I hope you get fealing better grandma Dee!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait till I come and see you next time and see how you are doing!!!!  

Grandma DeeDee just had her knee surgery today. So I am sending lots of love to her and her knee. If you are reading this Grandma DeeDee, I hope you get well soon and your knee feells better VERY soon! And the red coloring means the color of get well soon and love! I love you!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxo, Josie    

Dee had her knee surgery today and all went well.  Spoke with Mike and it sounds like he is taking good care of her.  I thought I would post a picture of arthroscopic knee surgery so we would all know what it entails.  Looks very painful.......  They fixed a tear in her medial meniscus which can be seen in the bottom picture.  Mike says her knee should be good as new after she heals.  Good times.....

 

 

Subject: Joe Arpaio - Sheriff of Maricopa County ArizonaGO JOE ARPAIO!Update on Joe ArpaioTO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIOHE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFFAND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVERTHIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona ) who created the "tent city jail":He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights Cut off all but "G" movies. He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects. Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination. He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV gain only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.>More on the Arizona Sheriff:With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks. "It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane."Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.>Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County,Arizona

Below is another NPR Storycorps interview. After listening to the interview I can't help but think how odd human beahavior is. Father and son come together and meet for the first time, have a conversation and will probably never interact again. Very confusing to me. If I was the father I would think that I would be eager to get to know my son or at least stay in contact, however, that is often not the case. What would make a father/mother want to distance themselves from a child they are responsible for? I conclude that it has to be a lack of character and that it takes an exceptional person to step up and make things right.

Click on the link below to listen to the interview.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11532743

Nick Shepard was 19 when he first learned his birth father's name. He soon Googled that name and discovered that the man was a teacher in Glasgow, Scotland. Turns out, Shepard was getting ready to visit Glasgow.

Shepard tells his friend Hugh Ryan about the trip.

"I woke up the morning after I got to Glasgow and I decided to just go to the university to look around, see what I thought. I had the address written down for my biological father and I went there.

"I looked down the hallway and I saw a sign with his name. Finally, I just said this is the only chance in my life I will ever have to do this."

He walked up to the door and knocked. "He looked at me with a look that was not quite hostile, but patient."

Shepard asked the man if he remembered living in Connecticut 20 years ago. "And he got this kind of odd smile on his face and he said, 'Yes, I remember it.'"

Shepard asked if he remembered a relationship with a woman named Eloise. The man said he did.

"I said, 'Well, I'm the result of that relationship," Shepard adds. The man replied with a long "ah."

"I have this panic that he's going to touch me. But he doesn't. He walks past me and he closes the door and walks back to the table where I'm seated.

"He says, 'So, you're here.'"

Shepard said he had three questions for the teacher.

First, whether there was any history of diseases or genetic issues he needed to know about.

"He said, 'No, not that I know of.'"

Then Shepard asked if he would explain the circumstances surrounding his birth, "and how it came to be that I was born and he left.

"For the first time and only time over the course of our 15-minute conversation, the grin left his face.

"Eventually, he said, 'Well, I think at that point, Eloise was ready to have a child," something he wasn't ready for. "Never was, never have been," the man said.

"He didn't really offer anything more," Shepard says.

And finally, Shepard asked if he could take a picture of his biological father.

"I had a little disposable camera, took a picture of him, and that was that."

They said their goodbyes and Shepard left.

"I don't know if I'll ever contact him, if I will ever want him to be part of my life in any way. But for now, I don't."

As he walked back to where he was staying in Glasgow, Shepard says he felt he had "made a peace with a part of myself that I never expected — that I never even thought possible."

Jordan and I made up a recipe. This is it below. If you make it sometime, post and let us know what you think. ;)


Spaggettii noodles (any kind)

2 half cans of tomato sauce

Skinless chicken

Pramisaun cheese

1/4 of a onion

Put chicken in oven for about 20-30 min (heat oven to about 350 degrees or 400

Put the spaggettii nooddles into a can of boiling water until ready

Pour cans of tomato sauce into small pan.

Chop up the onion pieace into small pieaces. When done, put onion pieaces into the pan of tomato sauce.

Heat the sauce for about 10 minutes on low.

When everything is done, Put the noodles on first. Then the sauce, chicken, pramsuon cheese.

This recipe above is made for about 3-4 people. If there is more, add doublle, triples ect. ENJOY!

Here is the link to a Talk of the Nation segment about napping at work. There's quite a bit of evidence that our bodies work better when given the opportunity to rest/nap in the afternoon; however, would any of us really feel comfortable w/our boss walking in on us while napping? Or, if you are the boss, would you feel an employee was slacking if you caught him/her napping on the job? Maybe catnaps (i.e. 30 min or less) in the afternoon should become more engrained into our overworked American culture...I actually think this might improve productivity in the workplace...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11361685