Uncle Gator's Kiawah Adventures

Did you ever wonder why things have to change? For example, if we are a traditionalist, then change changes tradition, or going to a new school, or new job, or new friends. At first glance it always seems bad, but if we look at it in a positive light, then we learn, and when we learn, we have the ability to make even better choices.   The key is to make good choices from the change. This past weekend Ash and I loaded up the old truck-ster , to include some high quality merchandise   (chairs), and yes Eddie I do mind telling you how much they set me back! They were a perfect fit, and no I do not have a chair fetish! We hit the road on Friday afternoon, and joined all the other deranged Loony tunes and departed our Nation’s Capital. Think of the worst rush hour traffic you have ever had the pleasure of sitting in. Bingo! That’s the beltway is like on any given Friday afternoon. As we relished the pleasure of averaging 5 mph, while listening to the “traffic on the 8’s” (...

We are in no man’s land now, vacation gear is all packed away and the holidays are still a few weeks away, so what is a person to do with their time. What’s a mother to do??   Watch football, play golf, read, study, eat, rake leaves, sleep, go shopping? Well how about this one.. This past weekend I engaged in one of my favorite activities, intellectual beach. Believe it or not, I accomplished this while making a trip to the mall. Right about now those who are not on par with my superior intelligence, are scratching their heads or just calling me pompous dumb butt. So for the idiots among you let me explain. First it will take a little bit of imaginations and a lot of being in the right state of mind.   The Mall and the beach are really the same thing, there are only two differences;   first you don’t have the sun, sand, fresh air, waves and my nice comfortable re-furbished quality beach chair and second people are dress slightly different. Other than that what is the...

Early one morning I entered the abode of group #2 and they were all watching Good morning America, as this was the week of Kathy Lee 60th birthday. Now tell me that was not a good use of day time prime time TV!   It only got better.   On this day Hota Kotb (pronounced Kabob) was hosting a guest whose role in life was that of a “Life Coach”, Need I say anymore anyone who knows us could imagine the conversation. It was at this point that Natalie came up with a brilliant idea. We should start our own TV show and call it “Reality Check”. It would focus on TV and life in general   and provide a forum to spread our intellectual wisdom among the not so well informed around the world. I even came up with a motto “An intellectual commentary (Including one Idiot) on the American way of life which is   the blind leading the blind”     For example, I will pass on the week long birthday celebration, and the “Life Coach” that is just way to easy to comment ab...

One of the best things to do on Kiawah is to get up early and take a nice long bike ride, but it can be a challenge. Getting off of the streets tends to reduce your awareness of the many obstacles that you may encounter along the tree lined paths. One morning a group of us were out on our ride and low and behold as we came rocketing around a corner in the path a little boy was crying while sitting on the grass with his bike perched across the bike path. His old man was engaged in a conversation with a nice woman all decked out in her $2,000 road bike, and dressed to the nines in her biking gear. The conversation from the old man was very blunt and mean while the lady was agreeing with him, and could not do any more apologizing other than to get down on her knees and beg for his forgiveness. At some point I think that she realized that he was nothing but a big (you fill in the word) and said to him “ I am 60 years old and your son is a kid, I would hope that he has much better ba...