Here are some facts about me. One is wrong.  Pick the wrong fact.

1.  I have a hearing loss in the area of women and children.  A hearing loss so bad I have to wear hearing aids.

2.  I have an internal clock, thus I never use an alarm clock.

3.  Since I grew up in a gas station, I love to tinker with cars.  (This is the incorrect answer.  It’s a little tricky because I did grow up in a gas station but I don’t like to work on cars.)

4.  I’ve been to Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, & the British Virgin Islands. 
Thanks to all of you that tried.  It was fun. 

Longanimity (Noun)

Pronunciation: [long-gê-'ni-mê-tee ] Listen

Definition: Patience, forbearing, long-suffering.
Do you feel you are patient and long-suffereing?

My wife is missing

The man approached the very beautiful woman in the large supermarket and asked, “You know, I’ve lost my wife here in the supermarket. Can you talk to me for a couple of minutes?”

“Why?”

“Because every time I talk to a beautiful woman my wife appears out of nowhere.”

There is a saying that affects me like a piece of wood stuck in my skin and it’s: “There must of been a purpose for that to happen.”  The implication is that God is directing everything that happens, good and bad.  
Why do bad things happen to good people?  I think there are 3 reasons.  1. We live in a temporary world and things just happen - naturally.  2.  We have an enemy that seeks to destroy and kill. 3.  God may allow something bad to happen in order to get our attention.  So the next time you’re tempted to say, “There must of been a purpose for that to happen.”, think of who your are implicating. 

Someone subscribe to my map above so the bunny will disappear. 

 

Born on July 4th, Calvin Coolidge was the 13th President.  His son Calvin Jr. was playing tennis.  He developed a blister but played on.  When he was finished he poured iodine on it and thought nothing of it.  Within hours septicemia had developed and blood poisioning was coursing through the boys body.  His room was made into a makeshift  hospital room, and when he became worse he was transfered to Walter Reed Hospital where he died.  He was 16. 

The President later wrote: “When he was suffering, he begged me to help him, but I could not.”
“He must have had some premonition, some intimation, for suddenly his body seemed to relas and he murmured, ‘We surrender.’”
“When he went, the power and the glory of the presidency went with him.”
“I can’t believe it has happened.”
“He was such a good boy.”

Grace Coolidge wrote this poem about her son.
You, my son,
Have shown me God.
Your kiss upon my cheek
Has made me feel the gentle touch
Of Him who leads us on.

Why Do They Die Young?

Calvin Jr., Grace, Calvin, John

Barna Research:   Unchurched Population Near 100 Million in the U.S.

My personallity:

You made me; you created me. Now give me the sense to follow your commands. 

The suffering you sent was good for me, for it taught me to pay attention to your Word.

Do you know where these verses are found? and what does it say to you?  


Father God wants us to use His hand when giving to others.   

Quentin Roosevelt, Charlie Taft and Earle Looker were the “White House Gang.”  The gang has been described as having “terrorized” the White House.  Adults entered at their own risk.  They were brilliant sons of brilliant fathers. 

On one occasion the gang was reenacting the battle of San Juan Hill.  Quentin raced after Charlie with a real sword; Charlie slipped; Quentin swung.  The sword nicked the cheek of Charlie and blood flowed.  The boys put the “off limits” sword away in haste.  As they heard footsteps Charlie quickly said, “Remember I fell on a chair.”  The boys wiped some blood on the chair as evidence. 

Other occasion the gang decided to have an initiation.  It consisted of laying on a bed of knitting needles, the boys constructed.  Quentin went first.  As Earle looked over his shoulder he saw President Theodore Roosevelt watching.  Quentin survived his 30 seconds.  Earle looked again and the President was gone. The President didn’t say a word, as was his custom of not intervening in the boys dangerous games. 

It was Quentin who brought a pony into the White House, up the elevator, to his brother’s room.
             
            Quentin

           Charlie

Coke or Pepsi? 
 

I love going back in time.  Here is my wedding. 

What several decades will do.  This is my Great Grandfather.

Mom is holding Dale.  I’m being held by my Dad.  He died when I was 10 and I miss him so.   

I have many memories of growing up behind a gas station.  One memory is the old garage we had behind the station.  My Dad stored a lot of old radios and such.  I went back there a lot and played “outer space.”  (It was before Star Trek. lol)  I traveled the galaxy in that old garage. 

What’s another good childhood memory from your past? 

I have pet peeves. One is pessimism, people that view and express the negative. 
Another is people that are bent on being “correction police.”  They are perfectonists and feel it’s their job to correct everyone around them.  (The way I spelt perfectionists probably drives them crazy.)
Another is people that have to have control.  They are bossy.

What do I do with my pet peeves? An Eagle will put soft material in a nest.  When it’s time for the Eaglets to leave the nest, the Momma Eagle will begin to take the soft material out of the nest.  The nest becomes uncomfortable, thus causing the Eaglets to want to leave the nest.   I see the peeves as thorns. The pessimist, the negative and the bossy keep me moving on.  They irritate me into new levels as I forgive them. This is optimism applied.      

Quote:  People don’t care how much you know; they want to know how much you care.

I loved your stories of trees:  Here is my favorite:      
by Aloysius_son
I have 1/2 million trees. I found one in the creek bottom, a thornapple, whose branch I cut. The branch was 170 years old There is a lone hemlock growing on a ridge. I have watched it growing for 37 years. There are trees growing in trees that have died and still stand, and a groove of beech, the forester tells me are all one tree…. he says they are junk. I think they are beautiful. Everyone wants to harvest the oaks and maples, but the hophornbeam is my favorite. Ahhhh, and of course, there is nothing like a good piece of ash… I once took my son to my childhood home and showed him the 40′ spruce tree growing in the back yard… I told him how my brother and I used to have a contest to see who could jump over the top without touching it… And that I always used to win… My son looked at me in disbelief  and I  laughed as I explained…
35 years ago the tree was only 4′ high.                                                                  

 I grew up in a Gas Station.  My Dad planted two types of trees, a  weeping willow and several popular trees, behind our Phillips 66 station.  It took along time for the weeping willow to grow but the popular trees sprouted up really fast.  It reminds me of life.  We tend to like things now and fast.  Zenith use to have a saying, “The quality goes in before the product goes on.”  A willow goes slow but lasts many years.  A popular tree grows fast but dies within a few years.  Maybe some good sayings for our lives should be, “The quality goes in before I move on.”   ”The intergdy goes in before I move on.”    (I have a weeping willow at our other house.)
What other saying could fit this?  “The ____________ goes on befor I move on.”

A few facts of the willow: It is one of the first trees to leaf out in the spring and one of the last to drop leaves in the fall. The foliage is a shimmering light green color in summer and turns yellow in the fall. The Weeping Willow trees are mentioned many times in literature and poetry from the time of Shakespeare.

The trees you have:  Do any have meaning or any history? 

Study: Cellphones OK in hospitals

ROCHESTER, Minn. (UPI) — Cell phone calls don’t impact hospital medical equipment, Mayo Clinic researchers reported Friday.
The researchers said hospitals should change or abandon cell phone bans, which they said inconvenience patients and their families.
After performing 300 tests and incurring no problems, researchers said normal cell phone use caused no noticeable interference with patient care equipment. The findings were published in the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
The study used two cellular phones employing different carriers and technologies and 192 medical devices.
The Mayo Clinic is reviewing its cell phone ban because of the study, said study author, Dr. David Hayes of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases.