This has been a busy week for the people under the Birches. There are advantages to being busy, but one of the costs is that the Friends Report sometimes gets posted late and then sometimes people get skipped because of time pressures.
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What's going on with some of our folks
SANDY - home from North Carolina.
SPARTY AND GIGI - were surprised by a large group of friends and family at an Anniversary Party. The kids planned it. It was a great event.
DASHMANN AND SKUZZA - home from Ohio.
FELIX - has disappeared again.
PAT W.- Received a letter from Leonardo DiCaprio. She was just thrilled. Finally he had answered some of her fan mail. Then she opened it and found that all he wanted was for her to help save the polar bears.
MARSHA - home from Chicago.
What some folks are thinking and talking about
ALICE - noticed that when Obama was in Jerusalem he placed a prayer message into a niche of the Western Wall. She thought: Someone will steal that. Sure enough, someone did. Not hard to find it with a hundred news cameras aimed at the whole event. Now the prayer's been printed somewhere and some of the "MSM"( which stands in the media for 'MAIN STREAM MEDIA") are all in a stew about whether they should print it. Some Jews say it's a sin. Other people think that stealing is a crime that thieves shouldn't be rewarded. But as Alice says: "Obama would be an idiot to believe no one was going to take it and blab. He can't do anything privately anymore. " She is especially upset with CNN for going on and on about this as if it were important.
Here was Obama's Prayer:
"Lord, protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will."
SPARTY- sent around this reference to efforts by the Italian government to preserving the City of Pompeii buried almost two centuries ago by the eruption of a volcano. Many of our readers have gone to Pompeii, so this is recommended reading: CLICK
BILL FROM WNNCO - read and appreciated and then circulated this bit of wisdom from Calvin Coolidge. It's a thought which BILL agrees with.
MICHIGAN BUCKS SOCCER -
BUCKS BOW OUT IN OVERTIME
IRISH MIKE - sent this picture of his attempt to capture the baby skunks that came out from under his shed. Her set the trap, baited it with sardines, and then sat back while the skunks walked into the trap, took the dish out of the trap and dined in the yard.
MARSHA, DASHMANN and BUD -
Last week Marsha sent this puzzle to tantalize us all:
Well, Dashmann and Bud have solved it. No one else seems to have, not even Marsha. OH, WAIT. LATE WORD IS THAT MARSHA HAS SOLVED IT AFTER ALL.
The answer is:
ETHAN ALLEN
NATHAN HALE
What some folks are smiling at.
VODEA sent this:
JERRY -sent this ethnic humor, perhaps in honor of someone he knows?
JERRY also sent: This picture of the David Statue which is returning to Italy after 2 years in the U.S.
What's going on with some of our folks
SANDY - home from North Carolina.
SPARTY AND GIGI - were surprised by a large group of friends and family at an Anniversary Party. The kids planned it. It was a great event.
DASHMANN AND SKUZZA - home from Ohio.
FELIX - has disappeared again.
PAT W.- Received a letter from Leonardo DiCaprio. She was just thrilled. Finally he had answered some of her fan mail. Then she opened it and found that all he wanted was for her to help save the polar bears.
MARSHA - home from Chicago.
What some folks are thinking and talking about
ALICE - noticed that when Obama was in Jerusalem he placed a prayer message into a niche of the Western Wall. She thought: Someone will steal that. Sure enough, someone did. Not hard to find it with a hundred news cameras aimed at the whole event. Now the prayer's been printed somewhere and some of the "MSM"( which stands in the media for 'MAIN STREAM MEDIA") are all in a stew about whether they should print it. Some Jews say it's a sin. Other people think that stealing is a crime that thieves shouldn't be rewarded. But as Alice says: "Obama would be an idiot to believe no one was going to take it and blab. He can't do anything privately anymore. " She is especially upset with CNN for going on and on about this as if it were important.
Here was Obama's Prayer:
"Lord, protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will."
SPARTY- sent around this reference to efforts by the Italian government to preserving the City of Pompeii buried almost two centuries ago by the eruption of a volcano. Many of our readers have gone to Pompeii, so this is recommended reading: CLICK
BILL FROM WNNCO - read and appreciated and then circulated this bit of wisdom from Calvin Coolidge. It's a thought which BILL agrees with.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race.
MICHIGAN BUCKS SOCCER -
BUCKS BOW OUT IN OVERTIME
Late goal pushes Kalamazoo to the next round of PDL playoffs.
Pontiac, MI (July 26, 2008) - The top seed in the Premier Development League (PDL) took its toll again as an upset victim in Conference playoffs. The Bucks conceded a goal in the 86th minute to the Kalamazoo Outrage to bring the game level at 1-1 and force overtime in the Central Conference tournament at Ultimate Soccer Arenas. From there Michigan would give up an overtime goal and a final mop up tally in the 120th minute to lose 3-1
IRISH MIKE - sent this picture of his attempt to capture the baby skunks that came out from under his shed. Her set the trap, baited it with sardines, and then sat back while the skunks walked into the trap, took the dish out of the trap and dined in the yard.
MARSHA, DASHMANN and BUD -
Last week Marsha sent this puzzle to tantalize us all:
Name a famous figure from early American history whose names, both first and last, contain 5 letters each, made up of only 6 letters, some of them repeated. The same 6 letters also make up the name of a second famous figure from early American history whose first name has 6 letters and last has 4 letters.
Well, Dashmann and Bud have solved it. No one else seems to have, not even Marsha. OH, WAIT. LATE WORD IS THAT MARSHA HAS SOLVED IT AFTER ALL.
The answer is:
ETHAN ALLEN
NATHAN HALE
What some folks are smiling at.
VODEA sent this:
"THE POPE REJECTS CONSUMERISM"
===JERRY -sent this ethnic humor, perhaps in honor of someone he knows?
Two Mexican businessmen in Tijuana were sitting down for a break in their soon-to-be new store. As yet, the store wasn't ready, with only a few shelves set up. One said to the other, 'I bet any minute now some idiot tourist is going to walk by, put his face to the window, and ask what we're selling'.
No sooner were the words out of his mouth when, sure enough, a curious Japanese tourist walked to the window, had a peek, and in a thick Japanese accent asked 'What you sell?'
One of the men replied sarcastically, 'We're selling ass-holes.'
Without skipping a beat, the Japanese man said, 'You doing velly well, only two left!'
JERRY also sent: This picture of the David Statue which is returning to Italy after 2 years in the U.S.
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