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[From a story based on National Geographic magazine] After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno’s damage. One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree. Somewhat…

[For July/August, each Friday Grif.Net has focused on real Newspaper Headlines from the past decades] Two Soviet Ships Collide, One Dies Two Sisters Reunited after 18 Years in Checkout Line Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One Drunken Drivers Paid $1,000 in 2004 Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge Deer…

A young man was in love with two women and could not decide which of them to marry. Finally he went to his Pastor for marriage counseling. When asked to describe his two loves, he noted that one was a great poet and the other made delicious pancakes. “Oh” said…

Two cowboys were standing inside a building at the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo. Looking out a window, they saw the arena’s custodian, a very frail woman who couldn’t weigh 95 pounds soaking wet, trying to clean up trash from the grounds. In the strong Wyoming wind, she was having a…

Today in 1943 marked the celebration of the fall of Sicily in World War II. It reminded me of the story of General George Patton who was preparing to take the city of Palermo. He checked with his meteorologists and learned the day he had chosen would be incredibly rainy.…

A mother pig was walking through the barnyard one day with one of her piglets. Suddenly, a raccoon raced out from behind the barn and scared the living daylights out of the mother pig. The little hog laughed to see such sport and the sow jumped over the coon. ~~…

At first, I saw God as my Judge, an observer keeping track of the things I did wrong. I knew I could never merit heaven when I die, no matter how many good things I did. He was out there sort of like a President. I recognized His picture when…

[For July/August, each Friday Grif.Net will focus on real Newspaper Headlines garnered over the past years] British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands Lung Cancer in Women Mushrooms Eye Drops off Shelf Reagan Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim Shot Off Woman’s Leg Helps Nicklaus…

Paint were a very precious quantity in the early days of America. The British merchants could make a fortune supplying paint to the colonies. One company sent a ship with barrels full of red paint across the Atlantic. But somewhere in the middle of an ocean fog it collided with…

In the 1900’s an English town had fallen on really hard times. For decades its primary industry had been its textile mills, but now the mills were all closed and unemployment was at an all-time high. Desperate, the town’s mayor looked frantically around for other industries to bring to his…

A young man had been working as a bag boy in a supermarket for several years. One day the supermarket got new orange juice machines. The bag boy was excited and asked the manager if he could work the juice machines. The manager turned him down. The bag boy asked,…

I learned an odd fact. In Scotland they don’t just have “veterinarians” for overall help of animals, but specialists like “orthodontists” who work on the teeth of sheep or cattle, helping those animals be better able to eat grass. One recently received a call from a frantic farmer in Australia.…

[Advice forwarded from an 83 year-old woman. She’s got 15 years on me, but I’m listening to her words.] I’m reading more and dusting less. I’m sitting in the yard and admiring the view without fussing about the weeds in the garden. I’m spending more time with my family and…