Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Sun Dogs and more...

We've had a pretty good dose of winter already.  About a week ago, I saw something that goes with cold, clear days, the brightest set of sun dogs I've ever seen.  That morning as I drove east towards the Bismarck side of the river I had to avert my eyes because I thought I'd just gotten a glimpse of the sun.  Wrong.  After looking, I realized what flashed in front of me was the sun dog on the left side of the sun  and its mate on the right with the sun in the middle.  There didn't appear to be much difference in their brightness.  I wished I'd have had a camera, but not to worry, the sight was all over the television news.
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The neighbor lady called Mary all excited to tell her the news.  She'd won a new Dodge car at the Dickinson Trinity school carnival.  I'm going to win my Mustang convertible this Friday night at St. Mary High's carnival.  Stay tuned.
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A friend send me a little ditty.  This year's month of August contains a phenomenon that occurs only every 823 years: five Fridays, five Saturdays, and five Sundays.  Sure enough, flip the pages on your calendar and count 'em.
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Another friend sends Ole and Lena jokes - Ole bought Lena a piano for her birthday.  A few weeks later, Lars asked how she was doing with it.  "Oh," said Ole, "I talked her into switching to a clarinet."  "How come," Lars wanted to know.  "Vell, because with a clarinet she can't sing."
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One more -

Ole was arrested one night while walking bare naked down
the streets of his little town. The policeman,
who was a good friend of Ole's said,'Ole...What in the world are you doing?
Where are your clothes? You're naked.'
 
'Yah, I know,' said Ole. 'You see, I vas over to dat 'playboy' Sven's
for his birthday party. Dere vas about ten of us. Der vas boys and girls.'
 
'Is that right?', his policeman friend asked.
 
'Yah, Yah, anyvay, dat Swen, he says, 'Everybody get into the bedroom! 
'So vee all go into the bedroom....where den he yells, 'Everybody git naked!'
'Vel, vee all got undressed. Den he yells, 'Everybody go to town!'
 
I guess I'm the first one here!
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I'm waiting on shipments of books again, one from the Bismarck Tribune and another from the Western Writers.  I won't have a lot of free time after they arrive, but that's good.  I've accumulated quite a stack of free books sent to me for review.  A few of them I will keep.