How the weather in your area?

How the weather in your area?

In my area on east coast the temps vary from the low 20s in the morning to upper 30s lower 40s in the afternoons. Winds vary from calm one day to 30 mile hours. Wind chills as you know make it feel a lot colder.

We had a little snow here and there but nothing in the upper northeast or out west. We have been fairly lucky the last two years. I believe two years ago we had a total close to 70 inches or so.

Unlike most of the country we've been faring well.

Let me know how you're winter has been or what ever your weather is in your part of the world.

UR

A Christmas Thought

Even though I’m going through a difficult time I need to stop and remember to be grateful.

Frist I’m very grateful that my stepson is doing very well and is alive to see another Christmas considering he was close to dying earlier this year and was saved by double lung transplant. I’m grateful that someone was giving of themselves to be an organ donor. Yet I'm sadden that a family out there has one less member at Christmas died.

I’m lucky to have two older brothers who still come to the aid of their baby brother and who have been very generous this Christmas so we can have a nice Xmas. I’m grateful to have my mother still alive and every year sends me country ham and a bushel of grapefruits and oranges from our birth State of Florida.

I’m grateful to have a wife who has been understanding and is hard working. I’m grateful to have a wife who has a family that is understanding when it comes to my unemployment and who has been helpful and generous when it comes to the kids or I should say the young adults.

I’m grateful that I have two stepdaughters who are understanding and are good people and not criminals or trouble makers.

Even though my unemployment is a bit less than I was making and I have to pay for a COBRA insurance that is a considerable cut into my unemployment wage, I need to be grateful that at least I’m getting financial assistant and I have insurance.

I have a roof over my head and bread on the table and at least my pickup is paid off. I’m grateful to have good friends in the real world and a few on the internet. I’m grateful to be born in a free country. Plus I’m grateful that I have a Creator who has eventually help me in the pass when times really got hard and provided a path to follow and even worked a miracle or two. The Creator may not give me what I want but he does give me what I need.

I know that there are people due to no fault of their own who have it so much tougher than me. Even if I was homeless and living on the street with nothing than the clothes on my back and a blanket to keep me warm at night I would have to remember that I’m better off than the homeless person without a blanket. As long as I know that there are people who have it worst that I do I should not complain and be grateful.

So I want to wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

UR

Another Victim of the Economy

Well after 13 years of work at the same construction company as a concrete estimator I have become another victim of the economy. As of today I’ve been laid off from work due to the lack of work and that not enough money is coming in to keep me on for the time being. I was told that if we pick up work they would be bring me back that’s if they don’t have to close up.

Upside this give me time to take care of neglected home project. Believe it or not I may do some volunteer work just to keep busy and give me some purpose to get up in the morning and not let myself slip into lazy behavior and stay up all night and sleep all day. Plus I need to get my resume together and figure out what jobs am I qualified for and considering I'm just a High School graduate it won’t be much. Should I stay in the construction industry considering that it will never be like it once was or should I figure out something new to do? Maybe welding?

Anyway, even though on Nov 1st I was actually told that I was going to be laid off back on Nov 1st I was going to laid off on Nov 11 I'm not sure how feel about this yet. Not a total shock I had a feeling it was coming for a few months. Part of me is trying to stay positive because I know we have a good shot at getting some jobs and I’ll be back at my old job but another part of me feels that this maybe the end of life as I know it. Meaning that after 13 years of going to the same job I may have to do something different and probably at less pay.

Kind of bummed,

UR

Reflection

Time for Halloween

It’s October which means Halloween. Halloween is my favorite time of the year.

So here is a few of my favorite Halloween stuff.

A haunted house story I heard when I was a kid by Brother Dave Gardner



Bobby (Boris) Pickett



Ghoultown with Elvira, The Mistress of the Dark



Zombie Ghost Train



Rob Zombie a true Halloween master.






And what would Halloween be without Alice Cooper.









HAPPY HALLOWEEN!