Denounce the Devil

The priest was preparing a man for his long day’s journey into night. Whispering firmly, the priest said, “Denounce the devil! Let him know how little you think of his evil!”

The dying man said nothing.

The priest repeated his order.

Still the dying man said nothing.

The priest asked, “Why do you refuse to denounce the devil and his evil?”

The dying man said, “Until I know where I’m heading, I don’t think I ought to piss off anybody.”

Stolen from: Phil of Phils Phun

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Little Larry

Little Larry attended a horse auction with his father. He watched as his father moved from horse to horse, running his hands up and down the horses legs, rump and chest.

After a few minutes, Larry asked, 'Dad, why are you doing that?'

His father replied, 'Because when I'm buying horses, I have to make sure that they are healthy and in good shape before I buy.

Larry, looking worried, said, 'Dad, I think the UPS guy wants to buy Mom ...'

Swiped from Phil of Phils Phun

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The Rabbi

A man goes to see the Rabbi. ‘Rabbi, something terrible is happening and I have to talk to you about it.’

The Rabbi asked, ‘What’s wrong?’

The man replied, ‘My wife is poisoning me.’

The Rabbi, very surprised by this, asks, ‘How can that be?’

The man then pleads, ‘I’m telling you, I’m certain she’s poisoning me, what should I do?’

The Rabbi then offers, ‘Let me talk to her, I’ll see what I can find out and I’ll let you know.’

A week later the Rabbi calls the man and says, “I spoke to her on the phone for three hours. You want my advice?’

The man said yes and the Rabbi replied, ‘Take the poison.’

Stolen from: Stevebethere of Bethere2day

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Entitlement My Ass!

I cruised over to Steve's blog (Burnt Food Dude) and read an interesting piece about our government. The piece was written by Jodi of Jodi's Journey titled, Yep... Here I Go Again!, and it just nails what many of us feel about the government. All government in my book. Please keep in mind that I also live in California and a crazier place in the nation cannot be found. Something is terribly wrong with the way we do things and we are being brainwashed into believing that Social Security and Medicare are entitlements. I can remember eating very lean because I made so little money, but I was required to pay into social security. I had no choice in the matter and now it's called an entitlement. Welfare is an entitlement.
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” - Abraham Lincoln
Here's Jodi's post and bravo to Jodi for saying exactly what I've been thinking:
Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only 30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500. If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working (me) you'd have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years, and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month. The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had.

Entitlement my ass, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!! Congressional benefits, aka. free health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements !!!!!!

What the HELLS wrong??? WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!

Tuesday's Daily Bulletin paper, ran two articles on the front page side by side:

1- Calif 's 20 Billion Dollar Budget Deficit

2- The Calif Supreme Court ruling that ILLEGALS can attend college and get benefits. Why don't they just deport them when they arrive to register?

3- Last year they ran an article on the yearly costs to Calif Taxpayers from Illegals using Hospital Emergency Rooms for their general health care - At just one hospital the cost to tax payers totaled over 25 million a year.

Someone please tell me what the HELLS wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!

We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????

In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, and Turkey. And now Pakistan ......home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!

Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!

They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when its time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?

We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.

AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment - etc. etc.

YET....................

They have a 'Benefit' for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies.

Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.

Sad isn't it?
Posted with permission. Thanks again Jodi.

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Wednesdays Question #13

It's Wednesday so that means it's question time. There isn't a right or wrong answer to this question as everyone has different opinions on any given issue.

So here's this weeks question:

Who is the person you most admire and why?
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Wordless Wednesday

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Katie

This is the completed Story Game of "Katie" that you all did an outstanding job in authoring. The one thing that's always a constant in all these story games, is that someone always mentions cake. Enjoy your Story Game:

Katie is getting ready for her summer vacation and she doesn't want her boyfriend to come along. She has other plans that don't include him. What she wants to do is book a Trans-Atlantic Cruise and spend a month seeing Italy followed by another Tran-Atlantic cruise.

Unfortunately, Katie's boyfriend is scared of the water. He can't swim. He only has one leg and so Katie's plans just can't accommodate him since she just learned that her best friend already booked a cruise. Oops.

She is about to tell him about this "unfortunate mix-up" when he shows up walking on, what appears to be, two perfectly good legs. The truth is Bob [Katie's real boyfriend], has been sending his identical twin brother, 'Leonard' on all his dates with Katie, up till now.

When he is ready to pop the question but Katie is totally confused and wants to know exactly what is going on for heavens sake. So she asks him just who is he and he says that he forgot because he has amnesia and can only eat cake! Katie's confusion reaches its peak - first it was about one leg, now amnesia and what more? She wants to get rid of her boy friend immediately.

Fortunately, Sandee saves the day! She show up with a triple fudge, banana cream, frosted, 7 layer cake with one slice missing. Wondering what happened to the slice he asks, is this a misguided script from "The Young and the Restless"?

"No. It's a cake", she says. Katie proceeds to dig bare-handed into the center of the baked delight. The map has to be in there! She feels something in the cake thinks "OMG I think I have found the map," she pulls it out and to her horror it turns out to be a hard sultana.

So she flicks it into the air, but it ends up smacking a biker dude in the back of his meaty head. Flames shooting from the top of his head, the biker dude turns towards Katie. Their eyes meet and instant flames begin between Katie and the biker! Could it possibly be true love...with a complete stranger, or is the biker dude her long lost boyfriend from her wild past? All she needs to know if on his left cheek is a tattoo of a pink rose with her name. How in the world is she going to see his left cheek?

He continues to stare at her and she stares back. He does look familiar, but with all that beard it's hard to tell. He then says, 'Katie is that you?' Katie asks, 'Bill is that you?' It is her long lost boyfriend from her wild past. Bill had changed so very much since then.

Just then a biker chick walks in and heads toward Bill. Katie moves off and the biker chick doesn't come after her. The biker chick lays a big kiss on Bill and they leave. Wow, that was close.

Katie still had to figure out what to do with the lying boyfriend and his twin brother, but for now there is a Trans-Atlantic cruise to enjoy. That and lots of cake to eat. There are waiters, room service and a million other wonderful things to enjoy. Perhaps Katie will figure out what to do when she returns. Then again she just might meet Mr. Right on her cruise. Well it could happen.

Contributing authors (In order of appearance):

Barb of iPhoneographi
Callie Ann of Scrappin With Life
Adina of knitstripedfrog
DrillerAA09 of Driller's Place
Don of Don E. Chute

Marg of Margs Pets
Empress Bee of muffin53
Rajagopalan of Just Out
Da Dude of Burnt Food Dude
Jack of One Man's View from Lansing, KS

George of Addanac City
Angel of Woman Honor Thyself
Stevebethere of Bethere2day
Joyce Lansky of Catch My Words
Ann of Ann's Snap Edit & Scrap

Faythe of Grammy Mouse Tails
Sandy of Traveling Bells
Carol of There's Always Thyme to Cook

A great big THANK YOU to everyone that contributed to the Story Game. You are all awesome!

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Awww...Mondays #87

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Wisdom

The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

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Fable of an Ant

Every day, a small ant arrives at work very early and starts work immediately. She produces a lot and she is happy.

The Chief, a lion, was surprised to see that the ant was working without supervision. He thought if the ant can produce so much without supervision, wouldn’t she produce even more if she had a supervisor! So he recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports.

The cockroach’s first decision was to set up a clocking in attendance system. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports and he recruited a spider, who managed the archives and monitored all phone calls.

The lion was delighted with the cockroach’s reports and asked him to produce graphs to describe production rates and to analyze trends, so that he could use them for presentations at Board meetings.

So the cockroach had to buy a new computer and a laser printer and recruited a fly to manage the IT department.

The ant, who had once been so productive and relaxed, hated this new plethora of paperwork and meetings which used up most of her time!

The lion came to the conclusion that it was high time to nominate a person in charge of the department where the ant worked. The position was given to the cicada, whose first decision was to buy a carpet and an ergonomic chair for his office.

The new person in charge, the cicada, also needed a computer and a personal assistant ,who he brought from his previous department, to help him prepare a Work and Budget Control Strategic Optimization Plan.

The Department where the ant works is now a sad place, where nobody laughs anymore and everybody has become upset.

It was at that time that the cicada convinced the boss, the lion, of the absolute necessity to start a climatic study of the environment.

Having reviewed the charges for running the ant’s department, the lion found out that the production was much less than before. So he recruited the owl, a prestigious and renowned consultant to carry out an audit and suggest solutions.

The owl spent three months in the department and came up with an enormous report, in several volumes, that concluded: “ The department is overstaffed.”

Guess who the lion fires first? The ant, of course, because she “showed lack of motivation and had a negative attitude”.

Hat tip: Nick M.

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The Naval Aviator

The Naval Aviator As Seen by Himself:

An incredibly intelligent, tall, handsome, innovative, and highly trained professional killer, idol to countless females, and Gentleman Adventurer, who wears a star sapphire ring, carries a hair-trigger .45 automatic in a specially designed, hand-made quick draw holster along with his trusty survival knife, who is always on time thanks to his ability to obtain immediate transportation and the reliability of his Rolex watch.

As Seen by His Wife:

A disreputable member of the family who comes home once a year all bruised up, driving a stolen jeep up to the back door carrying a B-4 bag full of dirty laundry, wearing a stained flight suit, smelling of stale booze and JP-4, wearing a huge watch, a fake ring, and that damn ugly beat-up pistol in that stupid holster, who will three months later go out the front door, thankfully for another year.

As Seen by His Commander:

A fine specimen of a drunken, brawling, jeep stealing, woman corrupting liar, with a star sapphire ring, fantastically accurate Rolex watch, an unauthorized .45 in a non-regulation shoulder holster, and trusty survival knife.

As Seen by Wing Headquarters:

The embodiment of a drunken, brawling, jeep stealing, woman corrupting, lying, zipper-suited Sun God, with a ring, a proscribed 1911A1 .45 in a non-regulation shoulder holster, a Rolex watch, who for some reason carries a survival knife.

As Seen by the DoD:

An overpaid, rule-ignoring, over-ranked tax burden, who is unfortunately totally indispensable simply because he has volunteered to go anywhere, and do anything, at any time, only so long as he can booze it up, brawl, steal jeeps, corrupt women, lie, and wear a star sapphire ring, Rolex watch, and carry an obsolete hand gun and a survival knife.

As Seen by the Enemy:

The implacable face of death!

Hat tip: ♥♥Hubby♥♥

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Tor and Anna

Last Friday afternoon I got to do something that I've wanted to do for many years. I got to meet Tor and Anna from Oslo Norway. His website is called TorAa Mirror. They have traveled to the United States before, but didn't get close enough for a meet. This year was different. We started talking about getting together some months ago and needed to get the dates to make our meeting happen. During their visit in the area that only left Friday and most of Saturday while our club was at Driftwood Yacht Club. Tor said... 'We shall meet' and meet we did.

They spent all evening and well into the night with our club and then returned to spend the day with us before they resumed their travels. We had a fabulous time and enjoyed their company immensely. To say they are wonderful people is an understatement. Click on any photograph to biggify.
In the first picture is Anna and Tor on the back of our boat. The second picture is Anna, Tor, Me and our vice commodore having a chat.
During my introduction of them to our club and the folks of Driftwood Yacht Club they became honorary members of Delta Marina Yacht Club and got their own name tags. They also got a very nice bottle of Rombauer Chardonnay.
Left to right: Director Georgia, Vice Commodore Duffy, Hubby Zane, Anna, Me Sandee, and Tor!

The video below was taken after breakfast on Saturday morning. Just one more gift that we wanted them to have.
Now we just need to travel to Oslo Norway to visit them. We love you Tor and Anna.

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Wednesdays Question #12

It's Wednesday so that means it's question time. There isn't a right or wrong answer to this question as everyone has different opinions on any given issue.

So here's this weeks question:

What is the greatest gift you've ever received?
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The Story Game

It's time to play The Story Game again. Here's how it works. I'll start a story. You continue it in comments. Each commenter picks up where the last left off. In a few days I'll give it an ending and post our story with the links to everyone who participated under the heading, "Contributing Authors". You can play as many times as you want. If someone derails the story will one of you put it back on track? Thanks for playing along and have a great day.

Here's the beginning of our new story: Katie is getting ready for her summer vacation and she doesn't want her boyfriend to come along. She has other plans that don't include him. What she wants to do is ...
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Awww...Mondays #86

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The Commandments

Centuries ago, God came down, went to the Germans and said, "I have Commandments that will help you live better lives."

The Germans ask, "What are Commandments?"

And the Lord says, "Rules for living."

"Can you give us an example?"

God says, "Thou shalt not kill."

"Not kill? We're not interested."
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Saturday Musings

There are at least two people in this world that you would die for.

At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.

The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.

A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.

Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.
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The Comment Game

It's time to play the comment game again. We are on the boat, but most of you already know that.

Here's how it goes: I'll start the game off at the bottom of this post by choosing two words or phrases, like coffee or tea, and which ever one you prefer you choose. You can also explain why. When you have done that you do two new words or phrases for the next commenter to choose from. Feel free to come back as often as you like. Just have fun. If someone derails the game will one of you put it back on track? Thanks.

First comment: Boat or Recreational Vehicle?

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Four Generations

On July 7th our family celebrated Sarah's (our granddaughter) 20th birthday. Her favorite food is shrimp and she always wants to go to Red Lobster. So Red Lobster it was. After we finished dinner hubby wanted a picture of the four generations in attendance. So here we are.

Left to right: Sarah (20), my son Richard (40), me (I'll be 60 in September) and baby Audi at the ripe old age of 7 months on July 27th. And yes I hogged the baby all evening long. That's what great grandmas do. She got about a million kisses all over that sweet little face. Life is good!

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Wednesdays Question #11

It's Wednesday so that means it's question time. There isn't a right or wrong answer to this question as everyone has different opinions on any given issue.

So here's this weeks question:

What is the best movie, television show, or play you've ever seen?
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Mandy's Diary

DEAR DIARY – DAY 1

All packed for the cruise ship — all my nicest dresses, swimsuits, short sets. Really, really exciting.

Our local Red Hat chapter – The Late Bloomers decided on this “all-girls” trip. It will be my first one, – and I can’t wait!

DEAR DIARY – DAY 2

Entire day at sea, beautiful. Saw whales and dolphins. Met the Captain today — seems like a very nice man.

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Awww...Mondays #85

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VJ Day - 1945


VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.

Great video of a Spontaneous Victory Parade in Honolulu in1945.

Take a look at this video-absolutely fabulous! Notice the cars and jeeps, youth. The guys in khaki or gray shirts and black ties are Navy officers or chiefs. The rest are Army or Marine. How young they all were to do what they did.

This guy really captured a moment in history!

(You can listen to Jimmy Durante singing "I'll be Seeing You" in the background, too).

This is a super video of a time past - we need to remember and be THANKFUL.

Check out the color fidelity. It's not bad for 1945.

Nothing will ever compare with Kodachrome film.
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Bridgeport - Part III

There were tons of different events going on all weekend. Bridgeport didn't just have a parade, they had a host of fun events for every age group. Here is their FLYER. I've not seen a town in a very long time that has so much going on all weekend long.

We enjoyed the parade and one thing really stuck out for me. The honor that was paid to our military was awesome. They were first to start the parade off. We had several different factions of our armed forces and people stood when they passed. I was again proud to be an American.
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The first picture above is a pair of those wranglers I was taking about along with the flag. There were thousands upon thousands of flags all weekend long. We also wanted to show you those spurs from yesterdays post. I just love the sound of spurs.

The next shot is Bears Model A in the parade. It runs like a top and really fit with this old fashioned 4th of July theme. The next photograph looks like a chuck wagon and so that's what it is. It's pulled by a team of mules. We found it most interesting.

The next shot is of Bridgeport with those beautiful mountains as the backdrop. We just can't do the photograph justice. The mountains are breathtaking.

After returning to Bear and Lois' house we took a long hike up to a old mine. The trip was about a mile and a half on foot, uphill. Physically I can walk for hours, but not at that altitude. Where I live the altitude is 82 feet. We were at about 6,500 feet. I made it to the top (I'm stubborn) and it was worth the hike. You could see the entire valley below.

We headed back to the house and had cocktails. Brian was doing Tri-tip and baby back ribs and all of us were hungry after a full day of activity. We had a fabulous meal and shared the evening together. The last photograph is the rainbow that appeared as we were having dinner. Bear treated us to a western story (Dangerous Dan McGrew) that was fabulous and around 10:15 we hugged everyone goodbye for the last time as we were all heading home in the morning.

On the way back to the motel hubby and I talked about the Harvard study about 4th of July celebrations making kids more prone to be republicans. David Yanagizawa-Drott, the assistant professor of public policy of Harvard University's Kennedy School who co-wrote the study with Andreas Madestam of Bocconi University, thinks this is true. All I have to say about this study is if they are correct there were a hold bunch of little republicans in the making in Bridgeport on Independence day. God Bless the USA!

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Bridgeport - Part II

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We were up, showered and dressed fairly early as we had a full day of exploring to do. There was a rodeo all weekend long so we saw lots of friendly cowboys, friendly cowgirls, cowboy hats, cowboy boots with spurs and of course wrangler blue jeans. Cowboys won't wear anything but wranglers. Levis are for yuppies and such. Just so you know.

We headed to Bear and Lois' ranch in Nevada that was a fair piece from Bridgeport. The eastern sierras is some beautiful country. I've always called it God's country. So far our feelings were being proud to be an American and being in God's country. I'm thinking we had already caught the old fashioned 4th of July fever. Whatever it is it's just fine with us.
The next two photographs are of Bears Model A. He had it all spruced up for the parade on Monday and wanted to take it for a little spin to see if everything was okay. I was asked if I wanted to ride in the rumble seat. Heck yes I do and I did. I never dreamed I'd ride in a Model A, but to ride in the rumble seat of a Model A was awesome.

We spent a wonderful day enjoying each others company while the dogs ran around off the leash. Evening was setting in and it's time to head to Bridgeport Inn for dinner. Their specialty is prime rib and all the years we've visited Bridgeport the prime rib has been excellent. We found out this trip that they have had the same chef for 23 years. No wonder it's always perfect prime rib. For a look at their menu go HERE. Hubby and Brian had the mountain cut which is 18 ounces of prime rib. They ate every bite.

We had a relaxing day and a wonderful dinner. It was time to part company and head back to our motel. We shared some more champagne and then headed to bed. Tomorrow is Americas birthday.

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Bridgeport - Part I

Last Saturday hubby, me and our dog Little Bit headed toward the eastern sierras for the 4th of July weekend. We were heading to Bridgeport California for three nights and were about to participate in an old fashioned Independence Day weekend. We went with one of our boating buddies that has family in Nevada. We arrived mid afternoon and checked into our motel. That night our boating buddies brother had gotten all of us tickets for the cowboy poetry show at the Bridgeport Ranch. The headliners were Don Edwards and Brenn Hill.
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Hubby and I have heard cowboy poetry before and found it rather hokey. Well we were in for a surprise indeed. What a wonderful patriotic show and the backdrop of those mountains were breathtakingly beautiful. It lasted for three hours and we could have stayed even longer. We went away feeling so very proud to be an American.
We went back to the motel, shared some champagne together and talked about what a wonderful show we had just seen. We had a full day planned for Sunday so it was time to call it a night. Tomorrow it's exploring Bear and Lois' ranch on top of a hill in Nevada.

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Wednesdays Question #10

It's Wednesday so that means it's question time. There isn't a right or wrong answer to this question as everyone has different opinions on any given issue.

So here's this weeks question:

If you had to move to a state besides the one you currently live in, where would you move?
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A Sign From Heaven


I about fell off my chair watching this video on hubbies computer.

A question for the ladies...Haven't you wanted to do this very thing at one time or another? I know I have.

Image Credit: Westword Blogs
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Awww...Mondays #84

Current whereabouts: Bridgeport, California for an old fashioned Independence Day weekend.

These little cutie pies just wanted to say...
Happy Independence Day America.


Awww...Mondays Participants
1. Anny
2. Rocks
3. Barb
4. William K Wallace
5. Sugar		6. Sandy
7. Empress Bee
8. Steve
9. Mike Golch
10. Marg		11. Dawn
12. Rhonda
13. Jim
14. TorAa
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American Symbol

Ten Independence Day Items of Trivia About The Bald Eagle:
  1. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson served on the committee that picked the eagle for the national seal [Franklin wanted the turkey].

  2. Bald eagles have few natural enemies and live only in North America.

  3. Bald eagles get their white head and tail feathers about 4/5 years of age.

  4. Bald eagles are not, and never were bald. The term comes from when "bald" meant "white-headed".

  5. Their maximum speed: 40 mph or over 100 mph while in a dive.

  6. They can lift roughly half their body weight.

  7. The Bald Eagle is no longer considered endangered, and now only threatened.

  8. The only other kind of eagle in North America is the golden eagle.

  9. Bald eagles mate for life, but if one dies, the survivor will accept a new mate.

  10. It is a felony to shoot an eagle.
Current whereabouts: Bridgeport, California for an old fashioned Independence Day weekend.

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Little Andy

Mrs Whyte, the teacher advises the class that each school day starts with the "Pledge of Allegiance"*** and instructs them to put their right hand over their heart and repeat after her.

As Mrs Whyte starts the recitation she looks around the room, 'I pledge allegiance to the flag...', when her eyes are drawn to Andy who has his hand over the right cheek of his bottom.

'Andy, I cannot continue till you put your hand over your heart,' she demands.

Andy looks up and replies, 'It is over my heart.'

After several more attempts to get Andy to put his hand over his heart, Mrs Whyte inquires, 'Why do you think that is your heart, Andy?'

'Well Miss,' answers Andy, 'because every time my Grandma comes to visit she pats me there and says, "Bless your little heart," and my Grandma never lies.'

Graphic: Home Of Heroes

Current whereabouts: Bridgeport, California for an old fashioned Independence Day weekend.

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Patriotism

The Fourth of July weekend was approaching, and Miss Pelham, the nursery school teacher, took the opportunity to tell her class about patriotism.

'We live in a great country,' she announced. 'One of the things we should be happy is that, in this country, we are all free.'

Trevor, who was a little boy in her class, came walking up to her from the back of the room. He stood with his hands on his hips and said loudly, 'I'm not free. I'm four.'

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