A new direction

– If you didn’t vote, you have NO say! I voted, so I can voice my opinion – it sucks but we have to live with it or move to Canada! I don’t speak French, so I am probably staying in the U.S.!

Now I think most everyone (especially those reading this) voted (I’m not on Facebook but the misses said several people posted that they voted multiple times in favor of the big O, super!) and I do agree , we have to live with it, but Canada is pretty nice, (not that I’d move there either) and as I’m sure Aunt B knows, only a small portion of Canada (Quebec) actually speaks french.

Anyhow, back to our little street. I’m still trying to kick this cold and am supposed to leave for hunting this afternoon with a buddy and Jag. The season ends Sunday night so this is pretty much it. The problem, besides my freakin cold, is that the mountains are supposed to get over a foot of snow starting at 6pm. This is good and bad, good as it drives the animals down and you can track them and bad in that it’s hard to walk and you can get stuck! We’ll keep you posted.

The misses and I left at 9:30 am for the mountains where her doctor gave her an occipital nerve block which is a big shot in the back of her skull! It seemed to help the lower back of her head but not the top. Hopefully it worked its way up there overnight. He also took her off percocet and put her on oxicontin which is basically the same without the acetaminophen, which is the stuff in tylenol that can really mess with your liver. It’s only been a month but he thinks that the operation is working and we need to hang in there for a few more weeks when she should start to see some relief. I sure hope so as we can’t take much more of this.

Let’s see, it’s 5am and the news says there’s an “active shooter” here in Lakewood. Super, someone is running around our neighborhood with a gun and has shot at something or someone. The streets are blocked off somewhere close but I can’t tell where. Once again, this shouldn’t surprise us as this type of thing is becoming commonplace.

One of my friends who owns a pretty good sized gun shop can’t go hunting with us even though he planned to and bought his tags, as he’s had lines out the door since the election. He’s sold more guns and ammo in the past two days than he had sold all of last month! I gave him a ride to the Ford dealer yesterday to pick up his truck and he told me all the distributors are already sold out and he has other dealers (stores) calling him wanting to buy guns from him. Lucky for him, he thought “you know who” was going to win, and he ordered $200K worth of stuff a few weeks ago. When I stopped by his store to pick him up, he had a store full of people with a guy at the door letting people in one by one to control how many were in the store at one time. I’ve never seen anything like it. People were buying not one but multiple guns and lots and lots of ammo. The scary thing is most of these folks look like they’ve had no training at all and were buying their first gun. I’m all for the 2nd Amendment but people need to be trained. I’m one of the few who think training should be mandatory if you’re going to buy a firearm. He does have training classes which are now sold out until January 23rd, WOW! The weird thing was he said most of the buyers were women, (or husbands buying a gun for their wife) then families buying a gun for each adult member of the family and then men.

Crazy times out there not to mention our lovely state just voted to legalize marijuana. You can pretty much go get a card now by paying $150 and saying you have chronic pain (and then buy it at one of the hundreds of stores) so this isn’t much of a reach but this says any adult can go buy it like liquor. If the state taxes it properly, it could really help with our economy but you’ll have lots of people walking around stoned. Maybe that’ll put a dent in the violence, everyone walking around in la la land! The ironic thing is now in Colorado, it’s legal to by weed, marry someone of the same sex but you can’t, for example, kiss a woman while she’s asleep, or lend your vacuum cleaner to your neighbor. That’s right, those are actual laws here in Colorado. Funny stuff.

Well, there you have it. Times have changed and I’m afraid they will continue to do so, and not necessarily for the best. There’s too many people in power trying to impose what they think is best on the rest of us. I guess this is the price we pay for what is supposedly advancing as a society. Sometimes I think we’d all be better off if we could snap our fingers and go back to the 1950’s or maybe even the 1800’s. Well, as Aunt B rightly says, we have to live with it, so do the best you can but once again, please please don’t think our all powerful government will ever be there to take care of you, just look at the people on the east coast!

Take care and God Bless.