Another wonderful header by Aussie Pete.  He has been supplying them for the last couple of months and I should thank him every issue, but then it becomes redundant and nobody pays attention.  This way I make a big deal out of it and you all take notice.

Thanks Pete!

It’s been another week my friends.  I have to leave in just a few minutes to pick Izzy up from work and then I have to go to church for FBI and since it’s a long weekend for me, maybe I can spend a little bit of time and punch out an issue for you guys out of step since I missed today’s … today is Thursday for me.  I don’t know what today is for you yet because I’m not quite sure when this is going to post.

I think I told you about the 2002 Ford F-150 that I was going to buy … if I didn’t … I was going to buy a 2002 Ford F-150 from a buddy of mine that actually belonged to his son.  Now that Izzy actually has her driver’s license (group applause for my 23 year-old, high functioning autistic child getting her license on her first try!) she needs a vehicle even if she doesn’t want to drive anywhere. 

Don’t get me wrong, she’s a great driver, she just hates to drive. 

It scares her to death. 

She imagines everything that can go wrong and then worries about it.  She’ll get over that.  She has yet to solo.  She’s going to tomorrow though, when we pick up the other car we are going to buy instead.

The buddy with the truck … the truck only had 150K miles on it, was in great shape, a little spot of rust on the left rear quarter panel and was really well taken care of.  I was going to drive the truck and Izzy was going to drive our 2013 beat up Equinox. 

Okay?  Caught up?  Now, I had heard, a couple of months ago that a guy at church had a good friend who was selling a car that was “like brand new”.  I said sure I was interested, here’s my number.  He told me I was about 4th in line, so I promptly forgot about it.

Well, when Izzy had told me that she didn’t like the truck, I told her that didn’t matter since she wouldn’t be driving the truck and she made a good point that at some point in time she might HAVE to and I said, well it doesn’t matter, God will make it obvious what vehicle it is we are supposed to buy.

(I have to hurry with this story, I’m running out of time) (Although I could always leave it and come back)  Anyway, so fast forward to this past weekend when I have made arrangements to get the truck on Monday and Saturday the guy from church calls me and says that our Pastor said I was looking for a car and his buddy has this car for sale, it’s like brand new … and he starts explaining to me all the things he told me a couple of weeks ago.  I asked him if I could come take a look at it.  He said sure and tells me where to meet him and his buddy.

So the story is that it was his buddy’s wife’s car.  If they ever went anywhere together, they took his car.  They owned from brand new and she always parked it in the garage.  It is a 2016 Ford Explorer with only 36k original miles on it.  I’m telling you, I was looking at a brand new 2016 Ford Explorer.  Immaculate.  Like it had just been driven off the showroom floor.  Drove like a dream.  He didn’t want to sell it after his wife had passed away until my church buddy told him, you got to, you don’t need two cars.  I looked it up on Kelly Blue Book and gave it all the cheapest choices … you know when you choose all the different options cause I didn’t really know all the bells and whistles that it had, but to me it seemed like it was loaded.  It came back valued at $16,000. 

Tomorrow…Friday for you guys, I’m giving that man a check for $10,000.  Now, I had to take most of that money out of my retirement fund and completely empty my savings and it’s going to hurt me financially for a little while, but I couldn’t pass it up. And God has ALWAYS taken care of us in the past.  I haven’t hurt myself, don’t worry about that.  I brought it to the line, but not over the line.  It’s not like I maxed out my credit card or anything.  But, this will be the last car I’ll ever have to buy.  Izzy gets the Equinox and I get the Explorer and now I have to run and get Izzy.  More later.

So, now it’s later.  I just dropped Izzy off at work.  It’s Friday morning.  I have about an hour before I need to get going.  I’m off today because I worked over the weekend.  I’ve got a lot to do today.  Go to the bank and get the money for the car, either a cashier’s check or a registered check (I’ll let them figure that out).  I have to go to the place and pick up my yearly issue of my diabetic shoes.  CRAP!  I forgot that’s gonna cost me another $250!  LOL!  That will take my bank account down to about zero for a week until payday.  Thank goodness my credit card is at zero.  I pay for everything on my credit card because I get 1.5% cash back on it.  I usually make $40 to $50 a month.  I got a new one in the mail the other day that I’m playing with.  It makes 2% cash back.  Maybe I’ll use that one.  I pay it off each month.  They hate me because I’ve never paid a penny in interest to them and they’ve probably paid me close to a thousand dollars since I’ve owned it.

Anyway, let’s get to some fun stuff since I’ve talked WAY more than usual.  What do you say?

Actually 51 years ago now!  This next one is a throwback to a long lost age.  Over 70 years ago! A report card for kindergarten to when the important stuff really mattered.

I didn’t realize that old Frank was that old.  That was a couple of months before I was born.

Here’s an article from the American Legion.  Short and sweet.  I won’t reprint the whole article so I won’t get in trouble, but I’ll give you a link to finish reading, it’s well worth the quick read.

Suspected Venezuelan gang members first to arrive at Guantanamo

Some great quotes sent in by Chris D.

Now that the football season is over, Enjoy these “tidbits” from coaches & players:

 

• “Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football”– 
  • John Heisman   
• “I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.” – 
  • Bear Bryant / Alabama 
• “It isn’t necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it!” – 
  • Knute Rockne / Notre Dame   
• “At Georgia Southern, we don’t cheat. That costs money, and we don’t have any.” – 
  • Erik Russell / Georgia Southern 
• “The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.” –  
  • Lou Holtz / Arkansas – Notre Dame 
• “When you win, nothing hurts.”  –  
  • Joe Namath / Alabama 
• “A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.” –  
  • Frank Leahy / Notre Dame 
• “There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.” –  
  • Woody Hayes / Ohio State 
• “I don’t expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.”  –  
  • Bob Devaney / Nebraska   
• “In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn’t believe in Bear Bryant.”  –  
  • Wally Butts / Georgia 
• “I never graduated from Iowa. But I was only there for two terms – Truman’s and Eisenhower’s.”  –  
  • Alex Karras / Iowa 
• “My advice to defensive players is to take the shortest route to the ball,and arrive in a bad humor.” –  
  • Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee 
• “I could have been a Rhodes Scholar except for my grades.”  – 
  • Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State 
• “Always remember Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.”  – 
  • Shug Jordan / Auburn    
• “I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn’t recruit me.”  He said,,”Well, Walt, we took a look at you, and you weren’t any good.” –  
  • Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State 
• “Son, you’ve got a good engine, but your hands aren’t on the steering wheel.”  –  
  • Bobby Bowden / Florida State 
• “Football is NOT a contact sport, it is a collision sport. Dancing IS a contact sport.”  – 
  • Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State 
• After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post-game message to his team was,“All those who need showers, take them.” –  
  • John McKay / USC 
• “If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.”  –  
  • Murray Warmath / Minnesota 
• “The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.” –  
  • Knute Rockne / Notre Dame 
• “We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.”  –  
  • Darrell Royal / Texas    
• “We didn’t tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking.”  –  
  • John McKay / USC 
• “I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.”  –  
  • Knute Rockne / Notre Dame 
• “He doesn’t know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn’t know the meaning of a lot of words.”  –       
  • Ohio State’s Urban Meyer on one of his players:
• Why do Auburn fans wear orange? 
  • So they can dress that way for the game on Saturday, go hunting on Sunday, and pick up trash on Monday. 
• What does the average Alabama player get on his SATs? 
  • Drool. 
• How many Michigan State freshmen football players does it take to change a light bulb? 
  • None. That’s a sophomore course. 
• How did the Auburn football player die from drinking milk?
  • The cow fell on him. 
• Two Texas A&M football players were walking in the woods. 
  • One of them said, “Look, a dead bird.” 
  • The other looked up in the sky and said,”Where?” 
• What do you say to a Florida State University football player dressed in a three-piece suit? 
  • “Will the defendant please rise.”
• If three Rutgers football players are in the same car, who is driving? 
  • The police officer. 
• How can you tell if a Clemson football player has a girlfriend? 
  • There’s tobacco juice on both sides of the pickup truck. 
• What do you get when you put 32 Arkansas cheerleaders in one room? 
  • A full set of teeth. 
• University of Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh is only going to dress half of his players for the game this week; 
  • the other half will have to dress themselves. 
• How is the Kansas football team like an opossum? 
  • They play dead at home and get killed on the road. 
• Why did the Tennessee linebacker steal a police car? 
  • He saw “911” on the side and thought it was a Porsche. 
• How do you get a former University of Miami football player off your porch? 
  • Pay him for the pizza. 

 

I was told that the church should be a hospital where the warriors go to get patched back up to get back into the fight, not a hospice where people go to wait to die and never go anywhere else for anyone else.  I suppose both statements could be true.

Okay, this next video is OUTSTANDING!  Makes sure you watch ALL THE WAY TO THE END!  Thanks to Sasquatch for the original send and making me find it on YouTube so you all could see it too.

A woman answered her front door and found two little boys holding a list.

“Lady,” one of them explained, “we’re on a scavenger hunt, and we still need three grains of wheat, a pork-chop bone and a piece of used carbon paper to earn a dollar”.

“Wow,” the woman replied. “Who sent you on such a challenging hunt?”

“Our baby-sitter’s boyfriend.”

North Dakota, Fargo Law

You may be jailed for wearing a hat while dancing, or even for wearing a hat to a function where dancing is taking place.

And this is the end of a very short issue…I’m going to send this out immediately since it’s been so long since I’ve put one out due to a very busy week.  I’ll try to put together another with maybe some pictures of the new car in a day or so.

May you all be blessed with love and happiness until we meet again.