July 6th

July 20, 2008

(under destruction)

This is a pic of the tornado that hit (near us) last Friday. It made news on the national weather channel so you may have heard about it. It stayed on the outskirts of the city but destroyed 2 homes and damaged several businesses, homes and crops. Only 2 people were slightly injured. It was 200 yards wide and moved 9 miles on the ground. Lowell's lady friend, Marilyn, was shopping at a furniture store blocks away but it didn't touch that building! It was only 1 mile South of Nick's apartment building (he moved out of Melvin & Elaine's house about 3 weeks ago and moved in with a friend ...). We are expecting more severe weather tomorrow--hopefully not as bad as last week!
Liz

Quiz for People who Know A lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I am not one of those people. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers.

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor theparticipants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own forseveral growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pearinside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw'and they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'

Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the ...

(Why not wait til next week?)

Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the
Participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. Boxing

2. North American landmark constantly moving backwards. Niagara Falls
(The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons Asparagus and Rhubarb.

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside. . Strawberry.

5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)

6. Three English words beginning with dw. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned,
Processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. Lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S'.
Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

Gerry had a nice vacation in Idaho with Anita and family.

How fantastic are the Rocky Mountains!

Here's my goddaughter Elyse playing French horn in a famous Opera House.

in Sydney, Australia!

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HUMOR (Turn up sound)

Greetings!

chris sent you this JibJab Sendables(R) eCard:

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Always talkin bout what I got-

Don't you love that new rap song?

Here's the 4 minute U Tube version:

(Too bad the video isn't as good as the audio.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20G0W2hWXYM&feature=related

Off to NYC for a few days,

Pete

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