NEED I SAY MORE?

CAN YOU ANSWER THIS RIDDLE?

When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten students GOT the answer, compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors. Let's see how well you guys do...

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you will die?

Leave your answer in my comments box. Thanks! ;)

AAHHH, TASTY!

Almost time to start feeding Maximus solid foods. Do you think I should start him on this?? ;)

ONE DAY TOO LATE

(These are the lyrics to a beautiful, but truly sad song.)

ONE DAY TOO LATE

I never thought I'd see the day, When you'd come to kneel and pray;

I never though that I would see, the church house filled to capacity.

And outside the door there's more, who have never come before ...

Oh, what a shame - that Jesus came - just one day before!

(chorus) You came just one day too late. One day too late. Jesus came and you've been left behind to wait. Yesterday you couldn't find, time for Jesus on your mind. You finally came to call His Name, but one day too late!

You tried to live the best you could, you tried to do the things that you should;

But when it came to serving God, You said I still, I still have time to wait.

But now it's all turned around, the time to serve Him now you've found ...

How sad the fate - you found the time - just one day too late!

(chorus) You came just one day too late. One day too late. Jesus came and you've been left behind to wait. Yesterday you couldn't find, time for Jesus on your mind. You finally came to call His Name, but one day too late!

You finally came to call His Name, but one day too late! One day too late!!

"Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh."

(Matthew 24:44)

A LITTLE "HOT HEADED"

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.

His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence . . .

Finally, the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that they boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all of the nails were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say, I'm sorry, the wound will still be there."

A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Let's not be guilty of either.

LIQUID DEVIL

"Who hath woe?

who hath sorrow?

who hath contentions?

who hath babbling?

who hath wounds without a cause?

who hath redness of eyes?

They that tarry long at the wine;

they that go to seek mixed wine.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,

when it giveth his colour in the cup,

when it moveth itself aright.

At the last it biteth like a serpent,

and stingeth like an adder.

Thine eyes shall behold strange women,

and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea,

or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick;

they have beaten me, and I felt it not:

when shall I awake?

I will seek it yet again."

(Proverbs 23:29-35)

QUOTES TO LIVE (AND LAUGH) BY

If you don't support our troops, FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM.

No trespassing. Violators will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.

When the devil reminds you of your past, be sure to remind him of his future.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

Due to the highly confidential nature of my job, I am not allowed to know what I am doing.

Unattended children will be given an espresso and a free puppy.

Those who throw objects at the alligators will be asked to retrieve them.

I suffer from INSOMNIA during the night and CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME during the day.

Did I mention I have Attention Deficit Dis . . .
. . . oooh, shiny!

Life is like a corn dog. I don't know why, it just is.

Coffee is not a drug, it's a vitamin! (And so are donuts - only they're BIGGER.)

1 + 1? That's easy! 11, duh!

I enjoy skipping through hallways. Some people think I'm weird, but my friends just expect it.

It takes skill to trip over air.

I smile because I have no idea what's going on. :)

My favorite number of the alphabet is yellow.

Even if the voices aren't real, they have some good ideas . . .

I'M LOST. I've gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, please ask me to wait.

DRINK COFFEE - do STUPID things FASTER and with MORE ENERGY.

TRUE friends are HARD to find, HARDER to leave, and IMPOSSIBLE to FORGET.

You can't scare me . . . I'm a Mom of MARINES! (Oo-rah!)

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Hey, y'all! If you liked these quotes let's get some interaction going. Leave me a comment and let me know which one (if any) made you laugh. How 'bout it? Invite someone to look at this post and let's get them involved, too. WHO DOESN'T NEED A GOOD LAUGH, RIGHT? :)

BBQ, ANYONE?

 Two weeks ago our son, O'Man, barbecued for our family using wood from our pecan trees instead of charcoal. He started the fire and let the embers ash over. He waited a good 3-4, maybe 5, hours. None of the meat was burnt! :)

Did you know an onion works really well to clean the grill? It sure does! That's what he's doing in this photo.

Here is what we ended up with . . . and boy, oh boy, was it ever goo-ood!! :)

We had hotdogs, hamburgers, drumsticks and ALL the fixin's. It wasn't long before we had our little man come by askin' fer some grub.

 He had a hankerin' fer Bar-B-Q!!

DO YOU FEEL SPECIAL?

Yesterday was Mother's Day. The rose you see to the left was given to me by our church during the morning service. I thought that was very special and it made me feel very special. Of course, I was not singled out. ALL the ladies of our church were honored with a lovely rose if they were in attendance.

I trust someone honored you, dear mother, on Mother's Day 2010!

JUST SAY, "NO!"

I ruin without killing.

I tear down homes, wreck lives, and break hearts.

I have NO RESPECT for truth or justice, and NO MERCY for the defenseless.

You will find me in the pews of the pious and in the haunts of the unholy.

I am wily, cunning, malicious - and I gather strength with age.

I feed on good and bad alike.

My victims are as numerous as the sands of the sea, and often as innocent.

I never forgive and I seldom forget.

My name is GOSSIP.

(Friends, just say, "No!" to gossip.)

A FULL TOOLBAR . . . YIPEE!!

Okay, this might be a strange thing to blog about, but that's one thing I love about blogs -

I can be strange if I want to!

Now, on to my tale of woe . . .

Shortly after starting my blog my toolbar shrunk and I lost most of the thinga-ma-jiggies on it. (All together now. 1, 2, 3 . . . "Awwwww.") This was very disappointing to me. :(

I could not figure out what happened. I even asked a friend to help me out. It was useless ... until I went to blogger.com for HELP. I wish I had checked there sooner because the answer was sooooo easy!

Somehow the default tab on "New Post" got switched from "Compose" to "Edit Html." All I have to do now is hit the "Compose" tab before I begin a new post and I am back in business with A FULL Toolbar . . . YIPEE!!

I can even add a goofy picture and a quote from a famous person:

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself,

I would be happy to do it for you!" - Groucho Marx

(Err, sorry if I scared you with that goofy picture.)

A LIL COMMENTARY, IF I MAY . . .

The three pictures below show something amazing. To our family, these pictures show the Hand of God. When we returned, from having evacuated the year Ike hit us, this is what we came home to. When I saw it I COULD NOT stop saying, "WOW!"

In the first picture you see a tree that blew onto our front porch roof. It knocked out our porch rail and that's about all it did. Okay, "Wow."

However, in the second and third pictures you see a HUGE tree branch that could have very easily CRUSHED our a good portion of our cozy lil home.  But no! This branch was "placed" next to our home. We are talking millimeters. She barely brushed up against it!

If you look closely in the second picture you can see our "Cutie" standing on the branch and our "Beauty" prominently kneeling near the lamppost. (It even missed the lamppost! Ha!) See how BIG it was?!

And in the third picture you can see my hubby and the kiddos standing on our deck in the midst of the wreckage. They look so small to me. You can even see where the branch broke off from the tree if you look at the lower right-side of the photo. CRACK!

Our neighbors STAYED during hurricane Ike. The father said he watched our tree limbs twist and turn and SNAP back. He said it was very scary! They just kept doing that frightful "dance" and he could hear them. He said they wouldn't be staying behind for any more hurricanes in the future. I was glad to hear that!

I was simply AMAZED at how close this massive tree branch came to taking out such a large portion of our home. The first thing I thought was, "Thank you, Lord! YOU guided this bruiser of a tree branch within a whisper of our home just so I could see Your power and providence for ME and my family." At that time in my life this was extremely important for me to see and understand. God knew EXACTLY what I needed to know to see that He had NOT forgotten nor forsaken me. PRAISE GOD FOR HIS MERCY AND GRACE! :)

WOW! DID YOU SEE THAT?

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN . . . ARE YOU READY?

This is my husband on our neighbor's tractor. ("Hi, babee! You good-lookin' thang, you! ;)

This photo was taken some time after hurricane Ike blew through and we were 'allowed' back on our property. Our yard was a mess, but God was very good to us. We ended up getting a new roof outta the deal. That's not bad. Friends of ours were johnny-on-the-spot offering their help. That meant more to us than they will ever truly know. The place was cleaned up lickety-split with all of us working. (Ahem, ummm I don't think I did much work in the yard, though. Gotta be honest about that. But it was fun watching and taking pictures! :)

Anyway, it's that time again - hurricane season! We love it. We hate it. Mostly we just dread it. Evacuation can be like a mini-vacation most of the time, and lots of memories can be made. We've got good ones and bad ones. (The bad ones don't bother us any more, and the good ones are treasured!) Not knowing for sure if we should pack the school books and pictures and my Grammy's 3 little fishies hanging over my shower is quite nerve racking, to say the least. Of course, we always find ourselves wondering if this is the year the Gulf of Mexico will decide to grow larger by swallowing up our home! (Hey, look! There goes Rod and Staff English 8 and Saxon 87 floating right on by!)

Oh, well. I never liked grading that stuff anywho. ;)

PUNCTUATION IS EVERYTHING

An English professor wrote the words, "a woman without her man is nothing" on the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly.

The men wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."

The women wrote: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."

A CHUCKLE 4U - "Watch Out"

A funeral service is being held in a church for a woman who has just passed away. At the end of the service the pallbearers are carrying the casket out, when they accidentally bump into a wall jarring the casket.

They hear a faint moan. They open the casket and find that the woman is actually alive!

She lives for ten more years and then dies. A ceremony is held again at the same church and at the end of the ceremony the pallbearers are again carrying out the casket.

As they are walking the husband cries out, "WATCH OUT FOR THE WALL!"

OVERWORKED

For a couple of years I've been blaming it on a lack of sleep and too much pressure from my job, but now I've found out the real reason: I'm tired because I'm overworked.

The population of this country is 237 million. 104 million are retired. That leaves 133 million to do the work.

There are 85 million in school, which leaves 48 million to the work. Of this there are 29 million employed by the federal government, leaving 19 million to do the work.

2.8 million are in the Armed Forces, which leaves 16.2 million to do the work. Take from the total the 14,800,000 people who work for State and City Governments and that leaves 1.4 million to do the work.

At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals, leaving 1,212,000 to do the work. Now there are 1,211,998 people in prisons. That leaves just 2 people to do the work . . . YOU and ME!