Hello on Monday Morning

Dear Friends,

Our Sunday went pretty much as planned. I loaded up my car with all the supplies for today’s Senior Club Championship at Berkshire Hills Country Club. I will pack up any food that requires refrigeration, and put it in coolers before I head out the door around 8 AM this morning.

The painters are coming back to do some touch up work this morning around the time that I will be leaving the house.

Linda will be directing the painters in my absence.

Yesterday Linda purchased a side table for the new couch (which will be delivered at the end of the month), but she couldn’t find a second one. The clerk at Marshalls called stores all over the area seeing if they had one of those tables, but she didn’t have any luck. When Linda arrived home from her shopping adventure, she went on line, made a few telephone calls, and found that there was a matching end table in Hadley, Massachusetts.
After Linda gets through dealing with the painters, she will be driving to the store in Hadley , and hopefully be picking up a matching end table. For my readers who don’t know where Hadley is located, it is a town that you go through on the way to the University of Massachusetts. Hadley is known for its acres and acres of farm land where many of the vegetables in our local supermarket originate from.

My Red Sox could beat Texas on Sunday. The Yankees lost to the Kansas City Royals, but the team that they are chasing for the Wild Card spot won their game. Oh Darn!

Observation – In the local Sunday newspaper, they had a big article about the bombs that the United States dropped in Japan which supposedly ended World War II. Us baby boomers were taught in our history books that it was necessary to drop the bombs so that the war would come to an end. Some people who are looking back at the bombings are trying to point out that the Japanese were just about ready to surrender when the bombs were dropped. Some of the veterans from World War II, who are still alive, are leaning toward this theory that we didn’t have to drop the nuclear bombs. Other veterans are remembering the cruelty which the Japanese inflicted on our soldiers during the war like the Bataan March, and they would drop those nuclear bombs in a heartbeat.
There is always a conflict between good versus evil, one nation wanting to dominate another nation, one warlord trying to conquer another warlord, but when will the killing ever stop?
We stopped Germany and Japan in World War II. We helped both countries get back on their feet, and they now try to beat us in the economic arena. Yesterday, a German won a professional golf tournament in Wisconsin, and a Japanese pitcher was on the mound for the Red Sox in Texas. Isn’t kind of ironic that were killing each other in World War II, and now we are friends with both nations? “War, what is it good for?”

Well, I have to read the local newspaper, and get ready for a busy day at the golf course.
Have a great week, at work or play!
Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad