http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/nyregion/16rescue.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion
Can you believe, a jetliner landed in the Hudson River in New York, and NO ONE was seriously injured, let alone killed! Everyone involved worked together as a great team to make the rescue happen. Good Job, all!!
Friday, January 16, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Pray for the President
Clickety on the links below to see how you can help our country. I tried to copy and paste the letter, but it did not work.
On Tuesday, January the 20th, 2009, we invite you to
Pray for President-Elect Obama
Pray for President-Elect Obama
We're not politicians, either; we are Americans. Let's pray for our leaders...they will need it.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Check it out...
http://www.menasharidge.com/home.php
Click on the link, then scroll down to "Featured Author." That's my husband!!
I like him.
Click on the link, then scroll down to "Featured Author." That's my husband!!
I like him.
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Guess what I got for Christmas??
Not a new hat.
Not a new cat.
Not a new claw hammer.
Not a new bat.
It's useful but fun.
For more people than one.
It isn't a car.
Nor is it a star.
My husband worked hard,
Both day and at night.
It took him four weeks
To get it just right.
It's a beautiful place
With lots of new space.
It is a new kitchen
And boy, is it wonderful!
(I didn't want to rhyme that last one!)
Yes, my husband suddenly got really interested in hanging out at Lowe's with me, choosing cabinets, paint, and flooring. I wondered why, but didn't argue, of course! We chose cabinets to replace the ones that were built into the house 56 years ago! They were very spacious, but I am height-challenged, so I would have to climb on a step stool to reach anything over the first shelf. The doors on the original cabinets stopped staying closed years ago, and two doors had fallen off! They each weighed about 10 pounds, so I'm glad no one was under them at the time. But anyway...
Tony put the cabinets in, with the help of our fabulous friend Chris, in one day. ONE day!! He rewired the kitchen with updated wiring, which, it turns out, makes a huge differences in the number of appliances that can operate at the same time! Apparently, the electrical world has come a long way since 1952.
It turns out there was a method to his madness...the weekend after Thanksgiving my parents came over. We were hanging around talking, when all of a sudden, a delivery truck pulled up. My parents had bought us a brand new stove! It has TWO big burners instead of one, and two little ones, plus a warming unit which looks like a third burner between the two back ones. The oven has a window, a light, and it cleans itself!! It also has a timer! It's beautiful!
We painted the walls an olive gray-green, and the new counter top is a very dark green formica with flecks of different dark colors. The new cabinets are hickory, which is a light wood. It's so light that it lightens everything around it, hence the dark countertop. When we get the floors in, they will be a gray ceramic/Mexican tile. We decided not to do the floors before Christmas, so that we could, well, have Christmas.
On Christmas Day, I had three burners, the oven, two crock pots, the microwave, and the dishwasher running at the SAME TIME!! Nothing tripped the breaker! It was so amazing that I kept finding things I could cook for Christmas Dinner, and cooked myself into a stupor so intense that I fell asleep at 9:00 that night, simply because I could no longer stand on my feet. It was AWESOME!
I will try to post some pictures later, if I ever find my camera...
Not a new hat.
Not a new cat.
Not a new claw hammer.
Not a new bat.
It's useful but fun.
For more people than one.
It isn't a car.
Nor is it a star.
My husband worked hard,
Both day and at night.
It took him four weeks
To get it just right.
It's a beautiful place
With lots of new space.
It is a new kitchen
And boy, is it wonderful!
(I didn't want to rhyme that last one!)
Yes, my husband suddenly got really interested in hanging out at Lowe's with me, choosing cabinets, paint, and flooring. I wondered why, but didn't argue, of course! We chose cabinets to replace the ones that were built into the house 56 years ago! They were very spacious, but I am height-challenged, so I would have to climb on a step stool to reach anything over the first shelf. The doors on the original cabinets stopped staying closed years ago, and two doors had fallen off! They each weighed about 10 pounds, so I'm glad no one was under them at the time. But anyway...
Tony put the cabinets in, with the help of our fabulous friend Chris, in one day. ONE day!! He rewired the kitchen with updated wiring, which, it turns out, makes a huge differences in the number of appliances that can operate at the same time! Apparently, the electrical world has come a long way since 1952.
It turns out there was a method to his madness...the weekend after Thanksgiving my parents came over. We were hanging around talking, when all of a sudden, a delivery truck pulled up. My parents had bought us a brand new stove! It has TWO big burners instead of one, and two little ones, plus a warming unit which looks like a third burner between the two back ones. The oven has a window, a light, and it cleans itself!! It also has a timer! It's beautiful!
We painted the walls an olive gray-green, and the new counter top is a very dark green formica with flecks of different dark colors. The new cabinets are hickory, which is a light wood. It's so light that it lightens everything around it, hence the dark countertop. When we get the floors in, they will be a gray ceramic/Mexican tile. We decided not to do the floors before Christmas, so that we could, well, have Christmas.
On Christmas Day, I had three burners, the oven, two crock pots, the microwave, and the dishwasher running at the SAME TIME!! Nothing tripped the breaker! It was so amazing that I kept finding things I could cook for Christmas Dinner, and cooked myself into a stupor so intense that I fell asleep at 9:00 that night, simply because I could no longer stand on my feet. It was AWESOME!
I will try to post some pictures later, if I ever find my camera...
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