Advent Reading, Zechariah 9: 9-13
Advent Reading; Malachi 5:2-5a
With special guest star, Mr. Wicket
Advent reading; Isaiah 11: 1-10
Nativity Triptych
Bah Humbug Grand Prize Winner 2018
Wow. Just saw this news item about a substitute teacher whose heart is two sizes too small. For some unknown reason she decided the relevance of Santa Clause was a great conversation topic for a class of first graders.
Then she moved on to tackle the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Elf on a Shelf, and leprechauns.
Whether you think that’s appropriate for your kids or not, that’s a parent discussion. Period.
Anyway, come on up teach and collect your prize 🖕
How (Not) to Fake Your Own Death
A Honduran man living in the United States decided he was tired of his wife back home asking him for money so he decided to fake his own death.
Some tips:
- Don’t laugh while taking the pictures.
- The morgue doesn’t cover dead bodies with a pillow case.
- The morgue also doesn’t have double bed mattresses on the slabs.
Go Pussycats!
Just realized it’s been almost a month since I wrote a Tigers post. How have they fared since then?
Not well. They’ve won ten more games and lost twenty five. Their run production has disappeared to the point that they’ve been shut out a league leading 16 times. Oh, and they’re starting to return to the sloppy, stupid play that marked the last few seasons.
About the only pluses lately is the addition of some more good prospects that should help coming seasons, and having a manager that doesn’t watch his team stink up a ballpark, shrug his shoulders, and say, “it’s a long season and we might start winning, so I’m not going to do anything at all.”
Here is what Gardenhire had to say:
“What I can’t handle is sloppy,” he said. “That’s a donation. Just sloppy baseball. … Those are a couple things that we need to make changes in, the whole organization, the whole philosophy really has to come into play here. You have to play the game, no matter what the score is. We’re writing it all down. We’re going to have to change. This is my first time doing this with this organization and there’s going to be changes all the way up and down.”
If Gardenhire can get rid of that “What, me worry?” attitude that flourished under his predecessor, this season’s ugliness wlll be worth it.
Health alert issued for salads, wraps from Kroger, Trader Joe’s, Walgreens due to parasite concern
If you’re trying to eat more vegtables like I am you’ve probably started eating lots of green salads.
If you haven got the time or inclination to chop stuff up yourself you’ve probably found your grocery stores packaged salad section. If so, there’s another recall going on.
Here is a direct link to download the PDF file from CDC of what’s being recalled.
Everyone’s Grandpa
Guess I’m doing banjo week, so here’s another great banjo player. Louis Marshall Jones, better known as Grandpa Jones was a staple on Hee Haw and the Grand Ole Opry.
Grandpa got his nickname at a young age for acting fussy and grumpy. Being the consummate performer he was, he knew a good thing when he saw it and adopted the image as his stage persona almost immediately.
Jones played clawhammer style banjo. Unlike bluegrass, where you wear finger picks and pick up on the strings, frailers use the back of their fingernails to strike down on the strings. One of the knocks against banjo knocking is it doesn’t have much drive. I think Grandpa drove the rhythm ok myself 😉