A teacher told her young class to ask their parents for a family story with a moral at the end of it, and to return the next day to tell their stories.
In the classroom the next day, Joe gave his example first, "My dad is a farmer and we have chickens. One day we were taking lots of eggs to market in a basket on the front seat of the truck when we hit a big bump in the road; the basket fell off the seat and all the eggs broke. The moral of the story is not to put all your eggs in one basket.."
"Very good," said the teacher.
Next, Mary said, "We are farmers too. We had twenty eggs waiting to hatch, but when they did we only got ten chicks. The moral of this story is not to count your chickens before they're hatched.."
"Very good," said the teacher again, very pleased with the response so far.
Next it was Barney's turn to tell his story: "My dad told me this story about my Aunt Karen.... Aunt Karen was a flight engineer in the war and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a bottle of whisky, a machine gun and a machete."
"Go on," said the teacher, intrigued.
"Aunt Karen drank the whisky on the way down to prepare herself; then she landed right in the middle of a hundred enemy soldiers. She killed seventy of them with the machine gun until she ran out of bullets. Then she killed twenty more with the machete till the blade broke. And then she killed the last ten with her bare hands."
"Good heavens," said the horrified teacher, "What did your father say was the moral of that frightening story?"
"Don't screw with Aunt Karen when she's been drinking..."😜
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson
A teacher told her young class to ask their parents for a family story with a moral at the end of it, and to return the next day to tell their stories.
In the classroom the next day, Joe gave his example first, "My dad is a farmer and we have chickens. One day we were taking lots of eggs to market in a basket on the front seat of the truck when we hit a big bump in the road; the basket fell off the seat and all the eggs broke. The moral of the story is not to put all your eggs in one basket.."
"Very good," said the teacher.
Next, Mary said, "We are farmers too. We had twenty eggs waiting to hatch, but when they did we only got ten chicks. The moral of this story is not to count your chickens before they're hatched.."
"Very good," said the teacher again, very pleased with the response so far.
Next it was Barney's turn to tell his story: "My dad told me this story about my Aunt Karen.... Aunt Karen was a flight engineer in the war and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a bottle of whisky, a machine gun and a machete."
"Go on," said the teacher, intrigued.
"Aunt Karen drank the whisky on the way down to prepare herself; then she landed right in the middle of a hundred enemy soldiers. She killed seventy of them with the machine gun until she ran out of bullets. Then she killed twenty more with the machete till the blade broke. And then she killed the last ten with her bare hands."
"Good heavens," said the horrified teacher, "What did your father say was the moral of that frightening story?"
"Don't screw with Aunt Karen when she's been drinking..."😜
Did not make jam/jelly last year dealing with my moms illness, raspberries needed to be picked some today so the boss had me get it all out from last year too, raspberry jam, strawberry jam, honey berry jelly and a honey berry raspberry combo, 40 jars, boys are pretty stoked, we have been out of homemade for awhile
I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11
Did not make jam/jelly last year dealing with my moms illness, raspberries needed to be picked some today so the boss had me get it all out from last year too, raspberry jam, strawberry jam, honey berry jelly and a honey berry raspberry combo, 40 jars, boys are pretty stoked, we have been out of homemade for awhile
Clean has a friend nearby that grew up in Wis 10 miles from where we did and now lives here; keeps us supplied with strawberry rhubarb jam
Did not make jam/jelly last year dealing with my moms illness, raspberries needed to be picked some today so the boss had me get it all out from last year too, raspberry jam, strawberry jam, honey berry jelly and a honey berry raspberry combo, 40 jars, boys are pretty stoked, we have been out of homemade for awhile
Clean has a friend nearby that grew up in Wis 10 miles from where we did and now lives here; keeps us supplied with strawberry rhubarb jam
We have not been utilizing our rhubarb very well out of our garden, a friend has a recipe to can a rhubarb syrup that supposedly makes a good margarita. The cafes and restaurants in town have been keeping my rhubarb cravings satisfied with some bars and crisps.
I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11
Finally got three kids out shooting today, youngest on a Glock 19 and a Sig 320 on the left, son # 3 on a 4” 357 with a mix of .38 and .357 loads in the middle, and #2 on 3” XD on the right, #2 is getting ready to take a CC class, 7 yds low ready and then 2 shot drills
I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11
Yeah, we were all pretty rusty, youngest is showing some aptitude once he gets warmed up. I called the head shots and the hip shots once they got comfortable
I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11
Conn mellophone from 1910. I might have it in-hand as early as Tuesday!
Looks like my grandpa’s French Horn!
Nope, french horn is wound the other way, looks different, is larger, and virtually always has rotary valves (I played one for 25+ years). Mellophone is a far simpler instrument.
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Conn mellophone from 1910. I might have it in-hand as early as Tuesday!
Looks like my grandpa’s French Horn!
Nope, french horn is wound the other way, looks different, is larger, and virtually always has rotary valves (I played one for 25+ years). Mellophone is a far simpler instrument.
I’ll take your word for it. I haven’t seen one first hand in 40 years. Cool instruments anyway!
Conn mellophone from 1910. I might have it in-hand as early as Tuesday!
Looks like my grandpa’s French Horn!
Nope, french horn is wound the other way, looks different, is larger, and virtually always has rotary valves (I played one for 25+ years). Mellophone is a far simpler instrument.
I’ll take your word for it. I haven’t seen one first hand in 40 years. Cool instruments anyway!
Messing with this thing is interesting. It plays pretty well for what it is.
-Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
This was yesterday AM at the cabin, I was trying to work up the ambition to commando crawl the length of the cabin to install some heat tape on the new water softener/filter pipes
I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11
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It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎
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It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎
It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎