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20 Years

   Sympathy cards may be mailed to Yvette if you wish.
   June 26, 2019 will be 20 years that we've been married. Anybody remember that day? I'm pretty sure she deserves everybody's sympathy for putting up with me for 20 years. Especially the last year. It has definitely been the most challenging. 
   So I'm getting her shelves. Don't tell her. I want it to be a surprise. 

   It's probably not exactly what she wanted for our anniversary, but she said she wanted shelves. So she's getting shelves.

   I've got an awesome wife. She's been fantastic for the past 20 years, I'm sure  she'll be just as fantastic for the next 80.

😃

June 26, 1999

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Happy Daddy's Day

   Yes, I said Daddy's Day.
   Probably because I didn't father any of these children. And someday I'm gonna take Yvette to paternity court and prove it. 
   But I Love Them, I put up with them, I frustrate them, they frustrate me; you know all that stuff that children and parents go through. All 7 of 8 or 9 or 10 of them. 
   12 if you count Kim and Denise, who were NEVER mine but effectively ended a date for me one night at Walmart by running up and hugging me and saying "Daddy, Mommy wants to know when you're going to pay the child support". I tried to explain to the person I was with that these were NOT my children to no avail. I didn't even get a handshake goodnight.😡
   But I digress. I was in Co-op at Newbern Wednesday looking for something for Yvette and I saw this:

   It's a hat like my Daddy used to wear when he(we) went to the field to drive tractors or chop weeds. That was back when we didn't spray everything and be done with it until harvest. 
   We sprayed some, we cultivated, and we walked the field using a hoe to get the weeds that the spray and the cultivator didn't get. The best part to me was the chance to get a drink when you got to the end of a round, eating lunch in the shade at the Williams place: potted meat and crackers, bologna sandwich, Red Bird imitation Vienna sausages. 
   Amazing what just seeing that hat brought to my mind. 
   But there's been a couple of things lately that made me realize I'm turning into my Dad. One was last week. I changed the oil in the car and when I got up from the ground Harold started laughing and said you're moving like Daddy. I said "I Love You". I think. I know it ended in You. 😉
  The other happened today at work. I was washing some of the grease and oil off of my arm and I looked in the mirror and saw a bruise. I don't think it was there yesterday. I don't remember hitting my arm on anything. Reminded me of all the times that Momma would ask Daddy what happened to his arm or hand, he'd look at it think for a couple of seconds and say "I must have hit it on something."
   He's been gone a couple of years now and I miss him, especially when I see something like that hat.

   Last year Father's Day fell between losing the tip of my tongue and getting the diagnosis of what they wanted to do. This year, I'm working on father's day, which is much better than last year.

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Safe!!!! Natural!!!! Non-Toxic!!!! Weed Killer!!!

  CHEAPER Than Round-Up!!!!!!

   I might have been a little bored. I shouldn't  have bean, but I've been seeing this posted about lately so I figured I'd post something as well.

   For the past few years I've seen people share the natural weedkiller recipe posts every spring and summer.

  If you want something to turn something brown where it's not growing, it WILL work!!! I used it last summer!!!!
   See, I've proved it's effective. I used CAPITAL letters and EXCLAMATION POINTS!!! That proves it is true.
   Common Household Ingredients:
1 gallon of Vinegar
2 cups of Epsom Salt
1 cup of Dawn Dishwashing Liquid
   Start by heating the vinegar on the stove and stirring the Epsom salt in with a wire whisk. (Dang i forgot how bad vinegar can smell when it's being heated on the stove😝) Then let it cool down before putting it in the sprayer. Oops, I don't have a sprayer. So I went to town to get one. Hmmm. There a gallon of roundup ready to use for $14. The sprayer cost $15. So the ingredients are cheaper than round up, but it's gonna cost me more this time. But I'll have a sprayer that I can use next time.
   Then after you pour it in the sprayer you add the cup of Dawn Dishwashing Liquid..stir it up. Spray it on the weeds and the next day, they're dead. They looked dead. The leaves turned brown and fell off. But a week later they started to come back..so I bought more vinegar, Epsom salts and added the Dawn and sprayed them again. I was beginning to think I had fallen for some

   Well they looked dead, again. 2 weeks later they greened up again. So I bought more vinegar, more Epsom salt, and a new bottle of Dawn.  And sprayed them again.
   You guessed it. They started greeniing up. 😠.
  I went back to the store. This time I bought a gallon of roundup ready to use, sprayed the plants and they died. And that time, they stayed dead. 
   So yes the natural safe non-toxic weed killer is at least non-toxic. Non-Toxic means it didn't kill the plants. 

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🏆 World's Greatest Mom! 🏆

   I had a fantastic Mom!
   She did the best job raising a trio of boys. 
   So when I found a wife I found a good thing.
   My wife is the best mom on the planet. She held our family together when I was falling apart. (Well they kind of cut me up, but you know what I mean)
   I don't know how she did it. I just know that she kept us fed, clothed, sheltered and transported.
   I definitely got a winner.

The kids are lucky to have a mom like her, and I am blessed to have her for a mother of my children!

Unfamiliar Territory

   I've not been here in a while. About 24 years to be honest. And I'm still a long ways from my goal. 
"What goal is that?", you might ask.
  Since you asked, I'll tell you.
   I set 3 goals after I finished my treatment. To get under 200 pounds. Then get to 180 and eventually get to my "ideal" weight of 165.
   I've reached the first goal. I'm under 200 pounds for the first time since 1995. I know it was then because that's when I started getting my teeth pulled to get dentures. Not when I got the dentures, when I started getting the teeth pulled. I gained weight while I was having teeth pulled every other week. 
   My next goal is 180. I haven't been at that weight since 1990. Around the time I start ed working at Venture I. Working right across the road from a store where I could go get food right as I left work in the morning. I went from 175 to 185 in a month. But I stayed between 185 and 190 the 3 years I was there.
   The next goal after that is 165. It's been 32 years or so since that weight.


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Genealogy - My Heritage

IThis isn't my great-grandfather's church. This isn't my grandfather's church. 

This isn't my father's church.

This isn't the church of my childhood.

    Yet, it is. Physically. And even that has changed. 

   The activity center/fellowship hall didn't exist when I was a child. The basement and the classroom where we have Sunday school class didn't exist when my father was a child. The sanctuary where services are held didn't exist when my grandfather was a child. Cool Springs Cumberland Presbyterian church didn't exist when my great grandfather was born.

   As far as congregationally goes, my first cousin 3 times removed (great grandfather's first cousin) is listed on the plaque in the vestibule as the minister when the church was organized in 1891.

    Denominationally, my 1st cousin 4 times removed (great great grandmothers first cousin) organized 4 or 5 churches. And my great great great great grandfather was a pastor who preached at several churches back on the 1840's.

   I'm not sure where this was intended to go when I started it, but I know when I was younger I remember hearing about a church getting rid of its pastor because his wife had an affair. Another church getting rid of an elder because their child ran into trouble with the law. Another church that told a pastor if his wife took an outside job, they would let him go.
   At camp, we used to sing "they'll know we are Christians by our love"
   Watching the news, listening to reports, seeing what's going on in the church world; sometimes I wonder now as I did then, where is the love?