I received an e-mail from Trader’s Hub this morning letting me know his contest was over and he would be drawing the winners within 48 hours he also informed me that my top commenter for the month of June is also entitled to 10 entries to a separate raffle and may win 10,000 EC credits so I went through my comments for last month and counted them and the winner was Lin from Duck And Wheel With String, she and Jan from Better Spines were close so I thought I would thank you both with link love just for being so nice.

For those that are involved with Entrecard I’m sure some of you will like the change that they are planning to their system and others of course will balk. The email said they anticipate those that are power droppers will be yelling the most because they will now have to interact before they get credit. Does it really matter? If people are interested in something they will react.

I don’t want anyone to feel like they have to leave me a comment or do anything when they stop by my blog. I certainly don’t want a lot of insincere gibberish that I have to sift through. I appreciate the traffic and my Alexa makes note of it. I personally have met a lot of nice bloggers through Entrecard, but I certainly don’t want to feel like I have to leave a comment every time I visit.

I usually go with the flow so it really doesn’t matter, but when and if a program gets too stupid and doesn’t make sense to me anymore then I just leave. So far Entrecard hasn’t reached that plateau for me even though they have done some pretty stupid things in the past I still find them useful and I’m grateful for the traffic whether anyone interacts with me or not so thanks for your visit.

I see a lot of unions between American men and Filipino women in my daily blog hopping and that got me to thinking. I found it strange that the first question in my mind was, “What in the world is wrong with Filipino men that so many Pinays prefer Americans?” I thought about that for a minute and realized I could very easily turn that around and ask, ” What in the world is wrong with American women that American men prefer someone from a foreign country?” So I Googled to see what would come up.

I found many interesting, enlightening articles at Helium. At least now my curiosity is satisfied and I can go back to not wondering about who marries who and for what reasons. I do feel the urge to apologize however to Filipino men for thinking there must be something wrong with you all before I even thought about other reasons for all those marriages, shame on me. Of course I didn’t have to tell you that was my first thought, but since I did I apologize.

I enjoy reading about other people’s lives and I appreciate all the bloggers that so willingly share their emotions and life with the rest of us. We all blog for various reasons and for me it’s because it’s a great release to put my feelings down. I never really kept a journal or diary on a regular basis, but I had a calendar book that I would make small entries in and I love going back and rereading them and I do the same with this blog, it sometimes helps me.

I like sharing my life even if no one reads it, but me. It’s there for my family and friends if they want to know what’s going on with me and my state of mind at any given time. The activities in our life usually revolve around the weekends and we love to ride down to the river and watch the water and boats, it’s very relaxing. Children and families are all over the place fishing and having picnics, simply enjoying life and the surroundings, it’s a great way to unwind and appreciate nature and life.

As you know our lifestyle involves motorcycles and weekends are our time. We spend a lot of it going to swap meets and activities that involve motorcycle events. We’re always looking for something for the bike. It’s hard to find accessories for the trike and we wanted a bumper for it and one guy that builds the Champion trikes wanted 800 dollars for one because he fabricates them as needed, we decided we didn’t need one that bad.

Bill’s son is a welder and he decided he would make one for him so he took the dimensions needed and made us a small one which looks great and will look even better when we get it chromed. It didn’t need to be fancy and we are quite pleased with the way it turned out. I think we found a place around here that will chrome it so we don’t have to send it off and wait 6 weeks. Gettysburg bike week is coming up and I’d like to get feathers painted on the two back bumpers or small dream catchers.

Thanks for stopping by and sharing a part of my life.

I think the death of Elvis probably shocked me more than any because of how we all felt about him and I never thought of him as ever dying. Regardless of how people thought of Jackson’s personal life and sometimes bizarre behavior it still came as a shock because it was unexpected. I watched the 20/20 special last night and actually felt sorry for him and the life he had led even though it was a privileged life he was pitiful. His music will live on and just like Elvis no one will ever take his place, he was unique.

Celebrities like David Carradine that die under bizarre conditions do tend to shock and even appall some and leave you shaking your head thinking what in the hell were they thinking and at his age. I sure would hate to be remembered for some weird sexual act instead of the creativity and art that I had been involved with. Other actors and celebrities that have been killed by someone elses’ hand also shock us like John Lennon, Sal Mineo, Sharon Tate, George Reeves, Selena, Bob Crane, and many others.

We certainly don’t understand when celebrities commit suicide when they presumably have it all like Freddie Prinze, Marilyn Monroe, Allan Ladd, Nick Adams, Dave Garroway, Virginia Woolf, and even Sigmund Freud. These are only a few of a very long list and I wont even list those killed in plane crashes and other types of wrecks that have seemed so unreal and shocked us equally. The attempted suicides by celebrities is also staggering, I just don’t understand.

Ordinary people die all the time and they are just as important, but for some reason we are more upset and identify when it’s a celebrity because for some reason we feel like they belong to us just like family. Of course the media always milks it for all it’s worth depending on how popular they were. I’m saddened by Michael’s passing and feel very sorry for those he left behind and their grief. I am grateful that we all got to experience his talent and that will live forever for generations to come, have a peaceful weekend and enjoy what comes your way.

It was reported that this 54 year old man shared an apartment with his 49 year old sister and she was mentally challenged, but she worked at the York hospital in the food department and was very dependable, never missed a day since 2001 and was very friendly and outgoing. No one really knows why he did this, but noticed he had been depressed and unemployment was running out and he couldn’t find another job. He had been taking care of his sister for several years and maybe he thought she would be lost without him.

So tragic when we hear about these types of events, but this man had no right to end her life just because he was miserable. Stupid people, but it seems to be happening more and more some taking out their whole families, kids and all. It’s just not right for someone else to choose if you have the right to experience life or not. No wonder things don’t make sense to me sometimes. If someone is crazy enough to want to end their life then more power to them, but leave every frickin body else alone.

The photo’s below were taken in front of the chapel and the fountain in the center of these 3 buildings where all the children would gather for sunrise services. I have many good memories of this place and shared them with Bill. Most of the grounds are now occupied with commercial businesses and it was sad to see my home of 4 years closed down, they helped many children over the years and I’m grateful that I was one of them.

No matter where we are we always have to find the local Harley Davidson store and buy a few t-shirts Bill has quite a collection. Below is Thunder Creek in Chattanooga. I of course had to take him to visit the Chattanooga Choo Choo and then we headed to Lookout Mtn. and I made him ride the Incline Railway which he hated, there’s a view from the top. I lived and worked at the base of this for several years. I have to go now, but thanks for visiting with me.

I’m always amazed when I wake up and see that I’m still in the same body with the same familiar surroundings. Everyone seeks for the purpose and meaning of their life, many fulfill themselves through religion and God, others find truth in helping their fellow man and the reality of the earth they see before them by striving to save the planet. Many just seem to drift seeking, but never really finding, flitting from one illusion to another.

I think it’s great that each day brings choices and decisions that we must make that will affect our future life and even those around us. We have the power to make anything possible when we believe and what happens when we no longer believe or have hope of effecting a positive change? I don’t think I would ever commit suicide because I don’t understand the concept of ending it all, I don’t think anything is ever ended, I think that source of energy simply returns to the original source and is recycled into another channel.

Today I don’t know what I think or feel or even believe so I feel like I’m in limbo and I don’t like it, perhaps tomorrow I’ll snap out of it.

I was so happy to find the wordpress automatic upgrade plugin because no way can I do that manually so I depend on Bluehost when I need to upgrade, but their program never has the latest upgrades so I’m always behind. I upgraded with that plugin on my other blog and it was easy it disables your plugins makes a backup and then reactivates the plugins. You need to check to make sure your plugins are compatible first though.

I didn’t check beforehand and had a problem with one of my plugins so I simply went in with my FTP and deleted the culprit and then I was able to get my blog back straight away. I really like this WP plugin and it would be nice if all of the plugins that I like would get updated to work with the new release. I’m not sure that I really like the 2.8 so I didn’t upgrade this one yet, looks like they almost have a new release ready so I’ll wait for that one.

Well, that’s all I have for this day so I hope everyone has a great weekend, since we are expecting rain storms tomorrow I will probably spend some time online. I really need to change a lot of things on some of my websites and get them condensed and moved to my main one because I plan on dropping 3 domains and moving 1 to this webhosting plan so I’ll have everything in one place, too much to keep up with now and boring.

They made the best house dressing around and everyone referred to it as the Greek dressing. People would actually ask to buy it because you couldn’t buy it in stores at that time. The owners kept the recipe a secret and only one of them would make it in a big batch at night when the restaurant closed. I found out later that the recipe belonged to Mr. Mallas’s son-in-laws’ family and he of course shared it with his new in-laws. It’s my favorite dressing and I was delighted when the owners of the recipe decided to start bottling it.

At first it was only sold in PA, but now they have branched out to other states, I’m not sure which ones though. If you’re lucky enough to live in one of the states that supply it I totally recommend it. I use it to marinate chicken and steak and have used it in many other dishes. I was going through my fridge and pulled out all the dressings I have at the moment which happen to be only 4. Bill loves the red wine and could drink it from the bottle, but he also likes mine.

Mine of course is the Gazebo which I love and am addicted to which actually tastes better when made fresh, but this is excellent. I use the Ranch only when I eat hotwings and sad to say the Italian was bought by my Son 4 years ago before they moved away and I just can’t bare to throw it out yet. I go through the freezer occasionally to straighten it up and throw away outdated food and I always run across the frozen vegetables that he made me take also when they left, I’ll pitch them someday, but not yet.

I was curious, how many bottles of salad dressing do you have in your fridge?