Blending in

Ever felt like you are part of the furniture. Do you want to blend in at parties. If so maybe you should take a look at your wardrobe.

Rump Chiropractic Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Next time your Rump Roast is sore or stiff take it to Rump Chiropractic to get it fixed. Or do you take your own rump to this place for an adjustment ?

I never knew Chiropractors were such specialists. looks like this guy has an unfortunate name. Xenia Oh has a Dr Hyman. No he is not OBYN, he is a heart specialists.

Scraggly Santa

This is one of my favorite photos. It was found in an old album. Unfortunately no names are given so I only know one person in the pic. Of course the one I know is Santa.

The little girl looks like she would like to be anywhere else but where she is. The other gal is well ok hurry up and get this over with.

Santa looks none to happy either. Looks like this was a home snapshot, notice the porch support and siding. Check out Santa's gloves, maybe those were used on Halloween for monster gloves.

Maybe Santa is related to me in someway also.

How many more children are going to suffer through the dreaded Santa visit ? Today it might be worth it, when this shot was taken these kids were lucky to get a orange, piece of candy, and a new home made dress. If it was a really good year a doll might be sitting under the tree.

How many ways can you spell a name ?

One of the 1st things you learn in genealogy research is to look for different spellings of your surname. Well grandpa Reagan used 3 different spellings in his lifetime and even after he died.

Look at the pictures, pretty simple Reagan, but his death certificate says he was Regan. Check the census, well you can find him and family as Ragan, Regan, or Reagan depending on the year or whatever.

Grandma Reagan gave the info for grandpa's death certificate. Either she could not spell or did not check the spelling on the death certificate.

Genealogy can be interesting, grandpa Davis signed his name as x. One researcher said grandpa Davis changed his name after he had a falling out with his father and Church. He might have been German. Since he could not write I guess Davis was easy to spell than some German name with 5 syllables.

Me and the Grand Ole Opry

Was married 43 years this August, so I took the Wifey To the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. We also ate lunch on the General Jackson Riverboat, the had an excellent show and very good vittles.

I am not a great fan of Country Music, although I like some classic stuff by Hank Williams, and a couple others.

My dad loved country and as a captive child we got to listen to a lot of country music. And then Dad was a serial record player. He would play the same song over and over and over, like a 2 or 3 year old watching Shrek or Toy Story. He would wear the groves off a record, I have a couple of those 45's to prove it. One of the songs Dad wore out was Patti Paige and the Tennessee Waltz.

Anyway, we go to the Opry, it's at the Ryman cause of the May flood. So the show starts and the 1st guy on is Bill Anderson and of course he is older than dirt and he is going tp perform a Country Classic. He fires up the band and launches into the Tennessee Waltz. I wanted to jump up run out of there pulling out my hair. 3 problems with that. There are two guys sitting beside me, blocking my escape, #2 my hair left my head many moons ago, #3 my best run would be a slow jog and he would finish before I hit the exit door.

In all fairness he did a good job on the song, it was a very good show and I would go bask even if they sang that song again.

Can you read this ? are you illiterate ?

Take a look at the truck. Can you read it ? Now you know how it feels not be able to read.

If you know how to read, sometimes you can figure out words in a foreign language, but when they use a different alphabet it a different game.

Be Careful at Auctions even on line

Greene County has an auction site. My daughter has bought 2 good trucks there. Now I have bought a bus. A bid at the last minute was successful dag nab it. Not sure I really wanted to own a 1998 GMC bus. The good new is it has a wheel chair lift. It also has very low miles.

I guess the kids can haul me around in this beast if I ever need a wheel chair.
The State of Ohio charges an arm and 2 legs for plates plus it has to be inspected. Did I mention there is a charge for the inspection.

Now I am venturing into the world of Craig's List. Then maybe E Bay Motors or even the dreaded Auto Trader.

Maybe I can resell it to my niece, She can haul her mini farm of various varmints to the vet, dog park, lake or wherever various varmints hang out.

this is for the birds

I have one part time job anywhere from 18 to 60 hours a month.

Now I have another unpaid one. Wifey wanted a bird bath. She does not bathe in it so I am not sure why she wanted it.

Guess who's job it is to maintain it.......... you guessed it. ME.

So once you start putting water in this thing you need to keep it up. You think that would be simple, go fill it once or twice a week. Nooooooooo, the stupid birds splash half of it out and then poop in the other half. So now it needs cleaned out every day.

Well I do get some satisfaction, the early bird gets clean water, the late bird get to drink and bathe in poopy water.