Simple Things

     Most of you are familiar with the song: “Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play,”  and so on.  How sad that the country that was written about exists no longer.

     “Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all day.”  All you have to do is walk down any street in America today, and you can hear PLENTY of discouraging words. 

     Something is happening tomorrow that will be history-making; they keep telling us that.  But what part of this history will the future remember?  The part about a new president - or the part about millions of dollars being spent for a “big show”, when millions of people are out of work in this country, and that money could have been put to much better uses.  Time will tell on that one.

      I won’t be in Washington.  I don’t even plan to watch it on television.  I’m sure I’ll see it, whether I want to or not since it will be repeated over and over until we want to throw the TV out the door. (You know, that’s not a bad idea in my book)

      No, I’ll be here in my country home.  I don’t have any buffalo roaming around (wish I did).  All I have are turkey, deer, dove, and lots of buzzards.  (The buzzards make me nervous when they circle the house - do they know something that I don’t know?) 

     I find comfort in the simple things - like the turkeys.  I was driving down our country road the other day, and three turkeys stepped out of the woods to cross the road.  I slowed down for them since picking turkey feathers out of the grill is not a favorite past-time, and two of them trotted on across, but one did not.  He (I assume it was a HE- due to the attitude) stood in the middle of the road and looked at me.  As I inched forward, he turned and started running down the middle of the road.  As he ran, he turned his long neck to look back every few steps, to see if I was still coming.  This guy must have a television stashed in the woods somewhere, because I swear it reminded me of a recent movie.  Why is that?  When the victim is running away from the bad man in the car, they run right down the middle of the road!  Anyhow, the turkey finally decided that I was not going to leave, so he gave up and jumped into the bushes at the side of the road.  Life is interesting in the country.

     On a final note today, if you pray, pray for our country.  (Maybe if somebody had prayed for the buffalo, they would still be here today - and the buzzards wouldn’t!)  Yes, there is a hidden meaning there.

     Quote for the day: “TV is very educating - every time it is turned on,  I go in the other room and read a book.”  (Groucho Marx)

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