The Team

What a motley crew of paintball players! These guys are actually very good – they won the championship at every level until they got to the Nationals.

Memorial Day is coming

Here’s a couple of little cartoons to help you remember what Memorial Day is all about.  It’s not about hot dogs and hamburgers or going to the beach.  It’s about the sacrifices our military men made for our freedom.  Just make sure you thank a solder or someone you know served in the military this weekend while you and your family are out having fun.

We love to go camping

In fact, we have a couple of acres in the mountains.  We have a camper that we keep up there through the spring and summer.  Once school starts back, we usually bring it home because we sure don’t want hunters accidentally shooting it or deciding to stay there awhile even though we do lock it.  Anyway, I started looking at Honda Generators because there’s no power on our land and my old generator died on me.  I was able to find just what we needed and now we’ll be camping in the mountains just about every weekend now since school’s almost out.  Man where did the year go?

This is a one-in-a-million photo……………

THIS IS A PRETTY AWESOME PICTURE…CAN YOU IMAGINE THE LOOK ON THE PHOTOGRAPHERS FACE WHEN HE WENT SNAP….

When the lightning flashes, this is NOT what you want to see.

THIS IS A PICTURE THAT SOMEONE TOOK WHO WORKS ON AN OIL RIG. HE WAS GOING TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE LIGHTNING AND WAS UNAWARE OF THE TORNADO UNTIL THE LIGHTNING ILLUMINATED IT.

Now the A/C has gone out in my car

For crying out loud, what next.  The weather was hot last week and I had to run my A/C in the car every day and then it turns cold and I’ll be darn if my A/C didn’t mess up.  Come to find out, I need an a/c compressor. I wondered what that noise was coming from. I had also noticed that the A/C just didn’t seem as cold as it used to. Well now I know why. Thank God it did this during a cool down in the weather.  Nothing makes your day worse than to get in the car ready to go to work and realize the A/C stopped working on a hot day.

What in the world is up with the weather?

Here I thought it was supposed to be spring and I’ll be darned, it’s rather chilly today and was yesterday too.  In fact, I think it’s supposed to get down to about 40 degrees tonight.  That’s COLD!!!!  Did spring go on strike or something and I haven’t heard about it or what.  I have all kinds of stuff coming up in my garden and I sure hope it doesn’t hurt it being so cold tonight.  That would really suck.  I have worked so hard on getting a garden in this year since food prices keep going up and up and up like the gas is doing again.

Looking for Motocross Gear?

There are several kids in our neighborhood that have dirt bikes.  In fact one of the parents has a little motocross track in their back yard that the kids all go and ride on, our kid included.  Of course everyone has to have all of the proper Motocross Gear to make sure they’re all protected as much as possible.  BTO Sports has a wide range of motocross gear, parts and accessories at really great prices that are highly competitive. They have all of the major brands like Fox Racing, Thor, Shoei and Scott. It just doesn’t get much better than that.

They have a great selection of motorcycle gear, parts and accessories at discount prices. They have one of the best selections of motocross, atv, street bike, dirt bike and mini bike gear, parts and accessories including women and children’s products and sizes too. After all, it’s not just guys that ride ya know. They also have excellent customer service and have for over 9 years. They are located in Thousand Oaks, California.  We make sure that if our son needs anything for motocross, we always check with BTU Sports first and usually end up coming back to them to buy whatever we need.  It’s hard to beat their prices or their customer service.

Your Yearly Dementia Test

I bet a lot of you have gotten this in your email but I just think it’s the funniest thing and couldn’t resist sharing it with all of you.  Sorry!!!  It’s that time of year to take our annual senior citizen test.

Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it’s important to keep mentally alert. If you don’t use it, you lose it! Below is a very private way to gauge your loss or non-loss of intelligence.  Take the test presented here to determine if you’re losing it or not. The spaces below are so you don’t see the answers until you’ve made your answer.  OK, relax, clear your mind and begin.
1. What do you put in a toaster?

Answer: ‘bread.’ If you said ‘toast,’ give up now and do something else. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said, bread, go to Question 2.

2. Say ’silk’ five times. Now spell ’silk.’ What do cows drink?

Answer: Cows drink water. If you said ‘milk,’ don’t attempt the next question. Your brain is over-stressed and may even overheat. Content yourself with reading a more appropriate literature such as Auto World. However, if you said ‘water’, proceed to question 3.

3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a green house made from?

Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said ‘green bricks,’ why the heck are you still reading these??? If you said ‘glass,’ go on to Question 4.

4. It’s twenty years ago, and a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany (If you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into West Germany and East Germany .) Anyway, during the flight, two engines fail. The pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine is also failing, decides on a crash landing procedure. Unfortunately the engine fails before he can do so and the plane fatally crashes smack in the middle of ‘no man’s land’ between East Germany and West Germany . Where would you bury the survivors? East Germany , West Germany , or no man’s land’?

Answer: You don’t bury survivors. If you said ANYTHING else, you’re a dunce and you must stop. If you said, ‘You don’t bury survivors’, proceed to the next question.

5. Without using a calculator – You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales . In London , 17 people get on the bus. In Reading , six people get off the bus and nine people get on. In Swindon, two people get off and four get on . In Cardiff , 11 people get off and 16 people get on . In Swansea, three people get off and five people get on. In Carmathen, six people get off and three get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven. What was the name of the bus driver?

Answer: Oh, for crying out loud! Don’t you remember your own name? It was YOU!!

PS: 95% of people fail most of the questions!!

Happy Mothers Day to all Mothers!!

When you think of a Mother, you naturally think of a woman but I can honestly say that some men are better Mothers than some women.  Just like some women make better Fathers than some men do.  I guess they need a Parent Day too because some kids don’t have both parents so celebrate both holidays with.  A single parent should have a special day too because they have to play both roles which is not easy, that’s for sure!!!

Both of our mothers were great mothers so we have both been blessed.  There aren’t enough people out there that can say that.  One things for sure, you don’t have to give birth to someone to be their mother.  All a woman has to do is love that child and she is their ‘Mother’.  So to all of you ladies out there who are mothers, we wish you a wonderful Mothers Day full of love and peace.

What a shame!!!

One of my all time comedic actors passed away on May 4th and I just now found out.  I was shocked.  Dom DeLoise was 75 and we lost him.  He had been battled cancer previously.  I can’t do the man justice so here’s what I found out about this wonderful man and his career:

Born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, DeLuise came to be known for his roles in several Mel Brooks movies: The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, History of the World, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. DeLuise also co-starred with Burt Reynolds in several movies: The Cannonball Run and Cannonball Run II, Smokey and the Bandit II, The End, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and All Dogs Go to Heaven. He was also well known for his role as the talent agent “Bernie” in The Muppet Movie. His most recent role was a cameo in the movie Horrorween, which is currently in production.

On television, DeLuise was a frequent guest star on The Dean Martin Show, and had his own show, The Dom DeLuise Show, in two incarnations: one in 1968 and one in 1987. He hosted the television show Candid Camera in 1991, and voiced Tiger in Fievel’s American Tails the following year. DeLuise also made numerous cameos in other live-action and animated shows.

DeLuise was also an avid chef, authoring two cookbooks and making numerous appearances as a cook on morning television shows. He also wrote several children books. He died in his sleep on May 4, 2009, in a Santa Monica hospital in California.