Fourteen on Friday

Today's Saying

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. ~James Thurber

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What you are about to read leans on the truth and bends it ever so little . But in the process every Friday you will catch a glimpse of me.And I save the cost of a psychiatrist.


1. Thought I saw a raven but it was a crow. I hate ravens. ( Stems from reading too much Poe but nevermore.)
2. Sent my Bishop an e-mail saying I was depressed over my pension cut . He responded that times are tough and they are. ( Stems from my need to dump on somebody)
3. I am no longer depressed. (Stems from never worrying about money but trusting God to provide all we needed)
4. Four books finished off the unread pile and it is getting smaller. I am making up a list of books to order when its gone. ( Stems from a rebirth of my love of reading )
5. Created my last really stupid internet award. The smart ass award to go with the dumb ass award. ( Stems from my need to keep things in balance)
6. Now I can taste the lava soap from number five. ( Stems from inability to even sneak the word in without visions of ma and her soap)
7. I entered the Blingo contest every day last week, and the week before, and the week before and even the week before that. I have won nothing. Not a gift certificate. Not a HD TV. Not a camera. I have won nothing. ( Stems from a severe lack of luck . So why do I try?)
8. Well I still have the poor man in jail and a green dying secret agent but I did save the world and the Pigeon Falls. ( Stems from my need to do first things first-the world is more important than innocent men or secret agents.)
9. Watched NCIS –Las Angeles again and I still don’t like it, ( Stems from my hope it would grow on me like a fungus.)
10. I am upset with the USA network. We have only a few adventures of Monk left forever and they ran a movie in his place last Friday. ( Stems from the fact that I just love that show.)
11. We had a flat tire on the van. The garage came and filled the tire, drove the van to the shop, pulled out the metal piece, fixed the tire, washed the van, and returned the van that day and charged us only $17.00. Some places charge more to wash the car. Bergstroms you are special. ( Stems from my need to thank a business that really cares about its customers.)
12. We still don’t have a winner in our daily draw. It is so frustrating. ( Stems from my commentators being as unlucky as I am)
13. The refinancing of our mortgage will save us as much in interest next year as I lose in my pension cut and the new payments will be that much lower.
. ( It stems from God continuing to provide)
14. Betty and I had fun making pictures for the idiom meme. Saddly there are only two weeks left. ( Stems from our need to do things together)

(Click on the Pigeon Falls Graphic for previous chapters.)

With the aliens disarmed attention shifted for a moment to the Church and Pastor Joan. Very quickly the announcement came " It's a boy". They were expecting a girl but a healthy boy is fine.
Pastor Joan was having trouble in the delivery and the old midwife didn't know what to do. That's when the other midwife showed up. Her name was Rebecca W. Oops. Nobody had ever seen her before but she took control of the situation. She and Herman delivered the baby. After that it was almost like magic as the baby was born with no further problems. Rebecca went to the rest room to clean up and neve came back. Nobody has seen her since. She has become a mystery woman to be talked anout at Nancy's over coffee.
With the birth now over. Tommy turned to the alien leader. You do understand that we could have destroyed you as easily as those weapons. We could have made you our slaves, a fate you might deserve. But we chose not to do that . Instead we send you unarmed back to your home planet. By the time you arrive a group of Guardians will alreay be there. They will have destroyed your stockpiles of weapons. They will have dismantled the factories you make them in. They will destroy any other rocket ships you have.
One of our Guardians will go back with you and destroy these ships when you arrive back. Special instruments will be installed that will alert the Guardians if you test rockets or weapons and regular inspections will take place.
Now get on your ships and leave before we change our mind.
The aien leader, one of the Guardians and the alien soldiers returned to the ships and left.
Will we ever find out how Tommy pulled this off? Who was that strange midwife? How special is this baby? Where did the extra wooly elephant beasts come from? Is Tommy to be reunited with his birth father only to see him leave?
Perhaps some of these questions will be answered tomorrow. One can hope.

And the names Betty drew yesterday were SUE and Melli . If she draws one of them again today that one gets what is in the treasure chest. Click on the treasure chest in the left hand column to see what is in it.
While I wait for Betty I am adding this to the treasure chest.
Here is a 3 cd Immersion into fifty one languages. The package is still sealed. It is very rare.
Now that is a priceless addition.

Well Betty has arrived in the office
Betty has drawn.
Sorry Sue and Melli it wasn't yours.

The name drawn was











Dulce

If she is drawn again tomorrow she wins what's in the treasure chest.
Congratulations Dulce.
Stop over and wish her luck.
She missed by one day winning. If she had been drawn yesterday instead of today she would have won. Perhaps, it is a sign we are getting closer. I hope so because the treasure chest is getting heavy.

REMEMBER TO WIN YOU HAVE TO BE DRAWN TWO DAYS IN A ROW!