More Birthdays Occur in May than Any Other Month!

What will you be getting Pea and Blaze for their Birthday this MAY.........?

Recycling and Yutes.

Is it just me. Do I live with the only under 30 planet polluters alive? How long has home recycling been around? Years, right? Well it seems that the younguns I live with, only 2 of them now, didn't get Al "NOBLE PRIZE WINNER" Gore's memo. Today is trash day. Of course, only the man in the house is allowed to put it out, they got THAT memo, as I place the bags at the curb there's that clink, clang of aluminum cans and glass bottle resonating from the filthy trash bag. Do you go in and get 'em or blame it on the yutes? Not that I haven't said a quadzillion times that we need to RECYCLE FOLKS!!!!! We're on our 4th trash hauler and there are no more left in the phone book. Hope this one doesn"t drop us too. Look what the world has come to; the trashmen hold my future in their hands....

Was Barry Playing or Campaigning in Phila Tonight ?

Similarities...............................

A little Sports here...

I love this quote from a recent Eagle Draft choice..... "...I'm not a Pro Bowl player, I'm a Super Bowl Player...!" Introducing Quintin Demps...

VACATION TIME...if I could choose, Whale Watching would Not be on My List .

This poor Kids Family was Booked on a Snail Watching Trip...right Slim ?... and Beware of hard of hearing Booking Agents !

Places I have been to, that I would return to...

• The Jersey shore, but only cause it's convenient.
• Bermuda
• Las Vegas, lots to See there !
• The Florida Keys
• San Francisco
• Mechanicsburg

Places I have been to, but would Not return to...

• Williamsburg, Va
• Manhattan
• Fayetteville, NC
• The Grand Canyon (see one Grand Canyon you've seen them All)
• Trenton
• Allentown (OK....Downtown area only...is that more Concise?)

"Hey! Isn't that Hunter Pace who went to G.A. ?"

Sorry about that..

I don't know about you but Steve Jobs can take his i-phone and shove it. It slices, dices, chops and grinds but it has this nasty habit of hanging up in mid conversation. ANNOYING PEOPLE those i-phoners. They call you back and say in their i-phone snobbery, "sorry about that, it just hangs up on me." NO KIDDING! I have three descendants who are phoneaholics. New gadget phone comes out; they get it next day. They sit in wait just hoping they're there when an opportunity comes up to use mapquest, google, ask etc. Just waiting to pounce when you say "I'm lost" or "I don't know" Their snobby little voices say,"No problem I can just pull that up on my i-phone..." While you're at it reposition the polar ice caps will ya? Launch any missles lately? Online surgery anyone? Little geeks. I guess you need that power though when you're a high school senior sitting in class. You've already learned everything there is to learn. Maybe you can find a prom dress in Caracas or a facial cleanser from Istanbul. Useful schooltime stuff. The same kid will sit in a room with you for 30 minutes and never say a word; put her in school with an i-phone and you'll get a dozen text messages a day from her. I'd like to lock them in a room with Uncle Lucky for a weekend and they can explain to him how all that i-phone stuff works. Ha, ha, ha. Who hits the wall first, the i-phones, the geek girls or Lucky? SMASH..... Take that Steve Jobs!!!!

Do you know what a "Hunter Pace" is? I learned...

Anna at her first Hunter Pace event. She had a blast.

The Gpea blog will be taking a Hiatus til we re-acquire a taste for Treats

Ruff...

Who among us has NEVER gone thru Surgery ?

She made it look a Lot Easier than it was....!!!

Patrick becomes first woman to win IndyCar race...

Web Cams & distant Family Members

About 5 years ago I bought Sam, Jason & myself Web cams. The few times that Sam has used his have been Totally Enjoyable! I don't think Jason has ever hooked his up. These cams are less than $100 and you can watch "live action" video of your Grankids from anywhere in the World ! Of course today, they probably have something far more sophisticated, just thought I would mention it. We could have a Web cam Convention if everyone had one...

Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader....?

Found this show on Fox recently, hosted by that Foxworthy guy and I love it ! You should watch it, especially if you have 5th Graders...

This makes me Angry.

Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover Time editor tells MSNBC 'there needs to be a real effort along the lines of World War II to combat global warming and climate change.' By Jeff Poor Business & Media Institute4/17/2008 5:24:05 PM For only the second time in 85 years, Time magazine abandoned the traditional red border it uses on its cover. The occasion – to push more global warming alarmism. The cover of the April 21 issue of Time took the famous Iwo Jima photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American flag and replaced the flag with a tree. The cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green “the new red, white and blue.” Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, told the Business & Media Institute April 17 that using that photograph for that cause was a “disgrace.” “It’s an absolute disgrace,” Mates said. “Whoever did it is going to hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor.” Mates also said making the comparison of World War II to global warming was erroneous and disrespectful. “The second world war we knew was there,” Mates said. “There’s a big discussion. Some say there is global warming, some say there isn’t. And to stick a tree in place of a flag on the Iwo Jima picture is just sacrilegious.” According to the American Veterans Center (AVC), Mates served in the 3rd Marine Division and fought in the battle of Iwo Jima, landing on Feb. 24, 1945. “A few days later, Mates’ eight-man patrol came under heavy assault from Japanese forces,” Tim Holbert, a spokesman for the AVC, said. “During fierce-hand-to-hand combat, Mates watched as his friend and fellow Marine, Jimmy Trimble, was killed in front of his eyes. Mates was severely wounded, and underwent repeated operations for shrapnel removal for over 30 years.” Lt. John Keith Wells, the leader of the platoon that raised the flags on Mt. Suribachi and co-author of “Give Me Fifty Marines Not Afraid to Die: Iwo Jima” wasn’t impressed with Time’s efforts. “That global warming is the biggest joke I’ve ever known,” Wells told the Business & Media Institute. “[W]e’ll stick a dadgum tree up somebody’s rear if they want that and think that’s going to cure something.” Time managing editor Richard Stengel appeared on MSNBC April 17 and said the United States needed to make a major effort to fight climate change, and that the cover’s purpose was to liken global warming to World War II. “[O]ne of the things we do in the story is we say there needs to be an effort along the lines of preparing for World War II to combat global warming and climate change,” Stengel said. “It seems to me that this is an issue that is very popular with the voters, makes a lot of sense to them and a candidate who can actually bundle it up in some grand way and say, ‘Look, we need a national and international Manhattan Project to solve this problem and my candidacy involves that.’ I don't understand why they don’t do that.” Holbert, a speaking on behalf of the American Veterans Center, said the editorial decision by Time to use the photograph for the cover trivialized the cause the veterans fought for. “Global warming may or may not be a significant threat to the United States,” Holbert said. “The Japanese Empire in February of 1945, however, certainly was, and this photo trivializes the most recognizable moment of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history. War analogies should be used sparingly by political advocates of all bents.” Stengel also appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on April 17 and had no difficulty admitting the magazine needed to have a “point of view.” “I think since I’ve been back at the magazine, I have felt that one of the things that’s needed in journalism is that you have to have a point of view about things,” Stengel said. “You can’t always just say ‘on the one hand, on the other’ and you decide. People trust us to make decisions. We’re experts in what we do. So I thought, you know what, if we really feel strongly about something let's just say so.” Time has been banging the global warming drum for some time now. In April 2007, Time offered 51 ways to “save the planet,” which included more taxes and regulation. Related Links: A Special Report from BMI: Global Warming Censored BMI's Special Report "Fire & Ice: Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can't decide weather we face an ice or warming" Climate of Bias: BMI's page devoted entirely to global warming and climate change in the media.

GranPa says, "say hello to Luke John McKendry !"

Born TODAY! 6lbs14oz somewhere near The Surf in Redondo Beach California...Cool Stuff!!!

Frustrating day @ the HUP

In an effort to get the heart rhythm correct they did a procedure today (in his room) that required Michael to be "put under". Chance of success is 80%. He said there were at least 8 to 10 people involved. The whole deal took about a half hour and when he came/to they told him it didn't work. He's back on another IV that they hope will cure the problem, but if not, he goes thru the same procedure on Thursday. Considering the circumstances he was pretty up-beat but admitted to being frustrated with the periphery stuff that goes on and complicates things...the tubes, the swelling, the sore throat, etal.

...further topics I consider Vital...

Red light camera monkey business may be a national trend

It has been reported that certain cities have reduced the Amber Time on a Traffic signal from the Standard 3.9 seconds to as low as 3.0 seconds so they could collect more $$$ ! Have you ever gotten a traffic ticket from a Government Installed Traffic Cam ?

Posted by....george orwell...

Men will never Grow Up ! It cost them "$50 Large" to do this...

NEW YORK -- A construction worker's bid to curse the New York Yankees by planting a Boston Red Sox jersey in their new stadium was foiled Sunday when the home team removed the offending shirt from its burial spot. After locating the shirt in a service corridor behind what will be a restaurant in the new Yankee Stadium, construction workers jackhammered through the concrete Sunday and pulled it out. The team said it learned that a Sox-rooting construction worker had buried a shirt in the new Bronx stadium, which will open next year across the street from the current ballpark, from a report in the New York Post on Friday. Yankees president Randy Levine said team officials at first considered leaving the shirt where it was. "The first thought was, you know, it's never a good thing to be buried in cement when you're in New York," Levine said. "But then we decided, why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing?" On Saturday, construction workers who remembered the employee, Gino Castignoli, phoned in tips about the shirt's location. "We had anonymous people come tell us where it was, and we were able to find it," said Frank Gramarossa, a project executive with Turner Construction, the general contractor on the site. The Yankees say they will send the tattered David Ortiz to a Boston charity to be auctioned off. (AP) It took about five hours of drilling Saturday to locate the shirt under 2 feet of concrete, he said. On Sunday, Levine and Yankees CEO Lonn Trost watched as Gramarossa and foreman Rich Corrado finished the job and pulled the shirt from the rubble. In shreds from the jackhammers, the shirt still bore the letters "Red Sox" on the front. It was a David Ortiz jersey, No. 34. Trost said the Yankees had discussed possible criminal charges against Castignoli with the district attorney's office. "We will take appropriate action since fortunately we do know the name of the individual," he said. A woman who answered the phone at Castignoli's home in the Bronx on Sunday said he was not there. A spokesman for Bronx district attorney Robert Johnson said Sunday he did not know whether any criminal charges might apply. Levine said the shirt would be cleaned up and sent to the Jimmy Fund, a charity affiliated with Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Along with that, New York will send a Yankees Universe T-shirt, which is sold to benefit Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Hopefully the Jimmy Fund will auction it off and we'll take the act that was a very, very bad act and turn it into something beautiful," he said. AP NEWSThe Associated Press News Service

Word from the Nurses in the ICU at HUP say that The Cooker will be more Powerful than a Convection Oven in 90 Days...

...and Brother John has Generously donated his Clown Pal to entertain Michael for his remaining time @ HUP...this gesture should ensure that Michael will want to get the Hell out of HUP ASAP...! (PS...the above photo demonstrates The Cooker working @ 55% capacity...Watch out People and Be Warned ! his CAPACITY has now been Increased !...)

The Cooker

Today, Friday, Michael "The Cooker" is in HUP (Hospital U of Pennsylvania) completeing a 45 year prediction that one day he'd need a "valve operation". Keep him in your prayers, as I know you are anyway, he was anxious when I was with him Wednesday night. I think he was more worried about the feeling of claustrophibia he would have once he came out of surgery than he was about the operation itself. His personal coach, trainer, nutritionist, confidant and oh yeah, caring wife Mary assured him she would not allow him to pull anything out of his nose, throat or any other orifice that may have a tube in it. He had to be at HUP at 5:30 AM today. He didn't know exactly what time he'd be started on but was told that it was 1 to 1.5 hour preparation time before the actual surgery started. He found this out when he answered the doctor's question, "Do you know what to expect?" with "Yeah, I'll be alright as long as you keep the blood flowing to my brain." Doctor said, "Well not exactly. We lower your body temperature to 10 degrees so it slows your brain down and you don't need as much blood....." Michael being the serious fellow he is says, "Will you give me a blanket while you do that?" Never misses an opportunity for a joke. He was told the operation would be about 7 -8 hours, have 8 doctors, a squad of nurses and only the cardio surgeon himself would touch his heart. They are going to repair his mitral valve, replace his aortal valve and then take out a "bump", the medical term the doctor described it with, in his aorta and patch it with a dacron patch. Whew! The doctor said he'd feel like a truck ran him over for 7 to 10 days and then he'd gradually feel better and in 90 days he'd be 100%. He should be in the hospital for 7 days. Mary and the girls are going to be hanging out at the hospital all day and they'll let us know how things went when they can.

The Masters starts Today... to me, the first True sign of Spring.

The confirmation that Spring is here is the Kentucky Derby. Who do you think will Win..... THE MASTERS ?

Let's "FACE" It...we are not Tanners...

John last week, yours' truly this week...and they say it all happened before we were 15! We should have joined Dad under the umbrella in Long pants and a Jacket those 2 Times we went to the Beach !

How did this Happen ? My Grandaughter is a Britney Wannabe !

...and who is that Dude with her? A Bodyguard in a Diaper ?

And your daily consumption of Drugs is...?

It seems that every time I go to the Doctor I get another jar of Pills!

Pat the Bat has it SMOKING!...UPDATE...and now the Phils have beaten the Mets 9 straight times...!

Further Update....The Phils have now lost 2 straight to the METS! and J Ro is Hurt !

VOTE PETE INTO THE HALL !!! if you have a vote, vote Pete into the Hall !!!

Chuck Heston and a True Story

When I was about 17 and going to school dances there was a girl I danced with often (she always asked me). She used to say that I looked like Charlton Heston and I would just laugh. As I look back I believe she may have been right. Of course, although we danced quite frequently and my friends thought she had the Hots for me...I never asked her what her name was...I was so SMOOTH when I was younger...and I continue the Smoothness to this day! Just call me CHUCK !

RIP chuck

Your Tolerance of Pain...is it High or is it Low ?

More Hit Singles than Elvis & I Can't Name One of Them !

Viva La Diva! Mariah Carey's outrageous demands for a dog chauffeur, 100 pairs of shoes and a £1,000 throne