Bill and I were talking about all of the home invasions that have been occurring around our area and it is usually perpetrated on the elderly and single people, any household that appears to be an easy target. We have 2 dogs and it really doesn’t bother me that they bark when people go by that way at least it lets people know that we might have big old mean dogs and to stay away.
We do have hand guns and Bill just renewed his permit. I have always been very leery of guns and I do have a healthy respect for what they can do. I have often wondered if I could actually shoot someone and I really don’t have an answer for that question. I guess it would depend on the situation and how desperate I might feel. Bill just gave me a 25 automatic and I was holding it the other night to see how it feels.
I have on occasion wanted to shoot my pc, but not sure about a person. Bill told me he would take me to the shooting range and teach me how to shoot. I wouldn’t mind learning with something small like the 25 automatic. I would think that you just aim and fire, but I guess I would need to know where to aim. It would seem that I would have to be pretty close to someone with that to stop them.
When I was 17 my husband decided he would teach me to shoot a rifle and he totally lied to me and said it wouldn’t kick me. I was excited to learn, but I had no plans to ever go shoot anything like he did. He gave me a 12 gauge and showed me what to do and when I squeezed the trigger it almost took my shoulder off, the sorry creep. After that he bought me a 410, but by then I was done.
I hope it never comes down to me finding out if I would shoot someone and under what circumstances, but if it ever does I at least want to know what I’m doing.
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.
