Grilling on Memorial Day

Teton mountains painting

Accumulated dept

Obama’s New Math

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UB2l6PXDsJk

Great Eagle and Flag Picture

USA

Time for some grilling!

A couple of good Pictures

Moving Forward

PHOTOGRAPHS WITH EMOTION

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

The Pig And The Horse

There was a farmer who collected horses; he only needed one more breed to complete his collection. One day, he found out that his neighbor had the particular horse breed he needed. So, he constantly bothered his neighbor until he sold it to him. A month later, the horse became ill and he called the veterinarian, who said:

- Well, your horse has a virus. He must take this medicine for three days. I'll come back on the 3rd day and if he's not better, we're going to have to put him down.

Nearby, the pig listened closely to their conversation.
The next day, they gave him the medicine and left. The pig approached the horse and said:
- Be strong, my friend. Get up or else they're going to put you to sleep!

On the second day, they gave him the medicine and left. The pig came back and said:

- Come on buddy, get up or else you're going to die! Come on, I'll help you get up. Let's go! One, two, three...
On the third day, they came to give him the medicine and the vet said:

- Unfortunately, we're going to have to put him down tomorrow. Otherwise, the virus might spread and infect the other horses.
After they left, the pig approached the horse and said:

- Listen pal, it's now or never! Get up, come on! Have courage! Come on! Get up! Get up! That's it, slowly! Great! Come on, one, two, three... Good, good. Now faster, come on.... Fantastic! Run, run more! Yes! Yay! Yes! You did it, you're a champion!!!
All of a sudden, the owner came back, saw the horse running in the field and began shouting:

- It's a miracle! My horse is cured. This deserves a party. Let's kill the pig!

Points for reflection: this often happens in the workplace. Nobody truly knows which employee actually deserves the merit of success, or who's actually contributing the necessary support to make things happen.

LEARNING TO LIVE WITHOUT RECOGNITION IS A SKILL!

THINK THIS GUY HAS IT ALL COVERED

I received this in an email this week thought i should share it.....

I COULDN'T THINK OF  ANYTHING HE LEFT OUT.

I Am the Democratic, Republican Liberal-Progressive's Worst Nightmare.
I am a White, Conservative, Tax-Paying, American Veteran, Gun Owning

Biker. That’s me!
I am a Master Mason. I work hard and long hours with my hands to earn

a living.

I believe in God and the freedom of religion, but I don't push it on others.
I ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles, and drive American-made cars, and

I believe in American products and buy them whenever I can.

I believe the money I make belongs to me and not some liberal

governmental functionary, Democratic or Republican, that wants to share it with others who don't

work!

I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!

I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer; it makes you a smart

American.

I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and

does not entitle you to anything. Get over it!

I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac or any other item, you

should do it in English.

I believe there should be no other language option.

I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and

where they want to.

My heroes are Malcolm Forbes, Bill Gates, John Wayne, Babe Ruth,

Roy Rogers, and Willie G. Davidson, who makes the awesome Harley

Davidson Motorcycles.

I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.
I know wrestling is fake and I don't waste my time watching or arguing

about it.

I've never owned a slave, nor was I a slave. I haven't burned any

witches or been persecuted by the Turks, and neither have you!

I believe if you don't like the way things are here, go back to where

you came from and change your own country!

This is AMERICA ...We like it the way it is and more so the way

it was ...so stop trying to change it to look like Russia or China , or some other socialist country!
If you were born here and don't like it... you are free to move to any

Socialist country that will have you. I believe it is time to really clean house,

starting with the White House, the seat of our biggest problems.

I want to know which church is it, exactly, where the Reverend

Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he

is always part of the problem and not the solution?

Can I get an AMEN on that one?

I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you're

breaking the law, regardless of what color you are, but not

just because you happen to ride a bike. Or 18 wheeler !!!!!!!!!!

And, no, I don't mind having my face shown on my driver's license.

I think it's good....
And I'm proud that 'God' is written on my money..

I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I

don't want you deciding who should be running the most

powerful nation in the world for the next four years.

I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell

me stuff or trying to guilt me into making 'donations' to their cause....

Get a job and do your part to support yourself and your family!

I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents....

I believe 'illegal' is illegal no matter what the lawyers think!

I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed in AMERICA !

If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I'm a BAD American.

If you are a BAD American too, please forward this to everyone you know...

We want our country back!

My Country..... I hope this offends all illegal aliens.

My great, great, great, great grandfather watched and bled as his

friends died in the Revolution & the War of 1812.
My great, great, great grandfather watched as his friends died in

the Mexican American War.
My great, great grandfather watched as his friends & brothers

died in the Civil War.
My great grandfather watched as his friends died in the

Spanish-American War.
My grandfather watched as his friends died in WW I.
My father watched as his friends died in WW II.

I watched as my friends died in Vietnam , Panama & Desert Storm.
My son watched & bled as his friends died in Afghanistan and Iraq .
None of them died for the Mexican Flag.
Everyone died for the American flag.

Texas high school students raised a Mexican flag on a school flag pole,
other students took it down. Guess who was expelled...the students

who took it down.

California high school students were sent home on Cinco de Mayo,

because they wore T-shirts with the American flag printed on them.

Enough is enough

This message needs to be viewed by

every American; and every
American needs to stand up for

America .

We've bent over to appease the America-haters long enough.

I'm taking a stand.

I'm standing up because the hundreds of thousands who died fighting

in wars for this country, and for the American flag.

If you agree, stand up with me. If you disagree, please let me know.
I will gladly remove you from my e-mail list.

And shame on anyone who tries to make this a racist message.

AMERICANS, stop giving away Your RIGHTS !

Let me make this clear! THIS IS MY COUNTRY !

This statement DOES NOT mean I'm against immigration !

YOU ARE WELCOME HERE, IN MY COUNTRY, welcome to

come legally:
1. Get a sponsor

2. Learn the LANGUAGE, as immigrants have in the past !

 

3. Live by OUR rules !

4. Get a job !

5. Pay YOUR Taxes !

6. No Social Security until you have earned it and Paid for it !

7. NOW find a place to lay your head !



We've gone so far the other way . . . bent over backwards not to

offend anyone.

Only AMERICANS seems to care when American Citizens are being

offended !

WAKE UP America ! ! !



Made in the U S A & PROUD OF IT!!!!! 

Gun control

"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it." Clint Eastwood

Due to shortage of ammo

THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS

'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?' 

'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 

'All the food was slow.' 

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?' 

'It was a place called 'at home, ''I explained. ! 
'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.' 

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. 

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it : 

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card. 

In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears &Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died. 

My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that
weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow) 

We didn't have a television in our house until I was 19. 
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a..m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people. 

I was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself againstmy chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had. 

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line. 

Pizzas were not delivered to our home But milk was. 

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers-- my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week.. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.  On Saturday , he had to
collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day. 

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive. 

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren
Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing. 

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend : 

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or
something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. 

How many do you remember? 

Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. 

Ignition switches on the dashboard. 

Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall. 

Real ice boxes. 

Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. 

Soldering irons you heat on a gasburner. 

Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. 

Older Than Dirt Quiz : 

Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were
told about. Ratings at the bottom. 

1.Blackjack chewing gum
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3.Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles 
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes 
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 
7. Party lines on the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie 
9. P.F.Flyers
10. Butch wax 
11.. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels... [if you were fortunate]) 
12.Peashooters 
13.Howdy Doody 
14. 45 RPM records 
15. S& H greenstamps 
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays withlever 
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20.Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns 
23.Drive-ins
24.Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers 

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older 
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt! 

I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.