Inner Peace: This is so true
If you can start the day without caffeine,
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
...Then You Are Probably .........
The Family Dog!
And you thought I was going to get all spiritual!!!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Japan
I have been following Robert Brady at www.pureland.blogspot.com for some time now.
Robert is an American who is married to a Japanese woman and has lived in Japan for years. I immediately thought of him and his family when the devastation hit with the earthquake and tsunami.
His daughter, son in law and 3 small granddaughters live north of Tokyo. Thank goodness they are all ok as is Robert and his wife. The daughter and family are living in a school gym as their apartment was damaged in the quake.
If you have not visited his site recently you may want to check it out. It brings this disaster in close to us knowing someone there via our blog world.
Robert is an American who is married to a Japanese woman and has lived in Japan for years. I immediately thought of him and his family when the devastation hit with the earthquake and tsunami.
His daughter, son in law and 3 small granddaughters live north of Tokyo. Thank goodness they are all ok as is Robert and his wife. The daughter and family are living in a school gym as their apartment was damaged in the quake.
If you have not visited his site recently you may want to check it out. It brings this disaster in close to us knowing someone there via our blog world.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Magnolias
We built a house here in Atlanta. A large two story house. Big enough to hold my husband and me. Our 3 children ages 5 and 6 and 14. Also my mother lived with us so that made 6 of us.
We had the yard landscaped and because I had grown up loving the huge magnolias on Prince Avenue in Athens, Georgia near where I lived; my trees of choice were magnolias.
We had 6 magnolias planted. They were about 6 feet tall. They grew and thrived, growing to a height of about 60 feet before we downsized and sold our house some 25 years later.
Each spring the magnolias were filled with lovely white blossoms which started out as large cone shaped buds; beautiful in their own way.
It was difficult to leave our nest but it was time to move on and simplify.
I guess more than anything else about our house, I miss the stately 40 year old magnolias.
Friday, March 04, 2011
I wonder how many are true?
THINGS YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW . .
THINGS WE SHOULD KNOW, BUT PROBABLY DON'T:
1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
3. The dot over the letter I is called a 'tittle'.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously From the bottom of the glass to the top. (That makes
my day!)
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller. ( FALSE)
6. 40% of Mc Donald 'S profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was
albino.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
(Just as I suspected)
10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces
will kill a small-sized dog.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the
shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't
wear pants (The Little Perv.)
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
16. Upper and lower-case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because
in the time when all Original print had to be set in individual
letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the Case on top of
the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
17. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the
other at the same time, Hence, multi-tasking was invented.
18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II
were made of wood.
19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never
a recorded Wendy before!
21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange,
purple, or silver!
22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to
paint Mona Lisa's lips.
23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go
mad and sting itself to death.
24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was a
Captain Kirk's mask painted white.
25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19 You also have the Largest amount of money in coins without being
able to make change for a Lonnie - Good to know
26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink
in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
27. The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old English law,
which stated that you couldn't Beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.
28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was
the Victrola, so they called Themselves Motorola.
29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a
piece of celery than the Celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with
apples.
30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
32. "Guinness Book of Records" holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from public Libraries.
33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing gas In a space suit damages it. I NEED TO REMEMBER THIS.
34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart. "Boy, I feel a
lot safer now that she's Behind bars. O.J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are
still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, But they take the ONE woman
in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and They haul her off
to jail.
THINGS WE SHOULD KNOW, BUT PROBABLY DON'T:
1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
3. The dot over the letter I is called a 'tittle'.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously From the bottom of the glass to the top. (That makes
my day!)
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller. ( FALSE)
6. 40% of Mc Donald 'S profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was
albino.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
(Just as I suspected)
10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces
will kill a small-sized dog.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the
shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't
wear pants (The Little Perv.)
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
16. Upper and lower-case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because
in the time when all Original print had to be set in individual
letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the Case on top of
the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
17. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the
other at the same time, Hence, multi-tasking was invented.
18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II
were made of wood.
19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never
a recorded Wendy before!
21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange,
purple, or silver!
22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to
paint Mona Lisa's lips.
23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go
mad and sting itself to death.
24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was a
Captain Kirk's mask painted white.
25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19 You also have the Largest amount of money in coins without being
able to make change for a Lonnie - Good to know
26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink
in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
27. The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old English law,
which stated that you couldn't Beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.
28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was
the Victrola, so they called Themselves Motorola.
29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a
piece of celery than the Celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with
apples.
30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
32. "Guinness Book of Records" holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from public Libraries.
33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing gas In a space suit damages it. I NEED TO REMEMBER THIS.
34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart. "Boy, I feel a
lot safer now that she's Behind bars. O.J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are
still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, But they take the ONE woman
in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and They haul her off
to jail.
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