GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS

A REMEMBERAMBLE, DECEMBER 03, 2025

I wish you a great and good morning! It is good to have you here! We got some good rain yesterday, and now we have the cooler temps that follow. It is peak cane grinding and syrup boiling time, and if you are ready to kill that hawg y'all been fattening, you can do it this week! I never dreamed that I would see times when no one I know has a single hog. I have, in my life helped kill and dress a "beef," as we used to say, and scores of hogs, chickens, wascally wabbits, squirrels, robins, doves, quail, deer and all manner of critters. But, these days not so much, I just get my groceries from the grocery store, so no animals have to be killed so I can eat. Huhuhuh. I was at Twin City Drugs the other day, and a lady was leaving, and as she walked toward the door, she was going to say something like, "I hope y'all have a merry Christmas," but maybe she felt it was too far off, sort of abandoned that thought, and retrieved Thanksgiving from the dead pile and said, "I hope y'all have...uh, have had a great Thanksgiving." She stumbled over it a bit, and the lady beside me looked at me and we laughed after she left. Now, it was not a mocking laugh no, it was one of those "shared misery" laughs because we all have done similar things that makes us seem to be clumsy oafs when talking to folks in a setting like that. Once we begin a parting statement, and fumble it, especially when we try snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, our humiliating misery could only be compounded, by breaking wind loudly, as a parting shot. you know the ones I speak of, for instance a taxi driver drops you off at the airport, and gives a perfunctory "have a nice trip," and you say, "you too" before you even know what he was going to say. Yep, telling the taxi driver to have a nice trip, when he is working all day, just making that loop from hotel to airport. Telling him to have a nice trip is so very lame, but you thank goodness that you will never see the man again before you or he dies! "Enjoy your meal," from your server does not require that you say, "you too," but we have done it, haven't we?

Red-faced ole deddee

Vintage Crescent brand fence staple and nail remover...aka, AK-47

Now for a funny story about what an "idjit" I am capable of being. A few years ago, a friend gave me an old Crescent nail and fence staple puller, as seen here. I had it lying in the floor of my pickup when I stopped at Twin City Drugs to get a prescription filled. this back when Mr. Lee Rountree owned it, and he liked antiques and old things like that, so I decided to bring it in with me, to show it to him. A friend of mine was with me. I was holding the nail puller by the "pistol grip" and swinging it as we walked up the sidewalk to go inside. You are "gittin" ahead of me here now, let me tell it. Well we walked in, and there was not a single soul there to greet us, the store was empty. For a moment I feared the Rapture had come and we got left behind. I stopped, looked around, and saw one of the employees peeking over the pharmacy counter, a couple more pulled the side door open and looked at me, then they walked back inside, before, everyone was reassembled inside, and there I stood...my buddy had abandoned me in short order, and was sitting out there in my truck. My face was scarlet red. I held the thing up so they could see it, and I mumbled lamely, "it's a fencing tool." I said, "I'll be right back," and walked out to put it in my truck, and my pal says, "you're an idiot." He didn't say it in a mean way, just stating the obvious. I said, "I know." I went back inside, got my pills, and broke camp!

I had my appointment yesterday at Statesboro Cardiology with Dr. Lynn. I liked him right off the bat, he was in no hurry, and took time to really talk and answer my questions. I suppose y'all know I have had a good deal of testing done on my heart and lungs, and my Dr. Randy Brown, a wonderful man, and exceptionally gifted cardio-thoracic surgeon sent me for a consultation with Dr. Lynn, so they could do my cardiac catheterization in Statesboro, because they do not do those in Swainsboro. I had been to Statesboro Cardiology several years ago...remember the old bill from nine years ago had to be paid before they would see me yesterday...and Dr. Lynn had those tests too and had gone over it all. Dr. Brown had diagnosed me with mild COPD, enlarged heart, with Congestive Heart Failure, and a damaged portion of my heart from previous heart attacks. Dr. Lynn confirmed that it was the same problems that Dr. Lariscy had diagnosed there nine years ago. He said we have to address the damaged part of my heart and possible blockages. So, I am scheduled to have a cardiac catheterization done this coming Monday, December 8. I look forward to getting this done, as these problems have become life changing in negative ways. I just have not shared that here on Facebook. I am tired/exhausted most of the time, I have to rest most of the days, not feeling like to doing anything. Pray these problems will be resolved after any procedure. Love ya long time...

..... NUMBERS 6: 24-26, KJV

..... we boyz three, babee conway, lil merle, & me