From Dad...

Secondhand Talk
At the end of baseball practice coach Daryl Lowe told the boys, “We’ve
got a lot of talking to talk about”. They were all ears as our great head coach, Ken Qualls, told them how to win or get embarrassed. Daryl has a way of summing things up. It seems a lot of folks have a lot of “talking to talk about.”
After conversion we sing “Never Alone” because the Lord is always with us. Now people are never alone because they have “their cell”. I still don’t have one of the “little interrupters”. The Lord can talk to me till he gets through. I’m sure not going to tell Him, “Hold on, I’m getting another call.”
I think “cellphonelessness” is working to my advantage. I read today that research has found that cell-phone radiation causes brain tumors. Since I don’t have a cell phone, I’m safe. Or am I? What about “secondhand talk”. I’m exposed to it everywhere I go. Fishing at Pickwick is not even safe. Guys up the bank have to “call Mama”.
Margie does insist that I carry hers to the creek. In case “her hunk” has the “big one” 911 might help. I’ll risk a few brain cells for her.
Is secondhand talk as bad as secondhand smoke? Preachers used to preach that smoking was a sin along with cussing and drinking. God showed them long before the Surgeon General got hip. Smoking destroys the temple.(our body).
Many “phoners” talk louder when answering a call. It must be because of our old habit of yelling because of the distance. It’s time to start thinking about another shack out back; A duplex for, “Smokers & Phoners”.

Poppy and Mimmi

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

Hardin County Tiger Baseball #22

Easter Morning

One More . . .

Everybody loves a fighter....

20 Years Ago...

When I was straight out of college, I went to work for a fairly large corporation. I was around a lot of very successful, Executive type guys----I didnt hardly fit in --because I was as "Green as a Gourd". But the company was always offering seminars to improve their sales and management. I never went to any of them---because I was a lot younger and inexperienced than all these guys--then one of them talked me into going to one---Zig Ziglar. I can honestly say it changed my life in a bunch of different ways---It motivated me...to do something and really accomplish things---and that was at age 20...it still works to this day...here are some of Zig's quotes...


“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person"

“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.”

“Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.”

and my personal favorite....
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want”

A lot of Rain = A lot of Mud...

Huh????

Woman sits on boyfriend's toilet for 2 years

Says it all . . .

Looking like another great year for Baseball...

O'Neal has made the 13 year old Hardin County Tigers....Lots of tournaments coming up----Lots of practice right now...He is doing excellent and playing good solid baseball...This is one of the reasons-Stubby Clapp and Chad Harville have been working with him in the offseason and they really did fantastic....

Powerful . . .

“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough.”

Richard M. DeVos

All Good---

About 5 inches of snow...Showball Fights---4 Wheelers- Motorcycles---Friends and Family---Great Day...

There can be only one greatest of all time...

Brett Favre’s retirement leaves behind an NFL that will be a lot less fun.

In Favre, NFL Is Losing Fun-Loving Entertainer
Favre, for 275 straight games the Green Bay Packers starting quarterback, was fun for neutral observers to watch even when his risk-taking hurt his own team. “On the list of quarterbacks, I’d pay to see, he’s first,” Jeff Jacobs writes in the Hartford Courant. “Give me the 50-yard line at Lambeau any time. He is Phil Mickelson. He is Reggie. He can make history. He can unravel history. If history is to record professional athletics both as sports and entertainment, Favre is a perennial Oscar winner.”
No matter his position on the field, Favre was always looking to throw. (Associated Press Photo)
Fun was the top priority for Favre. “Brett Favre has all of the numbers now: most completions, most yards, most touchdowns and, yes, most interceptions. He retires at the summit of quarterback statistics, responsible for more than 35 miles of passing gains and a record 160 winning starts,” Tim Sullivan writes in the San Diego Union-Tribune. “But to dwell on Favre’s ledgers is like counting Leonardo’s brush strokes, like summarizing Hamlet as 32,241 words. The sum of his labors is not its soul. More than any of his famous contemporaries — Tom Brady, John Elway, Peyton Manning, Dan Marino — Favre played quarterback with a jazz sensibility and a transparent joy. He was always improvising, ever daring, like a kid drawing up plays on a sandlot and then inventing something entirely different as conditions changed or inspiration struck.”
The Miami Herald’s Armando Salguero recalls when the Favre family opened their Kiln, Miss., home to him and other reporters before the 1997 Super Bowl. Favre’s father said then, “Brett really has fun playing, sometimes too much fun. He’d rather have fun playing football than breathe. Having fun is that important to him.”

Very Sad day for Football...

He was the best and the most fun to watch....Read more HERE...

A little tackle basketball before the Big UFC fight...

Great UFC fight ---Great Friends...

Take the time and listen to it....

From Dad

Here and There
I like the story about the old boy hauled into court. He wouldn’t cooperate. The judge asked him where he lived. He answered, “Here and there”. When asked what he did. His responded, “This and that”. The judge lost patience and said, “Looks like I’m going to have to put you away.” He exclaimed, “When am I gonna get out, Judge?” The judge calmly replied, “Sooner or later”.
“Wherever you are, be there” sounds like a ridiculous statement, but it’s not. I’ve talked to folks that weren’t there. Their ugly old bodies were, but their mind was somewhere else. I try to stay where I am and listen some. I’m right “cheer”. Are “youens” there?
Here’s a sermonette I use on the road. It concerns the “born again”
experience that Jesus talked about. I say it this way; “I was born the first time in 1941 and I was born the second time in 1967. I know I was born the first time because I’m here. I know I was born the second time because I was there. You may thing I’m here because I’m not all there but I’m happy!”
A clear conscience allows me to have fun. I’m a happy walker. I go by a store has a big wooden dummy advertising chicken on the roadside. I like to walk by and give “him” a high-five. Then I walk off like George Jefferson. (well, not exactly). Folks probably think, “Two dummies just met.” I don’t care. Everyone is a fool over something. I like being a fool on the right side.
Home is fun too. Our coffee pot died. I threw it in the garbage can and thought, “It didn’t have much of a life. It worked hard in the heat all its life. It probably died in a ‘nervous wreck’ with all that caffeine.” Yall keep ‘er ‘tween the ditches, and I’ll try to keep you in “stitches