My baby girl, Ava Rose is 3 years old now. Talk about Deja Vu! She looks so much like her Mom when she was this age it's not funny! She also has her very own personality with plenty of traits inherited from her Nana and Pop-Pop. More from her Nana though, waaaaay more.......

 She still has total control over my heart and rules supreme over my thoughts and affections. She loves to tease me when I go to see her and will run to her Nana, Mom, or Granpa and give them a big kiss while looking straight at me, with me howling in protest about her giving my sugar away. I always wind up getting some though.......

 She even knows how to play Pop-Pop for a present. The other day I was going to get some money from the ATM with my daughter Caitlin, and she announced she wanted to go "shopping"..... Really now, a three year old who already has developed the "shopping" habit? I'm doomed.......

 I couldn't go shopping as I had things at the house I needed to get done. She began to pout a little and when I got to the house I opened the back door to give her a kiss goodbye. She refused to give me a kiss, that is until I leaned down and told her that I would take her shopping later and buy her some toys, at which time she promptly offered up those little lips for a kiss...... which I gladly took my sugar and had to chuckle.  I am truly committed to spending the rest of my life spoiling this child as much as I possibly can. Her Mom may have something to say about that. But, it won't matter too much because I spoiled her as much as I could, she has no room to complain.

Friends

I went with my buddy, Danny, to pick up his new trike today. This entailed getting up at 5am and riding in 40 degree weather. Not something I would normally do on my day off!!! But, he has been hankering for a specific color and make Goldwing for awhile. He happened to find one and worked a trade for it. So we rode for 51/2 hours up to Haleyville, Alabama to get it. He is happier than a kid in a candy store with a pocketful of cash and I'm happy for him. All is right in the Universe again!!!

Politics

It is Election Day, thank God! Not because I want one man or the other to win, but because all the vitriolic hyperbole will be coming to an end soon.
I am really sick of the rabid fanatics spewing their hate filled garbage in my ear, on Facebook, in just about any conversation I'm involved in. Really people, I knew where you stood in the first two minutes of your pompous long winded diatribe the first time of the thousands of regurgitations you have shared.
And guess what, I could give a fuck less. No matter how many times you think you can change my mind, get a visual clue from me rolling my eyes and sighing heavily, you can't. I understand you think I am, and even call me, stupid, a moron, un-American, and a myriad of unfriendly names, simply because I don't think or feel like you. What have I done to elicit such a strong emotion other than simply disagree with you? Amicably, if we have discussed politics, silently if we haven't, at that!
Here's a revelation for you, your opinion on my beliefs matters not one iota to me. I have formed my opinions based on my personal experiences and my personal sense of morality and compassion. My principles and core beliefs have been the same my entire adult life. I am not someone who has drifted with the times and popular societal beliefs. I accept that you think and feel differently, and do so without all the hate and disrespect you have shown me.
America was founded by people who were persecuted for their beliefs in their home countries. Yet we seem to be so intolerant of those with different ideas in this day and age. Why is that? We send our sons and daughters off to war to protect that aspect of our great nation, and to help others in the world less fortunate gain that right! So why do you cheapen their sacrifice with your hate filled postings and rants about the "other" side? You surely don't honor them by dragging their memories thru the mud by using them as political canon fodder, so fucking stop it for Christ sake.
If you can't argue your point with intelligence and even temperament without reverting to vehement, caustic comment and accusations, then PLEASE, just do the rest of us a huge favor and shut the fuck up!