The Joshua tree is the only tree that grows in California's Mojave Desert
Changes in the wind
Monday, June 27, 2022
The Joshua tree
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Brightspots#11
Things could be worse....
After
the eighty-three year old lady finished her annual physical examination, the
doctor said,
"You are in fine shape for your age, Mrs. Mallory, but tell me, do you
still have intercourse?"
"Just a minute, I'll have to ask my husband," she said..
She stepped out into the crowded reception room and yelled out loud:
"Henry, do we still have intercourse?" And there was a hush.
You could hear a pin drop.
Henry answered impatiently, "If I told you once, Irma, I told you a
hundred times...What we have is...
Blue Cross!"
Monday, June 13, 2022
Did you know?
How funny I posted this on Flag Day of the United States
The Ohio Burgee is the official flag of the U.S. state of Ohio. It is a triangular swallowtail flag, the only non-rectangular U.S. state flag. Its red, white, and blue elements symbolize the state's natural features and order of admission into the Union.
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Thursday, June 2, 2022
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Brightspots#10
Say What?
Monday, May 23, 2022
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Our First Ladies #13
Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor
in role
March 4, 1849 - July 9, 1850
Born in Calver County, Maryland on September 21, 1788, the
daughter of Walter Smith, a prosperous Maryland planter and veteran officer of
the American Revolution, and the former Ann Mackall, “Peggy” was raised amid
refinement and wealth.
While visiting her sister in Kentucky in 1809, she was introduced
to Lieutenant Zachary Taylor, who was home on leave.
Lt. Taylor, aged 25, married Peggy Smith, aged 21, on June
21, 1810, at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Mary Chew near Louisville,
Kentucky. She followed him from fort to fort as his career advanced except for
while he was serving in the Mexican American War; She lived at their Cypress
Grove Plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi.
With the rise in Zachary Taylor’s political career, his wife
Peggy Taylor literally prayed for his defeat, for she dreaded the personal consequences
of his becoming the president. By the time she became the First Lady in 1849, the
hardships of following her husband from fort-to-fort and enduring several
childbirths over the 39 year period had taken their toll. Two small girls died
in 1820 of what Taylor called “a violent bilious fever,” which left Peggy’s
health impaired; three girls and a boy grew up.
A semi-invalid, she remained in seclusion on the second
floor of the White House, leaving the duties of official hostess to her
daughter, Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Bliss.
After participating in ceremonies at the Washington Monument
on a blistering July 4, 1850, President Taylor fell ill and within five days he
was dead. Margaret Taylor’s health deteriorated rapidly after his sudden death.
She died two years later August 14, 1852, in Pascagoula, Mississippi. She was buried
next to her husband near Louisville, Kentucky.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Brightspots #9
Man
driving down road,
Woman driving up same road.
They pass each other.
The woman yells out the window, PIG!
Man yells out window, WITCH!
Man rounds next curve………
Man crashes into a HUGE PIG in middle of road and dies.
Moral of the Story: If men would just
listen!
Do you know where these two are going?
Walmart of course!
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
The world's shortest aqueduct
The Veluwemeer Aqueduct: Netherland's Unique Water Bridge
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Brightspots #8
A
husband and wife are shopping in their local Wal-Mart.
The husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their cart.
"What do you think you're doing?" asks the wife.
"They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans," he replies.
"Put them back, we can't afford them," says the wife, and so they
carry on shopping.
A few aisles further on along the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and
puts it in the basket.
"What do you think you're doing?" asks the husband.
"It’s my face cream. It makes me look beautiful," replies the wife.
Her husband retorts, "So does 24 cans of Budweiser and it's half the
price."
On the PA system: 'Cleanup on aisle 25, we have a husband down.'
The most wasted day is
that in which we have not laughed. (Chamfort)
Laughter is inner jogging. (Norman Cousins)
Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen
the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead. (Dwight D.
Eisenhower)
Monday, March 21, 2022
Behind the scenes
Isn't it fun to get a inside peek of how things work. He is using a camera to see where he is going.
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Monday, March 7, 2022
First lady #12
As the eldest daughter of Captain Joel and Elizabeth Childress
she was use to a life of silks and satin growing up on a plantation near Murfreesboro,
Tennessee. She also was one the few women of the 19th century to be
afforded an education of higher learning and it made her especially fitted to
assist a man with a political career.
James K. Polk was laying the foundation for that career when
he met her. He had begun his first years’ service in the Tennessee legislature
when they were married on New Year’s Day, 1824; he was 28, she 20.
At a time when motherhood gave a woman her only acknowledged
career, Sarah Polk had to resign herself to childlessness, but she accompanied
her husband to Washington whenever she could, and they soon won a place in its
most select social circles. Privately she helped him with his speeches, copying
his correspondence and giving him advice. Not surprisingly when he returned to
Washington as President in 1845, she stepped to her high position with ease and
evident pleasure. She appeared at the inaugural ball, but as a devout
Presbyterian, she did not dance.
Only three months after retirement in 1849 to their fine new home “Polk
Place” in Nashville, he died, worn out by the years of public service. Clad
always in black, Sarah Polk lived on in the home for 42 years, guarding the memory
of her husband and accepting honors paid to her as honors due to him. The house
because a place of pilgrimage. She lived to be 88 years old and is buried next
to her husband.