NEW ARRIVALS.

For a few weeks now a duck has been sitting on eggs in a flower bed at the camper. Yesterday as I sat on my deck I noticed a large duck with four baby ducks stumbling around behind her. I wondered it those were from the eggs she had been sitting on. I took a walk to where the nest was and sure enough the eggs had hatched. There was one chick in the next who was not moving and another who had made it way out of the nest and lying on the ground peeping. I guess it was looking for the others who were quite a distance away near the waters edge. I picked this chick up and carried it to the group of other chicks and placed it on the ground near them. This little guy heard the others peeping and hurried toward them peeping and stumbling all the way. It made it to the group

GREAT WEEKEND BUT HOT.

As we know it was and still is hot worse yet a golf course was not the place for a 71 year old gentleman considering that I had not place golf since my mid 20's. The date was set for last Saturday and the tee-off time was 4:00 when the temp was 94 degrees. We were the only ones there to tee-off. The smart people were either at home or finished already. We were the only people at the first tee which was good because with my years of no playing and the others no being an Arnold Palmer, things moved kind of slow.

The game progressed with serious moments and a log of laughter. All I can say is thank God for golf carts. I would have collapsed somewhere on the second hold. After the ninth hole a big decision had to be made, it was already 8:00 so do we continue onto the second nine or call it quits. At the club house the man was kind enough to give us a rain check for the additional nine holes but they had to be played the next day which was even hotter.

We did play the next day and we must have gotten better because it only took us 3 hours to play the nine holes opposed to 4 hours the day before. I think that we will wait for cooler days before we play again but I must say I had a great time and a cold shower felt good

HOW TO MAKE A LITTLE GIRL CRY!!!!

Making a little cry is not hard if you are dead beat dad. After not paying any attention to her, even when he lived at home, and leaving her mother and her when they lived in Florida like a ghost in the night, ten years later he now wants to be in her life. B.S.. He says he wants to be a family again and refuses to believe that he is divorced.

With lawyers bickering it was worked out that he was to get the little girl under supervised visitation. The first time he was a no show. The second time he was a no show but this time the little girl went to visit a friend who lived two houses down from where he lives. As they passed his house there he was sitting in the garage drinking a beer. When she saw him she just broke down in tears saying "my daddy doesn't care about me" and unfortunately he doesn't, he just cares about himself, the tavern and beer.

I pray everynite that he looses all rights to this child. He doesn't pay child support even though it court ordered. Of course the Child Support System doesn't give one rats ass about it even though they know where he works and lives. So much for our helping hands in government.

WHY DID CHICAGO BEACHES CLOSE.

Did the beaches in Chicago close because it was too hot? Did Chicago beaches close because of gang activity. Well as a person who grew up in Chicago and is 70 years old I can never remember the beaches closing because it was hot. That's why there is a big lake there, jump in and cool off. The acting police chief got on the news and gave this ridiculous reason and said it was not because of gangs. Ask the people who were there. This was only the first weekend that the beaches were open. Poor excuse. The way the neighborhoods have changed in that area I firmly believe that it is a gang situation and Chicago better do something about it, if they can.

IS THIS A REDNECK TRUCK?

As I was driving to the campground last Friday a late model truck passed me. It was blue and had some nicks and dents on it. What really caught my eye was when I saw the back window, it wasn't there, in it's place was a piece of plywood but there was more. Right behind the drivers head was a window air conditioner. I bet he has many head colds through out the year. But hey, what the heck stay cool any way you can.

THE WEEKEND AGAIN.

The weather was wonderful all week. What happened? Was looking forward to going to the camper all week. Yesterday (Friday) it started out beautiful, 79 degrees, and by three in the afternoon it had dropped 30 degrees and was raining. What a kicker.

Today is no better with temperatures to be in the low 50's and rain, which it is doing right now. It's dark and gloomy and rainy. Nothing else to do but go to garage sales and according to the paper there are many of them. Maybe I can pick up some things to sell on eBay. Things that I found that sell well are catalogs such as Sears and J C Penny. Why people would collect these is beyond me but I am glad they do because it puts some extra cash into my pocket. I used to blog on PayPerPost which was good income for a retired person. A few years ago they changed the way they do things and I rarely get any thing to do through them. I guess they give all the jobs to the really, really good bloggers so they can make all of the money and push the little guy out. To top things off I was told two weeks ago that my part time job has ended because the company is moving to Dallas, Texas. So much for that. That job brought me a couple of hundred a month for working at home at my leisure.

WHEN ARE THE PEOPLE ON SOCIAL SECURITY GOING TO GET A RAISE????

GAS PRICES DROPPING.

It seems that after bin Laden was killed things started happening, like gas prices dropping. I don't think that, that had anything to do with it but I did take notice that on Friday when I headed out to the campground prices were $4.29. Two days later when I was returning home I toke note that the prices had fallen to $3.99 with news people saying that these prices would drop more. Is this a good thing? YES IT IS.