It’s a lonely, boring, mostly cloudy Saturday evening here in NC. I’m listening to the A*Teens in an effort to put some energy in my day. The music does make me want to get up and dance, but I’d probably tear this camper down flopping around in it The A*Teens are a teen group out of Sweden who remade Abba’s hits into dance music back in the late 90’s. Not half bad…they basically sound the same, except a lot more upbeat. I like “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” & “Take a Chance on Me”.

I just got back from the old home place. It’s spooky way back up in there with no one else around. It’s where I grew up, but now it’s just a lonely, broken down old place, isolated from the world and the family who made lots of memories there. The squirrels and crows are having a field day in the corn patch. I dug some potatoes and grabbed a few onions, went in the old house and snagged a few of my old CDs, then got out of there. I stepped through a board on the footbridge crossing the creek, but had enough sense not to drop my potatoes. I dropped my CDs but only lost one of those in the bushes—not one of my favorites, thank goodness. Wasn’t about to go crawling through waist high weeds looking for it!

My Dad’s been home from the hospital for a couple of days. He’s feeling better. Mom’s having to learn a whole new way to cook, because of Daddy’s high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Good thing Mom and my sister made Dad go to the hospital or things could have gone beyond serious. Once he gets his condition under control, he’ll feel much better. It’s just going to take some time. He just walked through the yard with a cane, so he’s getting out of the house some too, which is good.

Well, I’m off to watch a trilogy—“The Matrix”. It’ll be close to midnight before it’s finished, but I don’t have the desire or the energy to do much else  I guess not even the A*Teens is peppy enough for me this day.