Category: Travel/Transportation

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1st Party at the Farm, Birthday Style

The celebrating of my nephew’s 1st birthday is in the planning stage, my sister is extremely excited about this event, she tried for so long to have a baby and is loving the whole experience of motherhood. She wants to hold the party here at the farm, in the spring, I believe the date is May 28th, a reallygood time to have an outside party, if the weather doesn’t interfere, the springtime rains do come and go as they please.

A farm barn and animal theme birthday party will do just fine, we have a few ponies here that we can give pony rides on, which is always a hit with the kids. Spring time brings with it new life with several of the farm animals here, there will be baby goats, cows, ducks, geese, pigs and hopefully a few colts or fillies will be gracing us with their company by that time. So we will have our own personal “petting zoo” for them to enjoy.

There hasn’t been a party around here for some time, it will be good to have a large group of friends and family around the place for the day, a lot of work, but worth the time and effort and I’m looking forward to it come spring.

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Willie Nelson, He’s the Man

The TV was on the Country Cable channel and I happened to catch the new Willie Nelson music video. It was a hoot! It shows a lot of movie stars hanging out at Willie’s ranch in Texas and they have their annual lawnmower race. Willie has so much property out their, that he constructed a whole western town like a movie set, with a main street, a saloon, and other buildings. He gave the “town” the name of “Luck, TX”The song is “You Don’t Think I’m Funny Any More.” I don’t know what that has to do with lawnmower races, but the video is really funny and I wish I could have been there.

Willie has been a favorite of mine for as long as I can remember, I was never a country music fan but for some reason Willie I could listen to for hours on end.

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Hunting for Good Apartments

I can’t imagine 20 years ago trying to find a new place to live in an unknown place, 20 years ago we didn’t have the Internet to lesson the burden and bring the information right to your fingertips, as we have available to us these days.

Promove provides an intensive data base designed to assist with the locating of the perfect apartment, apartment community and neighborhoods, for your needs and wants. They advertise as “Promove’s apartment experts, have the keys to the City” and that they have the means to hook you up in either Atlanta Georgia or Dallas Texas with their specialist that take the time to understand your priorities and are kept up to date with all the newest promotions, offerings and specials in their specialized areas.

In Atlanta, there is a sweet apartment complex that they are offering by the name of Marietta Apartments, a Marietta Apartment starts out, for a studio, at $479 a month and go up to only $1025 monthly, for a four bedroom apartment, sounds very reasonable for being in such nice locations.

Having a good quality Apartment Locator certainly is the way to go, if you have access to the Internet, and Promove is an excellent tool for looking for the right apartment in these two southern states.

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Rising Gas Prices

I went to town earlier this morning and did some running of some errands and was glad to see that gas is still holding at $1.75, now I didn’t go up to the few stations that are right off of the Interstate and I know that one is an Exxon which is always the highest price of any station known. Nest time I need to be at that part of town I won’t be surprised to see if the have done the dirty deed of rising to the $2 mark for a gallon a gasoline or not.

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Sister may be Relocating to the UK

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England and one of my sisters and her husband have the opportunity to go there because it is known as “the workshop of the world” or the “city of a thousand trades” and her husband’s company is thinking of establishing them elves there in the near future. She and I both hope that she doesn’t end up having to relocate way over there, I mean it would be a great opportunity and all, but we would all miss her and the kids just so much!In the meantime while his company is busy finding the most affordable, but nice hotels in Birmingham, my sister is running frantic wondering what to do with the kids and all the things that entail going away for an adventure like this. She isn’t sure what the weather will be like and is thinking that this will call for a wardrobe over haul, that sounds like fun to me, she is in the position to do something drastic like that. Her hubby makes good money and he is eager to go over to the U.K. and get to know the kind of place that it is and meet the people that he is told are called “Brummies”, a term derived from the city’s nickname of Brum, he is eager to hear how they pronounce that term. He is told that there is a distinctive “Brummie” dialect and accent, both of which differ from those of the adjacent Black Country. The Black Country, sounds interesting enough!