Candy Wrapper Bags and Purses

Candy Wrapper Bags



Make a candy wrapper purse part 1



Make a candy wrapper purse part2

Fireworks Cooler

Chilled juice from 1 small can of frozen orange juice

Chilled tomato juice or vegetable juice (16 ounces)

Fill glass half full with orange juice. Carefully pour tomato juice down side of glass onto the orange juice. The 2 juices will stay separated. Chill first. Do not use ice. Garnish with orange slice and mint. Makes 4 servings.

Do you want a great Chinese-Style Chicken Salad to go with it? Well, you can get the recipe HERE.

Useful Treasures

MusicCutter


Split long single mp3's into smaller, individual tracks. Load the track, and cue, and cut. Easy and FREE! Comes in English and French

How to make 3D glasses



Make 3D Glasses That Work On Anything


Free MP3's at Jams Room
Mustangsbs

Georgia Aquarium

My husband and I went on our first trip to the Georgia Aquarium yesterday. We went with 86 five-year old children. It was fun! We saw some cool fish.

Penguins

Beluga Whale (there are 2 of them)

Albino Alligator

Octopus

Stingray

 It's definitely worth seeing at least once.

Being Kids

Sometimes it takes children to remind us of the simple pleasures life has to offer.

Catching Lightning Bugs (Fire Flies)

Splashing!

Just Being Silly

Childhood is so short. Let 'em be kids!

Hot Rods

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, new cars were often too expensive to purchase. So the youth at that time began to “soup up” older cars with spare parts and salvage from local junk yards.


Young builders were trying new and better ways to increase vehicle speed, be it through replacing original engines with more powerful V8s to removing all non-essential components to lighten the vehicle and improve aerodynamics.


The term “hot rod” entered the national vocabulary in the late 1930s. Its specific origins are unknown, although it may be a contraction of the term “hot roadster,” or may refer to the connecting rods or pushrods inside the often over-heated engines.


“Hot rodding” took a short “time out” during WWII, then came roaring back with a vengeance in 1946. Between 1946 and the late 1950s, car customizing, drag racing and street racing exploded in popularity along with the post-war youth culture that also gave birth to rock-and-roll.


By the 1970s, the emphasis has switched from mere speed to customized exteriors, interiors and paint jobs.


Of course, we had to sing about it and dance to it. We loved the thought of speed and daring and youthful fearlessness.


HOT ROD RACE


Written by George Wilson, it became a major hit for Arkie Shibley and his Mountain Dew Boys, staying on the charts for 7 weeks, peaking at #5 in 1951

The lyrics and variations and performance information can be seen HERE at rockabilly hall.






Kathy Mattea performing 455 Rocket from 1997, written by Gillian Welch

Dried Roses

I have read different ways to dry roses (or other flowers) that retain color and texture. Some people are good at some things and other people are good at other things. I'm not good at dried roses.

I've frozen them, put them in sand, wrapped them in newspaper, stuck them in the bible and this last time, I hung them upside down. You can see how mine turned out. Perfect for using as poppouri, but not for anything else. They are definitely dead and colorless.

Maybe there is better advice to be found here.

Good luck on drying your roses and please comment on how yours turn out.

Old Farmer's Advice

 Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.

Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.

Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.

Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

You cannot unsay a cruel word.

Every path has a few puddles.

When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.

Don't judge folks by their relatives.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer..

Live a good, honorable life.. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.

Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't bothering you none.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around..

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.
Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
--
Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight,
he'll just kill you.

And,

 

Some days all you can do is wait for some kind soul to come pull you out of the bind you've gotten yourself into.

Mexican Drug Lords Busted with Gold and Silver and Diamond Studded Guns

This happened a few months ago but, I just read about it recently. The guns are very impressive. Click on the photograph to enlarge it.

Happy Birthday America - Fourth of July 2010

A very cool fireworks site

Fireworks

School House Rock - Fireworks

FIREWORKS SAFETY

According to PREVENT BLINDNESS AMERICA, nearly 13,000 fireworks victims keep hospitals busy every year. More than half of those injured are children. Fireworks not only injure users, but also 40 percent of fireworks mishaps injure bystanders.

You can get some too!

Buy Fireworks

Interesting article from CNNMoney.com

Dark skies: No 4th of July fireworks here
Thanks to the ongoing recession, more than 30 cities will be dim this Independence Day, unable to afford fireworks displays. Here are seven of the unfortunate.

No Fourth of July Fireworks

OUR HOMETOWN PARADE

Abraham Lincoln Came

 The statue of liberty was able to attend.

So did the Tea Party, many members strong (minus Mrs. Palin).

And the Pink Suitcase Sisters strutted down the parade route Pink Suitecase Sisters

My grandchildren found a great use for those political stickers.

Those who continue to fight for and defend our freedom came.

What would a parade be with a Shriner's Clown?

In the end, before the horses and the street sweepers -- a tribute to those who paved the way for America.

"THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER"

Francis Scott Key

20 September 1814

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?


On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.


And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.


Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

Celebrate Freedom!!!!