Best/ worse/ ? did you learn today? #96 visit with friends..

Starting the weekend with a new thread...

Moved us over from here:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/966813/

Enjoy the afternoon Sun!

Here is just a portion of my clean up...This was from weekend!

and ohh, maybe it's warm enough to bbq?

How bout beer can chicken?

Betty behave yourself while raking..Like Judy said Raking to the right
Raking to the left,,Raking to the center & spinning all about tada lala ,,LOL

You keep the raking, I'll take the Chicken :)

Boy does that Chicken look good! I'll take the breast please!
So what do you girls do with the seed beads? ANy photos to share?
You all have a great week-end. Watch out for the storms if they are in your area.

LK

LOL, Glad you enjoy the chicken!
Took a picture of it for a buddy who didn't beleive we made a drunken chicken.
LOL, when it falls over it's done, but we just got the beer can holders so it don't fall over drunk anymore, lolol.

Linda Kay, I have made Christmas stocking ornaments for about 15 or so years now.
I like to sew with the seed beads.

and my latest...work STILL in progress!
lol, ran into snafu and so it sits.

Judy, those are so Cute!!! I can't imagine sewing with beads...I have too many thumbs......

Betty, you still going gangbusters raking?

Anyway, wanted to say how awful that was of DIL!! Geesh, does she know how much work that was, I bet it's gorgeous too.

Oh...didn't go to Joannes afterall, maybe in a little while, I ran into this Ace hardware for hinges instead...Wow, what a mega store Ace is no longer just a hardware store This place was huge! had a bit of everything...By time I finished browsing it was time to pick up Breenie.
But, I was a goodgirl and just bought the hinges...

Thank You Trisha...
we cross posted.

Judy, that is a lot of work to thread those tiny beads, then do the sewing! Nice job.
LK

Next installment of Susan just posted!!!! Such a good story!!

This is neat


Perspective



One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live.

They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.

On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, 'How was the trip?'

'It was great, Dad.'

'Did you see how poor people live?' the father asked.

'Oh yeah,' said the son.

'So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?' asked the father.

The son answered: !

'I saw that we have one dog and they had four.

We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end.

We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night.

Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon.

We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight.

We have servants who serve us, but they serve others.

We buy our food, but they grow theirs.

We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them.'

The boy's father was speechless.

Then his son added, 'Thanks Dad for showing m! e how poor we are.'

Isn't perspective a wonderful thing? Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don't have.

Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!

Bravo!!! I love that one!!!

The Wealth of man is the number of things he loves and blesses,
which he is loved and blessed by.
~Thomas Carlyle

Wow what an ordeal

If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.

Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana .

He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an e-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne , Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.

Hi Sue,

Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.

Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all .

Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.

As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool.

So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature.

It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.

What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit.. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.

Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse.
With in a few seconds my butt started to burn . I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.

The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate

When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt.

I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with Five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.

Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three
agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression.

When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass
helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of
laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber.

The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.

So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.

Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.'

Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?

May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!

LOL/LOL Love my job "Tubby" your company gone?

Didn't get out into the garden, by the time I got a perm and haircut, picked up something to eat the temp was dropping, so instead, into my jammies, watched a movie as I nibble on popcorn, came downstairs to feed Sailor, kitties wanted out, going back upstairs with an arm full of books and yep, just going to laze arround..

Best of the Day..laughing and having a great time with the girls in the office..

Worse...Greg just called me to tell me a friend of mine just passed away...

What did I learn..bad haircut can really be cut to look nice..oh happy days...

No they are here for the weekend.
Everyone is preparing dinner,,NOT MY THING..LOL
So I'm playing
I like this one too..


Life is too short to wake up with regrets.
Love the people who treat you right and pray for the ones who don't.

Sorry to hear about your friend Betty.

Tubby, That was a great laugh! and I like the next saying too.

LK...Thank you, the beads are strung approx every 7 and then tacked every 3rd. They take 6 hours to make the stockings, lol and I have tried every short cut and still takes 6 hours...I used to make key chains but they take longer because each and every bead is added individually. I don't have a picure because i never thought to take any until a couple of years ago. LOL now I photo almost every step, which drives my kids nuts!

I just found a photo of a bear I embroidered a couple of years ago, That was lots of fun to make, not with beads yard and floss...It's one of my own creation,lol I designed it witha coffee cup!
If you are interested I post a photo.

Geesh, Steve still not home...don't know if I should worry going to start pacing in a few.

Judy you know us! We Always want Photos!!!

Tubby - of course the worst job is in Louisiana !
:)
Mary

here you go...

That is great Judy!!!....don't think I could do that.....

Thanks Trisha...With all of the incredible neat things you make! LOL, i used to think well it's just sewing...something to occupy my time, now I am a fanatic about keeping my patterns...didn't keep that one, it's definatley a one of a kind will never use that techique again...It was really rough with the yarn....

But oh My gosh i do have the pattern...duh the picture I can always copy. woah, it's like haveing a V-*. lol, well bust my buttons.

Judy - the bear is a cutie! Hey Trisha!

Finally back from dinner....had to take Sage out for Potstickers to make up for her having to come home from Climbing Class early last night....she wasn't too happy about that...

Trisha - She's 8 ?

On April 22........

A Spring Baby !

I love potstickers! They have some frozen at Walmart that are really actually tasty!

We love them, got addicted when we lived in Taiwan!

Okay - GOing to bed. Hugs to all.

Good night Mary, have a good one....

MORNING SLEEPY HEADS!!!!

Betty-I was so sorry to hear about your friend:(

Terry-that was hilarious!!!

Good morning Ya All

Here is a wakeup funny.LOL

NO PARENT LEFT BEHIND......
> I promise you cannot read these and not laugh out loud.
> These are real notes written by parents in the Memphis school
> district.
> Spellings have been left intact.
>
>
> 1. My son is under a doctor's care and should not take PE today.
> Please
> Execute him.
>
> 2. Please exkuce Lisa for being absent she was sick and I had her shot.
>
> 3. Dear school: please ecsc's john being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30,
> 31, 32
> And also 33.
>
> 4. Please excuse Gloria from Jim today. She is administrating.
>
> 5. Please excuse Roland from p.e. For a few days. Yesterday he fell
> out
> Of a tree and misplaced his hip.
>
> 6. John has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his
> face.
>
> 7. Carlos was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He
> was
> Hurt in the growing part.
>
> 8. Megan could not come to school today because she has been bothered
> by
> Very close veins.
>
> 9. Chris will not be in school cus he has an acre in his side.
>
> 10. Please excuse ray Friday from school. He has very loose vowels.
>
> 11. Please excuse Lesli from being absent yesterday. She had diahre
> dyrea
> Direathe the shits.
>
> 12. Please excuse tommy for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea,
> and
> His boots leak.
>
> 13. Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust.
>
> 14. Please excuse jimmy for being. It was his father's fault.
>
> 15. I kept Billie home because she had to go Christmas shopping
> because I
> Don't know what size she wear.
>
> 16. Please excuse Jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to
> get
> The Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it Monday. We
> thought it
> Was Sunday.
>
> 17. Sally won't be in school a week from Friday. We have to attend
> her
> Funeral.
>
> 18. My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent
> a
> Weekend with the marines.
>
> 19. Please excuse Jason for being absent yesterday. He had a cold and
> Could not breed well.
>
> 20. Please excuse Mary for being absent yesterday. She was in bed
> with
> Gramps.
>
> 21. Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover.
>
> 22. Please excuse Brenda. She has been sick and under the doctor.
> 23. Maryann was absent December 11-16, because she had a fever,
> Sorethroat, headache and upset stomach. Her sister was also sick,
> fever an
> Sore throat, her brother had a low grade fever and ached all over.. I
> Wasn't the best either, sore throat and fever. There must be something
> Going around, her father even got hot last night.
>
> NOW we know why parents are screaming for better education for our
> kids.

And I thought I was having trouble spelling..
Never used to,.But spell check is wonderful..LOL

LOL..Tubby where do you get all of these gems...????

Stacey you are up early, guess you are sewing..Janice made it there ok?

Although they called for above normal temps today I'm not seeing it..got the house chores done now waiting to see what the day brings..

Was going into Midland, fabric sale on today and tomorrow..it will be a zoo so, I've decided to make it tomorrow when they open at 11am

I'm looking around at the yard, so much to do, don't know where to start..my first incling if temps go up to where I won't freeze to death is to empty the pond/clean it and start fresh trying not to disturb the fishes should they have survived the winter..it's about a day and 1 1/2 job..best get on warm snugglies, first check to see if the hose will work and if so I've got me a project to do..lol...

Off into neverland..am sure there will be a break during the day..

Stacey, pictures of your ongoing project please..

Got my 'mudders' and garden garb ready to start my 'gardening season'..sure wish you all lived closer..

Know Judy is almost finished her yard, Carol she's clearing away winter debris, Bev and Vicki, am sure their gardens are sitting pretty..

Me, I need help..lol

No Betty no garden work here yet! It froze last night!! Not tell end of April or into May. Will be earlier if we are lucky. Last year I know it was May.

OMG it's the most beautiful day, one can help but work outside..got carried away..

Neighbors tree fell down in a winter storm, fence is down, they aren't the quickest ones to clean in the yard, so I managed to removed most of what's on my side..

Forgot to pick up marshmallows, my side of the wood almost all burnt..