Trying to get in
If it does
We ain't gonna be friends
Skeeter will bite
It will sting
Gonna smash that skeeter
Yaw know what I mean
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Skeeter
Trying to get in
If it does
We ain't gonna be friends
Skeeter will bite
It will sting
Gonna smash that skeeter
Yaw know what I mean
Worry
All those things worried about what good did it do?
It changed nothing.Just wasted time.
But don't we all do it.Worry.
Ever since I was big enough to worry I have done it.Maybe it all started in the first grade.This that something was going to happened.If it did or not what was worse,the misery of worrying about something happening or the actual thing happening.
It changed nothing.Just wasted time.
But don't we all do it.Worry.
Ever since I was big enough to worry I have done it.Maybe it all started in the first grade.This that something was going to happened.If it did or not what was worse,the misery of worrying about something happening or the actual thing happening.
High tech redneck
What I am
Love buttered biscuits
Homemade strawberry jam
Got my puter
Cell phone to
High tech redneck
Without them what I do
GPS finds my way
Ipad in pocket
Just in case
Of a boring day
High tech redneck
It is true
So without us
What would you do
Bad men
This just ain't right.Watching a John Wayne movie good wins over bad again.Well sorta.
The poor Indians are always portrayed as the bad people,heathens.
Guess what? We,the white man invaded their land,stole it,wiped out their families.
And they are the bad men? Why do I speak of this? Woman on the right in this photo is Sally Lugene Brewster Haynes.
Grandma Haynes.
Cherokee Indian.
The poor Indians are always portrayed as the bad people,heathens.
Guess what? We,the white man invaded their land,stole it,wiped out their families.
And they are the bad men? Why do I speak of this? Woman on the right in this photo is Sally Lugene Brewster Haynes.
Grandma Haynes.
Awake
Hello world I'm here.Awake,bright eyed and bushy tailed.Well awake anyway 1 out of 3 ain't bad.
About a hour from breakfast and really not all that hungry.Maybe I snacked over my limit last night.
Clear and cooler.Temp sure has dropped after that rain of yesterday.
Ok leaning back waiting for the day watching CNN.
About a hour from breakfast and really not all that hungry.Maybe I snacked over my limit last night.
Clear and cooler.Temp sure has dropped after that rain of yesterday.
Ok leaning back waiting for the day watching CNN.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Robot Monster
It's been told that the worst movie of all time was Plan Nine From Outer Space.
The first time I seen it around 10 years old,alone,all by my self it scared me.I had to leave the room.
Seen it a few times since and why it scared me I don't know.
But there is another movie which I think should beat that one for title of worst movie ever.
Robot Monster.Talk about made on a budget look at the monster in the photo.It's a man in a gorilla suit wearing a diving helmet.
But you know I still watch them and really enjoy those old campy movies.
Good in da hood...
I don't think the room improvements being made down here in 31 have been mentioned.
Got a few minutes sit down and I will tell all.
First but not least a new paint job,dark purple and new green shag carpet has been installed.
Next we have a lighted 1970's type revolving disco ball installed in the center of the mirrored ceiling.
But we the residents of room 31 are most pleased and excited of the newly installed Jacuzzi/Hot tub.
Like I say "all is good in the hood".
Got a few minutes sit down and I will tell all.
First but not least a new paint job,dark purple and new green shag carpet has been installed.
Next we have a lighted 1970's type revolving disco ball installed in the center of the mirrored ceiling.
But we the residents of room 31 are most pleased and excited of the newly installed Jacuzzi/Hot tub.
Like I say "all is good in the hood".
I wonder
Windy day.Cloudy.Sprinkling rain.
There is a wind speed indicator right outside my window.
It's the iron bird feeder pole.When that thing starts shaking moving around you know it's a windy day.
While on the subject of wind.I have noticed in recent years it's windy every day.Whats going on with that I wonder?
Always something to ponder.
There is a wind speed indicator right outside my window.
It's the iron bird feeder pole.When that thing starts shaking moving around you know it's a windy day.
While on the subject of wind.I have noticed in recent years it's windy every day.Whats going on with that I wonder?
Always something to ponder.
Thank you!
Another milestone yesterday.
And you the people who take time out of your busy life to read this silly blog made it possible.
For the first time since this blog was started 3 years ago the views for 1 day topped 100 plus.
Gosh that thrilled me that people are taking the time reading whats going on in my life.
Thank you!
And you the people who take time out of your busy life to read this silly blog made it possible.
For the first time since this blog was started 3 years ago the views for 1 day topped 100 plus.
Gosh that thrilled me that people are taking the time reading whats going on in my life.
Thank you!
Wait and see
Awake.Slept good.Feel good.Waiting on breakfast and I hope hot cup of coffee.
Friday's are a favorite of mine mainly because of the food.Pizza at lunch and not sure if I will go with a salad for supper or not.Getting kinda gorged out on them.
But between the fish and salad maybe the salad will be the best choice.
I liked the Long John's Silver type of Friday fish we did have here.Hush puppies,fries and cole slaw was ok.But lately the fish offering has been baked catfish and I just can't stomach that stuff.Monday I ordered a salad and just between me you and the fence post it wasn't very good.
Oh well wait and see I guess.
Friday's are a favorite of mine mainly because of the food.Pizza at lunch and not sure if I will go with a salad for supper or not.Getting kinda gorged out on them.
But between the fish and salad maybe the salad will be the best choice.
I liked the Long John's Silver type of Friday fish we did have here.Hush puppies,fries and cole slaw was ok.But lately the fish offering has been baked catfish and I just can't stomach that stuff.Monday I ordered a salad and just between me you and the fence post it wasn't very good.
Oh well wait and see I guess.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
The quietness was deafening
Dead quiet.That's room 31 tonight.The only sound heard is the soft rumble of the AC unit.
My roommates,there are 3 of us,are unusually quiet tonight.They must be asleep.
I know this quietness must be enjoyed and I do.
No loud music on the radio.No moaning and groaning like the Angel of death is visiting room 31.No all night ramblings of the other roommie who is 95 God love him.
The door is closed and the nightly sounds I can't hear.A blessing.
I had already leaned back in my bed thinking I would just try to go to sleep early but the quietness was deafening.
Laying here looking out the window at the black clouds rolling in I knew this was something and had to write about it.
It won't last long I bet !
My roommates,there are 3 of us,are unusually quiet tonight.They must be asleep.
I know this quietness must be enjoyed and I do.
No loud music on the radio.No moaning and groaning like the Angel of death is visiting room 31.No all night ramblings of the other roommie who is 95 God love him.
The door is closed and the nightly sounds I can't hear.A blessing.
I had already leaned back in my bed thinking I would just try to go to sleep early but the quietness was deafening.
Laying here looking out the window at the black clouds rolling in I knew this was something and had to write about it.
It won't last long I bet !
Crazy
Just thinking maybe I am crazy.
I've sure made some crazy choices in my life.
Big deal
Please do this
Choose words carefully
You never know
What they show
How you feel
It's no excuse
To many it's
A big deal
Choose words carefully
You never know
What they show
How you feel
It's no excuse
To many it's
A big deal
Silent gas attacks
Old man:Doc I have a problem.
Doctor:What is that?
Old man:I have been having silent gas attacks lately.
Old man:I've had 3 since you came into room.
Old man:What can you do about it Doc?
Doctor:First thing we are going to do is check your hearing.
Waiting
3 am.
Wide awake.
Foot feels like it's in a vise.
Roommate moaning like death has hold of him.
Other roomie unusually quite tonight.
Sleep come on.
Waiting.
Wide awake.
Foot feels like it's in a vise.
Roommate moaning like death has hold of him.
Other roomie unusually quite tonight.
Sleep come on.
Waiting.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
For my sins
Jesus my friend
Yes indeed
He walks with me
He knows my needs
He won't forget
Never will He abandon
Accepting His love
I don't regret
Died on a cross
For my sins
From a tomb He rose
To live again
He walks with me
He knows my needs
He won't forget
Never will He abandon
Accepting His love
I don't regret
Died on a cross
For my sins
From a tomb He rose
To live again
Bad apple !
Forsyth County Georgia.McDonald's drive thru.About closing time.
Eagle Scout teen and friend in line waiting on order.
Closing time service is slow.
Behind the teens Detective Sargent waiting on his cheese burger,small fries and coke.
Cop is impatient.Thinks teen is taking to long picking up order.
Cop rushes teen's car.Grabs teen by shoulder.Pulls his gun.Points gun at teen.
Cop says "you don't know who you are messing with".Teen says nothing.
All caught on drive thru video.
Cop is arrested and put on payed leave while there is an investigation.
Pretty sure Eagle Scout teen has parents.
Cop doesn't know "who he is messing with".
Preppies
They wiggle when they walk.
They giggle when they talk.
And the women are just as bad.
ET call home
This is just lazy.Woman was walking down the hall here.Cell phone up to ear,call home,call home,call home she repeated.
All the time that took she could have just dialed the number herself.
Guess I'm a smart butt I so wanted to holler out "ET CALL HOME".
All the time that took she could have just dialed the number herself.
Guess I'm a smart butt I so wanted to holler out "ET CALL HOME".
Way I've always been
Bored
So I will write
Keeps me busy
Day and night
Look all around
Things I see
If I told you
Wouldn't believe
Plenty fills my mind
No short of material
I can find
But at times it's a bore
Same old thing
Day in day out
Keep feelings in
Even if I want to shout
I will do
There is no choice
Bare and grin
Way I've always been
So I will write
Keeps me busy
Day and night
Look all around
Things I see
If I told you
Wouldn't believe
Plenty fills my mind
No short of material
I can find
But at times it's a bore
Same old thing
Day in day out
Keep feelings in
Even if I want to shout
I will do
There is no choice
Bare and grin
Way I've always been
Hot dogs
Add chili and cheese
Lots of onions
If you please
Tater chips
Ruffles have ridges
Bag I could eat
Crispy and salty to my lips
Big orange drink
Wash it all down
Best eating in town
I do think
Keep your broccoli
Carrots to
Food like that
Just won't do
Just you
Sign of the times
I see it all around
Hating and killing
Mistrust and cheating abound
Lord come quick
I'm starting to think
Theres no hope just you
Your mercy will see us through
I see it all around
Hating and killing
Mistrust and cheating abound
Lord come quick
I'm starting to think
Theres no hope just you
Your mercy will see us through
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Wishful thinking
Pound of fried black peppered thick slice bacon.
2 fried just right eggs.
Pan of homemade hot biscuits.
Pot full buttered salted and peppered grits.
Diced fried golden crispy potatoes.
Pot of hot black Folgers coffee.
That would do it for me right now.
2 fried just right eggs.
Pan of homemade hot biscuits.
Pot full buttered salted and peppered grits.
Diced fried golden crispy potatoes.
Pot of hot black Folgers coffee.
That would do it for me right now.
Say what ?
FROM ACTUAL TOMBSTONES
On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery,
Nova Scotia:
Here lies
Ezekial Aikle
Age 102
The Good
Die Young.
In a London, England cemetery:
Ann Mann
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767
In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery:
Anna Wallace
The children of Israel wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna,
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna.
In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:
Here lies
Johnny Yeast
Pardon me
For not rising.
Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery:
Here lies the body
of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake.
In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery:
Here lays Butch,
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger,
But slow on the draw.
A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery:
Sacred to the memory of
my husband John Barnes
who died January 3, 1803
His comely young widow, aged 23, has
many qualifications of a good wife, and
yearns to be comforted.
A lawyer's epitaph in England:
Sir John Strange
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.
Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont:
I was somebody.
Who, is no business
Of yours.
Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco,
Arizona in the
cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill
Cemetery in
Tombstone,
Arizona:
Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs from a .44
No Les No Moore.
In a Georgia cemetery:
"I told you I was sick!"
John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery:
Reader if cash thou art
In want of any
Dig 4 feet deep
And thou wilt find a Penny.
On Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery Richmond,
Virginia:
She always said her feet were killing her
but nobody believed her.
In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England:
On the 22nd of June
Jonathan Fiddle
Went out of tune.
Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont has an
epitaph that sounds
like something from a Three Stooges movie:
Here lies the body of our Anna
Done to death by a banana
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low
But the skin of the thing that made her go.
More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London,
England:
Gone away
Owin' more
Than he could pay.
Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like Mr. Wood:
In Memory of Beza Wood
Departed this life
Nov. 2, 1837
Aged 45 yrs.
Here lies one Wood
Enclosed in wood
One Wood
Within another.
The outer wood
Is very good:
We cannot praise
The other.
On a grave from the 1880's in Nantucket, Massachusetts:
Under the sod and under the trees
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod:
Pease shelled out and went to God.
The grave of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania is almost a
consumer tip:
Who was fatally burned
March 21, 1870
by the explosion of a lamp
filled with "R.E. Danforth's
Non-Explosive Burning Fluid"
Oops! Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York:
Born 1903--Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if
the car was on the way down. It was.
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery:
Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go.
And two I will never forget!
For a Scot:
Here lies Martin Elginbrod,
Hae mercy on my soul Lord God,
as I would do were I Lord God,
and ye were Martin Elginbrod!
or:
Here lies my wife.
Tears cannot bring
her back.
Therefore I cry
Monday, April 15, 2013
Moral of story...
Just call me snagle tooth.When I was 8 years old living on Juniper Street I almost met my maker one afternoon.
Riding a bike the chain came off.No way to slow it down on a steep hill.A car is stopped in the road ahead of me.On my left was a barbed wired cow pasture fence.
I had to make a quick choice.Hit the car or go through that barb wire fence.I choose the car.
Bammmm!
The bike plowed into the rear of car.That stopped me and I ended up on the trunk against the rear window.
He's dead the teen girls inside screamed!
No I'm not answering them.
I was woozy from hitting the rear window with my head but alive.No cuts,bruises or broken bones.My only visible injury was a chipped front tooth.
The story moves on to the when I was 18.
Working and paying my own way in the world I wanted my tooth fixed.I was living off of Virgina Avenue in Hapeville,Georgia across the street from Hartsfield International airport.I could lay in bed at night and watch 747's and other jets land and take off.Talk about noisy but you get use to it and soon don't even notice the noise.All this is a story for another time.
Back to my tooth story.
This part will be the fast version.Long story short I had a root canal done and an implanted front tooth was installed.
Story moves ahead 30 plus years.
New Years Eve.I was at the Krystal.Bag of burgers and fries and corn dogs.Even before getting out of the parking lot I was chopping down on those corn dogs.
I seen stars and felt pain.I had bit down on a corn dog stick and it loosing up my front implanted tooth.It was wiggling around.Oh man I was disappointed.
Few weeks late eating a ham and cheese sandwich it fell out.
Moving on with the story.
It was still wearable.But when eating I just took it out.I really only wore it when I dressed up which wasn't very often.
I invited a Lady over for supper one night and you guessed it the tooth fell out.She was so sweet saying it was ok she had one like it also.It is hard to kiss when your front tooth is wiggling around!
Fast forward again.
I kept my tooth in a little plastic container.My roommates at the time had a dog.A dog that would chew up anything.
You guessed it!
The dog ate my front tooth.My $1000 implanted front tooth!
So my friends that is why when I smile I look like a hockey player.
Moral of story.Don't ride bikes,eat corn dogs or ham and cheese sandwiches or have roommates with dogs that eat teeth!
Riding a bike the chain came off.No way to slow it down on a steep hill.A car is stopped in the road ahead of me.On my left was a barbed wired cow pasture fence.
I had to make a quick choice.Hit the car or go through that barb wire fence.I choose the car.
Bammmm!
The bike plowed into the rear of car.That stopped me and I ended up on the trunk against the rear window.
He's dead the teen girls inside screamed!
No I'm not answering them.
I was woozy from hitting the rear window with my head but alive.No cuts,bruises or broken bones.My only visible injury was a chipped front tooth.
The story moves on to the when I was 18.
Working and paying my own way in the world I wanted my tooth fixed.I was living off of Virgina Avenue in Hapeville,Georgia across the street from Hartsfield International airport.I could lay in bed at night and watch 747's and other jets land and take off.Talk about noisy but you get use to it and soon don't even notice the noise.All this is a story for another time.
Back to my tooth story.
This part will be the fast version.Long story short I had a root canal done and an implanted front tooth was installed.
Story moves ahead 30 plus years.
New Years Eve.I was at the Krystal.Bag of burgers and fries and corn dogs.Even before getting out of the parking lot I was chopping down on those corn dogs.
I seen stars and felt pain.I had bit down on a corn dog stick and it loosing up my front implanted tooth.It was wiggling around.Oh man I was disappointed.
Few weeks late eating a ham and cheese sandwich it fell out.
Moving on with the story.
It was still wearable.But when eating I just took it out.I really only wore it when I dressed up which wasn't very often.
I invited a Lady over for supper one night and you guessed it the tooth fell out.She was so sweet saying it was ok she had one like it also.It is hard to kiss when your front tooth is wiggling around!
Fast forward again.
I kept my tooth in a little plastic container.My roommates at the time had a dog.A dog that would chew up anything.
You guessed it!
The dog ate my front tooth.My $1000 implanted front tooth!
So my friends that is why when I smile I look like a hockey player.
Moral of story.Don't ride bikes,eat corn dogs or ham and cheese sandwiches or have roommates with dogs that eat teeth!
Preacher and little boy
Preacher:Who was the first man on Earth?
Little boy:Hoss.
Preacher:Wrong try again.
Little boy:Little Joe.
Preacher:Wrong.
Little boy:Who then?
Preacher:Adam.
Little boy:I knew it was one of those Cartwright boys.
Little boy:Hoss.
Preacher:Wrong try again.
Little boy:Little Joe.
Preacher:Wrong.
Little boy:Who then?
Preacher:Adam.
Little boy:I knew it was one of those Cartwright boys.
Cool car
Sometimes I think progress is not so great.Today all cars look alike to me.
Maybe somethings should just be left alone.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Stay tuned...
I'm through.Run out of things worth talking about.No ideas.Touched on almost all subjects.A to Z.
My brain needs refreshing.I would benefit from a couple tea spoons of SOS tonic.
Stay tuned...
My brain needs refreshing.I would benefit from a couple tea spoons of SOS tonic.
Stay tuned...
Live and learn
I just like looking at the truck.Pretty.Red.Lots of chrome.
I have heard truckers called the last American heroes.Their life style is admired by many of us.On the road,traveling,seeing new and exciting places.
I had the chance to take a trip in one of these big things.Road trip.14 years old I was and my Uncle who was a trucker and his daughter invited me along for a trip one summer.If I had that offer to live over I would sure take it in a flash.
Live and learn.
Sweet milk and cornbread
Unless you are from the South you might not know the term sweet milk.
Far as I know there are 3 kinds of milk.Buttermilk,skim milk(2%) and sweet milk(whole milk).
On the menu for supper broiled hamburger with tiny boiled potatoes was the offering.If they just offered onion and pickles along with it I would have choose that.Adding crinkle cut fries(plateful please) and this story might have turned out different.
But I'm happy with my choice for tonight.
Jordan's shore
Looks like a rainy day
My thoughts take me away
To another time
And a different place
Way back then
So long ago
Time I loved so
With my family and friends
But worry not
I may be here alone
At times so sad
But Jesus has not forgot
A promise of better times
No more pain sickness sorrow
Tears will fall no more
On that river Jordan's shore
My thoughts take me away
To another time
And a different place
Way back then
So long ago
Time I loved so
With my family and friends
But worry not
I may be here alone
At times so sad
But Jesus has not forgot
A promise of better times
No more pain sickness sorrow
Tears will fall no more
On that river Jordan's shore
Pretty colored water
Make you a deal.I JohnLee will swap 2 McDonald's and 1 BK for another Jack's hamburger joint and another Tylers.Both places where at the same place,not at same time on Vernon .Now it's a bank ,go figure.
Long John Silver is now gone.Sonic also along with Golden Coral.What is going on?Why is everything leaving LaGrange?
Downtown is just a place for fancy smancy cafe's and sorts.This is LaGrange and the common person like me knows nothing of sushi and wine.
Oh well some may see this as progress but between you,me and the fence post it's regress.
And while I'm on my soapbox,bring back the pretty colored water at the fountain on the square.
Long John Silver is now gone.Sonic also along with Golden Coral.What is going on?Why is everything leaving LaGrange?
Downtown is just a place for fancy smancy cafe's and sorts.This is LaGrange and the common person like me knows nothing of sushi and wine.
Oh well some may see this as progress but between you,me and the fence post it's regress.
And while I'm on my soapbox,bring back the pretty colored water at the fountain on the square.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Three will do
Add some tater chips and a dill pickle on the side and tell me who amongst you could resit this fried delicacy.
Ice cold 6 ouncer in a bottle CoCola would round this meal out just fine.
Three of these should hold me.
Blue birds
We all should have the courage of Blue birds.
I remember
Things of the 1950's and 1960's I remember.
1.Hula Hoops
2.Sonic booms
3.Lassie
4.The Beatles
5.33 1/3 rpm records
6.Crew cuts
7.Pedal pusher pants
8.Shirt jackets
9.Penny loafers
10.Cut off blue jean shorts
11.My Friend Flicka
12.Sky King
13.JFK
14.MLK
15.Double colas
16.Atomic bombs
17.Drive Inns
18.Bestonik Dooley
19.My Favorite Martian
20.Captain Kangaroo
21.Space race
22.Cold war
23.Keds
24.Fender skirts
What do you remember?
1.Hula Hoops
2.Sonic booms
3.Lassie
4.The Beatles
5.33 1/3 rpm records
6.Crew cuts
7.Pedal pusher pants
8.Shirt jackets
9.Penny loafers
10.Cut off blue jean shorts
11.My Friend Flicka
12.Sky King
13.JFK
14.MLK
15.Double colas
16.Atomic bombs
17.Drive Inns
18.Bestonik Dooley
19.My Favorite Martian
20.Captain Kangaroo
21.Space race
22.Cold war
23.Keds
24.Fender skirts
What do you remember?
Friday, April 12, 2013
The day
Will this be the day? The day I write about what is really on my mind? The day I write about what I'm really feeling?
Nope not today.
Nope not today.
It's only fair
I have complained about the food this week.It's only fair that I brag on what was good.
Breakfast is always my favorite.Toast,grits, bacon and a boiled egg.Today's lunch was excellent.Pepperoni pizza with fried veggie sticks.My Friday supper of a super duper salad will be here around 5 ish.
Breakfast is always my favorite.Toast,grits, bacon and a boiled egg.Today's lunch was excellent.Pepperoni pizza with fried veggie sticks.My Friday supper of a super duper salad will be here around 5 ish.
Not alone the ending...Chapter 7
I see...
Myself ! My twin.Someone who looks just like me.
Maybe Daddy's wish came true.He always said "wish had two just like you".
Who was you expecting?
Myself ! My twin.Someone who looks just like me.
Maybe Daddy's wish came true.He always said "wish had two just like you".
Who was you expecting?
Not alone...Chapter 6
No !
I can't be dead.The Bible tells me death is like a deep sleep.I'm wide awake here in this darkness void of any sound.Only the sound I notice now is the fast beating of my heart.
Least I know I'm alive but what is this place?
Something is happening.A door is slowly opening.I see,wait what is this?
Bright light.Slowly my eyes adjust to it.A figure a blurry figure in the bright light!
I see...
I can't be dead.The Bible tells me death is like a deep sleep.I'm wide awake here in this darkness void of any sound.Only the sound I notice now is the fast beating of my heart.
Least I know I'm alive but what is this place?
Something is happening.A door is slowly opening.I see,wait what is this?
Bright light.Slowly my eyes adjust to it.A figure a blurry figure in the bright light!
I see...
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Not alone....Chapter 5
What ever it is it's large.I'm pulled right inside.What is this place?
It's dark and so quiet in here.I hear no sounds.I see no light.My mind rushes with thoughts.Oh please don't let this be what I think it is!
Could this be a tomb?Is this my grave?Am I dead but conscious of it?
Is this cold,dark,quiet vacuum of a place my coffin?
More follows....
It's dark and so quiet in here.I hear no sounds.I see no light.My mind rushes with thoughts.Oh please don't let this be what I think it is!
Could this be a tomb?Is this my grave?Am I dead but conscious of it?
Is this cold,dark,quiet vacuum of a place my coffin?
More follows....
Not alone...Chapter 4
I realize something.It's the light that's keeping me warm from the snow.It engulfs me pulling me upward into the night sky.
I'm dreaming what is this.It can't be.Up and up it seems like something has hold of my body dragging me along effortless.Then I see it...
I'm dreaming what is this.It can't be.Up and up it seems like something has hold of my body dragging me along effortless.Then I see it...
Not alone continues...Chapter 3
Dozing off in the crowded but warm tent.Soon I was sound and fast asleep.
WHOOSH!
I was awaken.What was that I asked rubbing my half awake eyes.Seems everyone was awake now.It was nothing everyone go back to sleep said Joe the Scoutmaster and only adult of the group.
Dozing off again I had this strange odd feeling.I't felt like a warm bright light was soaking into my body.The feeling of peace and no fear is the only way I can explain this feeling.
I must be dreaming or am I dying?.This can't be happening.I feel as if I'm floating.Floating up and up into the night sky.Strange thing I think why ain't I'm cold.It's snowing.
Continues....
WHOOSH!
I was awaken.What was that I asked rubbing my half awake eyes.Seems everyone was awake now.It was nothing everyone go back to sleep said Joe the Scoutmaster and only adult of the group.
Dozing off again I had this strange odd feeling.I't felt like a warm bright light was soaking into my body.The feeling of peace and no fear is the only way I can explain this feeling.
I must be dreaming or am I dying?.This can't be happening.I feel as if I'm floating.Floating up and up into the night sky.Strange thing I think why ain't I'm cold.It's snowing.
Continues....
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Not alone continued...Chapter 2
I don't want to hear this saying to myself.The blinding light I see in my dreams every night.Now my old friend tells me he also has these dreams that haunt him nightly.Seems there are others that where with us that night that he talked with suffering from this same cruel dream.
What is going on thinking to myself.This is crazy why is he telling me all this? Mine is just a dream,it's my dream that's all it is.Nothing happen nothing supernatural happen to us on that cold snowy night.
A little back ground information.Boy Scout Troop 72 was camping out over the long Christmas holidays.The year was 1965.Rain turned to sleet then to snow and it was cold putting it mildly.Tents started leaking and all 15 of us ended up in a large WW2 surplus tent that luckily had a wood burning camp heater in the center of the tent.
15 poor kids from the mill village.Boy Scouts.We where so poor that no one except one guy had a Scout uniform.At times we could be rowdy.
To be continued...
What is going on thinking to myself.This is crazy why is he telling me all this? Mine is just a dream,it's my dream that's all it is.Nothing happen nothing supernatural happen to us on that cold snowy night.
A little back ground information.Boy Scout Troop 72 was camping out over the long Christmas holidays.The year was 1965.Rain turned to sleet then to snow and it was cold putting it mildly.Tents started leaking and all 15 of us ended up in a large WW2 surplus tent that luckily had a wood burning camp heater in the center of the tent.
15 poor kids from the mill village.Boy Scouts.We where so poor that no one except one guy had a Scout uniform.At times we could be rowdy.
To be continued...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Not alone...Chapter 1
For the first time ever I will speak of it.I'm not scared anymore.Not afraid that my mind is going.Not ashamed of what people will think.
I'm not alone.
Years ago when I was 13 years old camping out was one of the things enjoyed by me and the other kids in the neighborhood.On one of those camping trips something happened.I had just about convinced myself it was just a dream.Seems it did happen.My dream is turning into a nightmare.
I got a visit from an old friend the other day.Someone who grew up with me on the old mill village at East Newnan.Someone who camped out with me often.He tracked me down from my Facebook page.
After we caught up on things of the last 40 something years the conversation turned serious.Johnny do you remember that time we camped out in the snow behind the old school house for 3 days?I was in shock.That was my dream that nightmare that has been bothering me for all those years.Yes I remember why asking?
Does anything about that trip bother you he asked.I said no,lying because I was still hiding what to me was a nightmare.
Do you remember any thing strange?Something that just don't seem right?
I answered no my guard still up not knowing where all this was leading.
The light.The bright blinding light did you see it?
More to follow......
Monday, April 8, 2013
Not worrying
When I was a little boy living on Juniper Street I was worried and scared because Russia said they would bury the United States.
I'm not worrying about Korea.
I'm not worrying about Korea.
Pork n beans
Boy o boy.Dinner and supper has been a bust today.Roasted pork with gravy and broccoli, rice and cheese casserole.Supper was worse if possible.Baked lemon peppered catfish that was cold.
I know.With all the hungry people in the world I should be be grateful and thankful for this food.I am but that don't make the food any better.
Excuse my french but Yankees must be planning these meals.You may say it's healthy food good for your body.But if you ain't eating it's not healthy for you.
What would be wrong every once in a while to have some good home cooked style soul food.Dry beans fried taters cornbread and such.I will praise the collards served here they are really good.The turnip greens are well I won't say.
The breakfast here is great since I had that unnatural stuff called turkey sausage changed to bacon.Toast,grits and a boiled egg round it out and it's enjoyed.
Guess you can look at it this way,if I can get through that awful rice with beef and mushrooms and that so called chicken pot pie rest of the meals should be ok.
I'm opening up my reserve can of pork n beans.I'm hungry.
I know.With all the hungry people in the world I should be be grateful and thankful for this food.I am but that don't make the food any better.
Excuse my french but Yankees must be planning these meals.You may say it's healthy food good for your body.But if you ain't eating it's not healthy for you.
What would be wrong every once in a while to have some good home cooked style soul food.Dry beans fried taters cornbread and such.I will praise the collards served here they are really good.The turnip greens are well I won't say.
The breakfast here is great since I had that unnatural stuff called turkey sausage changed to bacon.Toast,grits and a boiled egg round it out and it's enjoyed.
Guess you can look at it this way,if I can get through that awful rice with beef and mushrooms and that so called chicken pot pie rest of the meals should be ok.
I'm opening up my reserve can of pork n beans.I'm hungry.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Georgia
Georgia is my home.Where I was born raised and 99.999% the place I'm sure of that I will wait for the second coming of the Lord up at Shadowlawn Cemetery.
From the mountains of north Georgia down to the Atlantic Ocean this is where I want to be.All I know about my kin folks is this if the records are correct.In the 1700's the Haynes kin left Baltimore,Maryland with a family of Dutch settlers and headed south.Stopping in North Carolina for awhile then on to Georgia.Now what I read so it must be true is that the Haynes folks where one of the first white settlers,this was Indian territory, in the county of what is now named Troup. Troup county is where I call home.Then for some unknown reason they moved to Alabama settling in what is now called Clay county.
Alabama is where my folks where born raised but Georgia is my home.Earlier laying here thinking looking out the big window I thought to myself what a beautiful day in Georgia.Trees and flowers in bloom the bright sunshine shinning down on us and the sound of Crows in the distant is just the perfect atmosphere for me.
On those up coming hot humid summer days that I long for in my minds eye I see the heat rising from a scorching tared road.The smell of honeysuckle and magnolias fill my senses.At night the singing of cicadas and crickets.Fire flies peppering a clear Georgia night.
The red clay of north Georgia.Further south around Macon where the soil is sandy white.Down in south Georgia where the farming is done.Home of the ever present nats on a sweltering hot summer day.
Atlanta or Lanta as locals call it.Burnt to the ground by Mr Sherman on his way to the sea.Tall buildings and streets named Peachtree.The little smaller than small towns with just a few folks.This is Georgia.
Every time I hear that theme song from Gone With the Wind it does something to me.Or when Ray Charles sings Georgia wow goose bump time.
Savannah which even Mr Sherman refused to burn because of it's beauty.Those dusty red clay roads which are fast disappearing I can still see in my minds eye and the smell of them after a summer's shower.
Grits,CoColas,peaches and peanuts.Mr. Carter from down the road in Plains.FDR who loved Warm Springs and the man who did so much for this part of Georgia.
Stone Mountain where I wrote that it would be a wonderful place to just sit and look eastward and wait on Jesus to come back for his Children.
Macon where most of my Aunts lived and where Grandma and Grandpa Haynes rest in peace.
The people here who will throw up their hand when meeting you while driving on those 2 lane black top roads.Mam and Sir which we say with respect.
Yes this is my home.Georgia named after old King George way over there in Great Brittan. Settled by James Oglethorpe down around Savannah.One of the thirteen original colonies.
Georgia.
How forgetful of me.Thank goodness I can come back and do some editing.How could I write about Georgia and not mention Georgia pines.Looking out the big window they seemed to be waving at me reminding me I'm wasn't through yet.
Wind through the pines on a moonlight night what a beautiful sight.Now through,the story is complete.
From the mountains of north Georgia down to the Atlantic Ocean this is where I want to be.All I know about my kin folks is this if the records are correct.In the 1700's the Haynes kin left Baltimore,Maryland with a family of Dutch settlers and headed south.Stopping in North Carolina for awhile then on to Georgia.Now what I read so it must be true is that the Haynes folks where one of the first white settlers,this was Indian territory, in the county of what is now named Troup. Troup county is where I call home.Then for some unknown reason they moved to Alabama settling in what is now called Clay county.
Alabama is where my folks where born raised but Georgia is my home.Earlier laying here thinking looking out the big window I thought to myself what a beautiful day in Georgia.Trees and flowers in bloom the bright sunshine shinning down on us and the sound of Crows in the distant is just the perfect atmosphere for me.
On those up coming hot humid summer days that I long for in my minds eye I see the heat rising from a scorching tared road.The smell of honeysuckle and magnolias fill my senses.At night the singing of cicadas and crickets.Fire flies peppering a clear Georgia night.
The red clay of north Georgia.Further south around Macon where the soil is sandy white.Down in south Georgia where the farming is done.Home of the ever present nats on a sweltering hot summer day.
Atlanta or Lanta as locals call it.Burnt to the ground by Mr Sherman on his way to the sea.Tall buildings and streets named Peachtree.The little smaller than small towns with just a few folks.This is Georgia.
Every time I hear that theme song from Gone With the Wind it does something to me.Or when Ray Charles sings Georgia wow goose bump time.
Savannah which even Mr Sherman refused to burn because of it's beauty.Those dusty red clay roads which are fast disappearing I can still see in my minds eye and the smell of them after a summer's shower.
Grits,CoColas,peaches and peanuts.Mr. Carter from down the road in Plains.FDR who loved Warm Springs and the man who did so much for this part of Georgia.
Stone Mountain where I wrote that it would be a wonderful place to just sit and look eastward and wait on Jesus to come back for his Children.
Macon where most of my Aunts lived and where Grandma and Grandpa Haynes rest in peace.
The people here who will throw up their hand when meeting you while driving on those 2 lane black top roads.Mam and Sir which we say with respect.
Yes this is my home.Georgia named after old King George way over there in Great Brittan. Settled by James Oglethorpe down around Savannah.One of the thirteen original colonies.
Georgia.
How forgetful of me.Thank goodness I can come back and do some editing.How could I write about Georgia and not mention Georgia pines.Looking out the big window they seemed to be waving at me reminding me I'm wasn't through yet.
Wind through the pines on a moonlight night what a beautiful sight.Now through,the story is complete.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Red neck boys
Red neck boys
Four wheel drive trucks
Shotguns loaded for bucks
We sure love our toys
Momma we love
Our Daddy to
Our blood runs red white blue
This is true
Blue Ribbon beer
White socks
Old Hank singing
Brings a tear
Like us or not
Thats your choice
Really just like you
Bet that you forgot
Four wheel drive trucks
Shotguns loaded for bucks
We sure love our toys
Momma we love
Our Daddy to
Our blood runs red white blue
This is true
Blue Ribbon beer
White socks
Old Hank singing
Brings a tear
Like us or not
Thats your choice
Really just like you
Bet that you forgot
Vacation from hell
So you think things are bad.A nice Lady who works here at the old folks home just told me how her vacation went.
Seems while on her vacation she had 2 teeth,one on each side to abscess and had to be pulled.Top this off she quit smoking while on vacation.
Now get this.Things get worse if that is possible.Her Mother n law has moved in with them.
Yep no matter how bad you may think things are going for you just remember this Lady and her vacation from hell.
Seems while on her vacation she had 2 teeth,one on each side to abscess and had to be pulled.Top this off she quit smoking while on vacation.
Now get this.Things get worse if that is possible.Her Mother n law has moved in with them.
Yep no matter how bad you may think things are going for you just remember this Lady and her vacation from hell.
Killed the atmosphere
I just seen something on the news that just don't seem right.A story about limousine service.Those fancy expensive beautiful limos had this I noticed.Hanging on the rear view mirror was a pine tree air freshener.
For me that just killed the atmosphere.Kinda like wearing brown shoes with a tuxedo.
For me that just killed the atmosphere.Kinda like wearing brown shoes with a tuxedo.
Friday, April 5, 2013
Karma
A shame and pity.Way up there in ole Boston,Mass,bean town, the state and home of the Kennedy's ,the ones who pointed their fingers at people down here in Dixie years ago shame on you.
Seems 25 kids at an elementary school where refused lunch one day.The reason being their lunch cards had a zero balance on them.
The kid's where not allowed to eat lunch that day in fact their lunch plates where dumped without being touched.
Karma.Plain and simple.Be careful who you judge my friends.
Seems 25 kids at an elementary school where refused lunch one day.The reason being their lunch cards had a zero balance on them.
The kid's where not allowed to eat lunch that day in fact their lunch plates where dumped without being touched.
Karma.Plain and simple.Be careful who you judge my friends.
Coolest dude on TV
Love this commercial where the pig stopped by the police is asked if he knows why he is being stopped.
His answer is perfect,because I'm a pig driving a convertible the pig answers.The cop answers tail light.Get it fixed.
Yep maybe this means something when the commercials might be more interesting and original than the network TV programs.
As the Geico pig says.... wheeeeee!
My heart skips....
I just read something that must be shared.It seems my fellow connoisseurs of Whoppers and fries that those healthy choice items fast food places offer are no healthier than the big burger loaded up and fries.Just as much fat,more salt and the calorie difference is not worth bragging about.
Yes my friends those health nuts may laugh at us as we eat our Whoppers and Big Macs.They may call us names.But we know what we like and enjoy it.
Yes my heart skips a beat and maybe is ticking a little faster this morning with joy from this news.But could be from that bag of Cheetos I had as a bed time snack.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
How did I...
How did I ever live without these things.
1.Drip coffee makers
2.Remote controlled TV
3.Microwaves
4.Cell phones
5.Computers
6.Cars with power everything
7.Friends like you
8.Microwave popcorn
9.Salads on Friday's
10.Again friends like you(big bear hug to you)
1.Drip coffee makers
2.Remote controlled TV
3.Microwaves
4.Cell phones
5.Computers
6.Cars with power everything
7.Friends like you
8.Microwave popcorn
9.Salads on Friday's
10.Again friends like you(big bear hug to you)
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Just between me and you
A friend who works here at the old folks home has promised me some home cooked on the stove big white butter beans with cornbread and a big onion.
They did this once before and it was delicious.Really I think her boyfriend cooked them.So looking forward to that.
Another Lady who works here her husband sent me some fried salmon patties,real home made biscuits and sliced fried taters he had cooked.Wonderful.
Now there have been many treats of food brought to me and I so appreciate it.The food here for the most part is very good and filling.Being a diabetic I'm well on a diet.But I sure enjoy food from home I have to admit with all honesty.
The friend who brought the big white butter beans did this.Surprised me with a Whopper from Burger King.Guess what?My onion rings where held hostage by a nurse.I did not get them.
But all is well.The nurse later that day whispered to me just between us she was hungry and ate my onion rings and promised to bring me some later.
So if you bring me food just skip the nurses station.It will just be between me and you.
They did this once before and it was delicious.Really I think her boyfriend cooked them.So looking forward to that.
Another Lady who works here her husband sent me some fried salmon patties,real home made biscuits and sliced fried taters he had cooked.Wonderful.
Now there have been many treats of food brought to me and I so appreciate it.The food here for the most part is very good and filling.Being a diabetic I'm well on a diet.But I sure enjoy food from home I have to admit with all honesty.
The friend who brought the big white butter beans did this.Surprised me with a Whopper from Burger King.Guess what?My onion rings where held hostage by a nurse.I did not get them.
But all is well.The nurse later that day whispered to me just between us she was hungry and ate my onion rings and promised to bring me some later.
So if you bring me food just skip the nurses station.It will just be between me and you.
Change
End of an era.Well it seems Jay Leno will be leaving the Tonight Show.I'm more of a David Letterman fan myself but I hate seeing Jay leave.
Years ago back in the 60's every night almost I would watch Johnny Carson.I remember seeing a young Richard Pryor.His stuff was hilarious back then.Monty Rock 3rd,Moms Mabley,those Carson skits on and on.
What I'm getting at is this.Change.Sometimes I don't like change and yearn for things the way they where.No way to keep things the way we want.Things will change no matter what.
Years ago back in the 60's every night almost I would watch Johnny Carson.I remember seeing a young Richard Pryor.His stuff was hilarious back then.Monty Rock 3rd,Moms Mabley,those Carson skits on and on.
What I'm getting at is this.Change.Sometimes I don't like change and yearn for things the way they where.No way to keep things the way we want.Things will change no matter what.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Freedom of their souls
I watched as each balloon soared skyward.To me it symbolized the freedom of their souls released to the Heavens.
Harley
Sunny spring day
Get chopper out
Have some fun
Ride all about
Wind in face
Shaggy beard hair
Time to cruise
Nothing to lose
Big Harley ride
Twin pipes loud
Just me you
Don't need crowd
Get chopper out
Have some fun
Ride all about
Wind in face
Shaggy beard hair
Time to cruise
Nothing to lose
Big Harley ride
Twin pipes loud
Just me you
Don't need crowd
Transformation of my life...
Miracle of miracles my Dear friends.I JohnLee woke up this morning craving of all things turkey sasuage.Yes I don't know what happened.Maybe I bumped my head while in deep slumber but my need for fried pork sasuage or thin brown crispy bacon has left me.
Me of all people.I have been converted to a healthy food nut.Please no more burgers,fries or onion rings for me.I crave broiled chicken,cooked carrots and squash.No more greasy cornbread and big white butter beans.Feed that to your hogs mam give me cauliflower please.
Just the thought of biscuits and gravy makes me queasy.Keep your chips and dips.Nothing salty or fried will touch these lips.
Ban CoColas.Take it a step further than that mayor up there in New York City.No more McDonalds,Burger King or Krystals for me.
I have seen the light and it was bright friends.The evil of my ways have been exposed.I have only one explanation for this radical transformation of my life.
April Fool!
Me of all people.I have been converted to a healthy food nut.Please no more burgers,fries or onion rings for me.I crave broiled chicken,cooked carrots and squash.No more greasy cornbread and big white butter beans.Feed that to your hogs mam give me cauliflower please.
Just the thought of biscuits and gravy makes me queasy.Keep your chips and dips.Nothing salty or fried will touch these lips.
Ban CoColas.Take it a step further than that mayor up there in New York City.No more McDonalds,Burger King or Krystals for me.
I have seen the light and it was bright friends.The evil of my ways have been exposed.I have only one explanation for this radical transformation of my life.
April Fool!
Chill pills
Chill pill.Sometimes I think they should be available when needed.Folks having a hissy fit,chill pill.Someone just having a bad day,chill pill.
Maybe chill pills would save lot of relationships.Fuss starting,chill pill.Grumpy moody,chill pill.Just feel like being mean and hateful,chill pill.
Yes I think chill pills are a good thing.So if you are stressed out,feeling grouchy,wanting to jump on your loved ones,chill pill.
Don't reach for that 2x4.Instead open a bottle of chill pills.
Maybe chill pills would save lot of relationships.Fuss starting,chill pill.Grumpy moody,chill pill.Just feel like being mean and hateful,chill pill.
Yes I think chill pills are a good thing.So if you are stressed out,feeling grouchy,wanting to jump on your loved ones,chill pill.
Don't reach for that 2x4.Instead open a bottle of chill pills.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Not alone
That little four line poem I wrote about the little bird this morning was true.I was feeling down and out,blue,sad,depressed what ever it is called.
Just after sunrise I seen that little black and gray creature.It was chirping up a storm like it was trying to tell me something.Fluttering against the window pane like it wanted in.
Immediately I felt better.Cheered up out of my self pity.Something seemed like it cared for me.That little bird made me again feel glad I was alive.
Maybe on this Easter morning feeling all alone God sent that little black and gray bird to me just to let me know I wasn't alone in this world.
Thank you little bird and thank you God.
Just after sunrise I seen that little black and gray creature.It was chirping up a storm like it was trying to tell me something.Fluttering against the window pane like it wanted in.
Immediately I felt better.Cheered up out of my self pity.Something seemed like it cared for me.That little bird made me again feel glad I was alive.
Maybe on this Easter morning feeling all alone God sent that little black and gray bird to me just to let me know I wasn't alone in this world.
Thank you little bird and thank you God.
Biscuit run
Maybe it just a test of fire crews and truck.That is very well possible.Once there was a fire station just above Grandma's on Murphy Avenue.This was back in the old days and every so often they just tested by running down the street siren blasting and lights flashing.
Yes that must be what they are doing.Or could it be you reckon that just maybe the fire truck could be making a biscuit run to McDonald's?
Had to happen...
I guess it had to happen.I'm shattered and distraught.Maybe this is just a bad dream and soon I will wake up.Oh I get it now.It's an early April Fools joke.But reality must be faced.One of my favorite eatery joints has been it seems corrupted.Fallen to the pressure of do gooders and know it alls.
I just seen the ad on TV.Burger King.Yep my fellow connoisseurs of have it your way flame broiled burgers, Whoppers, has given in and are you sitting down fellow Whopper lovers,and offers TURKEY BURGERS!
The humanity of it all.Nothing is sacred.
Taps
Happy Easter to you.He has risen.Easter brings back memories.
Twice a year I got new shoes.When school started and on Easter.Back in the late 50's when I was a boy there was a fad I don't think kids do today.
Taps on your shoes.I can still hear taps walking down those long halls at Southwest Elementary School.Click clank click clank.
The purpose of taps was to make your shoes last longer.Taps on the heels and toes of your Buster Browns bought from the Bargain Basement downtown LaGrange at the corner of Vernon and Bull Streets.Walk next door and the shoe repair man would put taps on your new shoes for 10 cents a pair if my memory serves me right.
I just liked the sound of taps on a hard floor.You where cool if you had them.
Guess it's hard putting taps on these designer sneakers kids wear today.Oh we had sneakers back then also.They where called tennis shoes.Two styles.Low cut or or high top basketball Keds.In any color you wanted as long it was black.
Twice a year I got new shoes.When school started and on Easter.Back in the late 50's when I was a boy there was a fad I don't think kids do today.
Taps on your shoes.I can still hear taps walking down those long halls at Southwest Elementary School.Click clank click clank.
The purpose of taps was to make your shoes last longer.Taps on the heels and toes of your Buster Browns bought from the Bargain Basement downtown LaGrange at the corner of Vernon and Bull Streets.Walk next door and the shoe repair man would put taps on your new shoes for 10 cents a pair if my memory serves me right.
I just liked the sound of taps on a hard floor.You where cool if you had them.
Guess it's hard putting taps on these designer sneakers kids wear today.Oh we had sneakers back then also.They where called tennis shoes.Two styles.Low cut or or high top basketball Keds.In any color you wanted as long it was black.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
I love you....really
What's on my mind.Let me think.Tonight will be my night to complain,whine or act like a lot of folks I've know in my life.
Let's start with the selfish people then work our way up to the self centered ones.Ain't they a blessing.Then there is the me me me folks.They are fun huh.
Next we have the know it alls.Oh boy I like just listening to them while agreeing on the out side but on the inside having a blast laughing.
March Madness.Is basketball all day on every TV channel really needed.The person who invented VCR'S must have had their fill of it and decided to do something about that foolishness.
The health food nuts oh excuse me.Like someone said once those people that don't smoke,drink or cuss don't really live any longer it just seems like they do.They bore the rest of us to death.
Now for the last.Those Holier than thou folks.The ones who only practice what they preach one day a week.
Ok guess that is it for now.If you fit into any of these categories just remember I love you.Really I do.
Let's start with the selfish people then work our way up to the self centered ones.Ain't they a blessing.Then there is the me me me folks.They are fun huh.
Next we have the know it alls.Oh boy I like just listening to them while agreeing on the out side but on the inside having a blast laughing.
March Madness.Is basketball all day on every TV channel really needed.The person who invented VCR'S must have had their fill of it and decided to do something about that foolishness.
The health food nuts oh excuse me.Like someone said once those people that don't smoke,drink or cuss don't really live any longer it just seems like they do.They bore the rest of us to death.
Now for the last.Those Holier than thou folks.The ones who only practice what they preach one day a week.
Ok guess that is it for now.If you fit into any of these categories just remember I love you.Really I do.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Gun ban
The crazies will find a way to cause harm if determined.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Got this feeling
Me,Daddy and the snake
Maybe I was 7 years old and it was fall of the year.In a thicket of trees brown leaves covering the ground we where leaning against a tree.
I noticed something.A snake.Maybe a copper head or rattler .Tongue flickering gliding over the leaves it was headed right towards us.
Daddy I see a snake.That's all it took.Daddy,the one with the gun jumped up and started running.Back to where the car was.Not a word was said he just left me in his tracks.
He never seen the snake,he had the gun,he left me in his dust.The man was terrified of them creepy crawlie no shoulder things.
As I got older often I reminded him of that snake.And the day he left his little boy behind.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Color blind
Seems I'm color blind.For over 30 years I lived in the same house.When giving directions to my humble abode always I said 3rd house on left green with dark green shutters.
Everyone else said it was white.Well maybe it was a light green,mint green color but rest assured that house was not white.
I should know.I'm the one who bought the paint.I seem to see dark colors just fine.But light pastel colors are a different story.
But like I said that house was green.
Everyone else said it was white.Well maybe it was a light green,mint green color but rest assured that house was not white.
I should know.I'm the one who bought the paint.I seem to see dark colors just fine.But light pastel colors are a different story.
But like I said that house was green.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Just dreaming
The only good meal for me this whole week was breakfast this morning.Toast,buttered,grits,bacon and a boiled egg.
Other than that this week has been a bust far as food goes.Just had supper and it was that awful beef tips on rice with mushrooms.I just rake the beef and those things to the side and eat the rice.It came with cooked sliced carrots,squash and what I think was supposed to be green string beans.
I love string beans.But they have to be cooked right.Cooked down in some grease till nearly burnt and add salt please and give me a big slice of cornbread and onion and that's good eating.A roll(where the cornbread)apple sauce and diet something pudding filled out the meal.
I know go ahead and say it I'm a picky old man.I agree but I know what I like and what I don't.Who ever is planning these meals knows nothing about Southern cooking or how it's done.I love vegetables.But what we are having here must be excuse my French Yankee cooking.They know nothing about seasoning food I think.
Come on now how about some real food for a change.Butter beans or pintos cooked on the stove with that thick bean soup.Big pan of cornbread.Some fried taters.Salmon patties fried brown and crispy.
Just dreaming I guess.
Other than that this week has been a bust far as food goes.Just had supper and it was that awful beef tips on rice with mushrooms.I just rake the beef and those things to the side and eat the rice.It came with cooked sliced carrots,squash and what I think was supposed to be green string beans.
I love string beans.But they have to be cooked right.Cooked down in some grease till nearly burnt and add salt please and give me a big slice of cornbread and onion and that's good eating.A roll(where the cornbread)apple sauce and diet something pudding filled out the meal.
I know go ahead and say it I'm a picky old man.I agree but I know what I like and what I don't.Who ever is planning these meals knows nothing about Southern cooking or how it's done.I love vegetables.But what we are having here must be excuse my French Yankee cooking.They know nothing about seasoning food I think.
Come on now how about some real food for a change.Butter beans or pintos cooked on the stove with that thick bean soup.Big pan of cornbread.Some fried taters.Salmon patties fried brown and crispy.
Just dreaming I guess.
What if....
What if.What if you knew that in a few moments your life would end.How would you handle it and what would you do.
Watching an old movie today about a runaway atomic missile that was bearing down on NYC it made me think.
If I knew my life was coming to an end quickly what would I do.Pray for forgiveness is the natural thing I guess.Tell those close to me how I feel about them maybe.Be scared most likely.
What if a person was pointing a gun to your head and seconds from death you where wonder if I could handle it.No choice in that one.What if a big space rock was bearing down on Earth and we where given a short notice that this would be it for us could you deal with it?
We all will face that moment in our life someday.Those last few moments.Just hope it comes quick with no time to be scared or in pain.
Watching an old movie today about a runaway atomic missile that was bearing down on NYC it made me think.
If I knew my life was coming to an end quickly what would I do.Pray for forgiveness is the natural thing I guess.Tell those close to me how I feel about them maybe.Be scared most likely.
What if a person was pointing a gun to your head and seconds from death you where wonder if I could handle it.No choice in that one.What if a big space rock was bearing down on Earth and we where given a short notice that this would be it for us could you deal with it?
We all will face that moment in our life someday.Those last few moments.Just hope it comes quick with no time to be scared or in pain.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Outlaw turkey anything...
Enough of broccoli and cooked carrots.No more wild rice give me the real stuff,white with butter,salt and pepper.
Fry my pork chop and burgers and fish.No more broiled anything.Down with healthy eating.If it ain't fried it ain't cooked.
Apples are for pies and bananas go in banana pudding.
Outlaw turkey anything.No sugar free this or that.Remember those test that said artificial sweeteners gave rats cancer.
At my age food is what I look forward to each day.Chili dogs and fries over cauliflower and squash anytime.
If a choice between food making me healthy or happy I would chose happy.
Fry my pork chop and burgers and fish.No more broiled anything.Down with healthy eating.If it ain't fried it ain't cooked.
Apples are for pies and bananas go in banana pudding.
Outlaw turkey anything.No sugar free this or that.Remember those test that said artificial sweeteners gave rats cancer.
At my age food is what I look forward to each day.Chili dogs and fries over cauliflower and squash anytime.
If a choice between food making me healthy or happy I would chose happy.
Socks,bed,blue
I told her once she needed to change those words.People have them memorized.But between me you and the fencepost I hope they don't.
My memory isn't as sharp like it use to be.Scary at times.Guess it's just a normal part of aging.
That old saying is true.Once a man,twice a child.I'm not sure if it's the fall or winter of my life.All I know time is passing by fast.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Feeling escapes me
Watching an old rerun of The Twilight Zone it struck a bell with me.This old guy at the old folks home came running out all excited carring his suitcase shaking peoples hand and runs to a car.
His son's car.The old guy thinks his son is taking him home.Nope not the way it works.The dissapointment shows on his face.
That face I've seen around here a few times.People wanting to go home back to the lives they once had with their families.
I'm so blessed.That feeling escapes me.
His son's car.The old guy thinks his son is taking him home.Nope not the way it works.The dissapointment shows on his face.
That face I've seen around here a few times.People wanting to go home back to the lives they once had with their families.
I'm so blessed.That feeling escapes me.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Only in my memories
Take me back.Back there.The 1970's.A time I liked.
Watching a rerun of The Love Boat on my computer that song took me back to those days of my youth.The music of that era.The movies and TV.
Movies like the Smokey and the Bandit,The Godfather,The Exorcist.TV programs like Charlie's Angels,Barney Miller and Welcome Back Cotter.
Those TV commercials from Ronco.Pocket Fisherman,Clap on Clap off light switch.Cubic Zoconia diamond rings and everything only cost $9.95.
WTBS channel 17.
A time when cars where cool.Z28's,Boss Mustangs and Trans Am's.
When music was good.REO Speedwagon,Journey and 38 Special.
Least I can still go back to those days.If only in my memories.
Watching a rerun of The Love Boat on my computer that song took me back to those days of my youth.The music of that era.The movies and TV.
Movies like the Smokey and the Bandit,The Godfather,The Exorcist.TV programs like Charlie's Angels,Barney Miller and Welcome Back Cotter.
Those TV commercials from Ronco.Pocket Fisherman,Clap on Clap off light switch.Cubic Zoconia diamond rings and everything only cost $9.95.
WTBS channel 17.
A time when cars where cool.Z28's,Boss Mustangs and Trans Am's.
When music was good.REO Speedwagon,Journey and 38 Special.
Least I can still go back to those days.If only in my memories.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Super size it
Food is what I'm talking about.Don't eat this or that.Bad for you.Eat this what I say.That was your Momma's job when you where a kid.You're grown now think for yourself.
Others will try making you feel guilty or bad if you eat what you like and want.
If you want a Big Mac with super sized fries do it.Enjoy it.Let Mr/Ms know it all let me control your life eat broccoli and carrots.
What it comes down to is this.If the food you eat don't taste good or satisfy you why eat it.
Being happy counts just as much as being healthy.
On ya way back drop me off some of those super sized fries.
Satisfied
As Facebook asks what on your mind today.Well today I have no pressing issues to talk about.No complaints.Not mad with anyone or about anything.So far so good as they say.
No big controversies that I know of.Friends with one and all far as I know.Only big business I have to take care of is remembering to put in my order for that super duper salad for Friday's supper.
I know right.Lot of people would like having my problems of today.Not really needing anything or really wanting anything.
Guess you call this being satisfied.
No big controversies that I know of.Friends with one and all far as I know.Only big business I have to take care of is remembering to put in my order for that super duper salad for Friday's supper.
I know right.Lot of people would like having my problems of today.Not really needing anything or really wanting anything.
Guess you call this being satisfied.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Chicken Little
Chicken Little was wrong.The sky is not falling but the ground is sinking.
Down in Florida the earth opens up and swallows a man sleeping in his bed.They can't find him.Awful way to go I think.
Up in Illinois I think it was a man playing golf is swallowed up when the ground beneath him opens up.
When I was kid the story was Florida would some day sink off the map and the Atlantic Ocean would start down around Macon,Georgia.Might be something to that.
Hmmm.If you got some spare cash might be a good time to invest in some future beach front property down around middle Georgia.
Down in Florida the earth opens up and swallows a man sleeping in his bed.They can't find him.Awful way to go I think.
Up in Illinois I think it was a man playing golf is swallowed up when the ground beneath him opens up.
When I was kid the story was Florida would some day sink off the map and the Atlantic Ocean would start down around Macon,Georgia.Might be something to that.
Hmmm.If you got some spare cash might be a good time to invest in some future beach front property down around middle Georgia.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Word chosen
Outcasts,rejects,throwaways,call us what you want.Most likely what ever word used fits us.We are the once loved,once useful people of your life.
Now old,sick or disabled no longer able to do for ourselves.We depend on others to help with our daily life.
I think maybe it's not meant the way we take it but at times it saddens me the way some are talked to.Did you know that impatient word can really hurt us.We understand what stress you are under but sometimes I think the word you choose is not the best.
I can't stand being patronized.That sugary sweet talk not really meant.Really if your heart is not in it don't make us the ones who depend on you feel like we are in the way.Maybe when you reach that point it's time for you/me to move on.
We still have feelings.Words or actions we can still feel.
Remember we where just like you once.This life now lived was not of our choosing.
Now old,sick or disabled no longer able to do for ourselves.We depend on others to help with our daily life.
I think maybe it's not meant the way we take it but at times it saddens me the way some are talked to.Did you know that impatient word can really hurt us.We understand what stress you are under but sometimes I think the word you choose is not the best.
I can't stand being patronized.That sugary sweet talk not really meant.Really if your heart is not in it don't make us the ones who depend on you feel like we are in the way.Maybe when you reach that point it's time for you/me to move on.
We still have feelings.Words or actions we can still feel.
Remember we where just like you once.This life now lived was not of our choosing.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Those three words
Those three words
We hold dear
Those three words
We wanna hear
Those three words
Time to eat
We hold dear
Those three words
We wanna hear
Those three words
Time to eat
Spring
Spring has sprung
Birds think so
Chirping and singing
Outside my window
Sun do glow
I like alot
Spring has sprung
This I know
Trees are budding
Grass getting green
Spring has sprung
It so keen
Dogwoods in bloom
Such a sight
Spring has sprung
No more gloom
Birds think so
Chirping and singing
Outside my window
Sun do glow
I like alot
Spring has sprung
This I know
Trees are budding
Grass getting green
Spring has sprung
It so keen
Dogwoods in bloom
Such a sight
Spring has sprung
No more gloom
Hour closer
Just let me get my hour back.I'm sleepy.The world is a hour early today.Breakfast a hour early.Even the pretty birds at my window singing a hour early today.
One hour closer to what ever is going to happen today.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Hunting for twirly whirlys
She would go grocery shopping and I just knew she had bought twirly whirlys and had them hid.
Those pastries she really liked.The usual place she hid them was in the bottom of the fridge where the healthy stuff suppose to have went.You know things like apples,pears and such a place she thought never I would search.That would be my first place to look.
She would get creative some times and I would just have to ask "Momma where you hide the twirly whirlys".
Friday, March 8, 2013
Think Brother !
I just seen this little guy,hands handcuffed behind him,3 big boy cops holding onto him,and he tries to run!
Slammed to the concrete face first then tazed he was.
Brother think next time when you are in this situation.
Thank you in advance
Ate way to much again.Yesterday here at TFH was Ms Theresa's last day at work.She retired.There was a party given for her and I for one had the pleasure of attending.
Whoo We.Talk about good food.Collards,tater salad,deviled eggs,green beans cooked down right,chicken of all types,homemade mac&cheese,cornbread and I topped it off with an ice cream sandwich.Oh don't forget that wonderful chicken dressing.
Now.I have a mission.Tracking down who cooked what.My reason being selfish.All that food was yum yum like Momma cooked.I need to remind them the next time they cook the dish they brought yesterday to please remember me and bring by me a plate.
I thank you in advance.
Whoo We.Talk about good food.Collards,tater salad,deviled eggs,green beans cooked down right,chicken of all types,homemade mac&cheese,cornbread and I topped it off with an ice cream sandwich.Oh don't forget that wonderful chicken dressing.
Now.I have a mission.Tracking down who cooked what.My reason being selfish.All that food was yum yum like Momma cooked.I need to remind them the next time they cook the dish they brought yesterday to please remember me and bring by me a plate.
I thank you in advance.
Raised with manners
Geographical biased stereotyping I know better than you type of people.I promise to be nice even though my blood boils and skin crawls when I hear people put down us folks in the south.
Little story.Few years ago I went on a little trip with someone.We had the pleasure of passing through Alabama to reach our destination.
I had to bite my lip cause my Momma raised me with some manners which I think a lot of folks missed out on.Anyway this person called people in Alabama ignorant,stupid,backwards any thing that sounded cruel and degrading they said it.
Little did this person know my folks where born raised in Alabama and I had the pleasure of living there myself a few times.Thinking about it maybe they did know my Alabama connection and where just being their normal self of being contrary.See I am being nice.Manners remember.
In movies,on TV,in the news it's still ok to put down us Southern folks.So they feel.
Hypocrites.
Little story.Few years ago I went on a little trip with someone.We had the pleasure of passing through Alabama to reach our destination.
I had to bite my lip cause my Momma raised me with some manners which I think a lot of folks missed out on.Anyway this person called people in Alabama ignorant,stupid,backwards any thing that sounded cruel and degrading they said it.
Little did this person know my folks where born raised in Alabama and I had the pleasure of living there myself a few times.Thinking about it maybe they did know my Alabama connection and where just being their normal self of being contrary.See I am being nice.Manners remember.
In movies,on TV,in the news it's still ok to put down us Southern folks.So they feel.
Hypocrites.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Hard headed and set in my ways...
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.
When finding fault with someone she would remind me that it might not be them it might be you.
Sayings.Words to live by.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Standing Rock,Alabama
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!
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!
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