My Dad's birthday is May 1 - I've attached a photo from a few years back!

Happy 39^th Pops!

 

 

Happy 67th Birthday, STAN

Happy Birthday, Stan. Wow, 67- your going to catch up with me yet.

let this be a lesson to you

Two men eat brother’s body to conceal murder
29 Apr, 01:52 PM
Two men in Siberia killed their elder brother, skinned and gutted the body and then ate the flesh over a long period. After the arrest the brothers said they did so to conceal their crime.

Did Jimmy Hoffa have any brothers?

Google Maps Sampler

Rhett Dashwood (graphic designer from Australia) did something we all wish we had time for...maybe...he scoured Google Maps until he had all the letters of the alphabet located. Some are buildings, some pavement and some trees or bushes. I think they call this Red Neck Texting:

Qatar Creature

Newest strange creature to surface on the internet from Qatar. Primate? Rodent? If you've seen one, let me know!

Are you a believer?

Recently, an Apollo astronaut came forward and said he believed in UFOs. He's not the only fruitcake out there. Look at this list:
Jimmy Carter, US President from 1976 to 1980, promised while on the campaign trail that he would make public all documents on UFOs if elected. He said: "I don't laugh at people any more when they say they've seen UFOs. I've seen one myself."
General Douglas MacArthur, the Korean and Second World War soldier, said in 1955 that "the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets. The politics of the future will be cosmic, or interplanetary".
J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI from its inception in 1935 to 1972, said of a famous incident when flying saucers were allegedly fired at over Los Angeles in 1942: "We must insist upon full access to disks recovered. For instance, in the LA case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination."
Monsignor Corrado Balducci, a Vatican theologian, said: "Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its embassies in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela."
Professor Stephen Hawking: "Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the Government is hushing it up."
Dr. Herman Oberth, a Nazi rocket engineer who was taken to the US after the war and became one of the fathers of modern spaceflight, said: "It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are spaceships from another solar system.There is no doubt in my mind that these objects are interplanetary craft of some sort. I and my colleagues are confident that they do not originate in our solar system."
Dr J Allen Hynek, director of the US Air Force's Project Blue Book investigation into UFOs, said: "When the long-awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science, but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum leap... we had a job to do, whether right or wrong, to keep the public from getting excited."
Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain: "I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth."
Ronald Reagan, US President from 1980 to 1988, "I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said, 'Have you ever seen anything like that?' He was shocked and he said, 'nope.' And I said to him: 'Let's follow it!' We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it."
Mikhail Gorbachev, the USSR's last head of state: "The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously."
Richard Nixon, US President from 1969 to 1974: "I'm not at liberty to discuss the government's knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject."
Dr. Walther Riedel, research director at the Nazi rocket research establishement at Peenemunde: "I am completely convinced that UFOs have an out-of-world basis."

Organ Donor Dolls

These dolls are all heart - and lungs, eyeballs and brains. David Foox, an artist based in Denver, Colorado, has created a collection of organ donor dolls

I like normal heads on my dolls but they are kind of cute.

Is that a kidney?

Best Earth Day posters

"It isn't easy being green"

Earth Day 2009

It certainly isn't easy being green! A year or so ago when I started separating my trash into glass, numbered plastics, paper, cardboard, tin, etc, I doubled my work load!! and I sing Kermit's "being green" song as I do it.

Also known as
Kermie (by Miss Piggy), Froggy Baby (by Grover), Uncle Kermit (by Robin the Frog), Kermit The Angry Frog (from 3 different News Flash episodes)

Modern Day Outlaws

We also ran into this bunch of outlaws in Tenn.

Gatlinburg

Zach is swimming in the hotel pool in Gatlinburg, TN.

Smokey Mts. Hike

Some (cell) pictures along the way on our hike through the Smokey Mts.

Top is Deb trying to lever a huge piece of quartz out of the mountain as Omar and Zach forge the trail in the background.

Bottom is a waterfall we came upon. Zach in the red at center right and Omar in white. This was quite a spectacular falls.

We are now resting in the hotel room as to prepare ourselves for tonight's dinner.

Happy Birthday April 16th Nolan

Happy 48th Birthday, Nolan -on April 16th.

Lego Jesus

I thought my nephew had every Lego ever made but this statue takes the cake.

Members of the congregation donated nearly 30,000 Lego bricks to build the 5ft 8 high statue, said Per Wilder, the pastor of the Oensta Gryta Church (presumably not made of Legos) in Vaesteras, about 70 miles west of Stockholm.
Finished just in time for the Easter holiday, the work began a year and a half ago.
The model was based on the Danish sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsens's, 19th century work 'Christus', which depicts the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Le Whif-chocolate inhaler

The revolutionary gadget means chocolate lovers can indulge their guilty pleasure without putting on weight.
The gadget lets users breathe in chocolate to curb cravings and satisfy their sweet tooth.

Invented by Harvard professor David Edwards, Le Whif comes in four different flavours: raspberry, mint, mango and plain.
He worked with his students at Harvard University to develop the product and said he was inspired by thinking beyond normal ways of eating food and into the future.

and in forty years when half the world's population is addicted to it, they will find it causes cancer...I'd stick to Le Hersey.

Top Shaman Elections

Russia will stage the first ever ‘Top Shaman’ elections this year, with 188 candidates currently listed from all over the country, online shamanist magazine Shamanstvo reports.

The list of candidates currently contains all shamans registered in the Shamans Register of Russia, but any people who consider themselves shamans are also welcome to submit their applications.
The Novy Region news agency cites the curious biographies of several candidates.
For instance, Oyun Batyr is a hereditary shaman from Tuva, a shamanist region in Russia’s Siberia. According to his biography, he has several thousand kettles, five wives and three sons. Batyr doesn’t drink and smokes dried herbs instead of tobacco.

Looks like all you need is several thousand things hanging around your neck and a dead animal on your head. I'm sure the dried herbs help in the vision process.

a Blond, a Brunette, and a Redhead

winning advertising photographer Julian Wolkenstein works with the supermodels of the equine world ... with a few hair extensions and a little bit of grooming

Peep Season

Easter Peeps

A holiday traditionBut did you know there are competitions for the best Peep diorama?

The one below I found on www.mentalfloss.com entitled...

Octopeeps!!

and the one above, untitled but obvious, I found on the Chicago Tribune site.

Want to build your own PeepShow, visit www.marshmellowpeeps.com for all the color/animal/etc options.

Chia Obama Pulled from Shelves

Although Walgreen's has pulled the Chia Obama from its shelves citing 'racism,' the question is "Can we still buy one?" The answer:

Yes we can!

go to www.chiaobama.com

and buy one of two poses 'happy Obama' or 'stern Obama' or get them both.

Or better yet...buy one and masking tape over the name 'Billy Crystal' cause doesn't it look more like him than Obama?

I might wait for the Chia Hillary.

Happy Birthday Bonnie

Belated Birthday picture . Bonnie when she was in country school 1946

Gold Porsche stolen

Or that's at least how it was first reported.

This Porsche is the only gold one registered in Russia. The owner says its value is $600,000 and reported it stolen after a prospective buyer didn't return from a test drive...as if you wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb driving this thing home.

In actuality, the car is merely painted gold and not plated gold and is only worth $90,000. And it seems as though it wasn't stolen at all. The police report states only a dispute broke out between owner and prospective owner about the value of the Porsche and police were needed to resolve the issue.

I think the car was probably stolen but when the thief found out it was only painted gold and worth almost ten times less than he was told, he brought it back, angry, humiliated and ready for a fight. So whats worse...a thief or a liar?

Biodegradable chewing gum

The new gum becomes non-adhesive when dry and decomposes to dust within six weeks, a spokesman for Mexico's Chicza Mayan Rainforest Chewing Gum told CNN.
The makers of Chicza say it is the first biodegradable chewing gum ever sold. Environmental and waste management groups told CNN that they, too, believe it is a first.

and why is this important? read on...
A spokesman for campaign group Keep Britain Tidy told CNN they welcome any product that can help eradicate the staining on pavements caused by dropped chewing gum.
Removing chewing gum litter costs local authorities $222 million a year, a spokesman for the Local Government Association told CNN.
"It's an incredibly expensive and time-consuming task, so anything that could reduce the problem is very welcome indeed." he said. I use acid to clean my sidewalks.
British parliamentarians have called on the government to introduce a tax on chewing gum, with the money raised going toward the cost of gum removal.
In Britain, offenders can be fined up to $119 for discarding used chewing gum on a street.

yikes! Hope Obama doesn't spit out his Nicoret...

Lenin statue bombed

A Lenin monument has been attacked in the Russian city of St. Petersburg. The offenders made an 80 by 100 cm hole in the monument to the famous communist leader, allegedly using a grenade launcher or a bomb.

Al-Qaeda?

Man swallows scissors

Chinese surgeons saved a man's life after he accidentally swallowed a pair of nail scissors he was using to clean his teeth.
These are the astonishing X-rays that show how surgeons saved a man's life after he cut his throat with a pair of scissors - from the inside.

Lin Kong had borrowed a four-inch-long pair of nail scissors to use instead of a toothpick to clean his teeth after a meal.
But as one of his friends told a joke, the 27-year-old laughed and swallowed the clippers.
As he tried to cough up the scissors, the points, which were facing upwards, dug deeper into his throat, causing serious damage.

Guess there are worse things you can clean your teeth with (steak knife).