Best E-mails of the Week    10/06/02

Here is a scam about smiley grams that I fell for. Don't fall for it too!

From: (Real Name) and (correct email address)
To: Pete (with my correct email address)
Subject: can you do me a favor?

Hi Pete, I'm sending you this Smiley-Gram for two reasons - first, because I wanted to put a smile on your face (you'll see what i mean after you view it)...and second, I need you to do me a favor - can you fill out five different people who can verify that they know you? i only need 5 more referrals to win a prize...thanx! - (Real Name)

This scam sends out five emails as if they are coming from you when they are not. Be careful! Don't fill it out, Just ignore or delete it!

Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we
have.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always
a special treat.

Our baby cribs were painted with bright colored lead based paint. We
often chewed on the crib, ingesting the paint.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and
when we rode our bikes we had no helmets.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode
down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.
After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the
problem.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were
back when the streetlights came on. No one was able
to reach us all day.

We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt.

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda, but we were
never over weight; we were always outside playing.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who
didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

Some students weren't as smart as others or didn't work hard, so they
failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.

That generation produced some of the greatest risk-takers and problem
solvers.  We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. 

We have not only survived, but prevailed!

 

The Three Sons

Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered. Getting
back together, they discussed the gifts they were able to give their
elderly mother.

The first said, "I built a big house for our mother."

The second said," I sent her a Mercedes with a driver."

The third smiled and said, "I've got you, both beat. You know how Mom
enjoys the Bible, and you know her eyesight has failed her to the
point that she can no longer read.. I sent her a brown parrot that can
recite the entire Bible. It took 20 monks in a monastery 12 years to
teach him. I had to pledge to contribute $100,000.00 a year for 10
years, but it was worth it. Mom just has to name the chapter and
verse, and the parrot will recite it."

Soon thereafter, Mom sent out her letters of thanks:
"Milton," she wrote the first son, "The house you built is so huge. I
live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole house."

"Marvin," she wrote to another, "I am too old to travel. I stay home
all the time, so I never use the Mercedes. And the driver is so rude!"

"Dearest Melvin," she wrote to her third son, "You were the only son
to have the good sense to know what your mother likes...That chicken
was delicious."

 

Here are pictures from Minnesota - Land of Lakes!

Mary with her dad, brother, cousin, godfather, his wife.  This is the view from her cousin's house. 

Mary's Godfather George makes these miniature cannon wheels from scratch.

They are loud when ignited!

This is nephew Ryan's workshop. How many high schoolers can rebuild an ATV engine like Ryan?
 

Pete