The Dead Kennedys

A little history lesson.

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Now it gets really wierd.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who suceeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

Have a history teacher explain this--- if they can.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln' made by 'Ford.'

Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here is the kicker...
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

Not my research so feel free to dig through history and see if this matches out. I found this article in a weekly ad magazine... my like of JFK helped it catch my attention. I am not sure that in the grand scheme of life's things that it really matters, but I can see how this might be able to add more fuel to the conspired theories which if you add Lincoln to the picture really expands the possibility of such a thing.

Wasn't that Lincoln hiding in the smoking bush???

All In The Ground

It is done. All of the plants have made it into the ground without completly dying on me! I was a little worried though that I wouldn't make it in time. The asianic lillies purchased were nearing their last legs. Almost all without petals and starting to fade. I have to thank my wife for helping with the planting of these final plants. It would have not been completed otherwise. She was even willing to delay our camp memories trip by one day which is very nice of her. Poor kids... are we going yet? No? Why does daddy need to plant things? When are we going to go?

Tomorrow morning.

Hitting Me Here

The attacks in Isreal and Lebenon are starting to hit close to home. Wars and fighting across the ocean usually have little effect on what I think about and done on this side of the world. But the recent fighting has started to change all of that. There is very little that I will do about this latest conflict. I won't fly to Isreal to try and stop the fighting. I won't join in the scurmish. I will watch half closely and pray. I don't know exactly what to pray for though. Beside God's will, which is what He is going to do anyway. Praying for peace is the logical thing, but the conflict is biblically needed for things to work a certain way.

More to this post later. As I think about it some more... which I will.

So It Might Be A Gardening Blog

Do you like butter?


Extra points if you spot the cricket

I think it is only going to be a seasonal thing, but it seems that this blog has turned its thoughts towards flower gardening for now. I like photography and the easy thing to take pictures of right now is all of the flowers around in full bloom. I still have about twenty-two plants to get in the ground before they die on me. I've done quite good this year at getting most of them in, but the trouble now is keeping whatever animal it is from eating the leaves off of my Blackeyed Susans! I cannot think of which animal it would be... deer, groundhog, racoon, squirrel, dog, cats, fox, chipmunk- all these animals that have access to the plants right now. Makes it hard for the plants to survive for next year.
Not much else going on in the brain right now, although I am reading a book with writings from Thomas about Jesus that was discovered about sixty years ago.

Might Be Sunshine Might Be Purple Rain

Mystery color number one

Well, I made it back to the garden centre that had the mystery colored coneflowers and was able to get a picture of the white flower. It's not that I find it to be an ugly color. It is just that I don't have a spot I want white coneflowers to be.

They package the flower as Sunshine with a yellowish hue to the petals. But that doesn't make it any more purple in any way... hope it rains.

Without this blog turning out to be a garden blog (not what I have in mind, just on it), I purchased 16 asianic lily flowers from HD yesterday for $2.88 a pot (8 yellow and 8 pink). The store had geraniums for that same price but I find them to be a bit messy and they have a smell that gets on your hands which I am not a big fan of. But they have this small tree ($29) which flowers pink in the spring and it's leaves turn purplish. I sort of want to get two of these for the front porch area and plant the 16 lilies around the two trees.

Mystery Color

It will maybe take two summers to uncover the latest mystery on hand. I purchased five purple coneflowers from a local garden center. Not part of the mystery. I also purchased two mystery plant containers. I only know that they are coneflowers and are gigantic in size compared to the size of the other five purple coneflowers. I just don't know the color of the flowers and may not know until next summer. The heads didn't make it, but the plants will... unless I forget to dig a hole for them which is very possible! So will it be purple or white? I am hoping for purple.

Simply Complex

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
-H.L. Mencken, famous newspaperman and commentator.

Solutions dreamt up and thought of as pure genius may in fact be complete bunk. I'm sure you may have felt the same at some point.

Chicken Or Egg

I hope this is not a reflection of this blog.

These Are The Days

Curiousity killed the cat. It's a good thing that I like cats. Here it is for those of you who were wondering.

You've probably heard the theory (more like a statement) 'One true love for everyone'. Well, for that to be true there needs to be more to the statement/theory. It goes something like this: One true love for everyone. Either there is one true love for everyone or there isn't. Simple so far as it is just logic and counterlogic. Tricky part comes next. If there is one true love for everyone how does one find that true love? What if one is in England and the true love is in Australia? Can it still be true love if the person from England never goes to Australia to find the true love if the one even knows to go there? One may go his/her whole life without meeting the true love. (Not so tragic) But one may go his/her whole life and have already met the true love and not even realized it either at all or until it was too late and couldn't do anything about it. (a tragedy for some). It can even go as far as being with the one true love and still not knowing it.

The other theory of true love is just as mind bending.
If it's true love let them go. If it's true love they'll come back and if it's not true love they'll never come back (it wasn't meant to be). Who in their right mind wants to let go of what they love most?

It's what you do that counts, not entirely what you think. I realize that I don't know everything (if I did, Ken Jennings wouldn't be a household name). This is something that I've been able to realize since a young age and means I'll hopefully have more years to learn and figure everything out. As a true believer in God, I know that he has planned and preplanned (setting up for another topic) my life which includes the wife who He has allowed me the privilage of being married to for over eleven years. When I first saw her playing a piano at a winter camp I said that she was the one, it didn't matter she was going out with someone else. That moment came a long time before popping the question and all these years later it is still the same. We're still a pretty good team. One family of five. It couldn't be anyone else to handle raising the four of us.

I feel bad for the ones who don't have that true belief in God...

These are the days worth living
These are the years we're given
And these are the moments
These are the times
Let's make the best out of our lives
And even if hope were shattered
I know it wouldn't matter
Cause these moments
These are the times
Let's make the best out of our lives
Oh yeah, let's make the best out of our lives
Oh yeah, let's make the best out of our lives

more, as I learn more... now I have to go clean the bathroom before my wife gets home.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers out there.
From all of us children.

Truth- Hard To Believe

"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
John 20:29b (NIV)

Easter. Jesus is alive! You are free to believe whether He died on a cross to pay the price for your sins. It's a hard thing to do if you haven't seen the nail marks in His hands. It was a hard thing to do, His dying on a cross. But Jesus is waiting with arms opened wide, waiting for you to believe.

Crazy Salesmen

It doesn't seem to matter who you are. Salespeople are hard to avoid even if you are a dog. Everywhere you look there they are. If only it took a bark to keep them away. Even in my dreams I find someone trying to sell me something. How do you get away from that?

Bore

You can never bore someone into doing business with you!
-David Ogilvy, famous advertising executive

No, you need to interest them, intrigue them, entertain them and get them completely involved in your story and its possibilities.

Sister Patricia Proctor, a Catholic nun living in a monastery in Spokane Washington, is a unique example of someone trying to do just that. She is trying to create an impassioned picture of a life dedicated to God to help Catholics looking to renew their faith. Now I am not an advocate for the Catholic faith, but I am an advocate of Sister Patricia whose passionate commitment is very persuasive.

So You Think You Can Dance

It's sort of like the original dancing baby, but without the panache, the eeriness or the surprising elegance. What marketers need to understand about most viral videos is that they are like car wrecks. We slow down and shake our heads. We can't believe what we're seeing. Or we are seeing something for the very first time and it's remarkable.
-Seth Godin, April 2006

Ally McBeil had her dancing baby. Funny and it followed her everywhere. Now the Pillsbury Doughboy has decided to mambo. I like what Seth Godin's blog has to say about how the Doughboy grooves. For a piece of pastry, Doughboy can move.

Timing

Timing is everything. I don't care what people say different. It is.

The Circumstances

That the circumstances don't determine our success, but we merely work with the circumstances to become successful.
-Rich DeVos, January 1974

that's a lot of difference.

That's Life

I took a test today that asked this question: If you've found your soul mate, can you still have doubts? The answers you could choose were- 1) Yes, that's life. 2) No, if you still have doubts, they aren't your soulmate. I answered yes initally. Human nature to me is to doubt. So I would have no problem to with doubting even though I'd be sure I've found my soulmate. But with a second thought (as they always are) I might be leaning more to the second answer. I have a true love theory... which never worked this question into the equation. Back to the drawing board? Maybe not. Where do you stand?

The Best

Who were the two artists of ancient times who competed to see who could paint the visible world most faithfully? "Now I shall prove to you that I am the best," said the first, showing the other a curtain which he had painted. "Well, draw back the curtain," said the adversary, "and let us see the picture." "The curtain is the picture," replied the first with a laugh.
-Nikos Kazantakis

The First Day

Wasn't sure if I would come to the point of making a blog. Nothing to really blog about. Why would I want to write anything online, especially if I don't even keep a diary. Here it is though. If it's free, then why not.