Posted on 06/13/2004 8:15:45 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
Very cool poem and graphic Sam!! :o)
| Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Today So here hath been dawning Out of Eternity Behold it aforetime Here hath been dawning
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Beautiful poem Star, thank you.
Thanks, a little history ina poem.:-)
I wonder if they even mention the Pony Express in schools anymore.
We do in our homeschool! ;o)
Also, living in Missouri, it's part of the state history we'll do in a couple of years!
Today is Thursday, July 15, 2004 with 169 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Uranus, Saturn and Neptune. The evening stars are Mercury, Jupiter, Mars and Pluto.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer.
They include Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn, in 1606.
Poet Clement Clark Moore, author of "A Visit from St.
Nicholas" ("'Twas the Night Before Christmas") in 1779.
Roman Catholic nun Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first U.S.
citizen to be made a saint, in 1850.
Lyricist Dorothy Fields in 1905.
Country singer Cowboy Copas in 1913.
Irish author Iris Murdoch in 1915.
Actors Alex Karras and Ken Kercheval, both in 1935 (age 69).
Jan-Michael Vincent in 1944 (age 60).
Singer Linda Ronstadt in 1946 (age 58).
Former pro wrestler and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in 1951
(age 53).
Actors Forest Whitaker in 1961 (age 43)
Brian Austin Green ("Beverly Hills 90210") in 1973
(age 31).
Uhhhh, I can crack myself up.... I'm generally
more serious than he is. I'm at my "weirdest" when
I've stayed up all night & haven't bothered to
get or try to get any sleep. I write strange stuff then.
Sis is more subtle in her humor than I am.
Usually.
But when she hasn't had any sleep, as she mentioned, she gets to a level of weird on par with me.
(Or worse I'd say. You should read some of what she comes up with.)
I sometimes post things she's come up with during her sleep deprivation, and the weirdness is blamed on me!
I guess we are more similar than I thought.
It's a lot of fun having a sib who's a FReeper! :o)
So do you have other sibs??
Sis, you wanna explain about our elder brother or do I have to?
How to explain "the first one".....
Where do I start?
The burning sulfur rock in the yard?
His first response to seeing baby you?
("I don't like it, I think I'll kill it.")
His multiple adventures falling down rock faces?
His amusing scream when doing afore mentioned falling?
Where do I start?!
OMG - are your parents still alive and well or are the in the insane asylum?? HE he he!! Sounds like you are three peas in a pod!
:-) It's nice to know a part of Americana is till mentioned in school
Actually, my brothers are 10 & 14 years older than
I am, so we do have a few problems, I'm closer to
'sheare than my other brother 'shadow. He & I often
butt heads, either 'cause we're alike or 'cause we're
different, I'm not sure which, 'sheare & I laugh
more than fight. Still, being the youngest has advantages
as well as disadvantages.
My brother set fire to a 3 ton boulder in the backyard.
He screams this odd two part scream while falling, starts off with a semi-inhaling "Auigh!" and then bridges after a slight pause into "AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaah!"
He stands like a pink flamingo as a defensive position when a mini-avalanche is falling towards him.
(Arms around head, one leg up.)
He also does that when a dead tree has dropped a section of itself onto him.
He was bombed out of his mind and, while laying on the beach, picked a fight with a fiddler crab and lost.
He was in a car accident and thrown around the inside of the vehicle becuase the seatbelt wasn't bolted to the floor.
Afterwards, he gets out of the BORROWED car and calls the police to report the accident.
(Driver's side wheel came off, steering came free from the pinion rack, and the car became a pogostick through a fence and into a field.)
Upon seeing the car he goes, "Oh my." and passes out.
Our parents are still alive and..
I can't say that they are sane.
Mom's sense of humor is much like my own.. which is much like my sister's..
My brother DID fall off the roof once.. okay so he fell off the roof repeatedly.
(Sis corrected me.)
We were shoveling snow off the roof because we were having repeat blizzards and the roof would eventually cave in.
What does my brother do?
He first shoves me off the roof.
(I landed between the house and the car..)
He's now "king of the Roof" and what does he do?
He turns around and then falls over his own two feet, slides almost the entire length of the roof freom peak to edge and falls off.
And bounces off the car parked in the driveway.
He's also the one previously mentioned somewhere who wizzed on the electric fence.
I got asked if we scared you off.
So.. did we confuse you or frighten you off?
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