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Did you see that California is going to spend $1.1 million  toinstall lifesaving buoys over a fast-moving canal along the US-Mexico border because immigrants are drowning while trying to sneak into the country illegally?   A debate over the lifelines has presented a moral dilemma for those in thre decision-making population:  Is it acceptable to do nothing when immigrants are dying the the water?  Or do lifesaving devides lull the immigrants into a false sense of security that they can conquet the channel whiole giving them extra motivation to enter the country illegally?
They're also installing 1,414 bilingual signs on canal banks that read, "Warning: Dangerous Water".


Jack Lalanne  has died.  He was 96 years old.  I remember seeing him and his wife on one of the info-mercials for his juicer and he said that dying would ruin his reputation.  I also remember sitting in front of the television back in the 50s and watching him.  All he used for his exercise program was a chair and a jumprope.  WOW!

He was a man ahead of his time.  Rest in Peace, Jack.


Have you seen Secretariat yet?  You should.  Take your children.  Yes, it's a predictable movie and we all know how it ends, but it's fascinating to know the history of how things were playing out in the background.  The relationship between Secretariat and his owner is sweet and touching.
Really.  Go see it.  No bad words.  No bloodshed.  We saw it at the cheap movie theater so it may be gone already.  Like Jack Lalaine, I remember watching him on the television.  This was way back in 1973.

The atheists are at it again.  A California lawyer (Michael Newdow) s making a charge to have "In God We Trust" removed from our money.  He thinks it 'violates the constitutional separation of church and state."  He's also challenging the phrase "So help me God" in the presidential oath and the Pledge of Allegiance ("one nation under God"). 
(from an article in the Augusta Chronicle)
As God is my witness, I will not ever remove these things from my life.  I'd suggest Mr. Newdow move to  another country, but I know that God is everywhere and he cannot be free of Him  by just removing His name from sight.   Mr. Newdow is a minority in his thinking.  Right? (This is my opinion.)

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It's been 10 months since I quit.

Fly Your Flag Today

A truly great series of commercials about Fatherhood Involvement.
This is my favorite. (from YouTube)

A child's greatest period of growth is the month after you've purchased new school clothes. 
(from the Augusta newspaper)

How 'bout just a little kiss.

(clipart  from bing.com)

The Braves are digging themselves a hole they're not gonna be able to climb out of.  But I still keep wearing my shirt and watching them.

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"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." - 19th Amendment
       90 years have come and gone since the amendment that grants women the right to vote was officially ratified by Tennessee, the 36th and last state needed to make women's suffrage official, on August 18th, 1920.
-Matt O'Shea (Guest writer at Beliefnet.com)


You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

This has nothing to do with anything.  I just found it somewhere and liked that face.

This year, August has 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays, 5 Tuesdays, all in one
month.  It happens once in 823 years.
I probably will miss it next time!

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson

Photo by Weezer

Always do right.  This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

~ Mark Twain

Anyone who is indifferent to the well-being of other people and to the causes of their future happiness, can only be laying the ground for their own misfortune.

- Dalai Lama

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I hope everyone has a wonderful week.

There's a full moon out this week.  Be sure to get out to see it. 

Another comment found in our Rant&Rave column of the newspaper:

PRAYER SHOULD BE KEPT in schools. 

If they do get prayer thrown out, the school every morning should say:  "We will now have two minutes of silence for you to pray to the god of your choosing.  If you do not have one, please be quiet and think on the monkey theory."

(from Frayed Lotus @ belief.com)

Monday Morsels

Just some miscellaneous thoughts and drivel to get the week jump-started.

Do you have a Rants and/or Raves section of your newspaper?  We do and though I try to avoid that column, sometimes something will catch my eye:

JUST TO BE CLEAR, I am an animal lover too. 

Cows, medium rare; pigs, bbq'ed; birds, fried; dogs and cats spoiled.

Posted in the Augusta Chronicle by Roadkill.

Have you tried the new Townhouse Flatbread Crisps?

They're unbelievable.  I found mine at Walmart.  They're really, really good

with cream cheese....either plain or salmon.

Why do manufacturers have to individually wrap tea bags? 

And these are WalMart brand.

To the woman behind me in WalMart:

Please teach your son that it isn't nice to point at old ladies' feet, laugh, and then say, 'Yew!"

I'm sorry.  I forgot to change my shoes before I went out.

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I guess I'm in one of those moods today.  I hope you find at least one thing here to smile or laugh about.  It kinda looks like I'm picking on the male species today.  Hmm.  Guess I am.

Enjoy.

Monday Morsels and an Award

Hey, y'all.  Hey.  Hey.

Guess what.  Go ahead and guess.  No.  Don't.

I'll tell you.

Nanny McPhee.

Nanny McPhee Returns.

In theaters on August 20.

I'm so excited.  I love Nanny McPhee.  She's the best since Mary Poppins!!

 

I really, really wish I knew who it was that leaves comments on my blog that I can't read.  They're only a bunch of squares and dots.  It sure has me curious.

How ironic is it that Grace and I have been sitting here listening to some sort of critter knocking around somewhere on the other side of the room, only to find out that it's one of Georgia's largest home-grown bugs (a roach) inside the box that our new Bug Whacker came in.  I've filled the box with a cloud of Raid and shut him up in there.  Surprise, Mister!  I hope this isn't any indication on how well the Whacker's going to work.

We're going with friends to see 'Inception' this afternoon. I'll let you know what I think....if you're interested.  I've heard it's a great sci-fi film.

Becky at Sueberry Lane has been so kind as to award me with an award.  I am so honored to be recognized.  Aren't awards fun?

The way this award works is like this:

1.

Thank the person who gave you the award.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

2.

Tell 7 things about yourself.

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  Where Miss Sueberry Lane can wander around in a book store forever, mine is a drug store.  Have you ever just strolled around in one?  You can find some of the neatest things in there.
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  I am a hopeless romantic and sentimentalist.  Old letters, birthday cards, quick jotted notes.  They all bring back some really sweet memories.
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  Coffee, coffee, coffee.  Any kind.  Any temperature.  With or without fixins.
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  I have a weak spot in my heart for old retired veterans.  They such stories to tell.
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  I would really, really like to get a second tattoo.  I've been envious of my daughter's that she has on her foot.  It's sooo cool.
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  I'm a crack shot with my BB gun.  Ask the squirrels who try to invade my bird feeders.
• 
  
  I am a sucker for school-age kids trying to sell their annual gift wrap for their school fund raisers.

3.

Nominate 15 newly discovered blogs to share this award.

Apron Senorita

Two Monkeys & a Washtub

Coffee Slut

Coffee Jitters

Diamond Potential

In the hush of the moon

Flip Flops & Pearls

Beyond the Kitchen Window

Jeremiah 29:11

Karen's Journal

Southern Style

Not So Molly Mormon After All

Sanity is Over-rated

A Southern Daydreamer

The Art of Losing Myself

Go by and visit them.

Y'all have a wonderful Monday.  It's August already.

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You know what I really dislike?  Okay.  I'll tell you.

I don't like all the Swiffer commercials on TV these days. Yeah, I know.  It's probably just my age, but I sure do find all of them stupid.  AND I don't like the fact that so many commercials today are taking perfectly wonderful ol' songs and using them for commercial jingles.  Yes, they're great songs but they're being reduced to rubbish (my grandmother's word).  And who can enjoy hearing good music like that when a mop is about to seduce a bowling ball.

Love the products.  Really I do.

But I don't like these commercials.  If you like them, don't hate me.

Have you ever done any on-line shopping from Woman Within?  I never had until recently.  My mother had a catalog and I was very, very interested that the styles in there weren't for skinny ladies.  They're for ladies who have tummies, butts, and hips.  (I don't have anything against skinny ladies, but I'm just not one of them.)  I ordered a pair of capris from them (at a very reasonable price) and I absolutely love them.  They fit perfectly and I didn't feel like I had a wedgie that went from my belly button to my woo-hoo.  Their sizes start at 12W and go on up.  They're fuller cuts and I noticed that they're made of more sensible fabrics for us who do have tummies, butts, and hips.  And even boobs.

If any of you need meds for flatulence, impotence, gastric disturbances or flat feet.  Or even a new bed for an old aching back.  Or want to take a miscellaneous poll about miscellaneous stuff.  Or need to order business cards.....buy one, get one free.

How about walkers, canes, or therapeutic shoes.

Let me know.  I'll forward on to you one of the eMails that keep hitting my spam folder.

Doggone it!

Sometimes I check in here and just look at all the smiling faces looking back at me from my follower list.  I love that I can look at your picture and know your names and recall where you are or what you've got going on.  You really do make me smile.  And make my life as a blogging fool very, very nice.

Do dogs have selective hearing?  How is it that Grace, my Boykin Spaniel, can't hear me when I call her from one side of the yard to the other, but as soon as I start to take gummy bears out of a plastic jar, she comes running?  Do you suppose the gummy bears speak to her?

Monday Morsels #19

To the Sears people:

When we purchased our freezer from you 25+ years ago, you didn't bother to tell us that one day the thing would just up and decide to be cool.......but not cold.  What good is a freezer that doesn't freeze?

Our freezer has now become a cooler.

Update: 

After I removed everything from the freezer that needed to be frozen and found room in the upright side-by-side, threw away everything that had completely thawed (like the popsicles and ice cream), and placed things in there that just needed to be cool (soft drinks, bottles of water, bread), guess what happened~!

No, go ahead and guess.

Well, the darn thing decided to get cold.....really cold.......frozen cold.  So now things that aren't supposed to be frozen........are.

What's a person to do?  It's a mechanical conspiracy.

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Mister is recovering nicely from having a septoplasty (a nose-job for a deviated septum) last week.  I don't know how they do these procedures but he hasn't had any bruising or swelling with it.  No black eyes. 

Today I'll take him back to the surgeon to have the stints removed.  Thank goodness for Percocet!

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The new neighbors continue to be a nuisance.  For the past 12 hours I've heard the BOOM BOOM BOOM of the bass on their radio.  No, no.  I'll just suffer in silence and won't say anything.  I just hope there's a thunderstorm soon that will drive them in-doors.

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(from Frayed Lotus @ belief.net)

Poor ol' Lance should have quit with the 12th tour.  The 13th has been a disaster for him.  There's no chance of another yellow jersey.  At this point in the tour, he's just trying to make it to Paris to finish.

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Oooh. Oooh. Guess what!! I've got a new library card. I haven't had one since the girls were little. And I checked a book out with it....all by myself. A Mary Higgins Clark mystery.

And guess what else!! I have a new garden hose. 100 feet long. Gray with yellow stripes. Non-kinking!!

Can you tell that the news around here is pretty slim?

I found an e-mail in my spam folder that I didn't even bother to open.  I figured my imagination would be much better than the reality of the message.  Subject?  The stiff thingey in jeans.  I know stiff zippers sometimes make it difficult to get everything tucked in. 

And now the highlight of the weekend........No, she's not here yet.  But We've all been marching around (yeah, Cadence) and staying near the phone for about 48 hours or so in anticipation.  Ashley has been in the hospital since 9:30 Sunday night after we've counted numerous contractions and walked and walked and walked.  So it looks like little Cadence Rose Woodard is going to arrive sometime today, Monday, July 5, 2010.  GrandDad and I came home for a quick nap, a change of clothes, and will head back to the hospital in a couple hours.  The next time I check in with you, I'll have news.  And pictures.
Stay tuned.

Monday Morsels #17

Everytime I think I'm doing okay I find an e-mail in my mailbox offering a Free Wheelchair Kit.  Maybe I'm not doing as well as I think I am.

This is quite possibly the best commercial I've seen in ages:

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning
the devil says ~~ "Oh Crap, She's up!"

You don't know the half of it.