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How many of you remember and/or had to wear clothes made from chicken feed and or flour sacks? I remember mom saying, "Be sure to get matching sacks for the girls' dresses." "Or, pick out something to make nice shirts."
How many of you remember your mom and/or grandmom having built-in flour and/or sugar bins in their kitchens? How did they work?
How many of you remember the rules you were expected to follow at drive-in movies?
Rusty couldn't verify it with snopes.com but asks the question, if it's true, what effect will the reported new association WalMart has with the Gay and Lesbian Chamber Of Commerce affect WM sales?
The aim of this blog is not to stir up anti-Moslem feelings. It's merely to alert you to what will probably become a big stink. This link was taken directly from the snopes.com website http://www.snopes.com/polit... target='_blank'>HERE
How do you think the stink about prof's email to the campus Muslims will end up?
Rusty heard today that a TV news report in Oklahoma City recently told about the 150% increase in aids cases reported in nursing homes since Viagra hit the market. "These guys who couldn't get a date when they were 16 are in big demand among the older ladies." It's quite a shock for the gals to find out that they aren't the only lover these geriatric cowboys have.
Has anyone else heard these things?
It's been presented on some medical advice web page (I saw it there my own self) that taking at least a holf teaspoon of ground cinnamon a day will lower your blood sugar content. A trusted friend told me that it really worked for her.
Last night the cinnamon was dumped over my small glass of crushed whole wheat (am trying to stay away from WHITE foods, except maybe ice cream) crackers before the milk was poured in. After a little stirring of the soaked crackers it didn't take much imagination to see bread pudding on the spoon. Maybe some yogurt mixed in would give a more pudding effect. What do you think? Any more "exotic"LOL recipes?
SOMEONE SENT US THIS:
The preacher was wired for sound with a lapel mike, and as he preached, he moved briskly about the platform, jerking the mike cord as he went. Then he moved to one side, getting wound up in the cord and nearly tripping before jerking it again. After several circles and jerks, a little girl in the third pew leaned toward her mother and whispered, "If he gets loose, will he hurt us?"
#1. What do you plan to take in a personal vehicle the next time we have to evacuate?
#2. What items you can carry by yourself do you plan to take if evacuated on a public supplied bus?
The very successful youth recovery organization needs financial help to run full programs in its home city of Cuero and the new effort in Edna. The IRS recently granted the faith based group its 501c3 letter designating its nonprofit status. For those who may have forgotten, this allows individuals, groups, companies and foundations to legally declare income tax credit for all funds donated to Lighthouse 2911. I'm too tired to say much more except that current funding has reached $10,000 out of the estimated $70,000.00 needed to operate the two facilities this school year.
An additional $35,000.00 will allow the opening the planned facility in Victoria. The juvenile probation group wanted a Lighthouse program there,for 150 offending youth. The use of a church building had already been donated for starting that operation this past January but funding wasn't there at that time. Rev. Paul Beard, Executive Director, can be reached at LIGHTHOUSE 2911 202 WILLIS ST., YOAKUM, TX 77995 361-293-1350 lighthouse2911@msn.com or pmbeard@hotmail.com. Rev. Wanda Ritchea, Board Member, can be reached at 361-649-2904. Watch for Amber & Rusty's news story soon. For more information request it through Beard or via the Contact Rusty link. Please invest what you can toward these youngsters learning that they have a future and the sky is the limit if they'll apply themselves. Thank you.
A year or so back the Advocate carried a story about a couple of local alligator hunters. It seems they shot one in the head and it got away from them. They may have found the critter a day later. The meat would have ruined by then and the skin would have turned white.
Our son and Rusty went with Joel DeJean (Day-zyon), a Louisiana gator hunter, to bait and run his lines. His instruction to us was, "When the gator's eyes come out of the water, shoot it in the spine right behind the head. It don't do any good to bounce the slugs off that old hard head. It might just make 'im mad." A week or so prior to our memorable trip, DeJean took Roy Rogers gator hunting. It seems the king of the cowboys killed an 11 footer. Roy agreed to take in the hunt as long as no press was encountered. "You can take all the pictures you want and write whatever you want after I'm gone." Rusty was given some 8"x10" B&W glossies and the details of the hunt which went into my column the next week.
GARON sent this: In a recent interview,
General Norman Schwartzkopf was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harbored and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America His answer was classic Schwartzkopf. The General said, "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. OUR job is to arrange the meeting. AMEN
GARON sent us this. Latest Kinky Friedman telephone poll results on whether or not people in Texas believe illegal immigration is a serious problem:
41%: Yes, it is a serious problem. 59%: "No hablo ingles."
When our favorite pipefitter carpenter had time he came by to modify our front door trim that someone else had installed. When we rehung the Larson Storm door the jamb brackets were missing. The Wright Company supplied their brand of door closers with the doors. My Internet search revealed that the Wright products had been bought out by Hickory Hardware in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. The customer service lady named BEA sent the replacement parts and they arrived over the weekend. Then Rusty found out that the connection pins were missing. Ten penny nails are too small to prevent undesireable slop in the door opening and closing action. Miss Bea was gone but Denise joyfully sent the pins. They can be reached by websites both for Wright Products and for Hickory Hardware.
Their service was good for us.
Grandson Casey gets a goldfish from Tegler's Drive In at Ganado whenever comes to stay for a spell. The boy went home but left Dorothy for the grandfolks to feed. It seemed a good idea to capture a few fire ants to feed her. Rusty failed to clue in grandma as to what the bottle was doing in her flower bed. That night, he went out to gather in the ant trap and it was in the garbage can. Grandma learned of her dastardly deed. When it was retrieved there must've been over 500 ants in the garbage can.
At a later time, after grandma left on a trip, Rusty brought in another catch of ants and dumped them into Dorothy's home. The one thing he overlooked was that the fish couldn't hoover 'em all up before they started crawling out of the water. Then Rusty had to chase the pesky critters around the kitchen. Did you ever pull a dumb stump (stunt) like this? Maybe later you'll learn about the reason wide eyed six year old Courtney told Rusty, "Daddy, you'd better not ever pull a dumb stump like that again."
Did you ever "saucer" your coffee? Do you have any idea how it got started? Knowing better than to try to carry a very full cup of coffee to the table, Rusty set the cup on a pie plate rather than a saucer. By the time he reached the table, there was a puddle on coffee on the "saucer". He had to slurp the spilled coffee before he could start on the cup. Rather than upset the cook for making a mess he tipped the cup and let more of the creamy liquid spill out. At that point he thought, "Maybe this is REALLY how it started. Someone with a shaky hand accidently did the same thing I just did realized he'd just made a handy discovery.
What do you think? What varieties of coffee saucerin' have you used or seen? CONFOUNDED SEX: A man was in a terrible accident, and his "manhood" was mangled and torn from his body. His doctor assured him that modern medicine could give him back his manhood, but that his insurance wouldn't cover the surgery, since it was considered cosmetic. The doctor said the cost would be $3,500 for "small, $6,500 for "medium, $14,000 for "large." The man was sure he would want a medium or large, but the doctor urged him to talk it over with his wife before he made any decision. The man called his wife on the phone and explained their options. The doctor came back into the room, and found the man looking dejected. "Well, what have the two of you decided?" asked the doctor. The man answered, "She'd rather remodel the kitchen".
Ole bought Lena a piano for her birthday. A few weeks later, Lars inquired how she was doing with it.
"Oh," said Ole, "I persuaded her to svitch to a clarinet." "How come?" asked Lars. "Vell," Ole answered, "because vith a clarinet she can't sing."
Billy's not going to let Rusty rest until he gets this story out. (Thanks for the reminder) Alcoa recently completed building a super duper new lighted T-head fishing pier at the Point Comfort City park. One good way to "christen" it was to hold a kids' fishing tourney. Saturday, August 12 saw some 75 kids enter the tournament. They all received a new rod and reel combination set apiece and all the bait shrimp they could use.
It turned into a family affair since each participant had to be accompanied by a parent or an adult. The family groups were scattered up and down the bank both ways from the pier. The Point Comfort Volunteer Fire Department cooked and served hot dogs and served bagged chips. Alcoa provided a variety of cold drinks ranging from juice packs to soda pop and cald water. As my memory serves, Wal-Mart gift cards in the amounts of $30.00, $20.00 and $10.00 were awarded for first, second, and third place finishers. Laurel I. Cahill, Communications/ Community Affairs Supervisor of Alcoa's Point Comfort Operations supplied this list of winners: Biggest fish - 9-12 year old group 1st - Sarah Fernandez 2nd - Christopher Lymon 3rd - Trevor Pope Most fish - 9-12 1st - Sean Grasse - 13 fish 2nd - Jordan Edison - 10 fish 3rd - Daniell Martin - 8 fish Biggest fish - 5-8 year old group 1st - Ash Sullivan 2nd - Ty Boedeker 3rd - Nicholas Chapa Most fish - 5-8 1st - Logan Pettijohn - 12 fish 2nd - Jason Hernandez - 9 fish 3rd - Steven Orr - 5 fish The morning breeze was a life saver which contributed to all attendees having a good time. Besides all the folks pitching in to help in all ways possible for the event, Rusty was proud of the site cleanup by the VFD after it was over. The only item he saw on the ground after everyone left was a half a hotdog bun and the seagulls surely took care of that. Thanks for the invitation folks.         
With certain exceptions, anyone in Texas who CAN NOT evacuate their home in advance of a hurricane (and probably other situations where sufficient time would allow evacuation) can register for evacuation assistance. NOW IS THE TIME, not when the critter is churning about 100 miles off the coast, to register for SPECIAL NEEDS TRANSPORTATION. Just call 211.
ALL this information goes to the emergency planners in your county. The person taking your information will need your name, your 911 address, your mailing address, your telephone number, how many at your home will be evacuating with you, if you have pets or service animals; are you in a wheelchair and if so, can you be moved to a bus seat? What special needs do you have? Can you get to the pickup point (like the County Services Building for residents in Jackson County)on your own? Do you need any medical assistance like IVs, ETC? They'll ask other questions. You can take all the pets you can get in, and carry in, one pet carrier. They'll be hauled in a different bus. NOTE, NOBODY that doesn't ride the special needs bus will be allowed in the same shelter. SO FORGET THAT IDEA.
Our fancy red State Farm 4 cell MagLite was in the car for several months. About a month ago it was taken out to use around the house and worked fine. All of a sudden, about a week ago, it wouldn't shine. It was to receive a new set of batteries when it was discovered a big glob of corrosion on the negative end of the battery at the negative end of the light. When a pocketknife blade was used to short across the open end of the barrel of the light to the last battery it shined like a new light.
Scraping the crud off the last battery did nothing to free it up for removal. Several squirts of WD-40 were left to soak down between the batteries and the barrel. Since that apparently accomplished little, the next thing to try was what worked on our other MagLite a year or so ago. Removing the spring and extra bulb removed that resistance and the end cap was screwed on tightly to prevent any thread damage. Several, yes a BUNCH, of times banging the cap on a board allowed the battery to slip. The current problem battery slipped about a quarter or one eigth inch. The others move when the light is shaken. That method worked on the old light. If memory serves correctly, the bulb socket end of the light was removable and I may have pounded the batteries out the back end using a small hammer handle. This MUCH newer light seems to have a retaining ring or shoulder milled into barrel to prevent the light assembly falling out then the lens cap is off. #1. Did the heat in the car cause the batteries to leak and cause the corrosion? If not, what COULD have caused it? #2. Rusty's contemplating drilling a hole in the back end of the last battery and screwing a bolt into it to act as an easy out. Does anyone have any suggestions or see anything possibly dangerous or wrong with this approach? Thanks for any help. Rusty
Heard about a guy who got about two inches of hardhead catfish fin in his hand over the weekend. He went to the ER to get his hand x-rayed and cleaned with antiseptic.
Have heard many horror stories through the years of people infected by the toxins in coastal waters. Besides the flesh eating bacteria, what are some of the other dangerous organisms called? One malady started with a V. Rusty ran a story one time about some lady who dropped a hardhead catfish on her foot and a fin stuck in it. She pulled it out and went on fishing for maybe another hour or so. She ended up in the hospital with a terrible infection. Rusty got a bad dose of "nutria itch" in Louisiana one time from a small organism while wading around in a swamp catching crawfish and shooting cottonmouths. Returning home to Florida it was essential to see a local doctor about the personal area rash. The doctor took one look and quipped, "You've been out foolin' around ain't ya?" "No sir, this came out of the swamp." Later, a local Louisiana doctor (that the druggist called "Booger Red") fell out of his pirogue while duck hunting and had the nutria itch rash all over his body. He was one miserable dude as it takes quite awhile to get rid of that stuff. Carrying a few tubes of antibacterial ointment in your tacklebox sounds like a MUST. I have no idea how this new waterless hand washing jell would work for these kinds of things. CAn anyone comment on this and other first aid methods?
Some DJ on KTRH said the other day, " I flew this morning and you couldn't believe all the hollerin' and squawkin' about the new regulations about carry-on items."
My first thought was to tell some yokel, " "Look, buddy, that's my wife and kid on that plane. Shut your yap. I don't give a rip how many gold card flier memberships you have." What do y'all think about all the beefin'?
This guy sounds like a real ZOODSMA.
http://www.local6.com/news/... target='_blank'>HERE
"RUSTY, OH RUSTY, WHAT HAVE YOU SCREWED UP THIS TIME?)
Rusty didn't trust the gasoline gauge on the borrowed suburban. Having been told "Oh, it has plenty of gas in it" wasn't reassuring enough. The "dummy end" of a one half inch wide 12 foot steel tape measure was snaked down the filler spout but no gasoline was found on the tape on the first retrieval. "Well, maybe I didn't have it there for enough" rationale prompted the tape to be shoved mush further into the tank. Next the little steel tab on the end of the tape got fouled on something inside the tank. Being in a major rush wanting to beat incoming weather, Rusty sucked up the slack on the tape and pushed down the little locking mechanism which prevents any more tape to play out of the case. Then he carefully closed the little flap over the filler cap and let the tape case tangle. Rusty's sister became so worried that dangling tape would create a spark and blow up the truck that her hubby worked for a spell and finally broke off the tape at the filler flap and shoved the loose end on down into the tank. Then she really got worried and fussy until he did his best to reassure her that there was no danger and to just quit worrying about it. Grandma lost a `12 foot tape and Rusty felt like a dummy. Back when the tape measure trick worked they didn't have all that stuff in filler spouts. Thriller #2. It was hotter than a by-gosh so vehicle windows were left down. A rain storm was coming so the windows needed to be raised. The right back passenger window was stuck at half mast. The master window switch panel on the drivers door was hanging by the control wires. The try with the master control didn't work. Leaving the driver's door open Rusty hobbled around to the RT. Back door and the switch wouldn't work. By reaching through the vehicle he was stretched out as far as possible to close the driver door with the handle of his cane. Then with one hand on the door glass to help in the raising Rusty stretched out again to press on the driver door switch. That FLoppin' switch just bobbled around on the cane tip. @#$%&^* Somehow, by reversing the cane and turning the gooseneck handle upward and using something as a fulcrum it was possible to shove the switch panel up tight enough the appropriate window switch was activated and worked slicker'n a button. No pushing on the glass was needed. Evidently when Rusty originally pushed on the driver door panel it came apart just enough that good contact wasn't being made. The windows were barely all up when a real toad strangler and rough windstorm commenced.
Garon may be onto something here: Dear Friends,
My mailbox is being flooded with mail concerning gas prices and illegal immigrants. To boycott oil companies or not; to provide amnesty to illegal immigrants or not, etc. I have become jaded to the various solutions proposed by the Republicans, Democrats, Sierra Club, ACLU, etc. I have come up with, what I believe is, the perfect solution to both the gas and illegal immigrant problems. I have hired illegal immigrants to push my car. They're plentiful and cheaper than buying gas. Then I pay them in pesos so they have to go home to spend it ...
LET US KNOW HOW YOU LIKE THIS ONE that Garon sent.
U.S. Passports in France This one, 'says it all', about what the basic philosophy of our country is all about, and how we are received around the world. At a French airport... A group of American retired teachers recently went to France on a tour. Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, was part of the tour group. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carryon. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously. "Then you should know enough to have your passport ready." The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it." "Impossible!" barked the officer. "Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France ." The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained. "Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in '44 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find any Frenchmen to show it to." Wonder where the Frogs were?
As Rusty hobbled across the highway to where the Ganado Volunteer Fire Department/EMS service was having a fundraiser, it hit him that without them he would most likely not be able to limp over there. Because of their quick response and professional help, Rusty is able to do all that he can do today. Living in a larger town might have caused a lot longer response time. You all know that in the matter of heart attacks and strokes, time is all important for the saving and increasing the quality of live of the victim.
They also came to put out our house fire with a minimum of structural damage. SUPPORT AND PRAISE YOUR VFD/EMS BUNCH. LET'S HEAR PRAISES FOR YOUR BUNCH. OKAY?
The LIGHTHOUSE 2911 (YOUTH RECOVERY GROUP)finally received its non-profit status in April. ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS MEETING will be at 6:30 p.m. Friday August 11 at the Trinity Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall at Forest & DeLeon, Victoria. Lots of good testimonies about how at-risk youth lives are being changed. Silent auction, fund raiser, progress reports. Future dreams and goals. Brisket and sides will be served. The price is right, come join us and say you read it here and we'll get you in. For more details or to donate auction items contact Paul Beard at 361-293-1350.
The American Family Association has a press release about BusRadio advertizing on school buses to young kids. Check this
http://blog.washingtonpost.... target='_blank'>HERE Another paper, maybe the New York Post (?) had another about listening to the wrong song lyrics causes kids to start having sex earlier. http://www.rand.org/news/pr... target='_blank'>HERE WHAT'S YOUR OPINION ON THESE ITEMS?
Bill Seeger sent us: QUESTIONS ABOUT 2010 OLYMPICS
Now that Vancouver has won the chance to host the 2010 Winter Olympics these are some questions people the world over are asking!!!! Believe it or not these questions about Canada were posted on an International Tourism Website (frightening, isn't it!) Q: I have never seen it warm on Canadian TV, so how do the plants grow? (UK) A. We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around and watch them die. Q: Will I be able to see Polar Bears in the street? (USA) A: Depends on how much you've been drinking. Q: I want to walk from Vancouver to Toronto-can I follow the Railroad tracks? (Sweden) A: Sure, it's only Four thousand miles, take lots of water. Q: Is it safe to run around in the bushes in Canada? (Sweden) A: So it's true what they say about Swedes. Q: It is imperative that I find the names and addresses of places to contact for a stuffed Beaver. (Italy) A: Let's not touch this one. Q: Are there any ATM's (cash machines) in Canada? Can you send me a list of them in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton and Halifax? (UK) A: What did your last slave die of? Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Canada? (USA) A: A-fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe. Ca-na-da is that big country to your North...oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Calgary. Come naked. Q: Which direction is North in Canada? (USA) A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions. Q: Can I bring cutlery into Canada? (UK) A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do. Q: Can you send me the Vienna Boys' Choir schedule? (USA) A: Aus-tri-a is that quaint little country bordering Ger-man-y, which is...oh forget it. Sure, the Vienna Boys Choir plays every Tuesday night in Vancouver and in Calgary, straight after the hippo races. Come naked. Q: Do you have perfume in Canada? (Germany) A: No, WE don't stink. Q: I have developed a new product that is the fountain of youth. Can you sell it in Canada? (USA) A: Anywhere significant numbers of Americans gather. Q: Can you tell me the regions in British Columbia where the female population is smaller than the male population? (Italy) A: Yes, gay nightclubs. Q: Do you celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada? (USA) A: Only at Thanksgiving. Q: Are there supermarkets in Toronto and is milk available all year round? (Germany) A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of Vegan hunter/gathers. Milk is illegal. Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Canada, but I forget its name. It's a kind of big horse with horns. (USA) A: It's called a Moose. They are tall and very violent, eating the brains of anyone walking close to them. You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking. Q: Will I be able to speak English most places I go? (USA) A: Yes, but you will have to learn it first.
My son found a pair of suspenders that have none any of those pesky clamps on them. These made by DICKIES have inverted plastic belt clips. They pull up on a belt so there's no way for them to come off unless the clips break. Gives one a much more secure feeling.
Now If the straps won't be hanging in a pant leg when they're put on. A guy's ARMS are supposed to go through them.
That gallon jug partly filled with water in my office fridge was really sweet. No wonder, on the other side the jug says, HUMMER WATER. No Amber, not for the vehicle, the birds.
Revision 1 Sunday. Hopefully, I took two Effexors yesterday morning not being sure if the first one had been taken. When I saw something upsetting about our kitchen floor that was the last straw. Rusty was tipped over the edge of a very tall cliff and was hanging on by his fingernails and was slipping fast.
The call to our son was the first time I ever remember blubbering on the phone. After telling him the location of several items in my office I told him how proud I was of him and his fimily. Asking him to always tell the kids that greandpa loved them, prompted him to ask, "Just what are you planning to do" "I don't know, yet." When I called my wife in Tennessee to tell her goodbye, she said, "Now, don't you go do something stupid." "I'm not going to do anything stupid, it sounds like a perfectly good idea to me." That call was interrupted by a nephew calling from Utah to help me with my computer. Couldn't let him know what was going on. Had to dry up. Subsequent "I just ..sniff, sniff.. called..to ..sniff..sniff. to say goodbye." calls, to friends and family kinda helped. A long one to my bipolar, etc, etc, sister with her doing some of the blubbering, helped a little more. Then the phone started ringing om my end. Rev. 2 We're back, had to shut down due to a thunder storm. My sister suggested I find some chocolate to eat as that's supposed to help ease depression. We had some of the Caramel Hershey's kisses but thinking "maybe that's too much caramel and not enough chocolate" prompted me to mix up a batch of chocolate syrup (it's here for the grandson's visits) in milk. TOO much syrup. Some people used to put so much of that in a malt that it tasted likd motor oil. Now I order my malts with one third chocolate ice cream and two thirds vanilla. Got in the pantry and hauled out the last of the bag of milk chocolate and white chocolate morsels for baking. By then had taken my evening dose of meds and maybe the single dose helped calm me down. Felt much better today. Hopefully, it was just a 2X dose. ****** ORIGINAL POSTING SATURDAY EVENING. This increase in meds seems to be backfiring on me. Can't get step down dosage unti Monday. Just in case, many thanks to all my faithful readers. Take care. Rusty
Recently Rusty was joking with someone about breaking their teeth using them to open beer bottles before screw-on caps were used. A lot of people, mostly guys, reported having used that method, some after screw-on caps came out just couldn't figure out why the caps wouldn't pry off.
Driving to a meeting recently, Rusty tried to unscrew the top off a water bottle with his front teeth. aBOUT ONE THIRD of an overlay came off a front tooth.
About six this a.m. it hit me, "Oh, crud I left those sacks on the hood of the truck. I'd bet 'coons and/or rats have been into 'em." Four pounds of shelled corn in one sack and four pounds of rabbit pellets were in those sacks. They were purchased when Rusty thought grandson Casey would want to go fishing. The idea was to scatter a few handfuls of each in the water to attract fish for the kid to catch.
Remembering the "rat in the fax machine" episode, Rusty was afraid of a similar fate for the intended "chum", so he retrieved the sacks from the suburban and set them on the hood. The gallon milk jug intended for a storage container had maybe a teaspoon of water in it. That had to be drained so nothing would "sprout" prematurely. Rusty had forgotten the sacks and left them over night. Evidently, the only damage was the humidity had soaked the sacks but nothing seemed hurt. Butch Smith of Ganado had told Rusty several years ago about taking just about any kind of grain and soaking in water for a few days before going fishing. By pouring the "mash" around where they planned to drop their hooks seemed to draw plenty of fish. Rusty contributed a great deal of his trotline and limb line success to hanging plastic bottles of "corn mash" on trot lines and near limb lines. Some folks tie punctured cans of dog or cat food off the sides of their boats when crappie fishing. Catchable size crappie and other fish are drawn to the area either by the taste in the water and/or by the minnows and small fish drawn to the cans. What tricks do you use?
No, we're not talking about nosey neighbors, busybodies or interferring inlaws but butterflies. For a VIDEO click
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id... target='_blank'>HERE For a printable item with more details click http://valleystar.com/artic... target='_blank'>HERE
Garon Burford sent this:" Subject: PREGNANT TURKEY STORY
This would be a great turkey day prank...ha! One year at Thanksgiving, my mom went to my sister's house for the traditional feast. Knowing how gullible my sister is, my mom decided to play a trick. She told my sister that she needed something from the store. When my sister left, my mom took the turkey out of the oven, removed the stuffing, stuffed a Cornish hen,and inserted it into the turkey,and re-stuffed the turkey. She then placed the bird(s) back in the oven. When it was time for dinner, my sister pulled the turkey out of the oven and proceeded to remove the stuffing. When her serving spoon hit something, she reached in and pulled out the little bird. With a look of total shock on her face, my mother exclaimed,"Patricia, you've cooked a pregnant bird!" At the reality of this horrifying news, my sister started to cry. It took the family two hours to convince her that turkeys lay eggs! Yep..................SHE'S BLONDE!! SOMEBODY TOP THIS ONE._
RUSTY believes it's time to redo the compulsary draft. This old baloney of "taking only the finest" in the military today is a crock of krap (sic).
The worst thing this country did was do away with the draft. If they'd put all these street thugs, dopeheads, child molesters (especially so called "clergy"), rapists, murderers, gangbangers, pushers, etc. on the front lines the country would benefit in lots of ways. Maybe some of them would come back from active duty changed individuals, for the better, both for themselves and the country. And don't let some slimeball politicians get their kids out of it either. I don't give a dammmm how much money they have. Back during WWII (forget it, I wasn't there but I can read) some of the death row and lifer inmates they sent to war were some of the best soldiers. They had nothing to lose so they didn't care to take the riskiest assignments and many turned out to be celebrated heroes. I'd just bet some had their service records to thank for having their sentances commuted. Sure hope they did.
GARON BURFORD sent this about the mama cat whom the farm family put six orphan skunks on to nurse.http://fontwitch.com/MOTY/c... target='_blank'>HERE
Would YOU do that?
Bill Seeger comes through again. Here are sight and sounds from the 1950s which might bring tear to the eyes and catches to the throats to some of the old codgers like Loon, Rusty, Cap'n D, Heidi, Slim Tim and Jim Bishop if he reads this. Julie, don't you dare laugh at us. http://oldfortyfives.com/Ta... target='_blank'>HERE
PEGGY sent us this video containing a super message, soft music and beatiful scenery. Rusty thinks it's worth your time. Click http://www.thedashmovie.com... target='_blank'>HERE
SAM RIVAS is a friend of mine who has a medical condition which prevents his doing most work. He needs a 20 TO ONE OR THIRTY TO ONE reduction gear that fits a one inch diameter shaft. His number is 361-771-2678. Thanks for any help you can give him on a good lead for it.
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