Outdoors
What I would like to have on our Patio is an outdoor fire pit.
No question the day time temperatures are on the hot side, and the nighttime temps are not exactly low, but Arizona is a great place to spend time out of doors and the patio in our back yard is a great place to be especially during the Fall and Winter months.
More today than Years ago.
It seems that every where I go these days, I’m seeing more people who smoke. Doesn’t matter where we go, outside the buildings there appears to be men and women lighting up.
I have never smoked.  Most likely never well. I just hope that those people are aware of where to get life insurance for smokers.
Like so many things in our lives these days, life insurance is a very important part.  That’s my opinion.
It was fun back in Camp.
I remember that I enjoyed Archery when I attended Cheley Colorado Camps up in Estes Park, Colorado.
Since then I have met several hunters who don’t use Guns, but have some of the best looking archery supplies you can imagine.
While at Cheley I was limited to the Archery Range there in the Rocky Mountains, but we were told about how the bow and arrows could be use while hunting.
News out of Washington.
With the news today out of Washington, about Social Security and Medicare, the next couple days would be a good time to look into disability insurance .
No question that those in Washington have not done their job over the years and maintained SS and Medicare, despite the fact that all working Americans have paid into both systems for more years that I care to remember.
It’s clear that each citizen needs to look out of him/her self. Those in Washington could careless.
Soon!
I have a feeling that I will need to be looking soon at touch screen laptops , as my Desk Computer is doing a lot of weird stuff.
Now the computer I have is not a cheapo computer back several years ago it was the top of the line of the particular computer company and it could handle video editing. So it had a lot of memory.
Now, all most on a daily basis, I will start to load a program, and I will receive an error message.
The idea of having a computer that I could take with me when traveling out of state, really excites me. My days with a Desk Computer are numbered.
Dead Bolt.
Up until a few days ago, our house had a remote controlled dead blot on the front door. We could open/close the dead blot with the push of a button on a very small transmitter that fit in our hands.
We about a week ago, I had to get a pair of pliers to open it from the inside and I have not attempted to shut it.
I went on the Internet and found out that the company that made it, is no longer making that particular model.
Learning that, it came quickly to mind that we might need to look into a home automation system so that we can open the front door dead bolt remotely.
Siting here at the computer, that has me thinking of how easy it would be to do other things that I could do to the doors, windows and other things around our house without so much as getting up from my office chair.
Told What I should do.
Back in the 60s I spent just short of 10 years at KOOL AM/FM and TV here in Phoenix.
While working an air shift on the AM, I received a call from an Individual who wanted to meet with me. I had no problem with that and a couple days later he came to the studio and we spent about 30 minutes getting to know each other.
Turns out he had his own business and from what he told me was doing quite well. I had no reason not to believe him and found talking with him interesting. Our friendship grew over the next several months. We would meet at a nearby restaurant in Downtown Phoenix that I could walk to from the studio.
At one of those lunches, I was surprised when he said to me:Â “Norm you are wasting your time in broadcasting and should take some time and look into sales jobs, because you impress me as being an excellent sales person.”
I didn’t leave KOOL or broadcasting right then, and I continued to have a friendship and many lunches and as I remember, at each lunch he reminded me I was “Wasting my Talent in Broadcasting.”
That aside, I considered him a friend.
Twist the Wheel.
Yesterday, Karen and I had a couple of places to go, so shortly after noon we left that house and drove to our first stop. Got out of the van, went inside and finished and returned to the van.
I put the key in the ignition and I could not turn it. Not a bit. I called the shop where we have the van serviced and he said attempt to turn the steering wheel itself and that should allow the key to work. I tried a couple times and no results. Then I put all the power I could muster, and that didn’t help either but it pulled something in my shoulder and I was in P A I N. At that point all I could think about was I sure hope there’s a medical cart handy.
I made another call to our auto service shop and was told that as soon as someone got back from lunch, they would send someone over to help.
There we sat for 45 minutes. Lucky for us the temp was in the 80s and with all the doors open, couldn’t open the windows because the key didn’t function it really wasn’t bad.
The owner of the auto service center arrived, and he couldn’t get the ignition to work either, so he went back to his shop, brought a wheelchair van back and took Karen and I home.
What happened to the van. A tow truck came and it was towed to the service center and that’s were it is right now.
Who to send Flowers to?
With my mother passed away, I have a simple question, who to send flowers this Mother’s Day .
I guess I should join with my wife and send them to her Mother. That sounds like a reasonable idea.
There is no one else that fits the bill that is left in my family so it just seems like a very good idea to send flowers to my Mother0-In-Law. It never hurts to gain points in that department now does it?
Allways planing.
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I don’t think there is a day that goes by that I don’t think about adding things to our house and especial out in the back yard. This time of year would be a great time to have a hot tub out back. It would be nice to also have a hot tub cover because here in Arizona, there are times when it get windy and I don’t want to have to spend my time cleaning out the hot tub, when I could be enjoying it.
I have never been a swimmer, but I have a feeling that I would enjoy a hot tub.