Month: July 2007

  • Hot

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    It’s extremely hot here this week.  (In the hundred’s.)  My favorite season is spring and then fall.  What season do you like the best? 

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  • Puppy

    Today's CartoonWe’ve decided to sell our puppy.  He’s just not working out here.  We have too many small kids.  While I and my wife were dicussing our decision to let him go, he went and peed on the bean bag.  That sealed the deal. 

    I love English Lessons: 

    • The STATUE had such STATURE…there was a STATUTE to protect it.
    • Members of the COUNCIL…mocked the lawyers for their COUNSEL.
    • It is my guiding TENET…to overcharge my TENANTS.
    • Each business was a DISCRETE entity…so we had to be DISCREET.
    • A judge should be DISINTERESTED…but never UNINTERESTED.
    • The arrival of the EMINENT scientist…was thought to be IMMINENT.
    • I tried to AFFECT the jury’s decision…the EFFECT of which was a fine.
    • They FLAUNTED the fact…that they FLOUTED the law.
    • I was asked to FORWARD…the new FOREWORD I had written.
    • One should be WARY…of driving when WEARY.
    • I took a PEEK at the mountain PEAK…which had PIQUED my curiosity.
    • Poor weather meant the GUERILLAS shot…the GORILLAS in the mist.
    • Due to the RAIN throughout her REIGN…the Queen grips her REINS.
    • After FLOUNDERING about…he FOUNDERED beneath the waves.
    • The school PRINCIPAL…is a woman of few PRINCIPLES.
    • The vehicle delivering STATIONERY…was STATIONARY in the rush-hour traffic.
    • The COMPLIMENTARY wine…COMPLEMENTED the fish perfectly.
    • The police could not ELICIT a confession…about his ILLICIT activities.
    • The STRAIT of Hormuz…is far from STRAIGHT.
    • There was an ORDINANCE…against firing any ORDNANCE.
    • His company was INTOLERABLE…because he was so INTOLERANT.
    • Building SITES are splendid SIGHTS…so we CITE them in our guide.

     

  • Shuttle

    Space shuttle Endeavour arrived at its launch pad early Wednesday for a mission in August.

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    Double Death

    A blonde goes into work one morning crying her eyes out. Her boss, concerned about all his employees’ well being, asked sympathetically, “What’s the matter?”

    The blonde replies, “Early this morning I got a phone call saying that my mother had passed away.”

    The boss, feeling very sorry at this point, explains to the young girl. “Why don’t you go home for the day, we aren’t terribly busy. Just take the day off to relax and rest.”

    The blonde very calmly states, “No, I’d be better off here. I need to keep my mind off it and I have the best chance of doing that here.”

    The boss agrees and allows the blonde to work as usual. “If you need anything, just let me know.”

    Well, a few hours pass and the boss decides to check on the blonde. He looks out over his office and sees the blonde hysterically crying!! He rushes out to her, asking, “What’s so bad now. Are you gonna be ok?”

    “No!” exclaims the blonde. “I just got a call from my sister. She told me that HER mom died too!”

  • Day Camp

    I’m off to Mitchell, SD for Day Camp.  It’s for ages 4-8.  My son Noah is really excited about it. 

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    True Neighbors!

    If Jesus were walking today, it might be like this: 
        Then Jesus said, “Which one of these three men (the Priest,
        the Pastor, or the Gypsy) do you think showed love to the
        man that was hurt by the robbers?” The teacher of the law
        answered, “The one that helped him – the Gypsy.” Jesus said to him, “Then
        you go and do the same {for other people}!”

                                — Luke 10:36-37 

     
    KEY THOUGHT:
    Who is our neighbor? Not someone who can do something FOR us, but the
    one who has a need that Jesus can meet through us. Let’s be that
    neighbor today!

    I’ll be taking several, 4-8 year olds to Day Camp tommorrow.  It’ll be fun.  Details soon. 


     

  • Here’s proof that Jeremy Duncan is on Xanga:   lol

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    Police phoned after child’s ears pierced

    WICHITA, Kan. (UPI) — A woman called police to a Wichita, Kan., Wal-Mart after witnessing a store employee pierce the ears of a screaming child.

    Marilyn Johnson said the store employee and the girl’s mother were ignoring the young girl’s screams, she confronted the pair, The Wichita Eagle reported Wednesday. However, she said the mother and employee ignored her questions so she phoned police and reported the incident as child abuse.

    “This little girl was about 5 years old and was crying her eyes out,” Johnson said. “Her face was beet red, and she was screaming and coughing and saying things like, ‘I don’t want this! It hurts! Please stop!’ She was grabbing her ears so the adults couldn’t touch them.

    “I saw a child crying and screaming and pleading for someone not to do something to her,” she said. “And if that’s not child abuse, I don’t know what is.”

    However, police who arrived on the scene informed Johnson that she was in the wrong. Wichita police spokesman Gordon Bassham said neither the girl’s mother nor the employee doing the piercing had broken the law.

    A Wal-Mart store official said Johnson, who was issued a warning for trespassing, will no longer be allowed in the establishment.


    Copyright 2007 by United Press International
    What are your thoughts on this article?

  • To Go

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    Since I use to work at a prison this was funny to me. 

  • Picnic

    We went to Sioux Falls yesterday for a picnic with Brook’s biological family.  We enjoyed it.  It also served as Brook’s birthday party. (She’s 17)  Towards the end of the picnic a boy came over and started yelling at us.  He started talking in a 3rd party conversation.  He told us that “Sargon” was thirsty and wanted a pop. (I asked the boy later and he told me his name was Alvin.) When he stated to get violent Brook’s grandmother called the police.  At that point I gave him a soda and walked him away from the group.  He hid from the police when he saw the car coming, but the police officer found him and guided him home.  The boy was mentally challenged for sure.  The freaky part to it was the boy kept saying, ”I hate you sullivan.”  (The last name of Brook’s mom and grandmother is Sullivan.) 

  • Fireworks

    We attended a 07/07/07 wedding yesterday.  It was a fun old fashioned style wedding.  The groom was about 50.  He had never been married because he was waiting for a certain girl all his life.  He married her yesterday. 

    Last night we went to a friends place (farm in Nebraska) to watch fireworks last night.  It was a fun time.  I’d say about 50 people attended.  Tony likes to wrap several sparklers with duck tape, put it in a metal pipe, place a soft ball on top, light it and watch it explode.  We couldn’t see the soft ball; it went so very far in the air.