$5,000

12/28/2009

What do you do when a total stranger ask you for $5,000.00. Well, in a round about way he did. His brother said this "person of interest" had run up some big time debt, and needed $5,000.00 urgently!

I think now, I have help a lot of people in my life. I helped someone recently save his house and helped pay for an attorney, and he really needed help. Someone wronged him and took almost all he had and even forged documents, signed loans in his name and he was inches from bankruptcy and losing everything.

The difference, I guess, is he told me all that happen to him and I started sending monthly payments to keep them from foreclosing on his home. It took two years of mine and others helping him and just last month, he got a new mortgage on his home and settled with the bank.

The person who ask for money most recently is kin as was the person I just wrote about. But the second told me everything, up front, honest with me as to what happen and what it would take to save him. The recent request was only a 6 or 8 word email forwarded from his brother asking for "5,000, HE needs urgently!"

I can only write at this time, I will wait. I am interested in possibly(?) helping this person but until I know what happen, what is owed to whom, and how much, how can just throw $5,000.00 into the wind.

I truly hope he or someone who knows someone kin to me that needs my help. Even though I have not heard from this person for over 20 years, I am still here. I don't have much, but this dad, brother and son knows people need help sometimes and I saw other do as I "may" do.

Keep in touch and read occassionally and i'll let you know if I hear again from one of my kind in trouble. If you have read this far, please feel free to comment and let me know what you would do and how much to and for an almost total stranger...

Later,,,,Jeff the Knutt in the Ham

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North Carolina Christmas Trip....

12/19/2009

My dear friends and casual reader,,,Merry Christmas to one and all.

Karen and I planned a trip to North Carolina today but sometimes plans do go awry? We knew there was a storm hitting the east coast this weekend, but thought we would be spared this in our plans and make it to Hickory without any problems.

Thursday I got Karen's Escape serviced and ready for the planned trip. I got a haircut, wound up all my company business and by Friday night I was ready to pack for the trip beginning this morning.

I got home before Karen and got the last of the laundry dried and got all our winter gear out to pack for the trip. I called Karen earlier in the day and hoped she could get off early but she said it would be 5:30pm before she could leave.

But I am still working toward the trip last night when the phone rang and it was Karen. Please meet me in the garage and ferry some of her things into the house. I met her downstairs and ask her if she was alright? No was her response!

She unlocked all the doors on her Escape and she motioned me into the hatch in the rear. She was slow getting out and I noticed she was limping. I stopped everything and ask what was wrong. After she talked to me Friday afternoon, she made a trip out to her car to get something and fell on the parking lot, and hyper-extended her left ankle.

I questioned her a little coming in and got all her package into the house then helped her in. She said it has been raining all day and she feel backwards coming back from her car and fell on her left ankle. Enough said.

I helped her undress, got out the heating pad, and got her comfortable. She had brought a large chef salad home and we split it sitting on the bed and making sure her ankle was as comfortable as possible. She called her mom and told her about the fall and both suggested we start the drive Sunday and give her a day's rest on the possible sprain.

She slept fitfully last night and was some better in the early am Saturday. But as the evening drew near, it began hurting again and she has piled back in bed. We ate lunch together and enjoyed some homemade cookies a neighbor shared today, and they were still hot out of the oven.

Now I am not sure if tomorrow is possible to begin the trip. It may be Monday and everything is on hold right now just waiting to see how she does. Several months ago, I too took a fall into a filling station the day before a trip, and Jeff had to stay home. Now it was Karen's turn to have the run of bad luck.

Wish us the best, and let's hope she does Ok tonight and feels like making the 8 hour drive tomorrow. Time will tell? Jeff

 

Bob and Juanita CloseUP!



I edited the pix in Photoshop Elements to give you an nice close up of the duo at their 60th!

 

Mom and Dad Clark



Mom and dad Clark at the 60th at Northminster Presbyterian in Hickory, NC! Enjoy!

 

Clark's 60th Anniversary



Bob and Juanita Clark's celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary in Hickory, NC. Quite a good showing and 4 generations of Clarks present!

 

Hard Work Friday



My company shorted me on my warehouse delivery Friday. They sent the attached 168 boxes on a direct truck to my warehouse Friday am. I met the driver just as he arrived, helped him get on the door, checked the order in, and got my driver away in <30 minutes.

The attached is my work, counting, stacking off to even pallets of 56, and completing this keying into computer inventory for immediate sale.

I think this is pretty good for an almost 72 year old guy! But I hope you don't see this as bragging. In my minds eye, I am only about 50+ and still have a high gear! Enjoy my Hard work. Now where did I put the Ben-gay? :)

Jeff the Knutt in the Ham

 

Jeff's Mailbox



It is great decorating the flower bed surrounding the mailbox at 3281. The gardenia bush was from a clipping I got from a friends yard, and it is the hybrid version that blooms more than once a year! It is a joy just watching this bad boy progress each time I go to the mailbox. Enjoy our hard work! Jeff the knutt in the Ham!

 

Early am riser

8/31/2009

Why is it when you get older you sleep less? It's annoying sometime especially when you have something to do the next day. When your day starts at 4:00am or earlier, it gets a little draggy in the pm when your day starts so early.

Pain plays somewhat of a role, and if you are reading this and under say 60, you don't understand. Pain maintenance with Tylenol or Advil sometimes does not last all night. Slept until 5:30 yesterday but 4:00 on the dot this am, and this body hurting no matter what part touches the bed.

We invested about $3,000.00 in a Thermapedic extended queen size mattress and interspring including having new bed rails made for our Cherry highposter bed. So changing over to a new mattress is or was the thing at the time. Granted it is more comfortable than the old interspring mattress we had but no mattress is perfect at 71, I guess.

Anyway, it is two tylenol this am and trying out the recliner to try to get comfortable. A pillow under my aching back, a large glass of orange powerade and turn on a movie. Now writing this with my laptop in my lap and thinking who might read this. At least it's my way of letting my casual reader about my life. Enjoy and have a wonderful and blessed day. Jeff the knutt in the Ham.