November 25, 2006 We thought the holidays would be really sad, but Thanksgiving was actually a good day. In fact, I would rate it pretty high. I missed my children and grandchildren, of course, but our volunteer family was wonderful to celebrate with. It was a rather odd Thanksgiving day because we worked. The teams that were here had come for Michigan, Illinois and Tennessee and they wanted to make their time count. I worked a short day with the hope of watching a football game, which seemed the cultural thing to do. While I was working, the "man of the house" was watching the game in his FEMA trailer. His Thanksgiving day activity was the only thing I saw that resembled my cultural concept. As I sat in my truck eating my lunch I observed the neighborhood. This is a poor, black neighborhood in Biloxi. Seeing how they relaxed on a holiday gave me a great appreciation for Alden Ave. There are no nice porches with nice furniture or even nice yards. There is trash everywhere and...
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Q. What do you get if you have 32 West Virginian women all together?
A. One full set of teeth
Q. Did you hear that a hurricain went through West Virginia?
A. Yup. Did 30,000,000 dollars worth of improvements!
Q. Where was the tooth brush invented?
A. Yes Leah!!! West Virginia! Anywhere else they would have named it a 'teeth brush!'
(Your prize will be coming in the mail.)
Will my prize come in a magic soda bottle? I happen to know good things come in those!!!! :0) I actually had a good giggle over "that there teeth brush"!