THURSDAYS ENTRY # TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FOURTY TWO

" Time is so precioue- please do not waste it"
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Good Morning .
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Thursday morning has arrived again, the days do pass quickly. I only have one more journal to post and then I will have my two days of rest, this schedule is working out real good for me.
. We are haveing some cold mornings, this morning the tempeature is 22 at 3 a.m. I am not trying to do very much outside work just a little bird feed and water, I can't forget my Wildlife Habitat, even if it is cold.
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Dad's Songbird and Roses Web Page
View this link above and see if I look Happy. Dad
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DAD'S FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
Do you like fried green tomatoes ? Dad does.
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Dad's Memoirs
You will enjoy reading about Dad from his birth.

Tea Time
This is to remind all of you tea drinkers that I don't forget you either. See? The tea is ready, I usualy begin to think about Sara, Misty and Oreo at Coffee time, why not at tea time, I hope that they are warm, and I am sure that they are, lets click Sara's Dog Training blog and see. DAD.
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( Note: Some of these Video's have changed since I published at 3 A.M. Dad )
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I think you will get a chuckle out of this video made by a 103 year old gentleman on the english spelling of words.
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This is without a doubt the best video that has come out and apparently 6 Million others think so too because there have been 6 million hits in 4 days. Please watch it again and again and send it on to others. I believe the pendulum has st.This is very well done.Sarted to swing so let's keep it going.
http://www.wimp.com/haspoint/
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I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG,OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH ITSTANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD,INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!.
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Turn on your sound. The video will advance on it's own.

This is too beautiful not to share.
Click below:
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The Seasons In Life
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Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #1
Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #2
Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #3
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Jennifer White's Blog
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John White's Blog...
Be sure that you make time to check on John and Jennifer today, you will enjoy them.
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Dad's Tomato Garden Web Page ..I have already told you about this link. Dad.
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Shooting My Universe
Starbucks Coffee
Tennessee Granddaddy
There's No Place Like Home
Tomato Casual. Read this and learn something new. DAD
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I want to come back in the morning if you will let me..I

I am sending Love and best wishes to all of my frirnds in 96 countries of this world. Yes that encludes you..

BYE BYE DAD
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WEDNESDAYS ENTRY # TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FOURTY ONE

Good Morning.
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I am wondering about you this wednesday morning, are you feeling good, and is your mood HAPPY, well I am happy and ready for another clean sheet, I hope that I can use it right.
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I am going to check on my 3 friends at Sara's Dog Training blog right now, I want to know how things are going with them, I especially want to know how that sweet girl Misty is feeling. Sara tell her that Dad loves her.
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The weather is sill very cold, we have an 18 low, so today is another poem reading day, and we can't find any better ones than these below by Edgar Guest.
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The Joys We Miss.
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Edgar Guest
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There never comes a lonely day but that we miss the laughing ways
Of those who used to walk with us through all our happy yesterdays.
We seldom miss the earthly great--the famous men that life has known--
But, as the years go racing by, we miss the friends we used to own.
The chair wherein he used to sit recalls the kindly father true
For, Oh, so filled with fun he was, and, Oh, so very much he knew!
And as we face the problems grave with which the years of life are filled.
We miss the hand which guided us and miss the voice forever stilled.
We little guessed how much he did to smooth our pathway day by day,
How much of joy he brought to us, how much of care he brushed away;
But now that we must tread alone the thorough-fare of life, we find
How many burdens we were spared by him who was so brave and kind.
Death robs the living, not the dead--they sweetly sleep whose tasks are done;
But we are weaker than before who still must live and labor on.
For when come care and grief to us, and heavy burdens bring us woe,
We miss the smiling, helpful friends on whom we leaned long years ago.
We miss the happy, tender ways of those who brought us mirth and cheer;
We never gather round the hearth but that we wish our friends were near;
For peace is born of simple things--a kindly word, a goodnight kiss,
The prattle of a babe, and love--these are the vanished joys we miss.
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It Couldn't Be Done.
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Edgar Guest
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Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it";
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.
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Thanks to Alberta Blackburn for this poem .

Jennifer White's Blog
John White's Blog.
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Be sure that you make time to check on John and Jennifer today, you will enjoy them.
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.Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #1
Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #2
Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #3
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.Dad's Tomato Garden Web Page .
This is a must read if you are planing on having a tomato garden this season. Many things that will be so helpful, please read this to the end. No charges for this just a smile is all .
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These and so many of your blogs have been a help in keeping me going on through the years , some of these were my friends from the begining, Several of my readers have thanked me for showing this. DAD
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Ally Lifewithally
4 days ago
HORSESHOE BEND 2
6 days ago
Life in a Small Town
16 hours ago
My Southern Home
8 months ago
My Take On Life
3 weeks ago
MYEVERYDAYLIFE
4 months ago
Not Just Roses
2 weeks ago
SandrasHappy Days
5 months ago
Serendipity
1 month ago
The Chicken Chronicles...Again
2 weeks ago
WHAT'S NEW AT MY HOUSE
18 hours ago
Wishing For My Turn
4 days ago.
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I am stopping right here, I feel that I have left some out that I was going to say, but this is more than enough anyway. It is to cold 21 degrees for me to be outside .so I will be around all day for updates
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I want to come back in the morning if you will let me.
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I am sending Love and best wishes to all of my frirnds in 96 countries of this world. Yes that encludes you.
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" Be Good "

BYE BYE DAD
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TUESDAYS ENTRY # TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FORTY

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Here is my first update this morning, it began snowing about an hour ago, and the ground is covered. Here is the funny part, Prince is sitting in the window looking out, and you know that this is the first snow that he has ever seen, He turns and looks at me as if to ask what is going on.
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'' Begin the day with God "
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Good Morning.
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I hope that all is well at your house this Tuesday morning, and that you are Happy and content, I like the poems of Edgar Guest very much, Here below are two for us to enjoy today. It is to cold to leave our warm house, so read poetry .Dad .
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Sofine's Edgar Guest Collection (1881-1959) Edgar A. Guest began his illustrious career in 1895 at the age of fourteen when his work first appeared the Detroit Free Press. His column was syndicated in over 300 newspapers, and he became known as "The Poet of the People."
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What I Call Living
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Edgar Guest
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The miser thinks he's living when he's hoarding up his gold;
The soldier calls it living when he's doing something bold;
The sailor thinks it living to be tossed upon the sea,
And upon this vital subject no two of us agree.
But I hold to the opinion, as I walk my way along,
That livings made of laughter and good-fellowship and song.
I wouldn't call it living always to be seeking gold,
To bank all the present gladness for the days when I'll be old.
I wouldn't call it living to spend all my strength for fame,
And forgo the many pleasures which to-day are mine to claim.
I wouldn't for the splendor of the world set out to roam,
And forsake my laughing children and the peace I know at home.
Oh, the thing that I call living isn't gold or fame at all!
It's good-fellowship and sunshine, and it's roses by the wall;
It's evenings glad with music and a hearth fire that's ablaze,
And the joys which come to mortals in a thousand different ways.
It is laughter and contentment and the struggle for a goal;
It is everything that's needful in the shaping of a soul.
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God Made This Day For Me

Edgar Guest
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Jes' the sort o' weather and jes' the sort of sky
Which seem to suit my fancy, with the white clouds driftin' by
On a sea o' smooth blue water. Oh, I ain't an egotist,
With an "I" in all my thinkin', but I'm willin' to insist
That the Lord who made us humans an' the birds in every tree
Knows my special sort o' weather an' he made this day fer me.
This is jes' my style o' weather--sunshine floodin' all the place,
An' the breezes from the eastward blowin' gently on my face;
An' the woods chock full o' singin' till you'd think birds never had
A single care to fret 'em or a grief to make 'em sad.
Oh, I settle down contented in the shadow of a tree,
An' tell myself right proudly that the day was made fer me.
It's my day, my sky an' sunshine, an' the temper o' the breeze--
Here's the weather I would fashion could I run things as I please:
Beauty dancin' all around me, music ringin' everywhere,
Like a weddin' celebration--why, I've plumb fergot my care
An' the tasks I should be doin' fer the rainy days to be,
While I'm huggin' the delusion that God made this day fer me.
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This poem above does not fit in with this weather that we are having,I like the poem anyway. It is cold here this morning 22 degrees at 3 a.m. and a high of only 32 expected, how can you even talk about tomatoes in weather like that, but I can talk about smiles I try to produce them as well as tomatoes.
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. I am having a cup of Sumatra x bold coffee, and I know that 3 a.m. is to early to offer you a cup, I will be making more later, I was think about Sara, Misty and Oreo, I don't know what the tempeature is at Sara's Dog Training blog I am sure that it is lower than ours. I am not worried I know Sara well enough to know that she would not let them get cold. DAD.
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Jennifer White's Blog

John White's Blog
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Be sure that you make time to check on John and Jennifer today, you will enjoy them. DAD.
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Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #1
Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #2
Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #3
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Dad's Smile Album
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Dad's Tomato Garden Web Page .. This is a must read if you are planing on having a tomato garden this year. Dad.
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BLOGS below that are good to read among others that I have. DAD.
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Ally Lifewithally
3 days ago
HORSESHOE BEND 2
5 days ago
Life in a Small Town
19 hours ago
My Southern Home
8 months ago
My Take On Life
3 weeks ago
MYEVERYDAYLIFE
4 months ago
Not Just Roses
2 weeks ago
SandrasHappy Days
5 months ago
Serendipity
1 month ago
The Chicken Chronicles...Again
1 week ago
WHAT'S NEW AT MY HOUSE
19 hours ago
Wishing For My Turn
4 days ago

This is all for this morning, but as usual I will be around close for updates, it's to cold for Dad to go outside. If you will come back here in the morning I will be here if God spares my life another day.
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Sending love and best wishes all around the world.
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" The sun never sets on Dad's Tomato Garden Journal.Com ". ....
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" So I think I know the secret,
Learned from many a troubled way .
You must seek him in the morning,
If you want him through the day."

BYE BYE DAD
© 2010 all rights reserved ... Dad's Tomato Garden Journal. Com.

MONDAYS ENTRY # TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED THIRTY NINE

Good Morning

" Time is so precious-do not waste a minute of it, time lost will never come again".

I am so happy that Monday has finally come, now I will be with you for 5 days, It seem so long since I have talked with you and I have a lot of catching up to do, like a good cup of that Sumatra x bold coffee that Joan and I like so much. And then I am anxious to find out about Sara, Misty and Oreo, yes I remembered how to get there without looking it up, I will always remember this link Sara's Dog Training blog and I always get a big smile when I go there. DAD

Myself

I have to live with myself, and so, I want to be fit for myself to know. I want to be able as days go by Always to look myself straight in the eye. I don't want to stand, with the setting sun And hate myself for things I have done.

I don't want to keep on a closet shelf A lot of secrets about myself And fool myself, as I come and go Into thinking that nobody else will know The kind of man I really am, I don't want to dress up myself in sham.

I want to go out with my head erect. I want to deserve all men's respect; But here in the struggle for fame and pelf, I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show.

I can never hide myself from me; I see what others may never see; I know what others may never know. I never can fool myself, and so, Whatever happens, I want to be, Self-respecting and conscience free. By Edgar A. Guest

"And should my soul be torn with grief, Upon my shelf I find A little volume, torn and thumbed, For comfort just designed. I take my little Bible down And read its pages o'er, And when I part from it I find I'm stronger than before. " By Edgar A. Guest.

Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #1

Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #2

Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #3

Ecobirder
Glen in Australia
Great Smoky Mountains Web Cam
It Ain't Easy Bein' Green

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Jennifer White's Blog
John White's Blog

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LEARN BIRD SONGS
Let's Live and Learn Together
Sara's Dog Training
Shooting My Universe
Starbucks Coffee
Tennessee Granddaddy
There's No Place Like Home
Tomato Casual

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Today..12/06/10 ..Cloudy with snow showers. Cold. High 1C. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph.
Variably cloudy with light snow flurries possible. Cold. High near 35F. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph.

I think that it is about time to slow down for right now, I have more that I did not get in, but I will be close to the office today and I will as usual be stopping in to add updates. O, I am so happy to be back on this Monday, and please look for me for the next 4 days.

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Here is a little joke, don't laugh yet, I am not as good a joke teller as Jim.

This man owed a lot of people and the collectors were after him ever day, he became upset with all this calling, so this is what he told one collector," This is the way that I decide who that I am going to pay this month, I write a note with everyone's name and amount on it and put them in a hat, then draw one out and that is the one that I pay that month, and if you don't stop bothering me I am going to stop putting your name in the hat. ( Wasted ink )

I have enjoyed visiting with you this Monday morning, and if you will let me I would like to knock on your door on Tuesday morning.

I think that I can have a smile for you.

My Mood for today is Happy.

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Sending love and best wishes all around the world.

" The sun never sets on Dad's Tomato Garden Journal.Com "
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BYE BYE DAD
© 2010 all rights reserved

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FRIDAYS ENTRY # TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT

Update--5:14 p.m. Friday, -- Jim is home and doing wonderfully, thanks all of you for your interest. DAD
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Good Morning.
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" Time is so precious-do not waste a minuet of it, time lost will never come again"
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"MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAILED IN LIFE ARE THOSE THAT DID NOT REALIZE HOW CLOSE THEY WERE TO SUCCESS WHEN THEY GAVE UP." -
. THOMAS EDISON
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This is Jennifer White’s web site: http://misshistoricjonesborough2011.blogspot.com/She's Miss Historic Jonesborough 2011, and she will be competing for Miss Tennessee 2011.
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This is John White’s web site: http://jfk50.blogspot.com/It’s about John F Kennedy, 50 years after his death.
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Up above on the right side in the panel I say that I started this journal for the sole purpose of helping you produce tomatoes, but I was thinking yesterday that it is too cold to say very much about tomatoes, but I also produce smiles, and it never gets too cold for that, so relax and you give me a big smile on this Friday morning. DAD. .
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I am glad that this is Friday and that I have now published my 5 journal entries. Now I can rest 2 days with you, there is plenty that we can do, look at some of the back journals or visit my side panel.
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Sara there is something that I would like for you to do for me, I am going right now to your Sara's Dog Training blog and be sure that you three are O,K. Then be sure and tell Misty and Oreo that I won't be back until Monday, Dad .
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Ecobirder
Glen in Australia
Great Smoky Mountains Web Cam
It Ain't Easy Bein' Green
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Jennifer White's Blog
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John White's Blog
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LEARN BIRD SONGS
Let's Live and Learn Together

Sara's Dog Training
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Shooting My Universe
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Starbucks Coffee
Tennessee Granddaddy Jim is going home today, Dad
There's No Place Like Home
Tomato Casual
Weather
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Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #1
Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #2
Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #3
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I have enjoyed visiting with you this Friday morning, and if you will let me I would like to knock on your door on Monday morning. I think that I can have a smile.

Sending love and best wishes all around the world.

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" The sun never sets on Dad's Tomato Garden Journal.Com "

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.BYE BYE DAD

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THURSDAYS ENTRY # TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED THIRTY NINE

" Love thy neighbor as thyself' ''

Good Morning

Time is so precious-do not waste any of it
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I feel that I have wasted a lot of my time in just living for myself, and not think of others as I should. Dad.
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I am feeling good again this thursday morning, and I am wondering about all of you, I know that this is the most busy and strainful time of the year and it is so easy to get caught up in it, but we must take time to stop and relax when we can.

This is Jennifer White’s web site: http://misshistoricjonesborough2011.blogspot.com/
She's Miss Historic Jonesborough 2011, and she will be competing for Miss Tennessee 2011.

This is John White’s web site: http://jfk50.blogspot.com/
It’s about John F Kennedy, 50 years after his death.

I am always in the need of some of that good Starbucks Sumatra x bold coffee and I have got in the habit of checking on Sara, Misty, and Oreo at that time, don't you think that both of those thing are good, lets click on Sara's Dog Training blog and find out what we want to know. Thanks Sara for being there. Dad

I don't know how anyone can have so much patience to do such detail work with "toothpicks". Amazing!

Maybe your granddaughter can visit him in Syracuse, NY and watch him work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4kyixXKymw

He was interviewed by a Rochester News Station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Vu2no949c
Sent to me by Joan,

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Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #1
Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #2
Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #3

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Dad's Smile Album
Dad's Songbird and Rose Garden

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Dad's Tomato Garden Photo Album-2008
Dad's Tomato Garden Photo Album-2009 .

Ecobirder
Glen in Australia
Great Smoky Mountains Web Cam
It Ain't Easy Bein' Green
LEARN BIRD SONGS
Let's Live and Learn Together
Sara's Dog Training

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Shooting My Universe
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Starbucks Coffee
Tennessee Granddaddy

Tomato Casual

Dad's Tomato Garden Web Page. This is the one that Dad reccomends and says that it will be of help.

It is time to be getting away from here, but as usual not very far, always avaiable for any thing new that come in. Such as updates.

.We enjoyed our wednesday night bible study, and we do feel that we receive some much needed help.
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I have enjoyed visiting with you this morning, and if you will let me I would like to knock on your door on friday morning.

Sending love and best wishes all around the world.

" The sun never sets on Dad's Tomato Garden Journal "

.BYE BYE DAD
© 2010 all rights reserved. Dad's Tomato Garden.com.

WEDNESDAYS ENTEY # TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT

As I was looking over Kelly's blog yesterday I found these two Llams and you know that I like Llams. Without asking I decided to use them today. I knew that Kelly would want me too do that . Kelly would you send me the names of them and a little something about them. I would like to know more. Kelly we have been friends for serval years, and we did enjoy a vist to your house not long ago. DAD

'' Live for others every day, 'tis the true the better way"
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Good Morning
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I have used this poem before but with all that has happened in the last few days it seemed good to read it again.
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PRAYER.
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I met God in the morning,
When my day was at its best;
And his presence came like sunrise,
With a glory in my breast.

All day long the Presence lingered,
All day long he stayed with me;
And we sailed in perfect calmness,
O'er a very troubled sea.

Other ships were blown and battered,
Other ships were sore distressed,
But the wind that seemed to drive them,
Brought to us both peace and rest.

Then I thought of other mornings,
With a keen remorse of mind,
When I , too, had loosed the moorings,
With the Presence left behind.

So I think I know the secret,
Learned from many a troubled way .
You must seek him in the morning,
If you want him through the day.

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Good Morning Sara, I would like to come see my friends a little early this morning if it is alright with you, we are having guest today and there are a few things for me to do. So I am going to click Sara's Dog Training blog and see what you can tell me, I hope that you three are doing good. If you can tell me I would like to know about Misty, I worry about her, I love her, give her a hug from Dad.

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I want to be sure that I get these 3 Cams. in and that they are working good because I have lots to show you now and a great deal more when spring arrives.

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Dad's Tomato Garden Web Page ..This is good, DAD said so.

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Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #1
Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #2
Dad's Outdoor Web Cam #3.

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Ecobirder
Glen in Australia
Great Smoky Mountains Web Cam
It Ain't Easy Bein' Green
LEARN BIRD SONGS
Let's Live and Learn Together
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Shooting My Universe
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Starbucks Coffee
Tennessee Granddaddy
There's No Place Like Home
Tomato Casual

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Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers."..

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http://weather.aol.com/forecast/todays/usa/tennessee/knoxville/id/37920 ....The link above will give you our local weather report.

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This link above will give your local weather if you will use your address.

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Today,12/01/10
Times of sun and clouds. Colder. High 5C. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph.
Intervals of clouds and sunshine. Colder. High 42F. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph.

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I want to tell you about our rain yesterday, from the time I began working untill 6 P.M. yesterday 2.01 inches had come down. My garden spot was covered with water.

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I hope that you are feeling as good as I am this morning, what is your Mood ? mine is Happy and I know that yours is the same, we want to relax today, leave all our troubles behind us. DAD

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This will be more than enough for this day from me, if you need Mr Side panel he is right over there on your right.

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I do want to come back in the morning, and as usual I will be stoping in during the day for updates. Jim is doing good, I talked to him at the hospital last night.

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I am sending Love and best wishel to all the world.

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So I think I know the secret,Learned from many a troubled way .You must seek him in the morning,If you want him through the day.

BYE BYE DAD

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