Andy Griffith

 I think its been over a week since I've done any blogging. (A word I've never used before.) Things keep coming up. And, as you have probably surmised (another new word for me) despite the small amount of thought I put into my blogs I just haven't found time. Its not exactly convenient for me to get to the internet. I have to actually walk about a hundred yards to get to internet service. Anyway, I've got about a week's worth of thoughts inside of me.

OK, actually I don't particularly have a lot of thoughts at the moment. However, I did see one of my all-time favorite movies this weekend - Return to Mayberry. It was a reunion special that was filmed about twenty years after the Andy Griffith Show went off the air. I ordered an Andy Griffith DVD set and got the wrong one. But that's OK, because the Return to Mayberry movie was part of it. Aunt Bea was in poor health, so she just had a speaking part, and Floyd the barber had passed away, but otherwise, I think everyone else was in it. I've read the person that played Aunt Bea was hard to get a long with anyway. Andy said, "There was something about me she just did not like." How is a person not able to get a long with Andy Griffith. It doesn't seem possible. They say the guy you played Mr. Drysdale on the Beverly Hillbillies was like that. Maybe every show has to have one creep on it.

This is about the time of year Andy's home town of Mt. Airy, NC has their Mayberry Days. (Mt. Airy = Mayberry. Get it?) Anyway I 'm not going, but I did go there on a different weekend last year. Mt. Airy is like Disneyland for Andy Griffith fans. The Andy Griffith Museum, and Andy and Opie statue you can stand next to (yes I did) and a recreated version of the courthouse. You can sit in Andy's chair (yes I did). Now that I'm writing this, maybe I need to go back there. After all, when I was there last time I didn't eat at The Snappy Lunch because the line was so long. Instead I ate at Barney's Café. Why is life always full of hard decisions.