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Reading an article by Orkin on Bed Bug infestations and their own research as to the “leading” (not sure that is the right category to “lead” in) US cities in the past year. I was surprised that SEVEN of the top ten (or worse ten) were in the Midwest and…

HUSBAND’S CALL: “Honey it’s me. I don’t want to alarm you but I was hit by a car as I was leaving work. Linda brought me to the hospital. They have checked me over and done some tests and some x-rays. The blow to my head was severe. Fortunately it…

In 1966, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface. Along with all the trucks and large vehicles, there were two large figures dressed in full Lunar spacesuits.…

If chocolate comes from cocoa beans (grown on a tree), does that make chocolate a fruit, a nut, a vegetable or a salad? If a mosquito bites me, I want to be so filled with God that it flies away singing “There’s Power in the Blood”. If vegetarians are trying…

[I am away from my computer most of this weekend at the “Spring Ring” which we are hosting in Casper. Fifteen 15 hand-bell groups from Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas and western Nebraska gathering to train and perform a massed concert. Since college I have loved the bells and find great…

Some years ago I was requested to share a favorite recipe to include in a local church fundraising cookbook. I’m sure you’ve had this happen, too. I love to cook, so I asked “Carol” what format or guideline I should follow for my submission. Here is the sample she gave:…

In Wyoming it is JUST beginning to show signs, thru the snow, of spring. I noticed the first robins of spring trying to peck for food through cold earth. Reminded me of the story (think we told it fifteen years ago on the Grif.Net), about two robins that were sitting…

One day, there was this lawyer who had just bought a new car, and he was eager to show it off to his colleagues, when all of a sudden an eighteen wheeler came out of nowhere and took of the driver’s side door with him standing right there. “NOOO!” he…

*I once tried to eat a clock, but found it very time consuming. *Can retired CIA agents be despised? *Jill was planning to make some pastries for breakfast and later on, can some pickles. She sent Jack out for the spices she would need and he left, heading up the…

[March came IN like a lion and today it is going OUT like a lion. Six more inches of heavy wet snow, branches sagging and cracking. I am TIRED of a winter that will not end. So RAGE . . or LAUGH . . about it with me.] *If I…

For all the negative things I have to say, God has a positive response in His Word to “correct” my thinking. I say, “It’s impossible.” GOD says, All things are possible. (Luke 18:27) I say, “I’m too tired.” GOD says, I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28-30) I say, “Nobody…

I’ve learned that . . ~ with a calendar, your days are numbered. ~ even though dogs hear ten times better than humans, they only hear three times better than a mom. ~ with faith you can move mountains, but with doubt you can create them. ~ if the shoe…

[JC forwarded this one. Don’t shoot the messenger.] These three guys are out fishing, and when they get back to their truck they see it’s surrounded by three bears. So I suggested, “Guys, I figure the only way to get to the truck is to really get them mad. Then…