Paul and Susan Hill

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INTERESTING STATS!!  SCARY STATS!!

  1.  Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every

day.

2.  This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!

3.. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick’s Day

(March 17th) than Target sells all year.

4.  Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears +

Costco + K-Mart combined.

5.  Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private

employer, and most speak English.

6.  Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.

7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep

in mind they did this in only 15 years.

8.  During this same period, 31 supermarket chains sought

bankruptcy.

9.  Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

10.  Wal-Mart has approximately 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906

are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.

11.  This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur

at a Wal-Mart store.  (Earth’s population is approximately 6.5

Billion.)

12.  90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.

You may think that I am concerned, but I am really laying the ground

work for suggesting that MAYBE, we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart

to fix the economy, because the idiots in Washington sure can’t do

it!

This is Brooks Falls just upstream from where the Brooks River flows into Naknek

Lake in the Katami National Monument , Alaska . Have you ever seen a Wolf fish for salmon?

Jose Cuervo Christmas Cookies

1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup or brown sugar
4 large eggs
1 cup nuts
2 cups of dried fruit
1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila

Sample the Cuervo to check quality. Take a large bowl,
Check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the highest quality,
Pour one level cup and drink.
Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter
In a large fluffy bowl.

Add one peastoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point
it’s best to make sure the Cuervo is still ok, try another
Cup just in case.
Turn off the mixerer thingy.
Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup
Of dried fruit.
Pick the frigging fruit off the floor.
Mix on the turner.

If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaters just pry
It loose with a drewscriver.
Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.
Next, sift two cups of salt, or something. Who geeves
A sheet. Check the Jose Cuervo. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.
Add one table.
Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can
Fing.
Greash the oven.
Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall
Over.
Don’t forget to beat off the turner.

Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the
Cose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in the wishdasher.
Cherry Mistmas !

In Laura Ingels-Wilder’s series of books "The Little House on the Prairie" she described living through this 1911 freeze in Nebraska.      Was one of her many fascinating stories telling a true historical background of an American family in "the good old days".   Her writings rival Mark Twain.

Margaret writes:

Her mother had a cousin living in Niagara Falls that year. She told the family that she and her neighbors woke up in the night feeling something was wrong.  It took a while but they finally realized that it was the lack of noise.   They had all become so used to the roar of the falls that the silence was unusual enough to alert their senses.   Of course at that time nearly all the houses were near the falls.    Amazing pictures!     Almost 100 years old.

Can you imagine walking on Niagara Falls?

1911 Photos of Niagara Falls…