Yesterday was like a bonus day. Usually February only has 28 days and once the schoolkids get that firmly implanted in their minds, they just accept that. Except that every four years February gets an extra day tacked on the end of the month. So that happens to be this year and it was kinda nice to have that extra day. It gave me a little breathing room to get some things done around the house and an extra day to get the bills paid.
Missing Keith Whitley
Keith Whitley was a country singer who had a knack for picking songs that everyone could relate to. He sang in an easy going style, and sang about love, the frustrations of life and the daily struggles of trying to be a good person.
Sadly, he also had a drinking problem and died from alcohol poisoning. At the time he was married to Lorrie Morgan and I know a lot of people say that she killed him, even though she was not home at the time of his death. I think that she was just such a demanding and difficult person to be around that Keith couldn’t handle it. She is a huge diva and spoiled rotten. So maybe she did.
Every song that Keith recorded was a good one and I miss his music making talents. RIP Keith. I still listen to your music often and we miss you.
Too Many Remotes
One of the dogs lost his ball under the sofa, so I had to get up and move the furniture around in the living room to find his ball. That dog would give me no peace while his ball was unreachable.
When I moved the sofa, the cushion fell off and that’s when I decided to give up watching the TV and just clean up the living room and the sofa. I don’t usually worry too much about the sofa, but for some reason there was a lot of loose change and weird things accumulating under that sofa cushion, so I decided to deal with it on the spot.
By the time I was done, I had found over $4.00 in loose change, a Bic lighter, a pair of sunglasses, a AA battery, three white socks and four remote controls. I had no idea I needed four remote controls in my living room until I rounded them up and laid them out on the coffee table.
Don’t Trust the Groundhog
My grandfather used to take his shotgun with him when he plowed the fields on his big farm up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I asked him why he needed the gun and he told me that if he was plowing and saw a groundhog that he had to stop the tractor and kill the pest. He said the groundhogs did more damage to his crops than anything except a hail storm.
Not really sure why anyone wants to celebrate groundhogs and give them magical weather forecasting powers. I think like my grandfather, the critters should just be shot. Spring will get here is its ready and there’s a groundhog can do about it, one way or the other.
Top Hits
As I’ve been building my play lists on Spotify, I have been trying to think of all the great songs that I used to listen to on the radio as a teen. There is not much about music on most of the regular start pages like Yahoo.com with links to everything else under the sun. But I did find a list of Hot Hits on the Billboard.com web site and it did bring up a lot of memories.
I am not in agreement with their ranking of the top hits of all time, but I’m sure they had a particular method to determine them. Sadly, I don’t agree with any of their top 10 hits of all time list. Who in their right mind would pick Chubby checker’s “The Twist” as the number one top hit of all time? Seriously?
Welcome to 2012!
So, here it is – 2012. I can’t believe we are twelve years into the new millennium already! Holy cow!
Thinking back on 2011, there was a lot going one – some good, some bad. I have high hopes for 2012. We might be getting a new president in the November elections and surely the economy will start getting better.
Happy New Year to all my family and friends!
Merry Christmas to All
New Ride
If you have some cash and want to buy a motorcycle, December is the best month of the year to get a bargain on one. The guys who have motorcycles aren’t riding them much in the winter and sometimes they need to raise some cash. Winter riding is more dangerous, with wet leaves, ice, and its just plain cold.
So they are more likely to put a used bike up for sale at a good price to raise the cash and since they aren’t riding in the winter it’s not such a big sacrifice to them. If you are a motorhead and can work on bikes, you can score some bikes for a cheap price, work on them each weekend over the winter, and then sell them for a good profit in the spring when people get the urge to start riding again.
Fall Back
Simple little ditty, “Spring forward and fall back” is how I remember that in the fall we have to set back our clocks an hour. So at 2:00 am the clocks go back to 1:00 am and we all get an extra hour of sleep. Of course, we lose that hour in the spring. But i’ll take an extra hour of sleep any time I can get it.
Good Neighbors
My neighbors are good people. Although we don’t get together have a big block party or neighborhood yard sale, we all do know each other. We look out for each other, too.
My friend Selena has lived here as long as I have. We actually both moved in to our homes the same month, although she moved in the weekend before I did. Neither one of us has any interest in moving away, either. There’s a lot to be said for people who like where they live and don’t think about moving away – unless they have to.