the wave roll over the colonials

the last game of the year was not pretty!!!!

Riddle

Sandi got the food trivia question and Bobby got the riddle. Nice to hear from Bobby.

Really running late today. Maybe it is because of Halloween. Have a good weekend.

ANSWERS

Food Trivia

C.F.D.C.
No buzz from this
No cane from this
Some become addicted

Caffeine Free Diet Coke

Brain Bruisers

It has two holes
Part of a ship or plane
To perceive or detect
A very small length

Nose

Riddle

What do you call a girl who walks over water?

Bridget

QUESTIONS

Food Trivia Question

Yellow, white and orange
It doesn't grow
Traffic cone shape
Two words...starting with "C"

Brain Bruisers Question

Normal one has six lines
Must have a hole
Popular for 5000 years
Has a bridge and neck

Riddle

How do witches feel when they play croquet?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, COLONIALS AT HOME AGAINST PETERSBURG

I hope everybody has a safe Halloween tonight and that they don't eat to much of the leftover candy at one time. The Colonial Heights Colonials will have senior night tonight when the play host to the Petersburg Crimson Wave, Petersburg comes into the game at 4-4 while the Colonials are 2-6. Down in Georgia tonight the Crawford County Eagles will travel over to Heard County, if the Eagles win tonight they have a shot to make the Georgia High School Football playoffs which start next week. Down at the beach tonight First Flight will travel to Hertford to play the Bears, both teams are 7-2, all the other games of interest are posted below. In volleyball action last night the Colonial Heights girls team lost to Thomas Dale 3-2, also fellow blogger Keith was at the game to see the Knights play. The Richmond Renegades will also be at home tonight when the Knoxville Ice Bears come to town, the Gades have added several players during the week to try to bolster there lineup. The Nascar Sprint Cup Series will be at the Texas Motor Speedway this weekend, Jimmie Johnson will likely wrap the championship this weekend. Where in the world Mark at. MICKEY

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TONIGHT
PETERSBURG AT COLONIAL HEIGHTS
PRINCE GEORGE AT THOMAS DALE
MATOACA AT MEADOWBROOK
DINWIDDIE AT HOPEWELL
CRAWFORD COUNTY AT HEARD COUNTY
FIRST FLIGHT AT HERTFORD
MANTEO AT PLYMOUTH

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. -H. Boetcker

TODAY IS
National Magic Day
Halloween
Nevada Day

Aging population. Since 1900, the percentage of Americans 65 and over has more than tripled, increasing from 3.1 million to 34.5 million. According to the World Health Network, by the year 2025, there will be more than 50 million older Americans. Seniors over 65 will outnumber teenagers by more than two to one.

Develop A Positive Mental Attitude - Your attitude is important because it’s the state of mind in which you approach a situation - it is the same you - the only difference is your attitude‚ which only YOU can control.

What Are the Symptoms of MRSA?
CA-MRSA and other staph skin infections begin with classic signs of infection: a red, swollen, and painful area on the skin that is often warm to the touch. As the infection becomes more serious, symptoms include:

* A skin abscess
* Drainage of pus or other fluids from the site
* Fever
* Chills
* Rash
* Fatigue
* Muscle aches
* Headache

Dick Francis Author 88
Michael Collins Astronaut 78
Dan Rather Broadcast journalist 77
Tom Paxton Folk singer 71
Ron Rifkin Actor ("Alias") 69
David Ogden Stiers Actor ("M.A.S.H.") 66
Stephen Rea Actor 62
Deidre Hall Actress 60
Jane Pauley Broadcast journalist 58
Brian Stokes Mitchell Actor 50
Peter Jackson Director ("Lord of the Rings" movies) 47
Larry Mullen Jr. Rock musician (U2) 47
Dermot Mulroney Actor 45
Rob Schneider Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live") 44
Darryl Worley Country singer 44
Mike O'Malley Actor, comedian 43
Adrock Musician (The Beastie Boys) 42
Fred McGriff Baseball player 40
Piper Perabo Actress 32
Eddie Kaye Thomas Actor ("American Pie" movies) 28

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

just wanted everyone to know the new tv and the direct tv are doing well!!!!

RIDDLE

All the questions were answered. Melanie and Sandi got the food trivia. Louise got the riddle and Sandi got the brain trivia. I hope you got a chance to see that Melanie also got the brain bruiser right the day before yesterday.

I will be on my way home after Lunch today.


ANSWERS
Food Trivia

Can be red, yellow or white
Five sad letters
Used as rent in Middle Ages
The gas hurts an organ

Onion

Brain Bruisers

The center of a big movie
Named after a N.Y. lawyer
14 years of dynamite and smoothing
1,3, 16,26

Mount Rushmore

Riddle

What can be measured but has no length,width or thickness?

The temperature

QUESTIONS



Food Trivia Question

C.F.D.C.
No buzz from this
No cane from this
Some become addicted

Brain Bruisers Question

It has two holes
Part of a ship or plane
To perceive or detect
A very small length



Riddle



What do you call a girl who walks over water?

PHILLIES WIN WORLD SERIES, PAIN INDEX RISES

The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays last night 4-3 on a very cold night in Philadelphia and doing so won this years World Series. I got cold just watching the game but I have to say the conditions were better than they were Monday night. My PAIN index is up this morning after cutting the grass yesterday, with all the cold weather we have the last few days the lawn mower just didn't want to start. I finally go it started but I think I might have pulled every muscle in the right side of my body doing so. The Colonial Heights girls volleyball team will play Thomas Dale tonight in the finals of the Central District Volleyball Tournament at Colonial Heights at 6pm, I may go see some of the game if I get back from eating in time. It looks like the weather will warm up a bit here in CH the next two days, Friday it is suppose to be 67 and Saturday 70 and thats just fine with me, I don't like cold weather. Don't forget tomorrow is Halloween, I don't want you to make all those Trick or Treaters upset by not having any candy. MICKEY

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me? ~ Brian Tracy

Relax and enjoy life. You'll never live this day again.

Success
Success is a personal standard - reaching for the highest that is in us - becoming all that we can be.

TODAY IS National Candy Corn Day, YUCK.

What Is MRSA?
Some staph infections become increasingly resistant to antibiotics and are more difficult to treat. MRSA is a type of staph infection (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) that is resistant to first line antibiotics such as methicillin, amoxicillin, and penicillin. The original MRSA infections emerged in the 1960s and were associated with exposure in the health care setting, particularly in hospitals, and are referred to as hospital-acquired MRSA or "HA-MRSA." This type of MRSA infection is difficult to treat because it is not susceptible to stronger antibiotics such as clindamycin or Bactrim.

Dick Vermeil Football coach 72
Dick Gautier Actor 71
Claude Lelouch Movie director 71
Eddie Holland Songwriter 69
Grace Slick Rock singer (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) 69
Ed Lauter Actor 68
Otis Williams R&B singer (The Temptations) 67
Henry Winkler Actor ("Happy Days") 63
Chris Slade Rock musician (Asia) 62
Leon Rippy Actor 59
Harry Hamlin Actor ("L.A. Law") 57
Charles Martin Smith Actor 55
T. Graham Brown Country singer 54
Kevin Pollak Actor 51
Diego Maradona Soccer player 48
Michael Beach Actor 45
Gavin Rossdale Rock musician (Bush) 41
Ben Bailey Comedian, TV host ("Cash Cab") 38
Nia Long Actress 38
Kassidy Osborn Country singer (SHeDAISY) 32
Gael Garcia Bernal Actor ("The Motorcycle Diaries") 30
Nastia Liukin Olympic gold-medal gymnast 19
Tequan Richmond Actor ("Everybody Hates Chris") 16

RIDDLE

ATTENTION! ATTENTION! Melanie got the brain bruiser also

Good morning. Sandi got the brain bruiser questiion right.

ANSWERS

Food Trivia

A cooking technique
Keep things moving
Two words...seven letters
Throw in anything

Stir Fry

Brain Bruisers

This does move...slowly
Grows and shrinks
Seven cold letters
Often in the news

Glacier

Riddle

Who were the first gamblers?

Adam and Eve. They had a paradise(pair of dice)

QUESTIONS

Food Trivia Question

Can be red, yellow or white
Five sad letters
Used as rent in Middle Ages
The gas hurts an organ

Brain Bruisers Question

The center of a big movie
Named after a N.Y. lawyer
14 years of dynamite and smoothing
1,3, 16,26

Riddle

What can be measured but has no length,width or thickness?

WEATHER PUSHES BACK WORLD SERIES, VCU MULLS ADDING FOOTBALL

The weather wasn't doing the World Series yesterday in Philadelphia pushing back the conclusion of game 5 until tonight. They are suppose to throw the 1st pitch tonight at 8:37pm with the Phillis hitting in the bottom of the 6th inning with score tied at 2. There was an article in yesterdays paper about VCU mulling the possibility of adding football in the future, the outgoing president didn't want football but the AD at VCU thinks that the new president may want to explore this option in the future. If this happens the VCU bookstore wont be able to sell the shirt that say VCU football still undefeated. I think that VCU will add football at some point in the future, it may 10 years though before they actually have a team on the field. Believe it or not we actually had baseball camp at the stadium last night, it was bit cool and it a bit breezy but for as much rain we had on Monday the field was actually in very good condition. My PAIN index is up a bit from throwing BP yesterday but not to much. It looks like the majority of people who voted on the poll of where fellow blogger Mark has been agree that the reason that he has been absent lately is because he hasn't inducted into the Whiffle Ball Hall of Fame. MICKEY

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know to lie well.
— Samuel Butler

TODAY IS
Hermit Day
Bring Your Jack-O-Lantern to Work Day

Don't try to run faster than you have strength. Just work to be a little better and a little stronger each day.

DID YOU KNOW
The bird with the largest wingspan is the Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans which lives in the southern oceans. Its wings average 2.54 - 3.51 m. The largest recorded wingspan was of a very old male whose wings measured 3.63 m.

Pillow Case for Trick or Treat Bag
A white pillow case (or any old one will do) works really well for trick or treating. It holds lots of candy, won't tear and can be seen by motorists when most costumes are dark. They can be decorated to look more festive. For shorter children, they could be cut down shorter or folded inward to half the size.

Sonny Osborne Bluegrass musician (The Osborne Brothers) 71
Lee Clayton Country singer 66
Denny Laine Rock musician (Wings, Moody Blues) 64
Melba Moore Singer 63
Peter Green Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac) 62
Richard Dreyfuss Actor 61
Kate Jackson Actress ("Charlie's Angels") 60
Dirk Kempthorne Secretary of the Interior 57
Denis Potvin Hockey Hall of Famer 55
Dan Castellaneta Actor ("The Simpsons") 51
Steve Kellough Country musician (Wild Horses) 51
Randy Jackson Singer (The Jackson Five) 47
Peter Timmins Rock musician (Cowboy Junkies) 43
Joely Fisher Actress 41
Rufus Sewell Actor 41
Winona Ryder Actress 37
Tracee Ellis Ross Actress 36
Trevor Lissauer Actor ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch") 35
Gabrielle Union Actress 35
Milena Govich Actress 32
Brendan Fehr Actor 31
Ben Foster Actor 28

Should this Man be in the Wiffle Ball Hall of Fame?

Every year at this time, the wiffle ball community is faced with this difficult decision. Should Mark's numbers speak for themself and pave his way into the Hall or should he be penalized for pulling his team from the field in the heat of the contest in the now memorable "hiney ball" game therby banning him for life from the Hall

One may argue that Mark is the victim here, it was not Mark who threw the bean ball the initiated the above mentioned "hiney ball" incident, he was actually recipient of the pitch.

I believe as my dad stated in his blog entry below, it is time to put this issue to rest one way or the other. Someone needs to lay out all the facts so an independent arbitrator can make an honest assessement as to whether Mark enters the Hall or NOT.

RIDDLE

Sandi was the only one who answered the question yesterday. She got the food trivia question right. Sorry to be so late with the blog but I'm at the beach and running a little late. I almost used the questions again.

We had to turn on the heat last night.

ANSWERS

Food Trivia



A male
More popular in the south
You need a period
Last name starts with a "P"

Mr. Pibb

Brain Bruisers



Small numbers are the best
Touch in king
No two exactly the same
32,000 in the world

Golf

Riddle

What kind of cookie must be handled carefully?

ginger snap

QUESTIONS

Food Trivia Question

A cooking technique
Keep things moving
Two words...seven letters
Throw in anything

Brain Bruisers Question

This does move...slowly
Grows and shrinks
Seven cold letters
Often in the news

Riddle

Who were the first gamblers?

GAME 5 SUSPENDED, TITANS WIN AGIAN

Well game 5 of the World Series was suspended in the 6th inning last night with the score tied at 2-2, they will resume the game tonight at 8:29pm. I don't think they ever should have started this game last night, it was already raining when the game started and the new it was going to get worst and it it did. The field was in pretty bad shape the last few innings before they called it. Speaking of bad weather it was a pretty raw day here in Colonial Heights yesterday afternoon, we had a pretty steady rain with temps falling into the low 40's and a pretty steady wind as well. It looks like it is going to be very windy here today here in CH with winds of 20 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph and the temps are only going to make it to the low 50's, you better put hat on your head or your going to get cold today. The Tennessee Titans remain the only undefeated team in the NFL with a 31-21 win over Indianapolis last night, with the win the Titans are now 7-0. I have added an informal poll to the top right of the page of why Mark hasn't been on the blog. MICKEY

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
~ Aristotle

TODAY IS
National Disgusting Little Pumpkin-Shaped Candies Day
Statue of Liberty's Birthday
Plush Animal Lover's Day
National Chocolate day

VIRGINIA FUN FACT
"Some famous entertainers from Virginia include - Patsy Cline, Roy Clark, the Statler Brothers, June Carter Cash, Pearl Baily, Ella Fitzgerald, Bruce Hornsby, Clarence Clemens, Pat Benatar, Wayne Newton and Kate Smith"

Other Than Candy Treats
A trip to the Dollar Store or office supply store can be good for treats that are not candy. Consider giving combs, pencils, erasers, colored pens or pencils, pony tail holders, coloring books instead of candy. Giving the money out ins coins instead of spending it on candy can also be done.


When you arise say out loud: “I believe this is going to be a wonderful day. I believe I can successfully handle all the problems that will arise. I feel good - physically - mentally - emotionally."

Cleo Laine Jazz singer 81
Joan Plowright Actress 79
Charlie Daniels Country musician 72
Lenny Wilkens Hall of Fame basketball coach 71
Jane Alexander Actress 69
Curtis Lee Singer 67
Dennis Franz Actor ("NYPD Blue") 64
Wayne Fontana Singer 63
Telma Hopkins Actress 60
Bruce Jenner Olympic track and field gold medalist 59
Annie Potts Actress ("Designing Women") 56
Bill Gates Microsoft Corp. Chairman 53
Stephen Morris Rock musician (New Order) 51
Ron Hemby Country musician (The Buffalo Club) 50
Mark Derwin Actor 48
Daphne Zuniga ("Melrose Place")Actress 46
Lauren Holly Actress 45
Jami Gertz Actress 43
Chris Bauer Actor 42
Andy Richter Actor, comedian 42
Julia Roberts Actress 41
Caitlin Cary Country musician 40
Jeremy Davies Actor 39
Brad Piasley Country Singer 36
Terrell Davis Football player 36
Joaquin Phoenix Actor ("Walk the Line") 34
Justin Guarini Singer ("American Idol") 30
Brett Dennen Singer 29

Riddle

Sarah and Lee got the food trivia question on Friday. Sandi got the brain bruiser question. Sarah was on vacation and still solved the food trivia. Lee was hard at work at college and Sandi was without her partner. Come on give them some competition. Louise got the riddle right. I don't think anyone can touch her in the riddle department.

Getting ready to go to the beach.

ANSWERS

Food Trivia

Nine German letters
Oldest recipe from 1432
A rotten kid
Sometimes cooked in beer

Bratwurst

Brain Bruisers

20320
A record for a section-
100
25th leader

Mount McKinley

Riddle

What bird always run from a fight?

A canary. (It's a yellow bird)

QUESTIONS

Food Trivia Question

A male
More popular in the south
You need a period
Last name starts with a "P"

Brain Bruisers Question

Small numbers are the best
Touch in king
No two exactly the same
32,000 in the world

Riddle

What kind of cookie must be handled carefully?