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About 500 years ago horses came to North America and changed the life of the Indians. Spanish horses came first and the word "mustang" goes back to spanish "mestengo", something like a vagabond. An old early mustang breed is the "Sulphur", which still may be found under the 30.000 wild horses in the west today.
American races with english and other blood emerged later like the American quarter horse and the Appaloosa of the Nez Perce Indians.
In Oregon nowadays an annual meeting is held, called the Indian Princess Pendleton Round-up. See picture. No wonder the US cavalry slaughtered these horses and Indians, because they were jealous about their beauty.

Message from the management

Dear employee,

At the General Management Meeting the following has been decided:

1. Clothing:

The clothes you go to your workplace with must be adapted to your salary:

When you walk around with Prada footwear and Gucci clothing, we will that you earn more than enough and therefore do not need a salary increase. When you are poorly dressed, you need to learn how to handle your money better, so that you can afford better clothes. We can not therefore allow you to increase your salary in this case.

When you wear Jan Modaal's average brand clothing, you are in the middle class and you are fine. You therefore do not have to pay a salary increase.
2. Family days and allowed absence:

Every employee is entitled to 104 days a year from now on. They are also sometimes called "Saturday" and "Sunday".

3. Lunch break:

Skinny people are entitled to 30 minutes, because they have to eat more to look healthy.

People with a normal weight are entitled to 15 minutes to eat a balanced meal and thus stay on their weight.

People who are overweight are entitled to 5 minutes, they do not need more time to drink a bottle of "Slim Fast" and take a diet pill.

4. Sick leave: Doctor's notes are no longer accepted. If you can go to the doctor you can also go to work.

5. Use of the sanitary facilities:

Too much time is spent on the toilets. That is why a time limit of 3 minutes has now been introduced. After 3 minutes an alarm siren will be opened, the toilet paper will be locked, the door will be opened and a picture will be taken.

After 2 offenses your photo will be posted on the Information Board under the category: "Chronic Offender of the Work Regulations"

6. Medical interventions: As long as you work here, you need all your organs. Do not even think about removing one or the other. We have assumed you intact, so any subsequent operation will be considered a form of breach of contract.

We thank you in advance for your loyalty to the company.

It is our intention to conduct a positive labor policy.

May we therefore ask you to address all your questions, comments, concerns, complaints, frustrations, irritations, aggressions and accusations to someone else than to us. With kind regards,

The management.

But what do I have to do with a picture of someone's roll or the message that they have missed the bus? .............You have to find yourself very important if you think others are waiting for it.

If I had a dollar for every time someone told me "There's more than one way to skin a cat" I'd be retired and living off the profits of my investments. Well, I'm not collecting dollars and it's true, although I've never skinned a cat, I'm sure there is more than one way to do it.

So, let's say I really did work for a place that skinned cats... Taxidermy perhaps?
Right answer. It was my summer job... lots of cats came in and I got them all. The boss told me he's never seen someone work so quickly and paid me extra if I could skin them in a way that required less time to stuff them (that was his job) because I skinned them and he stuffed them. What a great job, but many things come to an end and I found another job.

Later in life, I got to talking at a pub and the subject came up about skinning cats. Okay, I skinned a few... hundred and described how I developed some different ways to skin cats. But... it sounded so over the top that no one believed me. I really was telling the truth and someone at the end of the bar went around telling people I was a BS'er simply because in his neck of the woods no one had accomplished what I said I had done.

Trump fabricated a story/lie about Obama that people believed. Millions of dollars were wasted on finding the truth. Years later, he admitted it was a farce but people to this day believe the lie... it did sound convincing. If you are convinced that the lie was true chances are the person who started the lie would be unable to change your mind.
That's human nature.

So any time I went into that bar I was perceived as a liar simply because of a person who fed people BS about me. Then one day, the best customer of the taxidermist happens into the pub. He recognizes me from years past and mentioned how much money he made selling stuffed cats that he knew I had skinned. Some of the people stood around with mouths opened... "You mean he was telling the truth?" one of them said...

I've seen some YouTube videos uploaded by Dude Perfect. It's a group of guys who document some amazing stunts, some have been entered into the Guiness Boooook. Anyway, their videos are really cool... I've seen an outtake of the amount of failures it takes to get one successful stunt. Hundreds.

What sticks in your mind is the 'first try' success these guys have on video...

Sometimes In Life

I rarely answer calls from numbers I don't recognize, however I did put out a few bids and customers have called to discuss prices. I'm also working on a large renovation and the contractor has me in touch with some of the trades as I need specific placement of walls, plumbing and electrical.
A call came through and I answered without saying anything. The guy on the other end spoke first and knew my name. He started into a sales pitch for some computer service. I stopped him cold and told him to remove my number from his list.
Hanging up, I placed his number on my blocked number list.

I've been using the same phone for a few years and plan to upgrade sometime next year. Normally, I clone all my contacts and data from the old phone to the replacement phone. Having repeated the same procedure for at least 5 phones. I'm curious now if the new phone will receive the blocked list in the transfer. I've never seen a blocked caller list to verify who's on it.

Last night, I received a text message from an unknown number stating my Citibank account has been put on hold due to recent activity and to restore the account, visit the link provided to verify.
Thanks but no thanks. That's a 100% phishing scam in an attempt to get my banking information. The beauty is I don't have a Citibank account.

If I did, I would call my bank to verify and not click the link in the text message.
I reverse Googled the number but it turned up nothing. There's a good chance it was spoofed and not really assigned by a phone carrier.

Be safe, tis the season as scammers are in high-gear.

Coming from Ireland, I have to say that from a human rights point of view I am very proud of how we recently passed the legislation on the allowing of gay marriage,

The Vatican's reaction was the Popes right hand man
Cardinal Pietro Parolin stating that this was
"a defeat for humanity"

on the other hand
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin Ireland said
"It is very clear that if this referendum is an affirmation of the views of young people … [then the church needs] a reality check."

This leaves me very unresolved on where the Catholic church stands on the issue.

Are other church leaders as well as catholic ones divided on the issue. ?

...or are they?
I have some clients who won't let people in their house wearing street shoes. That's difficult for my servicemen as OSHA requires workers to wear steel toe safety shoes. To get around this, we all carry disposable booties to cover our shoes. One customer wouldn't allow me in their house with booties... everyone left their shoes by the door and walked around barefoot. I did it once and won't do it again.

House shoes or as they were called (when I was young) bedroom slippers, are only for the house, but some people no longer have rules like that... people on the street are wearing house shoes and a small percentage wear pajamas in public too!

I have no explanation for this behavior!



With 4 kids home watching TV, this woman doesn't have time to change into street clothes!

I was reading ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ by Dylan Thomas. It’s a poem about an old man who seems to have had his electricity cut off, and his son is imploring him to do something about it. To pay his bill, presumably. I prefer poetry that talks about the small, everyday matters of life; I find the more lofty themes tend to go over my head. I am a late comer to poetry -over 60 years late. For me, the purpose of poetry is not to teach us things we don’t know, but rather to bring more into our consciousness things we already know but haven’t paid enough attention to. Things like the importance of paying our bills on time.

Weekends, mean the guys meeting at the model aircraft flying field. The weather was windy and rain approaching, so we broke and went for lunch. While we were, there it poured down rain and an hour later the sun started coming out. Everyone went their way and I returned to the field. Not long after, one of the other guys shows back up... not to fly. He came looking for his wedding ring. He put it in his pocket when he flew as it clacks against the controller.
Now, it's gone. So we did a search of his path to and from his car, but no luck.
I was ready to suggest he check back at the restaurant. He calls and they have his missing ring at the front reception. Awesome!

He was worried should someone find it they would keep or put it online to sell...
My superstition is keeping a wedding ring (even if you found it) would bring bad luck.
Get it back to the original owner...