this is how single women blodgers celebrate the 4th…

well today July 3rd starts the 12th year since I retired quit workng and became a man of no means…

looks like the comfort food is having its effect on the waist line only in the south…

Michigan (#10) beat out Georgia (#12) by 2 places, which I find it hard to believe…

eat hardy my friends…

The CalorieLab United States of Obesity Fattest States Ranking 2008

2007 Rank	2008 Rank	State	% Obese 2007	% Obese or Overweight 2007	3-year Obesity Average	% Obesity Change	Ranking Change
1	1	Mississippi	32.6	68.1	31.6	1.0	0
2	2	West Virginia	30.3	68.0	30.6	0.9	0
3	3	Alabama	30.9	66.6	30.1	0.7	0
4	4	Louisiana	30.7	65.2	29.5	1.3	0
5	5	South Carolina	29.0	65.3	29.2	1.3	0
6	6	Tennessee	30.7	67.4	29.0	1.2	0
7	7	Kentucky	28.7	69.1	28.4	1.0	0
9	8	Oklahoma	28.8	65.1	28.1	1.3	1
8		Arkansas	29.3	65.6	28.1	1.1	0
9	10	Michigan	28.2	64.3	27.7	0.9	-1

Article: Mississippi is the fattest state for 3rd straight year, Colorado still leanest, D.C. loses weight.

well come monday I will head back south and finally home on tuesday…

I see that some have made it to the BlownStar Blogmeet Down By The River or should be arriving today… I might have gone but I made my plans way back in Feb when I booked my flight before the fuel costs hit the price of tickets…

had fun with the boys even thought they are both a little hyper-active at times… wasted $30 bucks taking them to see Kung-Fu Panda, a new low in cartoon movie making…

we were going to go fishing but all the lakes around here have extremely high water levels and that makes the fishing suck…

it will be good to get back home and sleep in my own bed…

Well, I did get here even though my flight out of Houston was delayed for 2 hrs and 45 min because of the weather. The photo doesn’t show the rain blowing sideways across the windows. The storm had winds around 40 mph and the bad thing was all the luggage for the flight was not loaded and they left it sitting on the carts and needless to say my bag got soaked.


Here is the luggage carts empty of wet luggage….


Some parts of Houston didn’t get wet at all…


Waiting for my son-in-law to get the car for the ride north.


Over all the time spent in the air was with out any drama, just a smooth ride at 39,000 ft and looking down on the scattered clouds after we neared Oklahoma.

there are people who love their pets, many have cats but I am not a fan of cats in general…

just show me a cat who would do this…

The 12-year-old Omaha boy on Saturday afternoon took a step off the riverbank into the Platte River, yards from the family’s cabin near North Bend, Neb.

The Platte, swollen by recent rains, was deeper and faster-moving than Tony was expecting. As soon as he hit the water, he was in literally over his head.

Tony’s mother, Diane Bailey, estimated that the river was 7 to 8 feet deep at that point.

“Usually, when it’s dry, it’s up to your knees — or waist, at the highest,” where Tony walked in, Bailey said Monday. “He’s done it a thousand other times.”

Tony, who will be a seventh-grader at McMillan Magnet Center in the fall, tried to swim, but the current was too strong.

“I thought I was going to die because it was so deep,” he said.

Bailey, her two other children, and her brother and sister all were sitting at a picnic table about 20 feet from the water. But as Tony yelled for help, no one heard his cries — except Jake, the family’s 4-year-old black Labrador retriever.

The dog ran to the riverbank, jumped in and swam toward Tony.

The rest of the family ran to the riverbank, Bailey said, and watched as the dog, who weighs about 85 pounds, swam downstream of Tony, who weighs about 150 pounds, then paddled back upstream toward him. Tony then put his arms around the dog’s neck, and Jake pulled him toward shore.

give me a dog any day…

Omaha World-Herald