A Toast!

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Will I have an issue with 'MAY Issue'?

I decided to finally go forth with trying to obtain a Concealed Deadly Weapon permit. My beef, and has been for many others beore me, is even if you are a clean-cut law-abiding citizen who has nothing in the past to prevent getting the proper papers the AG can STILL turn you down, and give no reason as to why. If I spell my name differently than the AG's cousin, I could be denied. If the AG is in a bad mood, I could be denied. If the AG DOESN'T GET ANY, I could be denied.

Now do not get me wrong. If the AG has a hunch or gut-feeling that someone should be denied, good. Rather err or the side of caution. Not everyone should have access to a CDW.

As it stands, my advertisement in the newspaper stating me intentions will be early next week, and I have my appointment to get fingerprinted shortly after. I take all my info and mail it off and it could take anywhere from a couple weeks to a couple months to find out if I did everything for nothing or not. No matter what one feels about gun ownership, you have to admit 'may issue' is wrong, and allows for favortism, racism, feminism and whatever other '-isms' one could conjur up.

Delaware politics are shady.. real shady.

I am not getting riled up- yet.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Yes, it's been a long time

Not exactly sure why, but I just hadn't found time to blog. Just like I don't play the online games I used to play and whatever other things I used to spend time doing. Someone mentioned that maybe real-life was just demanding more time and while I certainly wish that were the case, it isn't totally the answer. Anyways, I have a LOT to say, but will limit this post to just ONE and try not to rant much, then catch up soon.

We got the fence out back and Ripper Vaughn, now almost 25 pounds, absolutely loves his freedom. But anyone who has been to my house knows about the big Holly tree. It's about 30' tall and covered the entire ground area, and the entire area it covered became a hiding spot for many, many leaves. The ivy along the rear fence was no better. Through years of neglect, it became bad. I've only been here 3 years, and that was never a big priority. Well, since the other projects around the house have been caught up, this BECAME a priority- especially since the tree and ivy also are catch basins for all sorts of trash. And now that Ripper Vaughn is family, getting trash off thr ground is important.

Now mind your manners.. I kept it at least asthetically ok, and with my back and then the events of last Spring, heavy yard work ain't easy.

So I decied to take some branches off the Holly- from the ground up about maybe 3-3.5 feet. Not only for looks, but to maintain the mess easier. Well, after chopping off the branches I started bagging the leaves and trash. As I cleared the majority I noticed a couple pieces of plastic sticking though the dirt. Some came right out and some broke apart in my hands, with enough being in the ground to guilt me into cleaning it right, in case we decided to plant something, somewhere..

As I broke ground, it wasn't just the cigarette and candy bar wrapper I found. Nope, more than that. Thankfully it was just trash.. but my gosh.. I literally pulled two 33 gallon trash bags worth of trash from under the ground. 66 GALLONS OF TRASH. Those two bags, along with the 5 bags of leaves and 6 bags of ivy is a lot and I ain't even done maybe 4-5 more bags to go. Let's just say that Lysa and I will certainly be having a few BBQs and/or BIKE-B-QUEs so I can show off our freshly updated digs in the back.

Oh, and Ripper tried to help. First by moving the Ivy vines from where I was working to all over the yard, and then by digging holes. Yep, he's gonna be a burrower.