MICKEY'S PLACE

Thursday, October 11, 2007

FINALLY SOME COOLER WEATHER

Well it took a while for it to get here but we are finally getting some cooler weather here in Colonial Heights. After record breaking highs earlier in the week it's only going to be around 70 the next three or four days and lows are going to be in th mid 40's, it looks like fall has finally arrived. I have posted some photos of the new room with furniture in it, the room is just about done now, just waiting for the blinds to go up. We did have several bloggers come by last night and check the new room out. Tomorrow night is homecoming in Colonial Heights, the Colonials will be playing the Hopewell Blue Devils. I still don't have any use of the treadmill at this time but that could change soon as a temporary fix to the problem may have been reached, hopefully so because I don't want to run in the cold weather. Also tonight the NL championship series begins tonight in Arizona. MICKEY

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan

What have you decided?
A decision is more than a wish. When you decide to get something done, it will get done. When you truly decide, it's more than just a vague intention. It's more than saying you're going to do it. It's more than hoping to get it done someday. It is a commitment that you make to yourself. When you truly decide, it will happen.

What have you decided to do? Look around you. Look at your life. Look at the person you've become. Look at what you've accomplished and you'll see exactly what you've decided to do.

What will you decide to do now? You have the ability to achieve whatever you decide to achieve, to become the person you decide to become, to live the life you decide to live.

Yet ability alone will not get you there. All the resources in the world, by themselves, will not get you there. Opportunity alone will not get you there. You must decide to get yourself there. Then it will happen.

Actor Earle Hyman is 81
Country singer Gene Watson is 64
Rhythm-and-blues musician Andrew Woolfolk is 57
Actor David Morse is 54
Country singer Paulette Carlson is 54
Actor Stephen Spinella is 51
Football Hall of Fame player Steve Young is 46
Actress Joan Cusack is 45
Actor Sean Patrick Flanery is 42
Actor Luke Perry is 41
Country singer-songwriter Todd Snider is 41
Actress Jane Krakowski is 39
Actress Emily Deschanel is 31
Actress Michelle Trachtenberg is 22
Golfer Michelle Wie is 18

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

RIDDLE

No one got the riddle right yesterday but Melanie got the Brain Questions right. Way to go Mel. Today's might stump you.

ANSWER

How do you get the attention of a sheep?

Yell, "Hey Ewe!"

TODAY'S RIDDLE and Brain Bruisers

I thought of Mickey when I saw this riddle.

What do mosquitos learn in art class?

Brain Bruisers Question

I am the center of gravity. I am the foremost in victory. Three are in love with me. I have three friends in vice.

Food Trivia Question

A bowl a day keeps the bullies away...a 60s jingle. He fell down a small mountain. Round and round we go. Sweet beginnings.

Waiting for the furniture. It should be here before lunch. Of course it has been raining and I have new carpet. Will try to send pictures tonight.

IT'S RAINING IN COLONIAL HEIGHTS

It is actually raining this morning here in Colonial Heights, looking at the radar it doesn't look like it is going to last to long though so you better enjoy it this morning. The temperature here in Colonial Heights reached 95 yesterday which did break the old record of 92. It does look like we will get some fall like temperatures after todays high in the 80's it like by Friday it is going to struggle to get to 70. The furniture for the new room should be arriving this morning so we will have somewhere to set when watching tv in the new room, now only if the electrician will come back by and get the shed wired. There are couple of birthdays that I would like to reconize today even though they are not bloggers, today is Me Ma Evelyn's birthday and it is also former blogger Gary Fox's birthday as well. While typing this mornings entry into the blog I have bean bit three times by a mosquito and I have not seen him yet, hopefully we will get some cold weather and kill off the mosquitoes soon. MICKEY

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan

1865 - The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt. Mr. Hyatt won $10,000 in a contest. He was the first person to come up with a substitute for the ivory ball (in use at the time).
1932 - Two of radio’s earliest efforts at soap operas were heard for the first time. Judy and Jane, sponsored by Folger’s Coffee, and Betty and Bob, sponsored by General Mills, had listeners glued to their radios into the early 1940s.
1951 - Hank Bauer’s bases-loaded triple in Game 6 propelled the New York Yankees to a 4-3 win and their third straight world championship, 4 games to 2. It was Joe DiMaggio’s final game (his 51st World Series game).
1965 - The Red Baron made his first appearance in the Peanuts comic strip with the defender of all good, Snoopy.
1977 - It was all over but the pantyhose commercials for Joe Namath, as he ended his playing career -- on ABC’s Monday Night Football. It was a game that saw his new team, the LA Rams, tangle with the Chicago Bears.

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Playwright Harold Pinter is 77
Entertainer Ben Vereen is 61
Singer John Prine is 61
Actress Jessica Harper is 58
Country singer Tanya Tucker is 49
Actress Julia Sweeney is 48
Actor Bradley Whitford is 48
Actress Rebecca Pidgeon is 42
Actress Wendi McLendon-Covey is 38
Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre is 38
Actor Mario Lopez is 34
Actress Jodi Lyn O'Keefe is 29
Singer Mya is 28
Singer Cherie is 23
Actress Aimee Teegarden is 18

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

RIDDLE

I have so much running to do today. I feel like Tweety bird.

No on even tried the riddle yesterday. Were you protesting because I had no other brain questions.

ANSWERS

What kind of flying lessons are the worst?

Crash courses

Brain Bruisers Question

Some hold this in their hands for hours at a time but would tremble in fear if they held its English word cousin in the same way.

Food Trivia Question

No beginning or end or middle (in most). Will add to your middle. In the name of the food...some food before cooking. In the name of the food...the name not in the food.
Are you confused?

TODAY'S RIDDLE

How do you get the attention of a sheep?

RECORD HEAT POSSIBLE TODAY

Where in the world is fall, it looks like we might set a record for a high temperature this afternoon, it feels like it's the middle of July instead of early October. The record for today is 92 and they are calling for it to be 93 or 94 today. The 2nd round of the MLB playoffs are now set since the Indians beat the Yankees last night 6-4, in the AL it will be the Red Sox vs Indians and in the NL it will be the Rockies vs Diamondbacks. In case you didn't see the end of Monday Night Football the Dallas Cowboys is 9 points in the last 20 seconds of the game to beat the Buffalo Bills 25-24, I hate to say it but the Cowboys are pretty good. I have enclosed a few photos of what they did in the new room yesterday, as you can tell we now have carpet in the new room but no furniture yet. My AIP is up a bit again this morning because I now have a blister on my big toe and my arm is once again sore. MICKEY

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling

1855 - The sewing machine motor was patented by Isaac Singer (the Singer sewing machine guy) of New York. Thank you, Isaac for keeping us in stitches lo these many years.
1858 - Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco and St. Louis was started. It took 23 days, four hours for that first run.
1872 - The first mail order catalog was delivered. It was only one page but it worked. No, it wasn’t the Victoria’s Secret catalog ... nor Land’s End, J. Crew or Lillian Vernon. It was sent out by Mr. Aaron Montgomery Ward of the famous Montgomery Ward catalog and department stores.
1946 - The first electric blanket went on sale -- for $39.50 -- in Petersburg, VA.
1973 - Priscilla Presley, was divorced from Elvis -- in Santa Monica, CA. ‘Cilla’ got $1.5 million in cash, $4,200 per month in alimony, half interest in a $750,000 home plus about 5% interest in two of Elvis’ publishing companies.
1997 - After 36 seasons, Dean Smith announced his retirement as basketball coach at the University of North Carolina. Smith left with a record of 879-255, including two national championships [1982, 1993] and 13 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament titles. His former players include Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Phil Ford, Billy Cunningham and Charlie Scott.

Former baseball player Joe Pepitone is 67
Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., is 66
Singer Jackson Browne is 59
Actor Gary Frank is 57
Actor Richard Chaves is 56
Actress-TV personality Sharon Osbourne is 55
Actor Scott Bakula is 53
Actor John O'Hurley is 53
Country singer Gary Bennett is 43
Golfer Annika Sorenstam is 37
Country singer Tommy Shane Steiner is 34
Actor Steve Burns is 34
Actor Zachery Ty Bryan is 26