Michigan was under the dangerous weather gun this past weekend, lots of trees are down or broken, and there are power outages and ruined flower gardens; yet, we are relatively lucky. Lines of thunderstorms have passed through, but nothing as bad as so many other parts of the country have experienced. In our yard, there are many fledgling birds with their parents running to get food for them and fussing and worrying. We have had two families of cardinals, several of robins, grackles, and sparrows. ====
Gold Star Awards
The Tuesday Quiz has been solved. I admit that I didn't think anyone would know all those weeds, burt I was wrong.
GOLD STARS to three people. First was STEVE who sent the answers the first day.
Then was MARSHA who took a couple of tries to get them all right.
Third was FELIX, our landscaper who got them all and said, "I'm supposed to know them....they ruin my work!"
Some other people knew three or four, including IRENE who doesn't even live in in the U.S. I thought that was special.
Thanks to everyone who sent answers.
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What's up with some of our friends
SCOT - maybe you remember the picture of his new car we posted a week or two ago. This week, he ran into a deer with it. Michigan driving hazard. Luckily, no one was hurt but the deer, which is sad enough.
BILL FROM WNNCO - is recovering from an operation and is finding it really, really hard to just relax and let other people take care of him. One of his biggest beefs is that he can't race his go-Kart.
IRISH MIKE - had drawn Big Brown in the Belmont Stakes drawing and was looking forward to his winnings. Well that horse, the heavy favorite, crapped out. Says he: "That's been always an Irishman's luck."
THE MICHIGAN BUCKS SOOCER TEAM - "remains the only undefeated side in the 67-team United Soccer Leagues (USL) Premier Development League" after defeating the Cleveland Internationals on Saturday. CLICK
PAT C - is disappointed in Hillary Clinton's withdrawal from the presidential race. Pat says she has "always hoped to see both a woman President of the US and a woman priest."
BIG D DENNY - has done what a lot of folks would love to do, and said "take this job and shove it." Hey buddy, welcome to the leisure class.
FELIX - off on a 40 mile hike this past weekend. Behind him he's leaving the floods in Indiana but no one's blaming him.
DASHMANN - is up north, golfing. Says he, "Shooting golf the next 3 days – Hope wife knows how to cook them."
AMY and MIKE - are off to Colorado.
SANDY is leaving with her tour group for Germany and other points in Central Europe.
ME - I'm just sitting home.
MARSHA and PAT W. - spending lots of time on the phone chortling over the Red Wings winning the Stanley Cup.
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What Some Friends are Talking About
ANONYMOUS - Warns that "an e-mail making the rounds on the internet that claims to be from Jay Leno saying that Americans should be happy about the condition of the country, not unhappy, was NOT WRITTEN BY JAY LENO. Y'all should stop being so goddamn gullible."
JERRY - He forwarded this:
Subject: FDA Warns Consumers Nationwide Not to Eat Certain Types of Raw Red Tomatoes CLICK
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:58:00 -0500
BILL - "I certainly am happy the legislature give the Institutional Hedge Funds the go ahead to continue speculating in the commodities (oil) market. Without that we would have had a nice continuation of the decrease in oil prices instead of the great $11.00 per barrel increase today. Did we ever go into the wrong fields of study."
ALICE - go to yahoo news and look at the article on doomsday vault near the North pole. Interesting! CLICK
JERRY - THE 2008 Mensa Invitational which came up with some marvelous new words, like " Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. CLICK
DASHMANN - strongly recommends "Iraq For Sale" - a video: CLICK FOR TRAILER
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