Debt-dentist-day

I made my trip to the dentist today. It wasn't too bad. I only jerked up out of the chair once(not). The root canal is done. I am only $1,500 dollars in debt to the dentist. At least I am done for now and should not have to go back for six months when I have my teeth cleaned. There is always something to have to pay for, 'though. Next, I will have to go through all those tests for my eyes in October. Gotta have teeth to chew with and eyes to see what I m eating.

I don't intend to do much in the yard tomorrow as it will be around 93 degrees and humid. It is supposed to wind down and be nice for the week-end. That is when I will get back back to yard work. Because Labor day is just another day to me, I will work it except now I don't get a paycheck for my time an effort. When I was still working, I almost always worked the holidays.

My phone was ringing off the wall before I left the house and probably rang while I was out. I have a new rule: I will not answer the phone at meal time. I try not to call others at those times, but occasionally I fail. I think if a call is important they will leave a message. I just can't live by the phone just to accommodate some one's boredom.

I like to read and have some favorite programs to watch, therefore I don't get bored too often. I like to watch wrestling and see all those good looking fellas fly around the rings in their tights. Actually I like to see people doing what I never was able to or could do. If you are strong and healthy you are blessed. Of course, if you are halfway intelligent you are thrice blessed.

Do you like hyphens? I do. A hyphen is a mark - between two syllables of a divided word or between the parts of a compound word. Example: half-track. I probably over use the - mark, but I do love a good hyphen. And you know what? There are several definitions for WIND, but the word is all spelled the same way. Now, ain't dat confusing?

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Cleaning out the garden

WEEDS BE GONE!

Well, I got myself moving today. I am still cleaning out the garden. I have a long way to go. I don't want to damage the tomato plants, the only melon that is growing or the pepper plants. Working around what I want to keep does take time. I guarantee that I will never plant Mole Beans or Crowder Peas in a garden again. Although you can eat Crowder Peas, they will run wild and take over your whole garden, choking off every thing else. They belong out in a corn field somewhere. The Mole Beans will grow seven feet tall and shade out the rest of the plants. The combination of the two plants ruined my garden this past summer. With the two noxious "weeds" and a summer drought, this is the worst garden I have ever put out.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, I go back to the dentist. I don't relish the thought because the last time I went my face puffed up and it hurt. Wa! I have a big mouth(yak yak), but a small jaw line. "Open wide! Wider!" I can't get it any wider! I have lost count of how many root canals that have been down. I did get soup out of the freezer just in case I can't eat very well.

No rain in sight. It is every where, but here. There were clouds in the sky that looked like rain coming, but it must have taken a detour. The clouds did keep the temperature down a bit, in the upper 80's. It wasn't too hot for working out in the yard and I got most of the corn stalks disposed of. I am making slow progress.

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Slumber party of one

I must have worn myself out these past two days. I got up this morning and then took a nap after 1 P. M. and slept until 5:30 this afternoon. That means that I didn't get much done at all. Maybe it was the medicine that I took for sinuses and bronchitis that snowed me under and made me sleep. Therefore, I have nothing to post and am not worried about it. Hardly anyone looks my blog anyway.

Maybe tomorrow, Sunday, I will work up some ambition. Hard to tell as I am still yawning.

I got a chicken out of the freezer yesterday. Maybe it will be thawed out by tomorrow. It is already cooked, compliments of Wal Mart.

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Bacon poor

I took a little trip across the bridge. I should have bought gas yesterday while it was $2.46 a gallon. Today it jumped up to $2.65 per gallon. The prices went up because of THE FROG FOLLIES, a classic car show that draws old cars from all over the nation, and the coming LABOR DAY week-end.

A bunch of local guys started THE FROG FOLLIES about 30 years ago by just getting together at the 4 H campgrounds to show off their cars to each other. It wasn't anything official at the time, but has developed into a nation wide classic car show. It brings a lot of visitors and cash into the area, thus a jump in gas prices.

Well, "someone" told me wrong about the cost of a 10 lb. box of bacon for just over six bucks. Boy, is she gonna get a surprise when "she" goes to get a box of bacon for six dollars. I will not tell her the difference; let her find out for herself. I know she will try to cover up her error and pretend that she never went to the Farm Boy store. Mean of me? Yes.

As I was already there, I did go ahead and get a 10 lb. box of bacon ends and pieces. It was more than the six + dollars she quoted to me. It was actually $15.00 for the 10 lbs. I will use the bacon for cooking baked beans, bean soup, split soup, and if there are any pieces or ends large enough for frying, I will do that, too. I now have plenty of bacon, come what may...(there is a literary rule about numbers; anything less than 10 you spell out, anything above 10 you use numerical numbers. Don't ask me why; it just is.)

Tomorrow I need to get back into the swing of things, and try to get more yard work done. I went most of the summer without mosquito bites, but now they are in attack mode. It will be hot tomorrow, but not as hot as it has been. The sun is setting around 7:30 now, and that is official.

There were two terrible fires today. Four died in the worst one, two little ones, the mother, and her own father in a wheelchair. The other was a lady in her camper in a camp ground. Really tragic.

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Tea Party Meeting

Yup, I am tired. I went to a Tea Party Meeting. Some of it was pretty good and interesting, and some of it was boring. It is always worthwhile. You get to hear pseudo politicians speak and the exchanges of ideas. What is always amusing to me is how Nancy Polosi (sp?)or the government can consider a room full of chunky, older ladies with white hair....that drag their husbands along, a terrorist threat. Oh, there are few younger guys that show up, but darn few. Anyway, Nancy has nothing to fear except looking in her mirror; it has a crack in it.

Tomorrow I am going to Evansville. I was told the Farm Boy has meat at whole sale prices. Supposedly bacon is just over $6.00 for ten pounds. Since I have to go over yon bridge I will check it out.

Because I am pretty tired I will make this a short post and go to bed. I have to get up at a decent hour to get here I am going. By the way, the price of gas is still dropping and down another two cents or $2.46 a gallon. I need gas so that is good.

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Five and 500

This is my 500 hundredth post. Do I get an"idjet medal" for effort? I put five yard bags out for pick-up tomorrow. The bags are fairly lite-weight. The trash men shouldn't have too much trouble lifting them.



I had put three bags out yesterday and two more today, with one a work in progress. I think I will have several more to set out before I am done.



I didn't do much today. I slept well last night after doing all that yard work. I may do a bit more tomorrow-half way early, but, then I think I'll go a Tea Party meeting and listen to the speeches of some local politicians who are running for mayor.



Locally, the city of Evansville wants to put up cameras at all the stop lights so they can generate more money through more more fines. Some judges will not deal with such entrapments. At the same time, the city next door is building a multi-million dollar sports complex-arena, contrary to the will of the people. Where have we heard this before?



OK, tonight my computer is really acting up. I think I will quit right here.



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Tired but busy

I have been outside working, trying to make up for my lazy day of yesterday. I mowed the back yard. I didn't have to, but it was looking ratty and going to seed. Now it looks better even if it is brown and dry. I started pruning the grape vines. The birds have gotten into the grapes and eaten a lot of them. I also trimmed some of the fence line and bagged a lot of clippings. Next I started cleaning out the garden by cutting out the corn stalks. I haven't bagged the stalks yet. I still have a lot of trimming to do along the fence. This is a good week to get some catching up done in the yard as it is a little cooler and there has been a breeze.

I came in and set down on the couch and started to slumber because I was tired. The phone rang and jerked me upright and out of my very short doze. I didn't intend to drift off, but if I did...the phone would have put an end to that...as it has done before. I just can not win and some people do not use common sense. Or some people have too much time on their hands.

I see one melon growing in the garden. There are lots of blossoms on the vine that the rabbit missed, but the season grows late. I will be lucky to get that one melon. The average frost here is around mid-October which means that I have just about a month and a half to grow that melon. Right now it is about as large as big rubber ball and very green.

As I have noted before, leaves are falling. The leaves that are coming down are very dry and brittle from lack of rain. I would like to burn some stuff in my smoker, but don't dare to because of the dryness. We need rain.

I don''t know if I will try to garden next year. Maybe I will plant some tomatoes and lettuce. This year has not been productive in my back yard.

Gas is $2.48 a gallon. No one is buying gas-the demand is down. The stock market is way down, too. However, at the stores, groceries continue to increase in price. Inflation is upon us. The government is working on a law to nationalize private pensions so they can rob Americans big time. I read in THE COMING DEPRESSION that middle class wealth has been just about wiped out. There are two classes now: The wealthy and the poor. I wonder why Glenn Beck is not commenting on some of this. By the way, Glenn Beck is not poor by any means.

Stock up, save your pennies, nickles and dimes and insulate your house well. It may cost an arm and a leg to heat your houses this winter.

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