Tony Brewer

My nephew loves to play sports, and is interested in becoming a coach. In addition to learning how to coach the players in how to play the games, he wants to learn more about caring for sports injuries; how to prevent them and how to care for them. He’s been talking about a website called physioroom.com that has a lot of information about caring for sports injuries, and sells a lot of products related to caring for them. He is planning to buy one of their great sports team first aid kits to give to his favorite coach to use at their games and practices.

Well, it’s official.  It is the holiday season.  Yesterday Teri started playing Christmas songs on the stereo.  When I got home from work she was playing the Garth Brooks CD “Garth Brooks & the magic of Christmas.”  We’ve had that CD for several years now, and I have to say it is my favorite Christmas music CD.  My favorite song on the CD is the song “Baby Jesus is born.”  That’s a toe tapping hand clapping song with a really nice beat and great lyrics.  I hope it doesn’t get played so much that I get tired of it!

I noticed that the new bowling alley in town has opened, and is advertising for leagues.  Teri and I were considering going there and maybe joining a league.  We really enjoy bowling, and we’d love to support a new local business.  The big drawback is that we heard that they allow smoking throughout the entire alley all of the time.  Well, I’m afraid that is a deal breaker; Teri is badly allergic to cigarette smoke!  It makes it difficult sometimes to go places because so many places allow smoking inside.  I heard there are some states, like Maine, that has made it illegal to smoke in restaurants and all public places.  I sure wish they’d do that here!

We’ve fed the birds over the years, wanting to help hem to survive the harsh winter.  We’ve gone to great lengths to protect our bird feeders from raiding squirrels.  It has been fun watching the great lengths that squirrels will go to, trying to get to the bird seed.  We have invested a lot of money in bird feeders because those rascals manage to break them to the point where the seed just pours straight out onto the ground.  I don’t hate squirrels, and I don’t wish them ill will, I just wish they’d stop ruining the bird feeders!

Well, this weekend I was reading in the Sunday paper that there is a major shortage of acorns and hickory nuts.  In many areas there are no nuts at all!  This is highly unusual and the experts have no explanation for this strange phenomena, but the end result is that we are going to have millions of dead squirrels because of starvation.  So I am thinking about buying a couple of special squirrel feeders, and filling them with sunflower seeds and corn, trying to help the little guys make it through the winter.  I hope lots of other people will, too!