Rockpile – 12-11-2019
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We held our annual Pheiffer Card card tournament this past Saturday. Bob Scribner and his son Kelly wound up winning the tournament by a slim 5 point margin. Cindy Fouks and her mother Karen Kundy took 2nd place. A good time was had by all. Thanks to all participants!!!
We are now setting up our Christmas Team Tournament which will take place between December 23rd and January 4th. It will be a 5-person team event. The entry fee is a mere $50. Entries are filling up fast so get your date and time ASAP!!!
I see that our Badgers will be playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day! Should be a good game as the Badgers will face the Oregon Ducks. “I can smell the Roses”!!!
Song of the Day
• 1952: “Don’t Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes” – Slim Willet
• 1962: “Mama Sang A Song” – Bill Anderson
• 1972: “She’s Too Good To Be True” – Charlie Pride
• 1982: “You and I” – Eddie Rabitt and Crystal Gayle
• 1992: “I Cross My Heart” – George Strait
Events
• 1884 – Army Engineers completed the Washington Monument. They started building it in 1850.
• 1923 – President Calvin Coolidge gave the first Presidential Address on the radio.
• 1945 – The first patent for the microwave was issued.
• 1960 – Gene Autry purchased the L.A. Angels baseball team.
• 1997 – Four skydivers attempted the first four-way skydive over the South Pole where the air temperature was -100 below zero. Only one diver survived.
Things to be Grateful For
1. Be awakened early = Children to love
2. House to clean = Safe place to live
3. Laundry to be done = Clothes to wear
4. Grocery shopping = Enough $$ to live on
5. Dishes to wash = Food to eat
6. Crumbs on the floor = Family meals together
7. Toilets to clean = Indoor plumbing
8. Lots of noise = People in my life
9. Endless questions = Children’s brains are growing
10. Sore and tired in bed = I’m still alive
MRI
When a soldier came to the clinic where I work for an MRI, he was put into the machine by an attractive, young technician.
Sometime later, when the examination was over, he was helped out of the machine by a far older woman. The soldier remarked, “How long was I in there for?”
In the Service
One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Alex standing in the foyer of the church starting up at a large plaque.
It was covered with names and small American flags mounted on either side of it.
The little boy had been staring at the plaque for some time when the pastor walked up. “Good morning, Alex,” he whispered.
“Good morning, Pastor,” he replied. Pointing up to the plaque, he asked, “Pastor, what is this?”
“Well, son, it’s a memorial to all the young men and women who died in the service.”
Soberly, they just stood together, staring at the large plaque.
Finally, little Alex’s voice, barely audible and trembling with fear, asked, “Which service, the 9:30 or the 11 o’clock?”
Duh!!
I went to a very smart high school. Fifty percent of my class graduated in the top half!!
Religious Rockpile Reader of the Week
Brad and Blackie Berends of Glenwood City, Wisconsin.
Have a cute story or joke?
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P.O. Box 213; Glenwood City, WI 54013
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