Shadow Shot Sunday!!

Come play with us and the shadows!!

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

http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/



If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
 Jennifer James





Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
 Karl A. Menninger

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. 

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
                  Lao Tzu

PONDERISMS -- (something to think about for the weekend)

1- I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

2- There are two kinds of pedestrians . . . The quick and the dead.

 

3- Life is sexually transmitted.

 

4- Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

 

5- The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

 

6- Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

 

7- Have you noticed since everyone has a cell phone these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?

 

8- Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

 

9- All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

 

10- In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

 

11- How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

 

12- Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these dangly things and drink whatever comes out'? Hmmmmm, How about eggs ? . . .

 

13- If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

 

14- Why does your OB-GYN leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?

 

16- If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

 

17- Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

 

18- Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

 

19- Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Sky Watch!



Well, I don't have the unobstructed view of the skies that I had in Seattle, but we have had beautiful colors lately!!
I want to wish all of you a very Happy 4th of July!! Enjoy!!

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 led by Yogi, Sandy and Sylvia. 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!  http://skyley.blogspot.com/ 

The silence of nature is very real.   It surrounds you . . . you
        can feel it.  Ted Trueblood

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
     carry it with us or we find it not.
     Ralph Waldo Emerson





One Quiet Moment

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
     carry it with us or we find it not.
     Ralph Waldo Emerson

No One Says it Like Kids!!

 

While I sat in the reception area of my doctor's office, a woman rolled an elderly man in a wheelchair into the room. As she went to the receptionist's desk, the man sat there, alone and silent. Just as I was thinking I should make small talk with him, a little boy slipped off his mother's lap and walked over to the wheelchair. Placing his hand on the man's, he said, I know how you feel. My Mom makes me ride in the stroller too..'*****As I was nursing my baby, my cousin's six-year-old daughter, Krissy, came into the room. Never having seen anyone breast feed before, she was intrigued and full of all kinds of questions about what I was doing.
After mulling over my answers, she remarked, 'My mom has some of those, but I don't think she knows how to use them..'*****Out bicycling one day with my eight-year-old Granddaughter, Carolyn, I got a little wistful. 'In ten years,' I said, 'you'll want to be with your friends and you won't go walking, biking, and swimming with me like you do now.
Carolyn shrugged. 'In ten years you'll be too old to do all those things anyway.'******
Working as a pediatric nurse, I had the difficult assignment of giving immunization shots to children..
One day, I entered the examining room to give four-year-old Lizzie her needle. 'No, no, no!' she screamed. 'Lizzie,' scolded her mother, 'that's not polite behavior.' With that, the girl yelled even louder, 'No, thank you! No, thank you!******
On the way back from a Cub Scout meeting, my grandson innocently said to my son, 'Dad, I know babies come from mommies' tummies, but how do they get there in the first place?' After my son hemmed and hawed awhile, my grandson finally spoke up in disgust, 'You don't have to make up something, Dad It's okay if you don't know the answer.'
*****Just before I was deployed to Iraq , I sat my eight-year-old son down and broke the news to him. 'I'm going to be away for a long time,' I told him. 'I'm going to Iraq ..' 'Why?' he asked. 'Don't you know there's a war going on over there?'*****Paul Newman founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children stricken with cancer, AIDS, and blood
Diseases. One afternoon, he and is wife, Joanne Woodward, stopped by to have lunch with the kids. A counselor at a nearby table, suspecting the young patients wouldn't know Newman was a famous movie star, explained, that's the man who made this camp possible. Maybe you've seen his picture on his salad dressing bottle?' Blank stares. 'Well, you've probably seen his face on his lemonade carton.' An eight-year-old girl perked up. 'How long was he missing?'*****... And my personal favorite ..God's Problem Now:
His wife's graveside service was just barely finished, when there was a massive clap of thunder, followed by a tremendous bolt of lightning, accompanied by even more thunder rumbling in the distance. The little, old man looked at the pastor and calmly said, "Well, she's there."

 

 

 

One Quiet Moment

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
 Oscar Wilde

A New Look at Home Schooling -- At Least in Some Ways!!

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning." 2. My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that will come out of the carpet." 3. My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL. "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!" 4. My father taught me LOGIC. " Because I said so, that's why." 5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC . "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me." 6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT. "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident." 7. My father taught me IRONY. "Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about." 8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS . "Shut your mouth and eat your supper." 9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM. "Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!" 10. My mother taught me about STAMINA . "You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone." 11. My mother taught me about WEATHER. "This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it." 12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!" 13. My father taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE. "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.." 14.. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION . "Stop acting like your father!" 15. My mother taught me about ENVY. "There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do." 16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION. "Just wait until we get home." 17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING . "You are going to get it when you get home!" 18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE. "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way." 19. My mother taught me ESP. "Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?" 20. My father taught me HUMOUR. "When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me." 21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT . "If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up." 22. My mother taught me GENETICS. "You're just like your father." 23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS. "Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?" 24. My mother taught me WISDOM. "When you get to be my age, you'll understand.   25. My mother taught me about JUSTICE . "One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you !" =============

  

To All the Wonderful Followers of Our World!

I've been unable to get out with the camera to get photos of My World this week and I will miss participating and hope to join in again soon. In the meantime I'm sharing some wise words with you! Wishing all of you a wonderful week with lots of joy and laughter and beautiful places and things to photograph!!

  Law of  the Garbage Truck

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport

We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!

The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.

My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!' This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment.

As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally.

Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.

Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets,

so ...  Love the people who treat you right.

Pray for the ones who don't .

Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!

Have a garbage-free day!

One Quiet Moment

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
     carry it with us or we find it not.
     Ralph Waldo Emerson

May You Have a Beautiful, Summer Sunday!!

Flowers are like human beings . . . they thrive on a little
        kindness.

           Fred Streeter