Ponderisms
Can you cry under water?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
Why do you have to "put your two cents in" . . But it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where's that extra penny going to?
Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
What disease did cured ham actually have?
How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?
If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They're going to see you naked anyway .
Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?
Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?
Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?
If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!
If Wile E . Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
Why did you just try singing the two songs above?
Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?
Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
Our cabin just minutes outside of downtown Berlin.
We were driving when I took this so it is not the best angle, but interesting none the less.
View across the valley from out cabin, I was testing my new camera and it's zoom on this trip.
A couple of Buggies outside the bulk food store in New Hope.
Again taken from the car, not the best picture, but at least I got the blur out.
"There is a way to be good again."
In Shelby there are a number of houses up for sale. This one is behind my parents and it has been redone on the out side.
Both of these houses are on Grand Blvd. the place in Shelby to live in it's day. This house used to be totally run down with a huge pice tree in the front yard that completely hid the house. I would love to see the inside.
This house is the one that I am going to look at next week. $180,000 4 apartments with a 5 car garage in the back. There are a lot things that are up in the air. My brother may be open to managing it for me. The rent on the apts. is $625, is it worth the investment?
One other thing that I learned about Anderson was the gas boom that occurred in the late 1800's. Natural gas fields were discovered in central Indiana and Ohio. The gas seems to have been discovered because of the practice of early settlers to drill for salt water. Natural gas was then used for heating and lighting in the city. At one point they even piped it into the White River and lit up the river. How bazaar is that?
From CNN here are the results of the top 6 candidates. It has been interesting to be back in the states while this is all going on. Now I'm not very opinionated when it comes to politics but I do have some ideas about this election. I think John Edwards would make a good president, too bad he is not getting lots of press. He looks more like a president, I don't think America is ready for a woman or a black president. Maybe I have just been gone too long to really understand the feeling of most Americans. And I don't consider myself to be a bigot or prejudiced, but I heard a newscaster talking about presidential names, and he was saying most of these front runners don't have presidential sounding names. I don't think America is ready for a president whose middle name is Hussein. Am I wrong? I am surprised no one has brought it up. Barack Hussein Obama.
