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Here is my 175K 4Runner and my friends Xterra at Ocracoke last year. Remember always deflate the tires to 5-10 lbs. when on the sand! Ocracoke is where Blackbeard used to party on the Outer Banks south of Hatteras.
If you want to get nostalgic or get a good history lesson on this decade.......enjoy. P.S. Speakers on.
Good metaphor, what are you?
This is what the world is today.
Can you read this all the way through and not classify yourself?
Here you go.
Sheep or Sheepdog?I am a sheepdog. I've always known I was a dog.
The hydrangeas are on the more shade north side and are cool blue in color, the tiger lillies are on the south sunny side and are a warm orange color. These come back year after year, and if the soil is right the colors are deeper, and they last longer, these last about 5-6 weeks.
Cool.
Warm: Natures' fireworks
Violet?
Ok. Where are the bees?
Yeah, where are the bees?
We're ready.
2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his
tail.
3. If you don’t have a sense of humor, you probably don’t have any sense
at all.
4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.
5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you’re in deep water.
6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark
to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many
people a company can operate without.
8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else
looks?
9. Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.
10. No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.
11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.
12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4
AM. It could be a right number.
13. Think about this ... No one ever says “It’s only a game” when his
team is winning.
14. I’ve reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.
15. Be careful reading the fine print. There’s no way you’re going to
like it.
16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size
bucket
I just love the following.....
17. Do you realize that in about 40 years, we’ll have thousands of OLD
LADIES running around with tattoos? (And RAP music will be the Golden
Oldies!)
18. Money can’t buy happiness—but somehow it’s more comfortable to cry
in a Corvette than in a Prius.
19. After a certain age, if you don’t wake up aching in every joint, you
are probably dead.
This is for you bargain hunters.
I think he has a good paying job, or is it the scientology?
this was released today:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-06-19-newton-religious-papers_N.htm
here is part of it:
"It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner," Newton wrote. However, he added, "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail."
In another document, Newton interpreted biblical prophecies to mean that the Jews would return to the Holy Land before the world ends. The end of days will see "the ruin of the wicked nations, the end of weeping and of all troubles, the return of the Jews captivity and their setting up a flourishing and everlasting Kingdom," he posited.
The exhibit also includes treatises on daily practice in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. In one document, Newton discussed the exact dimensions of the temple — its plans mirrored the arrangement of the cosmos, he believed — and sketched it. Another paper contains words in Hebrew, including a sentence taken from the Jewish prayerbook.
Yemima Ben-Menahem, one of the exhibit's curators, said the papers show Newton's conviction that important knowledge was hiding in ancient texts.
"He believed there was wisdom in the world that got lost. He thought it was coded, and that by studying things like the dimensions of the temple, he could decode it," she said.
The Newton papers, Ben-Menahem said, also complicate the idea that science is diametrically opposed to religion. "These documents show a scientist guided by religious fervor, by a desire to see God's actions in the world," she said.
More prosaic documents on display show Newton keeping track of his income and expenses while a scholar at Cambridge and later, as master of the Royal Mint, negotiating with a group of miners from Devon and Cornwall about the price of the tin they supplied to Queen Anne.
The archives of Hebrew University in Jerusalem include a 1940 letter from Albert Einstein to Abraham Shalom Yahuda, the collector who purchased the papers a year earlier.
Newton's religious writings, Einstein wrote, provide "a variety of sketches and ongoing changes that give us a most interesting look into the mental laboratory of this unique thinker."
Here is a tour of my favorite place in D.C. to play lottery! 
Tenley mini market has been in business for over 20 years, it is at Tenley Circle in D.C. at Wisconsin Ave. near the highest elevation in D.C. all the air broadcast towers are nearby. It is a great place to live, work, and play. Metro is a block away, American University is there, the National Cathedral, restaurants, stores, anything you may need. But if you want great sandwiches, beer/wine, newpapers, or lottery, Tenley Market is the place!
When you get there someone always greets you with a smile like Maria or Jason.
Winners board.
Ticket reader.
Last weeks winners.
Two of five playing stations.
The scratchies to choose from.
The scratcher vending machine.
We play keno in D.C.! Got a ball in mid-flight to 63!
Maria and Bob doing business, notice all the winners at Tenley I think they've had everything hit here but a PBall jackpot, it could very well happen.
Jason is the ultimate in speed, accuracy and professionalism, no mistakes, enough said. He lets you know when the promos are on! He let me know last week a promo started for DC6 buy 3 get one free, guess what 5 of 6 on one of those free QP's. Thanks again Jason!
Maria is also fast, accurate, and professional, she always has a smile and a kind word.
Now if you need a keg or two or three, a case, talk to Jimmy. The college kids love this man as well as everybody else. He is always there and keeps the whole place locked and loaded and ready to go. He is the beermeister.
I hope you all enjoy this. I think this is a great place to play at and is my favorite, the D.C. lottery should be very proud of the representation they get from the people of Tenley Market. Thank you.
Well, the climatis came back again this year with a vengence! My dad tied this vine up before he passed and I straightened it up this spring and they are beautiful! The simple beauty of this flower is electrifying to me, it almost looks like it is plugged into an electrical outlet, the purples are so vibrant. I hope you like these.
Looks like the Atlantis got up ok! 7000 mph in 5 min. It is beautiful to watch every time! It is going to hook up with the space station for 14 days. May they have a safe mission and return.
Is there any chance on earth that we could be this close again as a country? Could a US president say a prayer like this today and not be labeled as politically incorrect? FDR was a great man that led this nation through tough times and everybody knew what had to be done, we were truly the UNITED STATES of AMERICA. This is important history, the world was at a brink and everybody should thank a veteran anytime, anywhere, they make our freedom possible.
This is excerpted from historyplace.com:
This is the prayer originally entitled "Let Our Hearts Be Stout" written by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Allied troops were invading German-occupied Europe during World War II. The prayer was read to the nation on radio on the evening of D-Day, June 6, 1944, while American, British and Canadian troops were fighting to establish beach heads on the coast of Normandy in France.
The previous night, June 5, the President had also been on the radio to announce that Allied troops had entered Rome. The spectacular news that Rome had been liberated was quickly surpassed by news of the gigantic D-Day invasion which began at 6:30 a.m. on June 6. By midnight about 57,000 American and 75,000 British and Canadian soldiers had gotten ashore. Allied losses on D-Day included 2,500 killed and 8,500 wounded.
My Fellow Americans:
Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.
And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.
They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest -- until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.
For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.
Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them -- help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.
Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.
Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.
And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.
And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keeness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment -- let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.
With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace -- a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.
Thy will be done, Almighty God.
Amen.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - June 6, 1944
Enjoy. Some old, some new.
TWENTY NINE LINES TO MAKE YOU SMILE
1.. My husband (wife) and I divorced over religious differences. He (she) thought he (she) was God and I didn't.5.. Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.
6.. You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me
7.. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
8.. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.10.. Out of my mind. Back in five minutes
11. Nyquil, the stuffy, sneeze, why-the-heck-is-the-room-spinning medicine.22.. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!
23.. They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.27.. The trouble with life is there's no background music.
28.. The original point and click interface was a Smith & Wesson.29.. I smile because I don't know what the hell is going on.
Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!
Life is too short and friends are too few ...But not on LP!Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes.
Here's why.
A couple in Sweetwater , Texas , had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze.
It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.
She let out a very loud scream.
The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa.
He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.
His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
The attendants rushed in, wouldn't listen to his protests and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out.
About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and the
Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher.
That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital.
The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she
called on a neighbor man.
He volunteered to capture the snake.
He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.
But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around.
She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa.
The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her.
The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the
grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.
The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that he had been bitten by the snake. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.
By now the police had arrived.
They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all happened over a little green snake.
The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife. The little snake again crawled out from under the sofa.
One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it.
He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over and the lamp on it shattered and as the bulb broke it started a fire in the drapes.
The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.
Meanwhile, the burning drapes, were seen by the neighbors who called the fire department.
The firemen had started raising the fire truck ladder when they were halfway down the street.
The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and put out the
el ectricity and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area (but they did get the house fire out).
Time passed! Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car, and all was right with their world.
A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night.
That's when he shot her.
Now you see the true Hugo. Check it out. He is not a socialist he is a totalitarian dictator in the mold of Castro, Hitler or Deng Xiaoping. My heart is with the Venezulan people. It was just a matter of time, this true diablo already has blood on his hands for he is a maniacal twisted psycho. Think about what is going on, the right of freedom of speech is being taken away piece by piece and the Venezuelan people are realizing the mistake they made by not voting when they should have a few years back. Now they have to fight back before it is too late.
There are leftist politicians in the US. that want to take away the right of freedom of speech (talk radio is the start), and it is the left, because they can't handle the truth, so they want to restrict it. They also want to take away your right to bear arms , and if that happened, it would make us completely defenseless against any government run amuk. The moral of the story is "you lose the right to bear arms, you lose freedom of speech". Losing the right to freedom of speech always leads to the loss of the right of one to practice their religion. It is not that far fetched, look at Venezuela. It has only been a few years but it is at the brink, hopefully the Venezuelan military will do something about this dictator and bring back one of the other true democracies in our hemisphere that people also flocked to like the USA.
God bless America.
And God bless the people of Venezuela!