Water melon
We recently bought a watermelon in Llano and that started something. I had temporarily forgotten how much I like watermelon. Since then we have had watermelon in the refrigerator cut and ready to eat every day.
Watermelon always reminds me, too, of my boyhood in Emory, Texas. I was born there and lived there until I was 10.
The soil around Emory was sandy loam and very good for raising watermelons and cucumbers.
During the Summer, I and my boyhood friends did what boys did then. We left home in the morning headed for the woods and the creek, stayed all day, and came home in time for dinner. We had an old 12 gauge shotgun that we found in a burned down house, which we were able to repair and make it shoot. The barrel was warped a little, but that did not matter.
We spent some time hunting birds and rabbits, then it was swimming hole time, au natural, of course.
During watermelon season, the trip to the creek was always through a watermelon patch. You could always find a “lost” melon, which was just ripe for picking. It wasn’t like we were stealing, or anything. After all, it was lost, and we learned early in life “Finders, Keepers”.
The creek was spring fed and cool, so we put the melon in the water and by lunch time it was cold.
We did not have knives, so we simply raised the melon high and dropped it. That exposed the heart of the melon in all its glory. And I tell you, you have never experienced the real flavor of watermelon unless you just bust the melon and “eat the heart out”!!!
BJM
8/12/2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The COMMANDER has spoken
I wonder---What if BP gives Obama the finger and says Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, It's been sad to know you??
Jun 16, 6:44 AM EDT
After blasting BP, Obama now faces its leaders
By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer
Latest News
After blasting BP, Obama now faces its leaders
FACT CHECK: Obama left blanks in oil spill speech
Obama to meet Wednesday with BP oil ex
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fresh from admonishing BP before the world, President Barack Obama now gets his moment with the oil company's leaders. It will be on his turf and, he vowed to an angry nation, on his terms.
"We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused,"Obama declared in his first Oval Office address, a venue often reserved for matters of war.
Jun 16, 6:44 AM EDT
After blasting BP, Obama now faces its leaders
By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer
Latest News
After blasting BP, Obama now faces its leaders
FACT CHECK: Obama left blanks in oil spill speech
Obama to meet Wednesday with BP oil ex
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fresh from admonishing BP before the world, President Barack Obama now gets his moment with the oil company's leaders. It will be on his turf and, he vowed to an angry nation, on his terms.
"We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused,"Obama declared in his first Oval Office address, a venue often reserved for matters of war.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
BP oil spill
Katrina was a natural disaster. No one, not even our all powerful Federal Government or President Bush, could have prevented it.
Many wondered why President Bush didn’t just wave his hand and say “Go away”. When he did not, Katrina was added to a long list of “Bush’s fault”.
Now we have a Natural--Unnatural disaster in the Gulf. Oil, trapped thousands of feet under ground under tremendous pressure, is escaping through a hole in the ocean floor.
Our illustrious President immediately comes up with a solution--”PLUG THE HOLE!” “OR I AM COMING DOWN SOMETIME SOON AND KICK A..!”
Problem solved.
Makes you wonder why the BP people didn’t think of that themselves.
Many wondered why President Bush didn’t just wave his hand and say “Go away”. When he did not, Katrina was added to a long list of “Bush’s fault”.
Now we have a Natural--Unnatural disaster in the Gulf. Oil, trapped thousands of feet under ground under tremendous pressure, is escaping through a hole in the ocean floor.
Our illustrious President immediately comes up with a solution--”PLUG THE HOLE!” “OR I AM COMING DOWN SOMETIME SOON AND KICK A..!”
Problem solved.
Makes you wonder why the BP people didn’t think of that themselves.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Obama mending fences
The nightmare continues.
Last week Obama & Co. pushed Obamacareless right down our throat. And gloated.
This week he is mending fences.
A trip to Afghan to "praise" the troop and to scold the big chief. Did you hear his words? Knowing from his past how he really feels, his syruppy words make you want to vomit.
Today His Highness has given his permission to drill off part of East Coast, some in the Gulf, and a tad in Alaska.
We are starving for oil, (although we have proven reserves greater than the middle east), and he throws out a cracker.
But my biggest concern and question is HOW DID HE GET THE POWER TO WAVE HIS HAND AND SAY IT IS OK TO DRILL HERE AND HERE, BUT NOT HERE??????
And now what will his next move to glorify himself?
Watch for it! It is coming.
Last week Obama & Co. pushed Obamacareless right down our throat. And gloated.
This week he is mending fences.
A trip to Afghan to "praise" the troop and to scold the big chief. Did you hear his words? Knowing from his past how he really feels, his syruppy words make you want to vomit.
Today His Highness has given his permission to drill off part of East Coast, some in the Gulf, and a tad in Alaska.
We are starving for oil, (although we have proven reserves greater than the middle east), and he throws out a cracker.
But my biggest concern and question is HOW DID HE GET THE POWER TO WAVE HIS HAND AND SAY IT IS OK TO DRILL HERE AND HERE, BUT NOT HERE??????
And now what will his next move to glorify himself?
Watch for it! It is coming.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
A million new jobs?
Today, February 23, 2010 The White House claimed the $1,000,000,000,000 ( one trillion)stimulus created 1,000,000 new jobs in the past year.
Please forgive me if I don't appear to overwhelmed or over joyed, but even if this is true, which I doubt, my calculator tells me the cost per job was $1,000,000 (that's one million dollars) per created job of taxpayer money.
I am not stupid, but I am dumbfounded. Where is the rational in this? $1,000,000 per job? With 15,000,000 unemployed we could spend another $15 trillion and have zero unemployment.
Utopia!!!!!!
Please forgive me if I don't appear to overwhelmed or over joyed, but even if this is true, which I doubt, my calculator tells me the cost per job was $1,000,000 (that's one million dollars) per created job of taxpayer money.
I am not stupid, but I am dumbfounded. Where is the rational in this? $1,000,000 per job? With 15,000,000 unemployed we could spend another $15 trillion and have zero unemployment.
Utopia!!!!!!
Monday, February 15, 2010
Presidents Day
Today February 15, 2010, is designated Presidents Day by our dear Congress.
Two of our greatest presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, once had their own individual holidays, but now share this day.
George Washington was our first president and was the General who led our troups in the successful fight against the British Red coats, resulting in our freedom to govern ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln was president during the horrible civil war and he was called The Great Emancipator because the slaves were freed and the United States was united forever.
January 18, 2010 was Martin Luther King Holiday. We have this holiday because Martin Luther King had a dream.
Two of our greatest presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, once had their own individual holidays, but now share this day.
George Washington was our first president and was the General who led our troups in the successful fight against the British Red coats, resulting in our freedom to govern ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln was president during the horrible civil war and he was called The Great Emancipator because the slaves were freed and the United States was united forever.
January 18, 2010 was Martin Luther King Holiday. We have this holiday because Martin Luther King had a dream.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Dec. 1, 2009
Global warming.
What is it? Is it good? Is it bad? Is it real? Or is it a scam? Is CO2 the villian some claim?
I don't know, But, lets explore the subject.
People and animals breath in air, extract the oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. And there are added to this old earth millions of new people every year, all of them exhaling carbon dioxide. Should we tell the world "No more kids!" and maybe castrate all men. That might work. Eventually, there would be no humans left. Problem solved.
Burning fossil fuel, wood, paper, sulfur, in fact everything that will burn requires oxygen and more carbon dioxide is generated.
Autos and combustion engines, coal and gas burning power plants generate a lot of carbon dioxide.
Should we turn out the lights and park the car and do without heat when it is cold? (That is what the GLOBAL WARMING idio....s have planned for us)
Is this bad? Could this be good? Well, let's see.
What is carbon dioxide good for? Some enviro-wackos say it causes GLOBAL WARMING , and IS melting the ice on the north and south poles. This is going to cause the ocean to run over the spillway, cover a lot of precious land now occupied by beachfront homes, many of which are owned by some enviro-wackos. (Al Gore has not sold his home on the beach) Strange place to live if you know they are going to be flooded. So if this is right, adding more and more carbon dioxide is a bad thing. THEY SAY!
But trees, bushes, corn, cabbage, watermelons, grapevines, mango trees,, rose bushes, and millions of other plants inhale carbon dioxide and EXHALE OXYGEN.
Thank goodness. Animals (and, lest we forget, PEOPLE are animals,) must have oxygen.
Plants need carbon dioxide. What a deal. We keep adding millions and millions of people breathing out carbon dioxide. So we have a surplus of the stuff that plants love so they are happy breathing it in and giving off the oxygen which we have to have more and more of, to take care of the millions and millions of new people.
The plants, being happy, multiply, grow faster and bigger, breathing more CO2 and exhaling more oxygen, produce fruit, veggies, nuts, etc., and make seeds. Seeds fall to the ground, germinate, make more plants that need carbon dioxide so they can exhale more oxygen for those millions and millions of new people.
I don't know about you, but it seems to like God has created a perpetual motion machine.
.
So if the world is getting warmer, maybe that too, is part of the plan. We once had an ice-age and there was lots of ice and it was cold. Dinasours were frozen in their tracks.
But eventually the earth warmed up and much of the ice melted, but the earth did not have all these billions of people and animals and carbon dioxide making machines.
SO........Without "excess" carbon dioxide, why did the earth get warmer? Maybe it was part of the plan.
The earth is in perfect harmony with itself. The sun rises and sets every day right on schedule. The sun shines, the winds blow and the rains come to cleanse the air and water the earth. It is synchronized better than the finest watch. Every thing is predictable. For example, we can know what time the sun will rise in New York city on May 10, 2107 to the nearest 1/1000 of a second. Like the earth the solar system also is in perfect harmony, and just as predictable.
God apparently has a master plan and man with his feeble brain can’t mess it up.
Global warming.
What is it? Is it good? Is it bad? Is it real? Or is it a scam? Is CO2 the villian some claim?
I don't know, But, lets explore the subject.
People and animals breath in air, extract the oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. And there are added to this old earth millions of new people every year, all of them exhaling carbon dioxide. Should we tell the world "No more kids!" and maybe castrate all men. That might work. Eventually, there would be no humans left. Problem solved.
Burning fossil fuel, wood, paper, sulfur, in fact everything that will burn requires oxygen and more carbon dioxide is generated.
Autos and combustion engines, coal and gas burning power plants generate a lot of carbon dioxide.
Should we turn out the lights and park the car and do without heat when it is cold? (That is what the GLOBAL WARMING idio....s have planned for us)
Is this bad? Could this be good? Well, let's see.
What is carbon dioxide good for? Some enviro-wackos say it causes GLOBAL WARMING , and IS melting the ice on the north and south poles. This is going to cause the ocean to run over the spillway, cover a lot of precious land now occupied by beachfront homes, many of which are owned by some enviro-wackos. (Al Gore has not sold his home on the beach) Strange place to live if you know they are going to be flooded. So if this is right, adding more and more carbon dioxide is a bad thing. THEY SAY!
But trees, bushes, corn, cabbage, watermelons, grapevines, mango trees,, rose bushes, and millions of other plants inhale carbon dioxide and EXHALE OXYGEN.
Thank goodness. Animals (and, lest we forget, PEOPLE are animals,) must have oxygen.
Plants need carbon dioxide. What a deal. We keep adding millions and millions of people breathing out carbon dioxide. So we have a surplus of the stuff that plants love so they are happy breathing it in and giving off the oxygen which we have to have more and more of, to take care of the millions and millions of new people.
The plants, being happy, multiply, grow faster and bigger, breathing more CO2 and exhaling more oxygen, produce fruit, veggies, nuts, etc., and make seeds. Seeds fall to the ground, germinate, make more plants that need carbon dioxide so they can exhale more oxygen for those millions and millions of new people.
I don't know about you, but it seems to like God has created a perpetual motion machine.
.
So if the world is getting warmer, maybe that too, is part of the plan. We once had an ice-age and there was lots of ice and it was cold. Dinasours were frozen in their tracks.
But eventually the earth warmed up and much of the ice melted, but the earth did not have all these billions of people and animals and carbon dioxide making machines.
SO........Without "excess" carbon dioxide, why did the earth get warmer? Maybe it was part of the plan.
The earth is in perfect harmony with itself. The sun rises and sets every day right on schedule. The sun shines, the winds blow and the rains come to cleanse the air and water the earth. It is synchronized better than the finest watch. Every thing is predictable. For example, we can know what time the sun will rise in New York city on May 10, 2107 to the nearest 1/1000 of a second. Like the earth the solar system also is in perfect harmony, and just as predictable.
God apparently has a master plan and man with his feeble brain can’t mess it up.
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