Top Ten Signs you NEED a New Dock

You know it’s time to replace that dock when…




1) If has so much shake and shimmy that you’ve nicknamed it Tina Turner.

2) Your neighbors have spotted it floating across the shore or down river.

3) It has acquired such a downward slope that the kids use it for a water slide.

4) There are so many green things growing on it, you can’t tell where the land ends and the dock begins.

5) Your brother-in-law used it for firewood the last time he was at the cabin.

6) The county sheriff has cited you for hazardous material in the water.

7) You have started to consider rust a beautiful color.

8) Your wife has started shopping for a dock.

9) You have to ask anyone who uses it if they’ve had a tetanus shot.

10) You need a buoy to mark its location.

One Thing To Change

What I would like to do today is challenge everyone here to help me, why help me well because I can't do it by myself.  what can't I do by myself, well I can't get five hundred people to comment on my blog.  I can't get a hundred actually I have never had more than three on one post.  What I want is to pose a question to all of you, name one thing in the U.S or in the world that you would change if you could.  Would it be world hunger, the political system, political unrest anything, anything at all. please comment and re post it on Facebook, Twitter, your blog or any place your friends may wish comment on this.  I will at the end of one month tally the results and post them in a new blog.  I would like to see where our greatest interests lie.

Think Free

I come from a land far far away it was called high school.  When I went to high it was cool to wear a polo under your dress shirt, to have a mullet and if you were a girl nothing was better than super high eighties hair.  strange language " gag me with a spoon".  our music, any where from Christopher Cross to Def Leopard. Some may say I pushed the boundaries of strangeness when I was in high school and they may be correct, but it helped me to become who I am today and let me be a free thinker.  I have a thirteen year old daughter who thinks it completely fashionable along with her friends to wear glasses that are non prescription not just single colored but blue and white zebra stripped.  Oh i almost forgot the Tutu, purple jeans, yellow Tutu, pink shirt, custom made florescent converse high tops and socks that never match.  The one thing I think we all need to do is let our kids be those free thinkers.  As you grow up people tell you, go to college, get married,have some kids and provide for your family don't screw around and don't have any fun.  look at where it has gotten us, we have fallen behind other countries in education.  The only thing we export now it seems our jobs.  We've stopped being creative, we think when you go to work it's only about being serious.  Why is that all of the best ideas we came up with as kids ( maybe not all ) were from being free thinkers.  Live outside the box not in the box.  When we go to work goofing off is not the option but  we should be able to have fun in the form of free thinking be creative in all that we do.  My close personal friend Napoleon said " live free or die" I think it should have been "free think or we all die"

One Gift

We all have been given one GREAT GIFT called Life. No I not getting religious, more I was thinking of it as a Gift given to us by our parents. What I would like this post to do is get my readers involved ( all 6 of you ) I would like replies that explain what you do to use that gift to it's fullest extent. If you have children how do you instill in them the ideals to use the gift you gave them. let's see if anyone "Can Hear Me Now".

Giver Or Taker

Are you a giver of a taker, now of course all of us are both but what is the split. Do we take only from our friends, family, work, religion and the government. let's first start with are friends, how many friends would stop what they are doing to help you or how many friends do you have that you would stop and help you? Do you give all the love and support you get from your family? Do you go to work for the money or to better your position or do you do it also for the change that can be made in the Businesses and lives of others you work for and with? Religion a tough one let's just say do practice what you preach or do you preach at all? Government this would be easy yes? We all give to he government ( money money and sometimes is seems like more money) but if we don't like the actions of the government do we just complain or do we try to affect change. Takers receive value in life from other around them, givers add value to the lives of those around them. Now I am not saying only to give because you would not have balance in your life. Just remember.

always do both always do both.

Names

Do you ever wonder where name abbreviations come from Susan to Sue, OK I get that one but James to Jim or my favorite Richard to Dick. How does Richard Become Dick by adding a D and a K. Well let me tell you the secrete, a bunch of Richards got together and said " let's make our name abbreviation Dick that will be funny". So guys with name Richard can go up to girls at parties and say " Hi my name is Richard but you can call me DICK" and then wink. You don't see woman going around saying " Hi my name is Pamela but you can call me P..... I think I should stop there. "There is a time and a place for everything" hope some day I can figure out where it all goes.

Merry Christmas

Tis the season, For those who read my blog, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. With that being said I have to come to believe that the holidays should NOT be about the presents, decorations, holiday socks and the Christmas goose. We all need to decide what part we want to play in the world today. It should be about what the one can do for the many not what the many can do for the one. "We can all change the world one person at a time" John Lennon said that I think. I wish that the coming year brings hope, joy and happiness to all.