Quote of the week-Flying Goose

“You think your family is nuts, listen to this. Tired of being nagged about cutting the holiday goose my uncle hurled the bird from a third story window. And if that wasn’t bad enough, my aunt ran down stairs, scooped the from the alley, rinsed it off and served it for dinner.”   Whispers from…

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Quote of the week

pic courtesy of “Science Discovery” “You aren’t doing somethin unless you’re pumpkin chunkin.” David I.P. at Destinations EFC

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Quote of the week–

Pics courtesy of Google   “Everyone’s different. I guess that’s why you can pick your seat at the movies and pick your nose, but there’s one thing you can’t choose–family. Mine is like the Flintstones, hopelessly stuck in stone-age holiday traditions. Wilma, Fred, Barney and Betty scrambling around to get everything just right. Yabba, dabba,…

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Cowboy Glam

It’s official. Nearly ten years has passed since I was dragged out of Chicago kicking and screaming ‘Da Bears’, ‘Da Bulls’, legs tangled dancing the BlackHawk jig. As a last ditch effort, I begged the doctors at Northwestern Medical to give me a super duper relocation booster shot to numb the reality that I was…

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Quote of the week–The Shoe Solution

  “As I left the house this morning on the way to the polls, my wife generously reminded me of the hot voting issues–unemployment, healthcare and the growing national debt. “Paying off the deficit?” I paused in the doorway and smiled at her. “That job is made for a woman.” Knowing me as well as…

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Ghoul-Glam

My house is haunted. Nearly a hundred years old you can imagine the number of spirits of owners past who have returned to pace our halls and attic. If I wake suddenly in the middle of the night and creep stealthly downstairs, I can catch light switches flicking, cabinets slamming, my paranormal guests, I suspect,…

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Quote of the week

Never mind in writing, get it in concrete. Masonry contractor working at my house the morning after the last presidential debate.

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