Bow Chica Wow Wow

Today was one of those very interesting days. My mother-in-law, her sister and I went to open court today for the Fiscal Court meeting thing to get a ‘fire award’ for her. They gave her a cash payment of $200 from the county for help in rebuilding her home after it burned down because the fire trucks didn’t have water. Thanks guys! Well, I guess I shouldn’t be too snippy since that did buy some of the plumbing supplies. I still think it is ridiculous. While we were waiting for them to address her, they went through the issues for the county funding’s approval. When they got to the funding for maintenance on the city water project for our little city, I piped up and asked if that was going to run water up to us. No, that did not include us, no they don’t have enough money to run it to us and even if they did. There are not enough people that live in our holler to get it first anyway. He said they would rather run it to a place that is farther away, but has fifty houses than run it to our holler that has ten houses. Then the Magistrate informs us that even if we had the lines ran we probably wouldn’t have water anyway because the current Water Plant can’t supply for the people that are hooked up anyway.
So, while everyone talks about getting water to everyone on the planet besides us… there are thousands.. yes, thousands of families here in Kentucky that do not have water to bath in, do laundry, drinking water… and there is no end in sight. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that the people in like Africa don’t need help.. they do, they have it worse, I am not insensitive and know that. However, seeing as how this is the United States of America and we can spend millions of dollars on toilet seats to be launched into space, then pray tell why the fuck can’t they make sure every single American has access to water? Most people at least have a Well. Most of those are laced with high contents of Sulfur or Iron… extremely unsafe and it ruins everything it touches. We don’t have that. I have a rock well that was dug and laid by hand so many years ago that I can’t even figure it out and we have to run a sump pump from a hole I dug in the creek with extension cords running all over my yard and down the hill and run water from said creek into said well to fill it. The water of course is running uphill so what comes out is a tiny stream and it takes days to fill my well and then the water still cannot be used for cooking or drinking. We can use it to shower and do laundry, which trust me.. I am grateful for. A couple of days with no water at all makes you happy for any drop you can get, but the filling of the water jugs at Wal-Mart every few days, the lugging back and forth, the running out of it right in the middle of trying to cook… it grates on the nerves and when I find out that our public library collected 6 million dollars in taxes this year and has NO parking lot.. Well it just makes me wonder where the priorities are.

The kittens are starting to move around more. I can hear them making their little mewchirps more and more often and the sound makes me smile. I peek in at them every once in a while through the day while telling myself the whole time that I am not allowed to pick them up. I can’t wait until they are old enough to play with.. they are soooo adorable! The one I thought was all black is turning tanner by the minute. So, we have two that look like Momma, a tiger striped one, a Black one and a TAN one.

These new Axe commercials are starting to drive me crazy. They are using that old 70’s porno song with the Bow Chica Wow, wow song and the stupid ass things have my Nine year old running around the house saying it over and over again. Granted he doesn’t know what it means, but hell I have seen some of those porno’s with that music and when he says that, it just links in my head and it Ain’t right!!

I watched the season premiere of The Closer yesterday and it did not let me down at all! Awesome. I love that show and have looked forward to it coming back on forever. The only bad thing about it is that it is a summer show and does not last nearly long enough. I am also watching Big Love and Weeds, Ghost Hunters is back on and it is GREAT and let’s see….. What the hell else am I watching? So you think you can dance, Standoff, The Lot, Top Chef, Hells Kitchen and Army Wives. I resisted Army Wives for the first couple episodes because those kind of shows usually piss me off. They usually portray all of the wives as big hoe’s that screw around the whole time the guy is deployed, but this one is refreshingly different. I like it so far. Hell’s Kitchen is just hilarious. Man that dude needs a Prozac IV and I just love Standoff. Summer shows are not as time filling as fall shows but they do nicely when combined with Garden work and building a house.

One kitty pic today because my batteries went south on my camera…




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