Saturday, August 8, 2015

Meet and Greet with Jeb Bush Jr and Congressman Adam Kinzinger







After the debates on Thursday, I was graciously invited to a Meet and Greet the next day on Friday at Plote Excavating in Hoffman Estates Illinois to meet Jeb Bush Jr and Congressman Adam Kinzinger.

 It was a small court yard setting where we listened to Jeb Bush Jr and asked questions. Congressman Adam Kinzinger also stood up and talked. I have always liked the Congressman. The Meet and Greet lasted for a little over an hour and afterwards I had my picture taken with them. 


   In Thursday's debate, Jeb Bush seemed nervous in the beginning but came back a little when telling about his accomplishments as Governor in Florida.  Jeb Bush needs to have more of a fire and confidence in him when talking. That’s what I saw in Chris Christy… I liked that. 

 Well I can’t wait until the next debate on Wednesday Sept 16th 2015 on CNN. It will be interesting to see if any of the candidates drop out but I don’t know if that will happen or not. I am still undecided but I have crossed a few of them off my list of Candidates.  Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Rand Paul.

Thursday, August 6, 2015

The First Debate




The First Debate Candidates


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US Senator Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)


Former Governor Rick Perry (Texas)


Businesswoman Carly Fiorina (Virginia)


Governor Bobby Jindal (Louisiana)
    

Former Governor Jim Gilmore (Virginia)
   

Former Governor George Pataki (New York)


Former US Senator Rick Santorum (Pennsylvania)


I had just upgraded to Windows 10 before the first Debate today. When the Debate came on I started taking notes on each Candidate. All of a sudden my computer had to restart for some reason related to my new Windows 10 so I lost all of my notes.

  Out of the all the candidates in the first debate, I liked US Senator Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) the best because of his strong stance on ISIS and Iran. I don't want to send our troops back but if something isn't done, we are going to have a Nuclear Holocaust
in the Middle East.

 I only chose two candidates out of the seven. Rick Perry came in second because of the boarder issue. He knew about foreign policy but not like Lindsey Graham does.

 Those are my picks for the 1st Debate tonight. I am waiting to see the main Debate in about an hour or two. 



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The Main Debate

1. Donald Trump
2. Jeb Bush
3. Scott Walker
4. Mike Huckabee
5. Ben Carson
6. Ted Cruz
7. Marco Rubio
8. Rand Paul
9. Chris Christie
10. John Kasich

I know that people like Trump but he is not serious about being president but he is entertaining though. Ben Carson should drop out. He is a surgeon not somebody who can run the nation. I liked Chris Christie and have some favorites from the first debate but I am still undecided on the other candidates. I will just have to wait and watch the other debates and choose from there until I pick out the one person I want to have as our president.   



Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Turning 70





I just turned 70 today. I can't believe the years went by so fast. How much longer can a person live? Well I plan on living to be 100. That is my goal. So it looks like I have another 30 years left to enjoy what life has to offer.

   You know the universe began 15 Billion years ago according to the scientist when we had the big bang. And I thought about this; Everything had to go absolutely perfect for me to be on this earth. Any little thing that deviated or went wrong from the beginning of time until I appeared on this earth, what if a speck of cosmic dust went flying off in another direction or what if one of my relatives way back 100,000 years ago had a headache that night and didn't feel like having sex? "I Wouldn't Be Here!" It boggles my mind just thinking about that. It took me 15 Billion years to get here so I'm very thankful to be alive. There must be an awful good reason I'm here. So I want to stay here as long as possible whether my life is going great or whether everything seems to be falling down around me. I can't even imagine not ever having been born. I love Life .

Friday, July 3, 2015

Roses, Roses and more Roses





  My Friend called me up and asked if I wanted to come over to practice tossing the dice on his craps table. I said, “Sure.” I was trying out different things but after a while I started to get tired. I had already spent the morning at Cardiac Rehab exercising for an hour and a half so we took a break. “Let’s go make you up a bouquet. He has this Fantastic garden. He loves growing Roses. So we went on his back porch where he had already picked some of his roses and started putting them in a couple of vases. He had done this for me last year and it made my whole apartment smell Great!
  I had my camera with me so he took me on a tour of his garden to show me all the different varieties he has. I don’t remember the names of them but each one had a different smell.

  Before I came to the Roses I saw his Lilies. They smelled Awesome.


   I began snapping pictures as I went along walking through his garden. Here are some of the pictures I took.
 

  He had other kinds of flowers growing. These purple flowers were growing on a vine next to his house.

   This is one of many Lilly bushes he has in his yard.
 

    The inside of a Lilly.

      And More Roses


  This butterfly loved whatever kind of flower this was. He didn’t even flinch when I took his picture. 

 These are really cool looking.

   After we were though walking around his garden, I took the bouquet of flowers and left. I had to pay some bills since it is the first of the month. I thanked him and drove off. I had places to go but I didn’t know where to put the vase of Roses he gave me. I thought about it and came up with a great Idea. You can make your car smell like you’re in Heaven.  I have a cup holder on my dash. It sits right in front of the vents. I was lucky enough that the small vase just fit in the cup holder perfectly. I turned on the air and the whole car filled up with the scent of Roses. Try it if you can. It put me in a great mood.


Saturday, June 20, 2015

Please Remove Your Clothes







Back in the early 1980’s my wife and I went over to visit my Dad who was living alone in an apartment. He was an alcoholic who no longer drank. He was the type of guy who liked to have fun though. Someone had given me a pack of marijuana seeds and I knew that my dad was into growing plants and stuff like that. So we brought them over plus we had some marijuana with us too. I told my dad what we had and he wanted to know what it felt like to get high from it. He said, “At least I wouldn’t be drinking,” and we all laughed. While we were smoking the stuff, my father told us, “The one thing I never got to do was to go to a nudist camp.” I said, “Dad, we were just talking about the nudist camps recently.” He never knew where they were. So I told him, “I have a list of all the nudist camps around the area, I’ll send them to you,” which I did. He was excited about going. I asked him a year later about it but he told me that he never did get around to going to one. We told my Dad that we wanted to go too but my wife and I never did go either. That was the last time I smoked any marijuana but I sure got to know Dad a lot better.



May 26th 2015

 I thought about that story today. Even though I’m 69 and single now, I still feel like I’m in my 20’s. I still want to go to one to see what it would be like to walk around outside all day in the nude. I think that would be so cool.  So I put that on my Bucket list of things I always wanted to do. My Dad died 8 years later of cancer and I don’t want to be like my Dad and never experience it. I have done a lot of crazy things but I never got to go to a nudist camp. I really want to go. So I got on the computer and found Sun Ray Hills Nudist Camp in Burlington Wisconsin which is about an hour and a half away. I sent an email to Sun Ray Hills nudist camp in Burlington Wisconsin and asked how I could go about visiting their nudist camp for a day. 


 I just sent my email so I will have to wait for their reply. I am so looking forward to going.  I thought I would spend one warm day walking naked through the trails in the woods they have and then afterwards, I had planned on driving over to the casino and play.  What a fun day this is going to be. I emailed them to ask how I go about coming there.  I said in my email; 


 “This will be my first time. I am a 69 year old single male. It is on my bucket list of things that I always wanted to do. How and where do I sign up? I am looking forward to pleasant time.” 


 The nudist Camp emailed me back and said; “I suggest a weekend visit, unfortunately our pool is in need of repairs. Hoping to have it up and running in a few weeks. We have an office at the gate, ring the bell and stop in. We hope to see you soon!” (That was on May 26th.)



June 5th 2015

  I am so excited about going. It's different and something new. I told some of my friends and they are all happy for me that I am full filling one of my things on my Bucket list. They want me to tell them all about it when I get back. I told my daughter that I was going to a nudist camp when I talked on the phone with her yesterday. I told her about my Bucket list. “It’s something I always wanted to do,” I told her.  “There’s nothing wrong with that,” she said giggling.  “Have fun at your nudist camp,” she told me. We laughed. “I will,” I said.



June 6th 2015

   Well I am waiting for them to open the pool before I go. I plan on going on a warm sunny summer day. As long as I don’t get cold I think I am going to enjoy this. I might even go more than once.



June 11th 2015

I Am Getting Ready To Go To the Nudist Camp



Yea!!! I got a notice that the pool at the nudist camp is finally open. I can go anytime I want too now. I wish I could go today but it’s cool out. I have been looking at the weather forecast on the internet to find out what days will be warm enough. I don’t want to freeze while I am walking around naked all day. So far it looks good for the Father’s Day weekend. That will be next weekend.


Well I just found out that they are having a 5k run through the woods on the Nudist Camp on June 20th, 2015. So I signed up for it. What a blast this is going to be. I am walking the course though. I am not going to wear myself out. I just want to have fun and enjoy walking in the nude through the trails in the forest. 



June 13th 2015

I’ll tell you what’s going on Saturday. I am going to the Sun Ray Hills nudist camp this coming Saturday. I found out that they are going to have a “Mud Sweat & Boobs 5K Naked Run” (3 miles) through the trails in the forest on their property. So I paid $55 and signed up for it. All the proceeds will go towards Beast Cancer and Testicular Cancer. They said that you can run it or walk it or anywhere in-between, so I decided that I am just going to walk it. 


  Join us for the 2nd annual "Mud, Sweat, and Boobs Adventure Run" on June 20th and help us raise money and spread awareness for Breast and Testicular cancer. This one-of-a-kind 5k event is truly an adventure run.  For starters it’s clothing-optional. Secondly, it’s wicked fun as you trek in the buff (or not) through the nearly 200 acre wooded property of Sun Ray Hills, striding up and down hills and negotiating a few challenging, as well as not so challenging (but fun) obstacles that include:

Tires obstacle

Foam Pit

Hay bales

Balance beam

Over under stations

Mud crawl

Rope ladder

Rope swing

Color pit

Tires

Beer station

and the awesome giant slip and slide





It will be 85 degrees that day and I don’t want to get worn out. I want to enjoy my walk through the forest. They said that 200 people have already signed up for this 5K run. I am looking forward to it. It should be a blast.



June 20th 2015

When the alarm went off this morning, I thought to myself, "What Have I Gotten Myself into." Naturally I was still tired and wanted to go back to sleep. "I'd rather go to the casino. I hope I am not going to get cold wandering around all day naked. Those were just some of the thoughts that went through my mind as I got my orange Juice out of the refrigerator.




 When I got there they made us park in this field. I know I am in a nudist camp but the first person I see is this guy walking through the field in the nude towards the sign in station. I got out of my car and followed him. You could get undressed anywhere you wanted, it didn’t make any difference. But I went into the bathroom. When I came out I could feel the cool air blowing all over my body. It wasn’t 85 degrees like they said it would be. It was cloudy and in the upper 60’s. 


 The sign in station was right next to the bar. Too bad I don’t drink or I would have asked for something. I came here to enjoy myself and that’s just what I did. At 10am they started the 5K run in groups. I was in the 8th group so I was pretty much alone. I walked through a field where they had some obstacles. I chose to walk around them. I knew I had three miles to go. The path wound around until I was back on the road. I walked up this hill where the girls sprayed me with this pink powder. The slip and slid was at the top. It was a long way down to the street below but I gave it my best and ran onto the plastic. I hit my head as I landed and slid a long way down. That thing was fast. I got up with a headache. Now I was naked, pink and wet. The sun started to come out and I got warmer. A few feet up the road this girl gave me a bottle of water and told me to enter the forest and follow the trails. This was the best part of the whole 5K Naked Run thing. I have always loved walking in the woods ever since I was a kid but now I was doing it totally naked. It was the Coolest thing that I have ever done. I loved it. I took my time and enjoyed the forest. I followed the trails for over 2 miles. It was just AWESOME. The sun was still peeking out and I felt fantastic. 


  When the 5K run/walk was over they served food at the outside bar. They had a band playing. The only thing was, it got cloudy again and a breeze picked up. I wanted to see what the pool was like before I left so I headed over to where they had it. It was really nice. I went and took a hot shower to get that pink stuff off of me and then I went into the pool. It reminded me of when my Mom sent my cousin and me to the YMCA when we were about 10 years old. They made the boys swim naked back then. That’s just the way it was. 


  The water was kind of cool but not bad. It felt great not having to wear a bathing suit. I went deeper and then went all the way under. I heard a crackling sound under water. “Damn, I forgot to take my hearing aids off." I hurried out of the pool to dry them off. Luckily they were OK but with the breeze blowing on my wet body, I was freezing. That was it for me. I went back to the bar area and sat down. I hoped I would warm up again but I didn’t. It was 1:30 in the afternoon and I had the best time in my life today.  The next time I came back, I am going to make sure the sun is out and warm. Oh yeah, I will be back. I love this place.


 On my way home I stopped at the Casino to make some money. When I walked in both craps tables were at $10. One table was empty and the other only had two people at it. I got my spot at SL1 and bought in. I wasn’t about to play big but that turned out to be a big mistake. On my first roll I had a 19 roll hand. Out of that I rolled 7-8’s, 4-6’s, 2-5’s and 2-9’s. The next guy had an even longer hand. I got my lay bet on the 4 knocked off. On my 2nd roll I made a $1. I was still on the Don’ts. On my 3rd and last hand, I had a $10 Don’t on the 4 with a $20 lay. I also placed the 6 and 8 for $12. I took two hits on the 6 and 8 and took them down. The next roll was the 7 and I collected another $20 on that.

  By this time I was so worn out from running at the nudist camp that I just had to go home and take a nap. I ended up +$44 for the day