Soft Shoulder Advice
Blog #98 By Michelle
Drew June 23 2006
A Few Words From Michelle It has been a good week. Fluff seems
to have left the floor of the MA legislature and a nice weekend is
predicted for out here in the prairie. This weekend brings Flaming
Gorge Days in Green River. Tomorrow we are headed out to see Kayak
Rodeo. We don't know if they rope trout or each other, but we are
bringing the camera and will put up pics next week.
Get out and enjoy the warm season, in the northern hemisphere. In the
southern hemisphere, bundle up!!! Either way, don't forget the sun
screen,
All
Good Thoughts
True religion
is the life we lead, not the creed we profess
Louis Nizer
Summer set lip to earth's bosom
bare
And left the flushed print in a
poppy there.
Francis Thompson
I do not feel obliged to believe
that the same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason,
and intellect has intended
us to forgo their use.
Galilio Galilei
Factoids - Thanks to our friend Michael
Thomas at The Encourager
Elvis didn't
sing well enough to make
his high school glee club.
Elvis's favorite sandwich:
grilled
peanut butter and banana.
An average person has about 6
quarts
of blood running through their body.
If you've got a normal
head of
hair, you have about 100,000 hairs on it.
If your sense of smell isn't
working,
you can't taste an onion.
The normal adult has 656
muscles. 42%
of an average male's body weight is muscle. 38% of an average female's
body weight is muscle.
As an infant grows, the body
part
that grows least is the eye. While the rest of an adult body is 20
times bigger than it was at birth, the eye is only 3 1/4 times bigger.
Americans
spend approximately $25
billion each year on beer.
Aunt Jemima pancake
flour, invented
in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.
False eyelashes were
invented by film
director D.W. Griffith while he was making the 1916 epic,
"Intolerance." He wanted actress Seena Owen to have lashes that brushed
her cheeks.
Mt.
Everest grows about 4 millimeters
a year: the two tectonic plates of Asia and India, which collided
millions of years ago to form the Himalayas, continue to press against
each other, causing the Himalayan peaks to grow slightly each year.
Richard James, a
marine engineer, was
trying to invent a spring that could be used to offset the effects of a
boat's movement on sensitive navigational instruments. One day he
knocked a sample spring off a high shelf, it uncoiled like a snake and
"crawled" down to the floor. The Slinky was born.
In
1638 John Harvard, a wealthy
Massachusetts settler, left half his estate, $1,480, to a two year old
local bible college. It was the largest gift to the new school at that
point; the school repaid the favor by calling itself Harvard College.
