Hi CanMan!

Can you please elaborate on this? Do you mean the high price of gas (AGAIN) or something else?

I actually plan to stay home and BBQ and have a few neighbors over:) I was lazy this past Sunday (I am never lazy) and it felt so darned good that when my hubby asked me what I wanted to do for Memorial Day weekend I said "Not a damned thing!" He looked shocked and then said "OK" and smiled...he probably thought I was joking! Later I told him I would like to grill out and have some neighbors over! My newest best friend neighbor is a beautiful hispanic lady, she does not speak english, I don't speak much spanish and we have hit it off and get along great. Sometimes we just sit and sip a glass of wine and talk to each other and sort-a kind-a understand one another and we get along so good! Thank goodness for my hubby and her daughter who can help interpret every now & then! We both love to cook, and we talk alot about food! So I want to have her & her hubby over!

Gas at $2.49 or thereabouts I do not consider to be HIGH, considering what it has been in the past and could very easily go back to and probably will at some point down the line. I'm disappointed at the price, but that's about all.

I'm not sure I can elaborate on what my state and your federal government have been doing since it would only raise my blood pressure and right now I don't want to do that since my *free* health clinic where I get my monthly medication just demanded $60 to see the doctor -- changes ordered by the politicians to raise money. I said a few choice words since I don't carry that kind of cash on me, especially when they provide no warning, and walked out....without any medication.

Today was also to vote on six state measures to collect Billions and Billions of dollars more out of the already stricken and out of work public, just so they could remain fat and happy, which Joe public seems to be rejecting entirely. The politicians are threatening to remove all police and fire support if that occurs in an effort to scare the people so they will vote in favor of the issues. It ain't working. And apparently this same scenario is being played out everywhere. Bad times and its not caused by the people, though the people are the scapegoats for all the ills.

And you know things are really bad when individual states in our Union must formally and officially (re)declare their sovereignty as a State.

As for Memorial Day, I stay mostly in seclusion and give private honor and remembrance to those fallen in present and past wars that I was fortunate enough to survive from. I used to enjoy honoring the day in public, but nowadays most have forgotten or don't care about the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At many cemeteries, the graves of the fallen are increasingly ignored, neglected. Most people don't even know or remember the proper flag etiquette for the day. Last time I went to the polling place they had the flag displayed backwards. This year no flag at all.

Inspite of all this I am actually quite happy. I just can't find a reason to go out in to the cesspool we all are living in and with everything else going on right now and be made unhappy.

My family typically does the cemetery thang and then a cook-out, but I'm working a double-shift this year on the Monday that I am normally off. But, that's not all-bad, especially since gas here hit $2.59 tonight! So, the OT on my paycheck will come in handy...

It is $2.39 a gallon here Kev and still climbing.

I sure do relate! Home is my haven!!!!