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All of the Wal-Marts across Alabama sold out of ammunition as of yesterday.

A reliable source said that one of the purchasers commented that while Russia may have invaded Georgia, they sure as heck ain’t doin’ it to Alabama.

Oh, c’mon. You know it’s just a joke!!

Ari to the Rescue

The resort owner’s 16 year old daughter, Ari, got a boat ready for rental. She gave the guys renting it the routine “how to” demo and pointers on running it. Then she went back to the gas dock and they loaded their fishing gear into the boat and got ready to head out. They cast off from the dock and then tried to start the boat. One guy kept pulling and pulling on the rope and the engine refused to start. The boat was slowly drifting out from the dock towards the logs that serve as the marina breakwater. The other guy tried his hand at starting it without any more luck. Ari saw that they had flooded the engine and ran back from the gas dock to the boat dock. She fired up another boat and buzzed around to the wayward boaters. By then the guys and their boat were lodged against the logs.

She hopped from her boat into theirs and set to work.

She took the cowling off the engine, poked it here and there and pulled the rope. The engine burst to life again, to the chagrin of the men.

She showed them again how to run it, then hopped back into her boat.

When they thanked her, she said, “When you’re the daughter of a master mechanic, you pick up a few tricks of the trade.”

Then she rode back to the dock, and the fishermen went on their way.

Now That’s Weird

Tonight was a nice quiet night.  Checked a few people in, sold some firewood and ice, nothing strange happened.  But I just had funny feeling something wasn’t right.  I told Richard and he asked not right how?  I couldn’t put my finger on it, just a feeling like an itch.  I made the rounds as usual, and nothing strange was happening.  But I just felt restless and couldn’t sit still.  When our friend the young deputy came up around 10:45, he said he’d hit a deer on Hwy 27 earlier in the evening.  Richard told him I’d had a feeling all night starting around 8:30.  That was when he had hit the deer.  He said that he had had a weird feeling earlier, before he came to work, that something was going to happen.  The damage to the pickup was minimal, and he wasn’t hurt at all.  But he had to write up a report, and take his injured truck to the shop and get a different one.  But it was just weird that I had that feeling of something not right.

Shane

Jenni sent us pictures of the ever adorable Shane and I just have to share them.

Here he is pretending the banana is a phone.

This is Shane the mechanic.

And this is the little boy who found his mommy’s powder.

Heat Wave

We had a four day heat wave here last week. It got up over 100 every day after we got back from the coast. Hot, hot, hot. So hot our air conditioner popped the circuit breaker. We are on 30 amp service here and to be able to use all our electric appliances we need 50 amp service. So we have to keep an eye on it and not run too much stuff at once — we can’t run the microwave or the water heater or the coffee pot or electric skillet when the air conditioner is on. We switched the refrigerator to LP during the heat wave. Yesterday things cooled off and a little thunderstorm rolled through. Now that its cooled back down, we put the fridge back on electric.

Sunday, a gal on her motorcycle turned the corner off the pavement and onto the gravel and it dumped her. Her husband ran over and helped her up. She was holding her right shoulder — turns out she broke her collarbone. They took her into town to the hospital and got her all fixed up. And here we thought we were going to get through the weekend without an injury.

mj