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Marie
09-02-2013 8:03:50 PM EST
 Just spent a week in Charlevoix Mi with my Bunco girls at Lake Charlevoix and had beautiful weather and today it is like fall here. Windy.chilly and some leaves are falling. Before long the fall colors will be on. Things start to slow down and then time for Florida. Can't wait
Renee
09-02-2013 2:27:34 PM EST
 Happy Labor Day to the Chula Family.... I hope u r enjoying the last of summer!!!!
Marie
08-31-2013 8:18:49 PM EST
 Loved it Gail. Thanks for posting
Gail
08-29-2013 10:56:36 AM EST
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in our day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be
washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides
household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing."
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But, isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?
Please --- forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person...
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off … specially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smart alec who can't make change without the cash register telling how much.
Renee
08-28-2013 4:30:29 PM EST
 Sandi K cooked the food along with Bob Hammer and Gwen. Great Job Y'all! ( ps. some pictures did not turn out , blurry or bad lighting:-( so sorry) Renee
Renee
08-28-2013 4:25:58 PM EST
I got Willie to dance a little bit of a song!
Renee
08-28-2013 4:24:33 PM EST
more pics.
Renee
08-28-2013 4:22:16 PM EST
Kevin M. knows his karaoke!
Renee
08-28-2013 4:20:54 PM EST
Benny came to sing!
Renee
08-28-2013 4:19:41 PM EST
He was back.... Mike B. karaoke
Renee
08-28-2013 4:17:28 PM EST
Linda S. Karaoke woo who!!!
Renee
08-28-2013 4:14:20 PM EST
The young man on stage was quite delightful, He say Unforgettable That's What You Are. Then he said that was all he knew, one line!!! LOL Gave a very nice speech about how he wanted to thank us for the food along with a nice visit. The Chula Family says Thank you!
Renee
08-28-2013 4:07:56 PM EST
Government Officials from Haiti and 2 Washington D.C. Came to Florida for a tour with Jim McCallister. Part of the Chula Family did karaoke to entertain them, and show them a good time.
Renee
08-28-2013 4:02:37 PM EST
Special Karaoke Thank You Jim and Gwen McCallister.
Renee
08-27-2013 3:33:40 PM EST
Pictures on nice birds and ducks more to come from Bob Burkrt thank you. Dinner calls later!!!
Renee
08-26-2013 1:06:57 PM EST
Karaoke tomorrow night 7-10pm Jim and Gwen Hosting Washington D.C. people and from Haiti government officials.
Renee
08-26-2013 1:01:54 PM EST
Thank you Carol Simmons for the pictures of blooming Flowers that your daughter took around the park!
Renee
08-26-2013 12:59:57 PM EST
Identity Thief was the movie. About 25 people stayed.... I heard a lot of laughing.
Renee
08-26-2013 12:52:18 PM EST
Turn out was not bad for the ice cream, then the movie.
Renee
08-26-2013 12:43:07 PM EST
Ice cream was yummy.... Even with a mix up in time. Thank you Bonnie and Gene.
Renee
08-24-2013 5:16:03 PM EST
Ice cream and movie tomorrow hope u signed up and Tuesday Jim and Gwen are hosting the government officials at Karaoke. Hope to see every one.
Renee
08-22-2013 8:34:47 PM EST
Rick one of the Chula Family who volunteers. He likes to work alone with his wife, But we live in a park, If you host an event, the helpers come out of the wood work! lol. Believe me they will come!!!!!
Renee
08-22-2013 8:28:26 PM EST
Don't forget the pasta.
Renee
08-22-2013 8:27:11 PM EST
Yummy!!!!
Renee
08-22-2013 8:25:47 PM EST
Nancy Ceglio making a huge salad that will go along with the pizza on the grill her Husband Rick made. Plus pasta. Thank you for all the hard work!
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