Hello on Friday Morning

ear Friends,

I went to bed a happy man last evening, not only because the Red Sox swept the series against the Angels, but also because Linda and I became grandparents for the third time. Our angel, Gabriel Michael Curley, arrived during the Red Sox game last evening. He came into this world weighing 7 pounds 9 ounces, and he is 21.5 inches long.
May 6 will be an easy day to remember with respect to his birthday because this is the same day as his Mom’s birthday.
Danielle’s mom drove to Kansas from Minnesota, and she was taking care of Isabelle as the birth was taking place.
In a day or so, Danielle and Gabriel will be discharged from the hospital, and Isabelle will have a chance to see her new brother.

It is a balmy 44 degrees in the Berkshires right now. We are not getting out of the 60’s today, but it will be a nice day to be on the golf course with my senior friends. I might be wearing a sweater when we tee off at 8:30 AM.

While I am on the golf course, Linda will be having a body maintenance procedure.
This procedure will require her to be waited on for supper this evening.

This evening, I will be in my man cave working the remote control feverishly because the Celtics, Bruins, and the Red Sox will be doing battle at the same time. The Red Sox will be playing against their arch enemies, the New York Yankees. I can’t wait!

Thursday went well. I did go to Home Depot, but it was raining when I went there so I didn’t purchase the cedar mulch. I had to by a repair kit for part of one of the air conditioners which I installed the other day. The fan like portion on either side of air conditioner that you slide out to fill up the space on either side to keep the bugs and rain out became detached. I tried Gorilla Glue to fix the original problem. The glue stuck to everything, and the fan like devices wouldn’t even open. Home Depot has a repair kit that worked as described, but I had to spend most of my time trying to get the Gorilla Glue off of everything.

While working in the other spare bedroom, I decided to open the windows to let a little fresh air into the house. Well, the wind really picked up during the day, and knocked a framed picked off one night stand, and a vase of dried flowers off of the another night stand. A plastic piece of the picture frame broke when it hit the carpet. Luckily the vase on the other night stand didn’t break when it hit the floor. Anything in the room that wasn’t heavy or tied down ended up on the floor.

We had a bone in breast of chicken which I cooked on the grill along with some rice, and some corn on the cob. The corn wasn’t too sweet because it wasn’t local, but I did use the electronic pressure cooker to cook the corn. A half of a cup of water, and setting the timer for one minute was all it took to cook the corn. If I was cooking for a bunch of people over for a party, I would have to cook it in two batches. They could be eating one ear of corn while the second batch would be cooking.

News / Politics – The stock market took a really big hit yesterday. It dropped 347+ points. The oil spill and the turmoil in Greece contributed to the decline. I am going to take an optimist position, and bet that the stock market will recover even if it might take a while. Of course, our President will take a hit for the drop. The usual Presidential bashers will use some of the social programs that our President has been trying to get passed as a cause of the crash.
I tried to watch a power point presentation sent to me by one of my relatives yesterday, and I had to hit the delete button. The presentation tried to have you believe that we are turning into a socialist country like Argentina. The creators of the piece did a before and after sequence of Argentina, and the claimed that the United States was heading in the same direction. I say “Hogwash!”

If most of the world was filled with people who just took care of their own family, and took pleasure in seeing their family grow, there would be no conflicts. If people of other nations weren’t jealous of what other nations had or did not have, then life would be so good. If people really believed that war or killing your neighbor is not a good solution to conflicts, our world would be in less turmoil. If we let people practice whatever religion that they believe in, and stay out of their business, we would be better off.
There is no religion that requires or demands violence against your neighbors, but we have people in places that take the Bible, or the Koran, etc., and they twist the words of the documents into acts of violence.

Well, I have to stop rambling, and read the local newspaper, and select my wardrobe for today’s round of golf.
Have a great weekend!
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there, but I contend that every day is Mother’s Day.
I do appreciate what my mother did to raise me, and I see what Linda has done to raise our two boys.
The fruit of all their hard work appears to be paying off.
Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad