A great image for a Saturday morning, right? A relaxing Labor Day weekend. Technically, Monday is Labor Day and I’ll do something for Labor Day in my next issue, I think. If I remember to. But the Labor Day weekend is usually the last weekend of the summer to relax, do the last big barbeque, the last get-together with friends and family, the last campouts, … but don’t forget about your friends that don’t have family to celebrate with anymore. Remember them this weekend. Reach out to those that are sitting at home, by themselves with just their memories. They need your love and caring also.

Since I said I was not going to ask for any more donations … more donations have poured in, so we’ll keep going through the weekend. Here’s what our banner looks like now:  

That’s right, you count 26 up there now! That is 

And here you all are:

Pop, Steven, Chris, Michael, Catherine, Donald, Stephen, Kristine, Leah, Edmund, Sammye, Kenny, Jonathon, Ted, Robert, Kenneth, Marian, Dale, Joseph, Annmarie, Alan, Chuck, Joseph, Scott, Kevin, and Dan.

Just wow guys!  Thank you all ever so much. My heart has swelled three sizes or whatever it was that happened to the Grinch. 

On another topic, I have been inundated lately with spam phone calls and text messages. Everything from Medicare, tollbooth, apple wallet scams, ALL KINDS of stuff. More than I can even remember. They all seem to know my name, which is not hard to find to connect to my phone number, but I’ll bet I get at least half a dozen a day. Are the rest of you guys going through the same thing? 

I have to answer numbers I don’t recognize due to my job, which means that all the scam callers know they’ve reached an active number, which makes it worse. I never engage, I’m never rude, but I AM annoyed.

Okay, done venting. 

And ALWAYS remember that God has your back!!!

Just as I arrived home after working the night shift, my wife told me to go checkout our five-year-old son’s bed.  When I entered Jimmie’s room, I saw that his bed had collapsed, and the mattress was sitting on the floor. 

“What happened?” I asked him. 

He responded, “God did it.” 

Interesting, I thought, and went back to tell my wife. 

Laughing she said that when she had heard the crash, she ran into Jimmie’s room, saying, “Oh God, what have you done now?”

Me thinks a bunch won’t get this one.

Thought Of The Day:

Not Everything

“Not everything that is faced can be changed.

But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

– Jodi Picoult

I thought my new girlfriend might be the one…But when I went through her drawers and found a nurse’s uniform, a French maid’s outfit, and a policewoman’s uniform, I changed my mind. I figure if she can’t hold on to a job, she’s not the one for me.

Why was E the only letter in the alphabet to get a Christmas present?
Because the rest of the letters were not-E.

Thanks Aussie Pete!

Chris:  How was your trip to New York?
 
Brian:  Well, a mugger stopped me and said, “Gimme your money, or I’ll blow your brains out.”
 
Chris:  What did you do?
 
Brian: I told him to go ahead and shoot. He was so shocked, he ran away.
 
Chris: Wow!  He told you to give him your money or he’d blow your brains out, and you told him to go ahead and shoot??
 
Brian: Yeah. You don’t need brains to live in New York, but you can’t get along without money.

Leah, having heard that I was now counting carbs and watching what I ate, in the spirit of unity, sent me this, which is a WEEK’s ration for one adult during WWII.

All I can say is, Man! My A1C would look GREAT! And just for GeeWhiz information, after a couple of weeks of doing this, my “estimated” A1C has gone from an 8.5 to … (let me check) 6.7.  Sigh. So……….I guess it’s going well. Although my sweet tooth is KICKING MY BUTT!!!! LOL!

Dedicated to my brother, Ken.

An old Native American man needed to borrow $500, so he went to the local bank and asked to speak to the Loans Officer.
The banker welcomed him and began filling out a loan application.
Banker: “What are you going to do with the money?”
Old man: “Buy silver, make jewelry, then sell it.”
Banker: “And what do you have for collateral?”
Old man: “I don’t know what collateral is.”
The banker explained, “Collateral is something valuable we hold in case you can’t pay back the loan. Do you have any vehicles?”
Old man: “Yes, a 1979 Chevy pickup.”
Banker: “That won’t work. How about livestock?”
Old man: “I have a horse.”
Banker: “How old is the horse?”
Old man: “Don’t know… it has no teeth.”

After several more questions, the banker decided to approve the loan.

A few weeks later, the old man returned, pulled out a roll of $100 bills, and handed the banker $500.
Banker: “Business must be good! What are you going to do with the rest of the money?”
Old man: “Keep it close to me.”
Banker: “Why don’t you deposit it in the bank?”
Old man: “I don’t know what deposit is.”
The banker explained, “You put the money in our bank, we take care of it, and whenever you need it, you can take it out.”

The old man leaned across the desk, looked the banker in the eye, and asked:
“What do you have for collateral?”

That’s it for now my friends. May God Bless you with Love and Happiness until we meet again.