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Cold in Georgia
Posted by Maggie on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 | No Comments
It is freezing cold here in Georgia today. Last night, the low was 18 degrees with a wind chill of 8 degrees. The DOT has been busy in Atlanta where many main water pipes froze and burst.
It made me shiver to see the crews wading in the icy water trying to repair the pipe lines. As the pipes were repaired, the DOT had to put salt and sand on the roads to prevent automobile accidents.
My heart goes out to those who have to work in bad weather and also to so very many who have such little heat to keep from freezing to death. I do pray there was room at shelters for all who came seeking help.
Old Time Christmas
Posted by Maggie on Friday, December 25, 2009 | No Comments
'Twas the night before Christmas & out on the ranch
The pond was froze over & so was the branch.
The snow was piled up belly-deep to a mule.
The kids were all home on vacation from school,
And happier young folks you never did see-
Just all sprawled around a-watchin' TV.
Then suddenly, sometime around 8 o'clock,
There came a surprise that gave them a shock!
The power went off, the TV went dead,
When Grandpa came in from out in the shed..
With an armload of wood, the house was all dark.
"Just what I expected," they heard him remark.
"Them power line wires must be down from the snow.
Seems sorter like times on the ranch long ago."
"I'll hunt up some candles," said Mom. "With their light,
And the fireplace, I reckon we'll make out all right."
The teen-agers all seemed enveloped in gloom.
Then Grandpa came back from a trip to his room,
Uncased his old fiddle & started to play
That old Christmas song about bells on a sleigh.
Mom started to sing, & 1st thing they knew
Both Pop & the kids were all singing it, too.
They sang Christmas carols, they sang "Holy Night,"
Their eyes all a-shine in the ruddy firelight.
They played some charades Mom recalled from her youth,
And Pop read a passage from God's Book of Truth.
They stayed up till midnight-and, would you believe,
The youngsters agreed 'twas a fine Christmas Eve.
Grandpa rose early, some time before dawn;
And when the kids wakened, the power was on..
"The power company sure got the line repaired quick,"
Said Grandpa - & no one suspected his trick.
Last night, for the sake of some old-fashioned fun,
He had pulled the main switch - the old Son-of-a-Gun!
-anonymous
Sandra Day O`Connor
Posted by Maggie on Monday, September 21, 2009 | No Comments
It was on this day in 1981 - 28 years ago - that the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sandra Day O'Connor, making her the nation's first female Supreme Court justice. The confirmation vote was unanimous, 99-0, and she took the bench four days later, on September 25.
She was nominated on July 7 by President Reagan, who'd promised in his 1980 campaign that he would appoint a woman to the court.
Sandra Day O'Connor went to law school at Stanford, graduating third in her class - the very same class in which future Chief Justice William Rehnquist graduated first. While at Stanford Law, the two future justices dated briefly. In 1993, a dozen years after O'Connor's appointment, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (appointed by Clinton) became the second female Supreme Court justice.
Thought for Today
Posted by Maggie on Saturday, September 19, 2009 | No Comments
"The colors of autumn's rainbow,Are like friends in your time of need,It's nice when they wander by."
©Steve & Becca
