Holiday Cat Cuteness

Okay, so I haven't posted much over the holidays. Tough time for me minus the kitties, but I just couldn't resist posting this.

 

I mean, does it get any cuter ??

 

 

Loved this so much I had to post it, absolutely true !

Will Technology Replace Thinking?

• Created on Friday, October 4th, 2013
• Written by Kirk Douglas

--Huntington Post, October 3, 2013

When you get to be 96 years of age the road ahead is short, so you look back at the road you have traveled for almost 100 years.

The first thing you come up against is technology. One night we took our grandchildren out for dinner. I looked around the table. Jason, the youngest, was playing games with his cellphone; Ryan, 12 years old, had his head under the table and I assumed he was watching his cellphone; Tyler, 16, and his sister Kelsey, 18, were both involved on their cellphones too. Lisa, their mother, was frantically searching in her purse for her ringing cellphone; and Peter, their father, was leaning back, laughing loudly, on his cellphone. I looked across the table at my wife. We both shrugged.

Outside is worse. People walking down the streets, holding objects against their ears, either listening or talking. When they're speaking it looks like they're just crazy people talking to themselves. They cross the road without looking, still talking, and people driving their cars are doing the same thing. Is what they're saying really that important?

I don't have a cellphone. I don't want one. But my wife secretly had a computer installed in my room. They taught me how to play Spider Solitaire. I quickly became an addict -- just solitaire, nothing else. I don't press any other keys because I'm sure it would cause an explosion.

What will become of our world in the next 100 years? Will our children and grandchildren even learn how to write or spell? Will technology replace thinking?

I just realized that you're probably reading this on your computer or on your cellphone while you're driving or crossing the street.

Watch where you're going!

And May the Animals Be Remembered Too

REMEMBERANCE DAY -LEST WE FORGET

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!

Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields

The Fall Guy...

 

Pretty much feel this way about Fall, but happy new season anyway!

Inspiration on a Monday

An article about these parents caught my eye today...the embodiment of "teach your children well..." I couldn't post the pictures, so just follow the link...

http://www.parentdish.ca/2013/09/16/inspiring-stories-parenting-done-right/?icid=maing-grid7%7Ccanada%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D375889

BON JOVI - Livin' the High Life...

I won Bon Jovi tickets a la radio this morning and was actually annoyed that I wouldn't be able to go (we are off to Mytle Beach and will still be away) until I read this ridiculous concert rider...Leather couches, 12 phone lines, specific colour cups, copious amounts of food ect...

Seems like the self -proclaimed  "Jersey Boys" have completely lost touch with any kind of reality. It will be a pleasure to make money off of them and run. Seems like they've been doing it to their fans for years...

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/bon-jovi-backstage-rider