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- How are you?
- Everything all right?
- Like to hear from you.
- Love to see you soon.
- Obviously I miss you.
This morning when the Lord opened a window to Heaven, he saw me, and he asked: My child, what is your greatest wish for today? I responded: "Lord please, take care of the person who is reading this message, their family and their special friends. They deserve it and I love them very Much.
" The love of God is like the ocean; you can see its beginnings but not its end."
ANGELS EXIST, but some times, since they don't all have wings we call them FRIENDS, SUCH AS YOU.
Announcements
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Happy Anniversary Marie & Garnet! Be sure to check out the very special Anniversary site created by Bigsis Pat for Marie & Garnet's 50th Wedding Anniversary in June and do take a moment to sign the guestbook. There are some really great family pictures to be found on this site.
May God bless your golden years together
and honor your love for each other and for Him.
May you continue to feel his loving presence with you every day.
Scripture: Mark 10:8b
What happening in your corner of the globe that you would like to share with us. Send it to me and I will be happy to publish it in the newsletter.
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Only in Florida
How can you talk your way out of this one??????? True Story. Jacksonville, FL Police Dept. A man goes to a party and has too much to drink. His friends plead with him to let them take him home. He says no -- he only lives a mile away.
About five blocks from party, the police pull him over for weaving and ask him to get out of the car and walk the line. Just as he starts, the police radio blares out a notice of a robbery taking place in a house just a block away. The police tell the party animal to stay put, they will be right back and they hop a fence and run down the street to the robbery.
The guy waits and waits and finally decides to drive home. When he gets there, he tells his wife he is going to bed, and to tell anyone who might come looking for him that he has the flu and has been in bed all day.
A few hours later the police knock on the door. They ask if Mr. Joe is there and his wife says yes. They ask to see him and she replies that he is in bed with the flu and has been so all day.
The police have his driver's license. They ask to see his car and she asks why. They insist on seeing his car, so she takes them to the garage. She opens the door. There sitting in the garage is the police car, with all its lights still flashing.
True story, told by the driver at his first AA meeting.
Submitted by Charla from Florida.
Let Them Eat Pie...or Peanut Butter
SUET has been replaced at some homes with leftover pie dough. Birds birds love it. So make a batch of dough in between your usual pie-baking days to keep the birds happy. Simply mix 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup shortening, 1/4 teaspoon salt and just enough water to form it into a ball. Then put it out near your seed feeders and watch it disappear.
Or how about using up some old peanut butter by feeding it to the birds? Use a butter knife to smear peanut butter into the bark of your "bird-feeding tree and watch the birds enjoy this treat.
Salt bricks aren’t just for deer, squirrels or rabbits. The birds like them, too.
Would you like a ground-level birdbath for your yard? Make your own using a child’s snow saucer, a large bag of pea-sized aquarium gravel and a tube of clear waterproof adhesive. Coat the saucer with adhesive, pressed gravel into it and let it dry for several days. Place it in the garden and fill it with water. The result is very attractive. Best of all, the birds love it!
One of the World Wide Web Circle of Friends' best kept secrets is Jeanette's Garden Room. Jeanette from the Land Down Under has set up this site for all of those who love gardening - like she does, and loves to be creative in making garden junk. Do take some time to visit and join her site and share ideas, seeds, photos of your garden and plants, laughter and great sites to visit.
Messages from Members
- Sorry I haven't been active for a few month. All this health problem
has thrown me for a loop. I haven't been in a hospital in 44 yrs. I've
had excellent health all my life,until now.
Charlie's really doing good for his age and all the prayers for him
THANK you and to all the members. Four wks. after his major surgery he's
going back to work only for four hrs. Not the 6 hrs. yet. GOODIE GOODIE
he driving me nuts here.
As for me it's taking me a little longer, My cat-scan proves I have a
brain and nothing wrong. Now they think I may have a small aneurysm in
my neck, Next is a MRI.
All for now Love to all
Florida Marie
- Lena sends us this special Rose
- Thing are very hetic here as usuall, JB is leaving with his truck and tools and headed for NY. Pami and Alan have been so busy trying to help us find a job and a home up there in NY, since we already have our house up for sale in hopes it sells soon. After JB finds us a place to live he will fly back down here to Florida and bring us 3 back up, me, my old cat and my poodle. So you see I will be holding down the fort here until he returns. Bea
- May 25 - I haven' t had time to do much lately, I am in full process of redoing my room. (which was a bigger job than we had anticipated) We attended a typical lunch today for the Revolution of May (1810) anniversary holiday, and were entertained by locally known singers and guitar players. it was good!! talk to you soon, love Daphne from Argentina
HAVE A GREAT WEEK
May 27th is our own dear sweet Ruby's Birthday.
Bigsis Pat has created a special birthday page for her which includes a Photo Album and a Guest Book for people to send their wishes.
Ruby's site is updated for her birthday, especially the page from Indiana, with appropriate bear graphics and a photo Ruth sent on to me.!
Does Ruby have your name on the list of people for her to come and visit?? Email Daphne today, and she will make sure you are added
Look forward to hearing from all of you.
Follow up on Ruby's travels so far here.
Pet Corner
Calling in sick
We've all had trouble with our animals, but I don't think anyone can top this one.
Calling in sick to work makes me uncomfortable. No matter how legitimate my excuse, I always get the feeling that my boss thinks I'm lying. On one recent occasion, I had a valid reason but lied anyway, because the truth was just too darned humiliating. I simply mentioned that I had sustained a head injury, and I hoped I would feel up to coming in the next day. By then, I reasoned, I could think up a doozey to explain the bandage on the top of my head.
The accident occurred mainly because I had given in to my wife's wishes to adopt a cute little kitty. Initially, the new acquisition was no problem. Then one morning, I was taking my shower after breakfast when I heard my wife, Deb, call out to me from the kitchen.
"Honey! The garbage disposal is dead again. Please come reset it." "You know where the button is," I protested through the shower pitter-patter and steam. "Reset it yourself!" "But I'm scared!" she persisted. "What if it starts going and sucks me in?" There was a meaningful pause and then, "C'mon, it'll only take you a second." So out I came, dripping wet and buck naked, hoping that my silent outraged nudity would make a statement about how I perceived her behavior as extremely cowardly. Sighing loudly, I squatted down and stuck my head under the sink to find the button. It is the last action I remember performing. It struck without warning, and without any respect to my circumstances.
No, it wasn't the hexed disposal, drawing me into its gnashing metal teeth. It was our new kitty, who discovered the fascinating dangling objects she spied hanging between my legs. She had been poised around the corner and stalked me as I reached under the sink. And, at the precise moment when I was most vulnerable, she leapt at the toys I unwittingly offered and snagged them with her needle-like claws. I lost all rational thought to control orderly bodily movements, blindly rising at a violent rate of speed, with the full weight of a kitten hanging from my masculine region. Wild animals are sometimes faced with a "fight or flight" syndrome. Men, in this predicament, choose only the "flight" option. I know this from experience. I was fleeing straight up into the air when the sink and cabinet bluntly and forcefully impeded my ascent. The impact knocked me out cold.
When I awoke, my wife and the paramedics stood over me. Now there are not many things in this life worse than finding oneself lying on the kitchen floor buck naked in front of a group of "been-there, done-that" paramedics. Even worse, having been fully briefed by my wife, the paramedics were all snorting loudly as they tried to conduct their work, all the while trying to suppress their hysterical laughter--and not succeeding.
Somehow I lived through it all. A few days later I finally made it back in to the office, where colleagues tried to coax an explanation out of me about my head injury. I kept silent, claiming it was too painful to talk about, which it was. "What's the matter?" They all asked, "Cat got your tongue?"
Lena from Ontario, Canada
Corn Syrup Finger-paint
Mix corn syrup and a couple drops of food coloring into a container and mix well. Let child paint and then dry flat for a couple of days until no longer sticky. Makes nice shiny pictures when dry!
Be sure to check out all the wonderful craft ideas in the WWWCOF Craft Site and add your own favourites or email Crafty Jayne from Kansas, USA, who will be happy to add them to our ever growing collection.
Health Corner
Please Pass the Plastic
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings.
DO YOU KNOW...the difference between margarine and butter? Read on to the end... gets very interesting!
- Both have the same amount of calories.
- Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
- Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
- Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
- Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!
- Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.
- Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.
- Very high in transfatty acids.
- Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
- Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
- Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.
- Lowers quality of breast milk.
- Decreases immune response.
- Decreases insulin response.
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC...
This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).
You can try this yourself:
Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:
- * no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)
- * it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it
Share This With Your Friends Jeanette from the Land Down Under.
In this issue...
- Ruby
- Announcements
- Pet Corner
- Cooking Around the World
- Crafts
- Department of Vital Statistics
- Planet Kryzys
- Messages from Members
- Gardening
- Just For Fun
- Health Corner
Have you heard about the Freecycle Network™? It is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Each local group is run by a local volunteer moderator (them's good people). Membership is free. To sign up, find your community by clicking on the region on the right of the Freecycle Network™ website. It will generate an automatic e-mail which, when sent, will sign you up for your local group and send you a response with instructions on how it works. Or, go directly to the Web site for your local group by clicking on your community's Freecycle Network™ link on the left. Can't find a group near you? You might want to consider starting one (click on "Start a Group" for instructions). What fun!
Daphne started her own group which you will find here.
Bigsis Pat also started a group Port Colborne & wainfleet.
I signed up for the Oceanside Nanaimo group which is not far from where I reside and I have also started up one for Cassidy, BC Canada (and surrounding areas) and we strongly encourage you to join a group near you or start one!
Click to join cassidyrecyclers
Think globally, recycle locally. When you want to find a new home for something -- whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door -- you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of your Freecycle group.
Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself. Simply respond to a member's offer, and you just might get it. After that, it's up to the giver to decide who receives the gift and to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure.
Everything posted must be free, legal, and appropriate for all ages. Non-profit organizations also benefit from The Freecycle Network. Post the item or items you want to give away and a local organization can help you get it to someone in need.
Some simple words to heed --
Be sure to check out our Recycle Message Board on our MSN Community.
Raising awareness is always the first step to action. Join our Planet Kryzys" (Crisis) Team today and come forward with things about your own area. We start off with awareness, and follow up with what we can do about it.
- Site manager, Daphne (BA, Argentina)
- Western Canada Coordinator, Sharon (BC, Canada)
- Eastern Canada Coordinator, Pat (Ontario, Canada)
- Eastern US Coordinator, Becky (Maryland, US)
- US Coordinator, Claudia (Chester, IL)
The Planet Kryzys" (Crisis)site has been updated. Check out the latest news!
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Lena's Hamburger Soup
- l lb hamburger
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 chopped garlic clove
- 1 cup chopped carrots
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 cup cubed potatoes
- 2 bay leaves
- 3 cups beef broth
- 1 can (28 oz.) tomatoes
- salt and pepper
- In large saucepan or Dutch Oven brown hamburer, drain and add onion and garlic and cook until tender.
- Add all the remaining ingredients, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until vegetables are tender about 3/4 to 1 hour.
- The vegetables listed in the ingredients are suggestions only, you can substitute these for whatever ones you like.
I hope you have enjoyed this week's issue which I would like to close with the idea that each of us are three people at once:
- We are the person we used to be. You are not the same person today that you were yesterday. The person we used to be is our helper today, carrying the lessons of our past to help us do well in the now. Do not to let yesterday's mistakes become today's barriers and limitations. Our past does not have to define us if we choose to rise above our mistakes.
- We are the person we create today. We are who we create ourselves to be each day. We often put on the good and the bad from days past with little thought of casting off what hasn't been working. Old habits are comfortable habits, and one day wears the clothing of another with little effort, though we can choose differently at any moment. Choose who you want to be and overcome the things holding you back.
- We are the person we want to become. We all have visions of what we hope will come to pass for us, but we have to grow into our dreams. If they fit us now we'd have won them already. Growth often comes at the price of ego, therefore growth is an uncomfortable and slow companion for most people. You may shorten the days until you meet your dreams in person by intentionally seeking individual growth.
You've overcome your past mistakes, but you may still be letting them hide your light. Your past, the good and the bad of it, has brought you to this day. Forgive yourself of your mistakes and let go of the guilt. Let your light shine.
You've been given a new challenge. You can rise to the occasion. I think you only need to do two things to feel great about your new duties. The first is to make peace with your past. The second is to welcome the opportunity created for you, and by all appearances, it was created just for you. Embrace your enhanced position, you have earned it.
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