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!!  We've had sun for two days and I'm afraid to look at the weather report for the next two!! My problem now is not having a car anymore, therefore most of the stuff around the house you've seen, but we change a few things, add a few things .....  So, wishing you all a very Happy Valentine's Day -- tomorrow!!

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!  Same story as last week -- couple of days with some sun and more gray, plus no way to get down to the harbor or the sanctuary when the sun was around! Thankfully, I still have some from sunnier times! Hope you enjoy!

Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good - on your mirror!  -Susan Jeffers

This shot was taken from a seaplane over Seattle harbor on my birthday a couple of years ago! The flight was a birthday present from my son. It was fantastic! 

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.  -Albert Einstein 

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
Nitin Nohria

Sky Watch Friday!

Time to share your skies, the beauty over your world, the clouds, the colors! Sky Watch is hosted each week by Klaus and the Sky Watch team of Klaus, Sandy, Wren and me. Join us and the many people from all over the world who share theirs with us each week! Click on the post title to be taken to the SWF website where you can sign up. Hooray!! We had some sun yesterday and the day before and night before last I caught this sunset over a period of about a half hour.  

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein

 

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
       Plato

Never live in the past but always learn from it.
        Anonymous

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
       Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
       Frank Lloyd Wright

Church Ladies With typewriters . . .

They're Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences (with all the BLOOPERS) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:    The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.  --------------------------  The sermon this morning: 'Jesus Walks on the Water.' The sermon tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.'  --------------------------  Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.  --------------------------  Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say 'Hell' to someone who doesn't care much about you.  --------------------------  Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.  --------------------------  Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.  --------------------------  For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.  --------------------------  Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.  --------------------------  Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.  --------------------------  A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow..  --------------------------  At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice.  --------------------------  Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.  --------------------------  Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.  --------------------------  Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered..  --------------------------  The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.  --------------------------  Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.  --------------------------  The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.  --------------------------  This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church.. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.  --------------------------  Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM . All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. Is done.  --------------------------  The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.  --------------------------  Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM . Please use the back door.  --------------------------  The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM . The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.  --------------------------  Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.  --------------------------  The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: 'I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours. Oh, and a last minute note! HOW TO SPOT A METH LAB As a law enforcement officer I have been approached by several people lately wanting to know how to identify a Meth Lab. Here is a picture of four Labs.  I think it's pretty obvious which one is the Meth Lab.  I hope this helps. Let me know if I can be of any further service in this matter. Your local Sheriff

ABC Wednesday - D!

Got your dictionary out? You ready to play with the letters? It's that time again! ABC Wednesday is hosted by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt and the ABC team: Denise, Annelie, Leslie, Nathalie, Joyce, Donna, Helen, Roger, Troy, Jay, Barb, Gattina and me! And guess what? It's that day again!

Dear bloggers! You're not Deaf are you? I know you're not Dumb and I also know it's the D Day! So stop your Daily Dabbling, no acting like the Damsel in Distress, this isn't the Dark Ages!! And, yes, it is Damp and Dark, but it's winter, you know! Let's shake up a Daiquiri, go out on the Deck and get into a Decadent  mood! No, you Don't have to be a Deadhead, just Different and now is your opportunity to Demonstrate just how Delightfully brilliant you can be Despite the Dull weather! Use some Determination, some Diplomacy and help us all Discover the Delight of Ds!! And here are my D words for the Day! D is for, my Dancing Daughter, Darling Dogs, Ducks, Daisies, my Drummer son, his Drums and our Deck -- my favorite place!

All the photos today are mine! Sir Google is getting the week off!

That's My World!

That's My World is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World team, Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me. Join us and share your world with others from all over Our World! Just click on the post title, read the rules, sign up and play with us! So! How is your world this week? Have you taken time to see the beauty there? What is it about your world that makes you smile or laugh or feel grateful for?  I'm sure you all know what I'm going to say -- YES, It's still gray and grim and I'm once again prowling my photo files, looking for Spring! Here are some fun times from when we had SUN!!! There were Ferry rides to the Lavender Festival, a day on  Orcas Island and at Pikes Market, and a wonderful Day on Whidbey Island!! Enjoy the fun! I surely did!!

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers

Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Will Rogers
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Will Rogers

MicroFiction Monday

Susan at Stony River Farm hosts Microfiction Monday. She posts a picture and you compose a story in 140 characters. You can click on the link under the title to get further instructions. To help you along she has posted a wonderful link that counts your characters for you! How great is that! You can get the counter at Design 215.

This meme is easy and it's fun! Thanks, Susan for hosting.

And here's the picture for the day!

He sat staring out the classroom window at the clock outside. A cooking class!
How could he have been so dumb to let her sign him up? 

And from the brilliant lady in Mumbai!

It's good the finicky head lady has her windows closed. We actually passed off an old clock with a 7 as an inverted 2, as an antique.
Posted by Ugich Konitari 

Pet Pride!

Can you tell how ready we are for Valentine's Day? Our Humans say we are WAY too early, but you can't take the chance of missing out on the treats!! Right???

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!! And, yes, more RAIN!! I did try to find some sunny pics, but it's getting harder every week. However, you will see how desperate I've become when you look at the pic in the upper left hand corner -- I sat in front of the Christmas Cactus and raised my glass!! How do you like my new hairdo??? Well, it's either that or a drunk cactus!

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!  We had the same come-and-go sun this week and none of it enough or for long enough to be able to catch any reflections! SO --- yeah, last week's actions all over again. Hope you all have a lovely weekend with SUN!

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.  G. K. Chesterton

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. 

  Albert Einstein

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.  Jean Toomer

Sky Watch Friday!

Time to share your skies, the beauty over your world, the clouds, the colors! Sky Watch is hosted each week by Klaus and the Sky Watch team of Klaus, Sandy, Wren and me. Join us and the many people from all over the world who share theirs with us each week! Click on the post title to be taken to the SWF website where you can sign up.  Just like last week, we actually had some blue skies and sun this week and the clouds that we had were pretty interesting!!

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.  Will Rogers

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.   Will Rogers

Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. 

Will Rogers

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.  Will Rogers

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.   Will Rogers

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.  Mark Twain

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

I've learned that

• we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

• that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

• that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. The same goes for true love.

• that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

• that it's taken me a long time to become the person I want to be.

• that you should always leave loved ones with loving words, for it may be the last time you see them.

I've learned that

• you can keep going long after you can't.

• that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

• that either you control your attitude or it controls you.

• that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.

• that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

I've learned that

• money is a lousy way of keeping score.

• that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

• that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down, will be the ones to help you get back up.

• that sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

• that just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

I've learned that

• maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them, and less to do with how many years you have lived.

• that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

• that no matter how badly your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.

• that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

I've learned that

• just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do love each other.

• that you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.

• that two people can look at the same thing and see something totally different.

• that your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.

I've learned that

• even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.

• that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.

• that the people you care about most in life are sometimes taken from you too soon.

What is the definition of Globalization?

Answer:
Princess
Diana's
death.

Question:
How come?

Answer :

An
English princess
with an
Egyptian boyfriend
crashes
in a French tunnel,
riding in a
German
car

with a
Dutch engine,
driven
by a Belgian

who was
drunk
on
Scottish whisky,

(check the bottle before you
change the spelling),
followed
closely by
Italian
Paparazzi,
on
Japanese motorcycles,
treated
by an American doctor,
using

Brazilian
medicines.
This is
sent to you by

a
Canadian,
using

American
Bill Gates' technology,
and
you're probably reading
this on your computer,
that
uses Taiwanese chips,
and

a
Korean
monitor,

assembled
by
Bangladeshi
workers

in a
Singapore plant,
transported
by Indian

truck drivers,
hijacked
by Indonesians,

unloaded by
Sicilian longshoremen,
and
trucked to you by Mexican illegals.....


That, my friends,
is  Globalization !

And this is the giggle of the day!

Housework was a woman's job, but one evening, Janice arrived home from work to find the children bathed, one load of laundry in the washer and another in the dryer. Dinner was on the stove and the table set. She was astonished! It turns out that Chuck had read an article that said, 'Wives who work full-time and had to do their own housework were too tired to have sex'. The night went very well. The next day, Janice told her Red Hat friends all about it. 'We had a great dinner. Chuck even cleaned up the kitchen. He helped the kids do their homework, folded all the laundry and put it away. I really enjoyed the evening.' 'But what about afterward?' asked her friends. 'Oh, that. Chuck was too tired.'

ABC Wednesday - C!

Got your dictionary out? You ready to play with the letters? It's that time again! ABC Wednesday is hosted by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt and the ABC team: Denise, Annelie, Leslie, Nathalie, Joyce, Donna, Helen, Roger, Troy, Jay, Barb, Gattina and me! And guess what? It's that day again!

Calling all blogging alphabet lovers! Check your Calendar! Grab your Camera! Jump in a Cab and Come join us! It's the C day! We'll ride with the Camels, fly with the Condors and maybe even go Camping with some Caballeros, stay in a Cabana, and do the Cha Cha Cha at a Cabaret! So, light some Candles, spread out the Carpet! I know how Capable and Clever you are! Bring a Casserole and if there's time later we may even go to the Cabaret or how about a Cruise to the Caribbean to Celebrate! How about that for a Challenge? Check the Clock, Change your Coiffure -- you do want to look Classy! And here are my C words for the C Day!  C is for Cucumbers, Cole Slaw, Cabana, Colorful flowers and veggies and Clouds

The Cucumbers, Cole Slaw and Cabana are courtesy of Lord Google -- he's moving up the royalty scale! And the flowers and veggies and clouds are my very own!!

That's My World!

That's My World is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World team, Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me. Join us and share your world with others from all over Our World! Just click on the post title, read the rules, sign up and play with us! So! How is your world this week? Have you taken time to see the beauty there? What is it about your world that makes you smile or laugh or feel grateful for?  I'm sure you all know what I'm going to say -- YES, It's still gray and grim and I'm once again prowling my photo files, looking for Spring! We do have one! You know when the ducks and geese are playing in the water, relaxing on the green grass and even Sam and Mojo get affectionate!! Yeah, that's Spring!  I just don't know when it plans to put in an appearance!

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
Will Rogers

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
Will Rogers

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.

Mark Twain