Happy to begin a new week, last couple of days for January ’23…
NFL fans entertained yesterday … Finals for Super Bowl … Eagles and the Chiefs … 49ers had a tough day … All their quarterbacks on the sideline, due to injuries…
Super Bowl will be played in a couple of weeks, Sunday, February 12th.
Speaking of the end of January … Dow Jones Industrial Average increased from 33,138 on January 1st to 33,978 at close on Friday … +842 points … Good news for retirees and soon to be…
Been reminiscing, looking back … When was the last time you saw a new ‘smoke house’, a smoke house that houses pork for hog killins’? How ’bout a stable for a mule or horse, or both?
The landscape has changed … dramatically … No more new chicken houses where you could house a few laying hens … and a roster or two … Oh we are blessed with chicken houses and hog houses (mass production). I’m talking about where you shuck a few ears of corn, shell it and feed the chicks … keep enough to have a fresh egg for breakfast or to mix a cake … Trade what you didn’t need for a few cans of something you do need or want, maybe a 6 pack of Coke or Pepsi … A new smoke house where you store fresh pork … sausage, hams, shoulders, etc., it’s a thing of the past … Years ago those type buildings dotted the landscape … If you see one today, maybe an old tobacco barn, there is a good chance it’s leaning, waiting for a storm to blow it over…
Guess our next generation will never know … that the feed bags were our new shirts for males and skirts for the ladies … Just been thinking about changes … good and not so good.
Checking the weather … Showers likely before noon today, with a high near 62. Patchy fog after midnight, low around 48. Tuesday, a 30% chance of rain after 1 p.m. High near 63.
Our average high and low for January is 55 and 36. February, average high is 59, average low 38.
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” J.M. Barrie
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.” Abraham Lincoln
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein
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