Cross Country In A Lawn Chair-A Success

Flying Lawn Chair Adventurer Kent Couch makes the big time and flies his lawn chair to Oregon.

Third time is the charm…or so they say and Kent Couch has proved it to be so. After two unsuccessful tries, Kent Couch makes his boyhood dream come true.

Armed with his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, 48 year old Baby Boomer, and gas station owner Kent Couch realized his boyhood dream Saturday, of flying a lawn chair rigged with helium filled party balloons more than 200 miles. Across the Oregon high desert. To finally land in a farm field in Idaho. A good time was had by all and no animals or humans were harmed in this extravaganza. Read more

Alternative Funerals-A Serious Undertaking

Alternative Burials…

Here comes another one of my pet peeves, Baby Boomers…the Funeral Business…now I have a friend who says they are a business that we all face one time or another…I say HOG WASH! And I am here to uncover some dirt and get those skeletons out of the closet! I am going underground on this one…

Here is just one of the reasons why…

PIC:This is a Biodegradable Casket.

Americans spend between $11 billion and $15 billion on funerals each year (think of the people we could feed) and four major corporations account for 11 percent of the 20,000 funeral homes in the United States, tending to cluster in individual communities. Did you get that Baby Boomers, 11 to 15 Billion a year, buried in the ground!

For more information of this huge serious undertaking here is a site for you to read more information
The FCA members from across the country gathered in Seattle in last June to attend seminars on home funerals; “green burial,” including caskets made from recycled paper; and, most important, educating the public on how to navigate what many members consider a corrupt and ossified industry. They will meet again this year.

“The funeral corporations use “predatory sales tactics and aggressive marketing” to get people, who are in shock, to spend more than they can afford on services they don’t want or need,” says Joshua Slocum, executive director of the FCA.

The lobbyists for the death care industry, Slocum claims, have pernicious influence over state legislatures. In 2006, he got a call from a Native American couple whose 3 year old died in a hospital while they were visiting Salt Lake City. The parents wanted to take the body home to Idaho for a traditional funeral. Hospital staff refused, telling the parents that according to a Utah law passed that year, the death certificate could only be signed by a licensed funeral director, which would have meant that the body would likely have had to be given temporarily into the custody of a funeral home. Luckily, with the help of an alternative burial group, the couple was able to take custody of their child’s body, but the case indicates the power the traditional funeral industry can have.

In some states, the body belongs to the mortuary by state law. And once a funeral director has got a body in the door, it’s over. They’ll charge you from $1,200 to $4,000 for their ‘basic services’ fee. They’ve got possession of your dead and your wallet with the blessing of the state.”

I couldn’t care less what they do with this lump of minerals when I am done with it. I know that it is going to wear out on me one day. And when it does, I couldn’t care less if I am buried in a piano box, a body bag or given to the fishes. I prefer the later.

In the early seventies basic cremation was 250 dollars. Now it starts at 2500. I don’t think that is just. Do the math!

When you get your loved ones ashes back from a cremation, you are probably getting someone else’s ashes back or someone else’s ashes as well. Do you think they cremate one person at a time? Have you ever tired to clean your fire place and get all the ashes…well at the crematoriums it is worse. And where do you think all of those gold and silver teeth fillings go when you are gone??? What a business this is.

Do you remember the recent scandal about the Funeral businesses?

Now my Father had a unique way to buried. He wanted to be buried standing up. Have one of those giant pole diggers and then just place him in it. Yes, Baby Boomers he was different. He gave his body to science and is probably a skeleton hanging in the University of Florida, since he was one of the few, who never had a broken bone. At least that is where I like to think of him, being useful some where. Hanging out with the college students.

So Baby Boomers, for those of you who do not want or have the money to bury someone thru the blood sucking, funeral establishments…there are alternative ways. I saw once where someone knew they were going to day and the whole family made the casket and added something to the relative for his journey. They painted it and colored it, wrote messages on it put his favorite items in and on it. Picked out the material to line it with. Even the children helped with it. This person was home with hospice at the time.

This is a growing serious undertaking and if you would like more information here is a web page for you. Tell them the Baby Boomer Queen sent you…

Baby Boomer Queen’s Pickled Watermelon Rind Recipe

PICKLED WATERMELON RIND

First Prepare:

Watermelon rind, the white only cut off all green and red of the watermelon…very important cup into small cubes, no bigger then 1′x1′ I like them smaller so they get all of the spices and it does not take so long to cook.

1 cup salt for 2 gallons water (I use sea salt and use 1/4 cup less)
***Do not use an aluminum pot or pan when making this!***

4 inch piece of ginger, peeled, grated or thinly sliced and chopped up Read more