tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69781137540252264982024-03-13T14:56:05.744-04:00Life in TrexlertownA kinder, gentler kind of blog. From a guy the Army taught to use explosives.Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-69336149558685358362015-07-30T19:30:00.000-04:002015-07-30T19:30:24.877-04:00Dogs, Diesel Engines, and Amazon. My Dogs are smarter than Pavlov's dogs. Those dogs were trained to salivate whenever they heard a bell. Mine have that beat. Without any effort by me, they have learned to bark and go Batcrap crazy everytime they hear a vehicle with a diesel engine drive by outside. They equate the sound of a diesel engine with the UPS truck Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-83674141631647332212014-12-16T02:00:00.000-05:002014-12-16T14:51:35.438-05:00What I am Thankful for this Christmas Season So here is the thing: Everyday I would come home from work, and literally collapse in exhaustion. Once I sat down in a chair or stretched out on the bed, I was out like a light. Some days it was a major effort just to get out of the car and go in the house. I didn't think anything was wrong because as long as I was working, I felt fine, so I just Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-35378123084731857642013-10-06T20:00:00.000-04:002013-10-06T21:04:58.644-04:00A Death in the familyMy Friends:
On Thursday October 3rd, just after 9AM I authorized a veterinarian to give my dog Sally a lethal injection. She was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer on Saturday the 28th. She had a few good days before I saw her take a dramatic turn for the worse around 4 AM Thursday morning, when she couldn't breathe to the point that she could not walk herself to Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-19856637177847666862013-02-19T19:00:00.000-05:002013-02-19T19:21:02.677-05:00Sally the Dog goes to the Vet Last Friday I took our Black Springer/Cocker Spaniel Sally to the Vet. We received a notice in the mail that she was due to have her shots updated. So I made an appointment. Sally hasn't been to the vet since before her running buddy/playmate Lucy died in her sleep about 16 months ago. At That time, Sally weighed 23 pounds. We always remarked about how skinny she was, but the Vet told us Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-46376194934526644012012-05-04T22:45:00.000-04:002012-05-04T22:45:29.222-04:00The Chipmunk in my shoe I am like a lot of guys who have a yard to take care of. I have certain shoes I wear when working in the yard. Mine happens to be a pair of New Balance tennis shoes, and I keep them in the garage. I put them on when I am going to be mowing or weed whacking. Yes, I am still too lazy to wear the steel toed ones, and that's why I keep whacking my toes. I will never learn.
Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-54290438378189283962012-01-03T23:00:00.002-05:002012-01-03T23:40:32.663-05:00A movie that made me think: The Descendants My wife and I don't get to go to the movies as much as we would like, but over the Holidays we managed to make a trip to the Carmike on Airport road. I kind of admire George Clooney, so when she suggested we see his latest, "The Descendants" I agreed.
It had a good primary plot about a husband (Clooney) who discovers after his wife suffers a traumatic brain injury that she hasChris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-35226910659152436542011-12-21T23:00:00.001-05:002011-12-22T00:21:39.784-05:00The end of time is 365 days away! But I don't believe itIf you believe anything that has been written about the Mayan civilization and their calendar, you know that it says the last day of all existence is December 21 2012. I don't know if that means all the Republicans in America will be assumed into heaven at the start of a great rapture, or that after a very contested Presidential election with numerous recounts Newt Gingrich will be declared Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-91150777361064466042011-11-29T14:00:00.003-05:002011-11-29T14:37:24.383-05:00If they build it, we will comeHere in not so sleepy Trexlertown, we have the Trexlertown Mall. For as long as I have been here, we have had a Redner's, a Giant, a Kohl's and even a Bon ton. We even have a Tractor Supply Company, a Sears Hardware and an Odd Lots! That's why all the New York New Jersey transplants want to live here!
But one day the people at Giant Food Stores decided that their store was not big Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-80598911155923668522011-10-24T10:00:00.002-04:002011-10-26T17:31:05.113-04:00Burying a friend, Lucy the Cocker Spaniel Last week my little black Cocker Spaniel, Lucy turned 15. On Saturday morning she died in her bed.
I kept a bed for her on the floor next to the side of the bed where my wife and I sleep. For as long as we have lived in Trexlertown, she has followed me in to bed at night and slept in her place. Whenever I rose frome bed, the vibration of Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-80889737834002540492011-05-25T22:00:00.013-04:002011-05-25T22:17:54.379-04:00A visit to the PEEPS! Emporium in National Harbor Maryland You can't live in the Lehigh Valley and not have at least once in your life tried those joyous sugar lumps of color called peeps. We know them and we love them. I'm sorry, but I think it is downright un-American not to enjoy peeps.
My wife discovered while planning this trip that the only Peeps Emporium on the planet was within walking distance of our Hotel andChris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-54902156950145267372011-05-22T22:00:00.002-04:002011-05-22T23:31:44.355-04:00Judgment Day Comes! And goes until December 2012....I hope! I was surprised last week tto learn that the date of the Apocalypse had been moved up from December 2012 to Saturday at 6 PM. I remember back in the early 1980s when people were claiming that because all the planets would be in a certain position, crazy gravitational forces would tear at the Earth and cause Earthquakes and other unimagined phenomena.
Didn't happen.
 Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-31702075160187303382011-05-11T00:00:00.000-04:002011-05-11T00:28:00.212-04:00Lawnmower Man I was watching the one pre-10 PM show I enjoy Sunday night, The Amazing Race, when my doorbell rang. This incited a large amount of barking from two black Cocker Spaniels, and broke the tension of the shows finale.
I wasn't expecting anybody, and I was surprised to see it was one of my neighbors across the street.
And she was not happy.
Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-21700731770194239892011-04-17T11:00:00.000-04:002011-04-17T18:44:11.428-04:00I assemble the New Grill... in 17 so called easy steps On a recent Sunday afternoon Mrs C and I went Grill shopping, The grill on our deck is one we purchased the summer we married in 1996. Trying to light it involved holding a flame close to the propane tank, and I decided it was time for it to go to a better place.....like the junk yard.
We had been looking around the last few months, getting prices and Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-51518243294290310322011-04-03T23:00:00.002-04:002011-04-04T00:22:02.740-04:00A visit to the OVERpriced Going out of business for last 6 months furniture store on MacArthur road. Sunday afternoons are a time for spouses to do things together. (At least when the NFL isn't on TV.) So today Mrs Casey and I were out shopping for a new grill for our deck. The grill we have, we purchased from Sears way back in 1996, the year we were married. So it has a bit of wear and tear, the burners don't work quite right, and igniting it last year involved holding a flame nearChris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-57290896285861020112011-04-01T01:00:00.003-04:002011-04-02T20:03:02.210-04:00Working in the warehouse world I am a professional Logistics person.In my previous job, I managed Warehouse operations at a facility near Philadelphia. In my present job, I oversee a team of employees who unload containers from overseas.. One thing that is really making me wonder is how much stuff we buy each and every day that is from China.
It has all been hand loaded and when it gets to us, weChris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-64450069494382022942011-03-27T23:00:00.001-04:002011-03-27T23:25:11.784-04:00An entry two months in comingIt seems kind of ironic, but I write more now than I ever did. I just don't post as much. The biggest reason for that is I have had a lot of change in my life the last three months, transitioning to a new job and different hours. But I still spend more than an hour each night before going to bed at the computer letting out whatever is on my mind.
This past weekend was the Greater Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-16195611002567110782011-01-30T18:04:00.000-05:002011-01-30T18:04:33.735-05:00Once Again, I rant about out municipal government supplied, Tax dollar paid for Snow removal. Will the damn Snow ever end? I don't know what is worse, getting a behemoth two feet of the white stuff in one shot ot getting 4 to 6 inches every few days for a month. This much I do know:
The wall of snow along the curb on my steet is now as high as the car windows, and backing out of your driveway is an adventure. You really can't see very far, or if anyone is coming.Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-66420050330045487152011-01-23T23:00:00.002-05:002011-01-24T11:26:26.663-05:00In Trexlertown, some people are still stuffing their faces, but I don't think the economy is doing all that well. I have had a problem lately posting. I write every day, and the ideas always seem brilliant and funny when they are flowing from my fingertips to the keyboard. I have a rule about waiting a day to post, and nothing seems to pass muster when I come back to it. I have started wondering if maybe I am being too critical of my own work. Am I self conscious about my vision issues? Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-9605575954607287822011-01-09T17:00:00.001-05:002011-01-09T17:09:48.558-05:00The Murphy's Law of Housecleaning if you own dogsI am like most people, I have weekends off from work, and that is when I do my share of housecleaning.
If you have dogs, you know there is a bit more effort involved.
We had a few inches of snow Friday Morning, and that meant our two Spaniels, Lucy and Sally would get their feet wet. That's no big deal, we have a tile floor in our foyer, and it's no big deal to contain them and Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-51995422658298235712010-12-29T21:00:00.006-05:002010-12-29T21:13:23.334-05:00Jane Lampton (The Mother of Samuel Clemens) sounds much like my Mom Sally Casey In my last post I wrote about receiving a copy of The Autobiography of Mark Twain for Christmas. I have read a couple of chapters each night before going to bed, and Chapter 7 of the book has Clemens recalling his relationship with his own Mother. When my Mom died, I was told I gave a touching eulogy, but I have never found quite the Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-18639036278712491992010-12-24T22:30:00.002-05:002010-12-24T23:12:36.678-05:00What Christmas is supposed To be I haven't posted for over two months. I received numerous emails asking why, and if I was okay. To paraphrase a famous writer whose name currently escapes me, "rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated."
It has been a very tough year. Work has been hard to come by, but I kept busy, and managed to make enough to get by, Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-9529362673710038442010-10-20T23:00:00.001-04:002010-10-20T23:00:01.949-04:00I am not a big fan of Funerals I attended the funeral of my wife's best friend today. They are the same age. Her friend was diagnosed with cancer in June, and died last Thursday. It was only two months after her husband died of cancer. That was only 18 months after he was diagnosed.
Having to attend two funerals in just over 60 days for a couple that is the same age as my wife and I was Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-51185061131303820302010-09-22T20:30:00.001-04:002010-09-22T20:39:38.629-04:00Butterflies as far as the eye can seeLast Weekend I was down at Cape May Point New Jersey for several days taking care of some chores. Saturday Afternoon I took a break and rode my bike over to the Lighthouse at Cape May Point State Park.
I took my digital camera and headed out onto the nature trail. Mid-September is a magical time in the wetlands along the shore, because THOUSANDS of Butterflies Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-54546486254550313852010-09-15T23:00:00.037-04:002012-01-03T23:46:57.139-05:00Coping with Grief is never easy.In late winter 2010 one of my old Army pals lost his wife in a car accident on an icy road. I didn't find out until about a month after it happened, but we had shared several emails and talked about how he was doing.
I thought of him today when Yahoo's home page ran a e-news story about the widow of actor Patrick Swayze and how she still sent text messages telling him she Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978113754025226498.post-6729882827943653382010-09-03T12:30:00.003-04:002010-09-06T08:49:27.620-04:00My name is (Tropical Storm) Earl and I'm passing Cape May Point
Greetings from Cape May Point New Jersey. I drove down Thursday and spent the day preparing for the worst. At Sunset I rode my bike down to Stites beach, on the Delaware bay side, and digitally shot the 4 minute Sunset, which was spectacular. This morning at dawn I rode over to the lighthouse and taped the surf pounding in from the Atlantic side by the old Army Bunker.
I Chris Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17785389463330442657noreply@blogger.com3