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By Pete, February 26, 2010 3:37 p02

We all hated to hear of the death of the trainer of the killer whale….One thing that has always worried me about working with animals is that they are animals..Holding something in its mouth is one way for it to show affection and to be playful with its owner….I believe this whale loved its trainer and wanted to play, nothing more…But on the other hand, many animals can turn on you in a second, dogs attacking children they normally play with, and attacking owners that have been loving them for years and we really have no way of knowing it’s motive(well, duh)…I would appeal to all animal lovers to love and take care of their pets, but don’t leave small children unattended around them…Just a word of caution as most of the time they will be ok, but, be safe, ok?…….

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By Pete, February 25, 2010 3:37 p02

I ran across a picture of my brother Samuel E. Hester and my dad, Daniel W. Hester, given to me by a cousin last year. I wanted to share them with you….They are Pickens County Alabama born and raised….Born there….lived there….buried there….And I loved them both dearly…Sam’s family own several acres of the original homestead of Middleton Hester’s from about 1855….double click on the picture to increase its size…..

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By Pete, February 23, 2010 3:37 p02

Well, our silvery minnow is back in the news. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife has revised it’s recovery plans for the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow. It does not say what the revision is. But you remember me talking about Texas needing it’s water released from New Mexico to flow on down toward El Paso and beyond. Well, my thinking is now that the silvery minnow has the water to survive now because  Texas is getting it’s water. So, as long as we keep the water flowing the little fella’s will be ok…..Now, why did we not think of that before….Them little critters need water….Duh…I guess them Texas fellas do too…I’m glad we got it all worked out….

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By Pete,

A couple of posts back I said visitors were down…..No, you guys have been great, I just mis-figured … Even with this being a short month it looks like it will beat January, which was a good month…We are presently averaging over fifty visits per day, that’s pretty good, huh?…Well, I thought so too….and visitors from 43 different countries…Really, I do thank you so much for visiting our site, reading our posts and downloads and, by the way,  I have several unpublished books should you be interested. And several of you left comments that were not in English, and that is a requirement….Yeah, I know that mine is questionable, but that’s different….Really,you guys make me feel good by reading these posts…..Pete

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By Pete,

I received a call from my nephew tonight stating that  he would be having triple by-pass surgery in Tuscaloosa tomorrow morning, 7 am or so. We will be remembering him in our prayers….He is a special guy to me, more like a brother than a nephew. You might have read a couple of his comments in this site…. So, let me ask you to mention him in your prayers asking for his safe keeping and fast healing….I will certainly appreciate it….Pete….. Feb. 24 update, my nephew came though the surgery just fine. We spoke with a family member last evening and she reports he is doing well. I want to thank those of you who prayed for him….Just so you will know, this site will take any prayer request seriously and will take the time to intercede to our Heavenly Father in your behalf…

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By Pete, February 21, 2010 3:37 p02

I have heard honking, high up, for several days now. I guess the cloud cover has hidden the migrating geese from me…signs of spring, huh….and that’s good…a new beginning…..Update….Feb 18, 2010 numbers from the wildlife folks shows the number of birds to be way under the last report….Gone up north to see our northern neighbors….I suppose they will be back in record numbers next winter after all that partying up north….

Carlsbad was voted some money to work on the new cavern at the south end of the city. I hope they can patch it up…Reckon what they will do? Pump brine water back into the cavity? Make more caves to explore? ….Now that’s a joke folks so don’t jump on me, ok? Really, how do you fill a major hole like that….Stuff 2.5 million dollar bills down the hole? Let’s see, there are 100 pennies in a dollar, so 2.5 million dollar in pennies, now that would be, geez, these dang cheap calculators….Well, its a bunch, so it might fill the hole’….Ok, I’ll be quiet…but let me know how they will fill that dang hole, ok?

Visitors have been down a little lately. I suppose the writer of this blog needs to do a little more work on something worth while to write about. Everybody is talking a tea party…Well, I was not invited to the first tea party, so I probably will not attend this one and I sure don’t want to write about it. But I am very sure I will hear about it….I am a conservative and I vote that way, but I don’t like to get out and mix it up and carry on publicly…It just ain’t me…But I will vote my mind and stand for what I believe and listen to what you have to say…More than two paragraphs though and you lose me…ADD I guess….

New Mexico Lobo’s , 25 – 3…squeeked by Air Force…but a win is a win, huh? those boys in blue used all of the clock everytime they went on offense. We won, but I will not get my 4 tacos for a dollar at Taco Bell since we did not score 65 or more points…Now that’s a shame and Air Force is to blame…So Tuesday, between 4 and 6 pm, I will have to pay regular price for my tacos at Taco Bell…Colorado State next Tuesday for the Lobo’s….In the pit….No, they are playing at Colorado State….Feb 24 update:  We won…We are now 26 – 3 and rated number 10 nationally…Pretty good, huh?…Only thing about being rated, everyone wants to knock you out of the ratings and sometimes just to say “we beat a ranked team”….Anyway, Go Lobo’s…….

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By Pete, February 19, 2010 3:37 p02

By golly did you read about this new idea.  I  think the official from South Carolina may have come up with something. Pay for everything in either gold or silver coins. The transportation industry will make a mint. Say, you have a house payment of 1080.21 cents, which you owe to a mortgage company in California. You will have to mail or ups or fed ex or hire a common carrier to haul the cash out to California. The transportation company, not wanting the exposure of hauling all that cash unprotected will have to hire guards to protect the cash, riding shotgun if you will, creating jobs there…. Exploration and mining of gold and silver will have to be increased to handle the new coinage we will need, creating more jobs. Refineries will need to be built. Mining equipment will need to be manufactured to handle the new demand. More and more jobs..That may be the answer…But I have trouble keeping my pants up now as they keep slipping down on my belly, so envision me on the way to the grocery store to buy two sacks of groceries, say 85.00, all in coins and me holding on to my pants to keep them up under all that weight.. I’ll be ok until I get into the store and I have to turn loose my pants to get items from the shelves and down goes my pants. The lady behind me sees me with my pants down and screams, I drop the jar of jelly, which breaks, sending glass and jelly  all over the asile. I grap my pants and try to run with all the coins in my pockets, trip and fall, grabbing for the lady’s cart to remain upright and it falls, spilling the  four hundred dollars she has  in coins in her purse. The manager calls the police stating he has a robbery in progress and the police handcuff me……hey, forget the dang coins….that ain’t a good idea…it’’s a terrible idea….

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By Pete, February 18, 2010 3:37 p02

How ’bout them Lobo’s?  24 – 3….No. 12 ranked….When they are hot they are amazing. Lately they have been hot…So has a couple of other teams in the Mountain West. We are excited about, New Mexico, BYU, UNLV and San Diego State….All of them are tough,… tough enough to be invited to the big dance? I really think three of them are and maybe all four…There is probably a valid reason that folks like me don’t get to vote ’cause I would vote for all four…We will see, huh?

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By Pete,

In yesterday’s Albuquerque Journal they  had a cartoon that showed the Statue of Liberity drawn on our southern border with Mexico. Instead of a torch, in the statue’s hand was a baseball bat and it showed two people on the south side of the border staring up at her. I thought it was in very poor taste: one, because of the hard work our Border Patrol does in trying to police the border, inforcing our laws, and the people of Mexico can get a visa to come across the border, they don’t have to cross illegally. Two, our nation debt is over 12 trillion dollars and illegals can come across, send their earning back to Mexico and somehow get on our welfare rolls, have babies that become Americans, further depleting our resources. I wrote to the paper stating what I have stated here and that we Americans are now the tired, the poor and the huddled masses. Don’t you agree? We have paid and paid and are spit on and bad mouthed by other countries until I am tired of it all. We need to start taking care of our own in my humble opinion. I would like to hear from you on this as I thinks others share this point of view….. Thanks for reading this post…..Pete

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By Pete, February 16, 2010 3:37 p02

General Rommel, also known as “the desert fox” because of his victories with the Afrika Korps, was one of the top Generals in Hitlers army. Rommel had a brilliant career with his tank corp in  Libya. In 1942, he was reassigned to France for Duty.  And Rommel was  made commander in Northern France in 1944. In  his first visit back to Germany since all the bombing had taken place he found his homeland in disarray, no supplies, everything bombed out and in lack of any type home life, Rommel could see that the end was near. Many were upset with Hitler and wanted him removed from office in some manner. While  Rommel was certainly upset with Hitler and Hitler’s killing of the Jews, which he claimed to have not known about, it is not known if he was a party to the plot to remove Hitler from office. But because of his defeatist attitude, he was believed by Hitler to have been party to the plot. After the plot was attempted and failed, he was wounded in a air raid and while convalescing at home he received a visit from the high command stating that they were giving him the opportunity to commit suicide because they believed he had been party to the overthrow plot. He was given the opportunity to take the poison and be given a state funeral with a statement made that it was death by natural causes. and his staff and family would be protected, otherwise they would also be eliminated. Hitler wanted the suicide to look like death by natural causes  to keep down further flair ups from military personnel. Field Marshall Rommel had the time (ten minutes) to advise his wife and son,who was home on leave from the war, the truth of his impending death and the offered protection and that for the protection to hold, they were to forever  remain quiet about the suicide. It was  reportedly a  fast acting drug and within seconds of ingesting  he was dead. After Hitler’s demise, the story of Rommel’s suicide was told……Since I brought up his name a while back I thought some of you might like to hear his story….Matter of fact, I had one request to tell the story, so there it is and as it is with a lot of war stories, it is not very pretty, is it?…Pete