Tony Brewer

My sister-in-law has been giving me some attitude lately concerning my address sign which is older than dirt at this point. She saw a show on TV which was referring to our emergency personnel having difficulty finding the right place to respond to when called for assistance. I’m sure that at night it would be even more of a challenge.

So she is urging me to get off of my butt and go online and start looking at the variety of address plaques and numbers. She sent me the link to justaddressplaques.com the other day and I’ve spent a bit of time looking around the place and seeing what is out there that might tickle my fancy. I never realized how many varieties there are these days, but I shouldn’t be surprised I imagine. Variety is the spice of life. LOL

It makes sense to get a decent address plaque. My biggest concern is that the pizza delivery person find my place in a timely fashion because I like my pizza still nice and hot!

Just got an email from my youngest brother informing me that I will need to go by his place a few times over the weekend to feed, water and let his dogs out, get the mail, that kind of stuff, because he and his wife are off to Myrtle Beach South Carolina. He just got a bug up his butt, went online to www.48hourteetimes.com, which he had read some where online about how they offer 48 hour tee times in the Myrtle Beach area and he booked a long 4 day weekend.

He and his wife used to play a lot of golf before he was involved in that awful car accident and totally messed up his back. It has been a slow road for him to get to where he is today four years later. He still needs some surgery done in the near future, but he is doing his therapy, following doctor’s orders, exercising and has lost a good amount of weight, which is good for his diabetes along with his bad back. Anyway he is starting to play golf again this past year and apparently found a sweat deal on some tee times on the Internet and he is off and running.

Hope the weather is good for their trip. Bad weather can ruin the best planned vacations, but it wouldn’t be the first time they played a game of golf in the rain. As long as it doesn’t involve lightening and the wind doesn’t kick up a nice shower can be a pleasant experience on the golf course.

While watching the local news this afternoon, there were two stories about people that had the gall to leave their pet dogs in their cars. Both dogs died from the extreme heat that we have been experiencing. I can’t imagine anyone being so dumb as to do something like this. They need to be left in a hot car and left to die to pay for their stupidity.

As the baby boomers age, there will be more demand for doctors, nurses, chiropractors, pharmacists, technicians of all sorts, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and medical supplies.  If one is looking for job security, a medical field job is a good bet.  Seems as if just about everyone I know has some kind of medical problem.  Teri’s Aunt Lydia has kyphosis and her doctors want to perform surgery on her to correct it.  Her Uncle John has a bulging disc that has been giving him a lot of pain.  The doctors want to operate on that, too.

I can remember a time when I was a child that I was so sick that my mother called a doctor that came out to the house to see me.  I don’t remember what the diagnosis was, I just remember that my mother had me sleeping in her bed (which never happens) and the doctor came to see me while I was in her bed.  I sure wish doctors still made house calls!

Seems that nowadays if one needs a doctor’s appointment fast you often have to go to an urgent care center instead of going to your own doctor.  Your own primary care physician is just too booked up to see anyone on short notice.  That makes me really uncomfortable; the urgent care center practitioner doesn’t have your entire history in front of him (or her) and cannot always tell if you really need a medicine or if you are just seeking drugs.

One of the things that always worry me when I see someone burning brush, or thatch on their lawn, is the possibility that there may be poison ivy in the fire.  Once that poison ivy gets into the smoke, it could get into some-one’s lungs.  I cannot even imagine how doctors would be able to treat something like that!  Every time I drive past an open fire outdoors, I always wonder if there is anything toxic in that smoke.