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embryonic journey
are you in a good mood today? then expand your sense of whimsy and click here to meet judy, the talking embryo. upper right-hand corner. of course, this is what judy really sees, when she gets up in the morning and glances in the mirror:  she has that certain jenny-say-kwa. naturally, she puts me in mind of ...since of course the child is far too young to be  dreaming of horses. here are some other dreamy embryonic dreamy dreams...  unborn baby elephant  unborn little baby turtle  unborn fierce little lioness cub  unborn cute baby dolphin  unborn darling brave little sweet chicken
here is our invisible house.
 see our driveway?  now do you see it?  there it is!  house from driveway.  driveway from house.  front steps.  front door.  entering front hall - blurry.  looking back along hall.  next day - towards living/dining room from front door - a little better unpacked.  this thing is called a pellet stove. guess what it burns.  cute kitchen off the dining room.  bad cat!  laundry room behind kitchen (half-bath and back door beyond).  mistress bedroom. lots of alcoves.  guest room number one. that's another back door. side door? there's a hammock out there but you can't see it.  guest room number two.  cute bath - big mirror - deep tub.  view from back door - you can't really see the extent of the jungle - tall stands of bamboo, thickets of blackberry, ancient comfrey.  backyard grotto.  orb-weaver, in the grotto.  toward drive from side of house.  front yard. see the street?  i don't either.
how i spent my summer vacation
 after vegetable soup and cherry pie at mom's, we headed for minnesota. slept in fargo.  eastern north dakota.  300 miles later.  western north dakota has a patch of a little different.  it has its ups and downs.  kitties hate us now. they are tired of north dakota  entering montana, with some relief.  500 miles of montana hills. slept in billings.  first glimpse of the rocky mountains.  big sky country.  pretty rocky! rocky pretty!  northern idaho turns out to be just a long downward chute out of the rockies.  eastern washington, where they grow dirt. here is a dirt field. slept in richland, home of the hanford, most contaminated nuke site in the nation.  escape to oregon!  entering the columbia river gorge.  the mighty columbia.  the mighty cascades.  approaching mt. hood. 3 hours to eugene! stay tuned.
many backyard circuses coming your way
Miguel Marina said he hopes to be able to pay off his mortgage, worth 80 percent of the value of his property, by selling 64,000 tickets at 5 euros each, promising his home as the single prize to the winner of a draw... "I'm going to raffle off my flat," Marina wrote, describing how he suffered sleepless nights trying to work out how to pay off his debts on the property he bought in 2005 before losing his job selling houses as Spain's real estate market went into a tailspin. "I've tried to sell it, but no buyers call," he said.  comments: there have been several attempts at this around the country, some legitimate some not so much. Some have been sued by attornies general. I am director of a mid sized not for profit who has been watching the raffle process to see if we could raise funds that way or if the local United Way could do so. This is the really only legititmate way to do it, that is, have all but the basis in the property go to a 501 (c)(3) charity. I'd buy a ticket if I could. It seems to me unfair that an ordinary person can't do this to save himself from crippling debt. After all he's not robbing anybody. I am very interested in raffling off my home. I bought property in the thought I would be abole to build my dream home. What a joke. I have been thinking of raffling off the property. I also would like to know if this is legal.  I just set up this website to sell my home for $1.00. It's a twist on the house raffle which appears to be illegal... No one is bailing us out so why can't we help ourselves? It's harmless. Is holding an essay contest another possibility? ...Most writing contests require entry fees. It is I *think* a legitimate way to go about this. From what I've been told the essay contest is based on skill not chance so it's suppossed to be legal... My concern is that if 'they' decide to get you, they're going to get you on something, somehow. I am trying to raffle off my house in New Jerseye... The only problem I am having is finding a charity to help me with the process.  We own and operated an automotive shop for 12 years we closed this buisness in 2007 due to the crippling economy... We are very interested in raffling this property. We live in Illinois does anyone know if this is leagal in our state? I am trying to find a charity in Oregon to partner with on this. There was a couple in White Rock, NM who tried holding an essay contest to raffle off their home... I assume they declared it legal because the raffle played through to its end, but they didn't make enough money and had to return all of the essay contest fees. My home is in Buckeye Arizona and I am working on raffling off my house... It was picked up by ABC Channel 15, who came out and did a segment for the news about raffle. I got many calls and I am now working with a non profit.  I live in Florida and am seriously contemplating doing this with my home. We want to raffle our land in Palm Beach county,fla. Near the ocean. I am interested in Raffling off my home in Florida. Unfortunately, in Florida, this is Illegal.  I am getting out of the military and need to sell our house within 8 months. How can I raffle off my house? I live in San Antonio, tx and this past summer, my friend saw this lady on e-bay raflled her house off... What I am wanting to raffle is my 2006 car, so I won't get it repo'd, but I'm still looking in the raffle rules and regulations for texas. I have a huge house in Virginia (4200 sq. ft on 5.2 acres) that I want to raffle off... What happens if you don't sell enough tickets? i am looking for help from a charity interested in helping me raffle off my house in virginia. send me info please. I'd like to know more about this and the legality of doing so in Virginia.  I am very interested in trying this approach to selling my house. I just had triplets in March and found out in May that my husband wants a divorce... I cannot work, I have no money, and I have a mortgage payment in Wyoming that I cannot afford. I would like to know if it leagal to have a raffale for that also in the state of texas or even on Graigs list? I am also wanting to raffle my home. I live in East Tx... My husband was laid off and we are about to go into foreclosure. I believe house raffles may be the ONLY viable option for some... We're creating a new generation which I'm calling GENERATION F, it's all the left over people that won't be able to live normal lives after foreclosure. The big F follows you for a minimum of 10 years, you can't own a home or buy so much as a pack of crakers on credit during that time unless you want to pay 30%+. What will these people drive, where will they live, how will they get auto insurance, jobs, etc. when everything is based on credit score! That's not even mentioining the animal problem we're creating since all of these homeowners are abandoning or giving up the pets now too. There's a list of links for learning if raffles are legal for your state at: http://houserafflesecrets.com/house-raffles-are-they-legal-in-your-state/ But even if a raffle is legal, a house raffle may not be. Or you may not want to because of the policies. For example, Hawaii doesn't allow a fixed ticket price, only optional donations! 
how to bury a saint
in a difficult position with your head in darkness until this house is sold. Joseph was a man who knew about moving on a moment's notice (e.g., the flight to Egypt), and providing for a home for his family. He also knows what it's like to have housing trouble (remember the manger? and being turned away from the inns?), and so is likely to be sympathetic to people with trouble getting or leaving a home.  "I have had so much trouble trying to sell my home, the mortages is killing me and I have trouble sleeping.... So I was so happy when I got this statue sent to me from my sister, she sent it to me with such a nice letter! I buried it today and I will pray every day." "The statue really was a blessing. We bought it and buried it according to the instructions. It took us a few weeks before we got any bids, and a few months until we sold it. But instead of feeling rejected by the market and unsecure, we transformed every day into a test of faith, waiting for our reward. That made it just so much easier." "It feel really good after burying it. Now I really feel how we are going to sell our house. Thank you St Joseph"  Centuries from now, when archaeologists sift through the ruins of southeastern Wisconsin, can't you just picture them scratching their heads as they begin unearthing hundreds - maybe even thousands - of St. Joseph statues? ...They're buried inside shoeboxes, empty mayonnaise jars, plastic bags and pieces of aluminum foil. They're concealed beneath garden plots, flower beds, shrubbery and patches of crabgrass in front yards, backyards and every plot of land in between. ...Marion Nelson of Milwaukee sent me an old newspaper clipping about a New Jersey woman whose husband was laid off from his job at a stone quarry near the turn of the century. The woman owned a small St. Joseph statue, tied a long piece of string around its neck and hung it from her roof in the middle of winter, with the vow that she wouldn't remove it until her husband was called back to work. The statue got quite a beating from those wicked East Coast winds. A few months later... well, I'm sure you can guess how it all ended.  [The] owner of www.catholicstore.com says he sells about 400 statues a month, double the amount he sold a year ago. Roman Inc. of Addison, Ill., which sells four styles to stores, has seen its sales increase 33 percent this year... The Society for the Propagation of the Faith of Boston, which runs a small store downtown, reported no trouble getting rid of its monthly supply of 100 statues or more. It's a... landmark for Philip Cates, a Modesto mortgage banker. He just sold his 100,000th statue of St. Joseph, helper of home sellers and a patron saint of patience. ...Banks, dumping repossessed properties, now account for three-fourths of home sales in Sacramento. Presumably, St. Joseph isn't part of their corporate tool kits. Cates said he plans next month to start going after national builders and banks.  There's also the story of the guy who got impatient when his home didn't sell. He harvested his St. Joseph statue and tossed it in the trash. A few days later, imagine his surprise at the headline, "Local Dump Sold." Although I know some people who swear by it, I cannot in conscience recommend the practice of burying a St. Joseph statue upside down in order to sell a house. Seems a little rude to me. Just what in the world are you people reading? It just can't be the same bible I read. Burying a statue, probably made by a Chinaman, and then praying to it, is nothing more than a pagan practice... Superstitions are not in the bible people. And why in the world would you pray to Joseph, who is dead? Indeed, a small bottle of St. Joseph baby aspirin cost me $2.79 at the local CVS. Thank you Jesus! Time (and daylight) was wasting, so I got busy.  Q: Is a stuffed eel pout REALLY an old tradition to sell a house? Yesterday, my friends at work gave me a mounted stuffed eel pout that they swear will sell my house... So St. Francis is buried in the front yard and the eel pout is hanging over the downstairs fireplace. What else should I do?  eel pout: a minnesota thing A: Maybe you just have the wrong saint buried there? St. Francis is the patron saint of animals I believe. Reply: I just had Saint confusion. It's really Joseph buried in the back yard. Addendum: Maybe it's working? We had a showing today! A real showing! The people flew in from San Diego just to see my house... There may be something to this eel pout thing.  wait, what?
it's the farm
this is the view i used to have out the back window of the car, shedding tears. 
generations. hey, mom!
 If the data are objectively assessed, which age-slice of today's working-age adults really does deserve to be called the dumbest generation? ...It's Americans in their 40s, especially their late 40s - those born from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. ...Obviously, we're talking averages. No one would apply the word "dumb" to Barack Obama (born in 1961)... Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (born in 1964)... is more representative of this group. ...On... reading and the math tests, and at all three tested ages (9, 13 and 17), the lowest-ever scores in the history of the NAEP were recorded by children born between 1961 and 1965. The same pattern shows up in SAT scores. The SAT reached its all-time high in 1963, when it tested the 1946 birth cohort... Then it fell steeply for 17 straight years, hitting its all-time low in 1980, when it tested the 1963 cohort. ...According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans born from 1958 to 1962 have the highest share that has never completed high school... They also have the lowest share with a four-year college degree... and they're tied for lowest in graduate degrees. ...What explains the smartness deficit (and the related income gap) that has tracked these early Xers throughout their lives? Some say it's demographic pressure... They got crowded out in the competition for parental attention, good teachers and good colleges. Later on, by the 1980s, they arrived too late to enter the most lucrative professions and the cushiest corporations, by now glutted with boomer yuppies. Their only alternative was to pioneer the pragmatic, free-agent, low-credential lifestyle for which Generation X has since become famous. ...Graduating (or not) from school in the early 1980s, they saw themselves billboarded as a bad example by blue-ribbon commissions eager to reform the system for the next generation... Angling for promotions in the early 1990s, they got busy with self-help guides (yes, those "For Dummies" books) to learn all the subjects they were never taught the first time around. And today, as midlife parents, they have become ultra-protective of their own teenage kids. ...Early Xers have certain strengths that many more learned people lack: They're practical and resilient, they handle risk well, and they know how to improvise when even the experts don't know the answer. As the global economy craters, they won't keep leafing through a textbook. ...Just don't tell the early Xers that today's youth are the dumbest generation. Not only is that jibe factually untrue, it also calls into question all the family sacrifices the early Xers are now making on behalf of these youth. Let Generation Jones keep the "dumbest" label. They know it fits, and they're tough enough to take it.  Generation Jones is a term used to describe the generation of people born between 1954 and 1965... [It] stems from the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", which means a yearning or craving. Jonesers were the people who as teens in the 1970's made this slang word popular, but beyond this historical claim, many believe the concept of jonesing is among this generation's key collective personality traits. Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the optimistic 1960's, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age in the pessimistic 1970's, leaving them with a certain unrequited, jonesing quality. ...This is the situation described by Sex Pistols bass player Sid Vicious, who said that he had missed the Summer of Love because he was too busy playing with his Action Man.  The name Silent Generation was coined in the November 5, 1951 cover story of Time...(which defined the generation at the time as born from 1923 to 1943), [and] found its characteristics as grave and fatalistic, conventional, possessing confused morals, expecting disappointment but desiring faith... The typical grandparents were of the Missionary Generation; their parents were of the Lost Generation and G.I. Generation. Their children are Baby Boomers [and] Generation Jones. Their typical grandchildren are of the Generation Y (a.k.a. Millennials). ...No generation has so small a reputation as does the Silent... Silents are about 95% retired at this point. In a few short years virtually no Silent will command an industry, a battlefield, anything at all... There will be no President of the United States from this generation. ...Many revolutionary leaders in the civil rights movement came from the Silent Generation, along with a wide assortment of artists and writers who fundamentally changed the arts in America. The Beat Poets, for example, were members of the Silent Generation... This generation is comparatively small when compared to the surrounding generations because people had fewer children in the 1920s and 1930s... As a result, members of the Silent Generation were uniquely poised to take advantage of economic opportunities, thanks to the reduced competition. Many of them went on to harness the scientific and technological advances of the Second World War. ...TIME Associate Editor Gerald Clarke, 32 (in 1970) wrote: "We are renters still, taking as our own the values of both old and young - and not thoroughly comfortable with either... We want to enjoy, but deep down in our pre-Spock psyches, we feel we shouldn't." ...The major contribution of the Silent Generation was to humanize their world and now, they want to help ensure a safe world for their grandchildren. 
how to have a real professional real estate house-for-sale-listing photoshoot
squeeze behind the photographer, holding the coffeemaker. 2. put the catbox and the garbage can behind the back door. 3. stack your stereo and cd's and everything on the end-table and drag it out into the front hallway, so you can flip back a corner of the carpet to show there's hardwood flooring under there that you didn't know about for the last three years, because if you did know, you would have gotten rid of this ratty carpeting a long, long time ago. 4. stack the laptops and external cd burner and external hard drive and mouses and cords and box of blank cd's in the linen closet. close the door. 5. hide the dreamcatcher and your book "Psych ER" and the tarot cards under your pillow while the photographer's in the other room. 6. it's okay to leave the crucifix on the wall and the bananas on the kitchen table, because they are Normal. 7. do not get upset that junk by the back porch never did get thrown away. it is mostly buried in snow anyway, and besides, when spring comes, your narcissus will all be blooming, and won't that be nice?  you can have a nice glass of chablis when it's over.
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