Photo of the Week...FORE!!!

At the Women's Australia Open... Karrie Webb on the Tee!

Home Made Bird Feeders

Drill a number of 1 inch holes in a log & fill them with Skippy Extra Chunky. Birds love it. Problem is, squirrels also love it. We shall see how this works out.

Team Coco

If you feel like it, watch the Conan O'Brien show tonight on TBS (Very Funny). I'll be in the audience, might wear a McKendry Brothers T-Shirt.

Michael is the "Social Media" person for the BMs...he Posts on Facebook

But...he has no "visual aids" attached to his Posts!  I just sent him an email @ mckendrybrothers.com to suggest that these two visual aids be attached to his future Posts. (I have more)

I will let you know if, when & how he responds to the email...

Just in case any younger people should happen to view the Blog

Garlic & Chicken Soup

I was with my Big Sis today. I kissed her Hello and then she showed me how to make Chicken Soup. It was pretty easy. Through the same process you can also make Beef Stew, a Mexican dish or something even more Exotic...I brought a bunch of the chicken soup home & Maureen Gulped it down.

• Timmy would not try any cause the Soup had spinach in it (go figure)

Anyway, my Big Sis was telling me that she had 2 pieces of Pizza the night before & that unknown to her they had Garlic on them! It was Mike H's birthday bash. She tossed and turned all night/finally got up for good @3AM/went to her basement & re-arranged old paint cans on the shelves! Then vacuumed the kitchen floor.

She blamed her Bizarre behavior on the Garlic. I agreed with her...Garlic does not like my Big Sister nor  does it like Me!

• Do you like Garlic?

By the way, when I kissed her hello? I smelled Garlic on her breath...

I frequent the local library

When I was in there on Tuesday I asked them if I could donate some videos that I have. Some are standard fare & others' are Blue Ray. They told me that I would have to go to the Township Building and fill out a "back-ground check" form...

• I told them, "thank you very much"  left, went home and threw the videos in the trash

People send me stuff. 1968 was a tumultuous year. Have you ever been to The Wall in Washington, DC?

The Wall ( Viet Nam )

A little history most people will never know.

 Interesting Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall

 There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.

 The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.

 The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth , Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.

 There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.

 39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.

 8,283 were just 19 years old.

 The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.

12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.

 5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.

 One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.

 997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam ..

1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam ..

 31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.

 Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.

 54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia . I wonder why so many from one school.

8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.

244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.

  Beallsville , Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.

  West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.

 The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest . And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.

 The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam . In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Ken nedy's assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

 The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths.

 The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415 casualties were incurred.

 For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters. There are no noble wars, just noble warriors.

And you thought Sharks were scary!

The loveable little Seal in action...

"In more than 2,000 expeditions working with sharks over the last 21 years, this is the only time I have ever seen a seal kill several sharks and I can find no record of such an event happening elsewhere." Chris Fallows said.

Two Super Bowl questions... Who was Joe Flacco's coach at Pittsburgh & what is Tyler Plako doing now?

Joe Flocco vs West Chester University - 2007

In 2003, Flacco was redshirted as a freshman for a team that went 8-5.

In 2004, he was the backup quarterback finding limited playing time behind starter Tyler Palko. He only saw action in three games against Ohio University, University of Nebraska, and theUniversity of South Florida. He finished the season with one completion for 11 yards.

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