QUOTE from Fran Lebowitz: "Food is an important part of a balanced diet."
From an email I LEARNED some interesting stuff about the value of eating cinnamon and honey. This information came from the January 17, 1995 issue of WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, a magazine in Canada. The magazine listed diseases/illnesses that can be cured by honey and cinnamon, as researched by western scientists. I don't know if it is all true but there must be some truth to it. It is hard to believe honey and cinnamon can CURE these things but maybe they can help cure or prevent them from developing.
Here is the lsit: Eating honey and cinnamon can cure, help cure or prevent the following:
1. Heart diseases - C and H reduces the cholestorol in the arteries.
2. Arthritis
3. Bladder infections - C and H destroys the germs in the bladder.
4. Colds
5. Upset stomach
6. Gas
7. Immune system - C and H protects the body from bacterial and viral attacks.
8. Indigestion
9. Influenza
10. Longevity - When eating C and H even a 100 year will start performing the chores of a 20 year-old.
11. Raspy or sore throat - take one tablespoon of honey every three hours and sip until gone.
12. Pimples - make a paste of C and H and put on pimples before bedtime.
13.Skin infections
14. Weight loss
15. Cancer of the stomach and bones.
16. Fatigue
17 Bad breath - have to gargle first thing in the morning with one tablespoon of C and H in hot water.
18. Hearing loss
This is quite a list and after reading it my first thought was we don't need doctors or hospitals anymore. All we have to do is eat cinnamon and honey everyday. To tell the truth I was eating honey and cinnamon every day for breakfast before I ever got this email. I will admit my arthritic shoulder is better since I started.
Also, I've not had a cold. The one thing it has not done is help my hearing. The only thing that helped my hearing is when my doctor cleaned out my ears in March. The other 15 cures on the list are not measurable for me at this time. The longevity one I won't be able to measure for another 30 years.
I realize that when you get forwards like this and they suggest you forward it to your friends is that someone is trying to get a bunch of email addresses.
The bottom line is that cinnamon and honey are good for you and I will continue to eat them for breakfast. And if I get all 18 cures by doing so then so much the better.By the way HONEY is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot.
HUMOR for today: There is now an outhouse joke making the rounds on the internet.
It is called the TWO-STORY OUTHOUSE.
The top story has a ladder going up to it and is labeled POLITICIANS.
The bottom story is labeled VOTERS.
I'm afraid it is close to the truth.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
It's a Small World.
QUOTE from Justin Timberlake and Pete Bungum:: ""Golf" is the only four-letter word I don't say when I'm playing it."
Once again I LEARNED it's a small world. This morning I took my morning walk around our mobile home court. I walked by a lady who was looking for something in her car. I saw she had Minnesota license plates so I said "Good Morning" and asked where she was from in Minnesota.
She answered, "I'm from near Rochester."
I said, "Well, I'm from near Rochester also. My home town is Chatfield."
She said, "I'll be darned, I'm from Chatfield also."
Anyway, we had a good talk about Chatfield. Her name is Alisha Swift, divorced, two kids, ages 12 and 9, lives on Fillmore street, has several tattoos, and works at a daycare center located by the intersection of highways 30 and 52. She is originally from Monticello which is ten miles north of Anamosa. Her best friend from high school lives right behind us and that's why she comes to Anamosa every 2-3 months.
She was well acquainted with the big green house I lived in from 1952 to 1958 in Chatfield. She lives a couple of blocks from my old home. We talked about how Chatfield is such a nice community. We both agreed it is so clean and has good streets and nice housing with no slummy areas and a great city park.
I wanted to talk to her longer but her friend came and she was ready to go so that was the end of the conversation. I wanted to ask her if she knew Jerry and Elsie Narveson and some others but time ran out before I could do it.
It is a small world.
HUMOR for today comes from the HAGAR THE HORRIBLE comic strip.
Hagar is walking his dog when he he is stopped by an elderly lady who comments to Hagar, "That sir, is a very ugly little mongrel"
Hagar responds: "I mean you no disrespect, Madame...but have you checked out your mirror lately."
Once again I LEARNED it's a small world. This morning I took my morning walk around our mobile home court. I walked by a lady who was looking for something in her car. I saw she had Minnesota license plates so I said "Good Morning" and asked where she was from in Minnesota.
She answered, "I'm from near Rochester."
I said, "Well, I'm from near Rochester also. My home town is Chatfield."
She said, "I'll be darned, I'm from Chatfield also."
Anyway, we had a good talk about Chatfield. Her name is Alisha Swift, divorced, two kids, ages 12 and 9, lives on Fillmore street, has several tattoos, and works at a daycare center located by the intersection of highways 30 and 52. She is originally from Monticello which is ten miles north of Anamosa. Her best friend from high school lives right behind us and that's why she comes to Anamosa every 2-3 months.
She was well acquainted with the big green house I lived in from 1952 to 1958 in Chatfield. She lives a couple of blocks from my old home. We talked about how Chatfield is such a nice community. We both agreed it is so clean and has good streets and nice housing with no slummy areas and a great city park.
I wanted to talk to her longer but her friend came and she was ready to go so that was the end of the conversation. I wanted to ask her if she knew Jerry and Elsie Narveson and some others but time ran out before I could do it.
It is a small world.
HUMOR for today comes from the HAGAR THE HORRIBLE comic strip.
Hagar is walking his dog when he he is stopped by an elderly lady who comments to Hagar, "That sir, is a very ugly little mongrel"
Hagar responds: "I mean you no disrespect, Madame...but have you checked out your mirror lately."
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Stories about FENWAY PARK.
QUOTE from Thomas Fuller: "Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse."
I LEARNED a lot about the history of Fenway park in Boston. We returned from Boston on Thursday, July 14. The higlight for me was taking a tour of Fenway Park. On Monday we went to Fenway and went to the Red Sox souvenir store right across the street from the Green Monster. There we got tickets for a tour of Fenway. Our guide was a 20-25 year old girl who led us across the street to a left field entry gate. We walked up 8-9 ramps to the the the press box area right above the Green Wall. She sat all 70 of us down in the pressbox seats and gave a talk on the history of Fenway and the Red Sox.
Fenway was built in 1912 and is the oldest baseball stadiium in the major leagues (Wrigley is second oldest -built in 1916). It got the name Fenway because that was the name of the neighborhood in which it was built. Before Fenway was built the Sox played about a mile away in a stadium with a seating capacity of 8,000. The Sox won the first World Series in 1903. They went on to win five of the first twelve World Series. Fenway was built to accommadate more fans.
Then all hell broke loose when the owner of the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1918 for $100,000. He also sold fifteen more of his players for a total of $25,000. So he gutted the team in order to raise money to finance a broadway show he was promoting. This is what is known as stupidity. The Red Sox were a joke until the 1940s. In 1933 Tom Yawkey bought the Red Sox and turned them into a legitimate big league team once again. By the late 1930s he acquired Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr amd Dominic DiMaggio. These four resurrected the Red Sox and they played in the World Series in 1946. Yawkey is responsible for building the Green Monster. According to our tour guide people could sit across the street from left field and watch the game for nothing. Yawkey put an end to that by building the Green Monster in the 1930s.
The Red Sox fans have set a major league record for having sold out every game since May 23, 2003. On March 30, 2011 they had had 631 sellouts , a major league record by far. We inquired about going to a Sox game but were told we'd have to buy scalpers and we'd pay from $100 to $200 each. We didn't go. Plus there aren't any parking spaces there so I don't know where the fans park. There is a small one behind the Green Monster that probably holds 40-50 cars. People who park there have beeb known to go home with smashed car windows when somebody hits one over the Monster.
The rest of the tour we walked around the top deck to center field and right field. Then the guide took us through the Red Sox Hall of Fame and walked us by the expensive suites where the money boys get to enjoy the game with their own food and bar and air conditioning. They can sit inside or outside. We didn't get on the field or the locker rooms.
When I see the Red Sox on TV from now on I will have a different persepctive on things. It will quite interesting to see them at Fenway.
My HUMOR for today.
When sitting in the reporters area the guide asked us what teams we cheered for. People said Toronto, Cubs, Tampa Bay, Indians, etc. Then she asked if there were any Ynakee fans. One older guy raised his hand. Then the guide said, "We have a Yankee fan with us today so for the rest of the tour I will talk real slow and use small words so he can understand." I kind of felt sorry for the guy but then she covered it up by saying we are all baseball fans and we're just having a little fun. There is no doubt about it, the Yankees and Red Sox DO NOT LIKE EACH OTHER.
I LEARNED a lot about the history of Fenway park in Boston. We returned from Boston on Thursday, July 14. The higlight for me was taking a tour of Fenway Park. On Monday we went to Fenway and went to the Red Sox souvenir store right across the street from the Green Monster. There we got tickets for a tour of Fenway. Our guide was a 20-25 year old girl who led us across the street to a left field entry gate. We walked up 8-9 ramps to the the the press box area right above the Green Wall. She sat all 70 of us down in the pressbox seats and gave a talk on the history of Fenway and the Red Sox.
Fenway was built in 1912 and is the oldest baseball stadiium in the major leagues (Wrigley is second oldest -built in 1916). It got the name Fenway because that was the name of the neighborhood in which it was built. Before Fenway was built the Sox played about a mile away in a stadium with a seating capacity of 8,000. The Sox won the first World Series in 1903. They went on to win five of the first twelve World Series. Fenway was built to accommadate more fans.
Then all hell broke loose when the owner of the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1918 for $100,000. He also sold fifteen more of his players for a total of $25,000. So he gutted the team in order to raise money to finance a broadway show he was promoting. This is what is known as stupidity. The Red Sox were a joke until the 1940s. In 1933 Tom Yawkey bought the Red Sox and turned them into a legitimate big league team once again. By the late 1930s he acquired Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr amd Dominic DiMaggio. These four resurrected the Red Sox and they played in the World Series in 1946. Yawkey is responsible for building the Green Monster. According to our tour guide people could sit across the street from left field and watch the game for nothing. Yawkey put an end to that by building the Green Monster in the 1930s.
The Red Sox fans have set a major league record for having sold out every game since May 23, 2003. On March 30, 2011 they had had 631 sellouts , a major league record by far. We inquired about going to a Sox game but were told we'd have to buy scalpers and we'd pay from $100 to $200 each. We didn't go. Plus there aren't any parking spaces there so I don't know where the fans park. There is a small one behind the Green Monster that probably holds 40-50 cars. People who park there have beeb known to go home with smashed car windows when somebody hits one over the Monster.
The rest of the tour we walked around the top deck to center field and right field. Then the guide took us through the Red Sox Hall of Fame and walked us by the expensive suites where the money boys get to enjoy the game with their own food and bar and air conditioning. They can sit inside or outside. We didn't get on the field or the locker rooms.
When I see the Red Sox on TV from now on I will have a different persepctive on things. It will quite interesting to see them at Fenway.
My HUMOR for today.
When sitting in the reporters area the guide asked us what teams we cheered for. People said Toronto, Cubs, Tampa Bay, Indians, etc. Then she asked if there were any Ynakee fans. One older guy raised his hand. Then the guide said, "We have a Yankee fan with us today so for the rest of the tour I will talk real slow and use small words so he can understand." I kind of felt sorry for the guy but then she covered it up by saying we are all baseball fans and we're just having a little fun. There is no doubt about it, the Yankees and Red Sox DO NOT LIKE EACH OTHER.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Taking a break.
QUOTES about vacations:
"A day away from some people is like a month in the country." Howard Dietz.
"No person needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one." Elbert Hubbard.
"With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation." David LLoyd George.
Ruth Ann and I are flying to Boston tomorrow to visit Brad, Lene, Alexandra, Mathilda, Mads, and Lene's parents. Lene's parents are Paul and Jutte Rindom and they live in Spjald, Denmark. Spjald is in the west central part of the Jutland Peninsula.We will stay a week.
Brad and Lene are house-swapping. The house they are staying in in Boston belongs to a couple that used to work for Brad. The Boston couple are in Denmark living in Brad and Lene's house in Taulov, Denmark. Taulkov is in the east central part of Denmark, also on the Jutland Peninsula.
So my message today is there will be no BLOG from Pete until July 15th, at the earliest.
HUMOR for today: THE SENILITY PRAYER: GOD GRANT ME THE SENILITY TO FORGET THE PEOPLE I NEVER LIKED ANYWAY, THE GOOD FORTUNE TO RUN INTO THE ONES THAT I DO, AND THE EYESIGHT TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE.
"A day away from some people is like a month in the country." Howard Dietz.
"No person needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one." Elbert Hubbard.
"With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation." David LLoyd George.
Ruth Ann and I are flying to Boston tomorrow to visit Brad, Lene, Alexandra, Mathilda, Mads, and Lene's parents. Lene's parents are Paul and Jutte Rindom and they live in Spjald, Denmark. Spjald is in the west central part of the Jutland Peninsula.We will stay a week.
Brad and Lene are house-swapping. The house they are staying in in Boston belongs to a couple that used to work for Brad. The Boston couple are in Denmark living in Brad and Lene's house in Taulov, Denmark. Taulkov is in the east central part of Denmark, also on the Jutland Peninsula.
So my message today is there will be no BLOG from Pete until July 15th, at the earliest.
HUMOR for today: THE SENILITY PRAYER: GOD GRANT ME THE SENILITY TO FORGET THE PEOPLE I NEVER LIKED ANYWAY, THE GOOD FORTUNE TO RUN INTO THE ONES THAT I DO, AND THE EYESIGHT TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
So what is the origin on the Baptist church?
QUOTE from a Guiedposts reader from West Virginia: "Get rich quick...count your blessings."
I LEARNED today the origin of the Baptist church. After writing yesterday about the origin of the Mennonites and Amish my curious mind led me to this question, "What is the origin of the Baptist church?
There is some disagreement among Baptist scholars/historians as to the actual origin of the Baptist church. The modern Baptist faith originated from within the English Separatist movement. The Separatists were English people who separated from the Church of England in the 1500s. Some became known as Puritans because they wanterd to purify the Chuurch of England more than the Separatists.
Historians trace the earliest Baptist church back to 1609 in Amsterdam, with John Smyth as its pastor. Smyth was reared in England in the Church of England, he became "Puritan, English Separatist, and then a Baptist Separatist," and ended his days working with the Mennonites. As I wrote yesterday the Mennonites descended from the Anabaptists. The modern Baptist denomination is an outgrowth of Smyth's movement. Baptists rejected the name Anabaptist when they were called that by opponesnts in derision. As late as the 18th century, many Baptists referred to themselves as "the Christians commonly - though falsely - called Anabaptists. The relations between Baptists and Anabaptists were early strained. In 1624, the then five existing Baptist churches of London issued a condemnation of the Anabaptists.
In 1639, Roger Williams formed the first Baptist congregation in Providence, Rhode Island.
HUMOR for today is from the comic strip - HAGAR the HORRIBLE.
Hagar and wife Helga are visiting with a couple of ladies.
One of the ladies asks Hagar: "What do you do for a living Mr. Hagar the Horrible?"
Hagar answers: "I'm a commuter."
The lady then asks: "Where do you commute?"
This time wife Helga answers: "From his house to the tavern."
I LEARNED today the origin of the Baptist church. After writing yesterday about the origin of the Mennonites and Amish my curious mind led me to this question, "What is the origin of the Baptist church?
There is some disagreement among Baptist scholars/historians as to the actual origin of the Baptist church. The modern Baptist faith originated from within the English Separatist movement. The Separatists were English people who separated from the Church of England in the 1500s. Some became known as Puritans because they wanterd to purify the Chuurch of England more than the Separatists.
Historians trace the earliest Baptist church back to 1609 in Amsterdam, with John Smyth as its pastor. Smyth was reared in England in the Church of England, he became "Puritan, English Separatist, and then a Baptist Separatist," and ended his days working with the Mennonites. As I wrote yesterday the Mennonites descended from the Anabaptists. The modern Baptist denomination is an outgrowth of Smyth's movement. Baptists rejected the name Anabaptist when they were called that by opponesnts in derision. As late as the 18th century, many Baptists referred to themselves as "the Christians commonly - though falsely - called Anabaptists. The relations between Baptists and Anabaptists were early strained. In 1624, the then five existing Baptist churches of London issued a condemnation of the Anabaptists.
In 1639, Roger Williams formed the first Baptist congregation in Providence, Rhode Island.
HUMOR for today is from the comic strip - HAGAR the HORRIBLE.
Hagar and wife Helga are visiting with a couple of ladies.
One of the ladies asks Hagar: "What do you do for a living Mr. Hagar the Horrible?"
Hagar answers: "I'm a commuter."
The lady then asks: "Where do you commute?"
This time wife Helga answers: "From his house to the tavern."
Friday, July 1, 2011
Who are the Mennonites and who are the Amish?
QUOTE from Georgee Bernard Shaw: "There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
Today I'm going to talk about a couple of religious groups that we have in the state of Iowa.The two groups are the Mennonites and the Amish. We have these two groups living within 70-80 miles of Anamosa. After some research I finally LEARNED the difference between them.
The Mennonites are a Protestant religious group descended from the 16th-century ANABAPTISTS. Anabaptists, (or rebaptizers), rejected infant baptism, the swearing of oaths, military service, and worldliness. As a result of these beliefs they were persecuted and rejected by other Reformers who regarded them as being opposed to the ideas of the REFORMATION. Anabaptism spread to southwest Germany, Austria, Moravia, Rhine River area, along the Danube River, and down the Rhine to the Netherlands. In 1534 some militant Anabaptists seized the city of Munster and set up a theocracy and drove out all Protestants and Roman Catholics. After a 16-month seige, the bishop of Munster recaptured the city and executed the Anabaptist rebels. A guy named Menno Simons, a Dutchman, restored the reputation of the Anabaptists through his moderate and inspired leadership. His followers have survived and are known as the MENNONITES.
The MENNONITES practiced strong church discipline and lived simple, honest, loving lives in emulation of the earliest Christians. Their theological principles stress the direct influence of the Holy Spirit on the heart of the believer and the importance of the Bible, with its message of salvation through the mystical experience of Christ's presence in the heart.
Because the Mennonites were persecuted in Europe they started emigrating in the 1600s. Mennonite groups emigrated to the American colonies in 1683, settling in Pennsylvania, to Russia in 1788, and in the 1900s Mennonites from Russia and North America went to Latin America.
So where did the AMISH come from? In the New World the Mennonites branched into several factions, of which the (Old) Mennonite Church - still the largest - is the parent group. Other groups include the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Mennonite Brethren Church. The AMISH were another one of the splinter groups. The AMISH Church, named for Jacob Amman, a 17th-century Swiss Mennonite bishop, remains insular and conservative. Old Order Amish avoid modern technology in farming and manufacturing, wear clothing fastened by hooks and eyes instead of buttons, worship in private homes, and continue to speak a German-English mixture.
Now I won't have to wonder what the difference is between the Mennonites and the Amish. There is a Mennonite High School south of Iowa City (I think) that is usually in the state basketball tournament. I'm going to check them out and see for sure.
HUMOR for today: A Sunday school teacher asked her class why Joseph and Mary took Jesus with them to Jerusalem. Little Johnny had the answer, "They couldn't find a babysitter."
Today I'm going to talk about a couple of religious groups that we have in the state of Iowa.The two groups are the Mennonites and the Amish. We have these two groups living within 70-80 miles of Anamosa. After some research I finally LEARNED the difference between them.
The Mennonites are a Protestant religious group descended from the 16th-century ANABAPTISTS. Anabaptists, (or rebaptizers), rejected infant baptism, the swearing of oaths, military service, and worldliness. As a result of these beliefs they were persecuted and rejected by other Reformers who regarded them as being opposed to the ideas of the REFORMATION. Anabaptism spread to southwest Germany, Austria, Moravia, Rhine River area, along the Danube River, and down the Rhine to the Netherlands. In 1534 some militant Anabaptists seized the city of Munster and set up a theocracy and drove out all Protestants and Roman Catholics. After a 16-month seige, the bishop of Munster recaptured the city and executed the Anabaptist rebels. A guy named Menno Simons, a Dutchman, restored the reputation of the Anabaptists through his moderate and inspired leadership. His followers have survived and are known as the MENNONITES.
The MENNONITES practiced strong church discipline and lived simple, honest, loving lives in emulation of the earliest Christians. Their theological principles stress the direct influence of the Holy Spirit on the heart of the believer and the importance of the Bible, with its message of salvation through the mystical experience of Christ's presence in the heart.
Because the Mennonites were persecuted in Europe they started emigrating in the 1600s. Mennonite groups emigrated to the American colonies in 1683, settling in Pennsylvania, to Russia in 1788, and in the 1900s Mennonites from Russia and North America went to Latin America.
So where did the AMISH come from? In the New World the Mennonites branched into several factions, of which the (Old) Mennonite Church - still the largest - is the parent group. Other groups include the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Mennonite Brethren Church. The AMISH were another one of the splinter groups. The AMISH Church, named for Jacob Amman, a 17th-century Swiss Mennonite bishop, remains insular and conservative. Old Order Amish avoid modern technology in farming and manufacturing, wear clothing fastened by hooks and eyes instead of buttons, worship in private homes, and continue to speak a German-English mixture.
Now I won't have to wonder what the difference is between the Mennonites and the Amish. There is a Mennonite High School south of Iowa City (I think) that is usually in the state basketball tournament. I'm going to check them out and see for sure.
HUMOR for today: A Sunday school teacher asked her class why Joseph and Mary took Jesus with them to Jerusalem. Little Johnny had the answer, "They couldn't find a babysitter."
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