Suddenly Single

https://youtu.be/G_dWbFaFbFM?si=Gdm3B-zaqxKZhcU4 00:00:05 Gosh, I always feel like I have to double check to see if I'm recording. I don't want to do all this talking and not have it recorded. It's like doing a hike or a bike ride without having GPS running. And why? I don't know. To prove you did it? It's just a joke. It's just kind of the way we are. But here I am in one of my most private moments. 00:00:33 And I'm making it public, theoretically public, in the sense of maybe I'll listen to it again. Maybe somebody will listen to it at some point, but it's very, very private. And I want it private. And that's the irony of this whole thing. What I'm talking about. Well, today is February 26th, 2025. Lauren and Sam were married on February 26th, 2011. 00:01:02 which is now 14 years ago. I can't really even fathom it. It's so easy just to say, oh, 14 years ago. Yeah, it has a little depth to it. 00:01:13 But it's not th...

  https://youtu.be/lDyotLAV_8E?si=FTw16NjC2317CI0M Good morning, Peter. Hope you're having a good morning so far. Eliza and I got up early and had one walk and now we're starting our second walk. We're heading down St. Paul's Place. And we're going to go to her favorite fountain. When I get there, I have to always pick her up so she can look at the water. And she's so cute. She knows the whole routine, which is her middle name. Eliza Routine McCracken Hurst. She loves her routine. So my neighborhood has 2,000 houses. And... a clubhouse, swimming pools, tennis and racquetball courts. It's all ages. It's not a 55 plus. And different areas have townhouses, different areas have homes seven and a half feet apart like my area or with larger yards and then there's an area called the estate which I have not been there yet I keep meaning to drive through it one day and I haven't um And we have a little quote downtown area, which has maybe seven small buil...

  https://youtu.be/5nKMM19mW6g?si=e4VdOMwqiGVG_zPn 00:00:03 Get your money for nothing and your chicks for free? Get your money for nothing and your checks for free? We used to play that song, I Want My MTV. We played that album over and over and over again. And we debated the words to that song. Get your money for nothing and your chicks for free. Those are the kind of... 00:00:32 That's when our debates were fun and funny, and they were. I mean, they always kind of were anyway, but it's just so funny. Get your money for nothing and your checks for free. Get your money for nothing and your checks for free. I don't know which of us thought it was what between Tess and I. All I know is it was 1986. We had a brand new Honda, blue Honda Accord. We were so proud to have that car. 00:00:57 And we would drive to the beach because I got the two-week vacation from Sears. And that was a blessing. And that's the way it was. And Linda would come down and visit and stay wi...

  https://youtu.be/roLXtN7mTOU?si=d_UL6t4WZhQpAjku hey good morning all of you insomniacs that start your day at 3:00 in the morning and ended around 6:00 a.m. sometimes I think that's what I do because I do tend to want to drift off first thing in the morning sometimes uh my friend chip is out there hiking I mean it's just an echo of reminder of how I used to do that with him and it was great I mean hey chip it was fantastic in many ways and seeing the views of the sun rising over the Blue Ridge Mountains it was just phenomenal and the irony of it is here'sthe deal that now in my Mountain meditations I'm saying that I'm going to take time just slow down and just enjoy the scenery enjoy the sounds of the River or the waterfall you know not be a mad rush to hike and work my ass off to get someplace and do it but yet and still the irony of it is I don't know if I'll get up early in the morning to just go up there and watch a sunrise just don't know so it i...

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  Okay so today as I've been learning every day seems to present just new Thrills and chills or whatever you want to call them just unexpected interesting and enjoyable things that are it's just become kind of a daily Adventure so I've said okay I'm not going to really plan anything and then therefore when I get up I'll just see what the Day brings and so each day is brought like I said just kind of new and fun different interesting things the other day my cousin called and she and I have been trying to get together now forweeks if not months and uh just the timing is never right we finally she called me uh before I gone out or whatever bottom line was we had the greatest conversation ever and it was just so great I feel like I've gotten to know my cousin now as an adult more than I ever knew her as children as we were growing up same thing with my sister and the same thing with my friend Dallas and other people in my life that mean so much to me I've just g...

  Well gosh all I can say is wow what a day all right this is the picture I have been searching for and so I just decided I'll just give a note or two about it the other day I got into this thing about roll reversals because I had bought this uh battery backup system for 5,000 bucks when I told Lauren she said you know does it really go out that often your electricity and you know it she didn't you know she didn't pursue it or anything we didn't get into an argument or anything it was just a feeling that Ihad about this kind of role reversal where you know your child starts making decisions for you or scrutinizing your decisions and choices and you have this you know thing to say how do you think you got here you know who raised you from birth or whatever and so that's the thing is that yes this is a natural occurrence in many ways the young get older and the old get too old or older but anyway this was the picture I had in mind that stuck in my mind you know that w...

  You know we might be starting over and that's just fine I wanted to uh talk about a few things and my daily rant and ramble and uh today I was working on this thing called Mountain meditations and so it struck me well you know because I got really into it and you know it was taking quite a bit of time and so why am I doing all this well I'm doing it because it's it's a hobby it's fun and it's something I can do that gets me busy and gets me kind of uh concentrating on something and uh trying to get better at it so to speak so hereI am trying to get better at aiming there you go is a sweet baby boy so Zeke is just he's a character boy he he can cry like a banshee and nothing wrong with him but I go down the whole list is it food is it water do you need to go out and sometimes it's just plain affection as Tess would always say he's a lap dog so he is on my lap but um he had me up at 3:00 last night in the morning and uh ultimately I decided he must w...

  Oh my God, what an emotional experience… so yeah, I was there at the Ed Sullivan theater… and yes, I was there when Chevy Chase tripped off stage making his first prat fall… but to see Paul McCartney up there, giving it his best with dignity and to see the audience standing in several people in tears, what a beautiful tribute what a beautiful golden nugget of nostalgia… that Paul McCartney, once known as the mop top boy was introduced as Sir Paul McCartney and no such title is more richly deserved. Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr change the face of music and in many ways changed the course of history. It’s so incredibly sad that John is not here to be part of this and that George also has passed away but here is Paul standing proud singing loud and representing 50 years of music history in three glorious minutes. Thank you, thank you more than you’ll ever know, Sir Paul McCartney.

You know it's funny because I said to myself you know I'm kind of on a roll I did this first one this morning and now I'm on a roll So speaking of which one of the topics is role reversals you know and how do you deal with adult children and so here's a topic well first off I've been so busy this week month who know but these last few days I decided that I would buy a um a backup battery for the for the house and so this is something that Tess and I talked about quite a bit and you know we woulddebate the subject and you know do we really need one and so forth and so I just finished a video where I installed this thing and I covered that that whole issue of do we really need this can we afford this or is it worth the money you know so you do debate these things with any major purchase and uh I did plenty of that so you know I ended up spending $5,000 on a you know a backup battery which I believe I can you know map into the house and when the lights go off they'...

 Well here I am the middle of the night or early morning and uh you know basically I got my night's worth of sleep so now I'm just going to talk a little bit about the power of no when is it okay to say no that's really the question that goes through my mind when we were married Tess and I you know we made good friends we love our friends but we didn't want to get together every day for everything and Tess was especially that way and so you know it would be well when we're invited to do something andwe kind of just don't want to do it can we say no is it okay to say no and so you know we would come up with different reasons oh my gosh you know she's not feeling well I mean I guess you could say that I don't even know we basically you know know um that the we but the weather okay the weather was bad or whatever cuz this came up yesterday and that's really kind of what's on my mind the point is when we were married I even said the test part of our ...

  Ironically in this Ramble I barely mentioned Myrtle Beach. Myrtle Beach Memories just rolled off the tongue better.  It’s all about our week in Edisto. Those were wonderful days and wonderful memories. We didn’t let take the kids for one day on the rides at Myrtle Beach every year/ 00:00:01 all right I'm going to try to start this my dog is already whimpering so but I was just doing jumping jacks on the trampoline and listening to or watching um the video the sultants of Swing the Dire Straits and you know suddenly memories started flooding in and so I thought well maybe I should talk to talk to the camera about it it's daytime and uh so that's different and I'm not going to blur my face necessarily we'll see Zeke but if I get disrupted again that'll happen the point I'm making is wow these memories come 00:00:39 and go whenever they want to or whatever triggers them and I've heard that word before triggered and um you know I get a better understan...

  Here are 20 waterfalls within 25 miles of Hendersonville, NC, along with their Google Maps links: In DuPont State Recreational Forest: Triple Falls:   Google Maps  - Trio of waterfalls cascading 120 ft. in forested state park, a setting in "Last of the Mohicans." High Falls:   Google Maps  - 150-ft.-tall waterfall on the Little River with scenic deciduous forest & a nearby covered bridge. Hooker Falls:   Google Maps  - A short, wide, waterfall in DuPont State Forest that is a popular destination for swimming. Bridal Veil Falls:   Google Maps  - Short hiking trail to a wide cascade over a plane of granite, used as a backdrop for several films. Grassy Creek Falls:   Google Maps  - A lesser-known but beautiful 60-foot waterfall in DuPont State Forest. In Pisgah National Forest: Looking Glass Falls:   Google Maps  - Photo-ready waterfall (named for a smooth rock that freezes) with a plunge pool & quick road access. M...