Well my Mom has a big birthday this week, number 80 to be precise. She doesn’t want anything special, especially a surprise party, she’s made that very clear to me! The big day is Thursday and so far we have no plans. She’s super hard to shop for and doesn’t really want or need anything which makes it that much harder. We’re thinking of getting her a goat or a llama, she’ll never see that coming!
Today the youngest has d.i. and basketball practice after school. We’re also supposed to get some snow. Yesterday morning I ran a few errands including a stop at the gun show. Boy was it was packed! I told the wife that the crowd was very diverse. There were lots of older folks, let’s say from 60 to 80, lots of people my age or middle age meaning in their 40’s and 50’s and tons of young family’s with children in tow. There were lots of guns, and every single one required a background check at tables set up all around the show, despite what the liberal news tells you. The shocking thing was the high prices, guns that used to sell for $1000 were now $3000 and cases of ammo that were $400 are now $900! Those in the industry say the President is the best salesman they’ve ever had. People are scared that they’re going to lose their rights to purchase whatever they want so they are out buying and boy are they buying. The high prices are there because people are willing to pay it. The industry has had a years worth of sales in the past 6 weeks, all because of the fear that government is going to ban certain kinds of guns.
No matter what you think, banning guns is not the answer. Just look at Chicago, 7 murders again yesterday and 13 shot in total and over 500 murders last year! This is from a city with the strictest gun control laws in the country. Everything is illegal there yet the criminals still have guns and continue to kill people. In fact, Illinois, New York and California have the highest rate of gun crimes in the country and all three have the strictest laws, hmmmm. You don’t see a lot of gun crime in Montana, Oklahoma, Texas or Wyoming where they have the highest rate of legal gun ownership now do you. Oh well, laws are not based on fact these days but rather emotion. As Rham Emanual famously said, “you can’t let a good crisis go to waste”.
After the gun show I stopped into the western store as we had a pair of boots we bought the oldest in September of last year that sat in his closet and he never wore them. They were a size 8 and he’s now a 9 which means he can wear Grandpas old boots! I know the girls down there pretty well as I bring them a bottle of wine or two when I stop in for jeans. They gladly took them back, gave me full credit and with everything on sale, I walked out with two pair of boots for me and a pair of jeans! HAPPY DAY.  Cowboy boots  are the most comfortable thing to wear for me these days. I think I’m turning into my dad who wore them all his life. The misses always reminds me of all the boots I have whenever she wants a new pair of shoes as it is true, I probably have more boots than she does shoes. To each their own.
I picked up the oldest from his sleepover on the way home and as soon as we arrived home the misses said Jen called and wanted to know if he wanted to go swimming. Of course he said yes so off he went. Meanwhile I took the youngest to Target with some of his birthday money for a new PS3 remote and a game. His friend Ben came along and we stopped at Subway for some lunch on the way home. The boys headed straight upstairs to play but we made them take breaks and go out and play basketball every half hour or so.
The rest of the day was spent doing laundry and relaxing. After an early dinner we settled in for a little tv and then it was off to bed. The oldest has inter-murals this morning so I need to get him up at 6. Mom has physical therapy at 10 so I’ll run her downtown. She says she can drive herself, which she can but she hates it so I’ll take her. The lawyers and doctors, on the other side, are screwing with us big time trying to get out of paying anything more for her neck. We received a copy of the report from the appointment last week and the doctor is clearly biased towards the attorney who sent us there, surprise surprise. Now they want her to go to another doctor of there choosing and if we don’t go they just cut us off so I guess we’re going. What a rigged system, all we want is for the misses to not have a headache.
“All of us need to be reminded that the Federal government did not create the States, the States created the Federal Government.” – Ronald Wilson Reagan, January 20, 1981
Time to run, have a great week and God Bless.
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