Is it me, or were the pictures just not there this week? Anyhoo, here’s a challenge for you. Provide your witty and funny captions, and I will post winners Tuesday evening. Have a great weekend, everyone! 
OTHER CAPTION CONTESTS:
Cowboy Blob
Rodney Dill
Wyatt
Employee Reference
At times I was asked to provide references for former employees by companies considering hiring them.
On one firm’s form was the question: “Was this person a steady worker?”
Since the guy was a well-known do-nothing, I entered, “Not just steady, but motionless” in the space provided.
Blonde Cookbook
It’s fun to cook for Tom. Today I made angel food cake. The recipe said beat 12 eggs separately. The neighbors were nice enough to loan me some extra bowls.
GOOD NIGHT DEAR DIARY. This has been a very exciting week! I am eager for tomorrow to come so I can try out a new recipe on Tom. If I can talk Tom into buying a bigger oven, I would like to surprise him with a chocolate moose.
Bad Day and the Dwarf
I rear-ended a car this morning. I knew it was going to be a REALLY bad day. The driver got out of the other car, and he was a DWARF!
He looked up at me and said, “I am NOT happy!”
So I said, “Well, which one ARE you then?”
That’s how the fight started.
Momma said knock you out...ninja-style!
1. Ninja outfit from the Ninja Emporium: $200
2. The coffee flavored air of Seattle numbing the brain: Free
3. Lots of booze: Probably lots of money, well unless it was Thunderbird.
4. A good, old-fashioned spike-topped fence: Well, who cares, really.
5. A self-made, drunk ninja who tries to leap the spiked fence in a single bound…a mess for paramedics and cops to clean up. Although, for a reader, HILARIOUS!
(H/T: UPI)
Now, go find out who won this week’s CAPTION CONTEST!
Last week, I had a Sunday Song all set to go, but because I was in a life-induced haze, I neglected to post it. This week, I am going to post it, but I’m going to post it with a follow-up video, too. Not a follow-up on the story, but on how God just gently (or sometimes, not-so-gently) keeps after us until we turn and face Him and accept Him and His love for us.
The post I had for last week centered on Lou Gramm, the former lead singer for Foreigner. After years of excess, he gave himself to Christ. As with any of us who walk on a path toward God and His ultimate goal for us, it is a long, sometimes winding path, filled with obstacles, sometimes ones of our own creation. Within Gramm’s story and the stories of many others, though, we find redemption, fogiveness and mercy.
Several times this past week I was humbled by God’s reminders to me of how loving and merciful He has been to me, in my life. It is one of the reasons why I do post these Sunday Songs. I want you all to know that same love. It is beyond the “love” people profess for each other. No human can ever do what God can for you.
So here is part of last week’s intended post. Following it is a song performed by Phillips, Craig and Dean. It is a song that illustrates Christ’s love for us.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
“You Saved Me”–Lou Gramm Band
Gramm’s interview with 700 Club
Phillips, Craig & Dean
Let’s get things started early this week. Provide your witty and tasteful caption, and I will post the winners Tuesday evening. Have a great weekend!
THE WINNERS!!!!
3. Maggie Mama
The Obama Administration has replaced the “Uncle Sam” image with a friendly version, but he still wants YOU!
2. Deathlok
(The last days of Captain Kangaroo)
“Mr. Moose. . .It’s me the Captain! You got a few bucks to spare?”
This week’s winner is. . .
1. Wyatt Earp
“I am not Dennis Hopper, but I did smoke pot in a Holiday inn Express last night.”
OTHER CAPTION CONTESTS:
Cowboy Blob
If I had a son, I dare say this is what I’d see in the rear view mirror of my car.
On this day, remember those who have served our country. We can never thank them enough.
Because you’re never too old to earn a Darwin award…
Man injured destroying fireworks
HOLLAND, Mich., Nov. 10 (UPI) — Authorities in Michigan said a 79-year-old man suffered cuts, abrasions and burns when he attempted to destroy old fireworks in a backyard fire pit.
Ottawa County sheriff’s deputies responding to a report of a fire on a roof in the area said they spotted the man near a fire pit late Sunday morning and a huge explosion followed that left the man injured, WWMT-TV, Kalamazoo, Mich., reported.
The man told investigators he was trying to destroy fireworks in the pit.
Deputies told the Holland (Mich.) Sentinel the Michigan Bomb Squad was called in dispose of the remaining fireworks.
Prosecutors said they are reviewing possible charges against the man.
(H/T: UPI)
If you’d like to see this week’s caption contest winners, CLICK HERE.
I had a Sunday Song all ready to go, but I was too zonked to post it. I’ve been having fatigue issues since I got my flu shot. Then…well, there was a ton of grading to do. While I know that was hyperbole, I did have a lot of grading to catch up on (see fatigue issue).
So, as of last night, I was caught up.
Someday I’ll post that I’ve been to busy having a fun social life, but until then, it is just grading, planning, hitting the gym, and cleaning.
I know you all can relate.
Have a good Tuesday, and I will be back in the evening to post caption contest winners.
It is that time again, folks! Provide your witty, tasteful, and entertaining captions. I will post winners Tuesday evening. If you didn’t get a chance to see who won this past week’s contest, CLICK HERE for the winners. Have a great weekend!
THE WINNERS. . .
3. John D
On ABC’s new game show, WHO WANTS TO WIN SOME STIMULUS MONEY?, contestants compete to see who can explain simple concepts to Washington politicians. Here, a contestant attempts to explain basic arithmetic to Vice President Joe Biden.
2. Deathlok
Damn! Which bottle had the liquid HME in it?
This week’s winner is. . .
1. Rodney Dill
Where will you be when your laxative kicks in.
OTHER CAPTION CONTESTS:
Cowboy Blob
Yesterday, when I was on my way home, I got to see this really pretty sunset. The sky was purple, pink, and blue. The picture really doesn’t do it justice; however, I hope you can see how the sun created silver outlines (linings) on the clouds that were breaking up at the end of the day.
As I sat at the red light and took this picture, the song “You are my beautiful my sweet, sweet song” by Third Day came on the radio. It was just a very nice moment, and I thought I’d share. Hope you all have a happy Tuesday!
You are beautiful my sweet, sweet song
You are beautiful my sweet, sweet song
You are beautiful my sweet, sweet song
And I will sing again
You are so good to me
You heal my broken heart
You are my Father in Heaven
You are beautiful my sweet, sweet song
You are beautiful my sweet, sweet song
You ride upon the clouds
You lead me to the truth
You are the Spirit inside me
You are my strong melody, yeah
You are my dancing rhythm
You are my perfect rhyme
And I will sing of You forever
You poured out all Your blood
You died upon the cross
You are my Jesus who loves me
You are my Father in Heaven
You are the Spirit inside me
You are my Jesus who loves me
There is a women’s clinic near where I grew up. The other week, when I was going back and forth from the doctor, I drove by it. Faithfully, everyday, rain or shine, there are a few people outside praying. They never confront those going into the clinic, but they stand and pray.
When I was a young teenager, I was shown how an abortion is done. There are several ways, all of which cause the baby pain, and are a trauma to the mother’s body. The partial birth abortion wasn’t included, but a discussion of its use in China at the time was presented.
I realize people get themselves into situations in life and they feel like they need to make the choices they do. I once thought I would have “a decision” to make a long time ago. While I waited to see if that “decision” was in fact necessary, my first route was to begin looking into adoption options, since I was 3000 miles from home and didn’t want to upset my mother, who was battling lung cancer at the time. I didn’t start researching those options because I am any better than anyone else faced with those decisions, I did so because I realized what abortion really is.
Again, I understand that many do not feel as I do and that abortions are legal. I also can’t imagine how desperate the majority of the women are who have them.
That doesn’t change what they are, though. Thankfully, I wasn’t faced with a hard decision, as it turned out I wasn’t pregnant. But…think about the women who desperately turn to clinics like Planned Parenthood for options and answers, and get met with someone who has been told to “push” abortions, so that the bottom line is met. Pondering that for a few minutes will give you an appreciation for THIS WOMAN’S epiphany.
So, it has been a while since I actually really wrote something for the blog, eh? I’ve been really busy with work and feeling kind of not myself, lately. Not sick, but just not myself.
I’ve been thinking, lately, about gratitude. I tend to get anxious about some things every now and then: needs, wants, and desires kinds of things. A lightbulb usually goes off in my brain and reminds me of how blessed I am and that I am truly grateful for everything I have.
It makes me feel like a horse’s patootie, quite frankly.
There are so many folks in this country and around the world who lack basic necessities. Depending on the circumstances and the geographic locations, the need varies. However, I’ve been blessed, by God, to never know what it means to live under an overpass. I’ve been blessed to not know how it feels to have surgery after surgery; treatment after treatment, like the many children in hospitals around this world. I also do not know what it is like to fear for my safety because I worship God.
Sometimes I think we have it so easy that many of us take for granted everything our Father in Heaven has done for us, even when we haven’t made a request. I’d be so lost without everything God has done, especially those things that He did to lay a path for me, so that I’d have “a hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11).
How much better this world would be if more folks gave God His proper place, with a heart of gratitude for all He has done and will do?
I think I need to keep that in mind for myself.
John 10:7-15
Therefore Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Yesterday, I read a devotional that made me see the scripture in a new way. You can read that devotional HERE. I’ve included the passage as the scripture for this post.
God went to the depths to show us His love and protection. He continues to do so.
“His Eye is on the Sparrow”–Selah
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