Saturday News

It is finally good to know that 'heat makes objects expand' and now I know why I have expanded over the years.  I have just been retaining heat . . . 'hot' stuff right . . . well, why didn't someone tell me.

Yesterday this e-mail came through and our golfing president is in Martha's Vineyard playing golf.  I doubt he hit a hole in one, but hope when he reads the morning wake up mail, he realizes the hole we are all in.    The latest news is we , each one of us, owes thirty thousand dollars , good luck with that one as I only deal in pennies.    How about you?   

Now you laughed....I could hear you.    Someone has a keen sense of humor.    The Texans are really proud of their state, blue bonnets and all.

I am worried about family and friends back in Rhode Island as they wait for Hurricane Irene to make her landing.   I heard from Pauline and she dreads the fact that there could be a power outage and that would mean no e mails between us....and I wouldn't like that even a little bit.    I'm hoping it passes right by without doing any damage . . . I know wishful thinking.  We have lived through many hurricanes and the big ones always left us without power, believe me that is no fun, just a lot of hard work to survive and get used to candle light or a lantern, one is never prepared enough for such storms.   This is the first storm of the season, wonder how many will develop and shake our lives up.   Let us all hope and pray this is the only big one and it passes by quickly.  

So today, Saturday, what are you going to do with your weekend?    If you are back East you are going to be very busy watching and waiting for Irene to peter out and get lost to the wilds of Canada while you pick up the pieces and get on with your life.   If you are out here in the West then you are waiting, as usual, for the other shoe to drop...the earthquake that has yet to come but keeps shaking its fault lines to let us know the earth's crusts are forever moving.  How about that earthquake back east?  Wow !  That was a surprise.   Nothing we can do about any of this but live through it and do just what we have to do . . .live . . . every second of it with a helping hand and a big heart.  You can do it!  Hugs to all.