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Cars in ditches everywhere

It looks like I’m not the only one that didn’t want snow this time of year.  I have seen more cars in ditches in the past couple of days than I have seen any other time it has snowed around here this winter.  In fact, it wouldn’t be a far stretch to say I have probably seen more in ditches in the past two days than I have all winter combined.

I guess body shops and tow companies are happy but I know for a fact that the owners of the cars aren’t.  I wonder if the insurance companies are happy or not?  Who knows with them.  They’re probably happy because now they have a good reason to raise peoples rates.

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IT’S RAINING!!

I just got back from lunch and when I stepped out of the door to go to lunch, it was raining!!  Boy do we need this rain too.  It’s been really dry again lately and they have a burning ban all over the state.  It looks like we could get out of this darn drought sometime, ya know.

I think it’s supposed to rain pretty much through Sunday and then the stupid ‘S’ word was spoken too.  SNOW!!  Like I told you earlier, I’m sick of winter and so very ready for spring to come and stay.  Winter keeps playing peek-a-boo with us just like spring lately.

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This has to be the strangest thing I have ever heard of

I know that other countries have different traditions and beliefs and I have no problem with that.  I’m sure that other countries think we do things a bit odd here.  Come to think of it, there are a few things I would have to agree with them on too but this is by far the strangest thing I have ever heard of.  I came across it on news.yahoo.com and here’s a bit ot the story:

BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) – An infant boy was married off to his neighbors’ dog in eastern India by villagers, who said it will stop the groom from being killed by wild animals, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday. Around 150 tribes people performed the ritual recently in a hamlet in the state of Orissa’s Jajpur district after the boy, who is under two years old, grew a tooth on his upper gum.

The Munda tribe see such a growth in young children as a bad omen and believe it makes them prone to attacks by tigers and other animals. The tribal god will bless the child and ward off evil spirits after the marriage. “We performed the marriage because it will overcome any curse that might fall on the child as well on us,” the boy’s father, Sanarumala Munda, was quoted as saying by a local newspaper.

The groom, Sagula, was carried by his family in a procession to the village temple, where a priest solemnized the marriage between Sagula and his bride, Jyoti, by chanting Sanskrit hymns, a witness said.

The dog belongs to the groom’s neighbors and was set free to roam around the area after the ceremony. No dowry was exchanged, the witness said, and the boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce.

If you would like to read more of this strange marriage, check it out on news.yahoo.com.  It blew me away!!

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Homecoming ‘Queen’ at George Mason U

I absolutely love this article.  In fact, I just had to share it with you because I think it’s a wonderful article.

FAIRFAX, Va. – George Mason University students have elected a drag queen as homecoming queen. Student Ryan Allen beat out two women for the title at the 30,000-student school in suburban Washington, D.C., famous for its run to the Final Four a few years back. Allen competed under his drag queen persona of Reann Ballslee.

Allen, who is gay and performs in drag at nightclubs, said he entered as a joke. But he considers the victory one of his happiest moments and proof the school celebrates its diverse student body.

The senior from Virginia’s Goochland County won the pageant about a week ago at a sold-out homecoming basketball game against Northeastern. George Mason’s basketball team pulled off a string of upsets to advance to the Final Four in 2006.

Isn’t that wonderful!!  Well I think so anyway!

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Much needed rain but a dreary day

Well today was dreary as could be but we did get some much needed rain, thank goodness.  We were fine in January as far as the drought goes but now it seems that we are back into a moderate drought because since January, we haven’t gotten much rain at all.  In fact, we’ve gotten half of what we should have gotten.

That’s not good.  I just hope that this mess straightens out and we start getting what we’re supposed to get.  I just hope we don’t do like a lot of places have done and end up with too much rain, ya know what I’m saying?

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Are your bulbs coming up?

I just noticed this morning as I was leaving for work that my crocus are up and blooming.  My daffodils are up about 4 inches too.  I thought that stupid groundhog said we were going to have 6 more weeks of winter.  I think he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.  Maybe they will have 6 more weeks of winter in Pennsylvania but it sure doesn’t feel or look like it here.  I hope we have seen the last of the really cold weather personally.

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Different type of Milkman than here

Did you hear about the milkman in England that was delivering more than milk?  The standing joke here in the United States is that a child is the ‘Milkman’s’ and my father was the ‘Milkman’s’ son.  His father that was married to his mother was the local milkman so he really was the milkman’s kid.   Isn’t that funny!!

Anyway the story goes like this for the Milkman in England:

LONDON – A British prosecutor says an elderly milkman supplied customers with cannabis as well as bottles of milk.  Robert Holding, 72, delivered marijuana as he made his daily rounds in the town of Burnely, in northwestern England.

Prosecutor Sarah Statham said Friday that Holding offered the drug to elderly customers suffering from aches and pain.  She says the customers left Holding notes on their doorsteps to order the drug.

According to Britain’s dairy industry, around 1.5 million British homes have milk delivered by a milkman. Deliveries have declined over the last 20 years. Holding pleaded guilty to supplying the drug and was given suspended jail sentence of 36 months.

Well at least he was only selling to elderly people to try and help them with medical problems and not selling it to kids on the street.  I think he should be commended in someways.  It’s about time they did something to realize that marijuana does have some health benefits.  The problem is the government can’t figure out how to tax and control it.  It’s too easy to just grow in your house in a flower pot apparently.

I don’t  know because I don’t care for the stuff personally.  I guess I’m too much of a control freak to let something like that have any type of control over me if only for a short period of time.  Besides, it’s illegal and I sure wouldn’t want to go to jail for a buzz.  Besides, I prefer natural highs like realizing this is my 100th post!!!!  How cool is that??

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That wonderful hat!!!!

Check out what’s going on about Aretha Franklins hat she wore to the inaugration.  I thought it was great but I have heard a lot about it in both ways.  Anyway, check out this:

From the moment it appeared at the inauguration, Aretha Franklin’s hat, with its oversize woolen bow bejeweled with Swarovski crystals, has invited commentary. It has its own Facebook page. It has been the subject of YouTube spoofs.Its designer reportedly received 3,000 requests for copies. But now things are getting serious. The Smithsonian Institution – you know, home of the Mercury capsule and a triceratops – wants the hat. The Queen of Soul’s response: I’m thinking about it.

I think that’s quite an honor for her.  At least none of these museums called her wanting it:

Far stranger things have landed in museums, or had museums dedicated to them. So we started searching for some candidates.

In the wearables category, if you’re just interested in hats, there are thousands at The Hat Museum. And the Liberace Museum may have more spangles than … well … anything on Earth. Sometimes the sheer breadth of a collection is what gets noticed. Amass more than 9,000 picture postcards, and you too may find your collection at the New York Met, where it’s now showing.

It goes without saying that there’s a banana museum, but once you get into virtual museums, things really get weird. Consider the Air Sickness Bag Museum. Less disgusting, check out these collections of moist towelettes and Soviet calculators. Add that to your virtual travel itinerary, comrade.

Anyway, here’s to Aretha and her hat.  You gotta love it!!!!

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This information might come in handy some day

When it comes to baseball star Cy Young, he holds two unique titles.  The Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher holds the record for the most career wins of 511.  That’s amazing isn’t it?  Well here’s the truly amazing title he also holds.

Cy Young also holds the record for the most game loses of 316.  How about that?  I just thought it might be something you could use one day, especially you ladies out there.  Amaze your man with your knowledge of a baseball star like Cy Young.

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Boy this one is really ‘bright’

A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the Branch and wrote this, ‘Put all your muny in this bag.’ While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller’s window. So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to the Wells Fargo Bank.

After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he wasn’t the brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America.

Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, ‘OK’ and left. He was arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America.