Sunday, Again?

Spent a lot of last week painting and between the painting and recuperating, the week just flashed by.  Seems like just yesterday it was Sunday and here it is again.  Remember when you wished days of your life away as a kid?  For me, working hard does that.  Throw in a good book now and then and time flies by.

Seems like the Supreme Court stood up and told the President he did something he shouldn't.  9-0 on his appointments when the congress was not in session.  Now if the courts will just stand up and tell congress to get their act together.  One of these days there will not be enough money in the world to let us do whatever they want and the act of passing new legislation without paying for what is out there will be found illegal.   I just heard that we are going to give 500 million dollars to another rebel group in Syria.  Screw them, lets fund some good news right here at home.  Put that money in educational grants and help our poor get an education.  Provide jobs in the inner cities and on the reservations (Casino's excluded) and see if we just can't be a better place.

Yesterday both sides of my past life came together.  I was in the Guard for over 25 years and have about 4 years of Barbershop Chorus singing.  My good friend Wayne Cline and his wife had their 60th Anniversary at the Museum and because Wayne was also a Colonel in the Guard and a Barbershopper, many of the guests were also friends of mine.  I got to see people that I had not seen in years and it was such a great time.  We sang to the Clines and even had a nephew of theirs from the Kansas City Heart Of America Chorus sing with us.  It was a great day and one I will treasure for a long time.

The only sad note was that one old friend of mine is down that road of dementia that he didn't remember the good times I mentioned to him and his wife.  He looked blankly and said he didn't recognize who I was.   I noticed several times that he was staring at me during the festivities and he was trying to put me and his life together out there in the past.  He was a General Officer that said good things to George Parker about my abilities and then when I was the S-3 of a Battalion helped the General decide to give me the 1-127th FA.  I guess we are all getting old(er) and life is moving on.

One of the younger friends of mine on Facebook posted that they were starting working down their Bucket List hard.  I have started putting things on my "Not to Do Again," list.  Things like roller skating and falling down on a hard wood floor is just done, over, won't do it again.  At one time there was a lot of world wide travel that I wanted to do.  Now I want to just finish seeing as many of the National parks right here at home.  Zion, Bryce Canyon, North Rim of the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone were on that list to see and now I have been there, done that.  Yosemite, Chaco Canyon, Death Valley are still on the list waiting.  I am not sure how I am going to make those places happen if Barb won't go with me on trips to high places.  I guess I will just have to take her to visit her Dad and go without her.   

Better get on with the day, Smiles to go before I sleep.

MUD