Sunday, September 6, 2009
Labor Day vacation is halfway over! YIPPEE! Happy, happy, joy, joy!
When I was still a young sage, I used to wonder why “ Labor Day ” vacation is called by that name. No more. Halfway through this one, I have cut acres of lawn, visited my mom and cut into pieces, loaded, hauled and un loaded three cords of oak firewood, back home with me. I charged up batteries, fixed flat tires, cooked meals, hand carried water to three remote gardens, cut down all but the two most robust male plants, ( about half my crop culled, SOB! ) put white bags over the two remaining...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Bits and pieces. Rambling thoughts from the "Sage of the North."
In the wee small hours of yesterday morning, I heard one of the talking heads on CNN say that, “The mean age of American nurses is, 45 years old.” Given my peculiar bent of mind, I immediately wondered what the average age of mean American nurses is. Probably older. With my luck, I'd get the mean one. A couple days ago, I told another talented blogger, that as I began the day at work yesterday, I asked a coworker, “You know those dead, road-killed raccoons we pass each day, the ones that are all...
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
I need six more reads, to reach another milestone, & in ONLY 30 months!
Six more, and I will have surpassed the number 4,000, and will be able to tell myself, (and anyone who should happen to ask) that stuff that I have written has been read by my fellow bloggers THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of times. I won't tell anyone that 4,000 reads earns a blogger a measly, $63.00, Crass mention of things like money, kinda deflates my sense of self-importance, which is a major motivation and purpose of my writing. I know, it's self-delusion, ( Delusions of adequacy ) but they're MY...
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Friday, August 28, 2009
I remember Harry Truman. Today's politicians are NO Harry Truman!
My boss sent me this.She's pretty smart, TOO! Guy Harry Truman, farmer, judge, senator, and eventually President of the United States (1945-53). Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House. The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri. His...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Our final, peaceful days & nites, free of the presence of 2 spoiled BRATS!
Sometime this weekend, Ivy and DJ are coming back to Michigan, from summer vacation, in Georgia!................Sorry, for a little while there, I couldn't focus my eyes, or control my breathing and hammering pulse rate. As I learned in CPR class, I quickly chewed four aspirins and began driving towards the hospital. This is what one of the EMT's confided that HE would do, if he suspected that HE was having a stroke. I think that I must have hyperventilated, any easy mistake to make. Anyway,...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Wanna see a gentille, demure, Christian, "Southern Belle?" Click here!
Once again, I don't know the origin of this, but I think that the defendant should thank his lucky stars, that Granny wasn't the jury foreman! Guy When Grandma Goes To Court Lawyers should never ask a Mississippi grandma a question if they aren't prepared for the answer. In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached her and asked, 'Mrs. Jones, do you know me?' She responded, 'Why, yes, I do know you,...
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Just like cats and dogs! I wonder, do animals think that we are THEIR pets?
Do you consider yourself to be a cat person, or a dog person? If you don't share your life with a pet, go away, nobody wants to associate with you, you selfish, inhuman cretin! I sometimes get so frustrated by my dog getting himself tangled around the only obstruction he can possibly reach before coming to the end of his retractable leash, the one that is tethered to our porch, and I become so angry, that I cannot resist telling him just how STUPID he is. I am fairly sure that he doesn’t...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Anticipating the return of the grandbrats, from spending summer in Georgia!
For some reason, I have been thinking about Marilyn's grandbrats, lately. Maybe because they are coming back to our part of Michigan, soon. VERY soon! The nightmares are absolutely TERRIFYING! Having admitted to this, without being tortured, I offer this reposting; A few days ago I must have gotten some kind of corrosive liquid on the top part of my thumbs and forefingers, without realizing that I had. A skin color change and an annoying itch made me think that I gotten poison ivy ( lower case i...
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Friday, August 21, 2009
In the final analysis, it is all in how one looks at things! WHEW!
During my contented enjoyment of a moment of mellow, serene peace, on a cool Friday evening, (this one) I learned the official appellation for my “ employment category,” according to tonight’s CNN newscast. I am one of the millions of malignantly maligned, malnourished, maliciously mistreated, malcontents, those unfortunates known as “ The Underemployed.” What a HUGE RELIEF! And to think that all this time, I had been convinced that I was just lazy! As a matter of fact, this opinion wasn’t a...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
I wish that I wrote this! It's funny AND TRUE!
Subject: Men are Simpler Men Are Just Simpler and Happier People NICKNAMES If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah. If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Four-eyes. EATING OUT When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back. When the girls...
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