Fresh Vegies Traded For Clean Pool Privaleges

Posted on 16th February 2012 in Entertainment/Fun, Food, Home and Garden, Sports, weather

The stores are starting to put out all of the items that are needed for our spring work and our summer fun in the sun. The patio furniture, garden supplies, lawn mowers, flip flops and pool accessories are lining the shelves just begging us, the consumers, to start digging in our wallets and dishing out the bucks on all of things that we have become famous for buying this time of the year.

My neighbors are getting anxious just waiting for this warm weather that we have been experiencing this winter, to get just a bit warmer and they can start getting their pool supplies in order and ready for all the water activities that having a backyard pool can bring to friends and family members. I’m so glad that I’m on good terms with both neighbors on both sides of my place and that I have an open invite to go over and enjoy a dip in either one of their pools, or a whole afternoon if I please to. They get to deal with all of the various pool supply issues while I just get to enjoy the feel of the nice clean water that they are so careful to get with all of the pool filters and pool chemicals that they have to buy each year.

While I in return turn them on to all the goodies that I grow in my wonderful vegetable garden in my back yard. So it works out very well for all concerned.

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Breakfast for Supper

Posted on 12th February 2012 in Food, Money/Finances, Opinion

Do you ever eat breakfast for supper?  I don’t very often, but I plan to eat it more often!  I like breakfast, and rarely have time to eat one.  And by that I mean the full-blown eggs and bacon and toast, not just a bowl of cereal.  Or pancakes with syrup, or french toast.  I really enjoy all of those.  And with the economy getting worse, it seems like a good way to trim the cost of dinner!  My wife and I have decided to eat breakfast for supper a couple of times every month.  Pinching pennies can taste good!

Politics as usual

Posted on 29th January 2012 in Food, Friends/Family, Life, Opinion, Politics, Shopping

My family always gets very invested in the presidential election. They watch every debate, following through all of the primaries, and we have very spirited discussions about the candidates and their views. Most of my family generally votes the opposite party that I vote, so I try to keep a low profile so as to avoid the temper tantrums that some people in the family have. Others in the family are not as mindful of keeping the peace, and often will wear their favorite political candidate’s advertising products on their body.

I can remember the last presidential election there was a big spirited discussion when my brother-in-law wore a ron paul shirt to the family Thanksgiving dinner. I’m not sure if the high emotions amuse me or scare me, but one thing is for certain, my family takes their politics very seriously and if you do not support their candidate of choice you can be deluged with muck raking information about your own candidate. I’m always glad when the elections are over!

Large Marge

Posted on 17th January 2012 in Food, Friends/Family, Health, Life, News, Opinion

I appreciate the guest post, Lindsay Valdez

If you go to  direct tv lexington  watch the news and take notice of how large our population has become.  You hear all of the statistics about our country’s increasing waist size especially in relation to the rise of weight-related health issues like diabetes and heart disease.  Driving down the interstate the other day, I was surprised to see billboards with young children on them advertising that words like “chubby” and “thick” aren’t cute but are dangerous.  These public service announcements seem harsh, but clearly they are necessary.  The number of young children who are clinically obese is nothing short of alarming.  Our world today does nothing but encourage this problem either.  We are a society dependent on fast meals due to our busy lifestyles.  Outdoor play has been replaced with video games, computers, and televisions.  When kids have to be reminded to “get out and play for an hour a day,” we are in real trouble.  Kids innately should want to play.  They should want to imagine and run and jump and climb.  Their fresh bodies shouldn’t be dumping grounds for food that is lesser in nutrition and quality than that which we feed to our animals.

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Where’s the meat on the meat lover’s pizza?

Posted on 3rd January 2012 in Food, Life, Opinion, Shopping

Over the past couple of months Pizza Hut has been running a special where you can get any size pizza, any type crust, any specialty, for only $10. Well, my family likes Pizza Hut Pizza a lot, and I had received a couple of Pizza Hut gift cards for Christmas, so I decided that I would go ahead and take advantage of their $10 special and order some of our favorite pizza – their large pan meat-lover’s pizza.  Well, I have to admit that the last two times that we did that, the meat lovers pizza did not have much meat on it at all. In the past, there was so much meat on the pizza that you could hardly see the cheese or the sauce! Now you can hardly see the meat. Very disappointing.

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