Contributed by David Yarbrough on Jun 24, 2001
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It’s like the story of the boy who was shooting rocks with a slingshot. He could never hit his target. As he was in his Grandma’s backyard one day, h spied her pet duck. On impulse h took aim and let fly. The stone hit, and the duck was dead. “The boy panicked and hid the bird in the woodpile,
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Contributed by Jack Kale on Apr 5, 2016
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Pressure Washing
The wooden fence around our yard was black from mildew in parts, but it was mostly sun bleached gray. The grime was heaviest around the sprinkler heads where Florida humidity turns the porous wood into a mildew factory. I had grown accustomed to the funk and had gotten so
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How many of you remember bluing solution? Way back in the early to mid ‘60’s, Mom and Grandma would never finish a load of wash (laundry, if you prefer!) without adding some bluing when they did the whites. Now, I never understood why they did this but one of the two explained it kind of like this:
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Contributed by James Snyder on May 19, 2023
I had a frightening experience the other day. I know I must be getting old because things that never frightened me before frighten me. I also see things I never saw before.
Going into the bathroom one morning, I looked in the mirror, and my grandfather looked back at me. I almost passed out. With
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Christian Missionary Alliance
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Do you remember Edgar Allen Poe's story, ... The Telltale Heart?
In that story, ... the main character committed a murder ... and he buries the body of the victim ...in his basement.
Yet ... the murderer is unable to escape the haunting guilt... of his deed.
He begins to hear...... the
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