FACTS I HAVE LEARNED RECENTLY.

It is Tuesday morning. The rain has stopped. We are all up around here and have been since four. The Emperor couldn't sleep, so we all got up. I'm usually up by this time anyway.It is warm and humid outside and will probably be that way all day. But I am hoping for a good day anyway.

These are facts I learned recently. Sometimes when it rains giant mushrooms come up in our yard. Now I know where the Keebler Elfs go when I chase them out of the house. Don't worry about them though. I always let them back in pretty quickly. My Brother Smiling Bud knew a silly song title I didn't know. "I went to bed at two with a ten. I woke up at ten with a two." Why do I know a man wrote that one.

A pound of iron weighs the same a s a pound of cotton balls. I swear my sister called and asked me that one and I spent at least 30 seconds trying to figure out the trick question. Duh Billye. I also learned just when I think I have everything pretty well figured out someone throws a curve in it. That it is much harder for me to lose ten pounds than it was ten years ago. The story going round that you get shorter as you age is a lie. That dogs are dumb, believe me they are not. Ours have trained us well.

I have learned even as people age and should be getting smarter they seem eager to see the worst in people or situations. Lord help me not to act that way. I learned Joplin was founded in 1873 by John Cox and named after a Methodist Minster, Rev. Harris Joplin. I also learned Leavenworth Kansas was founded by Henry Leavenworth a US solider who founded Fort Leavenworth in 1854.

Things I have learned from Facebook. My son Jer and my nephew Jim both are Celtics fans,. My niece Jackie is a Laker's fan like myself. That people on facebook take little jabs at each other sometimes. Especially if they have been married and are now divorced and both in new relationships. They both pledge undying love for another but it appears to me they are more interested in upsetting the other. Oh well I don't have to read it. Oh yes I also learned my nephew Marshall just lost his big toe nail. Ouch!

This Facebook is a fascinating place. I do not write much on there but use it as a way to see what the family is doing. Every morning by five I read all the news so when I talk to my sister at six she knows what her children are doing. See they think they can fake us out and we won't know about their life's. They forget about Facebook.

So this morning has been a Hodge podge. Things I've learned and things you probably didn't care to know. But I wrote them anyway. So it goes. Maybe I can come up with a much more interesting Blog tomorrow. I will surely try. But fot today I will close up shop and amble off into the dawn. So take care but for now I'm outta here.