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REMEMBER THIS AT CHRISTMAS TIME: According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November to mid-December. Female reindeer retain their antlers till after they…

Zebediah was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers, called pullets, and eight or ten roosters, whose job was to fertilize the eggs. Zeb kept records, and any rooster that didn’t perform well went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot…

50th Wedding Anniversary On their 50th wedding anniversary, a couple summed up the reason for their long and happy marriage. The husband said, “I have tried never to be selfish. After all, there is no ‘I’ in the word ‘marriage.’” The wife said, “For my part, I have never corrected…

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. -Helen Hayes (at 73)- I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. -Janette Barber- Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. -Lily Tomlin- My second favorite…

MONDAY: For sale: R.D. Jones has one sewing machine for sale. Phone 948-0707 after 7 P.M.. and ask for Mrs. Kelly who lives with him cheap. TUESDAY Notice: We regret having erred In R.D. Jones’ ad yesterday. It should have read “One sewing machine for sale cheap. Phone 948-0707 and…

[Roger shared this enjoyable adventure with me] My husband and I had been happily married (most of the time) for five years but hadn’t been blessed with a baby. I decided to do some serious praying and promised God that if he would give us a child, I would be…

As a married man, I’ve learned that I need to be careful what I say, for fear of taking my life in my own hands! Here’s some advice to husbands on what to say . . . DANGEROUS: What’s for dinner? SAFER: Can I help you with dinner? SAFEST: Where…

On our 25th anniversary, my husband took me out to dinner. Our college-age daughters said they’d have dessert waiting for us when we returned. When we arrived home, we saw that the dining room table was beautifully set with china, crystal and candles, and there was a note which read:…

[Forwarded from Mary L] After an overnight flight to meet my father at his latest military assignment, my mother wearily arrived at Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany, with my eight siblings and me (all under age 11), in tow. Collecting our many suitcases, the ten of us entered the cramped…

Subject: True Story of the 3 Bears It’s a sunny morning in the Big Forest, and the Bear family is just waking up. Baby Bear goes downstairs and sits in his small chair at the table; he looks into his small bowl. It is empty. “Who’s been eating my porridge?”…

A loyal Grif.Net reader shared, “Working as a computer instructor for an adult-education program at a community college, I am keenly aware of the gap in computer knowledge between my younger and older students. My observations were confirmed the day a new student walked into our library area and glanced…

“Walking down a path through some woods, I saw a water puddle ahead on the path. I angled my direction to go around it on the part of the path that wasn’t covered by water and mud. As I reached the puddle, I was suddenly attacked! “Yet I did nothing…

Dust if you must but wouldn’t it be better, To paint a picture or write a letter, Bake a cake or plant a seed, Ponder the difference between want and need? Dust if you must but there’s not much time, With rivers to swim and mountains to climb, Music to…