Today I feel like rambling about nothing in particular. Did you know just because southern people drawl their words it doesn’t mean they are slow-witted? It amazes me or maybe not how people are so fast at putting people in certain categories. I think Jeff Foxworthy is a funny man and he has certainly made a lot of money with the redneck series. I actually never paid any attention to some of the words we Southerners put together until Jeff pointed it all out to me.

When I catch myself saying well I ustacouldav I immediately find something more appropriate to replace it with and sometimes I don’t. I love the way southerners talk and I miss my southern state of birth, but I will probably never move back to Chattanooga. I still have some family living there so I will visit every now and then. When I hear someone speaking with a drawl up here in PA. it does make me homesick.

Last time I saw my son I decided he was mature enough to finally have all his baby keepsakes. It took long enough (37), but he’s married finally. back in Dec. and he’s buying a place in Kentucky and wants to have a family and he’s been reminiscing about his history and childhood, so now I have to scan 50 million pictures of his childhood and put them on a cd so he’ll have them.

His booty included, baby teeth that the tooth fairy exchanged for money, his first tiki bank, his little booties, 1st pair of sneakers and shoes, his first haircut curls, some report cards and souvenirs from school and various other odds and ends that I have been carrying around in my travels for 38 years and believe me I have lived in lots of places, but those items were more important to me then anything so now I have entrusted my treasures to him.

Yesterday we had to take the bike over to Laugerman’s Harley Davidson seems the tack was going nuts and they have to put it on the machine. Dave thought it was something simple, but it’s a little more complicated than first thought so he has to go through the manual. I haven’t heard anything from them yet today. I hope we have it back by the weekend. We did ride Sunday and it didn’t act up or die or anything, but it irritated Bill to see the needle going nuts. He’ll be home soon so I have to go for awhile. Gotta feed my son and daughter, Shadow and Sadie and my stray cat Stalker.

This is a sponsored ad from Burn Notice and the question being asked is, are you a survivor and how would you manage if you were stranded in a strange city with no resources or money? There is a new series coming out USA Network’s Burn Notice and of course they have clever people that will show us how their hero would survive under similar circumstances. My answer to this question is below and I have wondered about this before so that’s why I am responding to this query.

No one likes having to ask for a hand out, but there is nothing wrong with asking for a hand up. You can always repay any kindness at a later date. What goes around, comes around. My first course of action would be to head for a mission, the Red Cross and any churches around and ask for help. They usually have a list of places that can help you and I would also put my faith in God that he would provide as he always has.

I know how to waitress, tend bar, cook, and do hair, but being stranded in a strange city and without their state license I would only be able to be a shampoo person and I would apply at as many places as I could and explain my circumstances. Believe it or not there are more kind people in the world than the news media and papers would have you believe. I don’t like the idea of being a panhandler, thief, or prostitute so those three would not be an option for me.

When I lived in Reno I saw homeless people everywhere. When I would go to work in the mornings I saw them coming out of cardboard boxes, from under the bridge and I always saw them lined up at the mission for meals so I know I could at least count on that for awhile till I got on my feet and I’m sure the church and Red Cross would help with clothes. If the weather was bad then I guess I would check out the malls.

I have often wondered about all those homeless people. I was semi stranded once, but I wasn’t alone and we did have a car and things to sell or trade for gas and food until I found a job and I could always depend on my brother to send money. Also there’s a lot to be said for the barter system. You can usually find someone that has some dirty work they don’t like doing in exchange for something.