Just throwing the old baseball cap on and riding the trails is not the way its being done anymore. More weekend riders are taking advantage of the stylish equestrian wear they have to choose from these days. There is a much larger amount of clothes and safety wear available today, than there was just a few years back. The equestrian helmets have came a long ways. Today riders have the choice between the more durable and safer riding helmets, or they can choose some of the more stylish and flashy ones available. Also, you don’t have to get in the car or truck and drive a 100 miles to the nearest equestrian store either. It is much more convenient to shop online, for these riding helmets, horse shirts, and the other fashion accessories; that are now available to choose from on the Net. This works out really great, for those who live on the remote horse farms and far away from any normal civilization out there. If you or someone in your family is searching for stylish equestrian gear to wear, be sure to look around online, before you make any long trips to the local shops around your hometown. Have fun and be sure to watch out for those pot holes and be safe out there!

The Internet is filled with information about a variety of things. Just about everything under the Sun can be found online, in some form or fashion. For those who are seeking products for their eyes or eyelashes, can use the Net to help them. Some folks might be looking to buy a product they’re already using; while others will seek a new product for their eyes. The industry for growing eyelashes has grown a lot recently. Now online consumers can look over the best eyelash growth products from their computers at home. These online reviews can help break down the products and show which ones are best in certain categories. If you would like to find a new product online, to help give an extra boost to your eyelashes, you should check out some of these eyelash reviews. Find which products work the best or order the ones with the cheapest price tag. Online reviews is a great service for all Internet Users, when it comes to a number of different products and now the latest reviews online cover the eyelash growth companies.

I really miss my younger days with the jeep. I use to take the top down, put on my black cowboy hat, and ride the country roads of Cherokee County in North Georgia. Those were the days! Normally I would have a good music tape in or the radio playing extra loud. You do have to turn the radio up, if you want to hear the music, while going 50 or 60 miles per hour. The wind can get pretty loud, so turning up the tunes is a MUST, if you drive around with the top off. I get so jealous when I see other convertible vehicles on the road. Especially if it is a red jeep, because the one I use to have was red. It was a candy apple red with black trim. I had the big tires on it, screen wire over the headlights and taillights, plus an extra set of lights on the hood. The lights on the hood had the screen wire-look over them too. I could just flip a switch and turn these lights on. It was great for driving through the fog or lighting up a big area. One night while driving with the top down, I came across an accident scene. I was able to turn off the road with my front tires, so I could point my lights toward the off-road accident. Once my headlights was on the wrecked car, I was able to add extra lights, with those powerful hood lights. It worked great! Everyone was able to see what they were doing and I stayed there, until the fire department got their big utility lights out.

On Friday or Saturday evenings, I like to dress up and go cruising the local streets. My black Cowboy Hat was sharp. It was a big part of my “look” back then. My red jeep was all shiny from the good washing and waxing I would give to it. I would take a good polish and buff up the black trim, so it would stick out. My black tires would stick out too, since they were shinning brightly as well. Then I would be wearing a normal shirt, blue jeans, my cowboy boots, and that sharp cowboy hat, that everyone loved. I got as many compliments on my black hat, as I did for my Jeep Wrangler. I really do miss those days.

Now I am a decade older and I feel older too. The jeep is long gone and only a picture or two is the only memories I have of it. As for my black cowboy hat, I still have it. I keep it in the original box it came with. You have to do this with cowboy hats. If they don’t stay in a proper holder; then gravity tends to spoil them a bit.

Just this past Halloween, I got the old cowboy hat out. I put it on, along with my jeans, and boots. I took some black make-up and painted a beard on my face. Put on my western-style brown jacket and strapped on a BB pistol to my side. I didn’t go out or ever leave the house in my cowboy costume, but the nephews got a kick out of it. I have twin 6 year-old nephews and I dressed up for them, cause I knew they would be stopping by to trick or treat that night. So that was the last time, I wore my hat, but I still have it.

Not the way it was suppose to end. It just wasn’t suppose to end like this. Jorelys Rivera was a 7 year old girl living in Canton, Ga. She woke up Friday morning like all other school children did that morning, who attended Canton Elementary in Cherokee County. Her mom Joselin working an all night shift at Pilgrims Pride, a chicken plant off of Univeter Road in Canton, didn’t make it home in time to see Jorelys off to school. While Joselin the mother was probably tired, after working all night, she was in need of some sleep. Jorelys would ride the bus to school and would return home several hours later, in the late afternoon hours on December 2nd, 2011. Obviously Jorelys wasn’t too tired after school, as she would head outside to the playground at River Edge Apartments, off of Reinhardt College Parkway in Canton.

It really wasn’t that cold outside, for this 2nd day of December. It was actually a very mild and pleasant day outside in the North Canton area, just off of Riverstone Blvd. After playing around with her friends on the playground at River Ridge, Jorelys decided to go for some drinks. From what I have heard, it would appear she was able to get 4 cokes to drink. Obviously we see the signs of a very sweet girl here, as she was grabbing soft drinks for others, who were probably thirsty too, like Jorelys was that Friday day. The winter afternoon was starting to disappear, as the early evening hours was coming on fast and the kids outside didn’t have much daylight left, to stay playing on the playground.

While Jorelys coke run was around 5 p.m. that early evening; little did we all know at this time, she would only see one more person in her short lifetime. None of the kids on the playground could verify Jorelys coming back, after she left for drinks. Her teenage babysitter couldn’t place Jorelys around after she had left the playground. There was just no one around, who knew what had happen or where she might have went.

Knowing how this story would eventually end, it makes the next 90 minutes pretty tough to deal with. Like I said earlier, Jorelys only saw 1 other person, after her friends at the playground and the baby sitter had lost sight of her. The happiness and excitement that must have been with this child, on a early Friday evening day, where she was out of school for the weekend and just went to grab a drink to quench her thirst. At least I would like to think that she did take a few sips of that can Coca-Cola she ran to get; while the rest of her friends stayed at the playground.

For some reason, there was another person at the apartment complex that day, that had no business being there. I don’t know who they are, but even if they lived in River Edge Apartments in Canton, they still had NO BUSINESS BEING THERE! Not when their only desire was to physically grab a small 7 year old girl, beat her, stab her, and all of the other terrible things they chose to do that day. It makes no sense and there is no excuse! Whether the person was a teenager or a full grown man (i’m assuming gender based on the words of Vernon Keenam at the GBI Press Conference Tuesday Mornig), they should have been there at this place and time, with a smile for Jorelys and not any violent actions. This person should have been there, ready to help Jorelys or defend her from anything which might have scared her. Not taking it upon their self to be the attacker, to such a defenseless person. Even after the first hit or stabbing action, there should have been some voice of reasoning to come in and say “stop!“. Sure the community would have been upset, the police would have came, and the hunt would have been on for a person, who hit or stabbed a small child. This awful scenario would have still been a million times better; than the true story of Jorelys Rivera and her attacker.

The family, friends, community, and the whole state of Georgia are now left with a big void and asking the question “why?”. After 5 p.m. on Friday, only the attacker had the chance to see her last. Once the local officials did get involved, they wasted no time Friday night looking for her and assembling a massive team of law enforcement.

Many are aware of the Amber Alert, which is a warning system to alert everyone in a certain state, that a child has been taken. Once the Amber Alert is given out, there is some type of details that follow, so the public can help. In Georgia, we have the Levi Alert; which works the same way as the Amber Alert does nationwide. No Levi Alert was issued Friday night or during the weekend hours, since there was no eyewitnesses or any other information; which the authorities could have passed along to the public. The GBI in Georgia does admit, they like to reserve the Levi Alert as much as possible, so it will be more effective, when a child does go missing. The Canton Police Department and the Cherokee County Sheriffs Office had no information, which they could relay to the public. I hope the family of Jorelys Rivera understands this part of the search process. I would be the first one screaming “foul” if I thought the local or state officials did anything, in the least little bit, to delay the search for Jorelys.

Once Saturday morning arrived on December the 3rd, it was clear this story did have some mystery to it. I heard for the first time on Saturday, from the local television news, that a little girl was missing in m hometown. So for me, I was just getting the news, when others close to the case had already been working it for 24 hours. I can’t imagine how slow or how fast the time went by or didn’t go by, for the family and friends of Jorelys. The daylight hours of Sunday would soon arrive and still no word or any new information. Once the Sun went down Sunday night, the investigators began to look more in one direction. That direction was abduction.

The local TV station in Atlanta, Fox 5 News at 10 p.m., still did not see the missing girl in Canton as the top story. It was the preacher or Bishop Eddie Long who would grab the top headline spot, as their news cast began that night. The Bishop was taking a leave from his church post in Atlanta. After reporting this news story first Sunday night, the second story was about Jorelys. The main topic of the night was basically no new leads and the search would be extended. It was also reported and a local official in Canton, said they had already “searched 35 acres approximately“.

I think the fear really sits in now. After hearing about a search of this size and how much ground they had covered around the River Edge Apartments, it would seem Jorelys was in a vehicle and away from her home area. Or her abductor was holding her hostage, in a area the authorities have not yet searched.

Monday morning arrives and now all the characters are in place. There are 65 investigators on the scene, the City, County, and State Police were all present. The G.B.I. or Georgia Bureau of Investigation was in Canton and was the lead authority (it appeared). Plus the F.B.I. was present and ready to lend their help and resources to the local and state officials, who were actively working on this case. Now with so many agencies, people, local and national media helping out; you just had the feeling something was going to develop in the near future.

It was later that day, which would end the search process for the missing Canton girl. In a stunning conclusion, it turns out that little Jorelys Rivera, the 1st grader from Canton Elementary School, was about 100 yards away from the playground she was seen at last.

The person who took her away from us, on Friday evening around 5 pm, had taken her life within 90 minutes of making contact with her. A later autopsy would show a blunt force trauma to the head, stab wounds, and a “severe beating” as the GBI Director worded it. After killing her, the killer would dispose of her, like some piece of trash, in a nearby dumpster. This was a large compact dumpster and it did contain a lot of trash in it. One resident living in the River Edge Apartments said, “I put trash in that dumpster over the weekend“. I believe the resident was thinking, Jorelys was placed in the dumpster, shortly after her life ended on Friday. Like the killer would have killed her and then placed her in the dumpster a short time later. I’m not so sure this is what happened. It is the most likely way, the events would play out, but none of us know for sure, what day or time Jorelys was placed in the dumpster.

I do know the sniffing dogs were on the scene. Knowing the dumpster is only 100 yards away, it would seem like the dogs would have picked up the scent. The human body does start decomposing pretty quickly, after we have taken our last breath. Maybe the human nose would have not smelled anything on Saturday, but the dogs could have. Also, the entire day on Sunday went by and still no trace. It does make one wonder, at what time or on which day would she have been brought to the dumpster.

Authorities did go knocking on doors, at a little after midnight one night. Some residents were asked questions; while others just had a quick search of their apartments. And I must say, the residents who had this untimely search, to be conducted on them, did not have any problems with it. The police did say everyone was very coopoerative and that is always a good sign, when something like this happens. Lord knows, we don’t need any outside distractions, when the main focus must stay on the main problem at hand; which in this case, was the 7 year-old Canton girl Jorelys Rivera.

Now we all know where the story goes from here. It’s time to find us a killer and with 65 investigators and a great apartment community helping out, I am sure an arrest will be made real soon! There is a $15,000 award being offered, for anyone who will give out information, that leads to an arrest and a conviction.

Speaking of money…

There is a way we all can help the family out, in their time of need. The employer of the Mom, Pilgrims Pride in Canton, has set up a fund; which anyone can donate money to. Just go or call the United Community Bank in Canton or any of their other locations. Ask to donate money to the: Jorelys Rivera Memorial Fund and  make your financial contribution.

(770) 479-6700

WEBSITE: United Community Bank – Just Click Here

Please give what you can. Also, I would hope the playground at River Edge would be named Jorelys Rivera Playground or that some playground in the Canton Area; would carry her memory on. R.I.P. Jorelys…

*CANTON RESIDENTS CAN LEAVE THEIR PORCH LIGHT ON FOR JORELYS RIVERA

The equestrian apparel is not just for the stables any longer. More and more fashion accessories are coming from the world of horses and their riders. Most of the equestrian clothes I have seen over the years, look real good on the riders. Now a new trend is starting up and it comes from young ladies; who don’t even own a horse. I doubt some have even been on a horse before. Whatever it takes to get the best fashion threads to wear are what women and young girls are saying everywhere. For those who have never shopped at an equestrian store or outlet before, might want to view some of these apparel items. The Equestrian Corner is a good place to start online. They offer a huge selection of different pants and jeans for men and women. The stylish equestrian shirts and fleece jackets are available on the Net too. Just an overall good selection of clothes; which were intended for horse riders, but are available for anyone to buy online.

One of the top rated cable shows on television right now is Storage Wars. This entertaining show comes on every week over on the A & E channel. Since I started watching this show, it has made me want to start buying these storage units, like the cast of this popular TV show. It’s really pretty simple on how it works. Someone who rented out a storage locker, so they could store their stuff in it at one time. Now months or years later, the owner of the storage locker has not paid, forgotten, got ill, or various other reasons, so they lose all their items inside. The owners will take these unpaid units and auction them off to the public. The person with the most cash is the one who wins the storage locker. Sounds easy enough, right?

Well I wanted to learn more about this business, cause it does look like a good investment. People on the show are commonly spending 500 to 2 thousand dollars and getting some items inside the locker that are more valuable. The folks bidding on the locker can’t go inside these units. They must stand outside and only have a short peek inside and have to try and determine what the storage locker is worth. I know for me to start this business, I would obviously need a lot of cash to begin with. I know these guys buy a lot of junk, so making trips to the dump would be another expense one would have to pay in this line of business. I would like to take me a small metal table with those rolling wheels on them or casters on the bottom of a sturdy table. In case I did win a bid or two, I would like to have something to put my storage items on and be able to roll them away easily. I currently drive a car, so I know a good used pick-up truck would be a must for this business.

Over all, I think I could get everything I need for $3,000 or less and then I would only need me a big wad of cash, so I could afford to buy these unknown goodies in these lockers. Have you ever watched this TV program called Storage Wars on cable television? Or better yet, have you ever been to a live auction, where you was bidding on a storage locker? Any advice or tips you have to pass along to me, I would really appreciate it.

If you’re currently online doing a search for Rhett and Link: Commercial Kings from the IFC Channel on television, you must be looking for some top, notch advertising. Or perhaps you just have a little extra money in the advertising budget this month, to get Rhett and Link to do one of their awesome homemade commercials for you. I think that’s great and you are looking at two guys that know how to get it done! Advertising takes a special skill and both of these guys have the perfect answer to your advertising questions. Before you hire them to do your commercial, feel free to get a boost online while you are in the promotional mood. The reason you found this blog post high in the search engines, is because I use several high ranking blogs, to get this Rhett and Link Blog Post pushed to the top. So I can prove my value online and show you a cheaper and very effective way to market your products, services, websites, referral links, or any affiliate programs you want to jump start online.

I have some affordable online methods, I can hook you up with and get your online promotions going in the right direction. This is the perfect appetizer to order with your Advertising TV Dinner. Go ahead and get Rhett and Link for the main coarse, but start off here first, so you can be pushing your exposure up the ladder online. I will use a series of blogs mainly to get your website on the first page of the top search engines out there, like Yahoo, MSN (Bing), and the big daddy of them all, Google! I use a few other marketing tricks and advertising methods behind the scenes; which will help insure your website comes up high on all the search engines; when Internet Users type in those keywords that relate to your small business website.

For as little as $90, I can get you up and running with a 3 blog promotion. If you prefer to sample my work first, I will do one blog post online with a few different links and follow any directions you might have for only $50. Then if you like what you see, we can then add 3 blog posts to your order and your small business would be benefiting from 4 professionally written blog posts online. These will all be done to the best of my ability and I will be happy to do any edits; which you would like to have done to any one of  the blog post I do for you. I will be in close contact, so you can have easy access to me for any questions or suggestions you might have along the way.

Rhett & Link Announces Commercial Kings TV Show on the IFC Channel

It has been a nice 5 year run online with YouTube for Rhett and Link. They both say they will continue to do their YouTube Videos and promote their customers here online. I know the TV commercials are going to become real popular in the near future, as the fan base from the television crowds begin to grow. If you would like to watch the Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings on IFC, be sure to check your local listings. Most of you should be able to tune-in at 10 P.M. on Friday Nights and watch their new episodes. Usually IFC will show an encore of the Friday night telecast again, in the early, wee hours of Saturday morning. Then throughout the weekend and several days through the week, fans of Rhett and Link can turn to IFC or the Independent Film Channel and watch replays of the Rhett and Link Commercial Kings program. It comes on a lot and its a good thing it does, so everyone can see how much of a genius these two guys are, when they come together for the same advertising cause.

I’m not exactly sure on the Rhett and Link advertising rates, but a lot of small companies in California are finding enough funds in the ad budget to hire these two funny and creative guys. I been doing online advertising for the same 5 year period, as Link and Rhett has been doing too. They chose to use the YouTube videos; while I went for the blog advertising. I have been able to help a lot of people and business owners online, get real solid results with the few dollars they have invested into my services. I feel my 5 years of experience and affordable adverting prices, allows me to reach more folks online; who need help with their online promotions. Rhet and Link are certainly the Commercial Kings on Youtube or on television now with their new IFC program. However, I belive Blogger Chris is the Blog King online; when it comes to top notch and efffective blog advertising. My blogs do get results and the best part of all, is that my rates are much cheaper than an actual TV commercial or even a YouTube ad online.

I know you came looking for the Commercial Kings and I strongly suggest you use Link and Rhet for the TV ads, but please keep Blogger Chirs: Blog King in your mind, cause he can reach a large audience and get you situatuated nicely in the big search engines online. A lot of marketing tools a person can use on the World Wide Web, but blogs are quickly becomming one of the best advertising tools money can buy these days! You can have the best of both worlds; when you seek the Commercial Kings and Blogger King for all of your advertising needs. We got ya covered!

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I always like to hear how people wake up in the mornings. What they do before going to work. I know some people will take a bath or shower the night before, so they don’t have to in the morning time. I don’t feel clean when I do it that way. Also, the water from the bath tub helps to wake me up. I know some will not wash their hair every morning. My main reason for taking a shower each morning, is to wash my hair. I will lather it up good in a cheap shampoo and rinse it out. Once I get out of the tub, I will use a towel to first dry off. After drying off with a towel, I use hand dryers and hair dryers to blow me fully dry. I will turn the nozzle around on our hand dryer to feel the warm air on my chest and back areas. The hair dryer is for the lower areas and this feels good on those cold work day mornings. I have to be dry, before I put on my work clothes. I hate putting on clothes, when I am still wet.

Bathroom Hand Dryer

After this, I like to brush my teeth. I will make it a point, at some time in the morning, to brush my teeth. Again, I hear other folks who will do their brushing the night before and will not eat breakfast at home, so they skip on brushing their teeth. I need that clean feeling from a shower to help wake me up, but a clean mouth is very important to me. I must whip out the toothbrush, because I will notice it while driving to work, if I have forgot to brush my teeth.

I know we are all different and we all do different jobs. Even if I had a dirty job, that didn’t require a clean employee, I would still do the shower, wash the hair, dry off with towels and a hand dryer, and making sure my teeth is clean. This cleaning process in the morning helps me to wake up. So even if I will be dirty once I arrive to work, I at least want to be awake. I’m not someone who is happy or talkative in the morning. So each little pleasure I can find before going to work in the A.M. hours, I will take full advantage of. What about you? What are some of the common routines you do in the mornings before work, like everyone else does? Do you have one or two things that only you do in the morning time? Feel free to reply and please share your stories about the unique things you do in the mornings to help wake you up. I could use a few new tips on waking up in the morning.

We have recently watched two holidays go by and now the spring time work begins. Yesterday was Mothers Day and we had the Easter holidays not too far back. Some will begin doing their spring cleaning projects inside the house. While others will take to the outdoors to begin their gardens. I like to plant flowers or vegetables outside. It is rewarding to plant both. I like to look and smell out new flowers that have just blossomed. Then for the vegetable plants, they offer their own unique rewards. Nothing is better, than eating some fresh green beans, squash, okra, tomatoes, corn, or even onions from a summer time garden. To have them ready to harvest in the summer, you have to begin your planting season during the spring. The faster you can bring the food to the table, the better it is for everyone, who likes to eat fresh vegetables from the garden.

I believe my lazy winter days are over now. I usually like to plant my garden right after Easter Sunday. I missed my chance this year, but the temperatures got really cold last week. The locals around here call this Blackberry Winter. The time during the spring, where the weather has warmed up and that last cold spell of the year comes in unexpected. This is Black Berry Winter and it is very cold and has a lot of wind blowing on these days. So maybe it is good that I didn’t start my vegetable garden yet. My mama has some roses in the front yard and they are all out in full bloom. Our front yard looks more like a business or dental office than a home right now.

The indoor work is going to be rough on me this year too. I have not cleaned up my bedroom in a long time and it is overdue for a good spring time cleaning. I believe I will begin my indoor work first and work my way to the outside of the house. So I won’t be on the computer as much as I would like to, for the next several weeks. As I try to get my spring time cleaning done and plant a small vegetable garden outside.

Scattered, Smothered, and Covered!

The Waffle House Restaurants are famous for cooking up their hashbrowns to your liking. If you walk into a Waffle House one day, you will probably hear the waitress hollering at the cook, to “scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, diced, and topped” the hash browns. Well last week, a tornado in Ringgold, Georgia did that to the whole entire Waffle House restaurant. It was a sad day for the residents living and working around the Ringgold, Georgia area. This tornado destroyed their whole town. The local McDonald’s restaurant suffered its own damage, like the Waffle House and other restaurants in Ringgold. You may not be able to find a Ringgold restaurant today, but you will find a lot of grateful citizens in Ringgold. They were very lucky to only loose 8 people from this terrible storm, that just leveled their small city in Northwest Georgia.

I believe people in Alabama and in Georgia, will be getting prepared for the next round of bad weather that is headed our way. This trend is suppose to last for a couple of months, so we are a long ways away, from being safe from the 2011 storms. A smart family will invest in these new weather alert systems; which are good about detecting bad weather or alerting us to tornadoes in the nearby area. The best way to stay safe during bad weather, is to prepare for these strong winds, damaging hail, and the twisters that drop out of the clouds above. Getting a weather system for your home is a start, but remember some more key tips.

If you hear thunder, then you are close enough to get struck by lightning. Thunder is Mother Nature’s first alert system to us, to take cover, find shelter and get everyone in from outside. Thunder in the area, means lightning is close. If you have thunder and lighting, then other bad things are certainly a possibility. The best thing is to over prepare, stay over safe, and then we can laugh about it later. If we don’t, there won’t be anyone laughing after the bad weather has passed. Ringgold residents was lucky, but towns in Alabama wasn’t, if you consider the death tolls in some of the Alabama towns struck by these tornadoes in the South USA.

Americans are strong. People in the South are a bit stronger and they’re a breed of their own. We can handle tough things down here, but we have to know they are coming. So try to look online and consider buying a weather alarm or a home weather alarm, so you and your family will know when the next twister is heading your way.

Midland Weather Radio

The Midland Weather Radio is really not that expensive and it is easy to use. If you can work a radio at home or the radio in your car, then you can easily work one of these weather radios at home. You may find other weather alarms or weather radios cheaper and that’s fine. Look for the weather system that best fits your budget and the one you believe will keep your family safe. We are in a whole new world now with climate change or global warming as some people still call it. What ever its name is, we know our bad weather is worse than it was in years past. Since we know this now, we can all take time to prepare and finding a good shelter will always be the best thing you can do. Find a secure location now, while the weather is good and then you will know where to go, for your escape plan, when the next tornado warning is forecasted for your local city or hometown.

We are in a tough weather pattern right now and things are going to get worse, before they get better in 2011. The 2011 tornado season is far from being over. So please understand this and keep an eye to the sky and tune-in to the local weather channel or your local weatherman on television. This is only the calm before the rest of our storms, for the 2011 tornado and thunder storm season.

I been wearing blue jeans ever since I was young and can remember. Not just any jeans either, but I was wearing the Levis jeans. These are quality pants and they’re my favorite by far. When I was going to school, all the boys would wear Levis Pants or Levis Blue Jeans. It was just the thing to wear back then.

Today Levis has tried to open their pants up to a bigger audience. You will see slim fit, relaxed fit, or maybe a Levis 501 style on the rack in your favorite clothing stores. In an attempt to be hip, I have tried some of these other styles of Levis pants. I believe their basic or regular fit jeans are still my favorite style of Levis or any other jeans for that matter. I still wear jeans just about everyday. If I am not wearing blue jeans, there is a good chance, I am wearing a black pair of Levis. I have another pair of black pants; which are not Levis, but I like the Levis colored pants the best too. So as you can see, I am a Levis fan.

You can shop online for name brand clothes. If you like name brand jeans or other popular clothing styles, you should be able to find some clothing retailer on the Internet, selling your favorite items. I like to try on clothes in the store, but there are some things, you know will fit just fine. I would buy one of the woolrich jackets online, without trying it on. I know these jackets are comfortable to wear and I pretty much know the size of jacket that fits me. It can be a little different with pants. You need to try different brands on, because they do vary in sizes. I know my Levis size real well, so its easy for me to order Levis online. Do you shop for clothing items online?

UnOfficial Nadine Mug

The cast and crew from Larry’s Country Diner have not sent me the “official Nadine Mug” like we see her with so many times. Instead, they force me to a generic version of the Nadine Mug and for now; I am quite happy with it.

So what is happening with the heart and soul of Larry’s Diner these days?

Well I do have a special announcement to make. It appears our very own Nadine is heading to the Opry! Yep, you heard it here first! Nadine will be going to the big show, the main event, the place where everyone tries to get to in country music. It is the only place people would walk 100′s; if not thousands of miles to get to. Yes, I am talking about the Opry and I am talking about the Bement Country Opry! Huh? Did you say Bement Country Opry? Ok, so it isn’t “the” Opry we all know and love, but it is ”a” opry and this one has Nadine! 

Nadine’s Appearance Dates @ the Bement Country Opry

April 8th (2011) – 8 PM

April 9th (2011) – 9 PM

*Only 2 Shows Scheduled. Be Sure To Get Your Tickets Fast!

The Illinois Opry is owned and operated by Larry & Sondra Wooley of Decatur, Illinois. I was honored to see Sondra leave a message on my Simple Life Blog and I would like to copy and paste the information she wanted all of my readers and the fans of Larry’s Country Diner and especially for those fans who love Nadine to see. So here is what Sondra has to say:

“NADINE is indeed going to be making an appearance on the BEMENT COUNTRY OPRY SHOWS APRIL 8 & APRIL 9 2011. My husband and I own the show and we are all looking so forward to her appearances and the shows. so don’t miss it. Anyone in the area of Bement, IL. just give me a holler for information on this event. phone 217 877-6499. Thanks See y”all in April. 8 or 9, 2011.
PS. I never miss this show Larry’s country Diner. Great entertainment..”

Sondra posted the above message on March 6th and the Wooley family is giving everyone here a warm and sincere invitation to see the very funny Nadine. Remember these show time dates are NOT for the Grand Ole Opryin Nashville, but for the Bement Country Opry in Illinois.

Renae the Waitress Answers More Diner Questions…

The lovely Renae, who is the true highlight of the Diner and its not Larry, like he would like for you to believe. In fact, the show should be called the Nadine and Waitress Renae Show; since Mr. Black doesn’t really bring much to the table for his RFD-TV Original Program to be successful. But anyway, I will pass along the 2 comments Renae the Waitress left on the 3rd of this month (March). Waitress Renae says:

 Hey Everyone.
Let me help with some of your questions We tape 4 shows every month at Northstar studios where we set up the Diner for a day. Real food, real service and alot of fun. We invite fans to attend the tapings, eat in the Diner and be on the show. Reservations are ONLY made through Larry’s Black’s office. 615-673-2846 ask for DeeAnn and she will take real good care of you. Nadine has her own website with a shop full of stuff. Nadine mug, new CD and Best of Nadine DVD and if you ask she will sign them http://www.nadinenadine.com. Nadine is making personal appearances. She is booked at Bement Country Opry in IL April 8th and 9th,2011 which should be a HOOT!! There is a dual photo of her on her website if you want to take a peek at what she really looks like and she has appearance dates with phone numbers.
Thank you ALL for watching the Diner and such positive comments. We have so much fun. We are going back in the studio in May to film some New Country’s Family Reunion shows. And we have a new Marty Robbins Collection we are releasing this month. Larry keeps me VERY busy !!!

Renae was not yet done and would come back and leave a 2nd post on the same day and here is what Renae forgot to say in her first post above. Renae the Waitress says:

PSSSSSSSS….I forgot to mention we are producing a NEW INSTRUMENTAL CD on Sheriff Jimmy Capps that will be released after the summer. I have heard some of the recordings and it is FABULOUS !!!! We will feature it on the Diner when it ‘s done…..See Ya at the Diner !!!!

I think a lot of guitar fans out there, will be glad Renae came back and left this 2nd message. She just wanted to remind us, that later this year the guitar player from Larry’s Country Diner will be releasing a new CD. He’s the one who is dressed up like a sheriff on the Show. Many of the legends and country music stars who live or pass through Nasville and The Opry, know who Jimmy Capps is and in many cases, they have performed with him too. Mr. Capps is a legendary guitarist in Nashville and he’s really helped to shape country music and its fame over the last few generations. What would the MP3 Country Music downloads at Amazon look like, if the World would have never got a glimpse of this young boy, growing up in North Carolina.

I think Jimmy did very well with his choice for a wife; while picking those strings with the Legends and Stars of Country Music. His better half or life partner, who I believe married the Sheriff about 3 or 4 years ago, is a very good singer herself. She is a joy to hear singing and I am glad the Diner has allowed her to sing with a number of the country music stars; who have visited the Diner. She has a great voice, is very attractive to look at, and just seems like the nicest person in the world. Her beautiful smile works too. Yeah, I think Jimmy Capps did just fine and some guys just have all the luck.

And that just about does it for the Diner News today. I do think 1 or 2 of you out there are happy to see the Show go back to its original 1 hour format and not this 30 minute crap, we was all forced to watch. 30 minutes is not enough time to learn who the guests are and laugh at a few of the jokes from Nadine. I won’t mention no names, on whose idea it was to go to a new 30 minute show, but I’m sure Larry (cough cough), I mean who ever thought the 30 minute show idea was good, probably knows better now. Right? What do you think?

***PLEASE VOTE FOR HOW LONG AN EPISODE OF LARRY’S COUNTRY DINER SHOULD LAST?***

A. Original 1 Hour Format

B. New 30 Minute Episodes

And as a special treat for Mrs. Nadine and her husband Homer, I will give her a real link to the Official Nadine Mug. Fans can follow the link and begin having coffee or hot chocalate with Nadine every morning. And if Nadine would really like to sell a few of these mugs, I would suggest she hires Blogger Chris for a special $50 off discount and I will have everyone around Nasville drinking Nadine Mugsand listening to other Nadine items they could be buying online. Use this special coupon and send $250 to Blogger Chris at PayPal.  Normally I charge $300 a month for my services, but for you Nadine, I will drop the price 50 bucks and give you a hand at the $250 a month rate. Keep in mind, this is just 1 of my blogs I have online. I have 7 more blogs, plus a network of other blogs I have access to, for even more exposure online. Not to mention a wide-range of advertising platforms I use to launch campaigns and I can purchase advertising in all the right spots.

Please send the $250 today at:  owlholler@hotmail.com (Online Promotions will appear on the receipt) This amount will cover the month we are currently in and the entire month following this month. Before you make your 2nd payment, you can wait as long as needed, to see if my online advertising is working for your products. Once you see your sales take a big leap forward, you can retain my services for the $250 amount and this will lock-in, so you never have to worry about escalating advertising fees. What do you think? Partners? Just let me know and keep up the good work.

I use to be the sharpest shooter in the neighborhood when I was a kid growing up. I carried my BB gun around with me, just about everywhere I went. Anytime me and the neighbors would get together to do some target practicing, I always seemed to win. I guess my eye sight was just better than most kids; while I was growing up. I also knew how my BB gun shot too. It wasn’t a straight shot all the time. It would seem to shoot a little high and just to the right a little bit. So when I was aiming at a target, I would just aim for the lower, left side of my target and that would line me up for a bulls-eye every time.

The BB guns of today are a lot better than the one I had to shoot with. These guns are more powerful and they even have their own scope too! I don’t know if they have the Nikon rifle scopes on them or not, but I never had a scope on any of my BB guns. Some people say it is harder to shoot with a scope, but I sure would have like to try one out. What made me a good shot, was the fact I would adjust for the way my gun was actually shooting. If I had a scope, it wouldn’t have to be dialed in perfect. I could take a sharp aim on a target, where I knew I had the cross-hairs lined up for the very center of my target. After I fired a shot, I could go and look to see where the BB went in at. From there, I would simply begin the adjustment process and I would eventually have my scope dialed in, without ever touching the scope itself. I may be wrong, but I believe my sharp-shooting skills as a kid, would have been much better, if I had been given the opportunity, to shoot with a BB gun with a scope attached to it.

If you woke up this morning and just out of the blue, decided to go on a diet for the first time in your life, what would you do first? Do you think you would come to the computer first? Or maybe head to the drug store to look for some diet pills and other weight loss products being sold? Some people may not even look to use a dieting supplement to help them lose weight. They may just lay in bed and come up with a diet plan, without using their computers or any diet products from the store. This first time dieter, may not care about the best fat burners or the fat burners receiving the highest online rankings. They may decide to use a new and different approach.

Well it may not be that new or that different from what other dieters are trying to do. Our new diet plan is only going to consist of fruit and vegetables for the next 3 days; while only drinking water. Our new dieter is going to try this weight loss tactic for 3 days straight. Then on the 4th day, they can have anything they want to eat or drink. This is their “pig-out” day and the buffet lunches and dinners are fine.

However, they are trying to lose weight, so on their 4th day, this will be the first time they take a fat burner for help. Once the 4th day is over with, the dieter goes back to their fruit, vegetables, and water only diet. They stay on it for 3 more days, just like last time, and will eat anything they please again, just like last time too. The only time a diet pill or a fat burning product is used, is every 4th day or the day they are allowed to eat anything they want.

How well do you think this diet would work? Is it a healthy and well balanced diet plan? I have a few concerns about not eating any breads or meats for these 3 day periods. I know the person could have their fill of meats and breads on their “pig-out” days, but this diet may not be too well balanced. Also, if you go 3 days with only eating vegetables, fruits, and drinking only water, your stomach would shrink quite a bit. This wouldn’t be too bad, since you’re seeking to lose some weight. I would just fear your days to eat anything you want, would be severely limited, since your stomach would fill up much faster.

So the new dieter may not be eating enough variety in this fictional diet. I did think it was an interesting strategy to combat the big meat, bread, and sweets day with a fat burning product. I don’t know how much effectiveness you would truly get from the fat burner pill. And the final problem with this person’s first diet plan ever, was the fact they didn’t mention exercise at all! Well balanced meals with exercise is the corner stone to any new diet plan and after you achieve this, you can rely on the drug store products, like a good diet pill or fat burning supplement for some extra help.

The View recently brought a good topic up, when they were discussing their hot topics for the day. A few weeks ago, most of us learned about a boy who got in trouble at school, for saying bad things about his teacher online. This California student was on Facebook; while he called his current teacher “fat” and some other negative comments. He apparently gave the teacher’s name and the school he was attending. For his actions, this student did get in trouble, but should he have? Please let me know your opinion about students making negative remarks online about a specific person or a teacher at their school. Does these students have any constitutional rights, to say what they want to online?

I remember the school rules at my school were a lot like our state and federal laws. We had some school teachers who allowed chewing gum in class; while other teachers did not allow gum to be chewed in their classrooms. I look at this school rule as a state law and how it varies from state to state or teacher to teacher in this example. Now smoking was not allowed in any classroom or on the school grounds, so this was more like a federal law. No teacher could allow their students to smoke in their class, because it was a school rule that didn’t allow smoking for any circumstances; while a student was on the school grounds. Should we only allow the schools to discipline our child while they are at school and what they do at home is up to the parents? A parent could let their child smoke at home, but this doesn’t mean these students can smoke at school. Most of us get that, but where do you draw the line, when it comes to negative comments online, at a popular social networking site like Facebook?

So we know how this story ended and the child did receive punishment from the school system. Now we fast forward to the present day and we now have a teacher practically doing the same thing. The ABC TV Show called The View touched on this topic briefly and compared the two stories. This latest incident happened in Pennsylvania with a school teacher, who was making negative comments about her students in general and she did this on her own private blog. Even though a blog may be private to the blog owner, it is still public information in most cases. Blog owners can posts on their blogs; while keeping them private. You would have to have a special password to login and read the private posts. Most bloggers don’t do this and they will publish all their posts for everybody and anybody to see.

There are differences in these two stories, but a lot of folks will not look at the differences. They will just see a student talking bad about a teacher and a teacher talking bad about her students. They will want to draw conclusions from these two main points, without digger deeper into the two stories. To be fair to everyone, I think we do have to point out the differences, but I won’t say which one is better and which one is worse.

The California student used a public website called Facebook. This is a very popular website that has millions and millions of members and users everyday. I have no idea how popular and how much traffic the Pennsylvania school teacher’s blog got, but I think its safe to assume it was far less than the number of people who visit Facebook each day. So the school teacher went to a website that was less traveled on and it was her own personal website. As a member of Facebook, you don’t own the site in any way. A Facebook user has very little control over what the rules and design of the Facebook website will look like. Each Facebook member can control their own space or webpage within the Facebook neighborhood. There is a little freedom at Facebook, but it is relatively low in comparison to a blogger, who creates and designs their own blog from start to finish. I don’t know if the teacher had a blog on her own domain name, but I do think that is something to look at. A free blog or a blog within a huge social networking website, would basically be the same thing, as having a Facebook account. A blog on its own domain, would be more special, more private, and it would seem to give the blogger a little more freedom on what can or can’t be said on their website. If you have a blog on a free blog service, like Blogger.com for instance, you still have to follow some rules or you can lose your free blogger account. No rules to follow, if you pay for a domain each month and hosts your own blog.

I will give a little lead way in the teacher’s case, because she was posting on a blog and not a social networking website. Even though her blog, may be hosted in a place that gets a lot of daily visitors. I will also give the teacher a bonus point for not mentioning any specific names in her online venting. Overall, I really think the school system is limited in what they can do to this school teacher. I believe the Pennsylvania school teacher who blogs online, is only exercising her first amendment rights. Most may not agree with what she has to say, but it is her opinion and everyone should respect that.

Now with that said, I really think the California school system made a critical error in punishing the boy, who said negative things about his teacher on Facebook. For years and years, students have gathered at school and away from school to talk bad about a teacher. This is nothing new! What is new, is our technology for communicating in the 21st century. The students have a lot more ways with cell phones, Facebook, and tweeting through Twitter to express their feelings much faster; than what they could 10 years ago. Not only do the students reach a bigger audience, but they also reach folks who have no business reading what they say. Just because you can read someone’s comments online, doesn’t mean you have the right to reply and intervene as you please.

The California school system is walking a thin-line by not allowing students to speak up. If a teacher was abusing a student, we would want the student to make a stand and say negative things about their teacher then. Just because we can see this specific case is not serious, does not mean we have the right to punish the student for it. I don’t think any school system in America could police these laws or rules fully, so you must not enforce what you can’t enforce equally. Schools can do whatever they want when the student is on their property or if they use their property to send out these hateful words to the World Wide Web. If a student is at home and chooses to use their own private computers for saying such harsh words, it’s really not the school’s business. The student was not threatening the teacher. The student was not making direct comments on her blog or sending her attacks via email, Twitter, or Facebook (directly). The school system has over-stepped their boundaries and involved their self with a topic that was not intended for them or a part of their business. Just because you mention a specific person’s name, does not give that person a right to comment or make a judgement about it. Only if a person is within ear-sound or receives the message directly, should they be allowed any freedoms of action.

One more thing. Now the students are alerted to your “police force” reading their messages on Facebook or online in general, so the next time they have something bad to say, they will do it in a way that doesn’t get read by the school or other responsible adults. Perhaps a group of students will plan a day where they cause trouble or attack other students and will not announce this over the Facebook wire. They will go where they know they have privacy and leave adults, teachers, and the police no access to their criminal behaviors. A teacher being called “fat” is rude, but its not the first time this have ever happened in a school system. If a teacher is carrying around more weight, than he or she should, they can expect remarks like these. In a way, its good we have the World Wide Web for students to speak freely, so these professional teachers are held to a much higher standard. Teachers should be held accountable for their actions and the Internet is a great tool to insure that.

Sure, there will be some students who have no right to say what they do online. If these teachers are worth their weight in gold (like they should be) then other students will arrive on the Internet scene to take up for these teachers. Let’s let the students have the World Wide Web and let the adults to have the silent power in the background. The student in California actually has laws that protect them and the school system is going to find out about all of these laws very soon, if they haven’t already.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck and The View did a great job by bringing up this educational Internet debate. It is a hard topic to answer in just a 5 or 10 minute segment, but I thought they should have at least gave their own personal opinions about this controversial topic. If you missed the February 16th Show of The View, you can follow the link and watch it again online. The statements about the Pennsylvania school teacher is at the beginning of the video, so you don’t have to watch much of The View, to see what they said and how they tied this recent hot topic, into another hot topic from an earlier episode.

Natalie Munroe is the school teacher in question and her blog has been highly sought over the past week. I can’t find her original posts online, but she had dozens of posts, by her own acclaims. She does have two new blog posts up and they are both worth reading. She points out the details well and how this story broke in her world. She has cleverly titled two new blog posts, where her original blog was located: Bloggate – Day 1 and Bloggate – Part 2 Both posts were interesting to read and I recommend checking them out.

I think we are only seeing the start of the school systems battling the other world that takes place online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. As for now, the Federal Laws have already stated, back in November of 2010; that the Facebook updates page, does fall under the protection laws and it is protected speech. So for any students or teachers who are reading this blog post now, you do have a federal agency giving you some protection as a member of Facebook. Hopefully these freedom of speech laws will reach all the way across the Web and everyone will have the right to say and speak freely online. Everyone must remember this. At the end of the day, when all the dust has settled and nothing else is being said, the online blogger will always have the last word!