Beautiful Photos

A New Slide Show
I received a new PowerPoint slide show a few days ago. It shows some absolutely beautiful photography by the famous German photographer Laeon. You can go to My Favorite Slide Shows and download the pps file if your wish. Here are some examples of the photography:

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Tennessee Granddaddy Says:
Spend some time with some older folks and soak up some of their wisdom and common sense.

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Quote of the Day
The greatest wealth is health.
~Virgil

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Joke of the Day

A Blonde Guy Joke!
An Irishman,a Mexican and a Blonde Guy were doing construction work on scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building.

They were eating lunch and the Irishman said, "Corned beef and cabbage! If I get corned beef and cabbage one more time for lunch, I'm going to jump off this building."

The Mexican opened his lunch box and exclaimed, "Burritos again! If I get Burritos one more time I'm going to jump off, too."

The blonde opened his lunch and said, " Bologna again! If I get a bologna sandwich one more time, I'm jumping too."

The next day, the Irishman opened his lunch box, saw corned beef and cabbage, and jumped to his death.

The Mexican opened his lunch, saw a Burrito, and jumped, too.

The blonde guy opened his lunch, saw the bologna and jumped to his death as well.

At the funeral, the Irishman's wife was weeping. She said, "If I'd known how really tired he was of corned beef and cabbage, I never would have given it to him again!"

The Mexican's wife also wept and said, "I could have given him tacos or enchiladas! I didn't realize he hated Burritos so much."

Everyone turned and stared at the blonde's wife. The blonde's wife said, "Don't look at me. He makes his own lunch."

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Happy Bithday Bethany!

A special post for my daughter
on her Birthday, August 23

Bethany Rieben White

The above picture was taken on August 15, 2008. The waterfalls in the background are in Letchworth State Park in New York.

More pictures from Letchworth State Park.


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Common Sense

Some people don't think. Consider the two following examples. They were sent to me in an email with several more examples of stupidity or ignorance:

1. I live in a semi rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the DEER CROSSING sign on our road. The reason: "Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don't think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore." From Kingman, KS
   
   
2. We had to have the garage door repaired. The repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a "large" enough motor on the opener. I thought for a minute, and said that we had the largest one made at that time, a 1/2 horsepower. He shook his head and said, "Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower." I responded that 1/2 was larger than 1/4. He said, "NO, it's not." Four is larger than two.." We haven't used that repair service since.

It's better to be ignorant that stupid. Ignorance is curable, and stupidity is not. We're all ignorant in some topics or areas. But let's hope we're better off than these two people. (Even if the above is not true, it is funny.)

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Tennessee Granddaddy Says:
It is good to have some time alone and have some quietness.

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Quote of the Day

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.
~Author Unknown

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Joke of the Day

A retired couple went to breakfast at a restaurant where the 'seniors' special' was two eggs, bacon, hash browns and toast for $1.99.

'Sounds good,' my wife said. 'But I don't want the eggs.'

'Then I'll have to charge you two dollars and forty-nine cents because you're ordering a la carte,' the waitress warned her.

'You mean I'd have to pay for not taking the eggs?' my wife asked incredulously.

'YES!!' stated the waitress.

'I'll take the special then.' my wife said.

'How do you want your eggs?' the waitress asked.

'Raw and in the shell,' my wife replied.

She took the two eggs home.

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Correction

The lawsuits I mentioned in my post earlier today never happened.

See Snopes

We live in such a crazy world with weird happenings all the time, I just assumed the were real and true lawsuits. They are not. I should have checked them out. I'm sorry if I misled you.

Which brings up a good point. All of us get a lot of emails with untrue material. It is important to check them out using SNOPES.COM

Crazy Lawsuits

It Does Not Make Any Sense
Consider these lawsuits.

1. Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to subsist for eight, count 'em, EIGHT, days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the home owner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish.
   
   Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish.
   
   
2. Consider Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned.
   
   Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set.
   
   The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

These are two examples that show that our criminal justice system has gone mad. People are no longer responsible for their own actions! Hard to believe, huh?

Here's a web site listing other Crazy Lawsuits.

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Tennessee Granddaddy Says:
Sometimes we wish for a lot of things,
but remember, not getting what we wished for,
may turn out to be a blessing.

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Quote of the Day

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
~Thomas Jefferson

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Joke of the Day

A soldier stationed in Afghanistan recently received a letter from his girlfriend back home. It read as follows:

Dear Ricky,

I can no longer continue our relationship. The distance between us is just too great. I must admit that I have been seeing two other guys, since you've been gone, and it's not fair to either of us. I'm sorry.

Please return the picture of me that I sent to you.

Love, Becky

...and...

The soldier, with hurt feelings, asked his fellow soldiers for any snapshots they could spare of their girlfriends, sisters or ex-girlfriends.In addition to the picture of Becky, Ricky included all the other pictures of the pretty gals he had collected from his buddies.

There were 57 photos in that envelope.... along with this note:

Dear Becky,

I'm so sorry, but I can't quite remember who you are. Please take your picture from the file, and send the rest back to me.

Take Care,
Ricky

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Unique Love Seat

When we visited the Lamberton Conservatory in Rochester, NY, we saw an interesting seat that had been hewed out of a large log. I guess you could call it a love seat. Here's two pictures. The first shows the seat by itself, and the second shows the seat with two lovers.

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Tennessee Granddaddy Says:
When you lose, you can also win,
if you learn the lesson that you were taught.

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Quote of the Day

You've gotta have hope.
Without hope life is meaningless.
Without hope life is meaning less and less.
~Author Unknown

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Joke of the Day

Ever heard the story of the giant ship engine that failed? The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine.

Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a youngster.

He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.

Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer.

He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.

"What?!" the owners exclaimed. " He hardly did anything!"

So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."

The man sent a bill that read:

Tapping with a hammer .............. $ 2.00
Knowing where to tap............ $ 9,998.00
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Total............................$10,000.00

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Home Again!

Home Again
We're back home. It's always so good to get back home. Last year when we took a trip like this we had problems: a water leak and a non working heat pump. This year it's much better. We only have a non working heat pump. It's only 80 in the house, but they'll be here in the morning to get things going again. Oh well, that's life. Some days you're the bug, and other days you're the windshield.

Visit to Conservatory
During our travel to Rochester, our daughter took us to see the Lamberton Conservatory. We enjoyed it very much, and I took a lot of pictures of the plants. It quite a range of plants. I hope you enjoy the following slide show:

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Tennessee Granddaddy Says:
There's no place like home!

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Quote of the Day

Peace - that was the other name for home.
~Kathleen Norris

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Joke of the Day

A man was driving down the highway in his pick-up truck and there was this lone monkey just sitting along the side of the road.

Confused, the man stopped the truck and opened the door. "You need a lift?" he asked. The monkey just stared back at him and scratched his ear. Eventually the man got out, picked the monkey up, put it in his front seat and started down the road again.

At this time there was a state trooper cruising down in the opposite direction. The policeman happened to see the man pick up the monkey. Knowing that it was not only illegal to pick up hitch hikers, but also illegal to have a monkey, he pulled the man over a few miles down the road. The policeman chewed the man out for picking up the monkey and told him to take it to the zoo immediately. The man agreed and was off.

The next day the policeman saw the man driving down the highway with the monkey again. So he pulled the man over and said, "I thought I told you to take that monkey to the zoo."

"I did," replied the man, "and we had so much fun that today we're going to Sea World!"

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