I was reminded that I have not had a bloggish type thought in a while and after thinking about it for a short period I realized they were right.  It’s not that nothing has happened to ruffle my feathers, it’s just that I have been trying to smooth out my Karma and take life a bit easier.  It aint working.

Yesterday I saw some news that a lady was upset with Hobby Lobby because they had set up a display using some cotton plants with cotton balls attached.  She claimed that the display caused her to have bad feelings about herself because of the connection with cotton picking and her ancestors. Sweet Mother of Jesus in the garden, does this poor soul have so little to think about in their life that she has to think those deep thoughts?  Does she even know a relative that actually ever picked a boll of cotton?  I doubt it.  There are also some folks up in St Louis that are marching and generally being aholes because a police officer was found not guilty in a trial that accused him of killing a black criminal.  In American jurisprudence, when you are found not guilty that is the end of the ball game.  Double jeopardy and all that.  They seem to have nothing to do at night except to march around stating that they are upset because a certain group of people are killed in a larger percentage than other groups.  Problem solved.  Keep your self home and quit looting liquor stores.  Being at home at night will make you markedly safer in all aspects of daily life.  Except for the drive by s over in the barrio.

I am having a few neighbor problems at the ranch but I have allowed myself to remain more calm about them than I would have in days of yore.  I have yet to fire any shots across the fence line.  We had been having a dust-up about a new house at the ranch which we declined to accept due to shoddy workmanship but thanks to the fact that my wife purchased the house using a credit card, we were able to get the credit card company to intercede for us and obtain a full refund of our money.  The builders had informed us that no refund would be given.  I am very interested in what they said when they found that the credit card company had debited their company bank account for the amount I had paid.  Teach those sumbitches to call me picky.

My children are all working at jobs they enjoy.  Our newest granddog is growing.  71.8 pounds and hasnt filled out yet.  Hmmm. Dorothy and I received an insurance refund on our secondary insurance because the insurance company said they had made such good investments this last year that they were refunding all but $ 200.00 of our joint premiums.  I damned near soiled myself when I read the letter from them.  That is unheard of and for a few minutes I was apprehensive that it might be an omen of the second coming but. We got a new African grocery store in town and I have been by there to see their products.  I will be buying a few things from there.  I found a new asian market that has things that google can’t even explain to me what they are.  They have dried fish in about 30 sizes and shapes and I assume flavors.  Pork belly, which I love.  Many dumplings and sauces that would make a cat taste good, and I assume has.

As you can see, we are doing all right.  We dodged the hurricane, but we need a bit of rain.

I hope each of you are having a great year and hope that we all make as many more years as we can afford to have. LOL

GC