For example, when I can't find Buddy - he's "gone missin'." When I can't find my glasses - "gone missin'." When I can't remember what I am supposed to do next - "gone missin'' somewhere in the empty space created between my ears. This is really going to work for me.
What a super day! Sun is out, fluffy white clouds in the sky with no rain in the forecast. Temperatures are now in the mid-80s and one of the neighbors has mowed the ditch along the road (getting ready for all the summer tourists, who are about to descend on this little part of paradise).
Neighbors have decided to become "grannies with guns" and will be taking lessons next weekend. I suspect that following successful completion of the course they will join me in a government petition to make it legal to take shots at misbehaving "tourists." Just wishful thinking at this juncture, but it could happen. After the mailbox incident last weekend (mine in the ditch, next door in the ditch, next one twisted in place, and two doors after that ... well, let's just say "gone missin'") retribution will be required. Respect for other's property is one of the basic tenets of this nation.
Memorial Day Weekend is about to begin. The origins came about the time of the Civil War, when Southerners went to cemeteries and decorated the graves of the fallen soldiers (thus the term Decoration Day). After World War I, the government made it official and designated May 30 as Memorial Day. Today, so many forget what this day is supposed to represent and figure it is only a 3-day weekend to start the summer season of "tourist-hood." Let us remember.
"We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their cultures as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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