On Sunday, August, 10th, 2008 I stepped on a cotton mouth snake while walking in knee high grass near the levee of our lake. The bad news is that the snake bit me on the inside of my left leg, just above the ankle. The good news is that I was wearing snake proof boots that are almost knee high. The snake boots only cost about $125.00 and this was the first time that I have ever been snake bitten while wearing snake proof boots.

On Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 the company car that I was driving just up and quit running during the noon hour. The bad news is that I don’t own a cell phone and I was stranded on the side of the road about 25 miles from my work office. The good news is that I was only about a quarter of a mile from the Snow White Tavern on Highway 18 South in Hardeman County. I was able to hike to the tavern and call the office and then park myself on a bar stool for the better part of an hour before the tow truck arrived.

On Sunday, August 3rd, 2008, my roommate (have two, one is back home for the summer)whom I do not like very much because of all the stuff he has done throughout the year, tried to assualt me in my bedroom (and tried to intimidate me/threatened to punch my door down later that night). The bad news is he left a dent in my door and may have cost me a job at my apartment which would have gotten me free rent next year (not sure). The good news is he is moving out in 18 days 18 hours from now and that he froze/ has stayed away from me since i threatened him with legal action and criminal charges.


-Aeras

LISTENING TO 3 DIFFERENT TYPES OF FROGS, EACH WITH THEIR OWN VOICE AND KEY THEY
sing (croak?) in has been a real treat these last 3 rainy nights. I have an ornamental goldfish pond made out of an old hot tub and the Bullfrogs are in it, along with the Peepers. The Tree Frogs are just everywhere and I can hear layer upon layer of frog song, close by, actually some are on our house, and others fading off into the distance. I am up watching the Equestrian part of the Olympics, they are over now, so just thought I would pop in and tell y'all about my Frog Chorus! Tired, Parson/aka/all4thedreamgiver

"Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?" Former Sen. Jesse Helms (R)

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn

The bad news is that Mississippi, USA, has been in a level 02 Drought, or worse, for the last 5 years.

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LISTENING TO 3 DIFFERENT TYPES OF FROGS, EACH WITH THEIR OWN VOICE AND KEY THEY
sing (croak?)

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Should have read voice and key AS they sing.

The good news is that it has been raining for the last 3 days and I have gotten to listen to the Frogs sing!

"Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?" Former Sen. Jesse Helms (R)

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn


[This message was edited by all4thedreamgiver on 08-13-08 at 06:13 AM.]

Phantom_Delta wrote a good/bad news reply on his poem "Gold Dust" thread, and I think it appropriate to quote here :

Bad news: I procured a new (state of the art) cross bow but I accidently shot the top of my left thumb off.

(The good part about this experience is that I had really pretty nurse taking care of me at the emergency room.)

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The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. ~ Leslie Weatherhead
Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy--fully armed too, as it's a highly dangerous quest. ~ Flannery O'Connor

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Originally posted by Airedale:
_Phantom_Delta_ wrote a good/bad news reply on his poem "Gold Dust" thread, and I think it appropriate to quote here :

_Bad news_: _I procured a new (state of the art) cross bow but I accidently shot the top of my left thumb off.

(_The good part_ about this experience is that I had really pretty nurse taking care of me at the emergency room.)_>

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She was more enchanting than a dream and more beautiful than the moon. She even put some morphine in my IV which made her even more enchanting.
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On the evening of 8-12-08 while driving my ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE (ATV) across a shallow creek on the North 50 acres of our farm I got the rear wheels stuck in the creek. Yep, I was axle deep in muddy water. The bad news was that I didn’t have a winch installed on the ATV and I had to hike a half a mile back to the house. The good news is that I have Come-a-long (a hand operated ratchet winch) and I was able hike back to the creek and rig it up to the ATV and winch it out of the mud.

On 8-13-06 it occurred to me that I ought to have a winch installed on my new Honda 420 Rancher.

On 8-13-08 the good news was that there was no bad news to report.

On the morning of 8-14 (today) I found a missing mini mag flashlight that has been missing for the better part of a year. I found my missing flashlight in one of my tennis shoes that I havent't worn in nearly a year. (Why have I not worn those shoes in a year?) I had packed those shoes with my camping gear last September. The good news is that the two AA batteries were still charged and I now have my flashlight back in inventory.

8-18-08

At approximately 5:30 p.m. I drove my ATV across the levee of our lake and there was a cotton mouth snake lying right in the middle of my path. The good news is that I ran over that viper with my ATV. The bad news is that I didn't kill it, I only pissed it off. When I stopped the ATV it acutally came towards the vehicle and then slithered into the same high grass where it had bitten me on the shank of my sname proof boot.

A snake on the loose is never good news.

The bad news is that today I picked up a Spotted King Snake, one about 3 feet long, and it bit me! The good news is that my tetanus shot is current. I have been picking up live non-venomous snakes since I was a small (3) child and this is the first time I have ever been bitten. I have had several King Snakes for pets over the years, why buy a snake for a pet when one can simply pick one up in one's yard? This one is the first aggressive one I have ever picked up. When I put it back down, it started striking at me and buzzing it's tail, guess it thinks it is a Rattle Snake. I was going to keep it for a pet, but decided to wait until I find another, more docile one. Silly snake!



Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn

Bad News: About a month ago I wrote the first two of four exams for my A+ certification. Which I failed. Now I have to pay R1250 (about $160) per exam for the re-writes.

Good News: Today I wrote the last two of the four exams. Which I passed!! YAY!! Whoo ha! Yeah baby!!

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! ~Dr. Seuss

On the morning of July 16 I looked out the front window and saw one of our two dogs sleeping peacefully on the lawn. I then noticed there were flies on the dog. I knocked on the window but the dog did not stir. I then went out to the lawn and called to the dog but it did not wake up. I then walked to it and tapped it. What I had suspected was true, the dog was deceased. There were no broken bones or wounds or bullet holes in the dog. When I told my wife that Sable was dead she was quite distressed. Sable was only about a year old. The Dog Stork had delivered the dog to our front door early last December. I took it to the vet to get it spayed and vaccinated. The Vet said the dog was 5 months old. It was a lab mix and was the same color as our other lab/retriever. The bad new was that the dog was dead. The good news was that I had wanted to find another home for the dog because it had the bad habit of running or crossing the front of my ATV when I was riding. It was just a matter of time before I would run over one of my own dogs. It was also at high risk for getting snake bitten. Our other dog is 8 years old and has good sense not to run in front of the ATV. It had also been snake bitten by a cotton mouth snake but survived the bite. During the six months that we owned Sable it had progressively become a nuisance to our neighbors. The dog appeared to have died from eating poison.

I decided to give our dog a decent burial. The bad news was that the ground was so dry and the soil was too hard to dig a hole. The good news was that I had a fire pit dug out at my private campsite. The hole was rectangular, wide enough (2 feet X 3 feet) and deep enough (1 foot) for a grave, so I simply placed the dog in the pit and covered it with the soil that had been piled up when I dug the pit last May. I covered the grave with six 12 inch X 12 inch patio step blocks that I had at the campsite to serve as floor for a solar shower. The good news is that the concrete step blocks covered the top of the grave neatly.

Sable Pup
July 2007 –July 2008
RIP

All Dogs go to Heaven

On Tuesday my daughter called my wife to tell her that the car had transmission problems. The bad news is that the transmission has gone out and it will cost about $2,200.00 to fixit.

The good news is that the car quit running right on Middle Tennessee State University campus and not out on the open road. The campus police helped my daughter get the car towed to a transmission shop.

I reckon I'll just sell the car as is for the highest bid and then buy another decent used car to give to my daughter. The good news is that I have enough money in my piggy bank to pay for it.

Good news:
The owner of a clothing store in Jonesboro, Ark., offers 1 percent off regular prices for every point the Arkansas State football team wins by.

Well, Arkansas State beats Texas Southern 83-10.

Bad news:
(a huge sale) I don't live in Arkansas.

Worst news:
Poor clothing store never knew that football game score can be like Basket Ball.

More Bad news:
Arkansas clothing store probably never going to have sale like this ever again.


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Brevity is the soul of wit.
~William Shakespeare

The good news is that my wife and I bought a used 2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser (in M.T.S.U blue) for our daughter. Yep, we got that car for only $10,500.00 plus tax and it only has 21,515 miles on it and it is still udner warranty.

The bad news is that we will not be able to deliver it to our daughter until next Saturday.

[This message was edited by Phantom_Delta on 09-14-08 at 10:43 AM.]

The bad news is, John McCain left his first wife after he returned from the war and found out that she had been in a car accident and terribly disfigured.

The good news is, he married a beautiful rich blond one month after the divorce and now preaches about family values.

Really Sentra? Shameless plug.

-Aeras

The good news is, I was talking to my Mother on the phone today.

The bad news is, she was the one who informed me of this. Before today, I had not heard of it.

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[This message was edited by Sentrawoods on 09-14-08 at 05:05 PM.]

Bad news : I knocked over a pile of the old type of wooden speakers a week ago last Saturday, then lost my balance and fell on top of them. Big heavy speakers with solid wooden corners. The fall fractured my pelvis (ouch!) and did some soft tissue damage to my right shoulder (ouch X 2!!). Also, sorry to read the bad news Sentrawoods posted about McCain.

Good news, having a fractured pelvis is not interfering with my walking. Shoulder pain is gradually getting better.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn

all4thedreamgiver, I am sorry to hear that you broke your pelvis but I am happy to learn that you can still walk. At leat you weren't playing Humpty Dumpty. Right?

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The bad new is that I have not attained all of my 8 x 8 objectives for 2008.

The good news is that I’ve got three more months to get-r-done.

Presently I am working on getting 8 new home improvement projects completed which is one of the 8 X 8 objectives.

Replace the ceiling in the garage (check)
Replace the lamp in the garage (check)
Paint the ceiling and walls in the garage (check)
Paint the concrete floor of the garage (not yet)

Install an 8-foot garage door and a 3-foot outer door to the carport (check)

Replace the basement door. (check)

Replace the support beams in the basement and shore-up floor. (check)

Remove old wood stove and install a new wood furnace in the basement (half done)

Install a new and larger mail box on a fancy cedar post. (check)

Replace the sliding glass door to the patio with French doors (not yet)

Replace floor covering in the kitchen, dinning area and guest bathroom. (not yet)

Just this morning as I was driving to my hometown to visit my parents I was thinking about a man whom I have largely regarded as a friend. He has not returned my phone call when I left a message on his answering machine. He has appeared to ignore my recent email request. He has not been by to visit for going on three years. I made a point to mail him one or two of my best poems each year. I almost always send him a Christmas card. I had mailed him a postcard from North Carolina.

Last May I stopped by to see him and I volunteered to help him unload 40-pound bags of lime pellets from a trailer. We chatted and worked and limed the yard. Everything seemed just fine. When I left his house to go to my parents it occurred to me that something might be askew but I could not solve the riddle. While driving to my parents home this morning I decided that I would give him a cussing if I ever bumped into him again.

As I was having coffee at my parent’s house they mentioned that my friend Michael had stopped by to visit. My mother kept going on and on about how Michael had spoken of me. She said the he said I was the about the best man that ever walked in two boots. He said that I had stopped by to visit on a regular basis and I always sent him a postcards and poems and Christmas cards. He said that I was the most multitalented person that he knew. He said that I could write songs and play music and recite poems. He said that I could launch intelligent quotations on about any subject. He said that I could tell the most suspenseful stories that he ever heard.

I guess the good news is that I hadn't bumped into him lately.