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It’s A Family Affair – Carter Family Style

by Mary Anne

OMG I just got word that next year it will be my turn to host the “Carter Family Reunion”  I thought I had a few more years before it was my turn, but apparently things have changed and my name is now on top of the list. We have a pretty large group of family members that attend these yearly get togethers and it is a big deal to have the responsibility of hosting one. I’m sure that I’ll have some help from my mother and a few of my siblings that are still in the area, but it will still be a challenge and it will take a lot of time and hard work to pull it off, so I’m glad that I have a year to get it all put together.

The good news is that there are now ways to make events like this a bit easier, thanks to the Internet. My sister has all ready sent me the link to the Online Event Management company that she has heard so much about from people that she works with that have had to organize large events in the past. Eventish.com advertises that they make event management, marketing and ticketing easy and affordable, so I am going to take some time over the weekend and check them out to see what they are all about and see if I think if using something like this would be the way to go.

If anyone out there has any suggestions, I’d love to hear from you by leaving a comment or by shooting me an email at the email address provided in the “About Me” section of this blog. A year sounds like a long time, but the clock is ticking and will continue to do so whether I’m ready or not!


KISS Ms. Sharon Good-Bye

by Mary Anne

I see that Sharon has finally had enough of Gene Simmons. I can’t imagine staying with a man for 27 years while the whole time knowing darn well that he is playing around with thousands of other women. I’m just not sure if this is a publicity stunt for their show or for real. Guess time will tell.


A Safer Playground For The Neighborhood Kids

by Mary Anne

Every now and then I will hear a story about how a child has been seriously injured while playing on a playground. It always breaks my heart to hear stories like that. So I’m glad to know that there is a major push going on right now concerning playground safety all across the country. Many public playgrounds are being torn down making way for a new safer version to be built, which I’m so glad to hear about. Such is the case with the playground that is right down the street from where I currently live. I don’t think that there have been any injuries there, but there certainly could have been and I just hadn’t heard about. I’d like to think that the city is just being pro-active and taking the right measures to ensure that we don’t have anything happen to one of the many kids that play there.

From what I understand they are planning on demolishing the old wooden and metal playground pieces and replace them with the new rubberized versions that are so popular these days. They are even going to pay for the new rubber mulch that is being manufactured for playgrounds and landscaping and even being used for equestrian areas, which I think is pretty darn cool. I found an interesting website for a company Rubberecycle that manufactures this safe and environmental friendly product. It seems that they were the ones that provided the White House with their playground that was built right on the White House lawn for their two daughters and their few selected friends to play on while President Obama is in office.

It is pretty interesting info to read and learn about. Anything that makes today’s kids safer is all right by me and the fact that they are using old scrape tires to make this new fangled product that is keeping up with the hot GREEN issue that is all the rage these days!

It will be interesting to watch and see the progress that they make down the street. I hope that it doesn’t take too long to do because I’d rather see these neighborhood kids playing there than running the streets. I’m sure I’m not alone there!

 


Paying with cash

by Mary Anne

I was just reading on Yahoo News that a man in Utah was given a ticket for disorderly conduct for paying cash for a disputed medical bill. When I saw the headline I thought that was really odd, so I read the story. Well, apparently the man paid a $25 bill with 2500 pennies, which really should not be all that big a deal, but the way he dumped all of the pennies on the counter a bunch of them got strewn around the floor and office and he demanded that the staff count them right then and there.

Well, the staff was upset about his presentation and called the police. I think that the guy earned that ticket, don’t you?


Flooding in the Midwest

by Mary Anne

The weather has been so extreme this year. In the past several weeks there were 100′s of tornadoes that have killed people in Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. There have been wild fires in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arkansas, and now there is flooding in Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas.

So is it just me? Or does the fact that Arkansas has experienced all three of these natural disasters, plus some recent earthquake clusters AND the unexplained death of thousands of blackbirds in three cities mean anything?

My heart goes out to the good people of Arkansas. I hope they find some peace from all this bad weather soon.


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