03/28/2024
Thoughts While Shaving
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Checking our weather forecast for the next few days … High temp today, tomorrow, Friday and Saturday … in the low to mid 90s … Break it down … Sunny today, high near 94 … heat index values as high as 102. Partly cloudy tonight with a low around 74. Thursday, a 20% chance of rain … Sunny with a high near 94 … heat values as high as 103. Friday, a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms, otherwise sunny with a high near 94, Saturday’s high near 92 and Sunday a 50% chance of rain, high near 90.

Love riding thru the area, checking the crops (and they look good). Should soon see huge harvesting machinery gathering corn … these hot days should help with the moisture levels…

Anyone remember how it was done a few years ago … Everyone had a row or two, break the corn off the stalk, pile it in small piles in the field…return with mule or horse pulling a wagon or drag. Load the corn and head to the barn … Could take days … Big combines make it look easy…

I knew we were going to have chicken in one form or another when mom had one of us put a chicken under a basket … provide water and corn … The chicken was just before making the ultimate sacrifice … Chicken and pastry or chicken and rice … for Sunday…

Your mom ever remind you to put on clean underwear if you were going away for a day or two? … Never know when you may have an accident and if you needed to go to the doctor, try to look decent … Bless her, I had a good mom…

We didn’t know much about what was going on in Elizabethtown, Raleigh or Washington … we were busy doing what we had to do to survive. Think one of the reasons we all got along as well as we did … No TV news, only a local paper occasionally and no radio. Probably be better off today if we had less to quarrel and fuss about.

“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” Wayne Huizenga

“When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.” Ernie Banks

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford

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