May 14, 2006

• The Cookie Jar

  

  This is The Cookie Jar

  This cookie jar sits in my kitchen. There is one just like it that sits in my mother's kitchen. 50 years ago, there was one just like it that sat in my mother's mother's kitchen.And that's where the story begins! My mom grew up with a cookie jar very much like this in her kitchen. She thought of it as her cookie jar! When I was a kid, and we would visit my Grandparents on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, or for summer vacation, there would be the cookie jar - filled with home made sugar cookies! Yum!

  

  My Grandmother died unexpectedly in her early 60's - it devastated my mother. After a couple of years, my Grandfather remarried - and in came the evil step Grandmother! She took over my Grandmother's home! She gave away brass beds to her Grandchildren, she painted over all the hard word baseboards, she sold my Grandmother's antique Singer Sewing machine - because it looked old! But worst of all, she gave my mom's cookie jar to her daughter! Her daughter broke the lid and put the rest in her basement! My mom's precious cookie jar! I believe my mom could have forgiven all the other things that were given away or sold - but not the cookie jar!

  Ebay to the rescue! One day several years back, while looking for old Christmas lights on Ebay, it occurred to me that you could find a LOT of neat old stuff on Ebay! So I did a search on cookie jars! There was my mom's cookie jar! I placed a bid. Shortly, someone else put in a higher bid! Well, to make a long story short, I SNIPED the cookie jar! Its the only thing I have ever sniped on Ebay! In any case, my mom got her cookie jar back! A year later, I got another one off Ebay - just in case my klutzy brother breaks hers, I have a spare!

  So now you know the saga of the cookie jar! (Mmmm! Sugar cookies!)

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  California Cows Fail Latest Emissions Test

   

  

   

  From: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0816_050816_cowpollution.html

  August 16, 2005

   

  Standing around chewing the cud, cows don't look especially threatening. But dairy herds in California are the latest livestock to be branded an environmental health risk on account of their flatulent behavior. This month government regulators issued a report identifying dairy cows as the main source of smog-forming pollutants in the San Joaquin Valley, California.

   

  The announcement highlights growing concern over the global impact of greenhouse gases produced by cattle and other livestock.

   

  A dairy cow annually emits almost 20 pounds (9 kilograms) of smog-forming gases known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs)—more than a car or light truck, according to the San Joaquin Valley United Air Pollution Control District.

  So its not the SUVs causing the problem! Its that milk you put on your cereal in the morning! Sounds like a lot of bull to me!

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  Dead Turkey Joke of the Day As a old man was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, "Herman, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on Route 280. Please be careful!" "It's not just one car," said Herman, "It's hundreds of them!"

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  So! What relatively inexpensive material item is important to you for sentimental reasons? 

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