Wayne Medley’s Blog

I have one jumpy dog and it is because of all the fireworks that have been set off the last few days. Diva is a good dog she just hates fireworks and thunder, well you can add motorcycles to that growing list too. Anything that is loud or a strange sound sets her off and she is a bit jumpy and the loud noises set her off extra. I will be very glad when the fireworks and the thunder season is over maybe I can get some rest then. It is a lot quieter in the winter around here, then they set off fireworks for New Years Eve and that is a bad day for Diva too.

Anyone my age or even a bit older know that this refrence means the day that Buddy Holley died in his plane crash. I was deeply offended when the same refrence was used to announce the death of Michael Jackson. It was ruse to use this saying to tell the world that the so called king of pop died. I am not a Jackson fan and in no way want him lumped in with a true musical legend Buddy Holley.

With all the rain we have had this spring the Cumberland River is filled to the rim. I have only seen the river this high once in the 10 years I have been here and that was a flood that flooded lower Broadway about 9 years ago, I remember the Budweiser truck floating down the river, I guess the fish were going to have a party and got them a beer truck. It was kind of funny, we saw the report of the beer truck floating down the river and went down to see it for ourselves. Let us hope it does not get that high this time.

I have been working all week with no air conditioning in the truck, and it has got very hot and humid this week. As much as I get in and out of the truck it would not help a lot to have working air conditioning but it is something that I want. So the first of the week I plan to put the Tahoe in the shop to get the air conditioning fixed and that means I will have to drive the big van and I will not like that very much it has no air conditioning either and it is a mess to drive in traffic it is so big, but I will manage I always do.

On my first weekend with out having to work I was given a list of “chores” to do and I see no way I can finish this list before I turn 65 and get ready to retire. It is a shame to miss all this good golf and fishing weather with a damn list of stuff to do. I think I will wait one week to start this honey do list and get in some golf before she finds out I am gone and then maybe I can go fishing later on when it cools off a bit. Maybe a nap befre then will help my mind work better, ya a nap is on the agenda.

UPDATE: There was no nap and no golf and no fishing, she found me.