Ron’s Thoughts …

At this very moment my wife is on the phone talking to a friend about how she was nearly robbed from her car earlier today.

These, (bastards), will smash a car window and grab whatever is there for the taking on the passenger seat.

My gut reaction is to ‘Remove the criminals.’

Kill them.

Then they could never trouble us again.

I, and many of my friends, am ageing and will certainly die.

The question that arises is whether or not those of us who survive should come together and support the others.

The answer in my mind is a certain ‘yes’ , but marriage is a no-no.

Too much water has already flowed under the bridge to ever commit again.

Many years ago I had a life-threatening stomach complaint.

It is not my intention to go into the medical details of the complaint.

Rather, I want to talk about the doctors who attended to me and about my desire to live at that time.

Nearly all of the doctors said that I had no chance, “Send him home to die they said.”

Only one, his name was Dr. Bean, said, “Give the guy a chance and see what happens.”

They re-connected my innards, sent me home, and for the next 3-years I spent 12-hours per day sitting on a toilet. Whatever I ate simply passed straight through.

My weight dropped from 75 kg to 50 kg.

Then things changed.

I flushed all the drugs down the toilet. They weren’t working anyway.

I continued to take oral vitamin supplements and I started to inject myself once per week with vitamim B compounds.

I also learned after all those years about what foods my stomach could handle and what foods were, for me, a no-no.

I think that what little bit of gut I still have has thickened up considerably and is performing as if it is physically much longer.

This is 23-years later, I am obviously ageing , as we all are, but I continue to live a good life.

The Will to Live is strong.

In this evenings newspaper there is an article regarding how some producers use nudity to attract an audience.

Of course they do, men enjoy looking at nude females. ( I suspect that females like being admired.)

I stopped reading the article because it became high-brow intellectual rubbish.

However, the subject of nudity cannot simply be ignored.

Animals never clothe themselves, only humans do.

Speaking for myself, and I believe that most men will agree, I do not find full nudity attractive.

Partial nudity with the suggestion of what may still be coming is far more stimulating.

Women seem to be ambivalent. They say that they like firm bodies and ‘six packs’  but I think that they prefer love and affection.

We have American Politics, UK Politics, South African Politics, Iranian atomic aspirations, Indian ballistic missiles, Greek and Spanish debt crises, Indonesian earthquakes, Islamic and Muslim extremism, Norwegian killers, Somalian Pirates, Rhino and Abalone poachers, African droughts, global warming, shark attacks today, rising petrol and electricity costs, etc.     Enough now, I want to talk about the lighter things of life.

I planted some cauliflower seedlings today and they are all looking very happy.

I also planted some peas. The bigger seeds seem to work well for me.

I played some online chess, some look like wins and others look like losses.

No problem, it is a game that we play.

I cooked some New Zealand Green Lipped Mussels and some Butterfly Prawns. Both very tasty.

I also fried some potato chips in my special way, also very tasty. 

I took some bets on the horses.  As always, some won and some lost. This time around there are more winners than losers.

Tomorrow I must repair many of our mist-spray sprinklers.

I must also get rid of that mole that is damaging my garden.

Cut Worms are becoming a problem for me. I am reluctant to use poisons so I think that to ‘starve’ them by turning over the soil is the way to go.

I wonder about my borehole pump. When I start up it runs brown and after a few minutes it becomes clear. Is that brown water full of nutrients or is it damaging to my plants ?

I don’t play bowls anymore. Somehow the friendship seems to have faded and I can’t stand the weather extremes as I did before.

The Ha De Da’s are eating all my earthworms. I suppose that is good because it means that I have a large number of earthworms.

My grandson was given a brand new motor car by his father but is still nervous about driving it. Better that way than for him to think that he is some super-hero racing driver.

My grand-daughter is getting A’s for all her subjects. Well done.

I looked through a photo album of my daughter’s wedding. Wow, we were much younger and much better looking then. 

Life is good if we choose to see the lighter side.

Yesterday, we had a shark attack  at Koelbaai, in South Africa, where a surfer lost his life.

Many ‘Bunny Huggers’ say that the sea is the shark’s  territory and that we are the intruders.

I say that is nonsense.  The sea is as much a part of our world as the land that we walk on.

If sharks threaten our lives we should destroy them.

It has been a while since I lasted posted some ‘Rons Thoughts’

I wonder why I do it.

I wonder why other people do it.

Obviously, we want to be heard, but, who is listening ?

My wife and I are both into our seventies.

We have been married for 50+ years.

We live in a ( comfortable ) flat much smaller than the house we owned when we were raising a family.

However, to this very day, when we are about to eat our main meal of the day, we set a table. We sit down together, we talk to each other, and, when we are finished eating, we clear the table together, clean the kitchen, and settle down to a relaxing evening.

Maybe that is why we are still married and together 50+ years later.

I look at the modern generation with their fast foods, fast life, cell phones and computers and think to myself, ” You guys need to learn about true values.”

Anyone who reads Ron’s Thoughts and anyone who is afflicted by or affected by cancer would do well to read the Blogroll written by Jason Bagley regarding ” How Doctors Die.”

I hear on the news that there are  89 Dead in a cold snap across Eastern Europe.

At the same time, we are told that sea levels are rising due to Global Warming and the melting of polar ice.

What the hell is going on ?

Are we getting warmer or colder ?

I think that, for reasons beyond human control, the world’s weather is always subject to extremes and we cannot change that anymore than we can prevent volcanoes or earthquakes or tsunamis’.