Stubby comes calling at dinner time . . .

 Stubby usually has only one thing in mind when she comes visiting and that is food. I caught her in a vocal moment. She always looks like she had gone to a lot of trouble with her eyeliner.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place . . .

 The visiting cat seems to enjoy squeezing himself into a corner of the yard. The poor plant to the right of him suffers from Howl's playtime antics. He likes to sneak up on the unsuspecting bush and attack it. The plant has yet to respond in kind.

Planned Parenthood says they oppose forced abortions . . .

Although Planned Parenthood has come out and claimed to be against forced abortions, this article seems to have viable points on the subject that beg to differ.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/planned-parenthood-opposes-forced-abortion-but-is-tied-to-chinas-one-child

All you need is two children in the family for this response!

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.

After explaining the commandment to 'honour' thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, 'Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?'

Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, 'Thou shall not kill.'

Where battles for freedom were fought . . .

 My father served during World War II and was stationed in Germany after the war. He met my mother there who had fled on an American troop train to escape the Russian occupation of her German birth place in East Germany. I grew up knowing about the war and my parents shared their memories. The full impact of the final days of the war really made an impact, however, when my son and I visited the Battlefields of World War II a year ago. In the pictures are the overgrown rocks and bunkers above the beaches where the Allied troops attacked so many years ago. The battle scars are still visable and my son was able to climb, crawl, and run through the pits made by the bombs, touch the massive cannons, and see the view of the climb up from the beach made my the allied troops. It certainly made our Memorial Day more meaningful this year having stood on the ground where so many soliders died or were wounded.

General Orders No. 11, Washington, D.C., May 5, 1868

HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC

General Orders No.11, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 1868

　

　
The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.

We are organized, comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose among other things, "of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers, sailors, and marines who united to suppress the late rebellion." What can aid more to assure this result than cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead, who made their breasts a barricade between our country and its foes? Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a race in chains, and their deaths the tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms. We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.

If other eyes grow dull, other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us.

Let us, then, at the time appointed gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with the choicest flowers of spring-time; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from his honor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nation's gratitude, the soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan.

　

It is the purpose of the Commander-in-Chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope that it will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades. He earnestly desires the public press to lend its friendly aid in bringing to the notice of comrades in all parts of the country in time for simultaneous compliance therewith.

Department commanders will use efforts to make this order effective.

By order of

JOHN A. LOGAN,

Commander-in-Chief

N.P. CHIPMAN,

Adjutant General

Official:

WM. T. COLLINS, A.A.G.

All practical and true quotes . . .

"Indecision may or may not be my problem."
-- Jimmy Buffett

"There it was, hidden in alphabetical order."
-- Rita Holt

"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
-- H. L. Mencken