President William Harrison had the longest inaugural address and served the shorest time as a President. -30 days. His wife would not attend the inaugural service or even step foot in Washington DC. Why? Because the couple had lost 3 sons in 3 consecutive years. Within 5 years afer the death of William Harrison 9 of the 10 children would die. But here’s the light at the end of the tunnel: The suriving child was John Scott Harrison. He would rise from the death ashes to a congressman, and have a son of his own, named Benjamin Harrison.
Benjamin Harrison became the 23rd President.
What horrible ordeal did you go through? Did it make you a better person?
Kalli Anne - decided to empty everything out of her dresser (While she was suppose to be taking a nap) and she put on swimmng suit and wants to go swimmng.
Kalli was mad at me for wanting to take her picture.
Danielle – went to a winter fest in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She had a lot of fun.
Apollo 1 capsule moved to new facility
The historic Apollo 1 capsule has been moved to a newer, environmentally controlled warehouse at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
I have a funny story about the Apollo missions. I was in Australia on board the USS Kitty Hawk. We had to take small boats to the shore. A storm hit Perth and many sailors couldn’t make it back to the ship. An Australian radio station broadcasted this, “The nation that put men on the moon can’t get their men back to their ship. Please give a Sailor a place to stay tonight.” Everyone had a place to spend that night.
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it’s getting dark later… it’s still too cold to go swimming… winter is almost gone…
Yay!! Once again, the Promise is renewing the face of the earth!!
wow I haven’t seen a bird in awhile
Spring is early this year it is only February and it is all warm. No wonder she wanted to swim!
Sickandtiredsickandtiredsickandtiredsickandtiredsickandtired
I had a not very good day. Because I felt sick and tired all day long that’s why.
i can’t wait for spring. :]
I met an opera singer from peru who thinks jean skirts are sexy. Her name was Leonaraja Chipodez Felipe but she prefers to be called Amelia Earheart since her second-cousin flew in a plane with a pilot named Amelia Jackson. What a coincidence, huh? Anyway, my mom wants to know if you happen to have a cup of sugar. She’s baking some cookies but we are clean out of sugar. Oh, and she’d also like to know what happened to the tweezers, which I through out after removing a tick from Santa Claus’s beard last Christams. I didn’t tell her that though cuz she might think that’s a little weird. Well, maybe it is a bit strange. Do they have ticks in the North Pole even? Oh well. So, Michael Jackson said he wants to join my super secretive all-girls friendship club. Actually, the club secret is that I’m the only girl in the club. Most of the members are 6-11-year-old boys from all around the world. One of my fave members is Ricky Romper, age ten, who used to be a girl named Regina Romper but got a sex change. Don’t tell Michael though cuz he isn’t supposed to know that. So, today our club met in Czechoslovakia…or it might’ve been Japan. Who really cares? At today’s meeting Michael asked out Ricky and let me tell you things got really hot! I’m not going to get into all the dirty details since that might upset some people. So, anyway, if you want to learn more about the dangers of toothpaste go to http://www.justscrewinwithya.com.
~theDogWhisperer
Your robins are back already? I imagine ours won’t shw up for a few weeks still. I am really looking forward to it. Ang
my older daughter alway like to wear her bathing suit around the house and say hello I look sexy..lol..kid I tell ya
yesterday i noticed the Starling beaks were turned yellow already good sign i am really anticipating spring this year beck
ps darling little girl & independent i like that in a young woman lol i was one to empty my dresser into a paper bag ready to make a get away as long as it was not near mealtime lol have a good week
“At a loss? Maybe you need sauce …. on your veggie toss. lol”
Lol, that was good.
ryc–nice pun. Have a good one.
YAY!!!! Spring!!!!! I can’t wait!
Wow how did you figure that out? haha Thanks…I’m goin’ back to school tomorrow.
Yeah I usually take one day a month and stay home from school haha
That’s a heaping lots of seconds!!
How did you figure it out? Did you just do a heaping lots of pluttification for fun? I hateth pluttification! Or did you use a calculator??
Guess what? I found out what cat’s years are!! 1 is 15 and 2 is 24 and after that 4 years older with each year! It’s a heaping lots more complicated than dogs years isn’t it!!
Kalli makes me laugh, but truth be told, I wish I could swim too!
Thanks for the prayers; I’ve been headache free for 2 days. PTL I saw my first robin on Friday–he looked a little sad to be here. LOL But, it has warmed up into the 40′s, thank God!! Have a great time at the retreat–looks like a good time. I would give my life for quite a few folks, believe it or not. Besides my husband and kids, I would especially be willing to die for my brother George. Take care & God bless!!
That’s a lot of seconds!! : )
Great pics! Cute kiddos & pretty birdy!
The other day on my way into town for a meeting, I saw birds lined up on the utility wires that reminded me of a scene from that old Hitchcock movie, “The Birds.” Kinda creeped me out.
ryc: finding something lost is a joyful feeling, is it not?
Yup the robins are back here too. Spring is here in the Pacific Northwest. Judi
Am I that old??? Maybe I just used the wayback machine! I dunno!
Spring….I want it now! LOL
Still have a lot of February to get through here, and of course March after that. Usually the two snowiest months of the year here. We are hoping that the weatherfearcasters give us some slack though, seeing that they let the Christmas Blizzard of 2006 in without a passport.
To first poster.. : Winter’s almost gone.. that’s what I thought last year.. but it started freakin’ snowing in April.. T_T
Ryc: didn’t sleep well.. T_T one of my neighbours decided to take down a tree in his garden with a chainsaw at 8am..
too many questions… so early in the day…… but what a CUTIE kalli anne is!
Tis’ I wont tell anybody if you dont! haha Umm…gossip? Yes I do and I know I shouldnt because what if I heard somebody gossipin’ about me? It wouldnt be very nice…plus I think it tis one of the most deadliest sins in the world is it not?
I ready for spring, too.
My husband was on the USS Nimitz when he was in the Navy. I had to laugh at your little story at the bottom….how cute!
And, I had no idea about all that info on William Harrison. How interesting!
We live in Alabama and it’s supposed to be 75 degrees here today. Our kids are already beggin’ us to get the pool ready.
And, RYC, I still have some of that cake left that I’m enjoying with my mornin’ coffee!
Thanks for dropping by my site. Pop in any time you’d like!
~Melanie~
I had no idea William Harrison and his wife suffered so many losses! It is hard to imagine one family losing that many children! My wife and I lost our son in 1992. He was murdered by an escaped felon in a carjacking, so we also had to go through three trials. It happened in California….they have a penalty phase trial in death sentence cases, and the jury hung in the first penalty phase trial. The experience brought us closer to together, and deepened our faith in God. It gave us more compassion when others suffer the loss of a loved one or friend. Watching all the tragedy on the 6:00 news…..seeing the loved ones of the slain victims in senseless street violence….we can feel their pain now. I cry during sad movies…..something I never did before. There is no closure.
how does one have fun in school?
lol
you too
Thanks for stopping by!
My Horrible ordeal was dealing with my frustrating marriage a couple years ago. I got through it and it’s better now. But for a while there, I wanted to run away…
Take care!
awwww cute kid.. is that the doggy in the same pix you are talking about?
My munchkin likes to wear her bathing suit around the house in the dead of winter too…must be a kiddo thing! Have a great day!
Compared to whom? Job, for instance? The answer is an unequivocal NO! My grim experiences possibly have been no more and probably much less than most people. Experience in ordeal/problems/obstacles/hardship etc. is the “test” which determines the “character” of our mettle. It is “how” we deal with those presentations. My most beautiful daughter, with her sparkling blue eyes, extols His Majesty, the Lord, as having “blessed” her especially, albeit she suffers from Progressive MS. She disallows “anyone” from feeling sorry for her and exclaims that God has given her this cross because He is teaching her one of His humbling life’s lessons…Temperance! Her one wish is to wear and “walk” in beautiful shoes again. But that will never be again for her, upon this earth! She deals with this dibilating disease like no other person I have ever known in crisis. She is humerous and joyful, despite it’s crippling progression. She is a model human being and from whom I derive so much good pride. I pray I can be more like her because, unlike her, I grieve, that one so young should carry this burden. But as she has reminded me “so often,” “be happy for me, mom! God has chosen me especially and I am truly blessed.” She is right!
too many ordeals to mention but yes ordeals were neccessary at least for me
What a wonderful story about the sailors….Gave me the warm and fuzzies…Also made me LOL. It’s the truth! =)
Unfortunately the first thing that came to my mind when you said horrible ordeal was my childhood. I was raised by my single mother who was anything but and things just got worse the older I became. She was a very mean, selfish person and I was raising her more than she was raising me. It was really hard feeling like the one person that was supposed to love you unconditionally hated you more than anything. She was not a good mother or person, but it did make me a stronger, better person in the end. Everything I had to go thru went into me being who I am today. I saw the path she took and decided to go the other way. Because of her and her mistakes, I have become the mother I never had to my own children. It’s been almost 4-years since I last talked to her. It is sometimes hard for people to grasp the fact that I don’t want a relationship with my own mother, BUT my life is better without her in it. I have forgiven her for all that she did to me, but that doesn’t mean I have to continue living with it. In a way, though, I am thankful to her for my hardships, and even now that I have a relationship with God, I can clearly see how, even then, He was with me and taking care of me. Even when I didn’t believe in Him, He protected me and made such a beautiful life out of a painful one. =)
just got back home yesterday
It’s funny you should say that because when I met my husband it had been about 6 months since I spoke with my mom. He, coming from a great family, couldn’t believe that I wasn’t talking to my mom. He literally drove me to my mother’s house, walked me up to the door, rang the doorbell, and held me in place until she answered. He more of less made me make amends with my mother because he didn’t think a person should be without that relationship. Long story short, after getting to know her and witnessing her treatment of me, after we were married he is the one who encouraged me to finally break apart from her permanently. It hurt him to see me hurt, and he could plainly see that there was a justifiable reason to me not wanting to be around my mother. He later said that if he had known the kind of person she was he would’ve never made me go to her house in the first place. It’s sad, but true. Life lesson learned.
been in San Antonio texas
Sorry the little one got mad at you. Mine does it all the time.
RYC Yeah, I had you going there didnt I? If you see any kitties taking over their humans sites you let me know so I can boot them off. Humans dont need to be put in the background. I love animals and refuse to take a backseat.
texas is going to be my new home,
I like this memory when you were a sailor by the shore of Australia !
Is Kalli your daughter ? and Danielle ?
Ordeal ? I had but it ‘ so sad !
In friendship
Michel
hello
I hope you have a wonderful day today too!
That’s funny
That’s sad that 9 of his kids died in 5 years! That would be freaky, to be 1 of those kids, with your siblings dying all around you, thinking, “Who will be next?”
RYC: I think my mind is getting back on track. Hard to say for sure, though.
Your little Kelli Anne is so cute!
About the horrible ordeal thing: I’m not sure I have been through one of those… unless you can count on the one about Arthur. The only thing horrible about it is that I miss him so so much. Only, I know he is in heaven so its not so horrible. It did make me into a better person though because I now realize the importance in life, and I feel like I have matured a lot when it comes to my relationship with God – both because of the enormous difficulty of not having him here with me, so the only way I could cope was to hang on to God, and because of Arthur’s amazing testimony. Wow… that long-ish.
Blessings!
interesting info on the president… good for swimming! she just has faith that spring/summer is coming….it is isn’t it?
Horrible ordeal..how did it make me a better person?
Supporting my friend as she had radiation and chemotherapy years ago taught me how valuable life is and that, tho helpless at times to combat life’s tragedies, that I can rely on God to walk thru these hard times with me.
Christy
yeah, that’s the irony of it & what makes the Salem witch trials so interesting- that the accused were innocents. but whether they were christian or witches, they still stand for religious persecution because the reason they were persecuted is all because some teenage girls accused them of doing something contrary to the bible.
oh, & I’m not like….anti-christian or w/e. I mean, the christian religion in itself is a very peaceful, loving religion. but when you look at the inquisition, the crusades, the trials….yeah, it’s horrible how some people have interpreted the bible and used it for their own purposes….
whoa, srry ’bout the huge comment. lol….the pics are really cute, btw.
<3 Alexis
where is ur war story?