FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ October 19, 2005

Guest Chef Spotsybelle

[Spotsy]

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday...
Thank the Veterans who served in
The United States Armed Forces.

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Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends!

Born on this Day
1932 actor Robert Reed,
best known as Mike Brady on
The Brady Bunch,
died 1992

Born on this Day
1945 transvestite and actor Divine,
born Harris Glenn Milstead,
credits include Hairspray and Polyester,
died 1988

Happy Birthday
1945 actor John Lithgow,
credits include TV series
"3rd Rock from the Sun" and
Twilight Zone: The Movie

Happy Birthday 1967 Amy Carter, daughter of Jimmy and Rosalynn;
advised father on nuclear non-proliferation during the 1976 presidential campaign

Word of the Day
beneficence \buh-NEFF-i-suhns\, noun:
The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness
From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper. From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character. From my mother, piety and beneficence and abstinence.
--Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[S]he had disseminated around her what seemed an involuntary aura of beneficence and goodwill.
--John Bayley, Elegy for Iris

On this Day in History 1781 British General Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown,
effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution. Pleading illness, Cornwallis did not attend the surrender ceremony; his second-in-command, General Charles O'Hara, carried Cornwallis' sword to the American and French commanders. As the British troops marched out to surrender, the British bands played the song "The World Turned Upside Down."

On this Day in History 1812 One month after Napoleon Bonaparte's massive invading force entered a burning and deserted Moscow, the starving French army was forced to begin a hasty retreat out of Russia

Field Trip
WORLDSERIES.COM
Isn't there a Chicago team going to the World Series?
I wonder if Tomkow knows which team.

Don't forget the syrup! Pancakes Wednesday with the Troops --
definitely!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Me?

[GodBlessUSA]

Aw, he just wanted out.

I left a shelter with my daughter, I told her, I can't do this anymore. I had been going for a few weeks while they were in school. The experiences broke my heart. One dog looked at me disappointed and sad, after I came back a 2nd time and saw him again, it was as if he knew I wasn't taking him. After they showed me the dog originally and I played with him, they told me he was just a puppy. I thought he was grown and he would have gotten to big for us to keep. I checked back and someone did adopt him. I was so relieved.

My daughter made me call one more shelter that day, and our dog had only been there for only an hour. Meant to be. :)

[TASMANIANRED]

I was going to write more, but decided it was comforting me and not you.

The hurt lasts a long time, the love lasts forever.

[luvie]

Yep.....you!

[GodBlessUSA]

No, please tell it. :)

[TASMANIANRED]

I thought the UN took over and was trying to figure out a scheme to loot.

[luvie]

If you needed to write it, you should have. I wouldn't mind you being comforted at all! ((((hugs))))

[Mrs.Nooseman]

I agree.That is how we got our cat.

We found him and his siblings in a cardboard box at the end of our street.

We were able to find homes for his siblings and kept him.

He has never forgotten what we did for him seven years ago.

Junior is a joy to have around.

He waits for me at the end of the street, when I get home from work and then walks with me.Sometimes I think he was a dog in another live.~chuckle~

[TASMANIANRED]

Mine are 10%ers...

[Lady Jag]

I did that to my boss about 10 days ago. It's a wonder I am still here.

Well, now you have the picture to prove it! :)

[Lady Jag]

Thank you! What a beautiful HooHoo!!!

[TASMANIANRED]

Started out like gangbusters ,,,better now.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Ladies, I am really sorry I shared this with you all.

I didn't think or know it would open this many wounds.

My Apology to all.

{{{HUGS}}}

[luvie]

Our cat that we had showed up on our doorstep one morning with a badly hurt leg. Despite my hubby saying "don't feed it" my son and I couldn't help ourselves. She kept hanging around and we kept feeding her and then one day she showed up on the doorstep with three kittens. I guess we had passed some test with her.

We adopted out the kittens and she was with us for about 12 years....and the leg healed without her even having a limp. She was the sweetest, gentlest most grateful little thing we have ever had. Never gave us a moment of anger. Her name was Missy.

[GodBlessUSA]

I promise, I will and do :).

[luvie]

Don't you dare apologise! It was a wonderful story and also opened up sweet memories of precious companions that we have loved. I think I needed it!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

I love stories like that.

I never regretted the day I found Junior and neither has the rest of the family.

We would do it all over again if the occasion arrived.

[Lady Jag]

Maybe you remember, was it three years ago we had a wicked mild winter? I'm pretty sure it was three because my current hairdresser is going on 4 years here from California. Her first winter here, we got almost no snow at all and had mild enough temperatures that I did yardwork all through it.

We need another one just like that.

[luvie]

Awwwwwwwwww...what a little sweetie! She has the gentlest eyes! Thanks for sharing her picture with us! (((hugs)))

[GodBlessUSA]

That's a great story of your Missy. You'll know when your ready again. You will be. I've heard you speak of this before.