HAVE THE DEWBERRIES (OR BOYSENBERRIES IF YOU PREFER)gotten ripe yet? There weren't any along our fence the other day. Maybe it's too early.

They creep over from across the fence but we've been doing the Roundup number on everything the sprayer can reach in order to keep the poison ivy away from the fence line. We don't need a grandkid getting into it or the granddog getting into it and bringing it in the house and spreading it around in there.

According to a report on MSNBC Cindy Sheehan called the dogs, put out anti-war protest fire and headed back to California.
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What did you think about her campaign to get the Iraqi war stopped?

If Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick IS convicted on dog fighting charges, how should he be punished?

Police raided Vick's rural Virginia home April 25 as part of a drug investigation. They seized 66 dogs, 55 of them pit bulls, and equipment that could be associated with dog fighting. Dog fighting is a felony in Virginia. Vick claimed his cousin was living in the house and Vick had no knowledge of the number of dogs there. What do YOU think?

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6'6" 300# NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS DE MARQUISE HILL drowned in Lake Ponchartrain Sunday following a jet ski accident. All we know is that the young woman with him said, "Something happened and all of the sudden we were in the water." Coast Guard Petty Officer Tom Atkeson said, "Neither Hill nor the woman wore a life preserver. It's so important to have a life jacket and a signaling device," One keeps you afloat and the other helps us find you."

Folks, improper, or no, usage of life preservers is the unnecessary cause of most boating accident fatalities. No matter how big or how "in shape" you are, no matter how good a swimmer you are, once your body has been disabled in the water your upper body'd better be supported so your head is above the surface.

After serving on a dive boat during a futile body recovery effort, Rusty made more arrests for PFD (personal flotation device) violations than for poachers and other game & fish law infractions during his time as a Wyoming G&F warden. It really tore him up when the crew returned to the boat ramp and two little kids would run up to them and hopefully ask, "Didja find my daddy? Didja find my grampa?"
Due to the cold water temperatures at approximately the 90 foot depth where their craft was run over by a bunch of drunks in a larger boat, the bodies' internal gases of the two men carried them to the surface in about 28 days.
As many vehicle deaths as we have around here where seat belts were not worn, the lack of life preserver usage will probably cause several needless boating deaths in this area as well. Hopefully, that won't be the case but the odds are in favor of the grim reaper.
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Rusty just today learned that Scot Walker, he contacted me to write my AMBLIN' ABE columns for the Sunday Advocate, has been replaced at the Advocate. The new sheriff in town has been charged with cutting more costs at the paper. I was told, "Next week, we're goin' to be evaluating which columns the readers want us to keep."
Some time back Sugar Magnolia asked Rusty why my columns hadn't been being published every two weeks as the original schedule was presented. If you liked my work it MAY help to notify Chris Cobler via email. I'm assuming his email address is Ccobler@vicad.com following the Advocate norm.

If they're going to cut me off, it'd be fair to publish the rest of my stories about outdoor women they assigned me to do. There's Lots of travel time, gasoline, telephone time, and interview time, and sleeping in truck stops in my suburban invested so far. It'd be nice to recover my gasoline costs.

It sounds like they may start concentrating on their internet function.

This isn't an ego trip but if you'd also put a line in the comments for this blog it'd be nice to have some ammo Rusty can forward, and also to have some idea how many, if any, backers reply. If you don't like my work, it's easy enough not to write in. However it goes, thanks for your readership. Hugs, Rusty

Do you wait until your blackberries appear COMPLETELY black all over or do you pick 'em with small patches of red showing? Some cardinals were seen eating berries this morning at our place. Not knowing how many berries a cardinal will eat in a day prompted Rusty to slip on a pair of shoes and grab a bowl. There were still 50 some berries left that were black or 90-95% black. We usually leave those not quite totally black on an inside window sill to finish ripening. How much do you feel that pickin' 'em before completely black affects their taste?
Hopefully, the birds won't get so bad we have to pick all the berries before completely ripe. We got to having to do that with our figs last year. Maybe the mockin' birds won't be as numerous this year.

What do you think about Gov. Perry's proposal to let school teachers and officials who have their Licenses To Carry to pack their handguns to school? It's to deter people from killing lots of kids because nobody at the schools is supposed to be armed, right?

As a former law enforcement person I agree that the knowledge that every citizen can "potentially" be legally armed, would cut down considerably on a lot of the nonsense that goes on in this country. The crime statistics have shown an astounding improvement in those states that have already passed "every citizen should be armed" laws.

No, I'm not saying that EVERY citizen should be armed. Some people have absolutely no business handling a firearm. Being properly trained is one thing awhile a scared untrained person with a gun is as dangerous as the crooks.

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Jackson County Emergency Management Coordinator, Allen Friedrich, Edna, returned from the state hurricane preparedness conference saying he's plenty worried. It seems, if my memory is correct on this, that some government wizard decided the states and feds will commandier
all the commercially operated buses to haul storm victims.

This would leave only school buses for transporting all those folks who do not have their own transportation if a mandatory evacuation order is issued. As it stands now, residents of nursing homes and special care facilities, will be at the mercy of whoever provides their transportation. Contrary to last year in Jackson County, we don't plan to run around passing out and collecting registration forms because very few people filled them out anyway.

The public is IMPLORED to call 211 and sign up NOW so we'll have the required number of school buses to safely move our people out of harm's way. We have to pay some organizations to haul school bus drivers in by the van loads to drive the school buses we gather. If you have relatives or neighbors needing emergency transportation please see that their information is logged in Austin by calling 211. When the buses are leaving town is NOT the time to decide you need a ride.

A koala was sitting in a gum tree...... smoking a joint when a little lizard walked past, looked up and said, "Hey Koala! What are you doing?" The koala said, "Smoking a joint, come up and have some."

So the little lizard climbed up and sat next to the koala where they enjoyed a few joints.

After a while the little lizard said that his mouth was "dry" and that he was going to get a drink from the river. The little lizard was so stoned that he leaned too far over and fell into the river.

A crocodile saw this and swam over to the little lizard and helped him to the side. Then he asked the little lizard, "What's the matter with you?"

The little lizard explained to the crocodile that he was sitting smoking a joint with the koala in the tree, got too stoned and then fell into the river while taking a drink. The crocodile said that he had to check this out and walked into the rain forest, found the tree where the koala was sitting finishing a joint. The crocodile looked up and said, "Hey you!" So the koala looked down at him and said,

"Shiiiiiii dude...
How much water did you drink?!!"

HOW ABOUT THIS ONE? THIS IS HILARIOUS! A man takes the day off work and decides to go out golfing.
He is on the second hole when he
notices a frog sitting next to the green.He thinks nothing of it and is about to shoot when he hears, Ribbit 9 Iron."

The man looks around and doesn't
see anyone. Again, hehears, "Ribbit 9 Iron." He looks at the frog and decides to prove the frog wrong, puts the club away, and grabs a 9 iron.Boom!He hits it 10 inches from the cup. He is shocked. He says to the frog, "Wow that's amazing. You must be a lucky frog, eh? The frog replies, "Ribbit Lucky frog."

The man decides to take the frog
with him to the next hole. "What do you think frog?" the man asks. ribbit 3 wood." The guy takes out a 3 wood and,Boom! Hole in one. The
man is befuddled and doesn't know
what to say. By the end of the day, the man golfed the best game of golf in his life and asks the frog, "OK where to next?" The frog replies, "Ribbit Las Vegas."

They go to Las Vegas and the guy says, "OK frog, now what?" The frog says, "Ribbit Roulette." Upon
approaching the roulette table, The man asks, "What do you think I should bet?" The frog replies, "Ribbit $3000, black 6." Now, this is a million-to-one shot to win, but after the golf game the man
figures what the heck. Boom! Tons of cash comes sliding back across the table.

The man takes his winnings and buys the best room in the hotel. He sits the frog down and says, "Frog, I don't know how to repay you. You've won me all this money and I am forever grateful." The frog replies, "Ribbit KissMe."
He figures why not, since after all the frog did for him, he deserves it. With a kiss, the frog turns into a gorgeous 15-year-old girl.

"And that, your honor, is how the girl ended up in my room. So help me God or my name is not William Jefferson Clinton."

GARON strikes again with this Mother's day "tale".


So, we had this great 10 year old cat named Jack who just recently died. Jack was a great cat and the
kids would carry him around and sit on him and nothing ever bothered him. He used to hang out and nap all day long on this mat in our bathroom.

Well we have 3 kids and at the time of this story they were 4 years old, 3 years old and 1 year old. The middle one is Eli. Eli really loves chapstick. LOVES it. He kept asking to use my chapstick and then losing it. So finally one day I showed him where in the bathroom I keep my chapstick and how he could use it whenever he wanted to but he needed to put it right back in the drawer when he was done.

Last year on Mother's Day, we were having the typical rush around and try to get ready for Church
with everyone crying and carrying on. My two boys are fighting over the toy in the cereal box. I am
trying to nurse my little one at the same time I am putting on my make-up. Everything is a mess and
everyone has long forgotten that this is a wonderful day to honor me and the amazing job that is
motherhood.

We finally have the older one and and the baby loaded in the car and I am looking for Eli. I have
searched everywhere and I finally round the corner to go into the bathroom. And there was Eli. He was applying my chapstick very carefully to Jack's . . .
rear end. Eli looked right into my eyes and said "chapped." Now if you have a cat, you know that he
is right—their little butts do look pretty chapped. And, frankly, Jack didn't seem to mind.

And the only question to really ask at that point was whether it was the FIRST time Eli had done that to the cat's behind or the hundredth.

And THAT is my favorite Mother's Day moment ever because it reminds us that no matter how hard we try
to civilize these glorious little creatures, there will always be that day when you realize they've
been using your chapstick on the cat's butt.

GARON sent pictures of a gal having a carving on her back. Rusty will gladly forward them if you'll ask via the Contact Rusty link.

Is there anything as absurd out there that you know of besides the body piercing?

GARON sent: Subject: Childrens' answers to science questions (they sound pretty good to some of us senior citizens). If you need a laugh, then read through these Children's Science Exam Answers.

Q: Name the four seasons.
A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink.
A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.

Q: How is dew formed?
A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire.

Q: How can you delay milk turning sour? (brilliant, love this !)
A: Keep it in the cow.

Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?
A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature hates a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.

Q: What are steroids?
A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs.

Q: What happens to your body as you age?
A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.

Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty?
A: He says good-bye to his boy hood and looks forward to his adultery.

Q: Name a major disease associated with cigarettes
A: Premature death.

Q: How are the main parts of the body categorized? (e.g., abdomen.)
A: The body is consisted into three parts - the brainium, t he borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain; the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels,A,E,I,O,and U.

Q: What is the fibula?
A: A small lie.

Q: What does "varicose" mean? (I do love this one...)
A: Nearby

Q: Give the meaning of the term "Caesarean Section"
A: The Caesarean Section is a district in Rome.

Q: What does the word " benign" mean?'
A: Benign is what you will be after you be eight.

RUSTY here: Do YOU have some goodies like these to share with us?

On the other end of the phone line, after hearing a few bars on a trumpet, my sister, sniffling, said, "Thank you for playing that, you can't imagine how I needed that. That is one of my favorite songs. Can you send me the music to it?"
For some reason, Rusty felt a compelling urge to share this old song with you, written by Chuck Meyer and Biff Jones, with minimal editing by RB.

SUDDENLY THERE’S A VALLEY

When you’ve climbed the highest mountain,
When a cloud holds the sunshine in
Suddenly there’s a valley,
Where love and friendships begin.

When a storm hides the distant rainbow,
And you think you can’t find a friend
Suddenly there’s a valley,
Where the friendships never end.

Touched only by the seasons, Swept clean by the waving grain
Surveyed by a happy blue bird, And kissed by the falling rain.

When you think there are no bright tomorrows,
And you feel you can’t try again
Suddenly there’s a valley
Where hope and love begin.

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Let The Dead Bury The Dead
Remember the old adage which says, "Let the dead bury the dead." In other words, what you want to do is to stop looking back in your life and worrying about things which have already occurred and which you can no longer alter. For pursuing that kind of mental activity will never lead to any worthwhile accomplishments in your life. You should understand, moreover, that all of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures; they were men and women who projected into the future and did not belabour over things which had already past. They thought of what could be, rather than what already was, and then they moved themselves into action to bring these things into fruition.

Think of the magnificent legacy which these forward-thinking individuals have left for us living today. Due to their formidable efforts, we are now able to enjoy breakfast in Paris, lunch in New York and dinner in Toronto. We are now able to live our lives in brightness and light (twenty-four hours a day if we so desire). We can hear the voice of a loved one on the other side of the ocean, merely by pressing some buttons on a telephone. All of these miraculous possibilities, and so much more, are available to us, simply because ordinary human beings - like you and me - have built extraordinary images on the screen of their minds, of things which had never been before.
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BILLY BIRDDOG sent us this:
A cannibal was walking through the jungle. He came upon a restaurant run by a fellow cannibal. Feeling hungry, he sat down and looked over the menu...

Broiled Missionary: $10.00
Fried Explorer: $15.00
Baked Politician: $100.00

The customer called the waiter over and asked, "Why such a price difference for the politician?"
The waiter replied: "Have you ever tried to clean one?"

Rusty received an email from the Bones & Blues club. He'd never had much occasion to hear the blues. There was a dude in one group photo who looked like our own Slim Tim. The address link on the photo contained "walldoc1". How many of you know, or suspect, who posted that photo? Slim Tim, was he in the photo?CLICK HERE

You've probably received a survey asking the above question, when in actuality, they're really trying to suck you into a scheme that would QUALIFY you to receive a Compaq Laptop.

#1. What do you think about such scams?
#2. What are your feelings, and why, about the gun question?

In MSN LIFESTYLE WOMEN Is an interesting story by © Marie Claire
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