March 9, 2006
I've been busy working for a change, taking groundwater samples for our local electric utility. It is temporary but full time and the money is good, so I have no complaints. Sitting around for 3 years was worse than working.
I have recently begun e-mailing with a gentleman with whom I worked with at General Aniline Central research Laboratory in Easton over 40 years ago. It has been neat bringing up old memories and names I haven't thought about in years. Genealogy is still a pastime of mine. I have part of our family back to the early 1700s.
April 15, 2006
Here it is the day before Easter and I would just like to wish everyone who reads these postings, all 3 of you, a happy and meaningful holiday tomorrow. Jesus died and rose again for all of us.
I think I am going to have a decent garden this year. I just got done building a screen to screen part of mien to get all the stones out of the ground. Dad and I used to do that years ago - either screen it or throw the garden, down to one shovel depth, through a mechanical screener that broke up all the clods and most of the larger rocks. You should have seen what it did to a brick or a Coke bottle. It didn't like cobble stones however, as it would spit them out the hopper. Some folks like to keep the stones in, claiming it makes for looser soil, but I prefer to have them out. The ground gets so soft you could dig it with your hand.
I'm still working, thank God. It is nice to have the money to do things on short notice, like build the screen above.
July 9, 2006
I saw two news reports today about auto accidents and both involved elderly drivers. In the first, a 91 year old lady converted the Turkey Hill Market in Tamaqua into a drive-in and in the second an 89 year old man plowed through a crowd at a political rally in Connecticut, injuring many people. I think these two point up the complete folly that exists where older drivers are allowed to keep their driver's licenses without some sort of driving proficiency test. It seems as though these two were confused about the brake and the gas pedal, among other things. If that is the state of their minds, they should be walking. That would include me as well. There should be some sort of test that can be administered fairly that would determine reaction times, visual acuity while driving (not just a static eye test), and other things like night vision.