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Lessons
learned
You can learn a lot from
listening to little boys.
My toddler’s favorite
word of late is “uh-oh.” He
says it when he drops some
thing. He says it when he
sees something new. He says
it when he throws some
thing down on purpose. He
says it when he falls down.
Sippie cup falls to the floor.
“Uh-oh.”
Daddy picks back up the
sippie cup, which is then
thrown to the floor. “Uh
oh!”
He can say the two-sylla
ble phrase with any variety
of intonations, from sing
songy, to delight, to dry wit,
to genuine surprise.
He even used it to tell
on me. We
had rid
den home
from the
neigh
bors’
house on
our elec
tric golf
cart, and
barely
made it
home
before
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Sherri Martin
The Front Porch
it ran out of juice. We left
it right where I pushed it.
When my husband came
home, the little big mouth
took him over to it and said,
“Ma-ma uh-oh.”
That is not the only inter
esting talk going on at our
house though. My almost 6-
year-old had a friend over to
play. Over pizza, they had
this rather animated con
versation, which I prompt
ly typed into my computer
when they weren’t looking:
“If a bad guy came in my
house, I would put his head
in the toilet and flush it!”
“Yeah, if a bad guy came
into my house and I was
the only one who saw him,
I would put his head in the
toilet and flush him and
then I’d take the plunger
and plunge him.”
“I’d use my karate moves
on him.”
“Yeah. I’d use my moves
from my invisible karate
teacher’s lessons.”
“I’d karate kick him into
the toilet!”
“And if there were 200 bad
guys, then I’d get my daddy
to help me.”
“You know where the bad
guys live, don’t you?”
“Yeah, in the jail. Because
they don’t like Jesus.”
“I know. That’s why they
live there. I love Jesus,
though.”
“But do you like Jesus?
You have to do both. You
have to love him and like
him, because he’s your best
and first friend. And I’m
your second friend, right?”
“Right!”
I have been thinking about
these bits and pieces of con
version, and have decided
that there are some life les
sons found in them.
First of all, be willing to
admit when you make a
mistake, even an intentional
one. Wouldn’t you like for
a politician, just one time,
to give a true and heartfelt
“uh-oh” rather than bring
out the spin doctors?
For that matter, we would
all be better off if we would
be willing to admit our own
mistakes. However, I would
refrain from suggesting that
we learn to tattle tell, par
ticularly on our mothers.
Second, it’s always good
to be on the lookout for the
bad guys, and to be prepared
if they come. And wouldn’t
it be nice to be able to give
a few of the really bad guys
a little flush now and then?
Take that, Osama! And I
have a plunger too!
Most of all, remember who
your friends are, and who
your most important - your
best and first - Friend is.
But I have to admit, I
still like the idea of having
an invisible karate teacher.
Just in case that toilet trick
doesn’t work.
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JULY 29, 2006
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An evening at the lake
Special to the Journal
Houston Lake Country
Club entertained its mem
bers last week during
their monthly Open House
Social.
Each month ihe Club
Plums, sidekicks, and a man named Bill W.
To answer any or all ques
tions, e-mail answers to
hlyquiz@yahoo.com or call
Charlotte Perkins at 987-
1823, Ext. 234. The dead
line is Tuesday evening
9
Eye Q
Name this famous side
kick of a famous cowboy.
Literary:
Who couldn’t resist the
plums in the icebox?
USA Quiz:
What was Colorado almost
named before the alleged
meaning of the name was
discovered to be a hoax?
Houston County
Pride Quiz:
Name the Houston County
road from which this histor
ic home can be seen?
Georgia Quiz:
What was the first county
seat of Macon County?
Bible Quiz:
Can you name Noah’s
wife?
Weird Quiz:
What did Bill W. and
Doctor Bob stop and what
did they start?
Last Week’s
Lifestyle
invites and entertains its
members with an open bar
and food on the back porch
of the clubhouse overlook
ing the golf course and the
beautiful shores of Houston
Lake. Live entertainment
HDJ
Answers
Quizzer news: A new
quiz contributor this week
is Dr. Anthony Baldwin,
Senior Pastor of new Life
Church, which a quiz mile
stone since, although we
have a Public Defender, an
engineer, a mayor, a county
commissioner, and a social
studies teacher who unfail
ingly get the Bible quiz, Dr.
Baldwin is the first pastor
ever to answer it (or any
other!).
Also Mike Stockwell has
arrived as a strong contrib
utor. Jaloo Zelonis had the
singular honor this week of
being the only one who got
every answer right.
Houston County
Pride
The photo was of the
Swanson restaurant in down
town Perry. Others getting
it right were Bill Harrison,
Terry Everett, Mike Stanley,
Larry and Chris Thomson,
Laurie Jones, Anthony
Baldwin, Jaloo Zelonis, Jim
Worrall and, of course, Kim
Sheridan.
It was Betty
Last week’s Eye Q was a
hard one apparently since
we didn’t use the classic
bathing suit pose! The
lady in the photo was
Betty Grable. Getting it
right were Alice Lemaster,
Marcilla Cunningham,
Delilah Evans, Carl Shaw,
and Jaloo Zelonis.
Bill Harrison got a totally
different picture by accident.
His was Jimmy Durante,
whom he correctly identi
fied. (Big difference there.)
was provided by Joey Hollis
who is also a professional
waiter in the Club’s din
ing room. For Membership
Information stop by
Houston Lake Country
Club, or call 218-LAKE.
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Houston County Pride
Here’s a completely new quiz. Identify the place in this picture by name or address.
(Readers are invited to submit photos for this quiz. All shots must be taken within
Houston County lines, and should be buildings or landmarks a reader might drive past,
such as churches, historic homes, landmark buildings, or scenes that are just plain
eye-catching. Submit yours by sending a JPEG or TIFF by e-mail to hhjquiz@yahoo.
com. Photo credit will be given.
Last Week’s
Cognoscenti
The poet was Keats. He
ended a great sonnet with
the words, “or like stout
Cortez when with eagle
eyes/ He stared at the pacif
ic-and all his men/ Looked
at each other with a wild
surmise - Silent, upon a
peak in Darien.” It should
have been Balboa. Getting
it right were Terry Everett,
Marilyn Beal-Bauer, Bill
Harrison, Mike Stockwell,
Laurie Jones and Jaloo
Zelonis,
Georgia
Geniuses
Wheeler and Bleckley
were the two counties
founded in 1912. Getting
it right were Jim Worrall,
Mike Stanley, Terry Everett,
Marilyn Beal-Bauer, Jolene
Pierson, Larry and Chris
Possum that
came availing
No sooner had the ink
dried on the column
about my friend,
Stevie, who rescues pos
sums than I found myself
joining her posse of possum
preservers.
But how can you turn
your back on a well-man
nered possum that is the
first to welcome you into
your new
home?
A pos
sum that
is hos
pitable
enough
t o
emerge
from the
woods
and
tap on
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Ronda Rich
Columnist
your front door in the
early morning sunlight?
Especially when everyone
knows that possums are
nocturnal. A possum that
will pace back and forth
on your front porch until
you’ve said, “Howdy do?”
' How can you pay no
attention to a thoughtful
possum that seems enor
mously concerned and
remorseful that she has
thoroughly drenched your
pretty new porch with her
blood?
Now, how do you walk
away from a nice possum
like that?
At seven a.m. on the
first morning we greeted
the sunrise from our new
house, Dixie Dew and I
emerged from our bedroom
to find one of our house
guests peering discretely
around front—window’s
Thomson, Bill Harrison,
Mike Stockwell, Sharon
Cyr, Laurie Jones, Anthony
Baldwin, Jaloo Zelonis,
USA
The department store
started by the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints was named ZCMI,
which stands for Zion’s
Cooperative Mercantile
Institute. You can still shop
in ZCMI if you happen to go
to Salt Lake City. Getting
it right were Jim Worrall,
Mike Stanley, Delilah
Evans, Terry Everett,
Marilyn Beal-Bauer, Larry
and Chris Thomson, Laurie
Jones, Anthony Baldwin,
Jaloo Zelonis
The scripturally
savvy
Samuel’s mother prom
ised to give son to the Lord
SECTION
c
edge.
“Come here,” Pearce
whispered, motioning fran
tically. I expected to see
deer grazing in the yard
but, instead, found an
addled possum scampering
around the porch.
“I think it has rabies,”
he announced. “It’s acting
weird.” This from a man
who had probably never
seen a live possum up close
but still, the statement
caught my attention.
“Rabies!” I screeched as
I grabbed the phone and
dialed 911. The dispatcher,
in turn, paged a sleeping
Animal Control officer who
called me back in a few
minutes.
“I think I have a possum
on my front porch that has
rabies,” I announced dra
matically.
“A possum?” asked the
officer, stifling a yawn.
“Yes sir.”
“M’am, possums don’t
carry rabies.”
“They don’t?” Now, who
would have thought that?
But that’s all the more rea
son that we should rescue
possums - they’re not dan
gerous, just visually chal
lenged.
The officer advised me
to pick the possum up by
the tail - its body weight
is so heavy that they can’t
move to bite you - or in a
shovel then return it to the
woods.
I hung up the phone.
“Okay, we have to pick it
up and take it back to the
woods.”
Pearce, tough man that
See RICH, page 4C
and never to cut his hair.
Getting it right were Terry
Everett, Jim Worrall, Mike
Stanley, Delilah Evans,
Marilyn Beal-Bauer, Jolene
Pierson, Larry and Chris
Thomson, Bill Harrison,
Mike Stockwell, Sharon
Cyr, Laurie Jones, Anthony
Baldwin, Jaloo Zelonis
The Big Hoax
The answer to last
week’s Weird Quiz was the
Piltdown Man, a skull ini
tially believed to be that
of an ancient pre-human,
which turned out to be a
complete hoax, created of
different primate parts.
Getting it right were Mike
Stanley, Jim Worrall, Terry
Everett, Delilah Evans,
Marilyn Beal-Bauer, Jolene
Pierson, Larry and Chris
Thomson, Bill Harrison,
Sharon Cyr, Laurie Jones
and Jaloo Zelonis,