This is a reflection of what's on some friends' minds this week. This is what people have been saying or sending in their emails. I know that foremost in many minds this week has been the weather. Summer has extended itself way beyond the call of duty and most everyone appreciates it, but there's been a downside.
SPARTY and IRISH MIKE - spent a very hot Saturday afternoon in the sun at Michigan State this weekend.
ALICE - Painted her garage on a bright sunny day only to have a cloud come over and rain on it. She laughs because she is good-hearted, but as she says, "I wonder what the message was supposed to be."
She is a fan of Bill Maher but wishes he wouldn't swear so much. "He would be just as funny without the nasty words." I agree with her, although I've come to accept that our language is now permanently more "earthy" than it used to be. I guess it's just words.
SCOT - reports seeing fighter planes hanging around his neighborhood. CLICK FOR ARBORETUM He wonders if anyone knows what's going on with this.
MIKE CARROLL (almost from Carrollton) forwarded this joke which I hadn't heard before and thought was great:
A father asked his 10-year old son if he knew about the birds and the bees.
"I don't want to know," the child said, bursting into tears. "Promise me you won't tell me."
Confused, the father asked what was wrong.
The boy sobbed, "When I was six, I got the 'There's no Easter Bunny' speech.
At seven, I got the 'There's no Tooth Fairy' speech .
When I was eight, you hit me with the 'There's no Santa' speech.
If you're going to tell me that grown-ups don't really get laid, I'll have nothing left to live for."
PAT W - added a new title to her Robert B. Parker book collection. Now she has about 40. When she gets them all, she plans to start from the beginning and re-read them all. This is the spirit the drives all daredevils.
JERRY - sent a bunch of pictures of obscenely shaped plant life. It's called Nature's Porn. Well, here's a not-too-naughty example:
He also sent a package of bumperstickers appropriate for retirees. I thought they were all wonderful, and print two here:
DASHMANN - is a great fan of Keith Olbermann, in part because Olbermann is also dead set against the war in Iraq.
He sent an article about the collapse of the market for retuirement homes in Arizona. Many people have been foreclosed. What everyone thought would be a great investment has turned sour. CLICK FOR ARTICLE
SANDY - invited some friends to go to a concert of classical Spanish guitar music. A very nice time was had by those who went, and the music called up memories of that trip to Barcelona.
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We took the family to camping at the beach over the weekend. The two families we went with had 3 fridges between them. I won't go on about the amount of camping gear they had... but Steve would have had kittens when the kids' popsicles came out of freezer in one of the camper vans....
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