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But By the Grace of GOD

Greetings from the luckiest girl I know!

Cleanup continues one flower bed at a time. Looks a little tidier.

And brighter!

This just in: Dirtsister just inherited millions!

While traveling I use the yahoo portal to access email and love the spam filtering feature. But I would have missed this gem in the mailbox today from Mrs. Hannah Jack Williams a complete stranger who found my profile on the internet! Read on….

Good Day,

My name is Mrs.Hannah Jack Williams I am a dying woman who has decided to donate what I have to charity through you.You may be wondering why I chose you.
But someone has to be chosen having gone through your profile on the internet.I am 59 years old and was diagnosed for cancer about 2 years ago,after the death of my husband who had left me everything he worked for.I have been touched by the Lord to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to charity through you for the good work of humanity,rather than allow my relatives to use my husband’s hard earned funds inappropriately.

Please pray that the good Lord forgive me my sins. I have asked God to forgive me and I believe he has because He is a merciful God.

I will be going in for an operation tomorrow morning I decided to WILL/donate the sum of $3,500,000(Three million five hundred thousand dollars) to you/Organization for the good work of the lord, and also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows according to (JAMES 1:27).

At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the fact that my relatives are around me and my health status.I have adjusted my WILL and my Executor is aware I have changed my will,you and him will arrange the transfer of the funds from the Private Finance company to your humble self.This decision was taking after going through your personal profile. I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly,Please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others.Contact my Executor with this specified Email:

with your full names, contact telephone/fax number and your full address and tell him that I have WILLED($3,500,000.00) to you and I have also notified him that I have WILL-IN that amount to you for a specific and good work.Thanks and God bless.

NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as I dont want anything that will Jeopardize my last wish.And also I will be contacting with you by email as I don’t want my relation or anybody to know because they are always around me.

Regards,

Mrs.Hannah Jack Williams

Today’s Tip: If it seems to good to be true…….

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Great Moments in Television

Greetings!

A moment of silence for the passing of a great mind…

Inventor of the TV remote dies

By SHANNON DININNY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

BOISE, Idaho — Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote has died.

Robert Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made couch potatoship possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday.

In his six-decade career with Zenith, Adler was a prolific inventor, earning more than 180 U.S. patents. He was best known for his 1956 Zenith Space Command remote control, which helped make TV a truly sedentary pastime.

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded Adler and co-inventor Polley, another Zenith engineer, an Emmy in 1997 for the landmark invention.

Adler joined Zenith’s research division in 1941 after earning a doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna. He retired as research vice president in 1979, and served as a technical consultant until 1999, when Zenith merged with LG Electronics Inc.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published his most recent patent application, for advances in touch screen technology, on Feb. 1.

Adler is survived by his wife, Ingrid.

Then, a bit of weird news:

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Police called to a Long Island man’s house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set. The 70-year-old Hampton Bays, New York, resident, identified as Vincenzo Ricardo, appeared to have died of natural causes. Police said on Saturday his body was discovered on Thursday when they were called to the house over a burst water pipe.

“You could see his face. He still had hair on his head,” Newsday quoted morgue assistant Jeff Bacchus as saying. The home’s low humidity had preserved the body.

Officials could not explain why the electricity had not been turned off, considering Ricardo had not been heard from since December 2005. Neighbors said when they had not seen Ricardo, who was diabetic and had been blind for years, they assumed he was in the hospital or a long-term care facility.

Todays Tip for better living: Laugh so hard you wet your pants!

Crossing Over

Greetings!

Do you believe in psychics? Today on Oprah, she hosted John Edward and Allison DuBois and Oprah seemed skeptical. There were some interesting theories on how these mediums receive messages from “the other side”. Quantum physics, vibrations and frequencies, things that make you go hmm-mmm.

Regarding crossing over, we had an interesting conversation with members of the Hummingbird Medicine Band, Southeastern Cherokee Council regarding their funeral rituals. They refer to the deceased as “travelers” and believe that after the spirit is released from the body, it remains in nature. It’s considered disrespectful to mention the name of the deceased for a year after the “journey” has begun.

Architecturally speaking of spirits leaving the body, here’s an interesting site on abandoned buildings.

Observation: We’ve noticed several clients who willingly fork over their credit card information, but are reluctant to give out their email address for tracking info.
Tip for better living: Forecast the Future.

Winter Whiteout

Greetings and Happy Valentine’s Day!

Here’s a couple of items we’ve learned this week:

Naps can save your life.

When you look into someone’s eyes (the pupils) you can see their brain.

Red, truly is a power color, symbolizing good, evil, and wealth. In China, brides wear red because white is the color of death and mourning. Red is the color of the Catholic church. Satan is known to appear in red. The Spanish Empire had the monopoly on the color red, creating the dye from the a small red producing insect found in South America.

We study color in the garden. Aristotle declared that the colors of the world were created where darkness and light met, and that the simple colors are the colors of the elements: fire, air, water, and earth.

Regarding urns, our research indicates that blue is still America’s favorite color. Many women are fond of purple. And for the naturalists, Wood is Good.

We are happy to report that we were able to assist a family in California and save them several hundred dollars on their urn selection. Same urn at the funeral home was $675.00. Makes me question my prices.

The mortuary actually had this urn in stock. Many of the funeral homes we deal with stock samples or work from catalogs and carry a very limited supply of expensive urns. When asked the question, do your cremation families make an urn purchase at the funeral home? Guess what the answer is.

Today’s tip for better living: Go deep.