Minnesota

A friend of mine sent me this picture.  I was amazed.  I am trying to figure out how many people it took to load this and I wonder what the car looks like after it is removed.  I am not sure that a car has the strength to hold that load.  It is interesting what people do.  I am sure I would not try this.  What about you???

thankless

The month of December I decided to do a random act of kindness everyday until Christmas Day.   Most of them went well but several of the days didn't.  It still is a mystery to me how when kindness is shown to another person and I am saying going out of ones way type of kindness, that kindness is not returned.  In fact they expect more from a person.  Not even a simple thank you is extended.  It is very difficult to function in this world where ungratefulness is the main theme.

quarter

Football and the Blonde
Of all the blonde jokes, this one has to be the best -- because it makes football make sense!

A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game. They had great seats right behind their team's bench.

After the game, he asked her how she liked it.

"Oh, I really liked it," she replied, "especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents."

Dumbfounded, her boyfriend asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was... 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm like...Helloooooo? It's only 25 cents!!!!"

Homemakers Valentine Party

Monday night I attended my homemakers Valentine Party.  We serve a potluck dinner and the spouses were invited.  We do an exchange of gifts with our secret pal.  I got a makeup pouch, pink striped socks, a bag of chocolates and a Wilton pan that you can make heart cookies on sticks.  I'll have to find the sticks, I think Wal*mart and Ben Franklin both sell them.  How much fun will that be making bouquets of cookies.  The food was delicious and we all had a great time.   We planned our Easter craft which will be bunnies made from tuna cans.  I'll do a story next month on that so you can see our bunnies.

embroidery

I offered to help out a fellow quilter.  She is making a quilt for her son's up coming wedding. She needed embroidery done on two of the blocks.  Now my machine is a small one  and it limited in what can be done the blocks actually turned out quite well.  I was worried but I surely didn't need to be.  I really felt that she was a perfectionist like many quilter are and that I would not be able to deliver to the standard that she held.  I sent her the pictures and she text back that she loved them.  I came close to trading my machine on a bigger one, but now I know that it would be a waste off money and I would not use it enough.  My old brother is good enough. 

TRUTH

 Just read something that I can't get out of my head and wanted to share. So the setting is right after 9-11 and the main character says " I just wish life was more like my books.. Main characters never die in books." Her friend says....... "Everyone is a main character to someone. They might be just another person to you and I, but to someone they are everything." Everyone is a main character to someone.....

WDP

Now I am at the third meeting that I had at the church on Wednesday.  First was quilting, second was the over 80's party planning meeting and now it is the world Day of Prayer planning meeting.  We will be studying Egypt.  All the church come together to plan this event and it is First Lutherans turn to host it.  My friend and I are the coordinators only because the gals that were to do it both due to circumstances with drew from the job.  We will be having a snack afterward.  Of course coffee and food goes with everything we do at the church.  WDP is going to be March 7th at the church.  Since I have moved back I have gone to it each year.  It is a great day especially when you realize that all over the world there are women in pray with the same thoughts as yours.  How powerful is that.