Month: March 2009

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Well it’s time to get the garden ready

It’s the time of year to start getting the garden ready to plant.  I have to till it up real good since it has been disked to break up the clots.  Then after Easter, I’ll start planting.  We always plant a big garden so that we will have plenty for ourselves and also so we can give to those we know of that are having hard times because of the economy.  We have to look out for one another now that so many are affected with job layoffs and so many foreclosures around here.

Of course, we ask for nothing in return and in fact, a lot of the people we help come and help in the garden too.  Some of them have requested to plant some things that they like too so they can help others also.  It has sort of turned into a community garden with a lot of love put into it.  God blesses us every year with a great harvest and it’s good to help those in need no matter if they help in the garden or not.  Our whole nation needs to be looking out for each other more than we have in the past several years and maybe we won’t get in a mess like we’re in again any time soon.

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I have a surprise for my wife

Easter will be coming soon and when the children were all still living at home, we always planned a ‘spring break’ vacation.  Since the children have moved out, we haven’t done that and she mentioned that she misses that the other day.  Well I have a surprise for her for ‘spring break’.  You can find some amazing prices for a cruise right now and I have found a great deal on a cruise for just the two of us.  It will be sort of a second honeymoon too since our anniversary isn’t very far away either.

I’m a smart man and I know that if I am going to make this as special for her as I hope it will be, then I better let her help pick out the cruise!!  Carnival cruise lines has some great cruises like to the Bahamas, or the Caribbean or even Hawaii but I think I’ll leave it all up to her as to which cruise we choose.  Besides, it’s going to be fun picking out the perfect ‘spring break’ with my wonderful wife.  She deserves so much better than I can give her but I thank God everyday that she chose to be my wife.  I am a lucky man and I know it.

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My son already has a job when he gets out

With the economy as bad as it is, I was so afraid that my son would not have a job when he got out or be able to find a job.  Luckily the carnival that he was working for said that they would be glad to have him back.  Now I don’t have to worry that he will end up on the streets homeless.  So very many people that have never been homeless before are now looking at the possibility of becoming homeless or have become homeless because of losing their job and their home too.  Foreclosures are everywhere and it’s not looking like it will get any better anytime soon unfortunately.

President Obama is trying to find new ways to jump start the economy with stimulus packages and bail out packages for banks and major car manufacturers but what about us.  The stimulus package is supposed to help each state create new jobs to ease the unemployment.  I sure hope that it works that way too.  Everyone is suffering to some degree between gas prices raising and falling only to go right back up, groceries costing more and money being stretched farther than ever before and even attempting to stretch it farther than possible a lot of the time.

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My son has learned so very much

It’s very hard to let your child fall.  A parents first reaction is to reach out and catch them but there are times when you have to let them fall.  Once they have fallen, a parents first reaction is to reach down and pick them up but sometimes the best thing is to let them get back up on their own.  I have a hard time trying to let my children learn a hard lesson that they have put themselves into but one thing I have also learned from these lessons my son has to learn, and that is that I have to let him learn them or he never will.  I have to let him learn the hard way and I can keep running to get him out of what ever mess he has gotten himself into anymore.

He has spent over 2 months in jail and will be getting out on the 23rd he told me today.  When he gets out, it’s on his own totally.  I did not pay for his bail, I did not pay for a lawyer, I did not pay to get his truck out so he walks out with the clothes on his back and whatever the wife of someone who is also in jail with him was able to get out of his truck.  That hurts me so much but he has to learn or he will end up in prison for a long, long time.  I can’t stand the thought of that and neither can he so hopefully, with the help of God, he has learned.

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I have a hard time understanding this

Our world is so full of hate and I have a hard time understanding this.  People killing innocent people just because they lost their job or kids killing classmates in school because someone picked on them.  How can this be?  Why has it become so easy to take a gun and take someone else’s life?  Sure if someone is threatening to harm you or your family then you have to do what you have to do but these people are killing people that have done nothing to them.  Here’s an example of what I’m talking about that just occurred in Alabama.

Ten people have been killed and several injured across two small towns of Samson and Geneva in Alabama after a shooting incident by a gunman. The victims include the gunman and the wife and child of a sheriff’s deputy.

The gunman started his killing spree in a gas station in Samson after 5 p.m. Eastern Time and his rampage ended 12 miles away at the Reliable Metal Products plant, a manufacturing plant in Geneva. According to a report by CNN from Alabama state Senator Harri Anne Smith, who represents Geneva County “he [the gunman] was shooting at just ordinary people going about their business”.

The gunman was identified as Michael McLendon, who once worked at the Reliable Metal Products plant. He took his life at the plant after an encounter with the police. The victims include six adults and a child. The investigators are not sure what caused this catastrophic event to take place. Samson and Geneva are two small rural towns with a population of less than 5000 in Alabama near the Florida border.

Life is precious.  No one knows why this person when on the shooting spree that took the life of a small child in the rampage this man when on.  Then he took the cowards way out and killed himself.  If his life was so terrible, why didn’t he just take his own life and let the innocent people live their lives?  No one can give an answer to that question unfortunately.  Maybe we need to teach our children just how precious life really is because somewhere along the line, that seems to be a lesson not enough people learned.

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Michael Jackson

Well it seems that Michael Jackson is going on tour again.  I grew up listening to him on the radio and have always thought he was one of the great talents of our country.  It’s a shame he has had so many legal problems but none of them have been proven that he has done anything wrong.  Can you imagine having to live in seclusion most of your life?  I sure can’t.  I’m sure that has something to do with some of his off behaviors (as some call it) but everyone is different.

Michale Jackson is and always will be the ‘King of Pop’ as far as I’m concerned.  He is a musical genius and a master performer.  You bet I would love to see him live onstage just once and I just might have to do that if at all possible since he’s saying this is his ‘final curtain call’.