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Bears 5 JCU 0. Auto bid to NCAA.
Confer and tourney champs.
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Norm
Just wondering what everyone is planning on doing this weekend?
Saturday Chris plays at noon (mom seemed to think this could change). You can watch the game live, links are on the ONU Athletics page.
Next the sad news, funeral arrangements. Carl and I will be going back and forth between PGH and New Middletown Sunday evening and Monday. Carl has an indoor soccer game Sunday evening. So depending on when viewing times are we will be moving around. Someone can come and stay with us Sunday night if they want. We don’t have a lot of room but just throwing it out there.
Lucille word is that you are going to be heading up, what are your plans?
UPDATE 11-4Mom just called and here are the details.
Sunday Evening: 5-8 viewing at Zion Lutheran
Monday: Viewing 10-11, Funeral 11, Luncheon to follow trip to cemeteryLucille and Tommy are going to be at Grandma & Grandpa’s house Saturday afternoon/evening.
Nick is coming with Cade and Ave – mom wasn’t 100% sure about his details.
Chris’s game is now at 2pm so the Wellington crew won’t be arriving until Sunday afternoon.
Carl and I haven’t made our plans yet although we will probably be in on Sunday and Monday.
UPDATE 11-5
Looks like ONU is winning 4-0 in the second!
Nick is coming alone, watchout for the children of the corn on you way through the midwest.
Lucille and Tommy are trying to stop by Carl and my place but are stuck in traffic. They will be at Grandma’s for dinner. Car and I are planning on going to grandma’s tonight. Not sure how long we will stay, probably depends.-
chris
Game is changed to 2pm. I will be going home afterwards with mom and dad then we will be going over to New Middletown Sunday. After everything Monday I will be heading back to ONU.
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Joy
Nick is coming by himself Sunday night, leaving Monday afternoon.
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Lucille
Hey all,
News to report. I was just listening to Dad’s post about “Opening Day”. Well, I’m not sure when opeing day was, but I didn’t get my hunting license or tags. Today, though, I got one. Or should I say “it” got me. Yes, you may have guessed it, I have repeated history. I was thinking about my average. I know my average is way off of Chris and Dad’s but nonetheless, I have an average. It comes once every 10 years. The last time “it” got me, I was 16. Today, I’m 26. Yup, my average is 1 in every 10 years. Tommy and I have to decide upon a body shop to fix my old Ford. I hope they do a good job of picking out the hair from my left front bumper of the four legged Bambie beast that is no more. Do me a favor and remind me when I turn 36 that I’m due for another wretched doe to run into me.-
dale
Better your car than mine!! lol lol -just kidding.
Glad you’re OK. Dangerous stuff. We saw a live one tonight near the road coming home from the game. I drive 40 mph past Findlay S.P. this time of year.
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Norm
oh no. What a bummer.
I was just telling Carl over the weekend that I generally don’t go over 40 miles and hour ever.
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Norm
Here is the player for the ONU men’s soccer. Chris’s game is at 2pm today.
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dale
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dale
The “Green Thing”
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this ‘green thing’ back in my earlier days.”
The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
” She was right –our generation didn’t have the “green thing” in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the “green thing” back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the “green thing” in our day.
Back then, we washed handkerchiefs, cleaning rags, and the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn’t have the “green thing” back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right. We didn’t have the “green thing” back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the “green thing” back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn’t it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the “green thing” back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation. Don’t make old people mad. We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to tick us off.
Norm, 
bad, and 
dale are discussing. 
Joy, and 
chris are discussing. 
dale 10:14 pm on November 28, 2011 Permalink |
I use “Microsoft Office Picture Manager.” Piece of cake… even I can do it! There should be a picture program on your ‘puter that can do this sort of thing. I have no idea what’s in a Mac suite.
bad 2:41 pm on November 29, 2011 Permalink |
you can download Gimp and use that. it’s a pretty powerful image editing software, but it’s easy to use. find a tutorial how to do it. shouldn’t be that hard.
http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
carl 2:43 pm on November 29, 2011 Permalink |
its free too
Norm 5:32 pm on December 3, 2011 Permalink |
I think there is an option in flickr too.