My opinion on War

I have been reading several different opinions on the war in the middle east. As a veteran of the Viet Nam era I must have a few things to say. While I do not like war and think during a war all sides are losers I feel that I have to report on a few of the things I have seen. When you see a young child run up to the back of a truck and throw a live gernade into the truck that has a lot of your buddies in it and several are killed or injured that may or may not result in loss of a limb or eyesight, or something else. Or you see a woman walking down the street and see her bend over and see that she has a machine gun strapped to her back and someone run up and start firing bullets at your friends you wonder where the justice is. Or maybe when you go to sleep at night and wake up and the person sleeping next to you and their throat cut and just by some chance it was not your throat you again wonder where the justice is. I personally feel that one of the biggest problems with this present war in Iraq and Afganistan is there are too many reporters covering the problems and they report on the war but they only report their view of the war. They do not cover the things the the enemy does in the detail that they report what the side of the war they see. Yes there are things that go on that probably shouldn't go on but the other side does not always comply with the Geneva Convention on treatment of POW's. If they did we wouldn't have the killings of captives that there are. We would not have mistreatment of POW's there are. We would not still be looking for missing POW's from the Viet Nam era. Yes there are many things that happen that should not happen but it happens on both sides and like I said before. There are no winners in a war situation. However we are involved and whether or not we like it we must support our troops that are involved. We must support the decisions of our ELECTED Leaders. After all we elected them. If you don't like what is happening in the next election sellect someone else. But until that time support their decisions. Do you feel that you could do better? I wouldn't want that job no matter how much it pays. This is my opinion and that is how I feel about it. Thank you for reading my feelings on this subject.

The weekend that was really a challange

This last weekend I visited my daughter in Maryland. This is usually a nice time but this last weekend was the weekend from H***. My daughter lives in an old farmhouse (80 Years old or older) and now don't get me wrong. It is a beautiful house and has a lot of nice qualities about it. But when something goes wrong it is a real hassle to fix. This last week the upstairs bathroom sink would not drain. Little did I realized what would be involved in trying to fix this problem. After I took the drain from the sink the pipe was so corroded that it fell apart in my hands. I knew at this time I was in for a real time fixing the problem. The first thing that had to be done is the ceiling in the room below the bathroom had to be taken out to expose the old pipes. After gaining access to the old pipes I discovered that they were Galvanized pipe and had to be taken apart. This normally would not have been a problem except for the age of the pipes and the fact that they were rusted together. As it turned out I had to cut the pipe out to replace it. However getting to the pipe was such an ordeal that I had to go buy the tools to cut the pipe out. After cutting the pipe out I discovered this old 1 1/2 pipe only had an opening of about 1/4 inch for the water to drain through. There was that much corrosion in the pipe. I had to cut back almost to the main drainage pipe. Then I ran a snake through the pipe and removed a big quantity of hair in the pipe. After getting that out I cleaned the opening of the pipe back to the main drain back to its original opening of 1 1/2 inch. I then ran new PVC Pipe to the sink and gave the sink an all new plumbing for draining. When I turned on the water it drained as fast as I could run the water. This was all well and good except for the big 4ft by 8ft area in the ceiling that I had to remove to replace the plumbing. Since the house was so old the ceiling was plaster so how was I going to replace that. Fortunately My father taught me how to do most everything that is associated with the building of a house I figured out how to close this big opening. I used plywood (1/4 inch) to replace the slats that had to be removed to gain access to the pipes. Then I used 1/2 moisture and mold resistant dry wall to close the hole. The process of taping and reapplying the dry wall covering I am leaving to my daughter. I taught her how to do this kind of repairs a long time ago. Besides I think she needs to do a little in the house after all it is her house. I probably will have to do all this at some other time when I go down. After two days of climbing the ladder and doing everything in my power to get totally filthy in fixing the plumbing I figured that I had my fill of getting dirty at this time. The hole was covered and the plumbing was fixed. The rest is all cosmetic. It might not look all finished at this time but at least everything is working at this time. I just wanted to get home for a couple of days to relax. So I came home pulling a trailer full of stuff that we had taken to her house a few months ago when we thought we were selling the house. However that is another story for some other time.

Sunday Evening

Well here it is sunday evening after a fruitful day. Started off with church this morning and then out to do a little shopping. Stopped to get some toliet paper and ended up spending almost $100.00 on little things. After getting home I decided to do a little work outside to the area where I have the entrance to the back of the house. I have been working on this area for a while now and just about have it finished. I have to put a door on the outer entrance way and then It will be done. Have to do something to keep the flies out. If I don't do something I will be over run with the flying insects. After seeing the movie the Fly I think I want to keep them out. It is a covered area and I think they migrate there to get out of the hot sun. Who can blame them. I look for ways to get out of the hot sun also. I just have to figure how to keep them out and me inside but then I want a way to get out when I get ready to go out. Hopefully I have it all planned out now and all it will take is just a little more building and it will be finished. But I will say this. When it is time to come inside how thankful I am for air conditioning. It makes coming inside pleasurable. But after coming inside I had to go back outside because I had to grill some pork ribs on the BBQ outside. They were delicious. Sorry I didn't have enough to invite everyone over but maybe next time. Now I have to go out ang get Mel's puppy and bring him inside and settled down for the night and it will be time to go to bed for the night. I find myself going to bed earlier and earlier the older I get. It I live to be very many years older I just won't have to get out of bed. Save time that way. We will have to wait and see. Well that is about all for now so I will post again in a few days. Until then Have a good day. God Bless.