I was out this weekend working on my lawn and realized how much fun lawn care really is. We here at the stratagos family plot are major bit time pumped up outdoor people and we love to do things outside, That means we are working in the garden and grass quite a bit too.
This weekend we mowed and fertilized the lawn and in fact, we even sprayed the weeds that were out there so when we do the backyard bbq in July (the family one where the relatives come in, stay tuned) we will have the best looking lawn ever. That means that out green patch of grass love is there and looking fine.
Grass, yard and lawn care is really important at the house and at our business home. I think that we will have to talk about the business lawn care a little later as that is a whole nuther’ bone of contention for us all.
When they had said that where they were sending me would be totally different from what I was used to, I did not ever think that it would be this ghastly. They told me that the word earthling spoke for every living thing that inhabited the planet earth. This is not what it looked like anymore. I wished immediately that I had not set foot off the ship and onto this continent.
The humans looked like they had the might on this planet. Did this mean that they could abuse it? They were mistreating everything around them including themselves. On my destinations chart I had been told that on this planet I would find the meaning of true life by my ancestors who had been here eons ago. It looked like I had found the meaning of death.
I hoped and prayed that I would come across at least that handful of people that cherished their surroundings but it seemed too much to ask for after I had observed all their assemblies. Let us destroy them for they are yellow. Let us fear them for they are white. Let us not help them for they are black. When I go back I will not know how to guide them, for they are blind.
wow, since we have decided to start a blog here, the boys are just going crazy. They have always had their spots on Facebook and Myspace, but in recent days they are really stretching their creative ideas a little and starting actual blogs kind of similar to this one. Marty started a free blog over at blogspot and has done a nice job of cuctomizing it. (can’t show it to you because the wife is concerned about you stlking him LOL)
anyway, he already has many of his pals from school visiting his blog and leaving comments and stuff like that. Pretty cool really.
With all that in mind, it looks like I’ll need to get this page updated regularly to keep up. I also need to look at choosing a new theme as well due to the fact that I can’t let marty’s creativity shine over mine Ha!
I dunno though because there is something to be said for the simplicity of the theme I have here. Easy and clean, even ugly maybe. Who knows right?
what do you guys think about be keeping with this theme or trying something new?
Wow, on these rainy days it sure is nice to cuddle up with the wife and drink a little wine while listening to the best hits of the 1980s. That, or course, means we are going to put on some Duran Duran.
With them, you got love songs, happy songs and just general good life songs.
My fave is “Ordinary World” and wifey likes “Wild Boys” ROFL!!
I shoulda known back in high school eh?
yeah, for those who don’t know, wife and I were “acquantences in high school.” She was one of the most popular (and hottest) girls in school there in St. Petersburg, FL. I, on the other hand, was a nerdy trumpet player in the marching band. (though I had a hell-ova body from lifting weights all the time LOL)
Anyway, wife would never look at me, though she claims that one day on a senior skip day she noticed me with my shirt off at the beach and commented to a friend that I looked pretty good.
(still look damn thick too at the ripe age of 39)
Anway, if wasn’t until a couple years later that she was home from FSU on spring break and I was jamming with some buds in a jazz club that she realized just how hot old Stratagos was! (yeah, I let her call me “Strat”)
I was on stage with a snifter of fine Irish Whiskey playing some be-bop tunes when wife walked in and redognized me right off. But now, instead of having that band nerd branding on me, it was cool that I was performing in a club. (even if it was just a smokey little bar on 34th st)
yeah, she pretty much fell for me right there and followed me around for like an hour before I acknowledged here and acted like I barely remembered her. But I just couldn’t forget her smile and piercing green eyes.
Long story short, we got married a year later and here we are. The happiest of the Stratagos clan! Those were the days of Duran Duran ya’ll1
Or should have I titled that Family first? Either way, we want to welcome any and all visitors to our family blog. We are the Stratagos family and we will be posting a little weblog here of our lives.
We are:
Dad (me the main writer)
Mom (the one who brings me beer and tells me what I am allowed to write here)
The Bean (our oldest daughter in the 8th grade,)
The Mouse (our middle daughter, full or squeeky comments)
The Brando (our youngest and only son who looks like a very little Marlon Brando
That’s us and we welcome any and all to read about the adventures of the Family Stratagos!