ODDS AND ENDS

From banking to distraught weather woman, from reducing abortions to what is typical.

I've been busy for the past few weeks cataloging the photographs I have taken over the past decade. I am about halfway through. I'm thinking about setting up another blog to display the best of my photos. I have taken a WAG of their number(for the uninformed, that means Wild Assed Guess) of well over 8,000. Ninety-nine percent of them are of things in my back yard. So, my secret is out. I'm somewhat reclusive. I have three hundred photos of my wife and one of myself. The rest are of birds, bugs, lots and lots of squirrels, mushrooms, flowers and other things that wander into my world, including my neighbor's cat who keeps down the number of subjects I photograph. But, for that, he is a nice cat. and we are good buddies. Most of what I photograph is on his menu.

 Everyday, he interrupts my early morning walk and I have to stop and scratch him. I guess he's returning from his nightly carousing. He spends most of his days curled up in one of several spots in my back yard. At least he's not interrupting or disrupting my shooting sessions as my wife dose. I spend half an hour tracking down and setting up an interesting shot and she yells for me to come and empty the trash or some other dumb thing.

Anyway, I have let things pile up, things I wanted to pass on. So, instead of writing long dissertations, I'll simply leave some sites containing the info I want to pass on. Plus, it saves me from being guilty of plagiarism. I hope you find them as interesting as I did.

1. Weather woman having it her way, Or weather woman gone wild. Check it out. It's funny.

2. What is normal or typical? Watch this video. It's very interesting. Be warned, this video has a distracting advertisement attached to it, which I detest with vehemence.

Those guilty of this should have a sensitive part of their body clamped in a vise that automatically tightens each time someone views the stupid commercial. They entice you to their site only to insult your intelligence, which I have little of, and force you to view an advertisement you absolutely have no interest in. Sometimes, if I'm agitated enough, I quickly exit the site and try never to venture there again. I swear. The audacity some people have
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3. Free birth control items. Here's a good article that proves freely available birth control reduces the number of abortions. I'm for abortions and feel a woman has to right to decide what is best for her body. This is a subject religion has pushed beyond the limits of humanity. Sorry folks, but it's a fact.

Back before The Pill and during my age of ignorance, my first wife and I brought fourth five kids in rapid succession. In the first six years of our marriage, my poor wife only had one normal period. I was present to plant the seed. I witnessed a birth only once. Our youngest daughter was six months old when I first saw her. I was either coming or going. In our frenzy, we seldom took precautions.

Shortly after our last child was born, My wife had a gull bladder operation. Her doctor took advantage of the situation and tied her tubes at the same time. We had asked him previously if he would do it. At the time, the military would not allow it. I say again, Yes I'm for abortion and I'm all for woman's rights.

Join a credit union. If you are not doing your banking at a credit union, you should seriously consider it. I joined (that is what you do, you join with others and become part of the credit union) back when I was an innocent, naive, dumb hillbilly. That was last week. Actually, it was back in the late fifties. I needed some money a buddy informed me about the Navy Federal Credit Union. I joined and never for one minute regretted it. I have had business accounts with regular banks. Again, this was from ignorance. I did not realize I could have opened a business account with the CU.

I am no longer a dumb hillbilly, but I am still ignorant about many things. I am trying to correct that by cramming a lifetime of knowledge into my thick skull in the few remaining years before I take the eternal dirt nap.

That's it. I'm going to shut up now and go take some pictures. I'm shooting for 10,000 by the end of the year. Why? For the hell of it, Just because I'm retired doesn't mean I have no goals. Thanks and have a pleasant day, Ray