Do you remember Lifestyles Of The Rich and Famous? I always watched that show because I loved seeing all the exotic locations around the world and the beautiful locations that the ultra rich spent their vacations. It doesn’t hurt to dream about taking those luxury skiing holidays to Courchevel, France or St Anton, Austria and staying in one of those luxury ski chalets kicking back by the fireplace drinking wine and hot chocolate, of course not together.
Luxury chalet meribel
is actually called Chalet Cardamines and it’s located in Meribel, France and the photos make the place look so cosy and inviting. I’m not an avid skier like many of my friends because my bones are getting too old, but I could certainly enjoy relaxing in these surroundings and pretending like I was. I can’t wait till Bill retires and we can do some traveling. Our travels may not be as luxurious as The Rich and Famous, but at some of these prices we may be able to make some fantastic memories.
I have often wondered what amenities I simply couldn’t live without and I have come up with toilet paper and my inside bathroom, but of course you have to have inside plumbing water to flush it down plus the system to carry all that crap to some place that we don’t have to mess with it. Can you possibly imagine the horrible mess we would have to contend with if we didn’t have a sewer system? That whole system is brilliant.
I remember the out houses of old, but I’m sure many of you have no clue even though you’ve probably used a jiffy john before. It’s no fun traipsing through the cold and literally freezing your butt off just to take care of business. Maybe you have gone camping and roughed it a couple days, but I bet you had toilet paper with you. Whoever thought up toilet paper was a genius.
There are many things that make our life so much easier and I’m very grateful for each and every one of them, but toilet paper is unique. You can do a search and find out all kinds of trivia and facts about toilet paper. I found some of it interesting reading and I’ll be forever grateful to Joseph C. Gayetty of New York for producing the first packaged toilet paper in the U.S. in 1857, brilliant man.
Bill wants me to try and find some of his Vietnam buddies and the best way to do that is with the Internet so this is the first post. I need to get all of the information about his division which I don’t have yet so I thought I’d start off with a story Bill told me about a little spider monkey that he and his buddies made friends with and took care of for a couple of months. The stories he tells are funny, but the end of Herman was sad and tragic.
We have pictures of Herman some where, but I can’t find them right now. My aunt had spider monkey’s and they were meaner than sh*t so I’m not very fond of that type, but Bill said Herman was cool. They would give Herman a stick of gum and crack up with the way he took it out of the wrapper after they showed him the first time and stick it in his mouth and chew it up. The way Bill tells a story I can actually see everything just like I was there.
Apparently Bill’s Sergeant had the only dog around that area and he was very protective, but Herman took a liking to the dog and he would lift up the dogs tale and get very excited and if you’ve ever been to the zoo and watched monkeys you know the kind of antics they get up to, anyways Herman liked to do that and would literally spank the monkey. He would also jump on the dogs back and try to do other romantic things, every time Bill tells me about Herman I crack up.
Bill and his guys were sent out on patrol and while they were gone Herman decided he was going to mess around with the Sergeant’s dog well needless to say the Sergeant wasn’t happy with this situation so with no one to protect Herman the Sergeant shot him and told Bill and the rest of the guys that he had rabies and had to put him down. Apparently he didn’t like Herman on the back of his dog trying to get romantic while the dog was running all over the compound trying to buck him off.
I feel bad for Herman and Bill because he still talks about the little guy and has a lot of fond memories. Poor little Herman was just horny he didn’t have rabies and that was a tragic end even if I don’t like spider monkeys I would never have done that.
I trust we all survived the fireworks and celebrations with family and friends. I must say our weekend was good despite the rain and we saw the fireworks even though it was overcast, but they weren’t as good as the past years. It sounded like a big block party around here. The whole neighborhood was doing their own backyard celebrating and everyone had their own fireworks displays. Lots of noise and thank God no one complained of any backfires or injuries at least where I live.
Every time we rode the bike this weekend we ended up in the rain and it doesn’t feel very good when those rain drops pelt you. Not my favorite type of weather for riding. I have managed to get almost 300 miles on my scooter so it’s soon time to take it in for it’s checkup. We found 2 rebels this weekend, but apparently they are snapped up pretty quick because they are great starter bikes. I know I’ll find one soon because I want one.
Nate actually got on Pappy’s Harley for the first time and let Pappy take him up the drive. He has always been afraid of the noise, so this was a milestone for both of them, Jodie got a picture so I’ll be sure to post it when I get a copy. Little guy bowed his little head though so he wasn’t really looking at anything as they passed. I’m quite sure he was saying a prayer because he does that a lot. Nate tends to be afraid of a lot of things, but he’s trying to be more adventuress.
We took him to the carnival a year ago and spent 20 dollars for a ride bracelet and he wouldn’t get on any rides, but his little girl cousin wanted to ride everything so at least her bracelet wasn’t a waste. We also found out that he refuses to pee outside even if he is hidden behind a big truck. That doesn’t usually deter most little boys they seem to whip it out any where, but not Nate. Pappy had to walk a mile with Nate to the public bathroom just so the little guy could pee.
Nate’s baby sister is due the 19th of August even though he decided he wanted a brother at first because as he said he has so much stuff a little brother could use he is now accepting the fact that it will be a female. He is pretty excited about all the stuff he is going to teach her and I think he will make an excellent big brother. He’s a very funny child and he’s so smart and cautious for a 6 year old. Okay enough about the Grandson I need to go heat up the leftovers.
I have to admit that I am more comfortable on this blog than the other two that I write for, this one is really me. It’s more my speed and if I knew how I could combine the two with this one I would. It would be so much easier for this mature lady. Today is Friday the 4th and Bill was off yesterday until Monday so we’ve been kicking back.
Yesterday we rode to Chambersburg and came back through Gettysburg, “Big Mistake” the town was packed and I didn’t have my camera with me to take pictures of all the soldiers and ladies in their Civil War garb. They are doing the reenactment this weekend and we forgot how crowded it is with tourist during this time. All that idling isn’t good for the bike. They expect between 30 to 40,000 tourist this weekend.
It’s rainy this morning, but I’m hoping for some clearer weather especially for the fireworks tonight. Bill and my furry son hate fireworks, but I love them and they don’t bother Sadie either so we watch them together. All the boom boom booms remind Bill of his time in Vietnam which I can certainly understand so he’s not a big fan. We were somewhere last year for a celebration and they shot a cannon and he almost jumped out of his skin.
Well, Bill has breakfast cooked and that bacon smells good so I have to go so we can start our day. I did some EC’s earlier and maybe I’ll have time for more later, but I wont hold my breath. Have a great and safe July 4th everybody.
