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We can work it out.

If you don’t want to compromise then maybe we can meet in the middle. Maybe a little give and take if you wish. Perhaps mutual concessions if you would like that better. I am almost certain we all, for the most part, want the same things. Good health and the ways and means of accomplishingContinue reading “We can work it out.”

Books I discover for my grandkids.

Book Report. I really liked this book but it was recommended for grades three to six. A middle or high schooler would find it informative and entertaining as well. It is historical fiction and is titled “Letters from Cuba” by Ruth Baher, published 2020. It is a series of letters written by older sister EstherContinue reading “Books I discover for my grandkids.”

So let me leave you with this tip.

We sat down at the table as shown us by the restaurant host and was given our menus. Shortly a young man came, introduced himself, and asked how we were doing. And as we always do we asked him the same. I’m Fan-taps-tic“ he replied with an over enunciated local southern tone as he pumpedContinue reading “So let me leave you with this tip.”

Young women must think I’m a 77-year old Hunk.

On a regular basis I receive Friend requests on Facebook from women a quarter of my age. Curvy girly types. Youngish women with finely sculptured torsos and hips. Most of which lacks sufficient drapage. Displaying it’s not what they know but what they possess. Indicating to me they have more style and very little substance.Continue reading “Young women must think I’m a 77-year old Hunk.”

The first in a series. Butchy the Chicken Whisperer.

Butchy the chicken whisperer He doesn’t like to compare himself to Harry Potter but Butchy the chicken whisperer has mesmerizing powers over his following of chickens. Three in all. All Rhode Island Reds named Manny, Moe, and Jack. A trio of cluckers who think they have special divining powers to find buried treasures. After allContinue reading “The first in a series. Butchy the Chicken Whisperer.”

Book I read.

Book Report. Even though this is a John Grisham book it has nothing to do with ambitious lawyers, run away juries, conspiring judges, innocent convicts on death row, or ambulance chasers. It’s about NCAA and NBA basketball. The title is ‘Sooley’ by John Grisham, fiction published 2021 Samuel Sooleymon 17-year old six foot two(and growing)Continue reading “Book I read.”

Rocketing the Rich.

Yes, I have been watching with casual disinterest to the Space-X three day orbiting with four non-astronauts. Just guessing trying to replicate the first manned space orbiters. You know John Glenn, Allen Sheppard, Gus Grisham, etc. People who knew what they were doing. But now with just passive ‘passengers’ along for the ride. Oh sureContinue reading “Rocketing the Rich.”

I really do want your money.

If you are in the classification of being very rich; I want your money. A person with too much money must give up a good portion of your currency. So, give it to me now. I am going to recklessly spend it on crumbling bridges. Remember the I-35 W over the Mississippi River between SaintContinue reading “I really do want your money.”

Existentialism

Every so often and more often than not words comes along that almost everybody likes to use in a simple sentence. It’s mostly used on cable news shows by erudite and professorial news wonks. You know like Lawrence O’Donnell, Brian Williams, or Anderson Cooper. Talking heads with a vocabulary bought from Saks Fifth Avenue orContinue reading “Existentialism”

I didn’t get Smallpox.

We school kids did as was suggested. Take the vaccine. It first started with a note to our parents pinned to our shirts and taken home. Parents were to sign a permission slip for the vaccine and taken back by we kids to our teachers. Then on a designated day we kids all stood inContinue reading “I didn’t get Smallpox.”