Check out the photo that Bill posted, and see if you can come up with a witty caption. I think he’s offering an empty Percocet bottle as a reward for the best one.
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Mary Moments Carnival
Beauty among the dung
Skip the political “news” and the stories about collapsing world economies.
Do not read about the monster of Austria or the latest suicide bombings.
Rest assured that the price of gas will go down, and then up, and then down, and then up.
Po-TAY-toe, Po-TAH-toe (let’s call the whole thing off)
This story about a lost manatee reminded me of another lost manatee several years ago.
There was a lost manatee. He swam up the Atlantic coast. He got into the Hudson River.
Bill told me about him. He told me about how they tracked him from Florida. I couldn’t believe it. It just seemed so impossible that they could have followed the animal for so long.
The problem was: Bill said manatee, but instead of picturing this:
I pictured this:
Manatee…Macaw…
How could they track something so small? I asked.
No, I haven’t lived it down yet.
Buddy, can you spare a dime?
In the mail yesterday came a solicitation, the kind where they enclose a coin and want you to send it back five hundredfold.
The cellophane window was ripped open and the dime was gone.
Hard times call for desperate measures.
Avoiding mental atrophy
By the time I sat down to look at Bloglines last night, I was tired. I clicked on The Daily Eudemon and groaned at a long post that required brain cells.
I went to bed instead.
That long post had an equally long Part II post which I just finished reading, since my brain functions much better after some sleep.
In summary: existentialism and the Little Way.
Good stuff. Stretch your mind today.
nibble nibble like a mouse
EEEEK!
I haven’t seen them, but I know they’re here.
Popcorn! Get Yer Popcorn Here!
My boys are Cub Scouts, so they sell popcorn.
If you would like to support Scouting, and you don’t have any participating boys in your family, you can order popcorn online here. If you want to support my boys’ troop, use this order key: TE31MH. There is a drop down menu for you to pick a local council if you prefer.
But, best yet, if you want to support Scouting and you want to support the troops, you can do both at once! The website has a “Support Our Troops” program where you donate $25 worth of popcorn and they get it out to them.
This $25 purchase allows Trail’s End to ship assorted popcorn products – via Support Our Troops – to the men and women of the military. Thanks to consumers who purchase this item, Trail’s End has been able to ship 300 tons of popcorn on behalf of the Boy Scouts of America to Iraq and Afghanistan, to Overseas Military Bases, to Domestic Military Bases and to Military Families.
They also ship to APO addresses if you have a certain someone you’d like to gift.
Good deed for the day
My visiting friend told me yesterday of an incident last month. She had indulged her boys and bought hard candies at the grocery store. On the way home, she noticed her seven year old up and moving in the mini-van. She was going to yell at him, but quickly saw that he was choking and turning purple.
Her ten year old son said he had learned what to do in Scouts. He stood up, gave the two-fingered Scout salute, and performed the Heimlich Maneuver on his brother. Immediately, the candy flew out of the brother’s mouth.
“You saved my life,” the younger boy gasped. The older brother quietly shrugged and sat down, buckling his seat belt. Just a simple good deed. No big deal, right?
This morning, very early, I had the honor of driving my friend to the hospital for surgery. She was donating one of her kidneys to a woman she finally met for the first time last week. Most of the minor stressors were related to worrying about getting up on time, and concerns about potential traffic on the drive (I myself kept waking up and praying that the baby would stay sleeping for Bill while I was gone). But absent was any anxiety about undergoing major abdominal surgery and losing an organ.
Just a simple good deed. No big deal, right?
We got out the door on time. There was minimal traffic. The baby only screamed at Bill for 10 minutes. I was home in plenty of time for him to get to his 730 am appointment.
The surgery went well, although my friend was vomiting as of an hour ago – a typical response to anesthesia. And the transplant “took.” So far, so good. A few prayers for quick healing for both women would be appreciated.
Whatever you do, don’t panic
On Wednesday, some scientist plans to try to blow up the whole world. This isn’t really making the headlines, and nobody is really trying to stop him, so I guess it’s all going to be okay in the end.
Yeah, sure.
Hm, perhaps steak for dinner this week. Better make it Tuesday, just in case.
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