darwin awards winner my faverot (click here for link)

good morning
hope you are feeling warm in this cold weather, my thoughts are often turned to those who arn't fortunate like myself to have a roof over my head, i have a real heart for people without homes who have to sleep rough , the weather here is so so cold now and where i live there arn't even shelters for people to sleep in the bus stop is often every night not even a safe place for a rough sleeper. so i urge you to if you don't already to soften your hearts towards people less fortunate its so easy to just turn a blind eye but no matter where you live there will always be poverty like this. show kindness, smile say hello . it may not always be appropriate but it will be worth it and I'm sure you will be blessed by Heavenly Father for showing Christ like Love.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nohome/ (see link for uk info)

well I've just woke up and I'm freezing cold again its really winter here now after the rather too warm start.
there's a very funny (also abit not funny) story which has to be my favorite of all the Darwin awards.
if you've not heard about the Darwin awards its a compilation every year of the silly and sheer stupid things us humans are capable of often and mostly resulting in sadly death for the person but the one i want to share with you is from one of the very few people in the Darwin awards who didn't die from the actual story mentioned but did take his life years later very sad. its not the ending i like but how he got to the point of the award. so here goes.....

Lawn Chair Larry 1982 Honorable Mention Confirmed True by Darwin

(1982, California) Larry Walters of Los Angeles is one of the few to contend for the Darwin Awards and live to tell the tale. "I have fulfilled my 20-year dream," said Walters, a former truck driver for a company that makes TV commercials. "I'm staying on the ground. I've proved the thing works."
Larry's boyhood dream was to fly. But fates conspired to keep him from his dream. He joined the Air Force, but his poor eyesight disqualified him from the job of pilot. After he was discharged from the military, he sat in his backyard watching jets fly overhead.
He hatched his weather balloon scheme while sitting outside in his "extremely comfortable" Sears lawn chair. He purchased 45 weather balloons from an Army-Navy surplus store, tied them to his tethered lawn chair dubbed the Inspiration I, and filled the 4' diameter balloons with helium. Then he strapped himself into his lawn chair with some sandwiches, Miller Lite, and a pellet gun. He figured he would pop a few of the many balloons when it was time to descend.
Larry's plan was to sever the anchor and lazily float up to a height of about 30 feet above his back yard, where he would enjoy a few hours of flight before coming back down. But things didn't work out quite as Larry planned.
When his friends cut the cord anchoring the lawn chair to his Jeep, he did not float lazily up to 30 feet. Instead, he streaked into the LA sky as if shot from a cannon, pulled by the lift of 42 helium balloons holding 33 cubic feet of helium each. He didn't level off at 100 feet, nor did he level off at 1000 feet. After climbing and climbing, he leveled off at 16,000 feet.
At that height he felt he couldn't risk shooting any of the balloons, lest he unbalance the load and really find himself in trouble. So he stayed there, drifting cold and frightened with his beer and sandwiches, for more than 14 hours. He crossed the primary approach corridor of LAX, where Trans World Airlines and Delta Airlines pilots radioed in reports of the strange sight.
Eventually he gathered the nerve to shoot a few balloons, and slowly descended. The hanging tethers tangled and caught in a power line, blacking out a Long Beach neighborhood for 20 minutes. Larry climbed to safety, where he was arrested by waiting members of the LAPD. As he was led away in handcuffs, a reporter dispatched to cover the daring rescue asked him why he had done it. Larry replied nonchalantly, "A man can't just sit around."
The Federal Aviation Administration was not amused. Safety Inspector Neal Savoy said, "We know he broke some part of the Federal Aviation Act, and as soon as we decide which part it is, a charge will be filed."

new york hero (click here for link)

Good morning my loyal fans lol

well my hubby has just gone to work and im still waking up, its gone very cold here now it is really feeling like winter. still not long now till spring. mind you the plants had been coming up way too early and alot will be killed off when these frosts really set in. it had been too mild really.

heres a heart warming story of bravery in new york that my hubby showed me this morning that i said there should be more men like him in the world and he sounded jeaulous or somthing and said yeah what a guy. what kind of reation was that! any way here it is for ya all.

New York's 'Subway Superman' has roots in Pensacola
Reginald T. Dogan (taken from
Unless you live under a rock, you've probably heard about the "Subway Superman."He's the New York construction worker who jumped on a subway track in front of an oncoming train to save a young man who had suffered a seizure. He covered the man's body in the gutter and allowed the train to run above them.What you probably didn't know is that this modern-day Superman, Wesley Autrey, was born in Pensacola in 1957 at Our Lady of Angels, a Catholic hospital for black people during segregation.His miracle moment began on Jan. 2, a normal winter day in New York, as he took his daughters to meet his mother before he went to work.After his heroic moment on the tracks, Wesley refused to seek treatment at the hospital and went to work on his construction job as if nothing happened.The man he saved, Cameron Hollopeter, 20, was treated for the seizure and minor injuries.I caught up with Wesley by telephone in Harlem, N.Y., a day after his Tuesday appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in Los Angeles.Everyone thinks he's a hero -- except himself."I don't feel like a hero," the 50-year-old Navy veteran said. "The real heroes are the ones who are fighting in Iraq overseas."Since he left his Hatton Street home and moved to Brewton, Ala., at age 4, Wesley doesn't remember much about Pensacola.But extended family members who live here remember him and are abuzz about his valiant deed.Pensacola resident Shirley Crenshaw White is Wesley's second cousin. Her late mother and Wesley's late grandmother were sisters.Shirley, 67, saw her cousin on "The Late Show with David Letterman" for the first time since he was a little boy living in Pensacola."We're real proud of him," she said. "Any and everybody in my family would have done the same thing to help. That's just the way we are."Shirley works for Southern Botanicals Landscape Contracting and attends St. Joseph Catholic Church. She graduated from St. Joseph High School in 1957.She remembers Wesley as a child."He was just like he was on television -- always talking, outgoing and friendly," she said. "He's the spitting image of his father."Wesley's father, Robert Autrey, still lives in Brewton. Wesley lived there until age 12, when he moved with his mother to New York.It's been a long time since Robert last saw or talked to his son. But like the rest of America, he is so proud."I'm not surprised he had the nerve to do it," his father said. "He took after me. Sometimes, you have to take a chance in life."But Wesley did more than take a chance. He risked life and limb.Even though Wesley downplayed his bravery and courage as something anybody would do, the sad reality is that the subway station was crowded with people at the time."I came from a good Christian family," said Wesley, who has three children and two grandchildren. "My mom raised me to live a good life and help people when you can."Wesley's daring story has put him in the national spotlight. In addition to appearing with DeGeneres and Letterman, he has been on several daytime talk shows. He will be on the "Oprah Winfrey Show'' later this month.His telephone rings constantly. Some callers are complete strangers so moved by his heroics that they offer rewards.New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg honored him at City Hall. Donald Trump rewarded him with a $10,000 check. His daughters received college scholarships.

temple trip in febuary

hi again 3rd post today if im careful ill become a blogger addict lol

anyway just wanted to let you know that God willing ill be going back to the london temple in feb for a few days. i so hope i wont be ill or anything to stop this trip. its a long way but very much worth the travel.

the spitit is so strong there and just being with gods people and serving in His house is such a privalage too.

i wont write too much just now but wanted to just let you know that i Know with all my heart that the God of issac, jacob and abraham lives and loves us all. he is the God of isreal and i love him and serve him.

well i pray for you who read this blog to feel blessed and hope you might find this a place of friendship and goodness in amoungst a world of hurt and pain. take care. and God bless you x

GOOD MORNING USA OOPS I MEAN UK (click here for link)

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE, OR SHOULD I JUST SAY ME, AS IM NOT SUREIF ANYONE IS SEEING THIS BLOG. IF YOU DO STUMBLE ACROSS MY BLOG PLEASE PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS, THE NICER THE BETTER PLEASE.ANYWAY IVE JUST GOT UP WELL AT 7.30AM ANYWAY, THIS IS MY MUNDANE LIFE. LOVE YA ALL.

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new year new outlook

hi

everyone
im trying to get this blog up and running properly now so please all sugestions welcome. anyway lately ive been trying to put together a photography workshop thing for the relief society in our branch. its so far going ok but still lots to do. i love photography and think im preety ok at it. much better thoughat taking black n white pictures.
well ill write more later. caz

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