The Old Folks Home

[insanity]

Beautiful.

 

[ozexpat]

indeed

 

[chickisoup]

x 2

DITTO!

 

[Pozees]

I must be in trashville.

here it is Joke of the Day

I hope no one is offended

~A US Navy cruiser anchored in Mississippi for a week's shore leave. The first evening, the ship's Captain received the following note from the wife of a very wealthy and influential plantation owner: "Dear Captain, Thursday will be my daughter Melinda's Debutante Ball. I would like you to send four well-mannered, handsome, unmarried officers in their formal dress uniforms to attend the dance." "They should arrive promptly at 8:00 PM prepared for an evening of polite Southern conversation. They should be excellent dancers, as they will be the escorts of lovely refined young ladies. One last hint: "No Jews please." Sending a written message by his own yeoman, the captain replied: "Madam, thank you for your invitation. In order to present the widest possible knowledge base for polite conversation, I am sending four of my best and most prized officers." "One is a lieutenant commander, and a graduate of Annapolis with an additional Master's degree from MIT in fluid technologies and ship design." "The second is a Lieutenant, one of our helicopter pilots, and a graduate of Northwestern University in Chicago , with a BS in Aeronautical Engineering. His Masters Degree and PhD. In Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering are from Texas Tech University and he is also an astronaut candidate." "The third officer is also a lieutenant, with degrees in both computer systems and information technology from SMU and he is awaiting notification on his Doctoral Dissertation from Cal Tech." "Finally, the fourth officer, also a lieutenant commander, is our ship's doctor, with an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and his medical degree is from the University of North Carolina . We are very proud of him, as he is also a senior fellow in Trauma Surgery at Bethesda." Upon receiving this letter, Melinda's mother was quite excited and looked forward to Thursday with pleasure. Her daughter would be escorted by four handsome naval officers without peer (and the other women in her social circle would be insanely jealous).
At precisely 8:00 PM on Thursday, Melinda's mother heard a polite rap at the door which she opened to find, in full dress uniform, four very handsome, smiling Black officers. Her mouth fell open, but pulling herself together, she stammered, "There must be some mistake."
"No, Madam," said the first officer. "Captain Goldberg never makes mistakes."

LOL Outstanding!

 

[Pozees]

Linda, I suspect Ron and I are in competition for Most Envious LOL - would love to have water on the property anytime the last several years.

 

[pickitfarm]

Chicken Canoe...I hope she picked up every last bit of her trash too. And learned a lesson to boot. I taught my kids not to litter, and for nature walks, I would take them out with each a big black trash bag. Our walks were over when all of our trash bags were full for the day. This was just along the residential roads that we lived on.

SC use to have billboards throughout the state about littering. I can't remember the exact wording but its message is that this state is not your trash can. My husband observed someone in the bank parking lot walking to his car just throw down his wrapper. My husband told him that he better pick it up because that was not his property and it was illegal. The man started to smart off at him until a voice behind him said, You better do what he says or you will get a ticket. It was a state police officer. He picked it up. DH has also yelled out his truck window at someone that threw stuff out it - "Hey you lost something". We have observed people turn around to retrieve it...not realizing he was telling them not to litter. Littering is one of my pet peeves too. When I was growing up not only were we taught not to litter but not to walk across peoples lawns. To this day I won't do it even on public property.

Wisher - Congratulations on the Silver Campine egg. They are very pretty chickens.

SCG - I am miserable for you with all of that winter mess.

 

[pickitfarm]

That is a just beautiful.

 

[drumstick diva]

Pickitfarm I agree, from the time we were little kids we were taught NOT to walk on anyone's grass. Of course my mother punctuated that by saying "or they'll call the police."

To this day I get riled when I see kids and I mean BIG kids too, walk across anyone's lawn or let their dogs dirty on it. What kind of parents could they

A lot of the family lessons persist, I still cannot call adults by their first name even tho I am older than them. You just NEVER did so when I was growing up. I used to walk very long distances for several years and if I had any litter it came home with me if I couldn't find a trash container. I get furious when I see all the junk people throw out of their cars. WE have a lot of Forest preserve area around us with many signs that say "NO DUMPING". Of course that's where people throw the most garbage.

We need "litter" police or something.

 

[chickadoodles]

I thought I would throw out a few photos of the "seasonal" creek on my property since we got some rain up here.

Wow that is a very pretty creek Linda! I don't know about there, but here some friends have a huge pond that goes dry in the worst of summer. But then fills back up and the fish hatch out and it's full of fish again. They never order or pay for fish and they just hatch out after the pond is dry for months.

 

[ronott1]

Linda, I suspect Ron and I are in competition for Most Envious LOL - would love to have water on the property anytime the last several years.

Yes! The last storm did not give us rain in the Valley. Linda and @Hangtown Farms did get rain in the Foothills.