HAPPY HALLOWEEN !

Happy Halloween!

Here's a really fun picture of my friends Thom and Ray's boy Brutus! Bark at the moon!

Role Playing

It's the day before Halloween (Halloween Eve?) and all the talk about costumes and dressing up reminded me of a pretty funny video someone had sent me quite a while back.

CAUTION/CUIDADO:

Not safe for work, definitely not safe for right wingers, conservatives, prudes, legislators of morality, etc....

There has, of course, been talk of ghouls, goblins and the omnipresent BOGGIEMAN!

The creep many of us dreaded in the dark when we were small, I'm glad to see there are some brave children out there ready to take him on.......check it out. Kassie kicks butt!

A Call To Young Americans

I was poking around You Tube's politics posts and found another great rant from Davis Fleetwood.....a call to action for America's next movers and shakers. ....aka da chil'uns

Check it out HERE

Hang in there Roni......

Which Witch is which....... palms have been up sending you and yours a shield.

Peace and cover....Dale

The Black and The White

Read something that became my quote of the day and a thought to carry for all the days.

Life is 10% Black. Life is 10% White. Life is 80% Gray.

The gray can go either to black or white, you decide that.

Peace....Dale

If everyone cared and nobody cried

Got to feelin a lil bit exasperated again watching the news tonight when the top story was the collegiate ranking of the local college team and other tasty morsels on the smorgasbord of crapola. This too was followed by some incidentallies and then finally, they remembered that there was a "war" and gave todays body count. Another Whadafxup moment.

Let us not forget what's happening folks.

While hoping that a lot of us do still care about what matters...thought of a song I'd heard...kinda made me feel like someone else was thinking outside the boobtube too... kinda cool.

Thanks Nickelback for my 'today's musical interlude'.

Click here if you want to see my musical interlude. (doh! kinda on the boobtube-ish thing too.)

Peace, Love ya

Al Gore - Nobel Peace Prize Winner

As disappointing as it was to watch Al Gore get shafted in the election outcome a few short years ago, it's kinda nice to see the good guy win.....win BIG!

To be honored with recognition of this caliber is amazing. Applause, Applause, Applause!

An Inconvenient Truth leaves most all that see it with a renewed respect for Mother Earth and a better understanding of personal responsibility in her care.

To those of you who pishawed me, touting the "other studies" that dispute the message, I say to you again.... while you read these alternative messages, look at the sources. Many of these organizations (i.e. Global Climate Coalition and the Information Council on the Environment) that seek to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact are in fact created and funded by individual companies and industry associations—representing petroleum, steel, autos and utilities, for instance.... those with the largest carbon footprints and no plan to do anything but take the money and run.

Another interesting opinion from Davis Fleetwood can be found by clicking on his name.

Finger Lakes, the 'saga' continues

OK, back to the saga.....

Sunday was a beautiful reminder of the riches in my life.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.....As your higher power as my witness....I worked my ass off. Painted, painted and painted. Walls, ceilings, baseboards, window/door trims and doors. My sciatic nerves still are in recovery. I jokingly told The Mama that she still has not forgotten how to work her kids to death (I used to accuse her of this in childhood). We laughed, I silently suffered like a big whiner.

The painting turned out so well that on Thursday, The Mama now wanted to dress the windows! YIKES! Little does she know that I'm missing that gene, but off to the mall we go (45 mins away) to look at curtains and the assundry window accessories. Sweet mercy....save me someone! We end up with some curtains for her bedroom and the living room.....along with the "extras".....decorative rods, sheers, drapes, valances, scalloped tiers (I did learn something).

Thursday was basically spent putting up all the brackets, rods, thingamajigs, and doodads that keep the material in the windows.

Friday! Yea! I got The Mama to drive me to the local Harley store so that I could get my souvenier T-Shirts. I also got her to take me to Seneca Lake (the Finger Lake that is in the middle of town). It was a little chilly, but oh, the trees and Canadian Geese, wild flowers...can't see that in FL.

The Mama is kinda jaded to these things and found it hard to understand me just standing there and "staring", I wanted to burn as much of the beauty as possible into my mind.

Friday night, more time with the Bingo Junkies that look like my cousin, her partner and partner's sister. LOL......we had SO MUCH FUN!

Saturday morning, I woke up at 4am to get ready for the flight home. Went walking out on Mom's back deck in my usual morning getup....shorts, tank and barefeet.......OMG..WTF it's 45 degrees......ran back in like a big giant puss and put on some clothes.

The flight home, was actually one of the trips highlights. I was sitting on the 2 seat side of the plane (window seat). This Big RedHead sits next to me. We look at each other and start laughing! Holy Shit....I've found another long lost soul friend. We hit it off IMMEDIATELY and proceeded to belly laugh ALL THE WAY back to Tampa. We laughed about everything and nothing....so much so that we were annoying many fellow travelers (the couple in front of us pushed their seats back really hard into our knees). There were 3 women in the row behind us on the other side that kept wanting to come sit in her seat so that they could laugh too (loved them). The flight attendants thought we'd lost our minds, but the laughter kept them coming back and we got lots of tiny biscotti's and cokes (just what we needed...more sugar).

To sum all this up......I have not spent this much time with The Mama since I was a teenager.

How much you can miss in life if you don't tend to it. This will never happen again.

The drive to the airport was a long, cathartic "moment". Share love with everyone in your life....it's a real short visit.

That pretty much sews it up..............Peace, Love and Thanks to The Mama....

Finger Lakes, NY

So I'll try to break this past week down to fit in a nutshell. Prolly gonna be more like a coconut shell.

Sunday morning, after getting about 3 hrs of sleep (very anxious, sleep did not come easy) i wake up at 245am. I stumble about trying to fix the Good Morning Juice through some very reluctant eyeballs.

At 4am its off to the airport. I stand outside smoking a butt still trying to pull my wits together enough to get through the check in/security ordeal. All goes well, They didn't find anything over 3 liquid ounces that may make the plane explode so, on to the plane and off to the North.

After a brief stop in Atlanta, off to Rochester NY. When we land the pilot comes on the mic and says something that sounded like the Peanuts "waa whaaa waa whaaa, waa whaa". I turned to the woman next to me and ask, "what did he say?" She responds with it's clear and 58 degrees.
SWEET MERCY! 58 degrees and here I am in shorts and a short sleeve shirt. Thankfully I brought some leather.

So we all deplane and I'm walking through the airport and spot a guy that was on my flight....Dude, 'cuse me, where's the baggage claim? "Follow me, I'm going that way" Cool....a local. So we walk a short way and he points me down a corridor and says, just follow the signs and you're all set. OK, thanks man, but I've got one more question for you....where is the shuttle? He looked a little confused and asked me "what shuttle?" Why, the shuttle to the main terminal, says I. The guy started laughing and said, "Dude, there is not shuttle, this is the airport, we're not that big here". Oh, thanks for helping me out.

I stand outside looking like a kook with my white cargo shorts, sneakers and leather jacket on. Folks are driving by me staring, prolly thinking, he must not be from around here.

I'm waiting outside the terminal at the arriving flights curb waiting for the Mama to pick me up and my cell phone rings. "Dale, it's Mom....I'm here and don't see you...wave your arms." I do.
Again, more staring cause there's not another vehicle around. Turns out, Mom is waiting for me in the departing flights section......we laugh, I continue to wait and shiver while being looked at like I just came out of a manhole.

Mom finds me and we take the 'hella scenic' route back to Geneva. I keep asking whats up for the afternoon and dinner and she's just real vague....."we'll figure something out".

So we get to her new house and there are my cousins waiting in her backyard for me. The smiles were incredible to see. After a lot of hugs, tears I got the plan....they had planned a big ole BBQ in my honor (choke, sniff). I haven't seen some off my peeps in well over a decade. I 'remet' their kids, now grown adults and marveled at how much they'd all aged.

When I used to go see my cousins we'd always hang and then go out partying....now we did what they do now......yep....BINGO! Shhhh, If you tell anyone, I'll call ya a liar to your face!

More to come tomorrow, been a long day and need to keep the carpel tunnel at bay.