Alice; this is our old camping
spot on Clark's Creek
Today is sunny, cool and breezy; the way mid-autumn should be, with musky scents of wet and decaying leaves flavoring the air. I just about have my fall photo shooting wrapped up. All the colorful photos I've placed on Flickr and this blog may seem like a lot of overkill, but I say get 'em while I can. I've seen so many autumns so less colorful than this one, and I'm not getting younger as the seasons roll by.
I usually go out on Saturday or Sunday to find stuff to shoot at, but I have nothing planned for this weekend. Whom knows, though?
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A lot of the people I know around here are down with the flu. Carolyn had a mild case for several days, but others are being ravaged by it. Sadly, most of them don't have medical insurance and cannot afford to see a doctor. This includes old, young, employed and unemployed. Carolyn has only hospital insurance. Flu shots should be available and free of charge to those US citizens that do not have insurance coverage to pay for them. There has to be more come from paying taxes than just starting and fighting wars.
If Obama's first care is the economy, his second should be some kind of universal (socialist) health care for middle-class America. The poor are already covered by Medicaid and charities, and the rich can afford to help themselves. If you are unemployed or under employed like so many are these days, and if you are a disabled or retired person not yet eligible or able to afford Medicare, you are just out of luck. Non-profit hospitals usually won't turn you away, but if you can't pay your bill, they will take your checking account, your car, and even your home! And don't even think about going to see a doctor without having insurance coverage. Some may see you once, but if payment isn't quickly forthcoming, you will have to go elsewhere or suffer and die. This is what Republicans and lobbyists have brought America.
All I can say is, don't get sick or injured. There are cracks in the system that people whom think they have good insurance coverage are going to fall through.
4 comments:
Thanks for the picture of the camping spot. We had some good times and made a lot of memories.
Sometimes Vanessa will talk about when her Dad and I took her campaing in tents,especaliily when Nic camplains about camping with the scouts. They don't use tents anymore, they have lodges they stay in. Vanessa also always mentions you and Carolyn and Ken and Brenda. Thanks for the memories.
Alice
I thought the scouts were supposed to teach self-sufficiency. Although I was never a scout, Dot bought me a Boy Scout Handbook when I was in grade school, probably about 1953. Of all the ways it showed to find, build, and use shelter in the wilderness, lodge living wasn't one of them!
Ah, it would be nice to relive some of the old times even for just a few days.
Why don't you and Vanessa and the misters take the young ones on a weekend tent camping trip?
Carolyn and I haven't been since Steve got sick, but we will hopefully go a time or two next year. No tent, though; We will sleep in the van!
I am too old for tent camping anymore. Probably would have to have help getting off the ground.
Vanessa's new husband has a camper with indoor plumbing and the works.
She said she likes his style of camping. The scouts do teach self-sufficiency. They teach then how to set tents up, they just don't sleep in the them.
Carolyn is wanting to get a pop-up camper. Neither of us is able to get up and down very well. A pop-up would be good for us no more than we would use it.
Mouse had a pop-up and his wife wanted better, so they traded it for a 28' metal camper, now they can't afford to pull it. They are going to trade back down for another pop-up.
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