For the Buckeye fans ... Thanks Clay Vice!

Then there is this one for the Buckeye Fans.



Thought you all might like this one.



A man dressed in Scarlet and Gray walks into an Ann Arbor sports bar

with a small dog under his arm. He says to the bartender:

Hey, can I leave my dog here while I go to the OSU - Michigan game?

A dog in my bar? No. But he's a special dog, the OSU fan says.

In what way? The bartender asks.

Well, says the Buckeye,he will watch the game on TV with you. When OSU

scores, he will walk up and down the bar on his hind legs.

When Michigan scores, he will walk up and down the bar on his front legs.

When Ohio State wins, he will do back flips all the way down the bar and back.

Wow,the bartender says. What does he do when Michigan wins?

I don't know" says the Buckeye. "He's only six years old.

The Lord's Prayer ... thanks Clay!

OUR LORD 'S PRAYER

The moment you receive it, say:

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil..

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory now and forever. Amen..



GOD WANTED ME TO TELL YOU ,

It shall be well with you this coming year..

No matter how much your enemies try this year, they will not succeed.

You have been destined to make it and you shall surely achieve all your goals this year...

For the remainder of 2011, all your agonies will be diverted and victory and prosperity will be incoming in abundance. Today, God has confirmed the end of your sufferings, sorrows and pain because HE that sits on the throne has remembered you. He has taken away the hardships and given you JOY. He will never let you down.



I knocked at heaven's door this morning, God asked me.. My child! What can I do for you? And I said,



'Father, please protect and bless the person reading this message..'



It has never been broken. Within 48 hours send as many as you can - God does know if you don't have 20 people to send it to. It's the effort and intent that counts. to family and friends.

This is a powerful Prayer. Couldn't hurt. Can only help..Please do not break it...



When God leads you to the edge of the cliff, trust Him fully and let go, only 1 of 2 things will happen, either He'll catch you when you fall, or He'll teach you how to fly!



If God brings you to it, He will bring you thru it.

Noah, the pigeon ... thanks Ramey Sonny Hoskins!

This is precious. Take time to go to the end.








Noah the Dove







These little bunnies, about 6 days old, were attacked by a dog and orphaned. Two out of the litter of five did not survive, and these three were not doing very well.

Noah is a non-releasable, one-legged homing pigeon/rock dove that is in the rehab centre. Noah kept going over to the bunny cage and looking in -- even sleeping in front of the door to the cage.

Then, suddenly, there were only two bunnies in the cage. But when Noah moved a bit from the front of the cage to everyone's surprise...there was the tiny bunny...under Noah's wing...sound asleep! That little bunny rabbit had crawled through the cage, preferring a featherbed, no doubt to snuggling up with its littermates!

Now, they are all together and the bunnies are doing GREAT. When the bunnies scoot underneath Noah's feathers, he carefully extends his wings out to surround them and then they snuggle. When one of them moves and they start sticking out here and there, he gently pushes them back under him with his beak! It is beautiful and amazing to see...

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Update on Noah the pigeon:







We are Bob and Georganne Lenham of Wild Rose Rescue Ranch in Texas, home of Noah the Pigeon.



After finding many posts online featuring Noah and the bunnies and reading about the many lives he has touched (his story has been forwarded around the world) we thought we'd post a follow-up and a few new photos.



We knew there was something special about Noah the moment we saw him. Although the bunnies seem to be his favorite, Noah helps out with many rescue babies here at the Wild Rose Rescue Ranch...







Noah's first litter of bunnies, almost raised and ready for release.







Photo Bob Lenham



Now, Noah helps out with many rescue babies here at the ranch...







How wonderful it is to have a full-time soft-feathered nurturer here at the rescue ranch! He cuddles with all the babies as they snuggle under his warm feathers...and he "coos" as if singing them to sleep with a lullaby.







Noah is truly, truly a God-send.



"He will cover you with His feathers and under His wings you will find refuge." Psalm 91:4

Clay Softball Excellence- Carol and Clay vice

The pictures show a few of the excellent Clay area softball girls with Carol and Clay Vice.  These are probably the best performance teams from the area in any sports activity. These pictures were in my "Excellence in Athletics in the Portsmouth Area" book.   I just ran across them in searching my books.




My latest book "Acquaintances with Integrity II"(2011) should be available shortly on Kindle-Amazon and I will be trying to get other books like Excellence on a little later. They come to you quickly for your e-readers and are much less expensive.

Back: Clay Vice, Kellie Vice, Kris Vice, Teresa Ruby, Carol Vice

Front: Mindy Winters, Beth McCullough

Carol coached the Clay High School softball team from 1978 to 1988. Clay was also her softball sidekick.  Their remarkable record was 262 wins and only 20 losses (93%). Highlights include:

3 State Championships

3 State semi-finalist teams

2 State Runner-up teams

and 8 regional championships

And their Clay Little League and Senior league teams were also excellent. The Clay Senior League All Stars advanced to the 1978 World Series in Baxter, Kansas and finished fourth in the tournament.

Beth McCullough summarized this information which I have paraphrased a little.


Carol was inducted into Ohio High School's Softball Hall of Fame A couple of years ago.

Please show a little love to these outstanding coaches, Carol and Clay, and to any of their Clay girls for bringing girls' softball fame to our area when you see them!


And they are both really nice people!  

SamKat aka Sam Kegley

Who the heck was Kilroy? Thanks Clay Vice!

I wish somebody would draw me their best Kilroy.

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For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our history.



Anyone born in the teens, twenties, and mid-thirties, is familiar with Kilroy. We didn't know why, but we had lapel pins with his nose hanging over the label and the top of his face above his nose with his hands hanging over the label too. I believe it was orange colored. No one knew why he was so well known, but we all joined in!



WHO THE HECK WAS KILROY?



In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the REAL Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article.

Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax, Massachusetts , had evidence of his identity.

Kilroy was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy . His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework and got paid by the rivet.



Kilroy would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark. Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters.



One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then he realized what had been going on.

The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his checkmark on each job he inspected, but added KILROY WAS HERE in king-sized letters next to the check, and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message. Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks.



Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced. His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over Europe and the South Pacific. Before war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, and everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo.



To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that some jerk named Kilroy had "been there first." As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.

Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it is said to be atop Mt. Everest , the Statue of Liberty, the underside of l'Arc De Triomphe, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon).

As the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were the first GI's there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo! In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference. Its' first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?"

To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters. He won the trolley car, which he gave to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a playhouse in the Kilroy front yard in Halifax , Massachusetts .

So, now you know!

Lexiphiles ... Thanks Pat richards Whitehead!

Lexiphiles

WHOEVER PUT THIS TOGETHER IS VERY CLEVER:



To write with a broken pencil is pointless.



When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.



A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.



When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U.C.L.A.



The professor discovered that her theory of

earthquakes was on shaky ground.



The batteries were given out free of charge.



A dentist and a manicurist married.

They fought tooth and nail.



A will is a dead giveaway.



If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.



With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.



Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft

and I'll show you A-flat miner.



You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.



Local Area Network in Australia :

The LAN down under.



A boiled egg is hard to beat.



When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.



Police were called to a day care center where

a three-year-old was resisting a rest.



Did you hear about the fellow whose whole

left side was cut off? He's all right now.



If you take a laptop computer for a run

you could jog your memory.



A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.



In a democracy it's your vote that counts;

in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.



When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.



The guy who fell onto an upholstery

machine was fully recovered.



He had a photographic memory which

was never developed.



Those who get too big for their britches

will be exposed in the end.



When she saw her first strands of gray hair,

she thought she'd dye.



Acupuncture: a jab well done.



And my old standby is:

The guy that fell into the glass making

machine made a spectacle of himself.

Thanks for forty-six birthday greetings-

I am not great at using Facebook, but I was overwhelmed yesterday with birthday greetings from mostly Facebook friends.  Socially, the internet brings back good friends of Jeanie's and mine.  Thanks to all.  I am 79 now.