December 16, 2019
Down here in Florida all us old geezers talk about health. So, that topic is as good as any. The good Lord blessed me with good health . . . I’ll don’t know why. Discharge physical from Army reserves -91 was my last blood test. Found it the other day when I was shredding papers. Can’t just throw stuff out. You have to shred it. My cholesterol and blood sugar were high. Guess they still are. Hate needles. Don’t do flu shots. I hear old folks need triple strength to stay alive. If I get something wrong, they’ll have to find it in either poop or pee. Don’t see Doctors down here now-ah-days. PAs are all the rage and they have Walk-in-Clinics in the shopping mall next to my favorite store The Dollar Tree. The way I see it, if you can walk in you don’t need to be there in the first place. Won a certificate for a cataract operation at a silent church auction the other night. Probably ought to use it before I kill us all driving at night. Church — now there’s a dangerous place. All the snowbirds bring their germs down here in the winter and the place sounds like a Tbc ward. Well, that’s my health up-date. Boring, I know. Bottom line. I made it this far.
I ain’t changing nothing.
I always wondered what it would be like to write a crazy off the wall novel. So I wrote one which is now published on Amazon, Kindle etc. The story takes place in a small town south of Macon. Its historical backdrop is US 41 back in the late 50’s and early 60’s when small towns along this route were being bypassed by I-75. I’ve always been fascinated by Old Dixie Highway history which later became US 41 and enjoyed looking at the old gas station, tourist court and restaurant abandoned south of Perry. Much has been written about the old highway, but little is told about what happened to these towns when they were bypassed by I-75. Writing it last summer, my story got out of hand and turned into a mystery novel with I believe 52 down home characters all trying to survive in an economic depressed town bypassed by I-75. And they tried to do it in an extremely desperate way. The book cover is a section of middle Georgia Old Dixie Hwy 1925.
