7 October 2009

To The Point

Where was the dance? We usually have rain only when Rita schedules a dance. No dance, okay, thank You God for the rain and cooler weather.

Those fall gardens should be coming around soon. Clarence Searcy has been experimenting with delayed scheduled planting -- I think there’s a name for this, but I couldn’t come up with it. Every few weeks he plants another crop of peas, or whatever. He’s had good luck with this experiment. He will have peas long after the first planting has quit bearing. Today he has a black, one-eyed pea, next month he may have black, cross-eyed peas. Experiments like this is how things evolve. Keep it up Clarence, and let us know when you get peas with blue eyes.

Someone actually went to the market place last Saturday and found no one there, “not even the mayor was there.” I’m sorry about that. We all wanted to be there, but a bug of some kind kept us away. No, I don’t think it was swine flu, I haven’t eaten pork in weeks. Actually I think it was beef sausage I had in the freezer since last year. Dummy, don’t you know better than to keep things that are out-of-date? I didn’t notice the date, until I dug it out of the trash later. So do what I say but not what I did. Or can the mayor say that? Only about old sausage, not about your lot in life. Okay!

I won’t mention the place, again, but I was eating out one nite recently when I overheard that same group of golfers that I wrote about earlier. They must have been rehashing the same story, because the situation with those who drink and pitch has not improved. I guess it’s time we appointed a morality squad to look into these golf cart capers at the golf course. We could train some of those wild hogs that run around the golf course how to sniff out and eat beer cans/bottles. Then we could sell the special mineral-laced pork for premium prices.

I guess you can tell it is a bad week for ideas to write about. But I have one more sighting from the same restaurant I want to tell about. Everyone knows the layout, I mean the size of the east parking lot and all. I’m sure everyone has noticed the grassy area on the southeast corner. I’ve noticed our out-of-town customers will usually park at the back of the lot near that grassy area. Then they will open the back door and let Rover or Ruby out to “stretch” their legs. I think we should put in for a federal grant to erect a fire hydrant in the center of the grassy area. Of course we would have to get the mayor to write a Proclamation for the ribbon cutting of Munday’s latest, Puppy Pooper Park. Then we could market Munday’s own Puppy Pooper Park Pooper Skoopers.

For parents of any age, I found a good web site for you to go to for help raising your teens. The hype for this 12-page article reads like this: “If you are ready for the truth and ready for the inside information you need to better undestand your difficult teenager, this free, special report will be the most important thing you’ve ever read. And by the end of the article you’ll begin to understand how your teen’s life really is, rather than what you think it is.” I’ve read it and encourage all parents to do the same. I’ve thought about adopting a teen so I could try out the suggestions.

This article talks about how the teen will hustle or scam their parents in an effort to get what they want. I know this isn’t one of your teens I’m about to describe but read on: Sometimes kids won’t do their homework or help out around the house. But they seem to have an amazing instinct for figuring out the system that they are in and manipulating it to get what they want out of you or the adults around them.

I’m not saying that your teen is a bad egg or that you are a bad parent. Kids sometimes don’t have the sense of right or wrong that we expect from them. The problem is adults often think teens are going to soak up the morals like a sponge, and they don’t. As a parent, YOU have to teach them morals and ethics, or they are not going to get them. Go to www.tameurteen.com/freereport today and download this article and read it and put it into practice tonight.

Don’t forget to tell folks on your next out-town trip how wonderful Munday is.