One Quiet Moment

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How About This One to Wind Down Your Week???

Ole Olson is on his deathbed, knows the end is near, and is with his nurse, his wife, his daughter and his two sons.

"So", he says to them, "My oldest son Swen, I want you to take the Minnetonka houses; daughter Lena, take the apartments over in Edina ; son Rasmus, I want you to take the offices over on Hennepin; and Gunhild, my dear wife, please take all the residential buildings downtown."

The nurse is just blown away by all this, and as Ole slips away, she says, "Mrs. Olson, your husband must have been such a hardworking man to have accumulated all this property.

Gunhild replies, "Property?...The idiot had a paper route!"

Okay, that's the giggle, now here's the wise thought!

Sky Watch!!

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain

Spring is nature’s way of saying, "Let’s party!"  ~Robin Williams

Welcome to Sky Watch!! Share the beauty of your skies with us every week and enjoy!!

One Quiet Moment and a Smile/Giggle As Well!!

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all — he's walking on them. ~Leonard Louis Levinson

Have a Beautiful Wednesday!!

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 Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun /at sunset/?

                                                                      MATTHEW ARNOLD

Great Thoughts for the Day!!!

Hope your week is off to a great start!! Enjoy!!

Our World!!!

Join us today and share the beauty of your world!!

Nature never goes out of style. ~Anonymous

The moon quotes the sun, the rivers quote the trees, and trees quote the breeze. ~Terri Guillemets

The world is a sunny success. ~Terri Guillemets

Sunshine has no budget, the sea no red tape. ~Terri Guillemets

My Mother's Day bouquet from my son and his wife! What a lovely day it was!!!
May all of you have a beautiful week!! 

Much Love and Good Wishes to the Mother's Everywhere!

Hope this works for the day!! It's been a weird weekend -- blogwise!!

Happy Mother's Day! Celebrate and Enjoy!!!

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
-- David Seabury 

Blogger has been in a weird mood today??? No guarantee as to what will end of showing for Mother's Day????  I still wish you all a beautiful day!

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No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. ~Llewelyn Powys

Ah!! Be Careful How You Train Your Dog!!

Sky Watch!!

Welcome to Sky Watch!! Time to share the beauty of your skies!!

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad Adenauer

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke

I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Only from the heart can you touch the sky. ~Rumi

Don't Play With Your Food!!! Remember Hearing That??

Well, how about these???  Pretty artful playing, huh??  How about these for new bikes!!

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In the sky
an infinitude of hope,
a canvas of glory
all possibilities mine.
~Terri Guillemets

Absolutely Priceless!!!

 An Elementary School Teacher had twenty-six students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the 1st half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It's hard to believe these were actually done by first graders.

Their insight may surprise you. While reading, keep in mind that these are first-graders, 6-year-olds, because the last one is a classic!

1. Don't change horses until they stop running.

2. Strike while the bug is close.

3. It's always darkest before Daylight Saving Time.

 4. Never underestimate the power of termites.

 5. You can lead a horse to water but how?

6.  Don't bite the hand that looks dirty.

7.  No news is impossible.

 8.  A miss is as good as a Mr.

 9. You can't teach an old dog new math.

10.  If you lie down with dogs, you'll stink in the morning.

11.  Love all, trust me.

12.  The pen is mightier than the pigs.

13.  An idle mind is the best way to relax.

14.  Where there's smoke there's pollution.

15.  Happy the bride who gets all the presents.>

16.  A penny saved is not much.

17. Two's company, three's the Musketeers.

18.  Don't put off till tomorrow what you put on to go to bed.

19.  Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and you have to blow your nose.

 20. There are none so blind as Stevie Wonder.

21.  Children should be seen and not spanked or grounded.

22.  If at first you don't succeed get new batteries.

23. You get out of something only what you see in the picture on the box.

24.  When the blind lead the blind get out of the way.

25.  A bird in the hand is going to poop on you.

And the WINNER and last one!

 26.  Better late than pregnant.

Our World!!

Welcome to Our World!!  Join us and share yours!!

My daughter saw this Mama hiding her little ones under her wings one day when she was taking a walk. She began visiting the park every few days and eventually was rewarded with this sight!!

Mama and babies!!!  Kerith knew I would love seeing these and I wanted to share them with you as well!

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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy Sunday, Some Beauty and Wise Thoughts!

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy  who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of  the smartest grandchild in the world.  Jewish Proverb  

Imagination is more important than  knowledge.
Sign hanging in Einstein's office

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of  thinking we used when we created them.  Albert  Einstein

 

   

And remember --- You can't control the wind, but  you can adjust your sails.  Yiddish  proverb  Happy Sunday!!

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The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. ~Alfred Kreymborg

 

Wit and Wisdom for the Weekend!

Brains of elderly slow because they know so much!! The brains of older people only appear to slow down because they have so much information to compute, much like a full hard drive, scientists believe.

Older people do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains, scientists believe.

Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full, so too do older humans take longer to access information.

Researchers say this slowing down is not the same as cognitive decline.

"The human brain works slower in old age," said Dr. Michael Ramscar, "but only because we have stored more information over time."

"The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more."

 

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY, GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL -- Yep, this is my Philosophy and I'm sticking to it!!!

 

And remember ---

And that is my sermon for the weekend!  May all of you have a beautiful one filled with love and laughter and beauty!!

One Quiet Moment

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ~Jorge Luis Borges

Wisdom and Beauty for the Day!!

 

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.--Carlos Castaneda

 

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. --Montaigne