Eddy Arnold, who sang wonderful songs such as, “Make the World Go Away”, died this morning, days short of his 90th birthday. His wife of 66 years, Sally, had died in March, and in the same month, Arnold fell outside his home, injuring his hip.

He will be missed.

The world has lost a great voice….

the world is now off his shoulders.

OK, Now I know gas prices in other countries are much higher than ours has ever been. But, they are higher right now here than they have ever been and it’s hurting us bad. As results of the rise in prices of gas, food costs have risen along with everything else. Regardless, we’re hurting, the whole country is hurting, well except those whose pockets are getting fat off the high prices of gasoline.
Something needs to be done.
There have been lots of ideas as to what could be done such as gas tax holidays and drilling in ANWAR… however,
None of these things are the best thing for us…
Seriously,
This is a compilation of ideas David and I came up with to end the gas crisis.

Casting aside the environmental concerns, drilling in ANWAR is fine except it is not an immediate solution. It would takes years of exploration and tons of money to even get this started, not to mention the environmental implications and appeals and suits that would result. It could take decades to even see this happening. So it’s not viable.
However, if we open our oil reserves, I know I know, y’all are gonna start screaming we need those in case something happens, well guess what, something IS happening NOW…. IF we open up the oil reserves and STOP BUYING FOREIGN OIL, or at least tell them we will not pay over so much per barrel and not buy any until it happens then maybe we could relieve this situation…
in the mean time…
We should tax the oil and gas companies for all the profits, and I mean high taxes… we take that money and use part to pay off the deficit AND to push this country into finding a VIABLE (both environmentally and financially ) alternative to oil.

We have to do something and it’s high time this country sucked it up and got some freakin’ backbone and DID SOMETHING.

Friday was rainy/stormy with power flickers and all that fun stuff. Saturday began our Derby Day celebration party, which was fun allbeit subdued as we had our CCDW license class Sunday.

My horses came in second and third but celebration was shortlived with Eight Belles breaking down and having to be put down. Tragic…

Saturday night was the hot tub party, again fun. A late night we didn’t get to bed until after midnight.

Sunday we got up, got ready, grabbed our shooting gear and after a quick drivethru breakfast, headed off to class. Class was great, ok, well there were those two hours of the most boring films ever… They go through EVERY detail of the laws regarding CCDW, and of course it’s necessary, but still, they could have went about it better than having lame monotoned people reading off a paper. lol The fun parts were when they referred to using deadly force as “using the force” and of course we all cracked up and made star wars references.

Anyway the class was great, our gun dealer who was our instructor, keeps his classes small and we ended up with some people we see on a regular basis at his store so it was pretty relaxed. He had one couple cancel so it was just us and the other couple. So we watched films then went to lunch then went over all the other stuff like nomenclature, stance, grip, etc. Then we took our test, I missed two, simple mistake, one was confusing and the other I (in my omg I am taking a test fashion) marked the wrong box lol. Still I made a 92% which is well above passing. So then was the cleaning our firearms test which of course everyone passed cuz, well, we’re all gun people and know how to clean our guns. Then we went to the range to take the shooting part of the test. Which I have to say, was the first time I’d ever shot with other people shooting beside me at the same time. But I did ok. Everyone passed. We only had to hit 11 out of 20 shots and they just had to be in the black of the target. All my shoots were in the black so I was happy.
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So in the end everyone passed, now all we have to do is wait for all the paperwork etc to go through.

The day was pretty much shot (pun intended lol), we didn’t get back until 4 so we just haung out, ate dinner and then went to bed. David’s back at work.

Since the house is all decluttered and spring cleaning is officially over now I can focus on other things. Today outside of normal daily chores like laundry, wiping down counter tops etc, I’m gonna go out and weed my flower beds and plant my ranunculus. Although the grass still hasn’t dried so that will be later.

The weather is beautiful today so I can’t wait to get outside and get to work.

Well I have laundry to fold so off I go.

Y’all have a great day.

Life is Good.