tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:09:37 +0000<b><i>World as seen through the eyes of a young boy and an old guy</i></b>http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Pobept)Blogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-5157229231203965920Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:50:00 +00002009-08-07T09:52:17.771-04:00http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-obama-answer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-8187976964207937130Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:09:00 +00002008-07-04T13:03:32.405-04:00I have move my blog to WordPress.comYou can find me at: Pobept's World ViewAlso look at: Truth Weird and Strange NewsThere will not be any more post on this Blog.ThanksI hope to hear from you There.http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-moved-to-wordpresscom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-3976755856336501789Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:34:00 +00002008-07-03T07:23:39.127-04:00crude oilgasolineANWRANWR Oil: ANWR contains 19,000,000 acres, thats right 19 million acres. The area that has been purposed to open for oil drilling operations is 2,000 acres, yes that right 2 thousand acres! That is 1/10 of 1 percent of the total land mass of ANWR! The light green is ANWR, can you see the tiny red dot located at the end of the arrow pointing to the purposed drilling area?The purposed drilling area http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/07/anwr-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-3373660648340502318Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:57:00 +00002008-07-01T22:40:22.473-04:00depressioncreditmortgagebankingrecessionAt what point does falling wages, job losses, rising interest rates, declining stock market and rising food and fuel cost become a depression? Companies are downsizing, reducing it's work force, closing production facilities.At what point do small investors panic and sell their stock and bond holding? How much does a companies stock have to fall to trigger this sell off? As home values continuehttp://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/07/recession-or-depression.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-8764449490589239967Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:21:00 +00002008-07-01T17:29:48.151-04:00Hurray the good guys have won a great battle! This will go down as great victory for law biding citizens and a wake up call for the criminal element!By Jim MaloneWashington26 June 2008For the first time in history, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a definitive ruling on the right of Americans to own guns. A five-to-four majority of the court ruled that individual citizens have the right to own http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/07/hurray-good-guys-have-won-great-battle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-6891477916930237071Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:48:00 +00002008-06-27T17:07:12.395-04:00Hero's Are Born that way. They don't just get one morning and say, I think today I'll go commit a heroic act! Let us be very clear on this, the average person is not born a coward nor should they be looked down upon if they fail to qualify in the eyes of others as some kind of a hero. Hero's are reacting to an event in the only way they know how. They are identified by others as a Hero, there http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/hero-who-and-what-makes-hero.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-4115069307036275086Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:44:00 +00002008-06-24T06:41:46.949-04:00addictionstext messagingsafetyphonescellCell Phone Addiction can be a danger to you and your families health! Are you addicted to your cell phone? Ask yourself these questions.Do I talk more than 30 minutes a day on my cell phone?Do you talk or text message on a cell phone while driving?Do you send or receive text messages on your cell phone?Do you send or receive photographs or videos on your cell phone?Do you answer your phone when http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/cell-phones-endanger-families-health.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-2673854771778253047Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:50:00 +00002008-06-22T18:08:21.756-04:00oldseniorcitizencigarwineGetting Old does not mean being dead!Getting older is much like getting to be 5 years old again. It's our time in life that one can set on our front porch and drink a glass of wine, smoke a cigar, half dressed, hair uncombed, no makeup and just enjoy the sights and sound all around us. Generally our children and neighbors let us do this not out of respect for managing not to die, but attribute ithttp://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/getting-even-with-our-children.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-7479056800306303508Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:21:00 +00002008-06-19T06:11:15.317-04:00Well maybe I do care, but, I'm not in a panic about it as many seem to be. Even with the cost of food increasing, we Americans still have the widest selection, most abundant, cheapest food supply in the world.We moan and groan about the price of a loaf of bread but on the other hand, this is the first time in many years that our nations wheat farmers have made a reasonable profit on their hard http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/food-cost-on-rise-and-i-dont-care.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-4185856495955403941Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:56:00 +00002008-06-17T11:57:37.509-04:00Credit Cards are a finical trap. They give you a false sense of finical security. The make you feel secure and give the ability to make those impulse buys. They make you feel totally in control when in reality you are not they are.If you have more than one {1} credit card, you have too many cards! Choose the one with the lowest interest rate and cut up the rest. Always pay 'more' than your http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/saving-yourself-and-family-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-764467947042139550Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:23:00 +00002008-06-16T16:46:52.770-04:00cartruckgasolinehydrogenhybridFoxNews Extract: June 16, 2008Honda Motor Co. has begun commercial production of its new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car. This midsize sedan, which runs on hydrogen and electricity, emits only water vapor. Vehicle offers two times better fuel efficiency than a gas-electric hybrid and three times that of a traditional gasoline-powered vehicle. This car will be available starting July to a http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/hydrogen-powered-automobile-hits-show.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-2280964410564908710Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:08:00 +00002008-06-15T05:49:16.658-04:00moneycrude oilgasolineHey boys and girls, have you been watching NASA TV of mission STS-124? NASA TV Astronauts are assembling a International Space Station one part at a time. Just like we did using our erector sets in the past! I hope they still have all the parts, I always seemed to be short a part or two when I built cranes and sky scrapers from my well used and abused Erector Set.Our astronauts and NASA have http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/high-price-of-crude-oil-moves-big-oil.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-7911066898133325266Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:35:00 +00002008-06-22T14:05:51.449-04:00exxoncrude oilgasolineEven Exxon is not immune to the rising price of crude oil. This is not a good indicator of where crude oil prices are headed. Exxon believes this will be a long lasting event that will effect their bottom line for years to come.Exxon will sell off its retail gas outletsBy The Associated PressArticle Launched: 06/12/2008 01:42:49 PM PDTHOUSTON - Exxon Mobil is getting out of the retail gasoline http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/crude-oil-price-forces-exxon-out-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-9076898254690178485Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:24:00 +00002008-06-28T19:32:38.717-04:00A Comment made by one of my friends, has started me down memory lane, Again!I am the oldest of seven (7) kids. Unlike today, we were kids not children. No one ever ask how many children do you have it was 'always' how many kids do you have. Must have something to do with time and place I was born and raised.At the advanced age of 10 I was charged with care and feeding of 5 younger brothers and http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/older-brother-and-his-kids.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-3759083984267048533Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:23:00 +00002008-06-12T17:48:24.650-04:00vietnamcotton1970 and Vietnam is now behind me, Norma, Michelle and I found an old farm house in the country. This was not Norma's first choice, but it was one we could afford. It was only 2 miles to the paved road and it does not rain much on the high planes of Texas, so getting in and out was seldom a problem. The wind blows almost daily from the southwest from February to end of April and today was no http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-are-those-men-doing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-4502808240190491797Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:36:00 +00002008-06-09T17:39:29.230-04:00Baby Found Under Cabbage One Saturday afternoon, my 5 year old daughter springs the dreaded, where did I come from question on me! In keeping with my always be truthful to wife and daughter policy, I told her that one day I had gone to the garden and I found here neatly tucked under a large cabbage leaf. This seemed to satisfy her at least for now. We were living in a small German town, http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/where-do-babys-come-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-5396444815703763132Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:41:00 +00002008-06-09T13:35:27.147-04:00Dogcountry livingboyhuntingfishingChristmas 1952 I was 5 years old and that year I received two presents. First was a 5 week old 'real' live beagle puppy. I was elated at having my very own beagle puppy, a 'real' hunting dog! He came from a good line of dogs and as such came with papers and his name was Dart the 3rd! That was a bit formal so we settled on just Dart.Second was a model 67a winchester 22 rifle. It was chambered tohttp://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/every-dog-needs-boy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-3748386639605255780Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:08:00 +00002008-06-07T12:53:53.322-04:00Grandpa Smith smoked Bull Durham tobacco in a sack for 70 years. Grandma Smith never through anything out. 'Waste not want not' was one of her favored sayings. She saved every empty tobacco sack. She carefully remover the tie string from top of the sack and turning sack inside out, she unseam, wash and iron the sack before putting it away to be used in making a patch quilt or to repair a hole inhttp://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/bull-durham-tobacco-in-sack.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-168410528078635674Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:09:00 +00002008-06-13T08:12:03.339-04:00mortgagegasolinegasfood costloansbusinessAmerican Working Class is caught in the middle. Being squeezed from stagnate wages, lay offsplant closings, falling home values and ever increasing gasoline, food prices, higher rent and mortgage payment just to mention a few.Self Inflected Wounds. Buyers as well as lenders were writing and signing contracts that lenders knew buyers could not afford to keep payments up on over a longterm contracthttp://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/american-working-class-is-caught-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-1035448211479305965Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:17:00 +00002008-06-05T08:01:36.405-04:00living greencountry livingfood costGrandma's Milk Cow was always a Guernsey. Guernsey's produce a little less milk than most other breeds but had a higher butter fat content in their milk. More cream means more butter per gallon of milk. This was an important factor in selecting a milk cow. Grandma did not sell very much milk but she did have a lot of people that wanted her hand churned butter.There were 6 boys and 3 girls, so http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/grandmas-butter-and-egg-money.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-5011929335029726707Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:21:00 +00002008-06-04T12:43:20.442-04:00promotionself improvementSelling one's self theres a fine line between being a butt kissing suck up and unabashed self promotion. Either of which will surely keep your name from being considered for promotion. A yes man answers yes to his supervisor before he even knows the question. He is unable to think for himself or come forward with a solution to a problem. Can't or won't submit constructive solutions or new ideas http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/team-player-or-self-serving.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-5585910181537109704Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:26:00 +00002008-06-03T22:49:49.077-04:00townliving greencountry livingAir Conditioners destroy families! In the days when no one could afford to buy or operate AC units, family, friends and neighbors set on the porch talking! I can't imagine what they talked about every evening. This was all in an attempt to escape heat in the house. Granny Elkins cooked on a wood stove so even with every window open inside the house was like being in an oven. Grin. Unless you werehttp://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/air-conditioners-destroy-families-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-4435784567577687600Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:01:00 +00002008-06-03T07:55:00.618-04:00Grandma Elkins had a routine. Everything had a place and if you used something you had better put it back from where you got it. It took only one of her scoldings to impress upon a small child's mind that failing to return something to it's rightful place was a really bad idea.Friday was her day to bake bread, cakes and pies for next week meals or to take to sick friends and neighbors or church http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/06/friday-was-grandmas-baking-day-or.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-7289010959943930706Sat, 31 May 2008 09:53:00 +00002008-06-03T07:54:36.714-04:00Sometimes looking into my mirror while shaving, I want to know 'who' is that old man looking back at me.. Where has my youth gone? Just what the hell is a 'senior' citizen and when did I become one of them?It seems like that only last year I could leap tall buildings in a single bound, but, now I need a step ladder to get over a short fence!I am finding that I my bones 'creek', joints snap and http://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/05/young-man-i-was.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8740621536844902106.post-2105232913416934779Thu, 29 May 2008 16:19:00 +00002008-06-02T16:09:25.882-04:00vegetablesliving greengardenComposting can be as simple as a pile in one corner of your yard. This one was made from 3 recycled pallets or you might want a high tech composting system. The secret is get yours started now no matter what approach you decide to take. Anything that has ever been alive can be composted, somethings are just better than others. I seldom recommend or link to other websites, their information is sohttp://town-n-country.blogspot.com/2008/05/compost-pile-living-green-recyclers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pobept)0