folks are trying to live a healthy lifestyle.

As this is being wrote I'm snacking on those delicious fried,salty tater chips.Bet cha can't eat just 1 as the old commercial use to say.I never could and I did try.Someone the other day was talking about the old candy of our youth that's not around any more.Black Cows,Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies.I loved those Clark Bars and Zag Nuts and Chunky Bars.

Maybe Daddy was right when I guzzled down those 16 bottles of Co Colas.You gonna get sugar diabetes he preached.My one goal in life was when grown up and working was to buy a whole wooden case of little Cokes.That would be so neat I thought.By time I got grown and working other things where found to spend money on.

Yes I'm a junk-a-holic.Can't pass a Krystal without my mouth watering thinking of those little square burgers with onions,pickle and mustard.So more power to the healthy eaters of the world I admire you for your will power.

Just one good thing that can come of this.It means more Snicker Bars for me and the other junk-a-holics of the world.

Little catfish...

I have an idea.Yes even me has one every so often.Here at Twin Fountains Home there are 2 water fountains hence the name Twin Fountains.They are separated by the walkway entrance to the building.

Now for my great idea.Stock the little water fountains with little catfish and give each resident a little fishing pole.

Think of all the pleasure it would bring.Warm sunny spring day out at the little fishing hole.Little catfish swimming around.Me with my little cane pole with a little worm as bait.I can't think of any thing better to do on an afternoon in spring.

At one time the story goes the fountains where stocked with Goldfish.Reason for removing them I don't know.

All we need would be our pole,bait,RC colas and can of potted meat and soda crackers.Now doesn't that sound like a grand idea?

Chubby boy

Did you ever find money never know about? Makes you happy huh?Well I haven't found any spendoodle but maybe the next best thing.

I was weighed today and guess what?It's magic but seems I'm down to my normal weight of 157 pounds.Well the Doctor did tell me a few years ago lose about 5 pounds because of that BMI thing(body mass index).Never did get down to 150 pounds yes I gained a few.Last month when I was weighed while on the Hoyer lift,in kilograms x 2.2 it seemed my weight had sky rocketed up to what I won't say.A mistake maybe was made maybe and shocked is putting it mildly.

Yes I was accepting the fact all my snacking had finally caught up with me.I eat good and snacks don't hurt my feelings at all.My new nick name is now Chubby Checker(Ms Jewel calls me that)or just Chubby boy as I refer to my self.The other night one of the CNA's brought us a late snack,mine was cranberry juice,Lay's tater chips the real kind salt added and fried,half a peanut butter sandwich and a bag of those 100 calorie per serving chocolate chip cookies.It worked and I fell asleep fast.

So this is my idea.Since I don't weigh as much as I thought now I can keep on snacking.If you pass by the ole home place why not drop off a few Big Macs and a large fries.

Chubby boy thanks you in advance.

Chili party 2013

I went.I saw.I ate.I survived.

Chili party 2013!

Not native of here

I just seen a whooping crane land in an old dead tree across the road.The other day when I was sitting out at the veranda(fancy name for the shed)a flock of these strange looking birds where flying around and around in circles above my head.

I wonder if they are staying at the lake or just passing thru.For the life of me I don't think they are native of here.

Strange but I use to notice sea gulls at of all places Walmart's parking lots.Maybe they like it there because of all the near by fast food places and the easy meals they could get.

What ever the reason I'm glad they stopped by.They can share the old dead tree with the Red Tail hawks and the Black crows.

A dreaded disease

Cellphoneitis.Yes that dreaded condition that's is sweeping the known universe.I see undiagnosed people daily walking around not knowing the ailment that they have.

The signs are easy to spot.Arm bent at elbow stuck up to their ear.Seamless unawareness of their surroundings.Some are even risking lives of innocent people with this dreaded disease of cellphoneitis.They drive their cars and trucks unaware of the dangers it causes.

It now starts early.Children are now being infected with cellphoneitis.It is a uncontrollable thing they have.

There is a underlying condition that comes with cellphoneitis.Textphogie.This may be a form of incurable cellphoneitis that is sweeping through our young.

At this time there is no know cure for cellphoneitis or related diseases such as textphogie.Scientists are working hard as we speak trying to fine a cure.

Strange goings on

Sitting out at the veranda,gazebo or just the covered sitting area outside,take your pick was super nice today.A bit windy but with the sun shining on ya it felt really nice.

I noticed a few odd things that got me thinking.Birds.Several large flocks of what kind I don't know where noticed.Several of the flocks where headed north it seemed.Another large flock of a different kind just circled over head for a few minutes and headed towards the west.

What is going on here I wondered.Tonight is supposed to turn really colder I hear.Is that the reason the birds are on the move? I've always have heard animals sense when something is going to happen with nature,things like earthquakes and big storms.Could that explain there actions?Maybe it's just time for them to be on the move.Most likely that is the answer.

I will just have to wait and see I guess.But if any major things with nature happen soon remember you read about it here first.

Football, food and Bigfoot

Yesterday there was a Atlanta Falcons football party here.The game was watched on the big screen and I for one sure enjoyed myself.

A room full of nice happy cheering people and some good food was had.Now that food just let me say it was great.Poor boy sandwiches as I call them,chicken wings,cup cakes and for liquid refreshment punch.

As usual I overdid the eating thing.I had 2 sandwiches,6 hot wings,chips on and on plus I brought 2 more sandwiches back to my room for later.

I was so full supper was skipped.My coffee and cookies where enough.Needles to say I went to bed early and slept good.

Now for the other part of the story.

That food was just the right combo to cause me to dream.Last night I dreamed of being back at the old home place.This is the weird part.Looking out my front door I noticed something at my neighbor's house.Of all things it was Bigfoot,you know that giant hairy guy that people argue over if he is real or not.Well seems Bigfoot is real cause I seen him.He was darting in and out between my neighbor's house.Bigfoot was gathering flowers one at a time,those pretty little yellow Johnny Quill's I call them and was snacking on them.

Over and over I tried warning my neighbor that Bigfoot was in his yard but he could not understand me.My dream was starting to turn into a nightmare and I was sure glad I woke up at 345 am.

Again I know why I dream these poetic things.It's the food.Well not the food,the amount I ate.

So that is my story of football,food and Bigfoot.Every word is the truth.

Jake and Ralph

Tale of the two headed possum
Jake and Ralph be their names
Having two heads their claim to fame
Jake and Ralph they so awesome

One eats while the other drinks
One sleeps while the other on watch out
They got it down pat
Jake he whispers Ralph he shouts

Jake gets mad Ralph gets sad
Sometimes hard to believe they had same Dad
Jake and Ralph got a sister named Sue
Just one head but Sue is blue

Sue so friendly and happy
Think I do know why
Sue who is blue
She had a different Pappy

Big boy spoon

I found my big boy spoon.Thursday 230 pm TFH dining room it will be used.

The annual homemade chili party will take place.I'm ready and well prepared.

No sissy little store bought plastic spoons for me.I'm a big league chili eater and have my own big boy spoon.

Just like professional pool players,they have their own custom made pool sticks well I have a big boy spoon that was made just for me.

I come to eat not play.Last year I ate 3 bowls of that delicious chili.More could have been ate but I was beginning to get carried away and a bit hoggish.

There is still time for me to round up a big boy bowl to go with my big boy spoon.Why waste time with those little dainty bowls and sissy spoons.

Pass the hot sauce and crackers time to eat.

Amazing

I watched in awe as the evening sky changed from a deep blue,red,purple to a midnight black.God is certainly in control of this world.Man in all his wisdom could not create such a sight.

Whispering pines.I just stared out the window watching them sway gently with the wind.

People moving,busy doing things people do caught my eye also.Each one so different from the next but all connected with each other by the love of Jesus Christ.

It's amazing.

Snow was a no show

There is an old saying.A watched pot never boils.Yesterday here in LaGrange it almost snowed.Well there was talk of it anyway.

Thursday was rainy,cold,windy and snow was on the way.Least that was what was to happen.If any fell I didn't see it.All I can say snow was the big topic yesterday.

Some wanted snow,some didn't and others just didn't care one way or another.I've thought this out.Snow never shows up when predicted here.It just slips up on us.

But the real reason I think snow was a no show is like that old watched pot that never boils,it was just talked about way to much and we jinxed it.

Did I mention...

Today it happened.Those big white butter beans promised showed up.Big slice of cornbread and a onion.Some cornbread and onion left to snack on tonight.

I have been promised some spaghetti by another friend.Did I mention that life is good?

Sanitized analyzed poked and stuck

It all started about 5 am this morning.My annual checkup.Today I've been sanitized,analyzed,poked and stuck and it's just ended with my shower a few minutes ago.

My veins are small and drawing blood takes several pokes.I get it done in my hand cause the veins are bigger there.It gonna bruise.Always does.

Hope everything turns out ok so I won't have to redo it all.

Hope for me yet

I have been promised some big white butter beans,cornbread and a big onion.I hope my hopes are not getting pumped up for nothing.Sure would be good right now.

I have gotten my breakfast menu changed.No more sausage patties,grits,biscuits or pancakes,waffles or french toast.From now on cereal with boiled eggs and bacon.

I have to start somewhere trying to loose some weight.Maybe I over did snacking during the holidays.

But that homemade chili sure was good yesterday.So spicy it made my face tingle and head sweat.I did pass up the baked potato.Maybe there is some hope for me yet.

Peanuts

Boiled peanuts
I like alot
Add water salt
Cook in pot

Green peanuts also
Pull from ground
Springtime they around
Get'em in town

Parched peanuts yummy
They so good
Us southern boys
Fill our tummy

Peanuts that raw
In them shells
They great snacking
Exercise for jaw

Peanuts in can
Salty and crunchy
Many mixed types
I'm big fan

Peanuts in coke
A southern thang
Done in LaGrange
It's no joke

Peturbed

That ole full moon.Was it shinning last night?Why I'm asking is because for awhile it got wild and woolly around the ole home place.

Seems some where perturbed putting it mildly.

Gooney bird

Gooney bird my name
My only claim to fame
Of that name never was I ashamed
I grew up and got tamed

Now I never hear
That word so dear
Yes it's been many a year
Just the thought brings a tear

All this made up
Just drinking coffee from my cup
From a saucer once I did sup
Rather have a mint julep

This could go on for ever
But I have better endeavors
I have an idea that so clever
Stop this silliness and do something better

If only in my memories

Sunday morning and I was awaken by Ms S serenading us all with home home on the range.Home.That is on my mind today.I want to go.Back to my childhood where all seemed good.

Back to a simpler time.Back when nothing seemed impossible.A time where I believed in and trusted people.

That little 7 year old boy running up and down Juniper Street with his best friend Lassie is still me if only in my memories.

I'm sorry

Once in the South there was a thing called segregation.It was wrong and for it I'm sorry.As a small boy living in Roanoke,Alabama the high light of my day was when the Lady who helped my Grandma came over.A black Lady.

Often I stayed with her at her home and I loved it.She had a house full of children and that meant there was someone to play with.

Long walks we took on those red dirt back roads.I remember the smell of those dusty roads after a summer rain.

At times I was given a spoon and old stocking and the white clay on those hill banks where gathered and now I know where used as medicine and for vitamins.I remember tasting that clay.

At 5 years old we moved back to LaGrange.I remember waking up on Saturday mornings to the smell of Spic and Span and pine oil.Momma was cleaning house.Just me and her would always go downtown.That was the day she would have here hair done at JC Penney which was on Main Street at the time.

After that we always had lunch at the Plantation Cafe or at Holmes Drug Store.I was old enough to notice things.

At all the stores I noticed separate rest rooms for men and women.But something confused me.

At a downtown 5 and 10 store I was thirsty.There where 2 water fountains.Momma I asked which one is for the boys and which one is for the girls?

Rest rooms where separate so water fountains had to be also in my innocence I thought.Not so.

It seems so shocking now but one fountain was for whites and the other was for blacks.

Thank God things are improving.

Long haul

Someone asked me not long ago if I leave here where would I go.My answer was simple.When I leave here my next stop will be ShadowLawn.

I'm here for the long haul!

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The staff

The staff.God bless each and everyone of you.You are now my extended family and I love you each and everyone is my Brother and Sister.

I have met some of the most wonderful caring people ever right here at TFH.Those long hours and that stress you are under all I can say you are loved and appreciated.Honestly I have never found a problem with any of the staff here.

Without you where would we be.

To be continued...

Let it all hangout

Once there was a song,LET IT ALL HANG OUT,that's what I'm going to do in the next few post.All is true maybe not comfortable but true.

People at TFH are here for a variety of reasons I guess.We are called residents not patients for starts.TFH is called I found out by looking it up on the Internet a retirement home and assisted living home.

Some residents are here because they have no place else to go.Maybe I fit in that category.Others are here because their families can't give them the care needed.Some I figure are here because their families can't or don't want to deal with it.

Some forgive me are what I call throw aways.No hope,no place else for them.

It hurts watching elderly people homesick for their family that never come around.I'm blessed in a way because I have really no family,2 elderly aunts and cousins and no visit are no problem for me.But thank you when you do.Guess I got what I always knew would happen,alone by myself and I'm ok with it.

More to come.

A long night it was

Snuff please mam...snuff please mam that was what the elderly lady repeated over and over.If she got the snuff I don't know.

Things you hear around here.Some make you laugh and others break your heart.There is Ms.S who suffers from dementia and almost every night causes a ruckus wanting to fight or just drive the nurses and cna's wacky. A shot usually calms her down.

Then there are the zombies,forgive me for calling them that but that is what they remind me of.They constantly walk the floor with that blank look on their face.

Saturday January 12th marks my 1 year anniversary of being here.It was on a Wednesday afternoon about 5 pm I was transported from the hospital by ambulance to TFH a day that matched the way I was feeling.A gloomy gray cloudy day that look liked it would snow at any moment.

Wheeled into the building on a gurney down to room 31.My spirits peaked a bit when I seen my bed was next to a big window which faces a busy highway and across the street I could see trees.

After being evaluated by an nurse and cna I had supper which was chicken pot pie ,broccoli and a roll.I settled in for the night and a long night it was.

More to follow.

Mary Lee

Mary Lee is on the loose.Seen it on the news this morning.She is down in Jax Beach,Florida.Now Mary Lee is someone you don't mess with.She is a big mean eating machine.

Weighting in at 3500 pounds and 16 feet long Mary Lee is a big girl.Tracked all the way from Cape Cod she likes the southeastern coast for some reason and makes from Florida to North Carolina her home.

Mary Lee is if you haven't guessed is a great white shark.She is being tracked at Jax Beach getting close as 200 yards from the beach.

Just a reminder,do you remember that movie Jaws?

Happy birthday

Happy Birthday Momma!

On my way Jack

Ever had that feeling something needs to be done?Came to me like a flash of lightning just a few minutes ago.

What I need to do is find an old beat up 4 door dark blue white walled tired no hub capped 60 Lincoln Continetial convertible with suicide doors and take a little trip.

A road trip to end all road trips.Go west old man I'm thinking.Out there where the deer and antelope play.To the Nevada dessert where the rabbits have been nuked so much with those bomb test of the 1950's they grow to the size of Volkswagens.

Pack my bags I'm serious.Couple t shirts and jeans and flip flops all the clothing needed.Stop by the store and fill a thermos with strong hot coffee a pack of those little Hav-A-Tampa cigars and I'm on my way Jack.







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I had a choice

I broke the unforgivable sin of a southern boy yesterday.I had a choice but what was done was no one's doing but my own.

My dear departed kin folks are rolling in their graves I bet.No one to blame on this one but myself.

Yesterday,New Years,I had a choice.That choice was what to have for dinner(lunch to you folks north of Hogansville,Ga).That choice was the old traditional meal of black eyed peas and collards,fish sandwich and fries or vegetable soup and grilled cheese sandwich.

I choose the later,soup and sandwich.Yes brothers and sisters that was what was chosen.

In all my 60 years of being a connoisseur of fine southern food never have I ever turned down black eyed peas and collards.I have no excuse for my sin.

There is only one way to make a remince for this unforgivable act.Yes friends that trip must be taken.That trip down to Montgomery,Alabama by Greyhound bus to steps of the State Capital where I shall hug that old stature of Jeff Davis and retake my oath of being a homegrown born and bred southern boy whose Momma raise him better than this and promises next time if given that choice will chose black eyed peas and collards.

Amen Brother Ben

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I do mean it

If you are reading this it means we made it to 2013.I'm so glad the holidays are over.

Tired of smiling when I don't feel like smiling telling everyone Merry Christmas and so on.Maybe I can go back to just being my natural grouchy self.

We all put on airs or a little show I think.Saying,doing things really that our heart is not into.Mainly just because it's expected of us.Like saying I love you.It's automatic to say it back when someone does it to you.It just pops out like a little jack in the box without much thought.I'm so guilty of that one.

It's dishonest saying all those nice sweet things we really don't mean.I have only one thing to say this morning.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! And really I do mean it.

Next on my list

What the whole wide world needs is a couple of fried spam sandwiches.Add your choice of mustard or mayo on white loaf bread add some tater chips and most of the world would be happy and at peace.

This world peace stuff is easy to figure out.Politicians,Kings and Queens can't seem to do it so why not a few fried spam sandwiches.

Works for me.Never have I caused injury or insult to anyone while eating a spam sandwich.My hands are busy stuffing my face and the thought of World War never enters my mind.

Now that I fixed world peace what should be next on my list?

The pond kept us seperated

The mill pond kept us separated.Talking about East Newnan,Georgia.It was a mill village where my formative years where spent.

Moved there in 1962 when I was 10 years old.Most of you have heard of being from the wrong side of the railroad tracks but here it was which side of the mill pond you lived that decided a lot of things.

For some reason the two sides didn't
 socialize much.We all went to the same little school and where friends but that is where it all stopped.

Side I lived on wasn't that great but compared to the other side we where doing good.The other side was Elvis with black leather jackets and combed back slick hair.I lived on the Beatles side of the pond where long hair was common.

Why things where that way  I don't know.Everyone's folks worked in the same cotton mill and as mentioned all the kids went to the same school.

All the kids fished in that pond.Couple of the brave ones even swam in it.Loaded with cotton mouths and trash didn't stop anyone.

This is a picture of me and my folks when we lived there,sometime in the 60's shows the mill smokestack in the background.On summer nights with my bedroom window open I could hear the soft rumble of the mill machinery running and the hypnotizing sound of crickets and bull frogs down at the pond.

Yes that mill pond kept us separated but in a way made sure we where all connected in a strange way.

Just a sign

Looked at my hands
What did I see
Broken up lines
Just a sign I've been here long time

Around my eyes
I did noticed
Crows feet
Just a sign life not got me beat

My hair thin and gray
Say what you want it's ok
Just not that vain
Just a sign my heart can stand the pain

Love not needed

Love not needed
Money either
Just give me a plate of this
My life be pure bliss

Black eyed peas
Collard greens
Big slice of cornbread
You know what I mean

Glass of sweet iced tea
White rice on the side
Homegrown tomato
What a meal should be