Maybe I will pick up some bulbs to plant as well.  A few flowers to add color to my property is always a wise choice.  I take pride in my property’s appearance and my family likes to see what I have done new every year.

Now with the use of computers, I’ve discovered there are many other types of solitaire games that have nothing to do with a deck of cards. You can use tiles and play majong. You can use beads and play Bejeweled. And there are dozens of video games of all types that let you play by yourself.

Many of the stores are selling them this year and compared to last year they have come down in price.  I shopped several of the flyer’s before deciding upon one that had a tri-colored slate base.  There is some assembly required and since I have very little time I think I will recruit the high school kid next door to give me a hand.  He loves to put things together and I feel comfortable that he won’t mess this up.  Besides if he does he knows he won’t get paid!

So, I had to come up with the next best thing and that was to purchase another grill.  A family member of mine had heard of my dilemma and decided as an early birthday present to give me some cash toward my new grill.  I went down to the hardware “toy” store and began my search for my replacement or spare grill.

As I waswalking down the aisle the charcoal grills caught my eye.  Specifically, a nice new red one caught my attention.  I looked over the others surrounding it but I kept coming back to the red one I first saw.  It was the perfect size, not to mention great price!

I decided to take it and loaded it up in my truck after purchasing it.  On the way home I swung by the local meat market and picked up a couple of juicy steaks.  The grill once I got it home worked beautifully and made the steaks extra tasty.

Thankfully, my dog was uninjured after destroying the power source of the chair.  The chair is finished because without the power cord the foot stool cannot be lifted.  I wish there was some kind of back- up method for opening and closing the chair.  I loved this chair and it was a gift.  I think the smart thing to do is for my next chair to have a manual lever rather than an electric button.  Tomorrow the newspaper will have a bunch of advertisements for furniture and I will start searching for my next comfort spot.

Some of his material is a bit raunchy but the rest of it is pretty down to Earth.  I’m not sure where he gets his material because all comedians get their material from different places, but this man had some really good stuff!  He specifically told a story about the motorcycle he asked his wife to buy him for his birthday.  He said that one year he asked his wife to buy him a motorcycle for him for his birthday and when his birthday came around she showed up with a scooter.  Well, he was shocked but being a good husband he got on it and took it for a test drive.  He said he felt so stupid, mainly because he was only putting down the road while bugs were passing him instead of the other way around.  Absolutely hilarious!  If anyone has never heard him perform I do recommend it.  Laughter is so important in this life.

I have been looking a fairly large grill as my next purchase.  I really like the gas grills that have an attached burner.  This makes preparing dinner a lot more efficient. There is nothing like cooking on the grill and watching the sun set.  I hope to also invite a group of my close friends over when I start up my grill for the first of the season.  Cooking outside and enjoying a shared meal with friends and a sunset is the perfect way to end a hard winter and ring in a busy summer!

About an hour into being at the store I started to laugh at myself because I had already filled a cart full of stuff that I thought was a “bargain.”  Now, I am not usually a bargain shopper but when I saw a set of socket wrenches that I didn’t have for$75, I thought this was a real deal.  Unfortunately, the bargains did not stop there I saw flashlights and screwdrivers that were also calling my name.  By the time I looked at my watch I saw that I had been in the store for almost three hours! My carts were showing I had spent that much time as well.  The kicker is I hadn’t even begun to check out the gas grills.  I guess that will be next time.  I think spending more than three times the cost of my original list’s worth is enough for today.

This particular episode was centered around catching illegal hunters. The troopers had set up a moose decoy near a highway. State law says that you cannot shoot from a roadway. It took the troopers staging a little while to catch someone but they finally did. It wasn’t anything “good” in my opinion however it was something. They caught a father and his son shooting at the decoy. The son was the one who made the shot and being a juvenile he was only issued a warning. The troopers immediately went back to their unmarked vehicle and waited. A little while later they bagged another hunter, an adult this time. The man this time was not on the roadway but had gone down into the woods after spotting the decoy. The troopers alerted him with their horn and he stopped. He wasn’t doing anything illegal but they didnt want him shooting at the decoy either. So they checked his license and sure enough it was expired. He was also summonsed and let go. I have to say they decoy looked pretty real. I was impressed.