I'm Always Mentally on Vacation

Alive and Well in Tennessee

Of late I blog on a blogger app on the iPad which they upgraded a few days back and rendered it useless.

Today they reverted back to the old app but the darn thing just crashes.

So it leaves me blogging old school on slate by the fireplace like the old genocidal Abe Lincoln once did.

Traveling was difficult for me. My leg is numb, I am tired but I made it. Damn recovery takes a long time.

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Just a Few More Days

And I'll be 57. If you need last minute shopping ideas just private message me.

Knock on wood and i'll be through the dreaded 56 where most Hunnicutt men take a big down turn that leads to assuming room temperature.

Hopefully my back was my big medical event.

I will be in Nashville, TN on my birthday. Can anyone suggest any don't miss honkey tonks?

Altered Cherries

I had a bit of moon shine building up so I decided to use it creatively but replacing the juice in a jar of merichino cherries with moon shine. Straight old corn squeezings rocket fuel. They should be quite done by football season.

Also, I am looking for some pickled eggs and penrose sausages for good luck charms in the fall. Last time I had pickled eggs around we went 12 and 4 and into the post season. That was 2008.

June for Sure

Amber waves of grain. Ready for the harvest.

Queen Ann's lace wild on the road side.

Wild daisy on the roadside.

Pink flowering mimosa trees.

Ruff Nite

How could the federal government let this happen when they knew it was coming? Big winds hit last night and ripped tree limbs and scattered them all over the yard.

No one has come to clean it all up and make it better.

I think I saw Joe Biden in the flickering lightening releasing monkeys to further scatter the carnage. It was clearly a left wing conspiracy.

Then I find a bloated dead body in the chicken coop This morning along with doo doo on the floor. It was New Orleans all over again, but no one cares.

My New Thang

I have been on a smoked salmon and bagel kick lately...cream cheese of course.

Oh and I love fresh sliced oranges. I eat them every day.

Imagine if you will a place where oranges grow in your yard, and your son catches and smokes his own salmon. That would be heaven.

However, wherever this place is would be pretty good too.

Good News

LIVE FROM THE INTERNETS...........

I got the go ahead from the doctor yesterday to step it up a bit. Gotta be careful for a few more months, and there are some things I just can't do for a while.

I'm limited to 10 pounds lifting and can't do stuff that compresses my spine.

I did get the go ahead to scuba only if I do it under circumstances that my buddy do all the tank lifting. That can work.

On Getting Old

I started my current vocation in 1984 when I was 28.....a snotty nose kid by my current standards. My target client age then was my current age...a pre-retirement market. I am soon to be 57.

Fast forward 29 years and all these folks are getting mighty old. I know them all very well. I have seen them have kids through college, get married, and have grand children.

They have also become old and feeble. They have also become dependent on the snotty nosed kid for near death advice. I have become a comforter in bad times, and more of an expert in affairs of the elderly.

I have at least one client most any time in Hospice where we are racing to the inevitable to get their affairs in order. People live in denial of death until the outcome is obvious.

Somehow I embrace this new role. It is so different than it was 29 years ago.

The Season

I finally got around to cleaning and reorganizing the screen room. The room needed a good cleaning and refresh. It was getting cluttered.

Installed was new seating and new cushions along with a glass side table. The infrared propane heater was moved to the corner for the season.

The recliner finishes out the furniture.

The TV/Stereo corner is less cluttered. I still need to install the shade to the left when I get cleared from my surgeon.

The Weekend

I went to Costco and bought essentials.

I found out there is such a thing as a saber tooth Deer. Look it up, it is real. A Chinese Water Deer or something like that.

I got all nostalgic thinking about my old friend Peaches. I miss her silliness.

But I have Haley and 4 more great dogs.

I am using my wagon to save my back. I just pull the bags off the seat and they fall into the wagon. Then I roll it to the barn.

I then hand scoop the grain in the container. I am talking care of my back.

We have had waaaaaaaaay too much rain. More is on the way.

This Guy Cracks Me Up

The tan, the confidence, the dog, the flirts, he is almost as cool as the Dos Equis guy. BTW, Southern Comfort is rot gut booze.

The joke is on Me

Obama does read this blog. He knows my phone calls, my keystrokes as I type this, my internet searches, my email content, my video calls to Bondovia.

And he is building a 1.5 Billion dollar data center to get more information.

Damn. Very constitutional....my ass.

A Contest

A free pack of Newports to the second person who can correctly identify this item. (be nice, this is a family blog)

Goings On

President Obama will be here to see me tomorrow, but I ain't showing up. Its an old trick I do every time he comes to town. This time he'll be at the Quarry in Mooresville, NC. He thinks he is sneaky. I'll be at the quarry Sunday....not worried though....he doesn't read my blog.

I miss Renn and Stimpy.

I miss Beavis and Butthead.

I miss Pee Wee Herman.

I miss Mystery Science Theatre.

I miss Max Headroom.

We may get a bullet train to Atlanta.....and DC Too. My ass can ride the rails fast as all get out to two places I don't care to be.

(Here is an obligatory Picture)

Have a nice day.

The Pudding

These guys enforce Affordable Health Care.

The feds stopped my industry from enjoyment back in 2007.

Sunday

I spent some time Sunday working my crop. Actually crops...there are two tomato plants in that bucket.

I wrapped the bucket in hog wire for support and attached the structure to the bench for more support.

Now I will wait for the harvest.

Feeling Human Again

Today is the first time in 6 weeks that I feel human again. I am healing although I have very strict limitations.

Yesterday I cleaned the Jeep and it took all day. But I paced myself and rested. Then Ludwig and I took a ride.

This morning I jumped in the Jeep early and rode to Bojangles for some ham biscuits with Rush blearing The Spirit of Radio in my ear buds. I felt alive!

Affordable Health Care

Yesterday I went to the doctor for laughs and giggles, and to keep my wife company. Before I knew it I was being dragged back to the exam room where Gigi had been for the past half hour.

Waiting for me was a was a shot for shingles and instructions on what medical inoculations I should get and any procedures I should have before the federal plan kicks in next year.

It seems on demand things like tetanus shots, whooping cough shots, shingles shots, hepatitis shots and colon scans will not be a decision you and your doctor make in the future. There will be federal procedures to follow. Who knows what else?

I was truly surprised.

This is how the feds will make it affordable?