All You Guys Are Family, Too

Good morning to everyone coming by to see us this morning. We hope all are well, and everything in your life is going good. Before I keep jabbering and forget to welcome everybody back to Ridin’ Out the Recession…WELCOME BACK, and thanks for coming!

This morning I’d like to visit with you guys about family for just a few minutes. We talk about this subject from time to time, and give our input, and in return, many of you share your own thoughts and life experiences. I have to say how fortunate Deb and I are for having so many friends such as yourselves.

We ask a question, and you respond, and if you guys have one, we do the same in return. If we don’t know the answer we try to find it, or put you on to someone who may be able to help you out. My whole point here is simply, how great you guys are, and how much Deb and I appreciate you being such good people…friends.

For just a second or two, let me say to Judi and Brian at the CFP, how much we care about you guys too. If you don’t know, but I’m sure most do, these two guys run a great conservative publication, the CFP or better known as the Canada Free Press, which is simply the best!

Stop and consider for just a moment the type of business they’re in…the news business. Being in this type of business, imagine the time needed to be on call. How about 24-7? When the news breaks, they better be covering it, or what’s the old saying…you snooze you lose!

So what those two guys do is very, very demanding, and it’s my impression, for you to be that devoted to your work, you simply have to love it, and they do. They’re very, professional, very dedicated, and very good at what they do, and the best part of all…they’re very good people to boot!

Judi convinced us we needed to start Ridin’ Out the Recession, and let me tell you all…we’re so glad we did!, Thank you Judi, Brian, and all you guys, our readers and friends too. This would not have worked out without all the help and support you all have provided, and this being simple fact.

Anyone who reads us very much at all, understands that I love to laugh and cut-up, maybe too much at times, but that’s what I like to do…make people laugh or smile. We need this, and Deb’s almost as bad as I am, God Bless her!

I just wanted to express to everyone our love and concern for each and every one of you out there. You’ve opened your doors to us too, and this is not taken lightly by Deb or I. We feel many of you are like family to us, and this is comforting, it really is.

You know, family is part of the fabric that holds us all together, and too many times we take it for granted. Oh, I’ll tell him tomorrow, or oh, I’ll see him about it next week… Have you ever been guilty of those types of statements? I’m sure most have, and I know I’m guilty of it.

I know of one thing though, and I stopped it years ago. I never leave our house mad, ever. I don’t know why that became such a strong value in my life, but that, never, happens! It’s just I don’t ever want to live with, if at all possible, saying something in anger to a loved one and living to regret it later.

What got me to thinking about all this, is today is Shelby Lynn’s fourth birthday. Most of you know Shelby Lynn is our youngest son, Mark or “Reds,” daughter.

It was so pleasant this morning thinking about going to her “little cookout,” and party. She called Deb this morning, and told Deb, “Nana, you know today’s Sunday, right?” Deb asked her what was so special about Sunday, and Shelby said, “It’s my birthday, Nana!” Deb just laughed telling me what Shelby had told her.

So today we’re headed to Shelby’s birthday, and I just got to wondering where the time has gone? It sure doesn’t seem like all the kids should be grown, and already have blessed us with seven grandchildren, six boys and Shelby. Amazing stuff, huh?

Well, I’m fixing to go get ready and head out to Partin Settlement Park, watch Red and his brother Josh, grill some hotdogs and hamburgers, eat some cake, and watch Shelby and three of our other grandkids, and all Shelby Lynn’s little buddies have a big time! Life is good, and this grandparent gig ain’t so bad after all!

We’re Out Watering the Garden, and Who Pulls Up on the Road…a Beekeeper!

You know, in our column on March 29th, I asked if any of our readers were Bee Keepers. Just like any question we throw out there to you guys, we had several responses!

We even had one guy who was quite the talker, “GC,” and to be honest I really, really got a kick out of his response! Now as I said, this guy can “shuck the corn,” in terms of really expressing himself, and with that being said I’ll share his response back to us…you ready for this, he’s pretty long-winded, but here it is.

“Well, I am one.”

This was his response! But if you stop and think about it, he answered my question of whether we had readers who were Bee Keepers, as he replied, Well, I am one!” I swear I almost fell out of my chair when I read it, and called Deb in and told her look at this! She howled as well, and I swear, that was the funniest thing I’d read in quite a while…it was hilarious!

I e-mailed him back, and he ended up being just a super guy, and I’d love to speak with him again. “GC,”I just had to tell it man, it was just too funny!
Take care my friend, and holler back at us, okay? Thanks so much for your other response as well, it is appreciated!

We also had 3 or 4 more, and we just really appreciate you guys taking the time and sharing with us your knowledge and thoughts on this subject! If you haven’t looked in our comment section, I’ve responded back to you all! So, Harrie, Monique, and Mr. Marshall, thanks so much and please, you guys come back to see us again!

Also Mr. Marshall, please send us more on your thoughts in regards to the pesticides, etc. I’m finding some of this very interesting.

This afternoon, Deb and I were contemplating going into the larger garden, and watering the tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers and squash. We hand water these, and at first said no, then we agreed we should, and went out and got started.

We’d been out there 30 minutes or so, and this truck goes by real slow, almost stopping. We were keeping an eye on it, and dern if it didn’t go down a few hundred yards out of sight, turned around and came back by, even slower.

Well, I told Deb to let Cheyenne into the garden as it’s fenced, because she will get after someone if they’re going by slowly. Well, the truck went down to our gate, stopped and came by slow once again. At this point Deb said, I’m gonna go get the truck, grab a couple guns, and I’ll be right back!

I said, why don’t I go get the truck, a couple of guns, and I’ll be right back! At this point she was almost to the house, so I just hollered, I LOVE YOU TOO! Dad-gum woman had left me high and dry!!

That dern truck turned around and came back, stopped on the road across from me, and the driver got out and started hollering to me, trying to ask me something.

I hollered back I cain’t hear a darn thing you’re saying, and by this time Deb had pulled up to the garden, so Cheyenne and I got in the truck, and we pulled down to the roadside to see what they wanted. We have had a “couple crazies,” stop before, so we are cautious to an extent anymore.

Well, Wild Bill Hickock, and I was going to say Calamity Jane, but she weren’t mean enough for Deb, so I’ll say Belle Starr, pulled up alongside the fence and I asked, “Can I help you,” and Deb snarlin’ sayin’, “Well, answer the man, cat got your tongue?”

No, Deb didn’t say no such thing, but I couldn’t resist saying she had! LOL!

We did pull up beside the fence and it was a woman, probably in her fifties, I’m guessing, and she said, “I’m a Bee Keeper and I’d like to know if you’d mind if I put out some hives in the next couple weeks or so?”

I almost cracked up! Here we were, Deb and I “loaded for bear,” and this nice, polite woman, asks if we’d mind her putting out some hives on the place, and here it was, less than a week since I’d asked in our column, that if anyone did keep bees, I’d sure like talking to em!

Boy, God works in mysterious ways, he hand delivered this lady to us…and here Deb and I were…gonna shoot her!

We asked her to pull back down to the gate and we’d talk. I explained to her about asking you guys about bee keepers, and she laughed too. I explained that I’d like to personally have 3-4 hives, etc., basically everything I’d asked in our column about this subject.

Her response…I’d be happy to show you everything I know, and I’ll be back no later than a couple weeks, with about 60 hives. She wants to put 30 in two different spots. She said she’ll bring me a “starter hive,” and Deb and I some honey as well. Then she’ll work with me in teaching me some things about the bees.

She said the cabbage palms will be putting out and that’s the next food source for them down here. I thought this was all just too neat, and I’ll keep you guys aware of what goes on in regards to this.

Can you believe it, and once again…Deb was gonna shoot her! See what I have to put up with??

Thank you guys for coming once again, we appreciate each and every one of you! God Bless you all!

Dub