My father is an avid hunter. It really doesn’t much matter WHAT hunting season it is, he loves to tromp around the woods hunting. It was a family tradition in his family for generations. He says he’s been hunting since he could walk! He started out hunting with his grandfather and father, and now he hunts with my brothers. He doesn’t usually come home with anything; I think he just enjoys being outdoors communing with nature and being with the “men folk.”
For Christmas this year I’ve ordered him a pair of Nikon Monarch and Trailblazer Binoculars from the nikonhunting.com website. The binoculars I’ve ordered are the Monarch 10×36 binoculars; they are lightweight so it will be easy for him to carry them around with him all day when he is out hunting. I’m sure he is going to love them - he has been complaining for the past year about how heavy his old binoculars are! What’s even better is that the website that I’m ordering them from is having a promotion that will result in a $50 gift card towards another purchase from their website - so he will be getting the opportunity to buy an additional gift of his own choosing! So he’s getting two gifts in one! I’m sure he will be thrilled!
We don’t get many trick or treaters out here in the country, but every couple of years we might get one or two. So I am always in a quandary about how to “prepare” for Halloween. I don’t like buying candy that won’t get eaten - that is such a waste of money! And I really don’t want to stock up on my own favorite candy because I don’t want that much temptation in the house! So I think this year I am going to simply get a couple of rolls of quarters and simply give any kids that might show up at the house a couple of quarters. I know that when I was a kid I would have much preferred cold hard cash than a lot of that garbage that some people handed out!
Perpetual Diamonds is a company that sells genuine Rolex watches at a substantial discount over regular retail prices. Their watches are 100% genuine, with authentic serial numbers. They sell new and used watches, complete with GIA papers and genuine new Rolex boxes. Since the company is an authorized independent dealer they can give large discounts to their customers; they are not being controlled by the price controls of the manufacturing company.
I’ve been hearing on CNN that there has been some controversy in Michigan about a high ranked Republican official who was mis-quoted as saying that he was going to try to prevent people who lost their homes to foreclosure from voting. That has caused quite an uproar, as you can imagine! When I heard the news at first I missed part of the story, so I wasn’t sure where this was happening. But today I heard more of the story and apparently it was in Michigan. After all of the brouhaha had settled down, the gist of the story is that if someone has lost their home to foreclosure and no longer lives in the same precinct as he did when he registered, then he can’t vote. But that really has nothing to do with foreclosure, it has to do with voting in the precinct in which you actually live!
So this is one story that may have been blown out of proportion (imagine that!)
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