MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION...................

From Kurt's www.culturaloffering.com

Sausage vs Bacon & Pizza vs Donuts........................

Choose the Best Breakfast Food by Men's Health

Click here to find out about eight other 

healthy breakfast food choices. 

Once upon a time, Blackberry................

From TIME IDEAS:

"Twitter’s rise is the natural result of the touchscreen’s triumph. It is hard, after all, to type anything longer than a tweet on an iPhone, and just about hard to type anything accurately, as acknowledged by those ubiquitous  “pardon my typos” disclaimers on email and the zealous autocorrect."

Click here to read the complete article: Once Upon a Time, We All Wanted a Blackberry. Remember?

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2013/10/01/once-upon-a-time-we-all-wanted-a-blackberry-remember/#ixzz2gf7ZjmHo

NOT A JOKE, JUST A REMINDER......................

Make sure to pass this along......................

Rules to always being a lady.............

Rules set by Kurt Harden for his daughters.

Monks win Appeals Court...casket manufacturing

Click here to check out a post from A Simple, Village Undertaker concerning the Monks winning their case in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

From the St. Joseph Abbey web site:

SAINT JOSEPH WOODWORKS
For more than 100 years, the abbey has maintained and cultivated an abiding spiritual presence in southern Louisiana that is manifested in our daily rhythms of prayer and witness through a life of simplicity. One physical symbol of the simple Benedictine life of prayer has been the pine caskets in which we monks are buried.
Over the years, the abbey has been asked to produce these caskets for individuals and has done so only on a very small scale and to select friends. Today, in an effort to support the needs of the abbey and to help maintain its communal life and apostolates, we are beginning to make available to the general public a line of cypress caskets under the name Saint Joseph Woodworks. We also hope that this enterprise will serve as a witness, to educate the greater community to the true meaning of death as taught by our Catholic faith.

Click here for Fox News "Benedictine Monks Sue Louisiana"
Click here for the Abbey's web site which is very nicely done and very interactive.

What to buy your favorite prisoner.............

Have a friend or relative serving time in an Ohio or Federal prison? Wondering what to do about a birthday/holiday gifts or just wanting to let them know your thinking of them being locked up? Click below for a detailed list and expense of what you have to choose from.

Federal Prison Commissary List

Ohio Prison Commissary List

With age comes happiness?????????

“Especially when we’re young, it’s really easy to look at older adults and see the loss: loss of youth, loss of mobility, loss of loved ones,” Sutin says. “We assume that all of that loss would make older adults unhappy. It’s harder to see the benefits of aging: feelings of pride for children and grandchildren, a meaningful career, more confidence, wisdom. There are a lot of reasons to be happy in older adulthood, but they may not be as visible as the losses.” When they are, however, it turns out that happiness is one of the benefits that come with age."


Stolen from Time.com, click here for the complete article.

Definition of a Hawaii Moment..........

Presidents Obama's defines what Rahm Emanuel meant by the President's first debate being a "Hawaii Moment":

"What he was probably referring to—he and I, when we were in the Oval Office sometimes and the banks looked like they were melting down and the Afghan war is raging and the auto industry is on the verge of collapse, and we’d sit here at the end of the day and we’d have little fantasies about us taking our families and just moving to Hawaii and opening up a T-shirt shack on the North Shore, and we’d just sell T-shirts and maybe smoothies and sit there and watch the waves. So that might have been the reference he was making."

More about this by clicking here from TIME.com









Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/20/obama-interview-his-disastrous-first-debate-was-a-hawaii-moment/#ixzz2FcaQif2e

Facing the obstacles...........................

Sean Carpenter's Carp's Corner blog post today reminds everyone to keep a balance in your work and personal life. Click here to read "It Starts with a Push"

Ten days to go.......................

Then back to wearing socks

& the Herringbone

Fall picnic dress...........................

During the next two to three Sundays it will be time to grab a box of pumpkin donuts and head out to Dawes Arboretum for a mid-afternoon picnic after visiting your favorite real estate agent's open house.

Click here to learn more from the The Art of Manliness.

Baby boomers like discounts...just not the senior discount!!!!!!!!

Ranch style homes in all price ranges and all school districts during the past eight years have become a commodity, values hurt, but not as bad as other home styles by the recession. Baby Boomers are moving, not necessarily downsizing. Active lifestyles with different instruments such as IRA, Roth IRA and 401k helped groomed the way for "older" living.

@TIME had an interesting article I found via Twitter:
Concerning Senior Discounts:
The senior members of the Baby Boom generation are turning 65 at a clip of roughly 10,000 per day. Even so, the generation famous for being at the center of the “youth culture” of the ’60s, doesn’t particularly like to think of itself as old. Senior citizens? According to boomers, the term refers to their parents, the World War II generation, not the folks who could have gone to Woodstock. So even though Baby Boomers love getting a deal as much as the next person, they hate the idea of getting a “senior discount”—which is tantamount to accepting the fact that they’re officially old.

Concerning housing:To varying degrees, age-appropriate updates are necessary should boomers want to stay safely in their homes as they get older. And yet, “Nobody wants their home to look like a hospital facility,” says Bill Millholland, an executive at the remodeling firm Case Design. This is especially the case for a generation that doesn’t like to think of itself as old, let alone aged and dying.

Click here to read the complete TIME Magazine article.

For women only.....................

Earlier this year I shot this photo in a small Italian walled hill town mid-morning on a Sunday. The reaction this photo has received from ladies one would think they had never seen a man before. With the boots, knee pads, all leather dress, they were not out for a Sunday ride on a Harley.

Morning #8

The photo above was sent to me by Sister Tina, the photo was taken June 29th after the storm showing the power outages after the storm.

Morning #8 is no different than yesterday, a little frustrating when the generator would not start easy for the brewing of morning coffee. I have really begun to respect the Amish, going Amish is not easy without a years notice. Rick Platt last night twitted me saying his calculations show we have now been out of power for 2% of this year. My car is officially fixed, my punctured radiator by a stick is now fixed.

Yesterday afternoon when the four large trucks and seven fellows from a southeaster Ohio showed up in my rear yard, I felt like a fifth grader looking at a Playboy for the first time. The guys and two bucket trucks installed several new poles, cut a bunch of limbs down between my neighbor's and my home, yelling commands to each other. Talked to several of them, very nice considering it was 101 degrees, they had been out since 7am.

The excitement ended at 5pm, when they went back to camp. One promising sign was they left behind a large truck and trailer with three more poles. As of this writing they are back at the home crawling on roofs. Not a worry, but I hope they remove the street light from my front yard, I am afraid it is killing the grass.

The other 1126, Andrew's has the same house number as we do now has power. Alabama Electric guys took care of his issue. Andrew was the one to follow the published notification, if you have a power line ripped from your home have an electrician reinstall the line on the home and call AEP. It worked. He said he had a good day yesterday: closing, power back on and an exciting baby doctor appointment.

This may be the last day of spending $35 per day on gasoline for the generator. I worry about all the people who do not have the advantages I have to maintain a household minimally during the power outage.

Morining #7 is no different

Morning #6 is no different. Yesterday brought some good news. Unlike most of my neighbors my roof made it through the storm with a two nail job. As I woke up this morning at 5am to start the generator so coffee could be made, I sat on the patio enjoying the 72 degrees and reflected on today and what it would bring. This is the first time this year I have sat on the patio without trying to catch my breath from working in the yard or on the house.

I can not believe how comfortable it makes me feel to find someone who does not have power yet. Now that we are down to 19% of Licking County, we are a minority. I hate it when people look at you and say "you poor thing" with regards to not having power. This kind of goes with the salutation of "Hey Girl".

Steve Layman asked me this morning what lessons I have to share from the past week. My main thought is never post a photo of a Amish Buggy on your blog as I did on June 29th. Click here to see what brought the storm curse upon me.

Photo above is my third grade school picture.

Going Amish

This hat was made by Mrs. Zimmerman in Knox County, Ohio. Her husband has a wonderful workshop building large custom staircases powered by a diesel driven drive shaft operating all his equipment by leather belts. Frank Frye has the same hat.

Rick Platt comented via Twitter he did not mind going Amish this week until his neighbors had electric and he does not. I feel the same way now.

Yesterday I said to Mrs. Guanciale that it was not bad Going Amish, making sure their is gas in the generator, using hand tools to install a new mailbox, using more brawn & brains than power etc, all she did was dropped her jaw and said "oh no".

Please do not think I feel ill towards the Amish, their faith or lifestyle. But I must admit my similar style of living during the past couple of days has made me appreciate the basics and what can be done with less.

Lucy 1998-2012

Lucy "The Fire Dog" passed away yesterday, after battling old age for the past week, in fact 15 days after her 14th birthday.

Amazing personality, loved to be around anyone. Early on in life, her first job was to listen for the fire tone of the Newark Fire Department. She would hear the tones before I could, during the day she would quickly sit up and stare, during the night she would jump onto my chest to make sure I would wake up. For eight years she traveled to night time fires, often beating me to the garage door. At intersections on the way, she would hear the truck's sirens and would spin around standing on the console box to see them whiz by us. After the initial knock-down of a fire, I would have to move the car closer so she could see all the action. It was not uncommon to see firefighters in full gear rolling around with her on the ground, stopping on the way to their truck and look in the car to pet her. Her largest fire duration was eleven hours, downtown Newark, Ohio on South 3rd Street known as the "Arwebb Fire". During her senior years she would wake up to the tone, elect not to ride along but wait up for me to come home. Her attendance of fires was recognized several times by the media.

Great enjoyment was what she brought to Carol and I and she was very deserving of being pampered like a lady should be.

The three bells have rung and she has been called back to quarters.

Johnny Carson cause toilet paper shortage..........

The best over-the-counter meds for men.........

From www.menshealth.com
THERE'S SAFETY IN THE PRESCRIPTION PAD—doctor's orders remove all doubt about which pill to pop. But without the chicken scratch on that scrip to guide you, do you know which meds are best? More than 100,000 are available over the counter and contain over 1,000 active ingredients—which you probably ignore. In fact, a new Northwestern University study reveals that 59 percent of people don't always check the contents of their OTC drugs. "Most people shop by symptom, not ingredient," says study author Michael Wolf, Ph.D., M.P.H.

It's time to stop buying blind. We interviewed the experts, decoded the labels, and removed the child-safety caps, all to create this guide to the best over-the-counter remedies for men.

Check out all 20 of the best over-the-counter meds for men by clicking here.