Things that toy with your mind

Little known facts:

…Before the self-adhesive, every time you licked a stamp, you consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

…Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

…The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. (I am not average!)

Mind irritants.
Have you ever ruined a trip by wondering if something was done or left undone?  I enjoy cooking using the pressure cooker. Once I was running an errand and thought, ‘Did I just drive off and leave the burner on under the pressure cooker?’  I was about two miles away. I did a u-turn and rushed back to the house. I had not left the burner ON, good for me.

Oh yes, when we left the Florida home. We had driven about 5 miles and I asked Sherry about the coffee pot. She said she thought she had turned it off, but could not be sure.  To be sure we circled back and sure enough she had turned it OFF.  So to ease my mind, I just unplugged it.

It was not necessary to go back, and we were ALMOST SURE IT WAS OFF.  But With the problems years ago of ‘Mr Coffees’ causing house fires, it was better safe than sorry.   It is so nice not to be in a hurry. 

We knew the trip would have been ruined, wondering if the pot was actually off. The subject would have come up several more times I am sure.

The twenty minutes returning to check was worth every ‘wasted minute’.  To repeat myself, it is nice not to be rushed in life.  We talked about how in our lives we have felt rushed, but we really weren’t, except in our minds. SLOW DOWN a little before you are in your senior years.  Life will be better.  If you are a senior, take note, WE have the same 24 hours in a day that we have always had, no one has changed the time allowance, honestly!
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                1910 travel tent above, 1914 Berwick below

It's good to like each other if you are married

I ran across this, maybe it will bublish..........

Little KNOWN FACTS:

1.    Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

2.    If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out.

3.    A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals that cause relaxation. Women seem to like light and frequent kisses while men like them more strenuous.

Return trip

On the trip back to NC we talked a lot.  There have been years that we could not carry on a continuous conversation due to my hearing.  We truly enjoy being able to converse in a car.  There is never a radio on, just us.  I do tell her if she wants the radio it is no problem, but she prefers just to talk or play a game on her phone.  She plays a back and forth game with jack Jr., 'Hanging with Friends'.

We have always enjoyed each other’s company.  We passed a directions road sign on the way back, "To York, SC".  York is the place we chose to be married. I was still 17 and had to have my parents’ permission.  My dad would have performed the ceremony in NC, but NC required blood tests and SC did not.  (I wanted to marry her whether she had enough blood or not!!!  LOL)

Anyway the YORK sign kicked in a whole new conversation. WE are so blessed and lucky.  We really do like each other and I LOVE to be around that girl. She not only has the prettiest legs in the world, but is beautiful to boot! Early in our lives we were separated up to 6 months at a time due to deployments in the military.  Maybe that is why we love to stick together now.

(Below is the entire wedding party. We all crowded into Judge Nunn's living room)

I miss the bench seat in the car. We would have probably smooched for 500 miles.  She looked over at me and said, "I have loved all our honeymoons, especially this one!"  You gotta love this girl!!!  (We used to say every trip we took was our honeymoon!)

I do miss her sitting close and whispering in my ear!  LOL


Oh and we stopped near St. Augustine at Denny's, splurged on calories and fat, we both had the Original Grand Slam.  I love my 2 eggs sunny side up, 2 BACON, 2 LINKS AND 2 PANCAKES.  Sherry prefers over medium eggs.  TO MY SISTER:: "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT ABOUT THE CHOLESTEROL , SHIRL!"  LOL

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PS: We only had a one night honeymoon, maybe that is why we had so many later!  LOL

1956, the year we were married:

                                       Ford Crown Vic

                                          Chevy

                (the packard preditor, never a street car)

Success

We are wrapping up our short holiday.  It is Sunday evening and I finally got someone to cut the grass. Sooo, the short 500 miles paid off.  Honestly we don't just take off for  a 500 mile drive very often.  Most traveling days are 400 miles or less.  I do get concerned about my age. I still feel comfortable behind the wheel of a car or the motor home at 78 years of age.  Folks still want to be where I am even when I am 2-5 mph over the speed limit.  I am not comfortable on the road at night in the city.  I see too many distracting lights. LOL

I think most Americans, no matter their age, find if they want to drive the speed limit they are intimidated by drivers who want to go at least 10 mph over the limit. One of my sons says the speeder (like him) is a much safer driver.  I tell him that the speeder is usually the first one on the scene of an accident.  

About our house. I learned something on this trip.  YOu must stay a couple nights to see if there are any problems.. The first problem noticed was I did not put an outlet at Sherry's neat dressing table.  I will remedy that in the Fall.

We do other things in bed other than sleep...............  OH WAIT, I mean other things like READ!  We read in bed.  I have installed track lighting over the head board in the MH and that makes reading easy.  I will do the same here. I lay in bed and read holding the book between me and the over headlight.

So far that is two things more to do.

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Random selection, looks like a '60's Ford 500

The 500 mile day trip

Since we had never spent a night in our new home in Florida, after 6 months we decided to take a day or two and come down and remedy that. And cut the grass while we were here.  It is pretty hot in  Florida and  there was some other things to do.  It is a relaxed couple days but busy. The house is in good shape, but the grass was already high and Mark cut it last week.

That is a very strange thing to me.  We bought the house and  and only cut the grass a couple times in 6 months.  We had planned to get a lawn maintenance guy to handle it but I thought since it hadn't grown much while we had been here there as no need.  OUCH, I was wrong.  son took a picture before he cut it last week and it was knee high. tomorrow I hope to get the neighbor kid to keep it cut.

OH yes, the house A/c works great!

Anyway that is what's going on in our world.  WE gonna head home Monday morning.

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 We ran across the truck in the Villages in 2012 If I ever had an acre front yard, I would want this as my yard decoration. Like that mature tree in the truck bed?  Sherry looks the best though!

When you meet the guy who nobody is his equal

Little KNOWN FACTS:

…There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

…The longest bout of hiccups lasted nearly 69 years.

        ….Men can read smaller print than women. Women can hear better

Ready for this?

People that need it don’t read it!

And some people who need it will not heed it!

Philosophy, one of my dad’s best country attitudes was concerning people who put every one down. He said to me once, “Son, if you have to pull someone down to make you look tall, you don’t stand too tall yourself.”  And another was: “In this life you can accomplish much, if you do not care who gets the credit.” 

                  ( I am right, says the goat)

Need it and heed it is something not everyone can see.  A couple years ago we noticed a crack in the motorhome windshield.  As you know, the cracks grow. Windshield cracks are caused by two things in a motor home.  Like the automobile, we have had cracks caused by flying gravel or debris from the roads. The other cause is related to the coaches themselves,  our coach is 38.5 feet long. If I turn the coach and start up a steep incline the unit can ‘twist’. The twisting stress will crack a windshield.  That usually happens when parking a coach.

The last time a windshield was replaced, the installer said, smugly, “The last installer didn’t know what he was doing.”

I hate to hear that.  If I was natured different (and many times I wish I were) I would have said, "Here is $50 for a trouble call. I don’t think I need your service." Instead, I came inside and told Sherry, “This ain’t gonna be good.”

I heard: ‘the coach is built wrong’, the cracked glass is from China and ‘them Chinks can’t do anything right,’ ( my windshield was labeled ‘Made in the USA’.) I did point that out, but the man said, “That is fake too!” This guy was stuck on himself and could do nothing but run everyone and everything down. “I HATE THAT”.

After the installation I avoided any stress on the coach and windshield, but within a few months the windshield was cracked. It seems that the person who is insecure in their occupation, must tear the other guy down.

                                     (some folk know how to annoy you)

I like the theory put out by good folk. If you cannot say something good. It is best to say nothing.

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 This guy probably never worried about windows not fitting!