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Happy Mother's Day...& Grandmas, Too!"

While we honor all our mothers with words of love and praise

While we tell about their goodness and their kind and loving ways

We should also think of grandma She's a mother, too, you see

For she mothered my dear mother as my mother mothers me! 

Author: Unknown

"Warshing" Clothes Recipe

 
     
      
Never  thought of a "warsher" in this light before...what a  blessing!   "Warshing  Clothes Recipe" -- imagine having a recipe for  this! Years ago, an Alabama grandmother gave the  new bride the following recipe exactly  as written and found in an old scrapbook with  spelling errors and all.

WARSHING  CLOTHES

  
Build  fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain  water.

Set  tubs so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is  pert.

Shave  one hole cake of lie soap in boilin  water.

Sort things, make 3 piles -- 1 pile  white, 1 pile colored, 1 pile work britches and  rags.

To make starch, stir flour in cool  water to smooth, then thin down with boiling  water.

Take white things, rub dirty spots on  board, scrub hard, and boil, then rub colored don't  boil just wrench and starch.

Take things out  of kettle with broom stick handle, then wrench, and  starch.

Hang old rags on fence.

Spread  tea towels on grass.

Pore wrench water in  flower bed. Scrub  porch with hot soapy water.

Turn tubs upside  down.

Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with  hair combs.
  
Brew  cup of tea, sit, rock a spell, and count yore  blessings.

"Warshing"  Clothes Recipe

  
Paste  this over your washer and dryer. The next time you  think things are bleak, read it again, kiss that  washing machine and dryer, and give thanks. The  first thing each morning ,you should run and hug  your washer and dryer.
    

For  non-Southerners - wrench means rinse  

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13 Rules You Did Not Learn In School

Here are some basic rules that children should be learning in school, but unfortunately don’t. Not all of these have to do with academics.

Rule #1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teenager uses the phrase, “It’s not fair” 8.6 times a day.

Rule #2: The real world won’t care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It’ll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain it’s not fair.
 
Rule #3: Sorry, you won’t make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won’t be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn’t have a label.


Rule #4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he’s not going to ask you how you feel about it.

Rule #5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grand-parents had a different word of burger flipping. They called it “opportunity”. They weren’t embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.

Rule #6: It’s not your parents’ fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of “It’s my life,” and “You’re not the boss of me,” and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it’s on your dime. Don’t whine about it, or you’ll sound like a baby boomer.

Rule #7: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn’t. In some schools, they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone’s feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

Rule #8: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don’t get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don’t get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we’re at it, very few jobs are interesting in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization.

Rule #9: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.

Rule #10: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Rule #11: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you’re out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That’s what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for “expressing yourself” with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule #12: You are not immortal. If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven’t seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule #13: Enjoy your youth time while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school is a bother and life is depressing but someday you’ll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now.

By Charles J. Sykes
Printed in San Diego Union Tribune
September 19, 1996

Interesting Animal Facts

All species have their own unique abilities.

Humans have highly developed brains. Ants never sleep. Elephants can smell water 3 miles away. Snails can grow new eyes…

Enjoy this little journey to the miraculous world of animals. Hope you learn a thing or two along the way!

1. Australian termites can build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
    
2. Birds don’t urinate.
3. Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs. Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
    
4. Horses and cows sleep while standing up.
    
5. If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
    
6. The horn of a rhinoceros is made from compacted hair rather than bone or another substance.
    
7. The bat is the only mammal that can fly. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
    
8. Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
    
9. A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
    
10. Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
     
11. Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur, it actually has black skin.
     
12. The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.
     
13. Male mosquito's do not bite, only female mosquito bites.
     
14. For every human in the world there are one million ants.
     
15. For every person there are roughly 200 million insects.
     
16. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
     
17. Alligators and sharks can live up to 100 years.
     
18. Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.
     
19. A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
     
20. A honeybee has two stomachs- one for honey, one for food.
     
21. A bee can see the colors green, blue and ultra-violet – but red looks like black.
     
22. Great white Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
     
23. Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae; but as adults they live for only a few hours.
     
24. Killer whales kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
     
25. Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
     
26. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
     
27. A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.
     
28. When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
     
29. A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
     
30. The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
     
31. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
     
32. The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
     
33. The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph.
     
34. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
     
35. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. It then grows inside its mother’s bag.
     
36. Dolphins sleep with one half of the brain at a time, and one eye closed.
     
37. The leech has 32 brains.
     
38. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing sand.
     
39. The average outdoor-only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor-only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
     
40. It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound.
     
41. On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
     
42. Sharks are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.
     
43. Goat’s eyes have rectangular pupils.
     
44. The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
     
45. A dolphin’s hearing is so acute that it can pick up an underwater sound from fifteen miles away.
     
46. A mosquito has 47 teeth.
     
47. No two zebras have the same markings.
     
48. Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
     
49. The sex organ on a male spider is located at the end of one of its legs.
     
50. Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
     
51. Lobsters can live up to 50 years.
     
52. The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
     
53. Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee’s head and 2 larger ones in front.
     
54. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
     
55. Polar bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
     
56. A snail only mates once.
     
57. Flies have 4000 lenses in each eye.
     
58. Shrimp can only swim backwards.
     
59. The owl can catch a mouse in utter darkness, guided only by tiny sounds made by its prey.
     
60. Strands of spider web are stronger than steel wire of the same thickness.
     
61. Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground.
     
62. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
     
63. Rattlesnakes gather in groups to sleep through the winter. Sometimes up to 1,000 of them will coil up together to keep warm.
     
64. Cows have four stomachs.
     
65. The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.
     
66. An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.
     
67. If you cut off a snail’s eye, it will grow a new one.
     
68. Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again depending on which is best for mating.
     
69. A starving mouse will eat it’s own tail.
     
70. Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs.
     
71. A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.
     
72. The lifespan of 75% of wild birds is 6 months.
     
73. A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
     
74. The blue whale is the largest of all whales and is also considered the largest animal to have ever existed in the world.
     
75. An adult lion’s roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
     
76. Many fish can change sex during the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs.
     
77. The average hen lays 257 eggs a year.
     
78. A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
     
79. When a dog licks you with a straight tongue, he’s saying “I Love You.”
     
80. Spiders are believed to have existed for more than 300 million years.
     
81. Dinosaurs lived on Earth for around 165 million years before they became extinct.
     
82. We humans share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp.
     
83. Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the earth’s food crop.
     
84. The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
     
85. You should not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.
     
86. Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
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