Shadow Shot Sunday!!

Come play with us and the shadows!!

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

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon

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!

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition
circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man of courage is also full of faith.   Cicero

Sky Watch Friday!!

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!

 Hope all of you have a good and a safe weekend!! Enjoy! Appreciate the beauty of your skies and your world!!

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.
 Mary Manin Morrissey

Evening, Wisdom, Beauty and Just a Tad of Humor!!

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.  Author Unknown

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

Suthunuhs! You Do Know Who Those Are? Right?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! A good friend of mine -- knowing I was born in Texas sent me this one!! And, yes, it's true!! Southerners know their summer weather report: Humidity Humidity Humidity ------------------------- Southerners know their vacation spots: The beach The rivuh The crick -------- Southerners know everybody's first name: Honey Darlin' Shugah -------- Southerners know the movies that speak to their hearts: Fried Green Tomatoes Driving Miss Daisy Steel Magnolias Gone With The Wind ----------- Southerners know their religions: Bapdiss Methdiss Football -------------- Southerners know their cities dripping with Southern charm: Chawl'stn S'vanah Foat Wuth N'awlins Addlanna --------------- Southerners know their elegant gentlemen: Men in uniform Men in tuxedos Rhett Butler ----------------- Southern girls know their prime real estate: The Mall The Country Club The Beauty Salon -------------- Southern girls know the 3 deadly sins: Having bad hair and nails Having bad manners Cooking bad food ---------- Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption fit, and that you don't "HAVE" them, you "PITCH" them. _____ Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc., make up "a mess." _____ Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of "yonder." _____ Only a Southerner knows exactly how long "directly" is, as in: "Going to town, be back directly." _____ Even Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not a request for the white, granular, sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table. _____ All Southerners know exactly when "by and by" is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well. _____ Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. If the neighbor's trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin'! _____ Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between "right near" and "a right far piece." They also know that"just down the road" can be 1 mile or 20. _____ Only a Southerner both knows and understands the difference between a redneck, a good ol' boy, and po' white trash. _____ No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn. _____ A Southerner knows that "fixin" can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb. _____ Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines, ... and when we're "in line,"... we talk to everybody! _____ Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they're related, even if only by marriage. _____ In the South, y'all is singular, all y'all is plural. _____ Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them. _____ Every Southerner knows that tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food; that scrambled eggs just ain't right without Tabasco, and that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food. _____ When you hear someone say, "Well, I caught myself lookin'," you know you are in the presence of a genuine Southerner! _____ Only true Southerners say "sweet tea" and "sweet milk." Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it -- we do not like our tea unsweetened. "Sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk. _____ And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just say,"Bless her sweet little heart"... and go your own way. _____ To those of you who are still a little embarrassed by your Southernness: Take two tent revivals and a dose of sausage gravy and call me in the morning. Bless your little heart! _____ And to those of you who are still having a hard time understanding all this Southern stuff....bless your hearts, I hear they're fixin' to have classes on Southernness as a second language! _____ Southern girls know men may come and go, but friends are fah-evah! Suthun women know how to treat their man, even when he's being stupid. Bless em they don't know no betta. There ain't no magazine named "Northern Living" for good reason. There ain't nobody interested in livin' up north, nobody would buy the magazine! Now Shugah, send this to someone who was raised in the South or wish they had been! If you're a Northern transplant, bless your little heart, fake it. We know you got here as fast as you could.

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Evening, Wisdom and Beauty!!

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

Bob Hope In Heaven!

For those of you too young to remember Bob Hope, ask your Grandparents. I HOPE THIS WILL PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE AND IN YOUR HEART.  Tribute to a man who DID make a difference. ON TURNING 70 'I still chase women, but only  downhill'. ON TURNING 80 'That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.' ON TURNING 90 'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.' ON TURNING 100 'I don't feel old. In fact, I don't feel  anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.' ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING 'I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.' ON NEVER WINNING AN OSCAR 'Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover'.  ON GOLF 'Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees.' ON PRESIDENTS 'I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.' ON WHY HE CHOSE SHOWBIZ FOR HISCAREER 'When I was born, the doctor said to my mother, Congratulations, you have an eight pound ham. ON RECEIVING THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL 'I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.' ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY POVERTY 'Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother.' ON HIS SIX BROTHERS 'That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom.' ON HIS EARLY FAILURES 'I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the  stuff the audience threw at me.' ON GOING TO HEAVEN 'I've done benefits for ALL religions. I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.'

Our World!!

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/ 

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the.... place where it leads.
 Erica Jong

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
 Diana Schart Hunt

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
 Katherine Mansfield

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
 Anita Roddick

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty!!!

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.    Margaret Cousins

Pets Forever!!

Hey guys, get up off your tush and lets go see Bozo over at his pad in Mumbai! It's always a fun time when we all get together and talk about what's been happin', Bro! You know? Get your human to click on the Post Title, that'll take them to the website where you can sign up! I'll be waiting for you!!

When is it going to stop raining???  When it stops, I'll go outside, but until then, I'm staying right here!!  Now, don't bug me!!