

Got a major storm system headed our way, by the time you read this it will all be passed, of course, but it’s about an hour or so out right now, but we’re under a severe thunder storm watch with the possibility of tornadoes, and baseball sized hail.
I have no doubt that God will protect us, He always has and He always will.
So, while we wait …










Halfway through a long flight, a flight attendant noticed a man gripping his armrest like it owed him money. He was drenched in sweat, shaking, and chewing his nails down to the quick.
Concerned, she leaned in and said, “Sir, you don’t look well. Can I get you something to help calm your nerves? Maybe a whiskey?”
The man closed his eyes, clearly battling himself, then finally whispered, “…Okay.”
A little while later, she checked on him again. Somehow, he looked worse – paler, shakier, eyes darting everywhere.
“Another whiskey?” she offered gently.
He didn’t even trust himself to speak this time. He just nodded.
On her next pass, she found him hunched over, quietly sobbing into his napkin.
Now genuinely worried, she said, “I’ve seen nervous flyers before, but never this bad. You must be terrified of flying.”
The man looked up, miserable, and said, “I’m not afraid of flying at all… I’m trying to quit drinking!”






Yup.



A married business executive had to make a trip to Palm Beach for his corporation.
After a few days, he was enjoying himself so much that he decided to stay another week as part of his vacation.
Wanting to share this newly discovered paradise, he wired his bachelor friend, “Take the next plane for a fun week on me. Bring my wife and your mistress.”
His friend was quick to wire back, “Your wife and I are arriving tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. How long have you known about us?”
Just got a warning that it’s supposed to start raining in a few minutes so I took the dogs out for the last time and cleared out the entry to the basement. I have a trapdoor in my pantry to get to the basement, which, of course has stuff on it, so I moved said stuff into the kitchen, which leaves me free to lift the trapdoor to get to the basement stairs if need be. It is times like this that I had local TV.











A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
Well, now the lights are going on and off so I’m getting off of here for a while. Talk later.

Well, it’s now the next day (Friday) and as it turns out, it got really exciting … for everyone except the Impish Lair. It was a complete and total non-event here. But, across town, the power went out, trees were uprooted, hail (not baseball sized, just regular sized). We got some rain, torrential for a little while, but even the lightning was kind of off in the distance.
And it’s not like my little town is anything but…little. My work assistant lives 3.5 miles away, it says so right there on Google maps, lost power. His whole side of town did. His son got sent home from work at Taco Bell because they didn’t have power.
The hot dog stand less than a mile from me was without power.
There was a 120 mph wind gust reported in the next county over … headed right for us!
But for House Impish …. not much.
God is SO GOOD!!
I hate to say I told you, but…
I TOLD YOU!


I need a hundred of those signs made up, please.

I have no idea why I saved this picture, but I did.











There’s a new health study that was just completed that claims having sex decreases your chances of getting a cold.
The more sex you have, the less chance you’ll have of catching a cold.
Can you just picture how it’s gonna be in office’s across the country this winter, every time a woman sneezes there’ll be some guy saying, “Hey, I got something for that.”










A collector of rare books ran into an acquaintance who told him he had just thrown away an old Bible that he found in a dusty, old box.
He happened to mention that Guten-somebody-or-other had printed it.
Not Gutenberg?” gasped the collector.
Yes, that was it!”
You idiot! You’ve thrown away one of the first books ever printed. A copy recently sold at auction for half a million dollars!”
Oh, I don’t think this book would have been worth anything close to that much,” replied the man.
“It was scribbled all over in the margins by some clown named Martin Luther.”











It was Palm Sunday and, because of a sore throat, five-year-old Johnny stayed home from church with a sitter.
When the family returned home, they were carrying several palm branches.
The boy asked what they were for.
“People held them over Jesus’ head as he walked by,” his older brother explained.
“Wouldn’t you know it,” the boy fumed. “The one Sunday I don’t go and He showed up!”










Nah! That’s pretty much the expectation.


















A well-dressed, soft-spoken woman walked into a pharmacy one afternoon. She waited patiently in line, then approached the counter with a calm smile and said, very politely:
“Good afternoon. I’d like to purchase some cyanide.”
The pharmacist blinked, thinking he must have misheard. “I’m sorry… you’d like to buy what?”
“Cyanide,” she repeated, just as calmly. “A small amount will do.”
The pharmacist’s face went pale. “Ma’am, I can’t sell you cyanide! That’s extremely dangerous. What on earth would you need it for?”
She leaned in slightly and said, in the same even tone, “I intend to use it to poison my husband.”
The pharmacist nearly jumped out of his shoes. “Poison your husband?! Absolutely not! That’s illegal! I could lose my license, you could go to prison – we’d both be in serious trouble. There’s no way I’m giving you cyanide!”
The woman sighed, as if she had expected this reaction. Then she calmly reached into her purse, pulled out a photograph, and slid it across the counter.
The pharmacist picked it up and looked closely. It showed her husband… in bed… with the pharmacist’s own wife.
He stared at it for a long moment, then looked back at the woman, cleared his throat, and said:
“Well now… that’s different. You didn’t tell me you had a prescription.”










Chris sent me a GREAT quote for the times and two great cartoons to go along with it. Very appropriate for what’s going on.
“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy…Weak incompetent or arrogant commanders; untrustworthy allies; hostile neutrals; malignant fortune; ugly surprises; awful miscalculations – all take their seat at the council board on the morrow of a declaration of war”


This is way cool!

Skeleton of D’Artagnan, the fourth musketeer, found in Dutch church


Today is the second day of Easter week. Yesterday was Palm Sunday. The day that Jesus enters into Jerusalem on a “young colt”. A young donkey that’s never been ridden, satisfying another prophesy. He is welcomed by the crowds waving palm branches and shouting hallelujah as they would for a returning, conquering king. Sadly, their appeal will be short lived.
Today, day two, Holy Monday called by some, Jesus curses the fruitless fig tree, representative of Israel at the time of having the outward form but no real fruit. He also clears out the corrupted money changers from the temple who were not only cheating the people but keeping the Gentiles out of the only place they were allowed to come to worship.
Tomorrow, Tuesday is the awe-inspiring Olivet discourse. Read Matthew 21:23 thru 24:51. Some great parables and teachings.
Wednesday is a down day for Jesus and the disciples, but Judas is busy agreeing to betray the Son of Man.
And Thursday … we’ll talk about on Thursday.
We are marching towards the greatest event in history. The one event that ties together all of Christianity. Without this event, there is no Christianity.
Now, not the greatest day in history according to a list that I found once. Here’s a pop quiz. What are the TWELVE GREATEST DAYS IN HISTORY according to whatever organization it was that I got this list from? I’ll give you a hint…The creation of Man (Gen 1-2) and the Creation of the World (Gen 1) are numbered 11 & 12 respectively. Who wants to take a stab at the top 3? Or even number 1? I guess I gave away the fact that the whole Easter theme is not number 1 … so?
Tune in next time for the answers.
Until then.






































































































































































































































































































































































































































































