Seeing as how it is the Holidays, I cannot forget to honor the Veterans who have served our country.
We are fortunate to have both a VFW and American Legion Posts here in the Valley. They do an awful lot of community service. The VFW Post has taken National Honors the past 2 years for community service. Each year the Veterans open up the WW2 tank for display and the kids love to climb all over it. There is always a Veterans Day parade on Nov. 11 of each year and the whole town turns out to honor our Vets. I believe that there is still 1 or 2 WW1 Veterans still alive. Salvation is free but Freedom comes at the cost of the precious blood of the American Veteran. And so I salute each and every one of them. I hope that you will also. God Bless our Veterans.
Remember to bookmark this site and pass it on to all of your contacts!
Charlie

A Senior Moment....

I forgot to show you our Director and his lovely Ass't. Forgive me.....PLEASE?

Sorry to say our Director has passed away & his Ass't has stepped up.

Xmas 2007 at Senior Center

This is our Senior Center in Overton, Nv. There are approx.
200 members and they enjoy cards, billiards, ceramics, music,
dancing, bingo, a library, computers, along with great meals and birthday trips. They host an annual swap meet and bazaar.
The quilters offer raffles on their hand made quilts through out the year. These are the "Doers and Donors" of the Senior World here
in the Valley.

Ragtime Gal Virginia, Kitchen Staff, Chow Time

Ice Cream Parlor

At the South end of town is our Ice Cream Parlor called The Inside Scoop. They serve Dryer's Ice Cream along with very good sandwiches at reasonable prices. A lot of people passing through town on their way to Lake Mead Recreational Park or The Valley of Fire stop here to cool off during the hot summers here in the desert. Many of the people are tourists. Mostly from European countries. If you'r ever in the valley, stop in and check out this Overton land mark. You won't be sorry. Tell them Charlie sent you!
They won't know who Charlie is....but tell them anyway.

Google Sky Overton

This top pix is a closer look from Google Sky.

The first pix I would like you to see is the whole valley that Overton is in.
If you click on the pix it should enlarge for you.
The big body of water at the bottom is Lake Mead.
There is some good fishing there.
Notice the red rock?

My Town

I'm going to create pixs of my town and show them to you.
Come back often to see what it is like.
I will post them as I take them from day to day.
Life in a small town , in a valley, in the desert is not like anything else.
I may even show you some of our local inhabitants (characters).
Come back now!

Fun Time

Boy am I having FUN with this new digital camera!
I'm just like a kid with a new toy.
I'm glad my wife talked me into getting one.
And for my grand daughter showing me how to get pics into the PC.
Well anyway, I'll show you our Christmas Tree.

Boy, today is a great day. Iv'e learned how to download pics from my new digital camera and put them on this PC of mine. Here is my wife Rita with Great grandson David.
It's hard learning new things thought so think I'll have me a Miller Lite!!!

PEACE TO ALL!

Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS

To each and everyone out there in cyber space.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

And, you will never see this day again.

All we have is the time between life and death.

Enjoy today for tomorrow is not yet.

Peace to all!

Christmas Bazaar

Today I helped out at the Senior Center Christmas Bazaar and Breakfast.
I like helping out .
Still waiting for you good people to let me know something about yourself and where your from......PLEASE!
Also send my BLOG to all your contacts .
I would like to see if my BLOG makes it around the world as I never did, although I made it most of the way in the Navy.
I'm a Bluenose and Golden Shellback.
I also belong to the Horny Toad Society.
How about you?

Chicken Soup

Something useful today!

Chicken Soup

The cold and flu season is upon us and “no remedy is more effective than Chicken Soup” says Dr. Pauline Jackson, M.D., a doctor at Gunderson Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

A classic Chicken Soup study done at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach bares this out.

Chicken Soup helps relieve cold symptoms. The soup’s healing secret lies in its savory aroma and taste. So, eat and sniff lots of Chicken Soup at the onset of cold symptoms.

My favorite recipe is:

10 cups water

6 TBSP Chicken Bouillon

1 carrot (diced)

1 celery rib (sliced)

1 clove garlic (diced)

Pepper

1/2 cup Fideo noodles

(found in Mexican section of store)

1 cup pre-cooked chicken

Mix water, bouillon, carrot, celery, and pepper in 4 quart pot.

Bring to boil.

Stir in noodles and pre-cooked chicken.

Cook over medium heat 10 minutes.

Makes 3 quarts.

Eat and sniff often at onset of cold symptoms.

May be frozen for later.

Charlie

I spent most of this past week end thinking about what direction I wanted this blog to go. So many ways I person can go. I could make this "personal".
That is I could just use it to talk about what I have been up to.
I could use it as a political blog to promote a particular pary or candidate.
I could use it to promote the "Green" issues.
You see what I mean about hard to choose?

So, I have decide to use it for the purpose of getting to know the people who visit this site. Please respond to this blog with your origin of country or state and at least one item of interest about you.

You can learn more about me by visiting my profile. You may want to ask me a question or two or even three.

Today I received a notice that my Social Security will increase because they did not figure my SS right. They forgot to give me credit for timed serve in the Navy before SS was started.

There, you can figure out a lot about me from this one item.

Until next time....God Bless.
Charlie

thanks

I owe a great big thank you to a dear friend of mine who helped me get this up and running. It seems that I am missing a "link" and am unable to send everyone the blog address. But my friend has figured out a way to get around the "link" I need. She did something on her computer and sent the address back to me in an e-mail so I can now send you the address. Keep coming back as I promise to update this blog with worthless info etc. First worthless piece of info is that I'm retiring again. Next firday is my last day of serving on the Senior Citizens Board of Directors.
Stay tuned good people.