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NEW Year

“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

NEW You  Ahh, a New Year; a time for reflection, a time for rejuvenation, a time to resolve to make changes and to do things differently this time. One question though – how come resolutions never seem to pan out?

I think I might have an answer. I’m Cresta Ogle and I am a recovering resolution-maker. I used to make a giant list of all of the things I was going to change each and every New Year’s Eve. I would lose weight. I would get in shape. I would save enough money to pay off all of my bills and buy a house with cash. I would travel around the world. I would devote my spare time to supporting and volunteering for a charity. I would keep my house immaculate. I would be an amazing wife and mother. I would remember to floss my teeth every day. I would not leave socks on the bedroom floor.

to give it all to Him, (And, as I know from firsthand experience, it does take effort! I am constantly catching myself meddling where I should just be sitting back and letting God take the wheel.) I have been able to witness literal miracles happen in my life, both big and small.

Miracles? Yes! Real, true, genuine miracles! If it’s an unexpected blessing, to me, it’s a miracle. That $20 rebate check I forgot I sent in for? A God-given miracle!

The person in front of me at the drive-thru paying for my coffee? A small miracle, but a miracle all the same! Being in the right place at the right time to be able to purchase our new homestead? Definitely, God has blessed us with that! And all because I got out of the way, got away from trying to do it myself, and gave everything to the Lord.

My daily, repeated prayer goes something like this: “Hi, God. I know You’ve got a lot of things to do today, and I know You’re really super busy with big, huge deals, but You said for me to cast my burdens upon You and that You won’t let me stumble, so here I am. Today, Lord, I give everything to You. Thank You for working things for my good! In Jesus’s name, Amen.” What a relief to know I

I have stopped making resolutions. Yep, altogether don’t have to do it alone! stopped! I refuse to do it anymore. Why, you ask? Because resolutions never work!

SELF-improvement, for me always leads to disappointment. “I’m going to lose 40 pounds this year!”

Resolutions are SELF-improvement. Therein lies becomes gaining 5. “I am going to save $12,000 this year the problem. SELF-improvement is me trying to improve - $1000 a month!” ends up being our savings sucked dry myself. But, as it says in the Bible, God wants us to let because something goes wrong with the car or there’s Him do the improvement: “He must increase, but I must a desperate repair that needs to be made immediately decrease.” (John 3:30) If I am trying to resolve to do to the house or barnyard. You’ve undoubtedly heard of things “better”, I am in the forefront. If instead, I “let go, Murphy’s Law? Well, when I am holding tightly to the and let God,” as the popular saying goes, I am decreasing reins of my life, trying to steer with every muscle in my and He can increase. That is what God wants for me! He aching body, I am guaranteed to have Murphy himself has amazing plans for me that I can’t even fathom right come knocking my door down! now. But in order for His plans to come to fruition, I have to get out of the way.

Instead of a resolution this year, maybe we should all just relax. God’s got our backs! I’m working on being

I can look back on my life and see, very clearly, more mindful of that and consequently, I am working the times that I was working on SELF-improvement less… on me. versus the times I got out of the way and let the Lord improve me. Since I have been making a conscious effort

As you can see, I would resolve to do everything from the lofty to the mundane. I was always determined, always positive about my goals, and I was always really severely unrealistic about what I could accomplish in the course of a year.

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Ask Yourself the Right Questions in 2016

By Regina Brett

By February, you skip the gym, you eat the doughnuts, you forget to go to yoga. Instead of resolutions for an entire year, how about a few simple questions to ask yourself through the year to stay on course?

The odometer changed to 2016 and we’ll make all kinds of resolutions we don’t intend to keep.

medicine cabinet. I ask myself that might be food or a gift or simply a question every morning. Most nights better attitude. when I see it again, I smile because I lived my “Yes!” 5. What can I learn from this?

2. Do you want to be happy?

Everything that happens is our teacher. Cardiologist Terry Gordon wrote in his book “No Storm Lasts Forever” that when his son was left paralyzed from an accident, Terry heard an inner voice say, “Treat this as if you chose it.” The gift? He treasures every moment he has with his son.

As soon as I start to feel irritable or restless or cranky or sad, I pause and ask myself, “Regina, do you want to be happy?” Sometimes the answer is no. I want to pout and

Albert Einstein once said, complain or wallow in sadness. But “If I had an hour to solve a problem once I ask that question, I know I’m and my life depended on the solution, actively choosing to be unhappy and I would spend the first 55 minutes I usually stop.

6. What would people who loved determining the proper question themselves do? to ask, for once I know the proper 3. What part of me is disturbed by question, I could solve the problem in this?

I saw this in a blog post by less than five minutes.”

Teal Swan. If you ask yourself this

My friends in 12-step question every day, you’ll get an So here are 12 questions to recovery programs have taught me answer from somewhere deep inside. ask yourself in 2016: that anytime I’m emotionally upset In time, she wrote, it creates a new by anything, the problem is me. I’ve way of being where you “live your 1. If today were the last day of my learned to pause and see what button life in alignment with self love.” life, would I want to do what I am inside of me just got hit. Then I can about to do today? respond instead of react.

7. What is the kindest thing to do right now?

Steve Jobs, the founder of 4. What can I bring to the occasion?

Apple, asked himself that question

To the telemarketer. To the every day. If the answer was no too Instead of thinking what you server who forgot your coffee. To the often, it was time to do something will get out of this event or situation, neighbor whose barking dog keeps else. I taped it on a note inside my focus on what you can bring to it. It you awake. Just be kind. It’s not even Too often we pride ourselves on having the answers, when having the questions might be more valuable.

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that hard to do.

8. Where am I on my own calendar?

If you’re like me, you still buy a paper calendar every year. If you’re like me, you put in ink everything you have to do for others. If you’re like me, you are nowhere on your own calendar. Go get your new calendar and put yourself in it – a hike, a massage, a play date with friends.

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9. What am I grateful for right now?

I once knew an old Amish man who always prayed for a “grateful, humble heart.” “How grateful are you?”

Mose Yoder used to ask me that. Not grateful enough.

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10. If this situation never changed, what quality would I need to develop to bear it with grace?

My friend Beth taught me that one. The solution isn’t to force our will against life, but to grow when challenged.

11. How can I be of help?

Instead of doing what makes you feel good ask, how can I be of help? The other person might not want it. If they don’t tell you anything, offer three things you can do and let them choose.

Finally, at the end of every day, ask yourself this: 12. Did you love?

That’s the measure of a good day and a good life. Did you love?

If the answer is yes at the end of every day, the answer will be yes at the end of your life.

And if you say no, you have the great gift that every new year offers: Another day to do it better.

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GOOD FOOD “Your family is important.

They left your home this morning and spread out to spend a day making new memories, acquiring knowledge, and growing up without you!

Make it a priority to sit down to supper tonight with them and find out who they became today.” ~Christy Jordan "Hi, my name is Christy Jordan and I like to feed people."

Chicken and Wild Rice Casserole

Christmas and New Years behind us and most folks are in the middle of winter, snuggling within their quilts and homes, cooking up stews and cobblers. Oh I’m doing the cooking part, but not the rest of it, my mind is on other things. You see, soon as January hits, I get to expecting spring.

I can’t help it, it is my absolute most favorite time of year for a number of reasons, but one in particular – I get to see my daffodils.

Now before you go to thinking that I’m looking pretty far off you gotta understand that daffodils are usually in bloom here by February and the first sign of yellow, my heart wakes up and declares SPRING!

I go by my own time table with the seasons, I’m just a wild woman that way. You see, at the end of the day, I’m just a rebel to the core. Oh yeah, I even eat raw cake batter. I do shocking things like that…and I plant daffodil bulbs in December.

While I am still pretending to be partially sane, let me bring you a casserole today. There are so many variations on this casserole that you could throw a rock at the internet and hit fifty on any given day.

This is mine, it’s pretty easy and awfully good. Modify it, play with it, make it your own.

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The almonds are optional but I gotta tell you, I love what they do to this dish!

Ingredients •1 box Uncle Ben's Long Grain and Wild Rice (quick cooking or regular), cooked according to package directions •Cooked Chicken (1-3 cups, whatever you have), shredded •12 ounce can cream of mushroom soup (can use fat free or cream soup of preference) •14 ounce can French Style Green Beans, drained •1 Cup Slivered Almonds •1 Cup Sour Cream (optional, not used in this tutorial, but I love it in there)

Instructions 1. Place everything except topping ingredients in a large bowl. Stir until well combined. Spoon into greased 9x13 baking dish. Top with cracker crumbs and drizzle melted butter over.

2. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

Topping •1 Sleeve Ritz crackers, crushed (or whatever crackers you have) •1/4 - 1/2 cup melted butter (however much you wanna use)

Pulled Pork BBQ Sliders

The makings of these pork sliders are what make them so good. Slow cooked Southern Style pulled pork BBQ is made overnight in your slow cooker (and so very easy!).

Then we make Jordan Rolls (don’t freak out if you have never made yeast rolls, you CAN do it and I can show you how), or you can just buy some rolls.

And we top them with a little vinegar slaw. To streamline the slaw, I bought the bag of pre-shredded cabbage (which had some pretty carrots in it for color) and just added in the rest of my ingredients.

Directions on page 13.

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I set out to write the one cookbook that I myself would use the most when it came to planning suppers for my family- I hope you'll find it as useful as I intended it to be. Please keep in mind, though, that the recipes in this book and the meals you and I make are really just a tool to bring our families and friends together.

Because at the end of the day, the supper table is where we teach our families where they came from and they let us know where they hope to go.

Values, heritage, history, dreams, and encouragement are passed around with the serving platters and roots grow a little deeper with each bite. We may have high hopes and aspirations when we set off into the world each morning, but if you really want to make the world a better place, end the day by coming home to supper.

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Pulled Pork BBQ Sliders Ingredients

Continued from page 13.

•Pork Roast (approximately 5 pounds) •1 tablespoon salt •1 teaspoon black pepper •1½ cups cider vinegar •2 tablespoons brown sugar •1 tablespoon hot sauce •1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

Instructions 1. Put roast in slow cooker and sprinkle salt and pepper over it. Pour cider vinegar on top. Cover with lid and cook on low for twelve hours (I cook it overnight). Remove pork roast and shred with forks (this will be very easy). Drain juices from slow cooker, reserving two cups of liquid. Return pork to slow cooker.

To the reserved liquid add: Brown sugar, hot sauce, and crushed pepper flakes. Stir well.

Pour over shredded pork and place lid back on.

Place on low or warm setting until ready to serve.

Can be made ahead of time and refrigerated, reheating in the microwave.

2. I estimate this to make enough for about eight sandwiches, give or take.

3. *This sauce is not spicy. If you prefer a spicier sauce, double the hot sauce and crushed red pepper flakes. And add even more to taste.

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We were designed to appreciate NEW THINGS. Every New Year we always seek a NEW LIFE as though the one we have is awful. It's a goal that keeps us pressing on in the race and getting up every morning but... let's CHANGE using wisdom this year.

Trying to change everything at once is usually a bad idea anyway. Some things can be improved upon, yes, but surely not everything even needs to change. We don't always need to reinvent the wheel. We might just need to re-consider our schedules and our resources.

Perhaps what we really should be seeking every year is better balance. Maybe we have all of our pieces, but they aren't in the right order or at the right levels. Balance is not effortless... it does take some attention.

Maybe instead of resolutions - a great NEW LIFE may mean just making a few tweaks!

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WAYS to Make Your Life Better in 2016!

1. Stop whining. You don't work from sunup to sundown. You have plenty of food if you are reading this and if you don't it's because you thought an iPhone was more important. And you have a roof over your head, so you have nothing to whine about. We are the most blessed generation that has ever lived.

refusing to forgive solves nothing.

The damage was done, it can't be undone and crying over spilled milk is a big fat waste of time.

5. Meet your maker. We have lost sight of the fact that someone created us, knows us better than we know ourselves and paid a high price to have a relationship with us. There's a 2. Do good, do what's right. A lot BEST friend for each of us that can't of our unhappiness stems from our wait to spend some quality time with loss of self-respect. No one else is us. responsible for our character, we are.

No one took our self-respect from us 6. Rejoice. Take great delight in and we didn't lose it - we chose to all good things because everything give it all away on reality TV. was created for our enjoyment. It's something you have to choose to 3. Find some type of hand work that do. Rejoicing doesn't fall on you, it's soothes you. We have lost the art of the result of taking the time to fully contemplation that is possible by appreciate all you've been blessed doing repetitive work like washing with. When you realize how good dishes, because machines do it for you have it - rejoicing just comes us. Choose ironing, sewing, folding naturally. clothes or even writing. Anything that allows the brain time to slow 7. Take a few minutes today to ponder down so that you can gather your your future. The only person planning wits about you. There is a reason your future is you and if you aren't that puzzles, painting and picking up planning it now, how will you ever pecans are great pastimes. have something to look forward to?

4. Pardon yourself and everyone else 8. Dance, turn up the music and who has ever disappointed or hurt dance! All that stands between you you. You nor they are perfect and and a good time is you. And you don't

need a partner, it's just for fun. It is exercise, it will make you feel better and it will improve your humor.

Watch children - they don't need a reason to dance, they just do it.

9. Linger over your coffee, or your breakfast, lunch or dinner. Lingering is a lost art that is a very enjoyable pastime that we don't seem to have time for anymore.

10. Stop carrying on like its the end of the world. Whatever it is will be a faint memory by time you are 90, so does it really matter in the big scheme of things? People carry on about every thing these days.

11. Lagniappe means a little something extra - add that to your life every day. Even if it's just a nice thought, a prayer for yourself or for someone else or maybe just a moment of gratitude to say thank you.

A little something extra is the icing on our lives that makes this life worth living.

You choose what you think about.

You choose how you spend your time.

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This is one of the BEST devotionals ever written and as with most - it gets better and better every year you read it. Perhaps all devotionals get better because we get older and we get better. We have a better understanding and have a deeper relationship with the Lord the more years we walk with Him. Editor's Note: This book link does not go to Amazon like most of ours do, it goes directly to the website set up for Mr. Chambers. It costs a little more there, but if you can afford it - the book is well worth it and continuing to support his work is an honorable thing to do. Otherwise, go to Amazon. It's one of the most powerful books you can buy for a very small price.

GREAT SAMPLE: Are You Fresh For Everything?

Sometimes we are fresh and eager to attend a prayer meeting, but do we feel that same freshness for such mundane tasks as polishing shoes? Being born again by the Spirit is an unmistakable work of God, as mysterious as the wind, and as surprising as God Himself. We don’t know where it begins—it is hidden away in the depths of our soul.

Being born again from above is an enduring, perpetual, and eternal beginning. It provides a freshness all the time in thinking, talking, and living—a continual surprise of the life of God. Staleness is an indication that something in our lives is out of step with God. We say to ourselves, “I have to do this thing or it will never get done.” That is the first sign of staleness.

Do we feel fresh this very moment or are we stale, frantically searching our minds for something to do? Freshness is not the result of obedience; it comes from the Holy Spirit. Obedience keeps us “in the light as He is in the light . . .” (1 John 1:7).

Jealously guard your relationship with God. Jesus prayed “that they may be one just as We are one”—with nothing in between (John 17:22). Keep your whole life continually open to Jesus Christ. Don’t pretend to be open with Him. Are you drawing your life from any source other than God Himself? If you are depending on something else as your source of freshness and strength, you will not realize when His power is gone. Being born of the Spirit means much more than we usually think. It gives us new vision and keeps us absolutely fresh for everything through the never-ending supply of the life of God.

O Lord, breathe on me till I am one with You in the temper of my mind and heart and disposition. Unto You do I turn. Again, how completely I realize my lostness without You! This book is a GREAT one to start a New Year out with!

It's a GOOD READ for quite a few reasons...

1. If you like to read about FAMOUS people's lives, she gets very personal.

2. If you wish to do anything creatively this year, this is a great guide.

3. If you are interested in improving your faith, this book will do it.

4. If you are stuck (creatively speaking) this is definite a must read.

5. If you believe being a writer is somehow a romantic profession, this is the book for you. She tells you exactly how REAL writers work.

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“THE ARTIST’S WAY by Julia Cameron is not exclusively about writing—it is about discovering and developing the artist within whether a painter, poet, screenwriter or musician—but it is a lot about writing. If you have always wanted to pursue a creative dream, have always wanted to play and create with words or paints, this book will gently get you started and help you learn all kinds of paying-attention techniques; and that, after all, is what being an artist is all about. It’s about learning to pay attention.”

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--Grammy award-winning singer Kathy Mattea See Clay Walker's book reviewed on the next page.

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GOOD BOOKS REVIEWED Jesus Was a Country Boy

by Clay Walker Life Lessons on Faith, Fishing and Forgiveness

Editor's Note: This book is going to be reviewed in the next 6 issues of the Good News. Why? Because it's a GOOD BOOK and just because he's a famous singer, we don't feel he should be slighted in any way.

He put his heart and soul into a book and it deserves proper attention.

Besides that, he's a Texas boy and he does an awful lot of GOOD work for MLS. We couldn't find the book on his website, so the link goes to Amazon where you can read some more of it if you like, before you order it.

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you've given one or received one or both, you know the look I'm talking about. I can remember being a teenager and my mom telling me that an elderly lady at church, Mrs. Wilson, didn't have anyone to mow her yard for her.

"That's too bad," I said, trying my best to sound sincere. Mom didn't say a word but just tilted her head down a little and looked at me. Her eyes seemed to be saying, really? Do you really want to make this harder than it has to be for both of us? Now go over there and get that yard cut! I maintained eye contact for a couple moments and then agreed to get the job done.

I suspect Mary gave Jesus "the look": the one All Mary had to do was give Jesus "the look" every mother naturally knows how to employ to get her to silently communicate that he'd better get busy and child to do something he may not want to do. Whether "just do it!" She looked at him, he got it and then Mary

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I did pay for it, but it’s definitely not mine. I accompanied my husband of 19 years at the time on a midlife crisis venture to the Harley shop many moons ago. He got in the best humor I had seen him in for months. All I had to do was agree to go and his attitude made a 180 degree turn. It’s a long way to the Harley shop from our house. They aren’t just around the corner and down the street, so we had the opportunity to share some quality time away from the kids. Of course that time was consumed by his relating to me every single fact he had ever gleaned about Harleys. So even though that wasn’t really the topic I would have chosen, what the hell – he was happily talking to me for a change. Naturally I couldn’t repeat any of it today, but I have a fond memory of his animated little talk to himself.

We arrived at the less than upscale side of town and my husband dutifully waited for me to exit the vehicle, however we both practically sprinted inside. (Remember this was 20 years ago before high class motorcycle stores really existed.)

Always acutely aware of my surroundings, I couldn’t help but notice that there were no other women there. None. The entire showroom was occupied by ponytailed men in T-shirts and blue jeans. I immediately realized there was an apparent dress code. We did not meet the code, but my husband seemed totally oblivious to it as he made a beeline to the new bikes.

He proceeded to inspect each bike one at a time, lightly touching each one as though it were fine china.

Although his tongue appeared to be thick, he managed to keep up a running dialogue about each bike, as if he thought I was listening. I on the other hand was more interested in gawking at the clientele and feeling a tad uneasy about my safety. He looked at the 1200 Sportster and gave a rundown of all of the pros and cons.

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incorrect technicalities, again I was only half listening.) And of course he had to touch several Super Glides. A Super Glide was priced in excess of $20,000.00 even back then, so let me fill in this picture for you. We were a family of five who chose to become a one income family 6 months ago. My husband is one the hardest working people I know, but he is a cop. Cops did not make enough money to own a Super Glide legally in those days.

But, we had to touch it and he had to tell me all about the good points.

I really thought he was joking. My husband is 6 foot 2 and weighs 275 pounds and I am no Twiggy by any stretch. I couldn’t believe he expected both of us to sit on this moped looking replica. I informed him he would look like an elephant riding a mosquito on that bike and I laughed some more. In the meantime, he had gotten on the bike and was doing that wrist revving motion thing. You know the one that goes with that noise that’s supposed to sound like gears changing. Thank God he refrained from making the

Our search ended with the noise, but only because the salesman 883 Sportster. Are you surprised that was right beside us I’m sure.

I wasn’t paying much attention when he said this is it? I seemed incoherent Still, I refused to embarrass I’m sure when I continued on to myself by getting on the bike with the next bike. Dragging me back, him. I proceeded to question the he rapidly expounded on it’s many salesman about our other options. virtues. Still, I didn’t pay much My husband informed me that he attention and again began to walk had researched the market and that away. He grabbed me by the arm and this was indeed the one he wanted. said he wanted me to sit on it with him. The salesman didn’t calm my fears I laughed. A crushed look crossed his very much by saying simply, “it face and I could tell I had done the will carry you both.” We progressed wrong thing. I tried to explain to him to discussing the price and I ceased that I only wanted to sit on the one laughing. Let’s just say when my he wanted to buy. He said, “This is husband first brought up spending it.” I laughed. The look came back. $10,000.00 on a motorcycle, I I clearly did not understand. Seeing thought we were talking about a my puzzlement, he repeated “This MOTORCYCLE. I had no idea he is it, this is the one I want to buy.” I was intending on getting my approval laughed some more. for that money to buy a bicycle with Continued on page 30.

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The Day I Bought My First Harley... a lawnmower motor on it for both of us to ride on. I slowly began to realize why my husband had already chosen the Sportster. It was all we could afford.

The salesman began to sell us on how affordable the bike really was. He had to gently coax a grown man, my husband, off the bike and into his sales cubicle to finish his sales pitch. He proceeded to tell us their purchasing procedures. We would have to buy the bike stripped and then add roughly $2500.00 worth of options to make it rideable. I have never been forced to buy options on anything before. Of course he explained that this process was purely for the customer’s benefit. “You wouldn’t want your bike to be equipped to someone else’s specifications would you?” Well of course not, what was I thinking?

So he opened his “Christmas Catalog” of options and my drooling husband began his selection process. First came the exhaust system. I stupidly questioned why a company would make a bike without an exhaust system?

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Continued from page 32. my husband’s law enforcement profession and tried to explain that we lived in a nice subdivision. He proceeded to inform me that he had never in all of his years sold a bike without at least a Phase One exhaust system.

I still did not want to pay $300.00 to make the bike a noise nuisance. After 15 minutes of discussion with the salesman, his backup salesman he called in and my husband, the exhaust system had turned into a question of my husband’s manhood. I knew I lost and I succumbed quietly.

Next came the windshield. Again the males ganged up, all were discouraging this item. I quickly turned the issue into one of it being a safety requirement for purchasing the bike. I won because I held the purse strings. The Sportster that just looks better without a windshield now sports one. A bunch of items I really know nothing about were added and then we came to the seat. After looking through the catalog, I informed my husband that I would not be able to choose a comfortable one from a photo. The salesman suggested we go back to the showroom and try some out. This immediately became a problem. None of the seats on the bigger bikes would fit the “mosquito”, as I affectionately called it. The only Sportster he had was the one my husband had sat on.

We went back to it, but I quickly assessed it and vetoed it.

It appeared to be the shape of a 2 x 4 and felt like it was merely covered and not padded. Traveling some distance riding on a piece of 2 x 4 was not in my game plan.

The Day I Bought My First Harley... he could have both of them. Flattering is not a word I would use to describe them with, but he happily went off to select them.

I took this opportunity to pick the salesman’s brain. After asking a series of questions aimed at trying to understand my conservative husband’s sudden obsession with a Harley, the salesman responded with one question.

“How old is he?” He’ll be 40 this month why, I answered?

“Every man that comes in here is between 40 and 60. He’s either dragging his wife or holding his divorce papers in his hand.” The salesman acted as though that should be a sufficient enough explanation and went back to his paperwork.

We left the Harley shop with two ugly T-shirts and the promise of the bike in 2 days. I still don’t think I really understand the significance of a Harley. I know to this day I still don’t understand some of the stupid rules. (Like why they took brand new parts off of a brand new bike or why I have to store all of these parts and the original 2 x 4 seat in my attic for the life of the bike?) But, I do know that I have never seen my husband any happier than when he is on it, or polishing it or just sitting around talking about it.

I looked around and finally found another one.

IT, “the mosquito name stuck” for whatever I was halfway on it when my husband nearly knocked reason makes him very happy and for that reason alone me down. He was wearing the look again and as usual, I – I guess it’s worth it. didn’t know why. I quickly learned another lesson – You can’t sit on a SOLD bike. At first I laughed until I saw they were serious, then I lost my sense of humor. I turned on my husband and the salesman and said, “Let me get this straight – this company pays a man to do nothing all day long but walk through this showroom with a towel wiping drool off of all the bikes. They are all touched and sat on all day long, but once a sold sign goes on it, no one is allowed to sit on it?” Both nodded and began staring at their feet sheepishly. “That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of. Two hundred people sat on this bike before you sold it, how the hell is the new owner gonna know I did it after he bought it?” I asked. They babbled on about that being the rule and how they really knew it didn’t make much sense either, but that was the way it worked. “Everyone knows that’s the rules”, they mumbled. I was furious.

I wanted a comfortable seat. They really wanted me to pay good money for one that I couldn’t even sit on it. Ridiculous. These rules were beginning to be less cute and more of a pain in the butt. We ordered the seat I couldn’t sit on and moved on. (Please note: We have since bought a new one, just as I suspected we would.) We finally signed all the papers and were told to go pick out two complimentary T-shirts. Having seen the selection on all the males in the store, I graciously told my husband

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The Galveston County Animal Shelter has REDUCED the "Adoption Fee" for cats and dogs that are already Neutered/Spayed ("fixed") to half price--$42.50, which includes all their shots including rabies and microchip.

And often there are pets available who are "Sponsored" - meaning their "Adoption Fee" has already been paid by a generous donor to help you get them out!

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School districts all over the nation are HIRING School Bus Drivers ...

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