"Do you ship to APO (military) addresses? I'm in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for ships to APO first."
That's how a Fox News story describes this product. I'm not sure how else to tell you about them besides send you their link. I'm sure that this is a God-send for people would actually NEED to purchase them, but even the inventors admit there is a humorous side.
That's ice on the twigs/weeds around Amanda. Amanda came to work with us on Monday since she was out of school. She thought the ice on these things was so "beautiful" that she wanted me to come see them.
I got up Wednesday morning and let the dogs out before getting Amanda up to get ready for school. When I looked outside, I was surprised to see what the weather had brought the night before. No school Wednesday. Everybody (Amanda, Brooke, Boo and Sully) came to the church playground, so I had to take a break and go play with them.
Here is Boo climbing up the tires to play with us at the top of the playground equipment.
Boo would have nothing to do with this "bridge crossing", but Sully thought nothing of it once he finally got up the nerve to climb up the tires onto the equipment.
And here is why Sully had to work up his nerve to climb the equipment...he fell through the first time!
Amanda Kay spent the night at a friend's house last night. It was her friend's birthday, so some girls came over and spent the night. Amanda and one girl stayed awake until 2:30am talking and then had to be up in time for church today. This is what happened when Amanda was playing in her room this afternoon. And she was NOT a happy camper when she had to get up.
Perhaps you've received the same e-mail I received for the third time today:
We headed out to do just two caches. This is a travel bug we took for the Dew Drop Inn I-20 Travel Bug Motel. A travel bug is any item you attach to one of these tags. You drop it off in a cache and then somebody else picks it up, takes it to another cache and logs its trip. Interesting note: you can click on the Google Maps link from this cache page to see where this area is, but it used to be an I-20 rest area (Park Springs at I-20). That's another neat thing about geocaching...you learn local history you never knew before.
Amanda traded a small stuffed raccoon for this balloon animal kit which she put to good use as soon as we got back from our outing.
I subscribe to the RSS feed from Download Squad. One of the posts they send out is the "Time Waster" of the day. I haven't found that many that I'm real excited about, but I thought Throw Paper! was a lot of fun. You try to toss the paper wad into the trash can, but you have to watch the arrow on the trashcan what shows which way the fan is blowing and how hard. Anyway, my best score was 12 in a row. If you've got some time to waste, try it out for yourself here.
One Oregon man's trip to the toilet gave his household some unexpected excitement as soon as he lifted the lid.
As Lee Rich opened the toilet seat, a 10-inch long rat, dripping with sewage, came shooting out of the bowl and darted into an open cabinet where the family stores their bath towels, Salem's Statesman Journal reported.
"That thing just came screaming out of there," said Rich, 66, a retiree.
He trapped the rodent in a plastic coffee can and sealed it with tape. He then put the can in the freezer to kill the rat.
Salem takes 10 to 15 complaints each year from residents about rats in their sewer pipes, said Public Works spokesman Mike Gotterba.
City workers put rat poison in a manhole near Rich's home and promised to put more bait at the location if they needed to.
Guess I ain't the only one!
I'm not really in the job market right now because I feel I have the perfect job, but there are some things that are just too good to pass up. Take, for instance, my making Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" in 2006. I had to dig through my typewriter-written files to find my resume (circa 1991), but I finally found it. Now I can kill two birds with one stone...I'll get my resume onto the computer and I'll put at the top of the list, "Time Magazine Person of the Year 2006". Since I'm not currently looking for a job, maybe it's worth a raise!
No, nobody's sick...it's just the men of the Hurt household relaxing on a Sunday afternoon
Here's a couple pictures (click to enlarge) of our last geocaching adventure in Alabama with cousins David and Hannah. Click on the photo album below to view the rest of the pictures from our trip.
"... Racial profiling controversy is nothing new. For a number of years, black Americans have made charges of racial profiling by police and store personnel who might give them extra scrutiny. Clever phrases have emerged, such as "driving while black" and now "flying while Muslim," but they don't help much in terms of understanding. Let's apply some economic analysis to the issue. 
What could be more innocent than a child opening a Christmas present? (Hint: it depends on what's inside the box)
This was really her mother's idea!
When you're an artist, you absolutely MUST let your creative flair be seen
And this is what happens when you cross being Daddy to an artistic little girl and husband to a Mommy who has a mischievous streak!
Short version: a kid gets on the school bus, sees his bus driver, Kenneth Mott, wearing a Santa hat and gets "offended" because he doesn't believe in Santa Claud. Mr. Mott is told to loose the hat.
The Sunday school teacher was describing how Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt, when little Jason interrupted, "My Mommy looked back once, while she was driving," he announced triumphantly, "and she turned into a telephone pole!"
Vacationing in Arizona, a group of British tourists spot a cowboy lying on the road with his ear to the ground. 
Every year I resolve to lose weight and save money, but I always get them mixed up.
Click photo to read the whole story
We used to have Life Group at our house, so every Wednesday we did a "touch up" cleaning job on the house. Now that we don't have Life Group here each week...well, we don't "touch up" as much as we used to. Last time we had a Young Marrieds event here and cleaned the house for it, Amanda kept asking why we were doing so much cleaning. I tried to explain to her that it takes longer to clean for company when you don't do little bits each week, but I'm not sure how much she understood. She kept asking about it.
Here is a picture of one of the walls in Amanda's room. These are two bulletin boards she has just figured out how to use.
Amanda's Aunt Judy always sends a savings bond for Christmas. She also sent Amanda a card this year. When Brooke gave the card to Amanda, this is what Amanda did with it (you can click on the picture to make it larger).
Watched the new Superman movie tonight (first mistake). Did you catch the part at the beginning of the movie where he's flipping channels on the TV and one scene shows a Muslim in a war zone (no indication if they were supposed to be terrorist or victim). When I saw that I thought about one of the few things I remembered about Superman. Do you remember the three things Superman stood for?
Ahhh...can you smell it? It's "hot stuff" cooking at the Hurt household. What? You don't know what "hot stuff" is? It's the Hurt recipe for Chex Mix, and we make it every year at Christmastime. Here's our family recipe:
This is a true account as recorded in the Police Log of Sarasota, Florida...
Here's a picture of Little George. We haven't seen him since the Monday before Thanksgiving. Little George, Grumpy and Grace have all snuggled in for the winter and appear to be hibernating. We saw Grace and Grumpy on Thanksgiving day when I moved around a little dirt where they had dug in. Grace even came out from her spot and dug into another one. Little George is dug in way down deep (I'm thinking he may be directly under Grumpy by an inch or so), so we did not see him on Thanksgiving day. Don't know if they are having visions of sugar plumbs dance in their heads, but hope they're doing OK so we can see them again this Spring.
Was it an orchestrated stunt? Click on the picture to enlarge so you can read it. Click on the title to this post to read the entire story.
A woman on board a flight bound for Dallas/Fort Worth apparently struck several matches in an attempt to hide a flatulent faux pas, reported the Tennessean.
The flight was brought in for an emergency landing after passengers reported a burning smell. After investigators began questioning people, the woman admitted to striking the matches while trying to hide her "body odor." She is from the Dallas area and reportedly has a medical condition.
When reports of the smells were heard, the plane landed in Nashville and all passengers and crew members were brought off board. Bomb-sniffing dogs were then called to the scene and they tracked down the used matches.
The flight took off again after the incident, but the woman was not allowed back on board. American Airlines has reportedly banned her for a long time. Although it is illegal to strike a match on a plane, the woman was not charged with any crime.
Story here.
Before going to bed tonight, our proud little tooth-puller asked me if I had blogged about her feat last night. I told her no, but I would tonight. So here it is...a picture of Amanda's missing tooth (bottom row, just right of center). But this one is special...it is the first one she pulled all by herself.
Boo does not put up with such nonsense, but Sully is just good-natured and lets Amanda torture him as seen here. I believe he is the student, as as you can see from his paw in Amanda's hand, the teacher is helping him finish his homework.
If Ann Coulter is too "over the top" for you, don't click on her picture to read her take on the six imams kicked off the US Airways flight.
The weather people are saying it is supposed to start raining tomorrow and then a cold front is moving in. I figured since that might happen I should get out tonight and find my 300th geocache while I could do so without freezing. This one was in a park and in the woods. I discovered there are more thorns at night than during the day, but other than that it wasn't too hard.
This is called a "microcache" or "micro" for short. Actually, this little cache is even smaller than a typical micro...and I found two of these today! I went out this afternoon in pursuit of cache find #300 and had to stop early because I found seven...my next one is #300 and I did not want to find it by myself. I've got to get GeoPunkin and Punkin's Momma out with me this week to find the next one.
For those who have the want to but can't really shoot your own Thanksgiving bird. Click the picture to go huntin'.
9:19 AM
10:18 AM - Amanda's birthday present to Mommy
7:03 PM - Guess who got the first bite of birthday cake...Boo!
Here's a picture of me feeding the ducks at the park with Amanda today. It was better day for feeding ducks than it was for geocaching. Here's my log from our third DNF (Did Not Find) today:
Does that thing on his head mean he graduated with honors?
In real life, it was the front tire on the driver's side.
You are piloting a missile through a number of tunnels and you move your mouse to control the missile. I wish they put a dot on the screen so you could tell where you were going, but I suppose it is more "realistic" (?) this way. These little circle things seen in the picture above kill me (literally).
