Lady Liberty came to America in 350 pieces. To help pay for the statue's construction and assembly, the chunks, including her head and her torch, were put on display at venues like the World's Fair in Paris and the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
A woman goes to the doctor for her yearly physical.
The nurse starts with certain basic items.
How much do you weigh?' she asks.
'115,' she says.
The nurse puts her on the scale.
It turns out her weight is 140
The nurse asks, 'Your height?'
'5 foot 8,' she says.
The nurse checks and sees that she only measures 5' 5'.
She then takes her blood pressure and tells the woman it is very high.
'Of course it's high!' she screams, 'When I came in here I was tall and
slender! Now I'm short and fat!
And just in time for Halloween.....
Anna Tuthill Harrison was
the wife of President William Henry Harrison and grandmother of President
Benjamin Harrison, and was nominally first lady of the United States during her
husband's one-month term in 1841, though she never entered the White House due
to the fact that he died exactly one month after the inauguration. The couple had been
married 45 years when he was elected President and she had borne him five children.
At the time she was too ill to travel when her husband set out from Ohio in 1841
for his inauguration, it was a long trip and a difficult one even by steamboat and
railroad, with February weather uncertain at best and she at 65 was well acquainted
with the rigors of frontier journeys as he was a decorated soldier. So, it was
decided that his daughter-in-law would accompany him and serve until May when
she planned to make the trip. She was packing when she received word of his
death and never went. Accepting grief with admirable dignity, she stayed at her
home in North Bend until the house burned in 1858; she lived nearby with her
last surviving child, John Scott Harrison, until she died in February 1864 at
the age of 88.
You just tested it, didn’t you? Normally, when you hum, the air is able to escape through your nose to create the sound, and of course, it can’t do that when you’re holding it shut. This is one of the weird facts you can test out for yourself. Go ahead, try it.
A
little boy was waiting for his mother to come out of the grocery Store. As he
waited, he was approached by a man who asked, "Son, can you tell me where
the Post Office is?"
The little boy replied, "Sure! Just go straight down this street a couple
blocks and turn to your right."
The man thanked the boy kindly and said, "I'm the new pastor in town. I'd
like for you to come to church on Sunday. I'll show you how to get to
Heaven."
The little boy replied with a chuckle. "Awww, come on...You don't even
know the way to the Post Office."
John 14:6. New International Version ... Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. ... No one comes to the Father except through me.
Baby Flamingo's are not born pink.
Hanna Hoes Van Buren 1783-1819
His childhood sweetheart and cousin once removed, Hannah Hoes Van Buren was the wife of the eighth President, Martin Van Buren. She died of tuberculosis before he was elected, leaving him one of the few Presidents to remain unmarried in office. Not much is known of her but in the 12 years they were married she bore five children, one died.
I have posted two posts of Uplifting Wed via Pinterest a month for some time now and feel the need to change it up a bit. Several years ago I created a little packet of jokes, funny pictures, beautiful pictures, stories, special sayings and scriptures for friend who was ill because laughter and God make all the difference. I titled it "Brightspots" and thought it would be fun to share them with you all so I will post one a month in place of the usual Uplifting Wed. post.
"The quickest, easiest way I've found is to get some paper-towels ready (I usually tear them in half) first for good "grabbability." I'm right-handed so I hold the small end of the leg in my left hand (using a paper towel half), then I'll use another paper-towel half to grab the loose skin at the top of the leg and pull all the way down and off."
This works soooooo good and I am a happy camper. I just soak the legs in a baggie with BQ sauce and then in the air fryer they go.
Hubby and I have lived in our house nearly 30 years so it is safe to say most everything in my house is old and I don't buy things very often so when the bathroom scale AND the can opener took a dive I had to go shopping...
I stared blogging in 2007 and it seems that I have either gotten, lazy, forgetful, nonchalant and or distracted. I recently went blog searching and found one that interested me and was so glad that her blog was set up with labels so that I could quickly go to the areas I was interested in. It got me to thinking about my labels and was I ever sorry to see that many times I was not putting one or had multiples with different spellings and etc. so I have spent a bit of time trying to clean them up. I worked through to 2016 and then decided that was enough. What I hope it has taught me is that it is important to follow through. It also inspired me to go back and re-read all my posts and I found it to be as heart lifting as going through an old photo album so if you find yourself looking for something to do give it a try.
The first revolving door was invented in 1888 with the goal of preventing wind, snow,
rain, dust, or noise from entering buildings. The original patent application
was filed by Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia. (He was granted U.S. patent 387,571 for a
three-wing “Storm-door structure” on August 7, 1888.
Well if you are like me you woke up this morning and Bloglovin was gone....poof. After much searching for information it appears it was hosted by Twitter and they have removed it. I tried to find another way to track my blogs that is simple and easy and updated only to find out that this very site has a venue for that. If you go to Design and look at the bottom there is a reading list. Just click on it and it will show you blogs that you followed. Most of mine were outdated and no longer running but you can go up to manage and add the ones you are following and then it will show all the posts of those blogs and when they updated and etc. Just click on the blog you are following and copy the web site and then add it. I just love it when the answer is right under my nose! Thank you blogger.
Update: I was able to find bloglovin.com and pin it to my reading list so now I have two ways of tracking the blogs I follow.
I was re-reading some of my old posts back from 2012 and thought this should get another viewing.
Can you explain............
