Thanks for stopping by for our weekly Sunday after church meeting here in the park. It's so nice to see you.
I was just thinking about why Sunday trips to the park are
so important to me. They remind me of when I was a little boy during the War years.
After Sunday school, during the spring, my daddy would bring me here so I could swing, ride the merry-go-around, and go down the slide a zillion times.
And then we'd go to the ice cream factory just about three blocks away, and get a freshly made ice cream sandwich. We'd sit on the factory's front steps and eat that delight. It was called Purity Ice Cream and even Texas' famous Blue Bell Ice Cream doesn't match up.
My daddy, William Wallace Cherry's, birthday was last week, and if he were still alive, he would be 99-years old, but I still think of him as the young man in the park with his little boy on Sundays after church.
RIP OFFS. OK, here's the latest. A company called Reserve Solutions is pushing a debit card that lets you withdraw money from your 401 (k). Of course the withdrawals are treated as loans against your retirement account. Now let's see if the federal government is astute enough to put a stop to this, or will it be the next sub-prime mortgage.
PER STIRPES. These two Latin words frequently work their way into wills. It's a method for distributing an estate. Per stirpes (which is Latin for "per branch") specifies that each branch of the deceased person's family receives an equal share of the estate. Say a man dies and leaves three grown children. His estate would be equally divided among the three. If one of them had died, then his one-third would be equally divided among the deceased son's children.
PER CAPITA. Conversely, per capita is a method of distributing an estate where each child living at the time of the decedent's death gets an equal portion. No provision is made for branches being beneficiaries. Consequently if one of his three children has predeceased him, none of his father's estate would pass to his children.
SCHWAN. There is one food delivery service that is reminiscent of the past when the milkman brought milk to the door, as did the egg man. Schwan's Fine Foods wonderful products. They come to our door every two weeks. We are especially fond of their skinless chicken breast filets and their deserts. You can order by Internet, telephone or when the delivery man stops by.
RETIREMENT. The trick of retirement is figuring out how much net worth you must have to supplement your social security, pensions. Etc. Here's a retirement income calculator.
PET MOVING EXPENSES. Fido's moving expense is totally deductible just like any other member of the family, if the move is related to a new job. OK, maybe moving Fido isn't such a big deal, but what about your horse?
DR. KENNETH COOPER. Dr. Cooper is known world-wide as the father of aerobic exercise. He has an enormous facility here in Dallas and another one in nearby McKinney. He also oversees the manufacture of a number of
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Get on Dr. Cooper's health newsletter mailing list. It's free. Click here.
DIET. Oddly, a number of medical experts appear to be weighing in on the best diet for losing weight and remaining there. It's 1972 Edition of Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution.
Thanks for stopping by the park this Sunday. I hope you'll find the time to join me again next Sunday. In the meantime, remember....
GOD Blesses!
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Good Morning!....It's funny, maybe one of the reasons I enjoy My NH Sunday Morning series with my "road trips" is because that is what we used to do as a family after church on Sundays...road trips-most of them into the White Mountains in NH(we lived in MA)
We have Schwans here too. I am always amazed that they are still in business cause I don't know anyone who admits to using them(maybe it's a secret addiction?)
That is atrocious about the IRA withdrawals. Consumerism is fine and dandy but the obsession with it has become obscene and is destroying our countrys fabric. It may be simplistic but it looks to me like instead of trying to improving our Economic numbers by improving trade,cutting the deficit or investing in R&D...the "powers that be"have come up with another spending scheme and are looking to futhur squeeze collectively, the we who are the giant golden egg goose...eventually they'll hit the wall on that one too! Now if I'm a "liberal", so to speak, and I can see it....where are the conservatives?
Sorry for the rant Bill...you hit a nerve!!
Schwans - oh such a treat best ice cream in the world -
Miss Joanie -
I'm not liberal about anything having to do with people being allowed to be stupid with their money because they end up being a burden on everyone else. I almost dropped dead when I read this bit about the IRA withdrawals.
Your trips through New England series is the best!
And Miss Thesa and Miss Joanie-
Everyone should be on a Schwan man's route, and most can be by simply going to their web site. Our man comes by about 1:30 or so every other Thursday. If for some reason I'm not here, he comes back by about 6:30 -- I guess on his way home. Their stuff is darned good and it's consistently good, and I frankly don't think it's expensive.
And Miss Thesa is right. Until you've had Schwan ice cream, you've never had really good ice cream. Their cobblers are excellent, too.
Parenthetically, I grew up in the days when the egg man, the milk man, the laundry and dry cleaning man came by regularly. And when all of our groceries were delivered from Mr. Bovio's grocery store. I've never gotten over thinking that service is an inalienable right. Who's idea was it to stop doing it, anyway?
Billycherry
Bill...we had a man who raised chickens down the street..I remember going to help him candle the eggs and how fun it was to walk through the coop when it was full of those fuzzy little baby chicks...this was not country..it was the main street of town! I also remember the milk man...he used to bring me puzzles,the bread man from Cushmans, the fuller brush man and we even had a garbage man who collected the garbage pail from the underground hole it was in. He used to let me ride down the driveway on the running board of his truck!
I hadn't thought about these things in years! Thank you for bringing it up!
Miss Joanie
I didn't think about the Fuller Brush man. Did you also have the fellow who came by every once in awhile and sharpened knives and sizzors? People made a living offering service.
I told Patty over the weekend that I would not go in the Wal-Mart nearby ever again. Period. Service is something they don't offer or care to. They now even have so few human checkers (they never had baggers) that to get out of there the same day you arrive, you have to check yourself out.
Of course the machine thinks you're probably getting ready to steal the 30 lb. bag of cat litter or the carton of Cokes are anything else that's to big to put in the plastic bags that don't open, so it stops mutiple times during the process. You then have to wait for someone who never smiles to come tell the machine it's OK to resume checking your groceries.
But the machine doesn't believe that command, so the very next time something doesn't weigh enough for the machine to know you've placed it in a bag, the whole thing of calling you a crook resumes.
After all of that, you finally try to leave with your bags, and be darned if there isn't someone at the door who wants to go through your stuff to see that you paid for everything.
Later in the day I discovered that Target sells the teeny tiny cans of dog food that our little terrier eats, and they sell them for 11 cents a piece cheaper than Wal-Mart. They have checkers, they bag, and their store is clean. Such a deal. Service with a smile and at less cost.
Now if they'll just offer home delivery.
Billycherry
Bill...I don't remember the knife guy...but our doctor made house calls!!
You had me in stitches about Wal mart....I don't do Wal-Mart because I get annoyed every time! I do do Tar-jet (that's the French) the contrast is glaring!
Bill, You forgot to mention the iceman. When I was a kid he delivered ice from a horse drawn wagon. We would (kids) swarm him to get shards of ice to suck on.
Are you of Scottish ancestry? William Wallace?
I've got to check out Schwans. Thanks.
Bill Roberts
Bill
Yes, the iceman. I forgot the iceman. The one who worked Galveston was a black man named Mr. Galloway. Everyone called him Mr. Galloway. He was a great guy. And when the ice business went south, he got his master's plumber's license and his old ice customers fired their plumber and hired him.
His son, Omar Galloway, was a great jazz pianist who traveled the world. Mr. Galloway put him through college, and he earned his master's. Omar died of cancer last year. I miss him. He was the greatest.
And you're right. My dad claimed he was Scotch. My mother's family was 100% English. Daddy spoke German and French. Mom just spoke French, but was a fine student of Latin. So I used to ask my daddy how he could be Scotch and not speak the stuff. No answer. Total silence.
Billycherry
Miss Joanie --
They have figured out how to run Wal-Mart stores with any percentage of morons from 1% to 100%. They will succeed anywhere as a result. The one near me: I have never seen so many low class, low rent, low IQ people in my life as there are there.
Recently the checkers -- the two or three that they have -- have started sitting on stools. Now their efficiency has gone from intolerable to non-existent....and you're sure to have seen that Wal-Mart is going to open medical clinics in some of their stores. God forbid.
Billycherry
ahhh, thanks for the morning smiles, Billy and Joanie.....the two of you are treasures in my world ( I just love reading the comments in these posts....Bill, you had me laughing out loud with your wal-mart story. I refuse to go to walmart too.....too big, too impersonal, too many line-ups, too many canned smiles and the lighting is depressing. Not to mention you have to park a mile away to get a parking spot)
Jo
Miss Jo
Miss Joanie and I are simply too old, too tired and way to wise to put up with the shenanigans of Wal-Mart. We wish the rest of the world were, too.
Billycherry