I LOVE THE SPRING!

The Spring is by far my favorite time of the year...everything new, life bursting out all around you, the smells of flowers and fresh cut grass, and the weather is perfect!!! I am one of those people who wish it could be spring all year round. Even the rain smells fresher in the spring of the year. The nights are nice and cool....you can sleep so good. I love to Turkey hunt in the Spring.....I have already taken two this year. The last one was prepared and shared with my parents.....with some mashed potatoes and gravy sides and some biscuits......Ummm....it was really good. I am planning on taken another one in a week or two....if my luck holds out. There are plenty of them out there and it is a skilled hunt....so not too many of the so called hunters can actually get one. When you prepare them for dinner....you know that all the hard work pays off. I don't like most wild game for food....rabbits, squirrels, ground hogs(yes, some people eat ground hogs), duck, and quail....You can keep them....I don't care for any of them. I do however enjoy a good deer roast with some potatoes, celery, onion, and carrots....served with hot cornbread....or....a good prepared turkey breast as mentioned above!!! As my old Grandpappy use to say......boy, that is some good eatin' The way grocery prices are climbing....if you have any hunting skills....you might want to start polishing them up.....before too long we may have to eat beans, potatoes, and whatever meat you can catch or hunt. Oh, and by the way, You may want to start getting off your fat behinds and do some walking!!! The way gasoline prices are soaring....we may all be on foot pretty soon!!! It may sound silly to some of you....but stranger things have happened! I have been saying this for some time now......I don't know where we are headed....but I don't like it!

Mysteries of Life

You know, I have started to realize that life holds many mysteries. I don't even begin to have any understanding of them at all. I don't understand why children go to bed hungry in this Nation or any other Nation for that matter. I don't understand why a child gets a terminal disease like cancer, heart diseases, or diabetes. In the late 80's, I was inside of a countries borders where 7 & 8 year old boys were armed with AK-47 assault rifles and were members of this countries Army......I did not understand this!!! Was this Nation so in need of military personnel that it could not wait until they turned 18! I have seen many things in my life that I just simply did not understand. I don't understand animosity and tensions among family members.....when your family is all you have in this world. They are the only ones who will ever care about how you are.....or.....what you are doing....or....how you are getting by in this life. You really cannot afford that silly shit with them. I often wonder why it is that some family members will give to a complete stranger quicker than they would one of their own in a time of crisis or need. I know that I am not like that at all! You are the luckiest of people if you even have a family that is close; and the members are all still living. I don't understand how people get so caught up in their lives that they cannot extend a helping hand to someone in need or they cannot see the inner pain of a person who is reaching out to them. These things are all mysteries to me.