A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....06-06-03...Of Love & Friendship....and Other Good Stuff

Billie

[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in need; and congratulate those deserving. We strive to keep our threads entertaining, fun, and pleasing to look at, and often have guest writers contribute an essay, or a profile of another FReeper.

On Mondays please visit us to see photos of A FEW OF FR'S VETERANS AND ACTIVE MILITARY

If you have a suggestion, or an idea, or if there's a FReeper you would like to see featured, please drop one of us a note in FR mail.

We're having fun and hope you are!
~ Billie, daisyscarlett, dansangel, dutchess, Mama_Bear

Montage by martin_fierro
"BEST FRIENDS are the siblings God forgot to give us."

A change of pace today; a filler of sorts.... an email received some time ago from a friend: various quotes about love and friendship. Please feel free to add your own treasured gems.

Thank you, martin_fierro, for making this special montage for me to use today. I can't think of a better way to illustrate "Best Friends" than with FReepers' own photos, and the graphic you chose is perfect!

Of Love and Friendship....

• LOVE starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
  
  
• THE HARDEST thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
  
  
• DON'T FROWN. You never know who's falling in love with your smile.
  
  
• DON'T CRY over anyone who won't cry over you.
  
  
• What do you do when the only person who can make you STOP crying is the person who MADE you cry?
  
  
• Nobody is PERFECT until you fall in love with them.
  
  
• Some people make the world SPECIAL just by being in it.
  
  
• A BEST FRIEND is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.
  
  
• Most people walk in and out of your life, but only FRIENDS leave footprints in your heart.
  
  
• GOOD FRIENDS are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
  
  
• Good friends are like STARS. You don't always see them, but you know they are ALWAYS THERE.
  
  
• When it HURTS to look back, and you're SCARED to look ahead, you can look beside you and your BEST FRIEND will be there.
  
  
• TRUE FRIENDSHIP "NEVER" ends. Friends are FOREVER.

And Other Good Stuff....

• DON'T let the past hold you back; you'll miss the good stuff.
  
  
• LIFE is SHORT. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it.
  
  
• REMEMBER, every minute spent angry is sixty seconds of happiness wasted.
  
  
• EVERYTHING is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 6-2-03   Military Monday - by Billie 6-3-03   Face Off at the Finest - by FTH & Billie 6-4-03   I'll be a Good Boy (Roscoe) - by Dutchess 6-5-03   Bush, Mideast Peace, Iraq WMD - by JH2

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[Aeronaut]

Bet you were first in line at the buffet though. :)

No, but I knocked three people over going to the coffee pot.

[martin_fierro]

LOL!

I have no idea who the little girls are ... they just turned up in a Google graphics search under "Best Friends" <|:)~

[martin_fierro]

> B U R P ! <

Oh, I beg your pardon. <|:)~

[Graewoulf]

Drought is bad, rain is good. Hope you have a nice, cool, and gentle growing rain today.

[Dubya]

My wife Eve and myself thank all of you for your friendship to us. You are a great group of people.
And we extend our friendship to all of you.
Eve and Dub

[Molly Pitcher]

Good morning Billie, everyone!

I know it's a shock, but guess what??? The SUN is a-shinin' away!! Yep, you heard it here first: the sun is shining in n.e. Ohio....

[LadyShallott]

She's eating lunch right now. :) I figured she was sitting in one place long enough to say hello. LOL!

Chris

[Diver Dave]

Mornin' Dubya.

California sunrise... Our good friend made this for us...

[Billie]

Hitting the beach on D-Day
World War II

Hitting the beach, Allied infantrymen swarmed ashore along the Normandy coast of northern France on D-Day—June 6, 1944. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Hitler had boasted that German defenses along the coast could resist any attack. But he was wrong.

[Billie]

God Bless Our Military

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Below are names of some of our FReepers' loved ones who are serving our country. If you have someone you would like to add, please address a post to Billie; Daisyscarlett; Dansangel; Dutchess; Mama_Bear; and we will add their name to this list. As we pray for them, we pray also for all our nation’s leaders, and military personnel, and their families and friends. May God hold them close to His heart.

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We ask Lord, that You guide the leaders of our great country in their hour of decision. The burden that has been placed on their shoulders is overwhelming. We ask that with Your infinite wisdom You guide them gently to the right decisions.

Please give us the strength, Lord, to get through each difficult and devastating day that faces each of us and our country. Protect and guide our Military that are now being called to duty, strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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OhioWfan........................son mystery-ak..........son, husband Gogrammy................grandson Inspectorette...................son Blessed American..........nephew Slip18..........................nephew anniegetyourgun...........nephew Pippin....niece,nephew,loved one Doug from Upland......son-in-law weldgophardline.....brotherinlaw Future Snake Eater..........cousin WaterDragon..son-in-law,grandson BeforeISleep...................son The Mayor........................niece LadyX.........................grandson fawn796.....................nephew Warrior Nurse...........active duty SK1 Thurman...........active duty David Osborne.........active duty fc2tomschermuly......active duty bkwells..................activve duty LongCut..................active duty Trish.......................active duty

Maigrey................cousin ladtx....................2 sons Mama_Bear...........nephew gator girl............husband severa................husband MozartLover......son, nephew LBGA........................son SpookBrat...........nephew Himyar.....................son boxerblues............2 sons the piper...................son sheeza...............husband kemathen7...........husband Diver Dave................niece deadhead................cousin JimRobinson.....2 nephews Armymarinemom.....3 sons Consort..2 daughters,son-in-law Darheel..................niece dixie sass.............nephew BeAllYouCanBe.........son AgThorn...............2 sons homeschoolmama.......nephew kneezles.................son

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', FRiends ! Happy Friday !

68 degrees as I post this, headin' for around 81 today. Thundershowers possible. Had a little rain already.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin' !!

[Dubya]

Good morning Dave. Your friend sure made you a beautiful picture.

[Dubya]

Good post Billie.
Our guys kicked their tails.

I'm off to show a house, back later.

[JustAmy]

No rain in California's Central Valley (there shouldn't be!!) but we had lots of rain in April. Enough to fill the canals for the farmers. Maybe they will not have to start their pumps until August.

[Billie]

No, but I knocked three people over going to the coffee pot.

Shame on you - here I was bragging about what a gentleman you were. :)

[JustAmy]

[Billie]

Thank you, Dubya and Eve. It's a nice feeling to have a group of FRiends online as well as those we have in our personal lives.

[Billie]

Hi, Molly! I bet seeing that sun is making a lot of you happy!

[jwfiv]

Hi, Billie, and Good Morning to you, and to all our glamorous Hostess-babes...you're all lookin' good in your silks and satins.

A thoughtful and thought-provoking thread today...you have a way of doing that...thank you.

Hello to all Freepers.

Here's a pic of Dubya givin' the Vice-President a tour of his Prairie Chapel Ranch, followed by something a very special man once said to all his young friends, way back when, on a glorious day in yesteryear:

The Lone Ranger's Creed

I believe:

That to have a friend, a man must be one.

That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.

That God put the firewood there but that every man must gather and light it himself.

In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right.

That a man should make the most of what equipment he has.

That 'This government, of the people, by the people and for the people' shall live always.

That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.

That sooner or later... somewhere...somehow... we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.

That all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever.

In my Creator, my country, my fellow man.