(not original with me, this was sent to me via email)   After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to Wal-Mart. Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out.  Equally unfortunate, my wife is like most women - she loves to browse. Yesterday my dear wife received the following letter from the local Wal-Mart. Dear Mrs. Samuel, Over the past six months, your husband has caused quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerat

( I wrote  the story when the girls were 16) The story of how our Monday morning miracles  arrived started in the early autumn of 1983. We had just moved to the city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota and my husband Ron was preparing to start as a student at the North American Baptist Seminary. Not many days after we arrived I started feeling quite ill and a visit to the doctor told me that I was pregnant. Well, I was very happy, but I had one nervous husband on my hands. You, see he had been told

I hate to see old clothes wasted , so if I have old blue jeans that can’t be worn anymore , by me or any one else I like to salvage what I can from them . One idea is to make blue jean quilts. Here are a couple of pictures of quilts that I have made so far.       I was looking   at the favecrafts website ( http://www.favecrafts.com/Green-Crafting/14-Things-to-Do-with-Old-Jeans# )   I really like some of the 14 different ideas that they share here:   1. To reduce your paper consumption AN