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Check out this video we found on www.youtube.com. Paul and I cracked up laughing. Hi-Yah!

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My brother Brian and his fiance Ashley closed on their new home yesterday! We went out for a nice dinner with the family and then went over to the house. It’s a GREAT old house, needs a lot of work but that’s what they like to do. We’re so happy that they are back in town! They were in Florida and most recently in Dayton, OH. Paul is working to get them a website up and going so we can see progress on the house and upcoming wedding!!

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Got this off Chris’s website, I laughed pretty hard at his answers, so I decided to put it on our site too.

Here are Paul’s answer’s followed by Emily’s:

1. YOUR SPY NAME:
(middle name and current street)
(with Paul’s preferred middle name) Lawrence Ackerly / Anna Ackerly

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME:
(grandfather/grandmother on your dad’s side, your favorite candy)
Lawrence Twix / Marianna Sours

3. YOUR RAP NAME
(first initial of first name, first two or three letters of your last name )
P Cah / E Cah

4. YOUR GAMER TAG:
(a favorite colour, a favorite animal)
Blue Otter / Purple Puppy

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME:
(middle name, city where you were born)
Lawrence Colorado Springs / Anna Glens Falls

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME:
(first 3 letters of your last name, last 3 letters of mother’s maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet’s name)
Cah Hut Meg / Cah Man Meg

7. JEDI NAME:
(middle name spelled backwards, your mom’s maiden name spelled backwards)
Ecnerwal Tuhlettek / Anna Namyrrep

8. PORN STAR NAME:
(first pet’s name, the street you grew up on)
Pookie Indigo / Max Wayman Branch

9. SUPERHERO NAME:
(”The”, your favorite color, the automobile your dad drives)
The Blue Explorer / The Purple Tacoma

10. YOUR ACTION HERO NAME:
(First Name Of The Main Character In The Last Film you saw, last food you ate)
Captain Jack Steak / Captain Jack Coffee

What are you names?

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The average person only gets 7 right.

This is based on U.S. info, so use all lobes of your brain. This can be more difficult than it looks – it just shows how little most of us really see!

There are 25 questions about things we see every day or have known about all our lives. How many can you get right?  These little simple questions are harder than you think– it just shows you how little we pay attention to the commonplace things of life.
Put your thinking caps on. No cheating! No looking around! No getting out of your chair! No using anything on or in your desk or computer!

Can you beat 15?? It is nearly impossible for any normal person to get higher than a 15 (The average is 7). Write down your answers and check answers (on the bottom) AFTER completing all t he questions.

REMEMBER – NO CHEATING!!! BE HONEST!!! That means no looking at your phone or anything on your desk…

I’ll repost the answers later!

LET’S JUST SEE HOW OBSERVANT YOU REALLY ARE. – If not, just have fun!

Here we go!

1. On a standard traffic light, is the green on the top or bottom?

2. How many states are there in the USA? (Don’t laugh, some
people don’t know)

3. In which hand is the Statue of Liberty’s torch?

4. What six colors are on the classic Campbell’s soup label?

5. What two numbers on the telephone dial don’t have letters by
them?

6. When you walk does your left arm swing with your right or left
leg? (Don’t you dare get up to see!)

7. How many matches are in a standard pack?

8. On the United States flag is the top stripe red or white?

9. What is the lowest number on the FM dial?

10. Which way does water go down the drain, counter or clockwise?

11. Which way does a “no smoking” sign’s slash run?

12. How many channels on a VHF TV dial?

13. On which side of a women’s blouse are the buttons?

14. Which way do fans rotate?

15. How many sides does a stop sign have?

16. Do books have even-numbered pages on the right or left
side?

17. How many lug nuts are on a standard car wheel?

18. How many sides are there on a standard pencil?

19. Sleepy, Happy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Doc. Who’s missing?

20. How many hot dog buns are in a standard package?

21. On which playing card is the card maker’s trademark?

22. On which side of a Venetian blind is the cord that adjusts
the opening between the slats?

23. There are 12 buttons on a touch tone phone. What 2 symbols bear no digits?

24. How many curves are there in the standard paper clip?

25. Does a merry-go-round turn counter or clockwise?

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Where’s George? ®

I’ve recently started doing this with all the bills I come across. You create an account on their site and then enter in the bill’s denomination, printed year, serial number, and if you like, add some notes about where you got the bill and its condition. I think its fun to see where a bill travels. If you google for “wheresgeorge stamps” people even make rubber stamps to stamp the WheresGeorge.com website on the bills you track. I’m waiting for mine to be delivered still. For an idea of how it works, check out their Top 10 bills

–pc

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So I did the first mow of the yard today.  Took a lot less time than I expected; about 45 minutes.  I didn’t do the far back section of the yard because it’s still pretty short, but the front and sides were growing wild so those had to be cut.  The mower amazingly started on the first pull, not too shabby!  Mowing got a lot of the hay tossed around which is good because now we can rake some of it up.  We’ve got a few bare spots to reseed on both sides and one in the back, but other than that, the grass seems to be doing really well.

Click on the picture below to see more pics of our lovely grass (no more dirt! yay!)

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Woohoo, I get to mow our lawn for the first time today! Not really looking forward to years of mowing, but it’s exciting to know that we waited so long for grass and it’s finally growing well and ready to be cut. We have such exciting lives 🙂

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So I’ve finally decided to put all of our videos from here on out on www.youtube.com.  This way, the videos are easily accessible to everyone, and they won’t bog down our website.  Keep checking back as I try to pick through some old & new videos to upload.  I’ve put a link on the sidebar under the “links” section titled “videos.”  This is a direct link to the youtube site where all the videos will be.

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We got back from NY a day early, so we got to have some fun for 4th of July. We went over to Jim & Cathy’s for dinner, and Sensei Steve and his family joined us. After dinner we headed over to the dojo to meet up with many more people to set off TONS of fireworks. We had a great time, there were some great fireworks, and no one got injured. Toward the end of the night, we got a little crazy and started putting fireworks into the sewer drains. Check out this video that I posted on You Tube to see what happens when you put a small mortar down into the drain…hehe

Also got some pictures, check them out here.

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We’re back from our wonderfully restful New York vacation! We went from June 23 – July 3rd. We got to see lots of family and spend a lot of time doing nothing but relaxing; which we really needed.

We left KY Friday the 23rd and drove 9 hours to Syracuse, NY. When we got there at 2:30am we decided to stop instead of driving the last 3 hours that night. We got up at 7am and finished the drive, got to Emily’s dad’s house in time to jump in the shower, get dressed and head out for Cate’s (Emily’s sister) high school graduation. The ceremony was very nice and Colleen got to hand Cate her diploma which was really cool. We went out to eat and mini golfing after the ceremony.

Sunday was Cate’s graduation party at our Uncle Danny’s house (Colleen’s brother). It was a little warm and muggy, but we had great food and played some great rounds of cornhole! We again went mini-golfing afterwards (one of our family’s favorite pastimes).

Monday – Thursday Paul and I pretty much stayed at my mom’s cabin while she flew back to KY to drop my brother off at a summer camp. Her cabin is now finished, and beautiful! We had a nice relaxing time there, even though it rained the whole time. We had quite the fiasco with their motorboat on the lake. There had been so much rain that the boat flooded and came withing 3 inches of sinking! The road out to the lakefront where the boat was moored was flooded, so I had to get in the little dingy and row about 200 yards out to it. I spent the next hour bilging and bailing water; what fun! My mom also lost her very expensive kayak to the flood, but Phil ended up finding it on Saturday; it had been found by a boy a few camps down the lake.

On Saturday, Paul and I went to my dad’s camp on the Great Sacandaga Lake. The Lake was flooded as well, it had risen about 4 feet in a matter of days. Everyone’s docks were torn apart or sunken, and many boats were flipped over and sunk. Even the mooring balls that boats were tied to on the lake were under water, it was so flooded.
We went to the Sacandaga dam, which usually barely has a trickle of water, but since the water was so high, it was gushing over it like Niagra Falls. There were tons of people out on the road taking pictures and video. Apparently, it’s only the 5th time since 1930 that it’s gushed over the dam like that. Pretty cool.
We had a nice time at the cabin, Meg got to swim, we watched some fireworks from my uncle’s camp down the road, and ate smore’s by the fire that night.

Megabyte went with us to New York. She had an unbelievable time; she got to sit out on screen porches the whole time and smell all the woodsy Adirondack smells, and got to go swimming for the first time in her life. We got some really cute pictures of her swimming and hanging out.

I got to read a few of my books in the Left Behind series; I’m now on book 8: The Mark. Philip (my little brother) is still reading them, and my mom has started the series as well.

That’s all for now; be sure to check out all the pictures from our trip in our gallery, there’s pictures in the following folders: Cate’s Graduation, Diana’s Cabin, Megabyte, and Vacations.

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