Here I sit after shutting down for a week to regroup after the announcement of my daughter's engagement and impending nuptials. As a mother, I would like nothing more than for my daughter to stay single and at home with me forever. But alas, she refuses to cooperate as did my oldest daughter. Being too old (in my opinion at least) to have more kids I'll have to suck it up and live vicarously throught my sisters' grand kids.
I recently spent 4 beautiful days in Manahawken and LBI at Chez Torry. A wonderful B&B I would recommend to anyone in my family. LOL This wonderful mini vacation has raised some questions and concerns -
Strolling along the beach at Ship Bottom one day I accumlated a lovely collection of NO, not shells or sea glass, but empites - water bottles, beer and soda cans, broken kids toys, chip bags etc. I didnt stop to pick up any of the thousands of cigarette butts that people leave in the communal ashtray once knows as a beach. Perhaps the Army Corps of Engineers can stop hauling in sand and just leave it to the smokers to replenish the beaches with butts. It has to be a lot easier to get a butt out of your butt than that pesky sand.
Now I know that people pay tons of hard earned cash to live at or rent property on LBI and for the life of me, I just can't understand why they want to pay that kind of money and turn it into a garbage dump????????? I wonder if they also throw trash out in their own back yards???
Coming home, I was so happy to find that the dogs in the neighborhood had left me tokens of their appreciation on my front lawn. There is nothing like stepping out on my front porch in the AM and inhaling the sweet aroma of dog doo.
Again I ask, do these people let their dogs crap on their own lawns and leave it there? I think not! We pay big bucks in taxes here, we have a Pooper Scooper law that to my knowledge seems to be unenforceable - so I get the dubious honor of grabbing a bag and picking it up and leaving it as a gift for our trash collectors. Just today, the hubby who refuses to pick any up (he retches at the thought of it-similar to his reaction to the presents our daughters once left in diapers), just kicked it off the lawn and into the street for others to enjoy. Feel free to stop by and enjoy it for yourself.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Pig Races and Other Fun Stuff
Yes, it's true. I was at a Pig Race at the Sussex Fair yesterday. Never been to a county fair in my life until yesterday - being unemployed certainly leaves me with a lot of time on my hands.
Pigs, goats, cows, roosters, guinea pigs and hamsters too. We saw them all. I must admit, I enjoyed the day. First of all it was sunny - what you say, sun in NJ? Yes it is true the sun was shining. Today of course it is pouring her in Central NJ.
Secondly I was with some nieces and nephews and watching the kids on the rides brought back memories of the days of putting my own children on rides.
Which brings me to the topic of Disney World. Just read an article in today's paper announcing that due to falling guest numbers the brilliant Disney execs have decided to raise the price of admission. Hmmmmm - let's see how that discussion went -
Gentlemen, as you know due to the economy, guest sales are falling and attendance has dropped dramatically. Seems people can no longer afford to come to our park. How do we get them here - Oh I know, lets raise the price so even fewer families can afford the daily passes. You know they say less is more. So sure we'll have a lot fewer paying "guests", but we can now charge those few who still can afford it an arm and two legs to get in. We are Disney after all, while everyone else is cutting prices we must raise ours to stand out in the crowd.
So now a the cost of pushing a sleeping 3 year old around the park on a daily basis is $68. (Yes 3-9 year olds pay $68 a day.) Adults will now get in for a bargain price of just $79 a day. WOW what a bargain!!! Reminds me of the time we took our daughters of 4 and 5 to the park, waited almost 2 hours for the Dumbo ride and then watched them go around only 3 times before they were dumped off. What fun! My oldest daughter cried when they put her off.
I think I'll take a mortage on the house and book my trip now.
Pigs, goats, cows, roosters, guinea pigs and hamsters too. We saw them all. I must admit, I enjoyed the day. First of all it was sunny - what you say, sun in NJ? Yes it is true the sun was shining. Today of course it is pouring her in Central NJ.
Secondly I was with some nieces and nephews and watching the kids on the rides brought back memories of the days of putting my own children on rides.
Which brings me to the topic of Disney World. Just read an article in today's paper announcing that due to falling guest numbers the brilliant Disney execs have decided to raise the price of admission. Hmmmmm - let's see how that discussion went -
Gentlemen, as you know due to the economy, guest sales are falling and attendance has dropped dramatically. Seems people can no longer afford to come to our park. How do we get them here - Oh I know, lets raise the price so even fewer families can afford the daily passes. You know they say less is more. So sure we'll have a lot fewer paying "guests", but we can now charge those few who still can afford it an arm and two legs to get in. We are Disney after all, while everyone else is cutting prices we must raise ours to stand out in the crowd.
So now a the cost of pushing a sleeping 3 year old around the park on a daily basis is $68. (Yes 3-9 year olds pay $68 a day.) Adults will now get in for a bargain price of just $79 a day. WOW what a bargain!!! Reminds me of the time we took our daughters of 4 and 5 to the park, waited almost 2 hours for the Dumbo ride and then watched them go around only 3 times before they were dumped off. What fun! My oldest daughter cried when they put her off.
I think I'll take a mortage on the house and book my trip now.
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