Any time I have to set the alarm for a time earlier than 6:00 am had better be a huge money making or personally fulfilling opportunity or a life changing event. I mean, no one should have to wake up and leave the house before the sun comes up!

My neighbors are about on my last nerve with letting their dogs run free. We do have a leash law in this county and even if we didn’t have the law it is common sense to protect your dog from getting run over and to protect your neighbors kids from a dog bite. There are three houses on my street alone that routines let their dogs roam freely. I’m not sure how to handle this, but I don’t like it.

There have been some tempting commercials for Special K on TV. They say that if you eat a bowl of Special K every morning for two weeks that you can lose enough weight to go down one size of jeans. That seems awfully quick to lose that much weight. But it sure is tempting.

Brentwood and Franklin have become infested with immigrants from California.

No, I’m not talking about Mexicans. They’re in South Nashville and Antioch. I’m talking about the people from L.A. and San Diego who have cashed out on their overpriced real estate in Southern California and moved to Nashville to buy their McMansions and raise their snotty nosed brats here because they can get so much more house for their buck and we have such a better quality of life here than anywhere in California.

I’m going to just start refering to Brentwood and Franklin as “New California” or maybe “Eastern California.” I hate driving anywhere near the mall anymore. These people from California think it’s OK to just step out into traffic and walk anywhere in the road or parking lots that they want without even looking for cars. California has big laws protecting pedestrians and giving them right of way. Tennessee does not.

In the South, cars rule. The sooner these new people from California understand this principle the sooner we can all get along.

With the marathon in town and getting healthy on everyone’s mind, the kitchen table chat has been all about organic foods, nutritional supplements, exercise and all things healthy.

Aimee loves herbal supplements and always has a natural remedy for people’s symptoms. Today she was talking about her latest discovery, colloidal silver, which got everyone’s interest. Colloidal Silver is a trace mineral that people take to enhance their immune system. It also helps with stress relief, and some people take it to help improve sports performance and as a skin conditioner.