Is it just ME?

Hello neighbors,


I know it's a bit early in the week for me to add to my blog, but after yesterday I felt I needed some therapy so here I am again.


We left town about 9:30am going to Joplin, Missouri to grocery shop. I shop wherever the prices are cheaper and the sales tax on food is only a little over 4% in Missouri. We usually shop at Aldi's in Joplin, but since the F5 tornado in May of this year we had only been to Joplin one time. Well the store was rebuilt and it's very nice. Their prices are creeping up ever so slowly too, just like the other stores.


It's going to take years for the city to repopulate the businesses and homes that were taken away by that horrific storm. Most of the debris has been hauled away, but you can see from Main street almost all the way to Range Line. Anyone familiar with the town will realize that the area on 20th Street to Range Line had a lot of homes and some businesses and now it's bare. There is some building going on, but you just see a house here and there. Even on Range Line there are so many bare areas that it's hard to get your bearings. All the landmarks are gone. So sad that a thriving town was reduced almost to rubble.


What I really needed therapy for was the drive home. As we were leaving Joplin going South on 43 Hwy. some stupid person whizzed past us and we were braking to stop behind a truck that was turning left. If the right shoulder hadn't been clear this car would have smacked the back of that truck full on and probably killed the driver. It happened so fast I didn't have time to get angry until later when I saw this same car passing every vehicle on the road in no passing zones. Where are the cops when you need one? Well they weren't on 43 highway.


This happened again two more times yesterday. Different cars and drivers, but still passing blatantly in no passing zones with hills where you can't see traffic coming. That's when I would love to pull those drivers out of their cars and slap em a couple of times, but of course I can't do that so I'll just write about it instead. Cheap therapy is what I call it. I just don't understand what's wrong with people that they put no value on their own life and certainly not the lives of other people. 


I even checked the calendar when I got home to see if there was a moon change that was causing people to act so weird.  I wonder if they think the same thing about me. That makes me chuckle. Me weird? Nahhhhh, not possible. I'm just not a chance taker, never have been and never will be. Does that make me boring? No it makes me smart and still alive.


The signs of Fall are around us and closing in and soon the holidays and snow will arrive. Where has the year gone? Next Monday is Halloween and Saturday I'm going to a costume contest. We're still laboring on the costume working out the glitches. Hope we get r done by Saturday. I'll post a picture later and let you know how it turned out.


I guess I better get out in the garage and help my hubby with some touch-up painting so.......


Until later,
Okie Girl @ Home