Merle Haggard — Are The Good Times Really Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFHJ41ktt3Q
“Are The Good Times Really Over”
I wish a buck was still silver
It was back when the country was strong
Back before Elvis
Before the Vietnam war came along
Before The Beatles and ‘Yesterday’
When a man could still work, still would
The best of the free life behind us now
And are the good times really over for good?
Are we rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell?
With no kind of chance
For the Flag or the Liberty Bell
Wish a Ford and a Chevy
Could still last ten years, like they should
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?
I wish Coke was still Cola
And a joint was a bad place to be
It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV
Before microwave ovens
When a girl could still cook and still would
The best of the free life behind us now
Are the good times really over for good?
Are we rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell?
With no kind of chance
For the Flag or the Liberty Bell
Wish a Ford and a Chevy
Could still last ten years, like they should
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?
Stop rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell
Stand up for the Flag
And let’s all ring the Liberty Bell
Let’s make a Ford and a Chevy
Still last ten years like they should
The best of the free life is still yet to come
The good times ain’t over for good
i love to cook... i love to feed family and friends... recently i began cooking a weekly dinner at my parents’ home... it takes place on any given week day... not weekend... all are welcome... family and friends... i usually announce it on my Facebook account... so far i have had 14 at the least and 21 at the most show up... i do it for my daddy... he is almost 91, and he seems to do really well when he has visitors... since most visitors come on the weekend, i do the dinners on a weekday just to add excitement during the week... and most people seem happy to come right after work since they have to eat anyway...
What about yardwork and home repairs?
So, the answer is to pack up the family and head to a cheap restaurant. Fast food comes to mind. And, then comes the cost. Will the cost be passed on to the tax payer?
Just go eat at the nearby roach infested restaurant right?
I’m not reading it.... cause it’s ridiculous already.
I guess no one should cook them, since it is considered a burden.
Yeah the stress of microwaving a baked potato or cooking a hamburger really is so self-defeating. Thank you, University of North Carolina.
I solved that ‘take the kids to the grocery store’ as a divorced mom. My mom could not drive, dad hated taking her on her Sat. outing. So in exchange I took her, we shopped, and dad kept the 2 boys. Great exchange. Made both of us happy.
I didn’t have to try to coral unruly children, they got to play on the 5 acre farm, and mom got what she wanted no matter if it meant 4-6 stores.
Mom learned to cook from grandma, I learned by watching both. I love to cook. Even the grocery shopping, love to use those coupons to reduce my bill, and the gas points. Kroger’s is great and the APP is neat. A free Friday item is good too. They let you know when gift cards go to 4 times the points.
I did my Christmas shopping in 10 mins. We have 7 grands ranging from 30 to 13; 5 great grands from 12- under 6 months. So gift cards are perfect. Bought 12 Target, 1 Bass Pro and 1 Amazon. Christmas shopping was done. At 4 times the gas points, that gave us $1 of a gal of gas, up to 35 gals. Usually a fill is $22-24 $$ off. Hubby has the trick figured out. He fills my small car from a 5 gal gas can, then takes it and his car to Kroger’s and fills both.
We have had a $1 of a gal of gas every month for a year. For 1 to 2 tank fills.
I just got twin hearing aids, my car is not blue tooth able.
And I just solved the blue tooth issue for my no blue tooth Corolla with a Jabra Tour $53 and change from Amazon. Pairs 2 devices. It does have a speech recognition learning curve. Some how it does not like Tennessee/Yankee.
My dad did plenty of cooking as well. In fact he’s still a better cook than my mother.
“(consider the source)”
The “Peoples Bull S_it” Hour!
Around our house, the person that cooks sits out the cleanup. The cleanup is done by someone other than the cook. If someone’s willing to cook ..I’m fine washing dishes.
Ahhhh. I'm just going to shoot myself.
Not if you teach your kids to cook & make them responsible for planning and preparing one meal a week.
You have to help them a lot at first, but they learn an important life skill and you get a night (or more if you have several kids) off. :-)
I grew up on a small family farm. We grew all the vegetables, beef, chickens, eggs and pork that we ate. If my cranky brother or picky sister didn't like the food prepared by my mother they DID WITHOUT. That was the rule. Nobody got special treatment.
My mother, God rest her soul, made a big pan of cathead biscuits from scratch every morning of the week. Daddy rendered our hogs, made our sausage and smoked all our hams and bacon for many years. We worked together. Some of the fondest memories us 5 kids share of home life were the industrial scale canning sessions we had in summer. You see, we grew enough food to help support the extended family too; my elderly aunts and uncles.
We had cows for milking and butter to churn. We were very poor financially, but ate like kings. The 5 of us kids WORKED every day for the benefit of the family. That is an attribute sorely missing from todays intact families, few though they are.
Late in life, my mother became disabled. My father stepped into her roles as cook and housekeeper. That's how families work.
Pardon my rant. Got to get ready for church, then in the afternoon, my wife and I will be cooking a large meal for her terminally ill sister and her family. We love to cook together. Make some 5 star meals too.
The common thread in my rant: Family and Work.
I fear for our nation....
Changing out a flat tire
Rendering corporal discipline to the children
Taking out the dog when it's raining or very cold
Having to get up early in the morning and go to work each day
If we choose the stay-at-home role and have the wife work, we are sissies and "lazy bums"
Anything to do with power tools - or manual tools for that matter
Cutting the grass and other outside menial work
Cutting and bringing in the firewood
Whatever needs painting or repairing
Killing all manner of bugs and small animals that get in house
Oh yeah, and if we are younger, we need to be registered for the draft and be prepared to leave their family and go to war if they are called.
But we're not complaining or forming support groups or anything like that. If we did, we'd be told to "man up".
Yeah, and we wonder why obesity rates are going through the roof.
It seems to me that the problem is not enough cooking education is going on in the schools or elsewhere. I was a member of 4-H while I was in school. For 6 years, I took sewing and cooking classes. I make pillows, curtains, clothes, and many other things that can be sewn. I've been thinking about making things to sell on the internet. Every week, my husband, son, and I sit around the dining table with cookbooks and make a menu and shopping list. Each recipe is good for 2 or 3 nights, we use the crockpot a lot, and we save money by rarely eating out. Recently, I started making my own protein bars, after realizing that they can cost $5 a box for 6 bars!
Sure, I work full-time. Yet I still manage to make things.
Time management skills are essential--I doubt that there are very many home-ec type classes these days. They need to be taught. We don't need more obesity-inducing meal programs!
This is the fourth of fifth article I’ve seen in as many days on this topic.
Divisive factions in America are, at this time pressing for 15 dollars per hour minimum wage for fast food workers.
I would expect blow back from higher prices at restaurants, likely in the form of lost business.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the current -resident is attempting to gin up dissatisfaction in this maternal staple to alleviate the certain backlash from his latest mischief
Higher minimum wages raise the price of outside-the-home dining, forcing families to stay at home. Moms disproportionately affected. /S
Here’s just a quick off-the-cuff comparison, based on my experience only:
TO COOK AT HOME:
Look in “20 Minute Meals” cookbook, plan the week’s meals, and make up a grocery list - 30 minutes
Weekly grocery shopping for food and sundries- 60 minutes
Make a meal each night for seven nights and clean up after – 5 ½ hours
Total time – about 7 hours
BUYING FAST FOOD MEALS:
Wait in line 10 minutes each night for seven nights at Starbuck’s - 70 minutes
Wait in line an average of 18 minutes each night for seven nights at McDonald’s – 2 hours
Serve and clean up the beverage and fast food wrappers each night for seven nights – 40 minutes
Weekly grocery shopping for sundries – 45 minutes
Total time – about 4 1/2 hours
You can use that 2 1/2 hours that you saved every week to watch a couple Law and Order reruns.
And I won’t even mention how much money we save..
Really, only females can cook meals? At my house.. we all do the cooking. What BS