Just me

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You would love G Grand daughter Rose Mary of course, she is Ollie's sister. Daughter of Josh and Megan.

So for today:

This morning we had oatmeal.  It is good for cholesterol control. I normally add brown sugar but I did not . I was raised eating oatmeal with no sugar added.   I just wanted to see if I remembered. Yep, it was still good with no additions.

Sherry came back with visiting with old friends, she had a good time, telling me who was there, Of course I knew two or three of them but no more.  Down deep, I wish I did know them. She has so much fun reliving those times on the Mill Hills and still remembers who had which houses. That has got to be mentally satisfying thing.

I was thinking back of the time we moved to Valdese, NC. My dad was a pastor, the Valdese Church was  a politically LOUD church. The republicans sat on one side the Democrats on the other. That is the truth. They all had bumper stickers, ‘I like Ike’, or ‘Stevensen is my man’.  They wore their buttons, etc, BUT they all were brothers and sisters in the Lord. They had many lighthearted conversations, but there was never any MEAN statements, that I heard.

They all got along.  I am sick today and the mean statements my President makes.  He keeps making Terrible statements about President Biden. Not even any sympathy for the cancer Biden is enduring. Don’t get me wrong, I was not a Biden man but he was my president. He is out. It is time to start accepting responsibility rather than playing the blame game.

Sorry about that I should have stayed with oatmeal. Or even the fact that grocery prices sure hurt my feelings. LOL.

Life is good to me, I am glad I am not paying $2000 a month rent!  How do people afford that?  We have a 3BR 2 Bath house three houses from us that rents for $2000 a month. I think two families and a college person lives there and shares the rent.

I am amazed at how anyone lives and pays the cost of living today/..  BUT we continue somehow.

I am honestly glad I am not raising a family now, and have less than 10 years to live (my estimation) . Right now, I would gladly accept dropping that to 1 or 2 years. However, I hope I can stick around to get my girl settled in her new home and we enjoy a sweet trip to the Dutch country and eat some fresh corn on the cob.

Take care, and MA, try to be good out there in Texas.  LOL

Nite Shipslog

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Groceries, $100

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This is just ONE of our beautiful great grands. this is Oliver Jack, son of Josh and Megan. Ollie is walking around now and talking up a breeze. I heard him ask one of his cousins once, "Now what is your name?"  Asked as clear as a bell.

NOW for today:

It was late, but we needed something from the grocery store. I volunteered to head out and pick up the short list.  I don’t know about everyone else, but we have a place for our continuing list of needs from the grocery store.  Tonight it was a short list. My girl likes vitamins and supplements. Not sure if you must sift thru the vitamin and supplements aisle or not, but that is like an Easter Egg hunt.  Well tonight I could not find the two she wanted, I ran the gambit 3 times could not find them. I did get the rest of the list (plus a little more of course, )

Do you realize I carried everything I bought into the house in one load, the cost for that load was a little over $100. Shucks, 2 and a half pounds of Coffee was about $19. I think I will get ‘Chock Full of Nuts coffee next time, it was $16 for 2 ½ pounds.  BTW does anyone out there use Chock Full Of Nuts?

On line the big grocery stores said they had to increase prices because of Tariffs. That is common sense. I ran two businesses in my lifetime.  It is a fact, if wholesale prices go up so must your prices. To keep a business viable your prices MUST go up, that is simple common sense. Without a reasonable profit margin, a business goes broke.

I am not griping (much) but when you are old you tend to LOOK BACK and say ,’Our grocery bill for a week now is over twice my total income for a month when we got married.’

I know things have changed, but even YOU say, wow, two years ago things cost much less.

Sherry and I Thank God we can still afford to buy groceries without worrying, ‘will the check clear the bank.’

Hey back to my life, I took time to sit and read during the day. Sherry sat in our favorite swing in the picnic area and talked an hour today. Life is good, especially when you look over at a beautiful wife.

Thank you guys for some sweet comments, and thanks to family and friends who read and do not comment.

I look forward to reading stuff here and spending time thinking of you and your lives.

Nite Shipslog

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Sgt Ding Dong

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The Bow of an LST opens and you exit (drive out) onto a beach.

So for today:

As a young Marine, I was promoted to Corporal.  Until this  day a Marine is considered a ground pounder and rifleman, no matter his job. MEANING: if you are a cook, radio operator, clerk, computer operator (etc.) you can still be called on grab that rifle (which had better be clean and ready) shoulder that pack and hit the dirt.

Well, I was chosen to train as a radio relay operator. I finally earned a radio truck and a generator trailer. I had a two man crew. Our job was to set up antennas in remote territory between the front lines and the command post. My buddy Corporal Dallas Fletcher was picked for the same MOS (Job description) He had his own truck also.

 

Fortunately in 1956 I was never in a combat situation. BUT one day Master Sgt Bell (the man Dallas called Ding Dong, behind his back of course) called me in. “Darnell we have received orders to Turkey for NATO operations. You are my educated man, you have a GED. ;-0 You will load the ship, we will depart Morehead City on the ship, LST1167 the Westchester County.. You will load all our trucks, trailers and jeeps. Let me tell you something, My jeep better be the first thing off that ship! Remember a rule, 'Last thing on is the first thing off,' Got that?”

I looked at him and said, “No, I don’ understand, I ain’t never been on a ship, much less loaded one!”

“You will learn! Now get out of here and start planning, I have work to do!”

I was one scared 17 year old boy,  but like everything else in life we all take it as it comes. I met with senior Marines who had made cruises and learned a lot. And yep, Sgt Bell’s jeep was the first thing off when we landed in Turkey. . LOL

ALL of us have faced things that floored us. It might have been a job assignment, a doctor’s report, a pregnancy, a disappointed marriage, the loss of a loved one, or a million other life shattering things. ………We have learned…….. or will learn, JUST FACE IT! (Prayer also helps!) ………..

It is very possible you have faced more than I ever have. Both our sons have SUFFERED DIVORCES it hurt them of course. I have no idea if they know how much their parents suffered, just seeing them suffer.

If your children made it thru their early life without getting into drugs, you will never know how blessed you are.  I thought in my 80’s that my only sorrows would be deaths of loved ones. Boy oh boy, was I ever simple minded.  My friends, I say this with all the love I can muster, NO ONE knows the pain you can feel until the time someone you admired and loved dearly, allows Drugs to ruin their life and that of others…….IT HAPPENS!

Knowing our Lord, and having friends who mention you in prayer helps a lot!

Nite Shipslog

Repeat PS: God has been very good to me. I am a sorry Christian, but HE gave me THE GIRL HE knew I would need to keep me straight. Dumb boys, need a God who cares.  LOL

Trash

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So for today:

Have you noticed you have more trash lately?  We have become a throw away and replacement society, methinks. At one time we returned our milk and soft drink bottles to be washed and we used. Shucks we kids even found enough coke and pepsi bottles to return to the grocer for the 2 cents deposit to get some candy bars. When we lived in town, Mama always put the washed milk bottles back on the porch for the milkman to pick up.

For many years families I knew had an old 50 gal drum where they burned the burnable trash.

Even the cities burned what trash they could before burying the remains.

Do you have an opinion of how WE as a country should take care of our waste? Today most counties bury the city garbage. They line the ground with plastic sheeting at times before covering the waste.  In Florida we make small mountains of dirt covered trash.

I honestly worry about that getting down into the water table over the years,  Some countries take the trash out in barges and dump it at sea. There was a period 0f times cities tried burning trash and using the heat to turn turbines to create electricity, not sure how well that worked.

What does your city or county with the tons of trash?

Any ideas? Do you have more garbage than you did 4 years ago?

Nite Shipslog

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Today, Celebrating Ben’s Birthday

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Ben when he was starting to walk, wow, 42 years ago!

We celebrate several birthdays.  We have 2 single parents among our Grand kids and Sherry likes to do something special for them on their special days. Our Ben is 43 now. We had Corey for many years, we were not blood kin, but came into the family when J Jr married Carol.  He was a little darling and we considered him ours. But he passed a couple years back, so Ben is our oldest and He is JJr’s son. He was the guest of honor at Logan’s Steak House along with his sweet daughter Elsie who prefers to be called Elle at present.

Sherry said we had 20 present and enjoyed a great time. It is late, My beautiful wife is already in the bed and I got my kisses before she is off to dream land.

I will hand 2 small mini blinds tomorrow and the job will be complete.  JJ will move in soon I hope. Although I think all is complete, everything needs to be used to make sure no hidden glitch shows up.  It has been a tough 4 or 5 months, not sure the time. BUT IT IS DONE.

I promised my sweetheart I won’t tackle anymore BIG projects at HER  age.(Written with a smile !)  Of course I reserve the right to decide what is big or not. LOL

Thanks for all the nice comments.  You guys are the BEST.

 

Nite Shipslog

God is SMART!

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 Above., THAT DAY!

      Our 50th anniversary and she is still  beautiful

So for today:

I have enjoyed my sweetheart so much during this time of my work on the apartment.  We have taken some SWEET time over the second cup of coffee.   Then many days we have enjoyed an hour or so in the picnic area in the swing. I have told he at least a million times of the nights (after I lost my license and before the USMC) how I felt leaving her house at 129 Hawthorne st, after a date.

(Yes I lost my driver’s license after rolling my beautiful ’48 Chevy one night (Single car accident, stupid driving) after taking her, then taking Martha (Vondale’s date) home, and on the way to drop Vonnie off, from the double date).

Anyway, with no car, we would sit on her front porch and smooch, her kisses sent this 16 yr old kid to heaven.  I lived about ¾ mile from her, and I FLOATED  down the hill, up the hill, to a path across the RR tracks and a couple streets to my home. Her kisses put me in another world.

Funny, and for you young folks,  her kisses still send this old man to heaven.  After many years, probably 70, since the first kiss, her kisses are the BEST!!  Just thought I would let you Kids ( not even 70 yet), Know, that love can last.  LOL

Nite Shipslog

PS: God has been very good to me. I am a sorry Christian, but HE gave me a girl HE knew I would need to keep me straight. Dumb boys, need a good God who cares.  LOL

A saying in my neck of the woods is so danged true:

She still yanks my chain!

Lye Soap

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We saw Goats while driving the "Highway to the Sun" in Montana

So for today:

I promised the lyrics of Grandma’s Lye Soap, here it is….

 

GRANDMA'S LYE SOAP
(John Standley and Art Thorson)

Do you remember Grandma's LyeSoap?
Good for everything, everything in the home
And the secret was in the scrubbin'
It wouldn't suds; It wouldn't foam.

Mrs. O'Mally, Down in the valley
Suffered from ulcers, I understand
She swallowed a cake, of Grandma's LyeSoap
Now she's got the cleanest ulcers in the land!

Little Herman and Brother Thurman
Had an aversion to washing their ears
Grandma scrubbed them with the LyeSoap
And they haven't heard a word in years.

So sing right out for grandma's LyeSoap
Good for everything in the home
And the secret was in the scrubbin'
'Cause it didn't suds or foam.

So sing right out for Gramdma's LyeSoap
(Sing it loud and clear)
Good for everything, everything in the place
The pots and kettles, the dirty dishes
And for the hands and for the face.

The end!

I remember mama started using Rinso in the 1940s and I had a ball in my tin tub bath with Ivory  because it would float.

Nite Shipslog

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A bar of Hand soap? anyone?

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Thank the Lord as far as I know I have no medical issues except my hearing. I can hear, mostly one on one, but background noise still eats at my nerves.  Most likely, if you wear hearing aids, you probably know what I am talking about.  I have lived with the saying for years from my sons, ‘Dad hears what he wants to hear!’  I hate to admit it, but I guess in reality that is a fair statement. Meaning, I can ensure I heard correctly by repeating it to the speaker.  I just do not think Of it at the time.

I am sorta dogmatic in my approach to health.  Since I have no med issues, I figure if I eat well with reasonable portions, I will remain healthy.  I do not take supplements to boost any particular facet of my body. Sherry gives me ONE pill, a one a day vitamin (for seniors). I am sarcastic I know, but what is the big deal about senior vitamins NOT just old simple, ‘ONE-A-DAY VITAMIN, that I have heard of all my life;

One thing most folks know about me, I DO not give medical advice because my doctor once said to me after I dropped my Cholesterol pill he had prescribed., “YOU ARE NO DOCTA!!  Most of the time he likes to see me because he can just visit and he works on his other patients on the computer as me talk, methinks.  But he did agree with me about the pill I stopped and said keep eating that oatmeal you seem to be doing swell w/o the meds.

In my childhood I looked forward to hog killing time. LOL I grew up with Grandmas lye soap, remember that?

Lyrics for Grandma’s Lye soap, will be tomorrows blog…

However I do give those advertisers credit for boosting the sale of supplements even  in the bathing products area, DO NOT USE SOAP but  keep that old body YOUNG (HA) with this-------, methinks I am probably the only person who still buys Dial and uses hand soap. 

Take care and have a good evening….

Nite Shipslog

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