rambling

A potholder doesn't really hold a pot. Maybe it should be called a hand warmer. But then, we already have those, so that won't work. I don't know, I'm just rambling. Sometimes I like to ramble around in my head just to see what's up there. I was just asking myself why a hairbrush isn't called a hairbrusher. That makes more sense, to me anyway. A house key is really a door key, but I get that one. A sunflower is precisely that, so "they" got that right. A fan is supposed to stir the air, but two fans are serious about something. LOL

• Remember when you could buy toilet paper to match your bathroom? You could get it in blue, yellow, pink, green, & lilac. It left the shelves when many people reported bad reactions to the dyes. But where did it go? Roswell...that's right, Roswell. They're holding secret auctions out there. Collectors can bid on everything from aliens to Vioxx . Of course they take extreme precautions to keep the secret; so upon leaving, buyers are given a recalled drug which erases short term memory for 12 hrs.. Can't remember what it was called.

SO NICE OF YOU TO VISIT!!

Thanks for stopping by!!  On this site, I will be writing a variety of original stories.  I also have some favorite photos and interesting trivia that I hope you enjoy!
At the end of this page is a link to my other blog, "Footprints In The Garden".  There you will find short stories and country tales. 

WRONG SIDE OUT?!!

We enter this world with a physical, fleshly body. But, as soon as we're old enough to understand, we discover that we must be spiritual, and live by faith. We must have faith for salvation and healing. Now, what if it were the other way around? What IF we were born only as a spirit, and had to have enough faith to believe for our body parts?!!! I wonder if we would have enough faith to manifest a physical body in order to exist on this planet?  I would only hope that by now I would have more than one ear, and a couple of fingers!!!  

Five Dollar Deal...A True Story

While shopping in a discount store one day, I found a stack of sixty page spiral notebooks.  Most of them had cartoon covers and were priced for a dime each.  So, I'm sitting at my desk later thinking to myself, "Well, I sure got a bargain... now what?"  It was summer, so I handed out the notebooks to several young kids who were bored.  The deal was that I would pay them five dollars each to write a book during the month of July.  (Sloppy work not allowed)  Next, I gave the younger ones crayons so they could draw on every page, but they had to write at least one sentence about the picture.  Each child would receive a certificate of achievement for writing (and keeping a promise.)  Along with it, they got a copy of the money, because you know that five was gone!  Some of my friends also did this, and we all loved it.  The kids were so creative, and now we all have their books.  I keep mine in my "crying drawer".   
(Read "The Crying Drawer" from my other blog "Footprints In The Garden")!!

I don't even live in a park, and I have this shirt

Maybe I've watched too much "Larry The Cable Guy", or Jeff Foxworthy, I don't know, but I have this shirt (in green), and I wear it!!  There... I said it.

Rental Property!!

This was in the "Shopper's Guide" newspaper from my hometown September 9, 2009

Dog's Best Friend (true story)

Joe works at a discount building supply.  It's hot in the storage buildings, and customers are bumper to bumper needing materials.  So, when a rather snooty lady asked for a wooden door with a window, Joe quickly pulled a nice one from the rack and stood it upright, but someone had stored it upside down, so the window was at the bottom.  With other customers waiting, he asked if she wanted it and she said, "No"; that she wanted a "door with the window at the top".  So, of course, my friend being the way he is, said to her, "Well, this is our biggest seller."  "You can't find this  'dog door'  feature anywhere else in town."  "Don't you want this one so your dog can see out?"  "No! I certainly do not want that one", she shouts!  "I don't even have a dog!  That's so ridiculous!  Whoever heard of such a thing!  I can't even believe they make one like that!  Now, could I please see  a door with the window up top!"  So, he flips it over and says, "There you go, lady"! 

North Pole

This is the sunset at the North Pole with the moon at its closest point.

A Few Quotes

"Every Artist was First an Amateur"

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

  

"Success is the Sum of Small Efforts Repeated Day in and Day Out"

                       Robert Collier

"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."

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Wendi...One Good Apple Can Fix The Whole Bunch

When I met Wendi we were working together. She makes a point of remaining optimistic and friendly (even on Monday). Her favorite words must be "wonderful" and "awesome" because she's always using them!  I consider her a friend, and even though I'm old enough to be her Mom, she has shown me how to be happier and not "borrow trouble" (as she says). Sometimes when I'm feeling down I think to myself, "What would Wendi do"?