It already creeps me out when I call somewhere and they know my name and address. For instance everytime I call my local newspaper to cancel a week or call my pest control people it seems they know who I am and my address before I even say hello. A friend sent me this...pretty creepy. Well one good thing...sure must cut down on crank calls. This is absolutely hilarious, well...it is and it's not...&...
I've lived in Florida now just under two years and I can already vouch for a few of these items on the following Florida Code list. The roads are totally insane; as it says here. Whoever came up with the naming of the streets completely messed with our northern heads when we first moved here. You can have the same name on a road with a different ending like street, ave or drive. For instance I've seen Griffin Ave, Griffin Street, Griffin Way etc right in the same...
In doing some research the other day I came upon the following passage written in the private journals of Albert Einstein sometime in the mid 1930's. From what I've read this was written shortly before many like him left Europe before the onset of the war. This emigration was known as the "brain drain." He knew about the impending danger in Germany. Take a listen to what he had to say back then. I think you'll find it very informative especially in lieu of where we ...
First Abraham Lincoln said this: We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were prod...
My Dad's here to visit me for the first time since I moved South. This was a very big move on his part. A maniac hoakie leaving the state of his birth to come and visit his daughter. I wasn't sure he was really going to come at first because we got into an argument over the phone a few days before he was scheduled to arrive. Sometimes he gets short with me I should have known better. The conversation went like this: Me: "Hi, it's me." ...
Holiday foods......yum! Do you make special foods for the holidays? What's your favorite? I'm not sure what my favorite is exactly but a New England Boiled Dinner on St. Patrick's Day is pretty close. I made that last night and it's got to be up there among my very best meals. I mean I love the turkey and mashed potatoes with all the trimmings on Thanksgiving and all but hmmmm.....corn beef and cabbage with those little red potatoes and carrots......oh ...
Scientist: Terrorists Could Use Insects as Weapons Monday, February 02, 2009 By Jeffrey A. Lockwood The terrorists' letter arrived at the mayor of Los Angeles's office on Nov. 30, 1989. A group calling itself "the Breeders" claimed to have released the Mediterranean fruit fly in Los Angeles and Orange counties, and threatened to expand their attack to the San Joaquin Valley, an important center of Californian agriculture. With perverse logic, they said that unless the ...
BY MITCH ALBOM FREE PRESS COLUMNIST Every day I have less - In my bank account. Every day I grow scared - As my losses mount. Every day there is less - To the house that I own And the equity...
Time. We all have it. When it comes day to day, we all have the same seven days a week, 24 hours a day, sixty minutes to the hour and the same sixty seconds to the minute. Some are really wise in the spending of their time and others waste it like the leftovers after a banquet. I'm guilty of both I guess. There are times when I'm very productive getting more stuff done than thought humanly possible. I sleep very...
What is it about husbands and weather? Geeesh! I think my husband should have been a weatherman. His favorite channel has got to be the weather station. Hands down. I could care less unless I have plans or there's a big storm coming. Otherwise I just deal with it. Not him. Nope. Not only does he have to know our weather here for the next 10 days but he also keeps an eye on where all the kids live in their perspective states and our...
No, it's not who you are thinking of. Yes, there is another Sabrina out there who needs much needed prayer. From time to time I speak about one of our missionaries from our church back home. I'm not sure if I've ever spoken here about Ben but we started supporting him from the beginning of his ministry to Brazil. For a while he was just a single guy with a heart for God and the country of Brazil. Then he met Dani. They've been married a couple ...
Sent to me by a friend. A chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying...
When I was a kid my nickname was Lucy because I looked like Lucy from Charlie Brown and because I was bossy. I had two younger brothers and I was boss. Well for a while anyhow until they got bigger than me. Then it was over In the last few years my husband started calling me Lucy but for another reason. Sometimes I do really dumb stuff and don't know why. I mean stuff just happens to me, reminiscent of "I Love Lucy." And I'll admit sometime...
I just saw this video a friend sent me on the 2nd Amendment. What else can be said after this? The speaker sure had some interesting thngs to say about this subject. If anyone has a right to speak out on this amendment, this lady did. This is well worth seeing. Well spoken. http://video.google.com:80/videoplay?docid=-4069761537893819675&pr=goog-sl
Yep. Our very first hurricane as Floridians is coming directly at us. All reports have it coming right over us. I'm excited but only because I know it's only a Category 1 and there should be minimal damage hopefully. Hurricanes, especially living inland, don't bother me so much but I'm scared out of my mind when I think about tornadoes. They scare the heck out of me. They did say, however, we would have tornado warnings, as a result of this hurricane. So...