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Most Recent Posts Gold found in Colorado Entry for October 21, 2007Posted Oct-21-07 14:55:54 PDT Updated Oct-29-07 21:10:42 PDT You can find my store at It's autumn once again.
We have taken a few trips around Colorado to
catch the Aspens and hear the elk bugling.
We drove thru Rocky Mountain National Park and
avoided Trial Ridge Road (too busy). We took the
Fall River Road which is the back side to trail Ridge.
Estes Park was beautiful and the Elk have
come down to the meadows. Lots of Elk right now.
A few weeks prior to Estes we took the train to
Glenwood Springs.The train ride was wonderfully
relaxing. The trip thru the mountains from
Denver to Glenwood Springs is a slow one and
very picturesque. It has been a great fall.
The new school year started.
We lost all of our Special Education staff.
After two years of successfully working with
the other staff, I assumed the new group
would be similar. No such luck.Within the first
few weeks I knew there had been a substantial
shift in philosophy. It is now one of escalation
versus de-escalation. There have been many
more restraints. I resigned from my position without
a job. Now comes the job search again. I
will miss the kids but refuse to work with the
new approach. I find it way too harsh and unproductive.
I have watched the kids slip backwards.
We had had some snow in Denver today on Sunday.
  GOD bless I've enjoyed meeting many wonderful people out there in EBAY land. GOD bless you all .... Methods from Human ResourcesPosted Jul-25-07 16:32:45 PDT Welcome. Thanks for viewing my blog. You can find my store at
I hope this finds everyone in EBAY land well today. Methods from Human Resources... 1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room. 2. Put your new hires in the room and close the door. 3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours. 4. Then analyze the situation: a. If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting Department. b. If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing. c. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in Engineering. d. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in Planning. e. If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations. f. If they are sleeping, put them in Security. g. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology. h. If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources. i. If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put th em in Sales. j. If they have already left for the day, put them in Management. k. If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning. l. If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in Top Management. m. Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Congress.
GOD bless you all ....
Touching Elephant storyPosted Mar-09-07 06:55:41 PST Updated Jul-02-07 07:34:20 PDT Posted Mar-04-07 09:31:32 PST Updated Mar-04-07 10:53:34 PST
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I hope this finds everyone in EBAY land well today.
On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.
The elephant seemed distressed, so Mbembe approached it very carefully. As carefully and as gently as he could, Mbembe worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Mbembe stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Mbembe and his son Tapu were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mbembe, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man. Mbembe summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. Probably wasn't the same elephant.
GOD bless I've enjoyed meeting many wonderful people out there in EBAY land. GOD bless you all ....
Pay It ForwardPosted Mar-04-07 09:31:32 PST Updated Jul-02-07 07:37:18 PDT Welcome. Thanks for viewing my blog. You can find my store at
I hope this finds everyone in EBAY land well today. Spring is just around the corner and we only have a few more berfore the elementary school I work at is out for the summer. Has anyone out there seen the movie Pay It Forward? I love that show and truely believe in that philosophy. I would love to hear how you all have done this in your lives. Thank you. Thank you all I just wanted to hear
GOD bless you all ....
Have a great SaturdayPosted Feb-17-07 10:12:29 PST Updated Jul-02-07 07:40:45 PDT Welcome. Thanks for viewing my blog. You can find my store at Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation. Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside. The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance. As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene. One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn't hear the band - he could see it. In his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words. Days and weeks passed.
As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. She said, "Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you." Epilogue:
If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy. "Today is a gift, that's why i t is called the present." GOD bless you all ....
Happy Valentines DayPosted Feb-14-07 18:45:11 PST Updated Jul-02-07 09:24:42 PDT Welcome. Thanks for viewing my blog.
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GOD bless you all One Thousand MarblesPosted Feb-10-07 09:31:47 PST Updated Jul-02-07 09:22:44 PDT Welcome.
Thanks for viewing my blog. You can find my store at red_coyote_mjc and ctmark_iris. The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable.A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the basement shack with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning, turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell you about it.I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning conversation. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice.You know the kind, he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling whoever he was talking with something about "a thousand marbles. "I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say. "Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy with your job. I'm sure they pay you well, but it's a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. Too bad you missed your daughter's dance recital." He continued, "Let me tell you something, Tom, something that has helped me keep a good perspective on my own priorities." And that's when he began to explain his theory of a "thousand marbles." "You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years. "Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900 which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now stick with me Tom, I'm getting to the important part. It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail", he went on, "and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. "So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round-up 1000 marbles. I took them home put them inside of a large, clear plastic container right here in the shack next to my gear. Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. "I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight". "Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time." "It was nice to meet you Tom, I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band. 73 Old Man, this is K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!" You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter. Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. "C'mon honey, I'm taking you and the kids to breakfast." "What brought this on?" she asked with a smile."Oh, nothing special, it's just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. Hey, can we stop at a toy store while we're out? I need to buy some marbles." Written by Jeffrey Davis Copyright 1999 
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