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~The Hormone Guide~

2007-03-28

~The Hormone Guide~

Women will understand this! Men should memorize it!

Every woman knows that there are days in the month when all a man has to do is open his mouth and he takes his life in his hands! This is a handy guide that should be as common as a driver's license in the wallet of every husband, boyfriend, co-worker or significant other!

DANGEROUS:	SAFER:	SAFEST:	ULTRA SAFE:
What's for dinner?	Can I help you with dinner?	Where would you like to go for dinner?	Here, have some wine.
Are you wearing that?	Wow, you sure look good in brown!	WOW! Look at you!	Here, have some wine
What are you so worked up about?	Could we be overreacting?	Here's my paycheck.	Here, have some wine.
Should you be eating that?	You know, there are a lot of apples left.	Can I get you a piece of chocolate with that?	Here, have some wine.
What did you DO all day?	I hope you didn't over-do it today.	I've always loved you in that robe!	Here, have some wine.

13 Things PMS Stands For:

1. Pass My Shotgun

2. Psychotic Mood Shift

3. Perpetual Munching Spree

4. Puffy Mid-Section

5. People Make me Sick

6. Provide Me with Sweets

7. Pardon My Sobbing

8. Pimples May Surface

9. Pass My Sweat pants

10. Pissy Mood Syndrome

11. Plainly; Men Suck

12. Pack My Stuff

and my favorite one.

13. Potential Murder Suspect

Forward this information to all of your hormonal friends and those who might need a good laugh...

and men who need a warning.

And remember: Money talks but Chocolate SINGS!!!

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Random Avatar

2007-03-28

Well, I was reading "A Journey through life's" blog post titled; "Blogingytis", and Dory, singing, "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." form the movie "Nemo", popped into my head! sooooooooooo I thought I'd post my Dory avatar just for fun!

LOL! - That Dory...she's so funny!

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Waking up...

2007-03-25

Trying to wake up...still......and can't seem to get going this morning. Truth is, I stayed up WAYYYY tooo late last night. Talking....talking to my niece, and her friend, and another friend of mine, and to some folks on here too! I mean it was great chatting etc. last night, but I ended up on-line in IM alot later than I realised! - Time flys when your having fun! -

I worked alot too yesterday, helping my little one with a report, and painting painting on the cut-out boards for the farm. - and opening day for the season there is now only ONE WEEK AWAY!!!!!!! - BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!-

So, I have my hot chocolate, (my beverage/drug of choice), and I'm trying to wake up, and get on with my day. Yep painting............painting painting painting. Oh! and family is to arrive at the end of this week too! *sigh* - I'm tired...maybe I'll go back to bed!

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Avatar-pick of the week!

2007-03-23

Avatar - pick of the week!

I had fun doing this last week...so here is this week's choice of avatar!

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Enchanted Forest MD. - in the news!

2007-03-23

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~(The article below, is from The Baltimore Sun newspaper - in Baltimore MD. )~

~Enchanted land sprouts on farm~

By Nancy Jones-Bonbrest Special to The Sun Originally published March 18, 2007 Entering Clark's Elioak Farm, one immediately notices that this is not your typical children's petting zoo.

Instead, eye-popping colors and shapes that include a gigantic purple shoe, a huge orange pumpkin coach and a crooked house jump out at you. If the items seem vaguely familiar, you're right. They all came from the Enchanted Forest, a well-known storybook theme park in Ellicott City that closed in the late 1980s and later fell into disrepair.

Over the past three years, Martha Clark has been restoring items from the former theme park and transporting them to her 540-acre Ellicott City farm and petting zoo for the next generation of children to climb on, explore and enjoy.

When the farm opens for the 2007 season on March 31, newly completed attractions will include the Merry Miller's House, Humpty Dumpty and Little Toot. A new entrance will greet customers and will eventually offer a replicated facade of the white castle that still sits at the entrance of the former theme park. Late last year, the Old Woman's Shoe and the Three Bears' House were added to the collection.

Clark said the effort is not meant to replicate the park but to preserve as much as possible.

"My goal was never to become the Enchanted Forest. My goal from the very beginning has been as a preservation effort," said Clark. "I just hate to see those pieces sit at the Enchanted Forest deteriorating year after year."

In fact, the main attraction of the farm remains the petting zoo, said Clark. The zoo includes a variety of animals, including goats, sheep, donkeys, alpacas, horses, turkeys, ducks and rabbits. The farm also offers school tours, birthday parties, hay rides, a picnic area and country store.

But as the Enchanted Forest items add up, one can't help but be pulled in the direction of the storybook creations. A sampling of restored items available at the farm include Mother Goose, Cinderella's Pumpkin Coach, Papa Bear, bell-shaped flowers, the Little Red Schoolhouse, the Crooked House, the Easter Bunny's House, the beanstalk and giant, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Three Little Pigs' straw, stick and brick houses.

Future plans include restoring Willie the Whale. Clark said they also have items that are missing some parts (a Jack without a Jill, the spider but no Miss Muffet, and a dish with no spoon) that they hope to find or re-create.

The effort started in 2004, when real estate agent Debbie Burchardt, whose office is in the Enchanted Forest Shopping Center next to the former theme park, asked Kimco Realty Corp., the owners of the center and parkland, for a donation to be auctioned off at a charity event. What she received was Cinderella's pumpkin coach.

Burchardt spent 60 days working on restoring the piece, which had sat neglected for more than 20 years. It was then auctioned off and eventually ended up at Clark's Elioak Farm.

"The Enchanted Forest is such a legend, it's nice to be a part of that," said Burchardt, who said she visited the park when it was open. "I never thought so many pieces would ever be moved. They were so huge and so deteriorated. It looked like it would never happen."

After the success of the pumpkin coach, Kimco offered Clark whatever she could salvage from the old park. But while the items were offered for free, the cost came in moving and restoring them.

Clark said after people found out she was willing to offer a home for the items - a farm that is open to the public during most of the year and is placed in permanent preservation - a steady stream of people offered to pitch in and donate their time, goods and services.

"It's been amazing," said Clark, who estimates she spent about $125,000 last year moving and repairing pieces. "It's really been a wonderful community effort."

Annapolis artist Monica McNew-Metzger was one of the people who decided to volunteer. She began painting Enchanted Forest scenes on round river rocks from the original park. They are either auctioned off or sold in the farm's country store to raise money. She also re-created the missing face and arm of Sleeping Beauty, is working on a mural at the farm that depicts the Enchanted Forest and is repainting the teapot.

"The Enchanted Forest was one of those places you could go to just once and remember it forever," said McNew-Metzger. "I've thoroughly enjoyed working on the different pieces. To me, it's like giving back to this place and to other children."

For Norman Cavey, offering help was a natural fit. Cavey worked at the Enchanted Forest every summer before he joined the Army. When he came back, he worked there for another seven years. Most of his family - including his mother, aunts and uncles - were involved in running the place for the 30 years it remained open.

"I remember dealing with the public the most. They used to get amazing crowds. Everyone was there enjoying themselves," said Cavey.

Just before the park closed in the 1980s, he shot a documentary-style video of the park and all of its attractions. That video, which sells for $25 at the farm, has been a valuable tool in the restoration of the various pieces and scenes. He said he's thrilled to see some of the items and scenes come back to life.

"It's better to be preserved in the way [Clark] is doing it, rather than see it bulldozed down and lost forever," Cavey said.

George W. Miller Jr., who owns George Miller Construction Co. in Catonsville, also offered his services. In the past year, he helped move the shoe from the nursery rhyme "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe," and the Three Bears' House, both of which needed to be cut in half before they could be transported to the farm. He also poured foundations for both structures and made numerous repairs. Most recently, he dug out a 30-foot-by-40-foot pond for Little Toot and re-created Humpty Dumpty's wall.

"I just wanted to be a part of it. It's part of Maryland's history," said Miller, who has 10 grandchildren. "It's something that's going to last a long time."

On April 14 and April 15, the annual Enchanted Forest weekend will be held at Clark's Elioak Farm.

Often, three generations of visitors will come to the farm. Seeing their faces makes all the hard work pay off, said Clark, who has learned to do many of the repairs herself.

"Parents and grandparents both remember the Enchanted Forest, and everyone says the same thing: 'It was such a big deal to go to the Enchanted Forest, and we drove forever,'" said Clark, who added that most of the visitors were coming from only a few miles away.

Become an M&M !

2007-03-18

"Melts in your mouth, not in your hands"
Have fun!

www.becomeanmm.com

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~Pet Rules~

2007-03-18

~Pet Rules~

Even if you don't have pets...

To be posted VERY LOW on the refrigerator door - nose height.

Dear Dogs and Cats,

The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate of food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that esthetically pleasing in the slightest.

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack.

Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort. Dogs and cats can actually curl up in a ball when they sleep. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space is nothing but sarcasm.

For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some miracle I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, try to turn the knob or get your paw under the edge and try to pull the door open. I must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for years --canine or feline attendance is not mandatory.

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough!

To pacify you, my dear pets, I have posted the following message on our front door:

To All Non-Pet Owners Who Visit and Like to Complain About Our Pets

1. They live here. You don't.
2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture.(That's why they call it "fur"niture.)
3. I like my pets a lot better than I like most people.
4. To you, it's an animal. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and doesn't speak clearly.

Remember that dogs and cats are better than kids because they:

1. Eat less
2. Don't ask for money all the time
3. Are easier to train
4. Usually come when called
5. Never drive your car
6. Don't hang out with drug-using friends
7. Don't smoke or drink
8. Don't worry about having to buy the latest fashions
9. Don't wear your clothes
10. Don't need a gazillion dollars for college, and
11. If they get pregnant, you can sell their children.

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Busy painting...............

2007-03-17

Painting, painting, painting, all day today ... trying to finish up the two boards I stayed up nearly all night working on last Thursday night! Luckly I can work indoors on these!
They are for the farm I volunteer at...they have Nursery Rhyme and Fairy Tale characters painted on them where the faces have been cut-out and you can put your own face in there - great photo op, and temerarily replaces the figures that are missing, until replicas can be made. LOTS of work!
Opening day for the 2007 season at the farm is March 31st, soooo...I gotta get crakin' and get this work done!
I have alot to do at the farm too. Some figures still need some repair work, and some more painting needs to be done...the mural of The Enchanted Forest map, the mural of forest trees that's a backdrop for the Robin Hood figures, and the original design painted back onto Alice in Wonderland's large metal Tea Pot, ( about half the size of a VW bug! ) so..yep..LOTS to do still before opening day...now if the weather would only cooperate!
( If you're interested in finding out more about this place, please see #1 on my blogroll for a link. )

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Since September...

2007-03-17

Since September 2006... My close friend's Father passed from cancer My neighbor's daughter passed cerviacal cancer - (she had just turned 40) My Hubby's Aunt passed from lung cancer My Aunt had a masectomy - (she is doing fine) My Father had a triple bypass (he is doing fine) My Uncle had to have surgery - holes drilled into his skull to relive pressure from a previous head injury from falling. (he is doing fine!) I had to have a biopsy done - (results were benign) My close friend, (like a sister to me), passed away unexpectedly I had to have surgery done (results were benign) Kinda taking an inventory of sorts from last year when things started to seem to be non-stop bad news...I had been so glad to see the end of 2006 finally end, and thought WHEW! a new year, and it is OVER! ..but no...there was the passing of my dear friend, and my surgery that began the 2007 year for me. I'm taking the good with the bad...everyone who had surgeries etc. are all fine, including me. PTL! But I am ready for "my turn" to be over, and looking forward to better news in the future! Since September, it reminds me of that quote from Mother Teresa - "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

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Avatar pick of the week

2007-03-16

I love these avatar thingys!...some of them are great fun!
Here is my pick for the week!

Hee hee!
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Durn cold! ..........that's right, I said DURN!

2007-03-14

Well, I should have know better than to read the Freshmaker's "Booger Blog" that he posted yesterday!!!!! ...
(you guys know the post I'm talking about!) LOL!!
- Now I too have a cold with a lovely red and running shnozz!

LOL! - Really it's the same DURN cold I get twice a year...whenever the weather starts to change. - You know - when it's hot one day, with the promice of spring and summer, and all the things to come, and then it's freezing cold the VERY next day - enough that you have to break out the winter coat that you thought you were done with for the season UGH!

                                                             ACHOO!!
                                                    DURN! DURN! DURN!

Well, from one sicky to the other! - and all those feeling the "joy" of the seasonal change...*sniff!-sniff!*

FEEL BETTER SOON!

Some people...

2007-03-14

SOME PEOPLE COME INTO YOUR LIFE FOR A REASON

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant .

Thank you for being a part of my life,
whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.

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It's my Birthday this month!

2007-03-14

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!!

(- I am 1,324,055,293 seconds old. - Vincent Van Gogh was born on my Birthday! - I will be 42, Those 42 candles produce 42 BTUs! -)

got this in my e-mail - thought it was fun!- Enjoy!

Birthday Calendar

It tells you how many hours and how many seconds you have been alive on this earth and when you were probably conceived. How cool is that?

This is cool. After you've finished reading the info, click again, and see what the moon looked like the night you were born. This is neat. Who says our time clocks aren't ticking.... Birthday Calculator

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-...Seven hours and Fifteen days -

2007-03-14

This song is also more about lovers, than about friends, - but it's been playing over and over in my mind today, so I'm gonna post it! So there! - TA DA! -

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SINEAD O'CONNOR
NOTHING COMPARES 2 U
(The Artist)

It's been seven hours and fifteen days
Since u took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since u took your love away
Since u been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
But nothing
I said nothing can take away these blues
`Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares 2 u
It's been so lonely without u here
Like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling
Tell me baby where did I go wrong
I could put my arms around every boy I see
But they'd only remind me of you
I went to the doctor n'guess what he told me
Guess what he told me
He said girl u better have fun
No matter what u do
But he's a fool
`Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares 2 u
All the flowers that u planted, mama
In the back yard
All died when u went away
I know that living with u baby was sometimes hard
But I'm willing to give it another try
Nothing compares
Nothing compares 2 u
Nothing compares
Nothing compares 2 u
Nothing compares
Nothing compares 2 u

I Will Remember You

2007-03-14

This one is more about lovers than about friends, but I love the lyrics of it!

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SARAH McLACHLAN
"I Will Remember You"

I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

Remember the good times that we had?
I let them slip away from us when things got bad
How clearly I first saw you smilin' in the sun
Wanna feel your warmth upon me, I wanna be the one

I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I'm so tired but I can't sleep
Standin' on the edge of something much too deep
It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard

But I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose
Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light

And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
Weep not for the memories

Still Missed - Still Pissed

2007-03-14

Well, it's been almost three months now since my close friend passed away. I keep thinking about her and what happened.

Still missed -
I still see your face as clear as day
still hear your voice
your laugh

wish you were still here
- you move through the rooms of my house and in my mind

I know what you would have said in a given situation
and wish you were here to talk to
and laugh with

your "family" still calls
what the hell do they want???!
they have you - they have everything
- even after they said it was ok, and they would share what meant most
- but no

and now they call - STILL???
WHY?
WHAT FOR!?!?
to get some sort of money??
- some item they forgot when they cleaned out your apartment
under false pretences!?!

They left nothing - NOTHING!
no letters, no pictures, no nick-nacks, no memories
nothing
and still -
they want more
MORE!?!?
what "MORE" is there?!?!?

- only our memories
- of you, -

your face

your voice

your laugh

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Letters From War

2007-03-14

This is a song that I heard on the radio recently...it really touched my heart.

~ Letters from War ~
Mark Schultz

She walked to the mailbox, on that bright summer’s day

Found a letter from her son, in a war far away.

He spoke of the weather, and good friends that he’d made.

Said I been thinking ‘bout dad and the life that he had, that’s why I’m here today.

Then at the end, he said, you are what I’m fighting for.

It was the first of his letters from war.

She started writing, you’re good and you’re brave, what a father that you’ll be someday

Make it home; make it safe, she wrote every night as she prayed.

And late in December, a day she’ll not forget.

Oh, the tears stained the paper, with every word, that she read

It said I was up on a hill, I was out there alone

when the shot all rang out, and bombs were exploding.

That’s when I saw him he came back for me, and thou he was captured, a man set me free

and that man was your son, he ask me to write to you, I told him I would, oh I swore.

It was the last of the letters from war.

And she pray he was living, and kept on believing, and wrote every night just to say.

You are good and you’re brave, what a father that you’ll be someday

Make it home make it safe, still she kept writing each day

And then two years later, autumn leaves all around.

A car pulled in the driveway, and she fell to the ground.

And out stepped a captain, where her boy used to stand.

He said mom I’m following orders, from all of your letters and I’ve come home again.

He ran in to hold her, and dropped all his bags on the floor

Holding all of her letters from war

Bring him home

Bring him home

Bring him home

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the results are in!

2007-03-12

Well...just wanted to post this quick update, since in an earlier post I had mentioned I had had some minor surgery....I got my results last week, and everything was benign.

!!!!!YAY!!!!!

Also, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who checked in on me and for your thoughts and prayers! It meant alot! Thank you!

SPRING FORWARD!

2007-03-11

Ok all you bloggers and bloggetts out there in shoutpost land...

It's time to set your clocks forward!

HA! Don't you love it!?!
- (I know I don't! - I mean I don't like that it gets so dark so early and waking up in the dark in the mornings in the fall/winter...
....but getting up a WHOLE HOUR EARLY.....is for the birds!)

**Don't forget to check your batteries in your smoke alarms too!***

SMILE! :-D

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It's National Get Over It Day!

2007-03-09

No foolin! Today, (March 9th), is ~ National -Get Over It Day! ~
-Everyone has something to "get over" so today is the day to do it!

There's even a website!
-*you can write down the thing you want to get over - and toss it into the "fire" and watch it go up in flames! - *anonymously of course !-)

                      ~ So get over it and ENJOY your Day! ~

                                      Check it out!
                           http://www.getoveritday.com/

A BRAIN FULL OF TRIVIA

2007-03-07

A BRAIN FULL OF TRIVIA

When I am gone, when I am dead,
They're going to open up my head
And find it full of trivia
Like, "quince grows in Bolivia."

And doctors will be so impressed
At how much knowledge I possessed.
They'll ooh and aah and wonder why
Such wisdom rests in such as I.

They'll peer inside my fertile brain
And try their best to ascertain
What methods they should now employ
So that this gem they don't destroy.

They'll learn that cats have 30 teeth,
That fish spawn in a coral reef,
Men hiccup more than women do,
Ammoniums are in shampoo.

More women pay the household bills,
More men forget to take their pills,
Most women lie about their age
And most men have a tire gauge.

The pigs killed off the dodo bird
And if you think that that's absurd;
More women have a double chin,
Most household dust is human skin.

So, stick around, for some fine day
You'll likely hear a doctor say,
"Her brain is such a rarity,
Lets keep it for posterity."

...

Mariane Holbrook

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Another favorite song.......

2007-03-07

This is another one of my fave songs - it's from the movie, Don Juan DeMarco -
Thought I'd post it...

Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? by Bryan Adams

To really love a woman
To understand her you gotta know
Her deep inside
Hear every thought see every dream
N' give her wings when she wants to fly
Then when you find yourself lyin'
Helpless in her arms
Ya know ya really love a woman
* When you love a woman you tell her that she's really wanted
When you love a woman you tell her that she's the one
'Cause she needs somebody to tell her that it's gonna last forever
(That you'll always be together)
So tell me have you really, really really ever loved a woman

To really love a woman
Let her hold you 'til ya know how she needs to be touched
You've gotta breathe her, really taste her
Til you can feel her in your blood
And when you see your unborn children in her eyes
You know you really love a woman
(Repeat *)

You got to give her some faith hold her tight
A little tenderness ya gotta treat her right
She'll be there for you
Takin' good care of you
Ya really gotta love your woman yeah
And when you find yourself lying helpless in her arms
Ya know ya really love a woman
(Repeat *)

Yeah so tell me have you really, really really ever loved a woman?
Oh, just tell me have you really, really really ever loved a woman?

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(Jonathan Harel's Lyrics Collection at www.lyricalcontent.com)

APACHE SEASONS - Lessons on Life

2007-03-04

APACHE SEASONS

Lessons on Life

There was an Indian Chief who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn
not to judge
things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and
look at
a pear tree that was a great distance away.
The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in
summer, and the youngest son in the fall.
When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe

what they had seen.
The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted.
The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of
promise.
The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled
so
sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever

seen.
The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping
with
fruit, full of life and fulfillment.
The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they

had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.
He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one
season,
and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that

come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons

are up.
If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your
spring, the
beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.
Moral:
Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
Don't judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come
some time

                                                            Live Simply.
                                                       Love Generously.
                                                           Care Deeply.
                                                          Speak Kindly.
                                                   Leave the Rest to God.

                                              Happiness keeps You Sweet.
                                                  Trials keep You Strong,
                                                Sorrows keep You Human,
                                               Failures keep You Humble,
                                              Success keeps You Glowing,
                                            But Only God keeps You Going!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. SEUSS!

2007-03-02

Encourage reading with children...

In honor of Dr. Seuss' Birthday, the National Education Association, is sponsoring the 10th annual Read Across America celebration, (TODAY - MARCH 2nd), to commemorate the Birthday of Dr. Seuss!
And as The Cat in The Hat clebrates his 50th Birthday this spring, have fun reading with your child.

Visit: http://www.nea.org/readacross/parents.html - for more info. on Read Across America and more reading tips for toddlers, pre-school, and teenagers.
Another fun site for all ages is: www.catinthehat.com - where you can find games and info. reguarding The Cat in The Hat's 50th Birthday celebration!

!!!!!!!!! >>>>> Sorry, the above link for cat in the hat did not work for me... so....

Instead of www.catinthehat...please go to the following link to find the correct site: http://www.seussville.com/CITH_50th/
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For additional Read Across America info., go to:
* http://www.nea.org/readacross/parents.html
* http://www.nea.org/readacross/resources/index.html
* http://www.seussville.com/special/read.html

Enjoy Reading!