Your Doctor Would Never Recommend This

In preparation for Super Bowl Sunday, the airwaves have been inundated with recipes to please the crowds gathered at our homes for eating and watching football. This morning Good Morning America had a recipe for Bacon Explosion ! These are the ingredients: 2 pounds thick cut bacon, 2 pounds Italian sausage, 1 jar barbeque sauce and 1 jar barbeque rub.

Directions include an elaborate task of weaving bacon strips together to form a casing, then frying more bacon to put inside , then rolling sausage into a roll, then cooking on a grill for about 2.5 hours. If you live through smelling the fumes from the cooking, I'm pretty sure you would not make it through the eating without clogging every single vein in your body. I think they should rename it Weapons of Mass Consumption!

Did You Hear the One About ??? - - - -

Edgar and Nina Otto of West Boca, Florida, just spent $155,000.00 to clone their dead dog!

Let me begin by saying I am a "dog person". Have owned many dogs, prefer dogs to cats as pets, have adopted dogs from shelters, have fed stray dogs, have "dog-sat" for people who went out of town and needed their pets cared for, and would never in this world do anything to harm a dog --- but dropping $155,000 smackers in order to get another dog just like the one you had is "over the top" in my opinion.

Last time I adopted a shelter dog it cost me $50 so assuming one can be adopted for about the same amount now, Edgar could have gotten 3100 dogs for the same amount of money. Oh yeah, and he already has 9 other dogs so it ain't like he is lacking for dog-panionship.

Just when I think I have seen or heard it all - - - something like this comes along to blow my mind!

Proud Grandparent . . .

I thought for many years of my life that there was very little to compare to the pride I felt when my children accomplished their goals and fulfilled their dreams. I still have that but now realize that the same feelings are there when my grandchildren achieve those things in life for which they have worked so hard.

This weekend, my granddaughter Kristen, was offered a full tuition music scholarship to University of Alabama and she is only a junior in high school. And my grandson Will who is attending Auburn University on a golf scholarship received a letter stating that he had been named to the Dean's List for academic excellence his first semester there.

Congratulations, Kristen and Will! I could not possibly be more proud and I could not possibly love you more!

January 15th is an Important Day. . . .

January 15, 1559 - Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England
January 15, 1870 - The democratic donkey made its debut in Harper's Weekly
January 15, 1892 - The 13 rules of basketball were established and published.
January 15, 1908 - Edward Teller was born and became the architect of the hydrogen bomb.
January 15, 1967 - The Green Bay Packers won the first Super Bowl, led by Bart Starr.
January 15, 1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader was born.
January 15, 1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, was dedicated.
January 15, 1974 - "Happy Days" premiered on television.
January 15, 1940 - Sara Isbell was born and ushered in the largest snowstorm ever recorded in
Fort Payne, Alabama, measuring an official accumulation of 18".

It's Those Side Effects Again. . .

The drug Fosamax, used in the treatment of Osteoporosis, has now been linked to 23 cases of esophageal cancer and also linked to a condition known as osteonecrosis in which the bone of the jaw dies off. But it may help your osteoporosis!

I know you have all read and heard the warnings of almost every drug on the market: "Take this and it will help your shoulder pain but it may cause rectal bleeding, oozing open sores, impotency, and blindness but you can count on it to help shoulder pain."

A recent magazine I received had one page of advertisement for some drug followed by four pages of side effects which may occur if you take it.

I think I have a handle on all that stuff. I do not take one single pill of any kind. I may be just a disease waiting to happen but the way I look at it, I would rather die from the thing that kills me than from the pills I took to cure it!