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...

Wondering what to do with your rebate check?  There are numerous ways to spend this long awaited windfall.  Many businesses are clamoring to take your money with some pretty good deals out there.  The one that makes the most sense to me is that some grocery stores are offering incentives via gift cards to help you stretch your grocery budget by giving you 10% more.  So if you buy a $300 card they'll add $30 and for those with a $600 rebate willing to invest it in g...

Here's a quote I thought would be nice to think about.  I think it's even more applicable for today than when he first spoke these words.   General Omar Bradley said this about our generation, “We know more about war than about peace. We know more about killing than about living. This is our 20th Century’s claim to progress — knowledge of science outstrips capacity for control. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilli...

Today Mick Huckabee worshipped with my son David. Mike was at TRBC this morning. He gave his testimony and the place was packed. Mike sat in the front row and the media was swarming all over the place. Earlier this week Aly got to interview Ron Paul. My future daugther in law just got a job for a TV Station. She will be a reporter and my son David just got a sport's editing job for a local medium sized newspaper. It's a huge job opportunity for him that just dropped out of the sky. ...

I got a wee bit nervous tonight. Not blown out whacked out frightened but a little bit apprehensive when I heard we had tornado warnings in our area. I kept hearing the beeping on the tv to alert us of this warning. So I'm in the kitchen making dinner thinking now what do we do? Do we hide in the bathtub like I've heard people do? I'm thinking our bathbub is against an exterior wall so is that a good place to be? We could hear the wind blowing and see the big flashes of lightening ...

I called home today. Home being Maine. I still love Florida but it doesn't quite feel like home yet. Home to me is back in the deep Maine woods. I miss my friends but do not miss the snow. Anyhow depending on who I talked to there was about 12-18 inches of the white fluffy stuff that fell from the sky today. I sure am not missing that. It was cold enough here today. The NE has been getting clobbered lately with cold and snow. Already, my dad said, they have had more snow this s...

I was speaking to Gid on Loca's blog about Christmas and thought I'd ask you all out there a question. Here's a portion of what I said to Gid: Just tonight I mentioned to my husband the very noticeable amount of secular type cards we got this year. Some came from Christians, no less. I've watched this trend slowly increase each year. This year I'm going to say it's pretty much two to one; non-Christian looking cards to Christian. They usually say "happy holidays." You know, things...

Everyday now in the afternoon sometime I take my bike down to get the mail. I bike past the houses on my cul-de-sac and up onto the main road and then back again. Almost everyday I hear a "hello" coming from one of the neighbors I had yet to meet other than wave a friendly hello as I biked by. Well, two days ago, I finally stopped to meet this friendly neighbor. It seems he likes to sit on his front porch and keep an eye on things. He's a black man I would estimate to be in his late 6...