I was reading an article on the Reuters website earlier today; a friend sent me the link and told me to read it. The article was talking about how solar energy will be cost competitive with fossil fuels by the year 2013. Well, if that is true, I think that the US government should just stop even talking about drilling for oil off the coast of Florida and in Alaska. I understand that even getting that oil drilled and refined will take at least five to ten years to reach the gas pumps, so what’s the point of spoiling the environment when we will have perfectly good alternative fuels ready by then? Now I understand that solar energy will not be able to run everything that needs gasoline, but there ARE other sources of fuel out there that could be used to replace fossil fuels that will be ready to be on the market by then and will be cost competive too.
I received an email from my sister who recently returned from a year long visit to Western Oklahoma. She was telling me about how life was out where she was living. She was telling me that she was staying over an hour’s drive away from the nearest Wal-Mart, which was in a town called Kingfisher. I can’t imagine having to drive that far to get to a Wal-Mart! Anyway, she was also telling me that during hunting season the farmers there “posted” their “no hunting” signs by painting old tires with the words “No Hunting” and hanging them on their fence posts along the road! Now THAT is a creative use of old tires! Chances of the hunters “ripping down” those signs and tearing them up are pretty slim, don’t you think?
Recently I had my truck fixed at a local Chevrolet dealership. Turns out that the owner of the dealership is a local celebrity – a country singer. He produced his own CD, and sings at local functions.
I bought one of the CDs and brought it home. We really like it a lot! The artist is Andy Budd. He wrote his own songs, and we like the lyrics, the music, and his voice. We played the CD for my sister shortly before she was shipped to Iraq, and she asked us to get her a copy. We went into the dealership and told them that we were buying the CD to send to Iraq, and they GAVE us ten CDs for free to send over there! How great was that!?
If we get the chance to see him perform, we will see him for sure! The title of his CD is Saints & Scoundrels.
Well my brother and sister have decided that they want to have a family reunion vacation this summer at a Myrtle Beach Resort. My brother has spent several vacations over the past few years at various North Myrtle Beach Resorts and he thinks that the whole family could have a great time and catch up on some family visiting at the same time. That way the family visiting won’t get too intense – the individual units could have their own suite at the North Myrtle Beach Resort and be able to do some activities that they enjoy on their own in addition to doing “big” family time.
I’ve been looking at the list of activities that are available to do in the area, and I think I’d love to see Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede show. I’m sure my wife would love it to – she is a big horse fanatic! And I’d like to see the Medieval Times Dinner show too. We saw it once in Orlando and thoroughly enjoyed it, I’d love to have the chance to take my sister to see it too!
We’ve lived in this area for almost three years now, and we are still learning our way around. We have a jet ski, but I don’t know where there are local public boat landings to launch it for us to use it. I have looked at maps and see lakes, but don’t know if any of the lakes are better for jet ski use than other lakes are, or if any of the lakes restrict the usage of jet skis! So, I want to learn some of that information so we can have some jet ski fun this summer!
