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...

I think I know why older people get fat.  Really.  The kids are gone so that means the food doesn't disappear like it once did.  They were like human vacuum cleaners.  Cleaned up anything and everything in sight.  I used to have to hide food.  Seriously.   So that left us with a problem.   It's an either eat it or throw it mentality now.  Since I just loathe throwing food away, guess where that leaves me?   Y...

Things are getting out of control every which way in our world.  Don't you feel that?  The kids are going crazy.  The storms are wrecking havoc all over our land with news again today of another state being declared a state of emegency.  The food, gas and oil prices continue to increase and now the utilitiy companies are starting to announce higher electric bills are on the horizon.  This is just the beginning.  It just seems physically, emotionally, globally, re...

I'll be heading to Ohio in a few weeks staying with my son and daughter in law as they await the birth of their second child.  I'll have the honor of being able to spoil....ummmmm I mean take care of little Ethan when my d-i-l goes into the hospital.  It was nice seeing all three of them at the wedding and not so hard saying good-bye knowing I'd be at their doorstep in a few short weeks.  I've been doing some traveling lately.  Less than a month ago I was in Lynchburg, the...

I hugged a painter today.  Let me explain. We have a warranty department here and for the first year of owning our home we call this department when we have issues with our homes.   And they set us up with the proper help.  Usually within two days we'll get a phone call for them to come out.  I've had them over for various small issues and have been pleased with the results. Last week I had the pressure washer guy wash my home and he noticed quite a bit of paint...