Noah, my son. (This was his birthday picture a few years ago. New pictures to follow.)
We’re celebrating his birthday tonight at McDonald’s. He’s so excited.
His friend Max and Lance will be there.
We’re under a winter storm watch here in Southeast South Dakota. Sounds like snow, then rain and then snow.
Where do you live and what’s your weather like?
In an age before TV, when the public might not instantly recognize a presidential child on the street, the Wilson girls took malicious delight in testing public opinion for themselves. Margaret, the firstborn, once instigated a sightseeing tour of Washington, with the sisters disguised as “hicks” from out of town. They waited in line, bought their tickets, and proceeded to ask inane questions of the tour guide. Margaret implored the guide to take them into the White House. They wanted to see the living quarters, where the Wilson girls actually slept. The exasperated guide patiently explained that it could not be done and patronized them with his own stories of the 1st family. Later, upstairs alone the Wilson girls convulsed with laughter.
What childhood pranks did you do?
HANCOCK, Minn. (UPI) — It’s a bird; it’s a plane; no, it’s a car with a pair of Canada geese flying along side as it cruises along a private grass runway.
The adult geese — Apollo and Kennedy — were raised from day-old goslings by Mary Jo and Marvin Brown of Hancock, Minn.
The geese apparently like to go, go, go and the lawnmower wasn’t fast enough to feed their need for what the Browns call “goose games,” the Star Tribune in Minneapolis reported Monday.
So Apollo and Kennedy flap their wings alongside the couple’s Lincoln Town Car as it tools up and down their half-mile-long grass airstrip. Optimum speed: 34 miles per hour.
 | On an average, how many junk email do you get a day? |
Creative ways to deal with telemarketers
- Answer the phone. As soon as you realize it is a Telemarketer, set the receiver down, shout or scream, “Oh No!!!” and then hang up.
- Tell the Telemarketer you are busy at the moment and ask him/her if he/she will give you his/her HOME phone number so you can call him/her back. When the Telemarketer explains that telemarketers cannot give out their HOME numbers you say “I guess you don’t want anyone bothering you at home, right?” The Telemarketer will agree and you say, “Me, either!” Hang up.
- Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times.
- Tell them it is dinner time, BUT ask if they would please hold. Put them on your speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation.
- Tell the Telemarketer you are on “home incarceration” and ask if they could bring you a pizza.
- Ask them to fax the information to you, and make up a number.
- Insist that the caller is really your buddy Leon, playing a joke. “Come on Leon, cut it out! Seriously, Leon, how’s your mom?”
- Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up… louder… louder…louder…
- Tell them to talk VERY SLOWLY, because you want to write EVERY WORD down.
Or put them on hold.
Quotes from Winston Churchill.
A fanatic is one who …who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject
A joke is a very …serious thing.
Attitude is a little thing that …makes a big difference.
Now you know:
The Africa trip is getting closer. I sent my passport in so I can get a visa to Nigeria.
Continuing Story
He would not put her to public shame or nor he marry her. She went away for a little while. Something about her aunt being pregnant as well. Those months she was away seemed like forever. He thought about that day and that time as he awaited for the baby to be born. Despair had filled his heart. He couldn’t even provide a place for his wife. He had to settle for a barn. What was God doing to him? Then in the stillness of the moment he heard, “In just a little while the heavens will light up.” Joseph had hope in his heart.
A small boy was looking at the red ripe tomatoes growing in the farmer’s garden. “I’ll give you my two pennies for that tomato,” said the boy pointing to a beautiful, large, ripe fruit hanging on the vine.
“No,” said the farmer, “I get a dime for a tomato like that one.”
The small boy pointed to a smaller green one, “Will you take two pennies for that one?”
“Yes,” replied the farmer, “I’ll give you that one for two cents.”
“OK,” said the lad, sealing the deal by putting the coins in the farmer’s hand, “I’ll pick it up in about a week.”
Based on a true story:
He sat at his work bench, holding his head in his hands. “How could she?” was the question going over and over in his mind. He replayed the scenario over and over. It didn’t go away. He had such plans and a happy live together with his girlfriend and now this. This THIS Doubts raced through his mind, wondering if he could ever find another; if he ever wanted another. No, she was the one for me. The conversation with her father also replayed. Her father seemed relieved when he told him he wouldn’t make it public. She was pregnant but not by him. They both stayed pure for each other. Now everything was in ruin. (To be continued)
What do you do with disappointment & your dreams are destroyed?
I had been doing Tech Support for Hewlett-Packard’s DeskJet division for about a month when I had a customer call with a problem I just couldn’t solve. She could not print yellow.
All the other colors would print fine,which truly baffled me because the only true colours are cyan, magenta, and yellow.
For instance, green is a combination of cyan and yellow, but green printed fine. Every color of the rainbow printed fine except for yellow.
I had the customer change ink cartridges. I had the customer delete and reinstall the drivers. Nothing worked. I asked my coworkers for help; they offered no new ideas.
After over two hours of troubleshooting, I was about to tell the customer to send the printer in to us for repair when she asked quietly, “Should I try printing on a piece of white paper instead of this yellow paper?”
Let’s Play: Guess the Hair Color.
I’m looking for friends on Facebook
What Turkeys Need To Know But Don’t
1. By limiting your corn intake to 175 kernels a day, you can lose
thirteen pounds or three hours baking time, whatever the case may be.
2. There is no such thing as the friendly ax-man.
3. Hiding inside old Jack-O-Lanterns never works.
4. Running helps you lose weight, but you will never fly, ever.
5. Stop writing to Benjamin Franklin; he’s dead, and you lost that
National symbol argument long ago.
6. No one buys the “you can’t eat a turkey with glasses routine.”
7. If anyone asks you about your drumstick size, be afraid; be very
afraid.
8. Sweet corn meal is NOT low in calories. Stop eating it.
9. Pretending to be “just a chicken” is not very smart.
10. If there are not pigs or geese on your farm, you should probably
worry about Christmas as well.
Outer Space Interesting Facts
The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour. It was set with the lunar rover.
When I was a boy I loved playing in the outside garage. (I grew up behind a gas station.) I would spend hours in the garage arranging all the old radios and electrical parts as a space ship. In my imagination I would blast off to outer space.
Where did your imagination take you as a child?
