A beautiful fairy appeared one day to a destitute Mexican refugee outside an Arizona immigration office.
  
 "Good man," the fairy said, "I've been sent here by President Obama and told to grant you three wishes, since you just arrived in the United States with your wife and eight children."
  
 The man told the fairy,  "Well, where I come from we don't have good teeth, so I want new teeth, maybe a lot of gold in them."
 
 The fairy looked at the man's almost toothless grin and -- PING!-- he had a brand new shining set of gold teeth in his mouth!
  
 "What else?" asked the fairy, "Two more to go."
  
 The refugee claimant now got bolder.  "I need a big house with a three car garage in Annapolis on the water with eight bedrooms for my family and the rest of my relatives who still live in my country.. I want to bring them all over here" --- and --PING!--in the distance there could be seen a beautiful mansion with a three car garage, a long driveway, a walkout patio with a BBQ in an upscale neighborhood overlooking the bay.
  
 "One more wish", said the fairy, waving her wand.
  
 "Yes, one more wish. I want to be like an American with American clothes instead of these torn clothes, and a baseball cap instead of     this sombrero. And I want to have white skin like Americans" ---and ---PING!--The man was transformed - wearing worn out jeans, a Baltimore Orioles T-shirt and a baseball cap. He had his bad teeth back and the mansion had disappeared from the horizon.
  
 "What happened to my new teeth?"  He wailed, "Where is my new house?"
  
  The fairy said:  "Tough shit, Amigo, Now that you are a White American, you have to fend for yourself."

he's a little angry... I ran out of bird seed

you find the strangest things at ponds edge

reflections on the water

goose babies 2010 version

Milwaukee summerfest park

lake Michigan

bat fest

I've wanted one of these silly things forever. I'll let you know how it grows. If it looks like it's going to do well I'm going to go get the one for tomato plants.. and then I'll be out shopping for squirrel baffles to keep the little beggars off the fruits

these are some of the solar lights we got for the backyard. 4 different colors - pretty cool in the night

the quince is blooming

Mr Kitty is THRILLED that the snow and cold seem to be gone

Mr K strikes a pose with the magnolia

I worked outside all day today and could probably spend another week working on the yard. It's a lot of work but nice on the soul.

A doctor examining a woman who had been rushed to the Emergency Room, took the husband aside, and said, 'I don't like the looks of your wife at all.'

'Me neither doc,' said the husband. 'But she's a great cook and really good with the kids.'

today my Mom has surgery to remove the upper lobe from her right lung. If you can throw a prayer out there for her, I'd be most grateful. My body is in Wisconsin but my heart is in California.  to my sister who is standing by and waiting for Mom.

I can't believe how cool this came out. go, me!

On his deathbed, Earl Woods gave Tiger the following advice:

 













 
 
 
 
 
"Focus on golf. Fuck everything else."

Tia? Drops? you guys are always coming up with something tasty.. win $1,000!

In an astonishing act of backroom international diplomacy, French President Nicolas Sarkozy hand-delivered a letter from fugitive Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski to President Barack Obama last week on the sidelines of the international anti-nuke proliferation summit in Washington, according to a small and little-noticed article embedded in the prestigious French political magazine, L’Express.

It is unclear what Polanski or President Sarkozy, for that matter, think that Obama might be able or willing to do for a man who has acknowledged giving a Quaalude and champagne to a 13-year-old girl he then  sodomized.

the story is here

Polanski, Sarkozy, Obama... all icky