Shadow Shot Sunday!!

Come play with us and the shadows!!

Your hosts are:
Magical Mystical Teacher
Rose (chubskulit)
Gemma Wiseman

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.
Franklin P. Jones

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields

Weekend Reflections

Weekend Reflections is hosted by James each week beginning Friday at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time. It's another wonderful way of opening your eyes to new and different kinds of beauty. Click on the web address under the blog title and sign up to play with us!
Hope all of you are ready for a great weekend and hopefully, some lovely weather as well!!

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
Suzanne Somers

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein

Sky Watch Friday!

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has
crushed it.
Mark Twain

Time to share your skies, the beauty over your world, the clouds, the colors! Sky Watch is hosted each week by  the Sky Watch team of  Sandy and I. And this week as every week, we remember Klaus and know that he joins us in spirit! Join us and the many people from all over the world who share theirs with us each week!

 

Whatever you do, never stop dreaming.
Darren L. Johnson

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward

 

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

I Do Believe That Proofreading is a Dying Art!!

 What do you think???

Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter  I was told that some guy called the Editorial Room and asked who wrote this.  It took two or three readings before the editor realized that what he was reading was impossible!!!  They put in a correction the next day.     Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says        Really? Ya think?  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers          Now that's taking things a bit far!    -----------------------------------------------------------  Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over          What a guy!    ---------------------------------------------------------------   Miners Refuse to Work after Death  No-good-for-nothing' lazy so-and-so's!  ------------------------------------------------------   Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant   See if that works any better than a fair trial!    ----------------------------------------------------------  War Dims Hope for Peace   I can see where it might have that effect!  ----------------------------------------------------------------   If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile     Ya think?!  -----------------------------------------------------------------------   Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures         Who would have thought!  ----------------------------------------------------------------  Enfield ( London ) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide    They may be on to something!  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges         You mean there's something stronger than duct tape?    ----------------------------------------------------------  Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge        He probably IS the battery charge!  ----------------------------------------------   New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group   Weren't they fat enough?!  -----------------------------------------------    Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft   That's what he gets for eating those beans!   ---------------- ---------------------------------   Kids Make Nutritious Snacks          Do they taste like chicken? ****************************************     Local  High School Dropouts Cut in Half          Chainsaw Massacre all over again!  ***************************************************  Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors          Boy, are they tall!   *******************************************   And the winner is....   Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead           Did I read that right?  ***************************************************

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The Green Thing!

Now, before you read this, please do understand that I'm well aware of the need for recycling and whatever it takes to save our planet -- however these are some thoughts I have when some youngsters want to preach, although I do have a stack of cloth bags to take shopping and I recycle everything that I can. This is a little long, but a good look back at "the way it was" even though we need to focus on "how it is now"!!

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in  conservation from a smarta$$ young person. Remember: Don't make old People mad.  We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to pi$$ us off.

Our World!

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Lauryn Hill

Time for "Our World" again! This is a wonderful way to find the beauty, the fun, the good and even the bad things about Our World and to share them! Hope you will join us! Click on the link  to go to the Our World site and sign up!!

http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/ 

Yep, more gray and rain, but I still have some photos  from the sunny days!! Hope you enjoy!! Happy Memorial Day!

May We Never Forget!
 

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey