I received this in my e-mail, from a friend.

It is gratitude in action. It is applying Albert Schweitzer’s philosophy: “In gratitude for your own good fortune you must render in return some sacrifice of your life for other life.”

It is thanking God for the gift of life by living it triumphantly.

It is thanking God for your talents and abilities by accepting them as obligations to be invested for the common good.

It is thanking God for all that men and women have done for you by doing things for others.

It is thanking God for opportunities by accepting them as a challenge to achievement.

It is thanking God for happiness by striving to make others happy.

It is thanking God for beauty by helping to make the world more beautiful.

It is thanking God for inspiration by trying to be an inspiration to others.

It is thanking God for health and strength by the care and reverence you show your body.

It is thanking God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress.

It is thanking God for each new day by living it to the fullest.

It is thanking God by giving hands, arms, legs, and voice to your thankful spirit.

It is adding to your prayers of thanksgiving, acts of thanksliving

Today we left the house EARLY to pick up Ms Audrey to spend the day. Her school was out, and she wanted to come play with Grandma. So by 10:30, we had played a game of Chutes and Ladders, Rock,Scissors and Paper, played office and watched an old game of Match Game. We both got pretty sleepy, but we managed to stay awake. Then I started her favorite lunch spaghetti, and her Aunt Becky stopped over. After lunch Aunt Becky, had picked up two pot holder looms and some loops, they made several pot holders, not as much fun as I remembered it being. Ha!Ha!. Right now Aunt Becky and Ms Audrey are playing school in the bedroom that holds a little table and chair, plus toys for kids, crayons, paper, etc. there's also a wooden boston rocker in there and a twin size bed. I'm just finishing up the lunch dishes, and it will be supper time before I know it, but tonight I am ordering take out. I know, lazy. But it's a treat for me also. So every one, until later, have a good evening.

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.- David Broder

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it - Lyndon B. Johnson

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. - James A. Garfield

Our differences are politics. Our agreements are principles. - William McKinley

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. - Jimmy Breslin

I think "No comment" is a splendid expression. - Winston Churchill

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. - Dwight David Eisenhower

The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss. - Dwight David Eisenhower

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - George Robert Stephanopolous

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. - George Washington

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

What is the use of being elected or reelected unless you stand for something?
- Grover Cleveland

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams

Will Rogers, who died in a plane crash with Wylie Post in 1935, was probably
the greatest political sage this country has ever known. Enjoy the following:

1. Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.

2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.

3. There are 2 theories to arguing with a woman...neither works.

4. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

5. Always drink upstream from the herd.

6. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

7. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back in your pocket.

8. There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.

9. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad
judgment.

10. If you're riding' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

11. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back.

12. After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral:
When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

ABOUT GROWING OLDER...

First ~ Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age
and start bragging about it.

Second ~ The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

Third ~ Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people
to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.

Fourth ~ When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

Fifth ~ You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

Sixth ~ I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

Seventh ~ One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young.

Eighth ~ One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Ninth ~ Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.

Tenth ~ Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf

And finally ~! If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old.

As You Slide Down The Bannister Of Life ..........

1. Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggert have written an impressive new book. It's called .........."Ministers Do More Than Lay People."

2. Transvestite: A guy who likes to eat, drink and be Mary.

3. The difference between the Pope and your boss, the Pope only expects you to kiss his ring.

4. My mind works like lightning, one brilliant flash and it is gone.

5. The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom.

6. I hate sex in the movies. Tried it once. The seat folded up, the drink spilled and that ice, well, it really chilled the mood.

7. It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, of course, there's shipping and handling, too.

8. A husband is someone who, after taking the trash out, gives the impression that he just cleaned the whole house.

9. My next house will have no kitchen - just vending machines and a large trash can.

10. The blonde said, "I was worried that my mechanic might try to rip me off. I was relieved when he told me all I needed was turn signal fluid."

11. Definition of a teenager? God's punishment...for enjoying sex.

12. As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.

Hope everyone has a terrific start to a new week. Still getting over the large meal we had prepared for us on Saturday in celebration of our Birthday's. Eveything was delicious. Our daughters are all great cooks. In fact I had for my breakfast this morning warmed up noodles with chicken. I love home made noodles cooked in good rich chicken broth. In fact I usually eat them with a soup spoon since they have a tendancy to fall off a fork. Abe's waiting and hoping the fellows that are going to install our new fence will arrive today, but so far, it's now 9:30am, they haven't arrived.

Here are a few jokes, hope you enjoy. More later.


THOUGHTS
1. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.
2. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 A.M. It could be a right number.
3. Think about this: No one ever says, "It's only a game," when his team is winning.
4. I've reached the age where the happy hour is a Nap.
5. Be careful reading the fine print. There's no way you're going to like it.
6. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
7. Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of OLD LADIES running around with tattoos? (And RAP music will be the Golden Oldies!)
8. Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Corvette than in a Yugo.
9. After a certain age, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead.
10. No one ever ruined their eyes from looking at the bright side of things.

Car Trouble...
A Rabbi, a Monk, and a lawyer are riding down the road when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere.

Spotting a farmhouse they walk over and tell the farmer they need a place to stay the night while they wait for a tow.

"I've got room in the house for two of you but someones gonna have to sleep in the barn." says the farmer.

The Rabbi say's, "I've no problem with that, I'll go." He leaves.
Five minutes later theres a knock on the door. The farmer opens the door and the Rabbi is there.

He says, "Sir there is a pig in that barn; in my religion pigs are unclean, I cannot sleep under the same roof with a pig."

The Monk speaks up and says, "I have no problem with pigs I'll go sleep in the barn." He leaves.

Five minutes later theres a knock on the door. The farmer opens the door and the Monk is there.

"Sir there is a cow in that barn; in my religion cows are sacred, I cannot sleep under the same roof with a cow.

The lawyer responds, "I'll go sleep in the barn, I've got no religion." He leaves.
Five minutes later theres a knock on the door. The farmer opens the door and the pig and the cow are standing there.

Take a Sweater
Four old-timers were playing their weekly game of golf, and one remarked how nice it would be to wake up on Christmas morning, roll out of bed and without an argument go directly to the golf course, meet his buddies and play a round.

His buddies all chimed in and said, "Let's do it! We'll make it a priority, figure out a way and meet here early Christmas morning."

Months later, that special morning arrives, and there they are on the golf course.

The first guy says, "Boy this game cost me a fortune! I bought my wife such a diamond ring that she can't take her eyes off it."

Number 2 guy says, "I spent a ton, too. My wife is at home planning the cruise I gave her. She was up to her eyeballs in brochures."

Number 3 guy says "Well my wife is at home admiring her new car, reading the manual."

They all turned to the last guy in the group who is staring at them like they've lost their minds.

"I can't believe you all went to such expense for this golf game. I slapped my wife on the butt and said, 'Well babe, Merry Christmas! It's a great morning for either sex or golf ' ...and she said ... "Take a sweater.

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