"I'm moving to the country." We've all heard many a recent retiree say, or "I wish I could move to the country" from folks not old enough to retire. They have visions of peaceful lake scenes, bubbling brooks, wide open fields, and deer in their vegetable garden..."I've had enough people to last me a life time." They say, "I want some peace and quiet." Imagine a country morning, waking with the roosters, heading down to the country kitchen, the smell of fresh bacon and eggs frying in the pan, topped off with fresh blueberries you picked yourself....ahhhhhhh
Well, it strikes me that these are the same people who are so glad to see you when you drop in for a visit. Or, if you don't visit them, they come visit you. I used to subscribe to the theory that country living folks are just plain friendly...but I no longer subscribe to that theory. Nope...I think they are just plain bored out of their minds and it's like you bring news of the outside world, and all of a sudden dreams of living a life of oneness and solitude in the country goes out the window like a the smell of bacon frying in the pan....
I have noticed it around Silverhorn Mountain, a lot of the folks who move here, or retire here seeking solitude and country life, are in no time starved for human companionship and will talk your ear off every chance they get...these are the same folks who hardly knew their neighbor when they lived in town. Not only didn't they know their neighbor, they didn't want to know him or her or them...
However, since moving to the woods, if they run into said same previous city neighbor, and are lucky enough to know that is who it is, they are very likely to invite him and his family down to their place in the country for a visit...
And while I am on the subject, did you ever notice how country living folks are always in the city...I mean they must be the best shoppers in the world, because they are always going to "town" to the mall or the grocery store or the drapery store or whatever....seems there is always a good reason to have to leave the country and head for town. Meanwhile, all the cottagers and weekend country folks are making a beeline for the country....
Finally...and then I will let this go, the best one of all for me, is the country folks who leave their nice country home, probably on the shore of a nice lake, hook their trailer up to the truck, and go camping....to "get away from it all"....to get away from what??? They are already so far away from it all, most of them come in to hunt, but oh no, come the weekend, they are off in the camper looking for some solitude...and somewhere that they might find a big bunch of people to talk to....
Speaking of happy to have company, listen to this, one day Virgil decides to visit his old friend Joe who moved to the country and has been married to this beautiful blonde woman for a couple of years. When Virgil gets there he realizes that there is a long line of men standing outside Joe's door.
After a few inquires he learns that Joe's wife is having sex with these men.
Confused, Virgil goes in to talk to his friend Joe. He asks Joe,"Man, why don't you just divorce this unfaithful wife of yours?"
Joe says, "Are you out of your mind! You want me to divorce her and go stand at the end of the line?"
On a serious note, ya just never know what you might run across here in The View From Silverhorn Mountain...the news is full of speculation that Arab mf'er Binn Laden has cashed in his camel chips and died of some kind of serious illness. If he is dead, I hope he barfed a lot before he died....that is never nice....The rumors are rampant, but so far no one has been able to confirm it.
Wow, that is quite a statistic and says something about the mess we are in over in the Middle East. Whether Binn Laden is dead or not, he has left a legacy of terror and pain that will not be forgotten anytime soon. I somehow doubt he is dead, and not until his body is positively identified should the world think he is dead, these are a crafty enemy, and not above manipulating the news and the intel of the military.
The news is also reporting that the number of troops to die fighting in Iraq and Afganistan has now surpassed (by one) the number who died as a result of the 9/11 attacks.
Although the Taliban have been up ended in Afganistan, it isn't much better there if the news is to be believed, but it's Afganistan, it never was much good there, and what are the chances it ever will be much of a place.
I think it's time the Coalition should soon be pulling out and leave Afganistan folks to their own devices, it's only a matter of time until they revert back to their way of life, and who cares, let em..just blow the hell of out them every few years...
As for Bin Laden, I wonder if he died from boredom, after all he did kinda move to the mountain country....He was probably killed in a car accident driving to the mall....
That's the view from here anyway....
Todays Quote:
Nice to see you? Come here often?- Joe
See ya!!
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