Posted on 02/22/2009 6:11:56 PM PST by Molly Pitcher
We’re online.
I think it heard that I’m about to replace it. It has been acting good since mid-morning.
TOO LATE! The fee has already been paid and I’m switching. I’m just waiting for the equipment.
Good. And the evening’s fare is......?
Let’s see,
Chicken in an almond and soy sauce gravy
Baby green peas drowning in butter and
Creamed corn
We had just finished dinner when a friend came to the door selling french bread and tortillas. I bought 5 loafs of bread (4 are in the freezer) and 2 dozen tortillas.
Tomorrow night is tacos at the b’ball game.
Kenya Elephant
In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University.
On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully.
He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
Over twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over so it was close to where Peter and his son Cameron were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the ground, and then put it down. The elephant did that several times and then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.
Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Peter summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing, and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs, and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.
It probably wasn't the same elephant.
I'm so bad.
OK, kassie, get ready to be hungry all day.
OH! You ARE bad!!!
You laughed.
I heard you all the way over here.
The laugh has even made its way all the way around back to me! lol!
How was the Bible Study yesterday? I haven’t heard yet.
Oh! I was misinformed, or I misunderstood. It was A Republican Men’s Club, which has met for many years. Totally political. Invocation given with the Pledge of Allegiance. There are quite a few women there. I recognized many of them from the Country Republican meetings. Several local and state office holders. I plan to keep attending as much as possible. Extremely grass roots driven. Very good place to start rebuilding our party. Even had an election of club president and a popular woman was re-elected. I voted for her. Sat with a man high up in the Colorado Freedom to Bear Arms group.
Time to run. It always seems like I just got home and it’s time to go back. Lurking later.
Oh!
A Men’s Club with women in it? OK. She’s president of a men’s club? Well, well, well. I thought pubbies wanted to put women back in the kitchen, barefoot and preggers. You mean, I have been misinformed? LOL!
Grass roots. We need to be careful as we rebuild and keep out the good boys (or girls) who can WALK ACROSS THE AISLE!!!!!!
So many of the Alabama pubbies are talking about how they can “work with” Caligula. I don’t want them to work with him, I want them to OPPOSE him. That’s what we need.
It’s a good thing I’m out of the country for a little while. I would be so involved and I really need to be focused on other things.
Hey, y'all. The 'coon at the White House has been caught.
And I bet it is happy to get out of there.
It needs to be checked for rabies. Racoons are notorious as carriers. And they are mean, too.
I’m going to say good night. I need to select some music for chapel tomorrow. The Lord was gracious to me this time and gave me the lesson well in advance so I wouldn’t be sweating over it today. Many times, I can work on the lesson prep and it just doesn’t come together with a good idea until mid-day on the day before. That is rough to find everything the inspiration suggests.
Love, love
Good night, Jem. Sleep tight and rest well.
The media never made a big deal out of it. If it weren't for the movie, The Killing Fields, I suspect far less would know anything about it.
More people know who's competing in American Idol than know who's Secretary of State. (As much as I find Hillary lacking in qualifications.) The same mentality exists in calling the Iraq War President Bush's war. How many resolutions did we go through, and who voted for the war?
Good luck in your quests on expanding some other minds on health care rationing. Again how can any thinking person think that government health care can be a good thing? Have they been to a DMV lately?!
Good Morning!
Daylight comes earlier with each new day. Love it!
Good morning. I like the extra daylight in the morning too, but I especially appreciate it in the evening.
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