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!

And another weekend approaches! Gray, grumpy weather and I was looking for some humor this week! Be careful when you scroll down past the second shot -- that guy is not in the mood for cold weather any more than I am!! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Lots of love and laughter as we get another week closer to the big Day!!

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you
take it from another person's plate.
Dave Barry

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin

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, Wren and me. 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! Click on the address under the post title to be taken to the SWF website where you can sign up. 

I do hope your pre-holiday skies are beautiful along with your world, a world filled with love and laughter and beauty!

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Jane Roberts

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor

Some Wise Thoughts on Women Over 40! Hooray for the Late Andy Rooney

Andy Rooney wrote:

As I grow in age, I value women who are over forty most of all. Here are just a few reasons why: A woman over forty will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, “What are you thinking?” She doesn’t care what you think.

If a woman over forty doesn’t want to watch the game, she doesn’t sit around whining about it. She does something she wants to do. And, it’s usually something more interesting.

A woman over forty knows herself well enough to be assured in who she is, what she is, what she wants and from whom. Few women past the age of forty give a hoot what you might think about her or what she’s doing.

Women over forty are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you deserve it, they won’t hesitate to shoot you, if they think they can get away with it.

Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what it’s like to be unappreciated.

A woman over forty has the self-assurance to introduce you to her women friends. A younger woman with a man will often ignore even her best friend because she doesn’t trust the guy with other women. Women over forty couldn’t care less if you’re attracted to her friends because she knows her friends won’t betray her.

Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to a woman over forty. They always know.

A woman over forty looks good wearing bright red lipstick. This is not true of younger women. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over forty is far sexier than her younger counterpart.

Older women are forthright and honest. They’ll tell you right off if you are a jerk, if you are acting like one! You don’t ever have to wonder where you stand with her.

Yes, we praise women over forty for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it’s not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of forty-plus, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some twenty-two-year-old waitress.

Ladies, I apologize.

For all those men who say, “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free,” here’s an update for you. Now 80 percent of women are against marriage, why? Because women realize it’s not worth buying an entire pig, just to get a little sausage.

Animals Are Amazing!!

The  Law Of The Wild says kill ONLY when you are  hungry        Photographer  Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing  pictures on safari in Kenya's Masai Mara  in October last year,  said he was astounded by what  he saw: "These three brothers (cheetahs) have  been living together since they left their mother at  about 18 months old,' he said.  'On the morning we  saw them, they seemed not to be hungry, walking  quickly but stopping sometimes to play  together.  'At one point, they met a group of impala  who ran away. But one youngster was not quick  enough and the brothers caught it  easily'." These  extraordinary scenes followed. and  then they just walked away without hurting  him.......... Life is  short... forgive quickly,  love truly, laugh uncontrollably...and  never regret anything that made you  smile!

Ten Thoughts to Ponder!!

Number 10 Life is sexually transmitted.

Number 9 Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Number 8 Men have two emotions :Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

Number 7 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks, months, maybe years.

Number 6 Some people are like a Slinky-not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.

Number 5 Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospitals, dying of nothing.

Number 4 All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Number 3 Why does a slight tax increase cost you $800.00, and a substantial tax cut saves you  $30.00?

Number 2 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.

And The Number 1 ThoughtLife is like a jar of Jalapeno peppers--what you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.

- - - and as someone recently  said to me : "Don't worry about old age--it doesn't last that long."

Our World Tuesday!!

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/

This week left a lot to be desired weather wise, but after all it is December so I really can't complain. Besides I had a quick visit from my youngest who was up from Portland for a few hours! Always fun!  And I dug through my files and enjoyed remembering those better weather days of yore!!

Know how to live the time that is given you.
Dario Fo

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life
he leads?
Albert Camus

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!!

Oh, I'm so sad and worried about Bozo!! He's in the hospital!!!

Let's all hold lots of good thoughts for him!!

Shadow Shot Sunday!

Get out the magnifying glass, get into your best sleuthing clothes and start prowling your environment looking for those wonderful, but sometimes elusive shadows. This fun and challenging meme is hosted each week by Tracy over at Hey Harriet! Click on the link under the blog title and sign up to play!!

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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 have had a great week and that you're ready for a wonderful weekend! I do hope your weather is better than ours! Thank goodness for the photo files!!

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I
am.
Francis Bacon

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the
designated driver.
Jay Leno

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, Wren and me. 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! Click on the address under the post title to be taken to the SWF website where you can sign up. 


Are you having fun with your Christmas shopping??? Hope all of you are staying warm! Have a wonderful weekend!

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets
the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for
my nap.
Bob Hope

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
James Broughton

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
George Burns

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

 Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret B. Runbeck

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
 Leon J. Suenes

Some Smiles for Wednesday!

May you all have a wonderful, beautiful, laugh and love filled day!

Watery Wednesday

Join the fun on Watery Wednesday hosted by 2sweetnsaxy!!  http://waterywednesday.blogspot.com/

Summer in the Park

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt


A Winter Day at the Beach
And, yes, it was cold!! But Beautiful

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

A New Look at Senior Health Care!!

 

So you're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is  no nursing home available for you, what do you do?

Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You  are allowed to shoot four Congressmen.

Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health

care you need! Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That's great. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They're all covered. 

And, as an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now.

And who will be paying for all of this? It's the same government that just told you that they cannot afford for you to go into a home.

Plus, because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income taxes anymore. Is this a great country or what?

Oh, yes! And one more thing!

BREAKING NEWS:

The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in the United States' Capital this Christmas season. This isn't for any religious reason. They simply have not been able to find Three Wise Men in the Nation's Capitol. The search for a Virgin continues. There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.

 

Our World Tuesday!!

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/

We had a gorgeous day yesterday, chilly, but gorgeous! Lots of sun and blue skies and fluffy clouds.  To start out with a quick look at the harbor, on to my favorite market for some beautiful flowers, a stroll on the beach and a glorious sunset over the water!! Doesn't get any better!!

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who
keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind
young.
Henry Ford