DD/Freeple Thread 1

[Mo1]

FOFL!!!! .. I can't blame you

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At least you didn't tell a fib...

[Mo1]

Wow Gran, The 23rd?

We had to make up snow days also but most were done around easter break .. my kids get out on the 13th .. but the way their schedule is the next few weeks, I don't know why

they have off today & monday .. go back tuesday, have off thurday & a 1/2 day on friday.

[ValerieUSA]

2 Teens Save Officer's Life

Houston police call them heroes. The officer they saved calls them angels. By any name, two Alvin High School cheerleaders are at the center of an amazing survival story where good luck and kind hearts prevented a tragedy, News2Houston reported Thursday.

Houston Police officer Chad Overton was involved in a devastating car accident. He believes that he was saved by angels, who just happen to be students.

"There were two bones that were broken and sticking out of the skin," Overton said.

"We feel like it's odd to be considered a hero, because we feel like we did just what any decent person should do," said Bekah Baker, a hero.

Overton had finished his shift on April 18 and was driving home to Iowa Colony. Two miles from his house, he fell asleep at the wheel and went into a ditch.

"I hit it and I went up in the air and it seemed like a million feet and the vehicle just began to flip end over end," Overton said.

After he crawled out of his truck, Overton tried to flag down help.

Four cars drove past the bleeding officer.

"After about the fourth car, I began to think that this was probably the end for me," Overton said.

Baker and Amanda Hardy were late for curfew that night and decided to take a back road to get home quickly.

"We saw a man waving really slowly, like, desperately, for help," Baker said.

"I don't know what made me go, but I just got out and my first thought was my first instinct," Hardy said.

The girls called 911 and stayed with the officer until medics arrived.

Doctors were able to save Overton's badly injured arm, as well as his life, because two girls were late for curfew.

"There are people on this earth who set out to help people. And I do believe that God calls them angels, and I believe these two people were angels for me that night," Overton said.

Both teenagers received commendations from the Houston Police Department.

But they said that they gained something even greater.

"I definitely believe in fate, and that I was meant to be there and so was Bekah," Hardy said.

The girls will also be honored by the American Red Cross for their heroics.

Baker said that she is also dreaming of a career in medicine.

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Still no ratty?

[ValerieUSA]

Nope, but we have a red x in a box.

[Darksheare]

Once in awhile I wear a hat.
Usually it's a military boonie hat, edges curled just so, or an Aussie J-hat, brim bent downwards in the right spots.

Sometimes I'll pull out my old BDU uniform cap and hold onto it like it's a priceless relic of a time long gone.
Then it gets stuffed back into it's hiding place as if I'm stung.

Then I go and drown myself in music or drawing.
"Strange creatures are we, strange and disturbing these humans be." -Vasarro Lotho, 'The man who was not.'*
*story unfinished.

[Darksheare]

More on the "sleeping in coffin with a cape" side, actually.
/ joke.

[Darksheare]

Some of my neighbors tend to chase parked cars.
Not sure why.

[ValerieUSA]

Because they are easy to catch?

I took this yesterday.

[Darksheare]

I would guess so.

Neat flower pic.
Know anywhere where there is a good pic of aScarlet Cardinal Flower?
I found one in PA while hiking some deep ravines and sketched it.
But the sketch won't scan so good at all.
Clarng.

[grannie9]

Yep.. the 23rd.. that's what the kids have told me.. They always go until at least the middle of June here. Nice for working Mom's of course..;)

Wow.. I've been working on my veggies for making Putanesca Sauce for supper, and all I could smell was the crushed garlic on my fingers. I chopped the Parsley afterwords and it's gone.. Such a deal, Neal.. I always use Lemon.. Parsley is better..lol. Oh.. Puta-nesca is Prostitutes Sauce.. Quick and easy.. yanowhatimean?

Watch..Habs or Swerve will say.. Couldhavetoldya..

[grannie9]

A collage of my flowers that are rotting in the rain. :(

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[Servant of the Nine]

I've been working on my veggies for making Putanesca Sauce

Someday after a few too many glasses of wine I will post my theory on how the sauce was named.

So9

[grannie9]

Ahhhhh... verrrrry interesting.. Drink up...;)

[andysandmikesmom]

Good afternoon all, I have somewhat recovered from my headcold, having consumed large quantities of booze, putting me into deep sleep for a few days....feel like a lazy slug, but feel better, and raring to go, for the Memorial Day Weekend festivities, of eating and drinking, and having fun....

Westy...I loved that pic of the bridge down there at Astoria, Oregon...we travel down to California, most of the time via RT 101, and so we always see the bridge, ,and have to pay the toll, and drive across it, and then drive over it again....one time we crossed over at night, ,and it was really spooky, when you get to the middle part, which is so low, ,and close to the water...felt like we were driving through the water, with waves lapping up all around us...

Westy, also got your ping about the Eagles, getting ready to hatch those babies....sure hope it happens soon, and that the little eaglets are ok...

[ValerieUSA]

Oh great, now I'm thirsty for wine.

[ValerieUSA]

Rt. 101 is great on a motorcycle... even on the back of one.

[andysandmikesmom]

I bet it is fun on a motorcycle....there are always lots and lots of motorcycles on Rt 101...we love to drive on 101...there is so much to see and so much to do, it takes us forever to get where we are going...we stop at all the beaches and Wayside Rests, and like to walk along the beaches, and just enjoy the scenery, its so beautiful...and of course, stop at every dang tourist trap, along the way...I am just a sucker for rummaging around in those places...