JULY DATES

Summer is here and it will be a busy month.

July 4 -Happy Birthday USA !
Also July 4 - Great grandson Dane will be 15.
July 5 - Happy Birthday Walter!
July 8 - Long-time friend Dorothy, will be 82.
July 15 - Long-time husband of mine, will be 85.
July 20 - Son Gary will be 56.
July 22 - Granddaughter Jade, will be 30, a milestone.
July 25 - We will help celebrate Jerry and Doris' 50th anniversary! Precious people.
July 31 - Denny and Peg, our kids, will celebrate their 38th anniversary. Also precious people.

Our best wishes for you all. Have great celebrations!

And before I forget. Last year mreddie wrote that he was getting stitches out July 7, 2008. So I hope all went well. Haven't heard from his lately.

July will be busy so I have to get busy right now so I can join in July's busyness!
Betty G

BUSY, BUSY, TIRED, TIRED

Dean and I started last week to exchange two rooms. That is to make the office the guest room and the guest room, the office. Understand??
And believe me it has been a chore and we are only about half done. Each room has a walk-in closet and that means the shelving for the office has to be moved and the door removed. The guest room gets the closet rods now and the door back on. The tedious work is getting all the papers and craft stuff cleaned up and moved to the shelves. That is taking forever.
We have boxes and stuff all through the house yet to find a new home in the change.

A friend came over yesterday and exclaimed, "It looks like a tornado came through here!" And she was right! The tornado was Dean and I.

The other room has proved to be larger than I thought and I know I am going to love it! I have an eight foot counter now for work space. It sits on four 2-drawer file cabinets with pix and the like in them which means I must get back to scrapbooking. The hardest part is finding a spot for everything in a better order that it had been. That is proving to be really hard but I am amazed at the things I have that I'd forgotten completely.

Dean still has his desk, computer, and file cabinet to move, and my computer, and the printers.
Three desk chairs will be simple to move , pix and stuff, and of course, curtains, all have to be exchanged. And on, and on, it goes. Bobbi will be here next weekend so we have to have it done!!
So, we have been busy, and we are tired.

We haven't forgotten it is July 4 and we will get together with Daughter Betty's family at her house, and the weather promises to be perfect. So we should get past this tiredness and be rested.
I hope you all have a perfect day, too. And remember to at least fly Old Glory!!
Betty G

ALL FOR THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS

This is a minor picture of what went on at the Breaking Bricks Saturday. There were many black belters breaking those bricks, sometimes two at a time. I thought it was great.

The big picture is from the newspaper and is a super guy, Dan, one of the instructors. The students and instructors at One Tree gave a whole day for Special Olympics in boiling hot weather. The inflatable things to play on were super, too, but I didn't get a picture of them. I hope to yet and if I do I will post them.

One Tree is our grandson Jeremy's school and he has been doing this for several years and we are very proud of him.

Oh, yes, the amount from all the doings was just under $15,000. That is the largest amount the school has made in one day. Super!

Glad I didn't miss it!

Betty G

BREAKING BRICKS

Well, it's Thursday, and on Saturday, Jeremy, our grandson, will be breaking bricks with his hands for Indianhead Special Olympics with the goal of breaking 3,000 bricks.
Jeremy's martial arts school, One Tree Martial Arts in Eau Claire, is selling bricks at a requested donation of $5 a brick. Bricks can be purchased at the event on Hastings Way, or from a One Tree student.
Jeremy will have some students, exhibiting other martial arts feats, also breaking bricks.
The event includes inflatable games, face painting, a car wash, and music. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

This notice is from our local paper and Jeremy has been doing this for various charities for several years and it can be counted on to be very entertaining and worthwhile.
So be there!

Betty G

SOME OF TODAY'S HEADLINES

"Health Care Bill Drafted by Democrats to include $600 Billion in Tax Increases."

"Obama won't rule out releasing Guautanamo detainees into USA."

"San Francisco: $100 Fines for Throwing out Food Scraps."

"Boy Hit by Meteorite."

"Obama Taps More Big Donors for Ambassadorships."

"Stimulus Fraud Could Hit $50 Billion."

"State Declares Ahmadinejad Winner of Iran's election."

"Obama Era: Bulldoze Shrinking Cities?"

Does this make your day?
Betty G

HOORAY!!

Hooray! Global Warming is coming to Wisconsin. It's 66 degrees at our house at noon. We have been in the 50's for I don't know how long! So, 66 sounds good, hopefully a start upward.

Here records were set this month. Green Bay, Saturday, June 6, had 52 at 9:50 AM. That broke the 1943 record.
Others were Manitowoc, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Rapids, Marshfield, and Merrill. All broke the 1935 record with 54 degrees.
Don't know why we weren't in that list, we had to have the furnace on, all day.

So, with these figures, I am agreeing with the Burger King sign, "Global Warming is Baloney!"

"Lord, don't let me complain when the temps hit 90!"
Betty G

FROM THE SOUTH

I'm from the South and once a Southerner always a Southerner, is true. These saying prove it.
They came from Brenda, another Southerner.

A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered.....not yelled.

Meaness don't jest happen overnight.

Every path has a few puddles.

Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.

Don't judge folks by their relatives.

Live a good, honorable life, then when you get older and think back,
you'll enjoy it a second time.

Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.

Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.

If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.

Onced and twiced are words.

Fixinto is one word.

Backwards and forwards means, "I know everything about you!"

You measure distance in minutes.

100 degrees Fahrenheit's a little warm.

We have four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

Thank you Brenda, I loved them!
Betty G

A LITTLE JOKE

Have you heard this one? It is a little one, cute though.

A guy shows up late for work.
The boss yells, "You should've been here at 8:30!"
The guy replies, "Why? What happened at 8:30?"

I like it!
Betty G