A ruined vacation?

Just read a story that would appropriately fit into a folder called "Troubles".

Personally I believe that in many events in a persons life things happen "for a reason". This is what I remind myself of when things happen that make me just want to say "CRAP!"...like when a train is blocking the road when I'm really running late already, or when the car won't start, or a deal falls through.

Wish that I had a collection of all the times in my life something altered my path, and how hard or rough it made things for me but in the long run I was able to realize the blessing in it. Keep events like this in mind next time it just seems like a wash....

Man presumed dead in 1976 Colo. flood found alive

Sun Aug 3, 9:48 PM ET

A man believed to have died in a Colorado flood in 1976 has been found living in Oklahoma.

Sixty-three-year-old Darrell Johnson told the Fort Collins Coloradoan for a story Friday that he didn't know he had been counted among the 144 victims of the Big Thompson Canyon flood until a resident called him last year.

Barb Anderson said residents didn't want his name on a memorial plaque without proof he was dead.

Johnson and his family had decided to leave their shabby cabin the morning of the flood after just one night. A few hours later, the resort was washed away.

How Johnson ended up on the victims list remains a mystery.

He now directs funerals in Oklahoma City and acknowledges he was lucky to get the bad cabin.

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Information from: Fort Collins Coloradoan, http://www.coloradoan.com

Ok cut it out now.

This thermometer is in the shade on the porch, about 330pm.

Pig in a poke

Having recently acquired experience buying and selling thru an online auction, I think of when I was a kid wanting to buy my paternal grandpa's old station wagon since he didn't use it. A fair market value at that time was about 500. I asked him what he would think if a guy were to offer him 500 for it. Playing it out non-nonchalant trying to get a fair price that I thought was within my grasp but not wanting him to cut me slack cause I was a grandson. LOL...later figured out that might have driven the price up. Anyhow his response " I'd think he was a da*& fool". kinda stopped that pursuit. I figured he knew the product better than I did.

My opinion of selling or buying thru online auction with merely a picture and description is that there are probably alot of people out there on the selling side, or even as experienced buyers..watching sales go on thinking...that bidder would have to be...to pay that price. Bidding on something you don't know much about..even its cost if you bought it from a retail store...is summed up in one phrase, and I checked wikipedia to see it's take on the idiom, they did...


Pig-in-a-poke is an idiom that refers to a confidence trick originating in the Late Middle Ages, when meat was scarce but apparently rats and cats were not.

The scheme entailed the sale of a "suckling pig" in a "poke" (bag). The wriggling bag actually contained a cat—not particularly prized as a source of meat—that was sold unopened to the victim.

A common colloquial expression in the English language, to "buy a pig in a poke," is to make a risky purchase without inspecting the item beforehand. The phrase can also be applied to accepting an idea or plan without a full understanding of its basis. Similar expressions exist in other languages, most of them meaning to buy a cat in a bag,

If I you could hear God singing...

I've heard it said that when the Bible is properly comprehended man can see that it is the greatest love letter of all time, where event after event, page after page, era after era...there is a very visible love in God's heart for mankind.

I love the way this youtube video is done, its message overall is similar to the song I "hear" when I listen to God with my spirit.