Florida Rescued Dogs: Soldier Saves Dog In Iraq

Florida Rescued Dogs: Soldier Saves Dog In Iraq

Israel Matzav: Outrageous! Israel trades 20 terrorists for a video

Israel Matzav: Outrageous! Israel trades 20 terrorists for a video

Would You Have Been Able To Do This?

In Wisconsin a customer saw a masked bank robber and jumped on the suspect's back and stopped him.  Customer's jumped in and assisted her husband by kicking the robber.  I wonder how many of the rest of us could have done this heroic deed?

You can see this by clicking the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0CYd91eg2g

Texting Can Be Deadly

This is the reality of texting and driving. Video was made as a public service announcement in Great Britain. It says it all.

DO NOT TEXT AND DRIVE. Watch the video. Click on "comments" below. Let me know what you think. I look forward to reading your comments.

The Big Band Years

Public Television had been showing "The Big Band Years" on occasion and I love listening and watching the program. That's my kind of music -- from my pre-teen years. I was delighted to find this YouTube Video of Tex Beneke with the Glen Miller
Orchestra. This is one of my favorites -- Chattanooga Choo Choo.


I hope you enjoy it as well. Please leave me your comments. I'd like to know what the younger generations think about music from the 1940's.  And I would also like to hear from my generation as well. Are any of you out there? I hope so.  Click on "comments " below and let me know what you think.  I look forward to reading your comments.

End of Summer

Now, I don't know if anyone else would agree with me but I see the 4th of July as the beginning of the end of summer. Summer seems to start May and ends abruptly at the beginning of September. From Independence day to September time just runs at Mach 2 or Mach 3. I love summer but there is never enough of it. I need long days and short nights to energize myself. If I had the money I would divide my time between the North and South hemispheres.

Holiday Weekend

Our 4th of July holiday weekend begins tonight--Thursday, July 2. Tomorrow, I believe, is a federal holiday as the 4th falls on a Saturday. When I was younger this was the best weekend of the entire year. It was always a big holiday for my family. My father's birthday was the 4 of July and I had always (up to a certain age, of course) that the holiday celebrated him. It seemed only natural and appropriate. I still always thinkI of him on that day even though he hs been gone for a long while.

I remember one 4th in Massachusetts --summer was always best in New England--rowing out on the lake while rockets and flares exploded overhead. A few neighbors were firing rifles into the air also while my cousin, Arnold, frantically tried to call me back to shore, afraid that i might get hit by a falling round. I saw no danger but Arnold recently back from World War II had more respect for firearms than I did at the time. So many years ago, and I have no idea why that memory comes back to me so clearly every year.

Summers aren't the same in warm climates. There is not rain here in California. There was no rain dring the decades I lived in Israel. Almost the same clmate as here. I so miss the summers in the North East--the fresh clean smell after a summer rain, the thunder and lightnng--my favorite weather. Can't complain about the warm winters though. Been living in warm climes for some many years that I can no longer bear cold weather. Global warming may change all this and probably will --but how? and when?