Amy's Place .. Poetry and Potpourri .. Apr. 8-9-10, 2005

4-8-05 | JustAmy, St.Louie1, MamaBear, Billie

[JustAmy]

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Never Forget!





'Bad Penny'.



Amy's personal guardian ~
the always charming, lovable, huggable,
LouieWolf




Many thanks for stopping by. : )

[JustAmy]

"There would be no crown-wearers in heaven had Christ not been the cross-bearer on earth."

Thank you, Rus. You help us get started on the right path every morning.



Hope you are having a Happy Spring Day, Mayor.

[JustAmy]

Good morning, DD. Thank you for the Buhdda Day graphic.

That Buhdda statue is enormous. Would love to see some of your slides whenever you get them scanned.


Challenger 7 astronauts

Have a Happy Astronauts Day!

[The Mayor]

It is a beautiful spring day in Western New York!
Thanks Amy!

[Jack Deth]

Though I do enjoy "Apollo 13" and look forward to the new updated release on DVD, Dolly. I still think the real story is told on the ground and not in space. With Ed Harris, superb as always, playing Gene Krantz.

I'll still stick with Phil Kauffman's outstnding Ensemble Cast, Peroid Piece/Bio-Pic, "The Right Stuff". Where everything taken for granted today first got started.

Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Randy Quaid and Fred Ward are Dead Ringers for Glenn, Carpenter, Cooper and Grissom. Their Mid-Training Plan to "Alter the Experiment" is truly not to be missed!

Neither is their subtle extorsion to modify the German Scientists' "Capsule" into a "Spacecraft" within earshot of a hungry Press Corps!

Sam Shepard may be taller than Chuck Yeager, the Absolute God Of All Test Pilots; but everything else about his character in zeroed in perfectly!

All the the Women In Attendance do some of their best work. From Mrs. Cooper, Grissom and Glenn. All the way to "Pancho" Barnes and the quiet, near Sadistic Holloman Test Lab Nurse!

Jack.

[NicknamedBob]

I’m Wrong!

I used to think that I was strong,
I guess it was only pride.
It hurts to admit I was simply wrong,
Strength doesn’t come from inside.

I have been blessed and I love it,
I thought it was owned as my right,
Not my arm, but from somewhere above it,
Is the source for the force of my might.

It’s not easy to change in my thinking,
I have been so deluded too long,
With reluctance, my ego’s been shrinking,
For I found in a flash I was wrong.

I’ve discovered I’m actually mortal,
But my ego, -- what’s left -- will still fight,
I’ll take pride to admit with a chortle,
When I say “I am wrong,” that I’m right!

NicknamedBob . . . . . . . April 9, 2005

[lonestar]

What cute kitty cats!

Weinie

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend.

Happy Astronauts Day!

[JustAmy]

Billie ...... thank you for this cute Welcome Graphic. We love kitties here. :)

Jack ..... thank you for the adorable kitten poem (story) used with today's Welcome

[JustAmy]

Happy Saturday, Meekie. Looks like it will be at least another day before our temps get into the comfortable range.



Hope you are having a relaxing weekend.

[NicknamedBob]

Graphic by MamaBear

Butterfly

What’s in those flowers that you sip,
That makes you seem so tipsy?
We can’t tell if you’re coming from,
Albany or Poughkeepsie,

Or even if you’re going to,
One place or the other.
The way you travel seems to be,
You’re looking for your mother!

Just as a toddler wanders round,
With no fixed course in sight,
The butterfly flits both here and yon,
In most erratic flight.

It seems so inefficient,
Why can’t you just hold still?
And then you stop, and fold your wings,
Upon a daffodil.

You daintily step forward,
“I haven’t touched a drop!”
And just as sober as a Judge,
You spread your wings and FLOP!

And Flip, and Flap, and bounce.
A goonie in reverse.
How can you be so comical?
I know you don’t rehearse.

And yet you get where you must go,
God knows how you can do it.
Perhaps the use of folded hands,
And faith just leads you to it.

By NicknamedBob . . . . March 30, 2004
© 2004

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh, yeah. 57 degrees there. Looks like Mr. Spring is gonna hafta evict Old Man Winter there. :)

I see we made our 80 degrees. 81 right now. I turned the A/C on a little while ago because it was getting a little warm here in the house.

Hope you're having a great Saturday. :)

[JustAmy]

Happy Saturday, Colleen
Happy Spring!
Happy Astronauts Day!

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping Amy. Another great thread. 63° here in White Lake Michigan...feels like 75°. Grilled out burgers an hour ago and just got back from hitting a bucket of golf balls at a nearby county park with my son. Been working in the yard today. What a great weekend to have off work! It's supposed to be even nicer tomorrow (Sunday). I hope you all are enjoying life wherever you are.

[Dubya]

The Legend Of The First Robin

One day, long ago, a little bird in Jerusalem saw
a large crowd gathered around a Man carrying a
heavy wooden cross. On the Man's head was a
crown made from a thorn branch.

The thorns were long and sharp. The little bird
saw that the thorns were hurting the Man.
It wanted to help Him, so it flew down and took the
longest, sharpest thorn in its tiny beak.

The bird tugged and pulled until the thorn
snapped from the branch. Then a strange thing
happened. A drop of blood
fell onto the bird's breast, staining it bright red.

The stain never went away.
And so today the robin proudly wears a
red breast, because it helped a Man named Jesus.




May God bless you today,
And keep you all year through.
May God give you all the faith it takes,
To make your dreams come true.
May His love and wisdom always help,
To guide you on your way.
May His light shine down upon you now,
To bless your every day.

[deadhead]

Beautiful graphic, thanks Amy. Still waiting for my azalea's to bloom.

[JustAmy]

Birthdate: 12.07.1957
Birthplace: Amarillo / Texas
Marital status: married
Children: two
Date of death: 01.02.2003
Place of death: over Texas

Bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from Texas Tech University, 1980; master of science in mechanical engineering from California State University, Fresno, 1990;
Colonel, USAF; test pilot; unsuccessful application for NASA astronaut group 14;
Hobbies: Singing, snow and water skiing, cycling, spending time with his family;
died in the "Columbia" disaster.

Happy Astronauts Day!
A good day to remember those lost exploring space.

[lonestar]

I heard the explosion that morning. It rattled our windows way down here in SE TX. Most of the wreckage was found about 30 miles north of here.

When I first lived in Houston, I lived in the same apts. with the astronauts secretary. There were only 7 of them and one of her at first; then they got the second group. I met many of the astronauts including John Glenn and one of the new ones named Neil Armstrong.

Armstrong he left she said, "You just met the first man to walk on the moon." Nobody had ever heard of him before. What I found amazing when it happened, was that it was planned so far in advance.

[international american]

El Bumpo !!

[lonestar]

Armstrong he left

After he left.....

[international american]

Hero Bump