which tree is the keg behind?

Good, glad you're okay, hope everybody in the group is, and I also wanna know which tree the keg is behind.

I was never a boy scout. But if I was, and had known about the keg, I'd probably been kicked out pretty darn quick.

How do I go about squeezing the juice out of that? 

FOR LEMONADE! 

:D  :D  :D !!!!

Gently Karin, gently. 

you don't squeeze it,you grind it with your heal.

Dehydrated Halloween apples we made.

Cool, most popular house for trick-or-treaters in your neighborhood, I bet.

I came out wearing a Tony-the-Tiger mask.

Then I jumped at'em growling LOL...

Where I live, the question about cars is, "How deep of a snowbank can it go through?"

Back from OH, but things didn't turn out quite as expected. We had a real estate agent tell us we should start at 99,900. Scot didn't even counter offer, just wanted to know our bottom line, and that he was going to check other houses in the neighborhood. We would probably let the place go for 90,000, but decided to let Scott make the first move. We are not in a hurry to sell the house, and if we have to put it on the market, we will. And if it doesn't sell, we can always rent it out again, but for 7 or 8 hundred a month instead of the 450 we get now. (we started them out at 300 a month, and have slowly raised it over the past 6 years)

Mom is still kicking, but I don't know for how much longer. My sister said when I came the first day, mom was more animated than she had been for months. But after the first visit, it was pretty much back to her now "normal" state. She sits up for meals, but rarely gets out of bed unless he needs help to use the bed side commode. We did get her up once to eat in the lobby, and she took a little ride around in her wheel chair, but she tired quickly. She spends most of her time sleeping, and the only channel on TV she watches is the food channel. Not sure why, cause she barely eats. I saw her every day for a week, but probably spent less than an hour with her awake. Sometimes I would just sit there until she woke up, and once I woke her to tell her that I couldn't stay any longer and had to go. The last day when I said goodbye, I started to break down, and she told me "Don't do that, it's OK". So I held it in till I got to the car where I cried a bit and screamed a bit. Didn't chance a damn thing, but I fear that that goodbye may be the last one. 

I;m doing OK, but my insurance company switched suppliers. So when IO got home expecting to have my supplies waiting for me, I had to contact the insurance co. to get the name and fax # of the new company. I took the list of supplies to my DR and watched them fax the papers, but after 2 days I called to check on the status of the order, and they didn't have me in the system. The girl I talked to said that they MIGHT have the fax # that we used, but it wasn't the # that came to her office, so she gave me a different # and had to have the DR fax the list again. Cross your fingers for me cause I am getting short on some of the supplies. 

On a tee shirt I'm thinking about buying:
"Lead me not into temptation. Ah hell, just follow me, I know a shortcut!"

Wise Advice from a Farmer's Wife

Whenever you return a borrowed pie pan, make sure it's got a warm pie in it.
Invite lots of folks to supper. You can always add more water to the soup.
There's no such thing as woman's work on a farm. There's just work.
Make home a happy place for the children. Everybody returns to their happy place.
Always keep a small light on in the kitchen window at night.
If your man gets his truck stuck in the field, don't go in after him. Throw him a

rope and pull him out with the tractor.
Keep the kerosene lamp away from the the milk cow's leg.
It's a whole lot easier to get breakfast from a chicken than a pig.
Always pat the chickens when you take their eggs.
It's easy to clean an empty house, but hard to live in one.
All children spill milk. Learn to smile and wipe it up.
Homemade's always better'n store bought.
A tongue's like a knife. The sharper it is the deeper it cuts.
A good neighbor always knows when to visit and when to leave.
A city dog wants to run out the door, but a country dog stays on the porch 'cause

he's not fenced-in.
Always light birthday candles from the middle outward.
Nothin' gets the frustrations out better'n splittn' wood.
The longer dress hem, the more trusting the husband.
Enjoy doing your children's laundry. Some day they'll be gone.
You'll never catch a runnin' chicken but if you throw seed around the back door

you'll have a skillet full by supper.
Biscuits brown better with a little butter brushed on 'em.
Check your shoelaces before runnin' to help somebody.
Visit old people who can't get out. Some day you'll be one.
The softer you talk, the closer folks'll listen.
The colder the outhouse, the warmer the bed.

whewwwww imagine that!!!

So this farmer gets in his pickup & is heading to town when he sees a couple of blond GUYS who appear to be in their 20s hitchhiking.  He pulls over & says "You fellas need a lift, huh?" They say "Yeah, we'd sure appreciate it, sir! We're on break from college & were out hiking & got lost, our cell phones died, etc."  So the farmer says "Well, I can take ya as far as the next town where you can use a phone if you want, but you'll have to ride in back; I don't let hitchhikers ride up front with me."  They say that's fine & hop in back & the farmer takes off.  Well, there'd been bad weather recently; the farmer hits a patch of black ice, goes into a skid & the truck slides off the road into a lake. The farmer manages to struggle out of the truck's cab, bobs to the surface & swims to shore where he sees no sign of the blond GUYS; he figures they would've beaten him to shore since they were so much younger than him. He's just about to give them up for dead when their heads finally break the lake's surface & they swim to shore & pull themselves up on the shore & lie there exhausted. The farmer says, "I had just about given up on you GUYS! What took ya so long?!" 1 of the blonde GUYS says, "Well you know it was really hard getting that tailgate down under water; it took like forever!"

A blind guy on a bar stool shouts to the bartender, "Wanna hear a blonde joke?" In a hushed voice, the guy next to him says, “Before you tell that joke, you should know something. Our bartender is blonde, the bouncer is blonde. I’m a six foot tall, 200 lb black belt. The guy sitting next to me is six foot two, weighs 225, and he’s a rugby player. The fella to your right is six foot five, pushing 300, and he’s a wrestler. Each one of us is blonde. Think about it, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?" The blind guy says, “Nah, not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times."

For those who may have known of Blithe Spirit, it is with a heavy heart that the news of her having passed away is mine to deliver. Rest in peace my friend, you will be missed. I saw this news on Face Book the other day. The posts are now removed I have found, and I am sorry I cannot provide more information. She will be truly missed.

We will miss her.

Aww, that's too bad, sorry to hear that.

ms vicki will be missed. she was a caring, incredibly smart woman with a big heart who switched careers from banking to teaching kids because she wanted to do something worthwhile. bon voyage to her. she will be missed.

The last time I was in Florida, in 2011, she and I made a date to meet in Bradenton for lunch and then she was going to show me around a bit.  Then I got really sick, and had to cancel.  But I will always remember her and how nice she was to me.  She would have had quite a drive to get up to see me, but she was perfectly willing to do that so that we could get to know each other better.  A fine lady.  I will miss her.  And I really wish we could have met.  

Find yourself a hobby, they said; best thing in the world for ya, they said. What kinda hobby, I asked. Oh, I don't know, they said, maybe join a writer's club? So I tried that & the 1st thing they tell us is, "Write what you know." But that'd be plagiarism! (Since the only things I know is what I read...sigh...)

quite a conundrum

my catholic friends aren't allowed to use conundrums

:D!

“I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
Woody Allen

"How to Barbecue an Idiot...In One Easy Lesson"