With all the crap on the internet a person wonders, just what can I use and what do I want to avoid. We always wonder how safe we are and whether we are going to get something started that we wish we hadn't.
Anyway...........I hope that this blog is something that someone may find interesting.


I would like to be able to use this blog to publish parts of my life and what's going on, but am finding it rather difficult. It is not working the way I think it should. I would like to invite friends to join me or follow the blog but it is not a simple thing to navigate.
I want to post a few items from my desk.

First I want to talk about a pending trip across the country and back this September and October.
Let's get started..
The first leg of the journey takes my Brother George and I across the Northern states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
Hopefully this link will bring up a map.
http://goo.gl/maps/OvzgJ

This little beauty will be carrying us to Oregon and then taking me to California and back to Illinois via old route 66 or as much of 66 as we can still drive on.

Don't play that song again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTsc13YAwE8

couple of good old boys last November.

Don't like Windows 7

Windows 7 is not working for me as well as XP. I didn't like Vista either. Didn't realize how much I didn't like 7 until my main machine's power supply quit on me last week. It was just so much more comfortable and user friendly. I run windows 7 on two machines and XP on three others. Why so many you ask? I just enjoy building and repairing computers, I reply. Anyway, I have a new power supply coming and hope it fixes the problem. That, however is only temporary as I know that Microsoft will be lifting support for XP one of these days. Guess I am crossing that bridge now whether I want to or not. 
Oh Well! Things Change, S--t happens there is nothing you can do about it. O-F-P-S! (Oh for Pete's Sake).

Water Color by O. E. Blodgett.

Cars I remember from the 1950s

American cars of the 1950s. I was 8 to 18 years old in the 50s and remember these cars.. each one normally had three models so you had a basic model, upgraded and luxury. two door, four door, convertible and station wagon. Cars with the center post between front and back were sedans and those with no center post were called hard-tops. In the mid 50s we saw the Corvette and Thunderbird. 
Ford....Chevy....Chrysler....Dodge....Packard....Studebaker....Lincoln....
Nash....Desoto....Plymouth....Cadillac....Kaiser....Hudson....Willys....
Buick....Mercury....Crosley....Pontiac....Edsel

Free Will

The Lord gave us free will, but our government doesn't trust us with it. Truthfully, I believe it's a way for our leaders to find employment for family and friends. Establishing agencies and commissions to regulate our safety and well being. They don't think we are intelligent enough to look after ourselves. Interesting that it is mandatory that we wear seat belts but my motorcycle doesn't have one or an air bag either, although there are some large bikes equipped with them.
It's a government of the people, by the people and for the people who work for the government.