Archive for the ‘Just for Fun’ Category
- Chihuahua mix for adoption
As luck would have it, we were having so much fun at Zapp‘s Silent Auction and Casino Event that we forgot to take pictures. Sorry folks.
Chuck’s backache put a damper on his card playing so we didn’t stand a chance when the raffle was converted to a bidding auction due to the high winnings and mass amount of the tickets many collected. We did however come home with some cool things from the silent auction.
Great event Steve. It’s a delightful way to fund the spay and neutering clinic. Keep up the good work.
Someone shared this in an email, I don’t know where the original started but the quote is attributed to Jay Leno.
| No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us, we are awesome!!! OUR Lives are LIVING PROOF !!!
To Those of Us Born 1925 – 1970 :
At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno.. If you don’t read anything else, please read what he said.
Very well stated, Mr. Leno.
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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
1930s, ’40s, ’50s, ’60s and ’70s!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then, after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies
in baby cribs covered
with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps,
not helmets, on our heads.
As infants and children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.. Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And we weren’t overweight. WHY?
Because we were always outside playing….that’s why! We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.
–And, we were OKAY.. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps
and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Play Stations, Nintendos and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVDs, no surround-sound or CDs,
no cell phones, no personal computers,
no Internet and no chat rooms.
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth,
and there were no lawsuits
from those accidents.
We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse. We ate worms, and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and -although we were told it would happen- we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them. Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn
to deal with disappointment.
Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever. The past 50 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas.. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. If YOU are one of those born between 1925-1970, CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. While you are at it, forward it to your kids, so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it ? ~~~~~~~ The quote of the month by
Jay Leno:
“With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?” |
In an effort to keep this page more current I have decided to share some of the cool things I come across in my daily emails and facebook events. These will be posted in the Just for Fun section of this blog. I will try to always add a personal note or comment to keep you, our friends up to date on our travels and activities, along with sharing the news article I found coolest that day.
Yesterday, we went back to our old workplace and visited with some great friends from our pre-retirement days. As Chuck so aptly puts it. We really miss the people but the jobs.
Today Chuck and I are packing up again and leaving Paradise for the Sacramento area, after a stop over at Jamie and Tim’s to see them and of course our darlin’ Madison.
My Favorite Facebook Post of the Day
Compliments of Rani Paxton and Grindtv.com
These whales are renowned travelers; they feed during the summer in the Bering and Chukchi seas, and migrate each winter more than 5,000 miles to mating and calving grounds off Baja California, Mexico.To reach the Atlantic by means other than an Arctic route, they’d have to either swim through the Panama Canal or continue another 8,000 miles to the south and round Cape Horn at the bottom of South America.
Gray whale off Israel called ‘most amazing sighting in history of whales’
Curl Up With Your Favorite eBook
Can’t keep this one to myself.
I have finally found an ebook reader that I think is worth the investment. This one is on my wish list for Mother’s Day, Birthday, whatever!
Barnes & Noble and Google are working together to provide the coolest portable ereader out there.
The nookTM beats out the competition hands down.
With it you can
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preview an ebook before you buy it,
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share a book with a friend, or
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upload it to your Mac or PC and read it with a FREE eReader
Ebooks are available at Barnes and Noble are reasonable prices, many are $9.95 or less.
What’s not to love?
If you are like me and waiting for someone to get you a nookTM as a gift, you can get your eBook library started now and download a free eReader to your laptop or iPhone. You can even download one of many FREE eBooks and start reading today.
Did I mention that you can get FREE shipping on your nookTM?
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I got stopped for speeding yesterday!
I thought I could TALK my way out of it until…
the Officer looked at my dog in the back seat.
I don’t know where this started or who to give credit to.. but I hope they don’t mind me sharing..
This guy should have stuck to radio controlled cars it would be much safer!