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RONNIE’S RAMBLINGS
vol. 01 Issue 36 12.04.2014 PUBLISHED BY SPORTS & MORE
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Plainfield’s Samantha Olinger battles for a loose ball versus Cathedral.
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If you break your neck (i.e. life threatening health issue), if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. -- Robert Fulghum
Swimming/Diving
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Are You Smarter Than... Answer
How many ducks? There are two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle. What is the total number of ducks? Ans - There are five ducks. Ducks A, B and C. A & B in front of C, B & C behind A and B in the middle.
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Ronnie’s Ramblings
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by ronnie wilson
s is typical for me, I ate too much on Thanksgiving Day, as I am sure many of us did. My indulgences extended from Friday through Sunday. Several years ago, my daughter Wendy, unilaterally decided she would be the Thanksgiving Day host site for her family; my side (which includes only me), her mother’s side, a step-father, an aunt, her brother and his daughter, her husbands family, (which can very from two or three to what seems like two or three dozen, but is probably only five to seven) and may include several periphery relatives and friends who happen to be in the area and know where they can get a good meal. She is the quintessential hostess, not wanting to disappoint anyone, (at which she succeeds) but the amount of food available is daunting. After grazing most of the evening after the big meal, there is still copious amounts of food remaining. Some of that food was prepared by other as a contribution to the feast, which makes things better for the meal, but worse for the leftovers. Wendy manages to get most of the leftovers out of here house, but that means others of us now have a day or two of leftovers to ingest.
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For those with multiple people in the family, that is not too bad, for me living alone, I know if I properly allocate portion size I will be eating leftovers for a week or more, but it will be actually only a few days. After several days some if not most of the remaining food stuffs are either rotten or going bad and inedible, so they will need to be thrown out. I have an aversion to throwing away perfectly good food, or wasting perfectly good food by not consuming it. I then proceed to eat my regular four or five meals a day but the portion size is two or three times what I would normally consume. iIfeel like a bloated tick for several days. It is now Sunday evening, and I am still stuffed. I have managed to eat most of the leftovers that are not suitable for extended refrigeration or freezing. I still have turkey, mashed potatos and dressing which I will freeze and parcel out to myself a portion or two each day for the
next week or so. It does save on my grocery bill for a week of so. Last week, I read two interesting perspectives on the same subject - Texas seceding from the United States of America. One perspective was from a Texas state legislator who was postulating that in the best interest of Texas and Texans, seceding would be very beneficial. The other perspective was complete support and offering services to expedite the process. I am in agreement with the later. Seceding from the union would destroy
the Texan economy, infrastructure and ability to sustain itself. I do not know know much money Texas receives from the federal government but I doubt it is not much if any more than it receives in all business, agriculture, highway, social services, economic and law enforcement monies. Even if what Texas contributes is greater than what it receives in return the added cost of self-government, military, highway construction and maintenance border patrols into a foreign country (the United States) and the plethora of other self-sustaining activities would be financial suicide. I say let them go and see how long it lasts. Did I mention their sacred professional spots teams would no longer be a part of “National” major leagues, because they would not be a part of this nation?
The following list of obscure items is sort of late, but actually on time. Normally I include a list of special days for the following month in the last issue of the previous month. That did not happen for December. December’s special days are being published on December first, thus they are not really late, but they are not really on schedule either. Regardless of their timing, I hope you find them amusing/entertaining/enlightening(?). December is... Hi Neighbor Month. December is... Bingo’s Birthday Month. December 1 is . . . . . National Pie Day and Eat A Red Apple Day. December 2 is... National Fritters Day. December 3 is . . . . . National RoofOver-Your-Head Day. December 4 is . . . . . Wear Brown Shoes Day. December 5 is... National Sacher Torte Day. December 6 is... National Gazpacho Day and Mitten Tree Day. December 7 is . . . . . National Cotton Candy Day. December 8 is... Take It In The Ear Day. December 9 is . . . . . National Pastry Day. December 10 is... Festival For The Souls of Dead Whales.
December 11 is... National Noodle Ring Day. December 12 is... National Ding-ALing Day. December 13 is . . . . Ice Cream and Violins Day. December 14 is... National Bouillabaisse Day. December 15 is . . . . National Lemon Cupcake Day. December 16 is... National Chocolate Covered Anything Day. December 17 is... Underdog Day & National Maple Syrup Day. December 18 is... National Roast Suckling Pig Day. December 19 is . . . . Oatmeal Muffin Day. December 20 is . . . . Games Day. December 21 is . . . . Look At The Bright Side Day, National Flashlight Day, National French Fried Shrimp Day, and Hamburger Day. December 22 is . . . . National DateNut Bread Day. December 23 is . . . . Roots Day. December 24 is . . . . National Egg Nog Day. December 25 is . . . . National Pumpkin Pie Day. December 26 is... National Whiners Day. December 27 is... National Fruitcake Day. December 28 is . . . . Card Playing Day and National Chocolate Day. December 29 is... Pepper Pot Day. December 30 is . . . . Festival Of Enormous Changes At The Last Minute and National Bicarbonate Of Soda Day. December 31 is . . . . Unlucky Day.
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Swimming/ Divng Photos by Ronnie Wilson
Cascade’s Alexis Brown in the backstroke portion of the 200 Medley Relay versus Plainfied
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Plainfield’s Christian States in the breaststrokle portion of the 200 Medley Relay at Cascade.
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Cascade’s Alex Van Winkle in the butterfly por
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rtion of the 200 Medley Relay versus Plainfield.
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Cascade’s Griffin Crum in the 200 Freestyle versus Plainfield.
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Cascade’s Haley Ferguson in the 200 Freestyle versus Plainfield.
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Plainfield’s Allyson Carroll in the backstroke po
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ortion of the 200 Inidividual Medley at Cascade.
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Plainfield’s Brayton Adams in the backstroke portion of the 200 Medley Relay at Cascade.
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Plainfield’s Victoria VanDeVoorde in the 200 Freestyle at Cascade.
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Cascade’s Kristi Deweese in the butterfly portion of the 200 Individual Medley versus Plainfiel
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Plainfield’s Chaz Rhodes in the 200 Freestyle at Cascade..
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Girls Basketball Photos by Ronnie Wilson
Tri-West’s Katrina Headlee with an over-the-head-reverse lay-up versus Greencastle.
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Tri-West’s Lexi Jobe versus Greencastle.
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Tri-West’s Claire Johnson drives the baseline versus Greencastle.
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Tri-West’s Karen Jones focuses on her foul shot verus Greencastle.
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Tri-West’s Madison Sprecher shoots and scores a trey versus Greencastle.
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Plainfield’s Kiah Ferrell grabs a rebound versus Catherdral;.
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Plainfield’s Maddie O’Day versus Cathedral.
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Plainfield’s Kyndall Spears versus Cathedral.
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Plainfield’s Kayla Casteel versus Cathedral.
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Plainfield’s Riley Blackwell versus Cathedral.
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County Results Basketball Girls
Cascade - Lost to Martinsville, 58 - 20. Danville - Defeated South Putnam, 62 - 28. Plainfield - Defeated Cathedral, 47 - 39. Kiah Ferrell led the Lady Quaker scoring with 10 points. Tri-West - Defeated Greencastle, 64 - 50. The Lady Bruins were led by Katrina Headlee’s 20 points.
Swimming/ Diving
Avon - Boys defeated Hanilton SE, 104 - 79. Girls Lost to Hamilton SE, 119 67. Brownsburg - Boys lost to Zionsville, 108 - 78. Girls - Lost to Zionsville, 135 - 51.
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Cascade’s Logan Brickert at #170 versus Cloverdale.
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RONNIE’S RAMBLINGS vol. 01 Issue 36 12.04.2014
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