I thought we lived on the Gulf Coast!!!!!!!

There is a day in december that, for me, is one of my favorite days of the year

.It’s not the thirty-first or even the twenty-fifth. This year the day was the Twelfth of December.

The 12th of December this year, marked the annual Buckners Children’s Home Christmas Party. For some twenty years the staff and friends of Buckners hold a  christmas party for the kids.

Like most Holiday events there is plenty of food, Holiday decorations good cheer and LOTS of presents for the kids. For almost as many years  local groups, like motorcycle clubs, automobile clubs and off-road vehicle clubs have joined in on the day, giving a little of what is precious to them. A muddy ride in a jeep, a spin in a sports car or as many laps as you want on the back of a bike.

For the past two years It’s that last group that has brought me to this event. This day of festivities and taking these kids for a “ride” around the facility has become my favorite time of the holiday’s. So often we take for granted that for most of us as kids we had a typical home, with parents who cared and brothers and sisters who were, well, brothers and sisters.

 These young folks, for whatever the reason have come to stay at this place and the staff there work to give them the love and stability they need in there young lives. Each year I go and it’s the same thing, kids, who usually are reserved and shy, perk up. There eyes grow large and the smiles are huge. “I want to ride that one,… no that one!” “Don’t worry”, we tell ’em, “you can ride them all, as much as you like.” And ride they do. From the littlest to the oldest as many laps as they want. Bailing off the back of the bike at the end of the run, to get back in line to ride with another “biker” and his  ride.   The guys in the Jeeps and the Corvettes have the same “problem” as the Bikers.

Hauling that precious cargo you must be ever alert and cautious. But it’s tough to concentrate with that lump in your throat. Then one comes up and give you a hug and thanks you for the ride and tells you how they look forward to this day the whole year. The act of giving, even if it’s just the gift of something we take for granted every day, the feel of the road, the wind in our face and the sound of motorcycle rumbling as it pulls away, this “giving” is the best of the Holiday Season.

Merry Christmas dh 

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David Henderson
dhhen1@gt.rr.com

I got this from Amy Ridenour’s Blog.  Is it just me or does this just make too much since?

When are folks going to understand? It’s not about the un or under insured, it’s about our government mandating an action on our part that it does not have the constitutional power to do.

<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/Blog.html&quot; title="(http://www.nationalcenter.org/Blog.html)“>Amy Ridenour’s National Center Blog 

Everyone Must Buy a Chevy Malibu

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 07:26 PM PST

I heard a very good point from radio host Sean Casey on WCBN radio (Baltimore) today on the question of the Constitutionality of the health care insurance mandate.

There are many good reasons to mandate annual purchases of Chevy Malibu’s, but that wouldn’t make a federal requirement that we must do so Constitutional, and an individual mandate that we must buy health insurance isn’t Constitutional, either.

David Henderson

“If everyone is thinking alike….then someone isn’t thinking”

‘If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.’
–Mark Twain 

Suppose you were an idiot.  And suppose you were a member of Congress…. But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain 

David Henderson

"If everyone is thinking alike….then someone isn’t thinking"

Well it snowed yesterday. Earliest snowfall is history. Sadly, it did not stick. It was fun to see it fall though. It actually came down quite hard. Some area’s north of here had an inch or two.?

All you need is an old tractor with a sticking valve and a trio in need of a steady rhythm section!!

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?  It came without ribbons.  It came without tags.  It came without packages, boxes or bags.  And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore.  Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.  What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store.  What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
 ~Dr. Seuss
I always liked that story..

David Henderson

“If everyone is thinking alike….then someone isn’t thinking”