It Is Your Business

When you have a cow that is always attacking the herd or causing other problems you cut it from the herd and turn it into freezer beef.

When you have a chicken who is always attacking the rest of the flock you invite it in for dinner.

When a dog or cat attacks and bites other dogs and cats or worse yet people you have it put to sleep.

It's not an automatic response though. Normally you try your best to correct the behavior first.

It's no different for people.

When someone or some animal commits crimes against the society they live in we take them from that society by locking them up. We try and offer ways towards correcting whatever it is they do which brings that society down or hurts it.

If that doesn't work we either lock them away from society for the remainder of their life or we bring their life to an early end.

There are times too when whatever they have done is so detrimental to society that we skip the trying to correct them.

Why some creatures or humans go bad is a question that may never be answered. There could be many partial answers. Each may have a different reason. A different set of circumstances that brought them to where they are or how they think.

But we can't allow them to go on doing more damage to society.

With the outbreak of murders that make no sense and the rash of masses of people being murdered by people who seem to have lost their mind, my heart is breaking.

I'm being saddened by this so much it makes my personal problems seem like absolutely nothing.

Then I hear someone say “it's none of my business so I don't let it bother me.”

Uhh, excuse me. None of your business...

Don't we all live in this society? Are we all not a part of this society?

It's the business of each and every one of us! We all make up the society we live in around this entire globe. What goes on while we are here is the business of all of us.

Perhaps if all of us quit saying it's none of our business we could begin to make a change for the better.

When we see someone being bullied it's our society that's being bullied. That makes it our business. When we see a woman being abused it's abusing our society. That makes it our business. When we see a child being abused or even taught bad things it's happening to our society. That makes it our business. When we hear of a inhumane leader in a far off country doing wrong to his people it's doing wrong to our society. That makes even that our business.

When we say it's none of our business we are saying it's alright for our society to be brought down. What happens anywhere in our world is our business and we should make it our business to attempt to correct the situation.

Just my thoughts...

Life Goes On

Drug my tired rear out of bed yesterday morning, fed the dogs and left them out to the yard for the day and then proceeded to tear the mattress and box springs apart and moved them to another room.

WOW!

Now I don't tend to move the bed to clean because of it's size and the fact that I'm just a lazy guy. So it hasn't been moved or torn down for a few years. I wasn't ready for the layer of dust that had accumulated under the bed. Nor the dog hair and various pieces of paper and dinosaur sized dust bunnies that were hiding there.

I vacuumed three times to get all the dust out of the carpet.

The new mattress and box springs came during the afternoon. Well the new box springs is about three inches thicker than the old one. The delivery guys couldn't get it up the stairs. So I had to take the railing down from the stairs to get it up.

With the railing back in place it was time to put the cover and then the sheets on the new bed. Gotta say, I could hear it calling me the rest of the afternoon and during the evening.

What a difference!

I slept like a baby last night. I don't recall waking up from back pain during the night at all. I also felt really refreshed when I did wake up early this morning.

Rowdy wasn't to sure about the new bed. It sets higher than the old one did and instead of jumping up he hid under the bed. After a while though he finally scaled the new heights and joined me for a great nights sleep. I was really hoping he wouldn't though... Guess the retraining to stay off the bed has to start.

In about two weeks, two new chairs for the living room will be here. It dawned on me that since I'll be watching the grandkids I should probably pick up some throw covers for the new recliners before they get here. That just might possibly keep the new looking new a bit longer. Kids do have a way of spilling stuff and carrying stain inducing dirt. Of course so can older son's...

Seems though that after twenty three years he's finally getting the point that dirty shoes come off before walking through my house. Shame I had to make him move out to the apartment over the equipment shed before he finally got that...

So life is moving on. It's a bit of a shame I don't have someone to share it all with, but life goes on.

Get Happy

The choice is yours to make.

When life seems to keep handing you bad things or your surrounded by people who seem to always be doing you wrong it's totally up to you what you do with the feelings your left dwelling with.

You can let the bad make you or let the bad show you what you don't want to be.

You can have any kind of thoughts, but you are in control of your own actions.

One way to start on your journey out of bad ideas and thoughts is by doing good or nice little things for others.

It makes you feel good. When you feel good you begin to have good thoughts. Each good thought pushes the bad thoughts further away from your mind.

When you do good for others they smile and tend to like you. Your making better friends.

You can try helping neighbors. Try helping people you see who need help in stores. Try volunteering. Even a simple shared smile can start you on your journey to being a happier person. There are many very lonely people out there who would cherish a few words shared in passing.

The trip out of your own sadness can simply start with you attempting to make others happy.

Happy is contagious.

Helping Others To Change

Life gets better when you turn to making it better with attitude and perseverance...

You can try and help someone do something to better their life, but you can't make them do it. The choice has to be theirs.

Maybe they have even made the choice to do something, but later decided to change their mind. You may have even invested a lot of yourself and even invested some cash to help them make a change. Went out of your way to try and help them. But once again if they have changed their mind all you can do is walk away and let them live with their decision. Even if it hurts.

Should they change their mind again and decide they want your help once more, the decision will be up to you to help them or not.

Depending on the situation that could be a hard choice for you.

Choice

Wow did I do some damage to my back last Monday when I had to crawl under the mowditioner to work on it and fix it.

I've been in bad pain ever since. Some mornings I'm having trouble getting out of bed. It hurts like mad just to try and stand.

But I'm persistent! Or is that hard headed...

I've caught up on all the lite work I had to do and even have the book work caught up. Now what will I do to keep my goofy mind occupied...

I kinda knew that once I was done fixing that darned machine that I should have quit for the day and rested my back. But no...

I knew that my back was hurting and bouncing around more by being in the field I would do more damage. But did I listen...

I made the choice to climb back up on the tractor and finish that field...

So it was my choice and I made the wrong one.

In my mind there was the idea that the field needed finished. I couldn't be satisfied to wait one more day. I couldn't be patient.

So as a result the field may be finished but so am I.

Now all I can do is wait for my back to heal once again. Now even more work needs to wait for me. No progress will be made until I do heal.

Not really a great choice was it...

Seems everyone makes bad choices from time to time. Yup, even especially me.

This choice can't be changed. What happened has happened and it's way to late. All that can be done is wait for the healing. Then life can get back on track. I can learn from this one for next time.

Some choices can be changed as soon as you want them to. Some don't have lasting consequences. Sometimes all you have to do is change your mind. Times all you have to do is apologize and ask for forgiveness. Sometimes...

Repairs

Well things are slowly getting back to normal.

Picked up the part for the mower and got it fixed once again. Got the mowing caught up but it's time to start all over again. We've had lots of rain and the lawn just keeps on growing. By the time I finally finished what was started before the mower broke down again it was really time to start again... Imagine that!

Finally got the part back for the main tractor and got it installed. That allowed me to get back into the field I started mowing before it broke down and finish it. Now only four more fields to mow off. I've lost a lot of the first crop of hay because of that breakdown, but with all the rain we're having there is a good chance for a great second crop.

The electric wiring to all the outbuildings is now all finished. Yay! I can use my woodshop on rainy days again!!! To me that's a huge blessing. When I spend time there I get things built and it keeps my mind occupied with good thoughts. Busy hands keeps the mind from dwelling on bad stuff.

I'm eating fresh tomatoes from the weed patch of a garden, so not all is totally lost there. I even took some homemade garlic bread and brushed it with extra virgin olive oil, laid on some sliced tomatoes, put on some fresh chopped up basil and parsley, then sprinkled on some parmesan cheese and put it under the broiler for a few minutes until the cheese was melted and browned. Had that for breakfast one day this week!!!

Might have that for dinner tonight too...

With the help of my son we finally got the transmission out of the truck. Not sure if it's going to be an easy fix or if I will look for another transmission. The input shaft broke off and we're still trying to determine if that caused any problem deeper inside the gears.

With any luck (which is in dire shortage here this year) the truck will be back on the road soon.

The son started a new job. He's not totally thrilled with it or so he says. But like I said to him, it's steady income. That will help him pay his bills so I don't have to help with that. And just maybe he can start paying me back...

Speaking of back. I took mine out again but only for a day. When I was in the field mowing the bolts that held the cutter bar gave me problems. One must of got loose and worked out which caused the other to shear off. Well when I had to lay on the ground to reach the area to fix it my back said enough. By the time I was finished I had a lot of trouble standing back up. But I managed to get up, climb back on the tractor and finish the project. Luckily by the time I was done my daughter showed up. So I sent her to the house to get my second cane so I could walk back to the house. Life with a truly messed up back stinks! You can just never be sure when it's going to go out and leave you stuck...

I've been checking out back braces and I guess it's time to get serious and get one. I hesitated all these years because of an old passed friend who broke his back and had to wear one. When he had to wear his, his muscles got weaker which gave him even more back problems. Seems wearing one can do that... So I guess when I finally get one I'll only wear it when doing things that I know are stressful to my back.

Just wish I knew the best back brace to buy...

I'd still rather crawl in a cave and hide until this year is over but as we all know that is not an option. So I'm doing my best to keep hanging on to that rope of hope.

Bad times do come into a life, but better times always follow. Ya just have to keep at it until the luck changes.

So on to more fix ups for the weekend. Yup, there is always something to do!!!

What's Next

I just thought this was hilarious.

I've been talked to, talked at, growled at, scolded, chewed out, yelled at and cussed out.

I've been hit, kicked, punched, sucker punched, beaten and forgotten.

Been stepped on, pushed, shoved, been left stuck in the mud.

I've been ill, been sick, have bled and been broken.

Had a tree fall on me out in the woods.

Rolled and tumbled down a hill with a half ton of motor cycle in hot pursuit.

Been in wrecks no one should have walked away from.

Fell from roofs and walked away.

I've been lied to, lied at, lied about and left down.

I've lent and not been repaid, been robbed, swindled and conned.

Been ignored, dejected, heartbroken and left alone to sigh in the darkness.

Had some good times and way to many bad times, ups and downs to rival any roller-coaster ride.

Had dreams crushed, been confused, been told I'm full of crap.

Been loved then dropped like a pile of hot rocks and never found a love that would last.

Now after all this you'd think a person has nothing to live for.

No hope, no reason to carry on and see another day.

But in this goofy mind there lies one reason.

I just wanna hang around to see what the heck comes next!