The Festival of Trees stocking is done except for the cuff. Tomorrow, I will put it on and get it wrapped for the big event. I need to put the Tisket a Tasket Basket together for delivery on Friday. Then my donations will be done for a bit.

We had spaghetti and meatballs for supper. I fixed my own sauce (there was all kinds of leftover, onion, garlic, tomatoes in the fridge) but used Market Day meatballs. Market Day food is usually VERY good.

I got the funniest email from my friend Janet. I will transfer it to this Blog.


A Great Story........
One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota, a fire started inside the local chemical plant & in a blink of an eye it exploded into massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief & said, "All of our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact." But the roaring flames held the firefighters off. Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's secret files. From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby Norwegian rural township volunteer fire company composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire engine, operated by these Norwegians, passed all the newer sleek engines parked outside the plant .... & drove straight into the middle of the inferno.

Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped off & began to fight the fire with a performance & effort never seen before. Within a short time, the Norske old timers had extinguished the fire & saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president joyfully announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, & walked over to personally thank each of the brave, though elderly, Norske fire fighters. The local TV news reporters rushed in after capturing the event on film asking, "What are you going to do with all that money?" "Vell," said Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "da furst thing ve do is fix da brakes on dat foocking truck!

Isn't that great.

Have a smiley Wednesday

Mary