Wow… we’re having better ‘n’ better weather! … It’s so good I’m forgetting to water the plants… But I’ll get to it later.
It’s been a very good week… but I keep thinking I’m terminally stricken with a lazy streak… however this week was a tad better. I’m getting a few things done.
However,…we had planned a *magnificent* yard sale for a while ago. (May -- to be precise.) And because my wife and I had sold a sort of trundle-bed to a family who seemed nice and promised they would shortly provide the remainder of the purchase price… we loaded it on their truck… I think it was back in late March or April… My dear wife was worried that the bed frame for the nice trundle bed was going to get rusty being under a somewhat makeshift tarp. So I put the item on our local ‘Garage Sale’ program and these people showed up wanting to buy it.
Well -- after entertaining them and receiving their assurance they would bring the remainder of the agreed upon price by -- just as soon as their Social Security check came in the next month… we put it on their nicely kept red pickup truck… and away they went --- and that’s the last we ever saw of it or them.
I did speak with the lady of the pair on the phone about a month later who said they would bring the $$$ by the very next month … but we’ve never heard or seen them again. We’ve lost the paper with their address… and their telephone number. And I suppose something just totally unexpected and terrible has befallen them or they would have undoubtedly brought the money – at least that’s what my darling wife thinks…and I have learned in these matters of trust and discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart… I had best leave those kinds of decisions to her. (Still and all we could use the $$$.) But I’m resolved to put it absolutely out of my mind by writing this letter.
There – now it’s gone… and I won’t ever think of it again… until I see one of them approaching with the cash in hand.
Meanwhile we are going through another revision in yard sale plans… in addition I have some amateur radio equipment I *must* sell to get it out of the way. And fulfill some promises I have made. (J) … And now that the weather is getting more temperate… I’m up for it.
Whew… that cooled me off admirably.
Today’s JUST A MINUTE is a condensation of an editorial appearing in USNEWS&WORLD REPORT… Edited by Mortimer Zukerman – that I discern expresses some of the same kind of emotion I may have described earlier in this blog… but you can be the judge of that. I’ll look forward to hearing from you if you have!
Cordially, IN HIM
Barbara & Jack Buttram
“JUST A MINUTE”
A CHRONIC CASE AND GETTING WORSE
Just a Minute: Mortimer Zukerman, editor of U.S.News, renders a stunning critique on President Obama: – Quote:
“The rising impatience with the leadership of President Barack Obama was epitomized Aug.8th -- His speech on the economy [began] 53 minutes late. What showed on TV screens was an empty White House [lectern] … When the president did speak, the best he could [say] was ‘We've always been and always will be a triple-A country.’ The market's response was … a drop of another 300 points.
Mr. Zukerman continued: “The president appears to consider himself immune from error and asserts the fault always lies elsewhere … But in politics, the failure of communication is invariably the fault of the communicator. … Many doubt [his] leadership qualities. J.P. Morgan calls it the ‘competency crisis.’ …
“Twenty-five million Americans are unemployed or can’t find full time work … [Does he] not appreciate what is going on? … Like many Americans who supported him, I long for a triple-A president to run a triple-A country.”
Thank you Mr. Zukerman. <>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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