Good morning folks and Happy Mothers Day to all of the ladies.

I just popped a breakfast casserole in the oven to bake and grabbed a cup of coffee.

Looks like an overcast day at 61° is what we'll have today. Maybe a shower but at least not an all day rain.

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Painting and Cooking

John, an avant-garde painter got married.

Someone asked the bride a few weeks after the wedding, "How's married life, Helen?"

"It's great," she answered. "John paints and I cook; then we try to guess what he painted and what I cooked."

Enjoy your day folks!

GARDEN SNAKES CAN BE DANGEROUS...
Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis)
can be dangerous Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here's
why.

A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted plants.
During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them
indoors to protect them from a possible freeze.

It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden
in one of the plants. When it had warmed up, it slithered out
and the wife saw it go under the sofa.

She let out a very loud scream.

The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living
room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there
was a snake under the sofa.

He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it.
About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on
the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he
screamed and fell over on the floor.

His wife thought he had had a heart attack, so she covered
him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.

The attendants rushed in, would not listen to his protests,
loaded him on the stretcher, and started carrying him out.

About that time, the snake came out from under the sofa and
the Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his
end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and
why he is still in the hospital.

The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so
she called on a neighbor who volunteered to capture the
snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and
began poking under the couch.. Soon he decided it was gone
and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.

But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions,
where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and
fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa.

The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to
use CPR to revive her.

The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at
the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's
mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with
a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his
scalp to a point where it needed stitches.

The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw
her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him,
so she assumed that the snake had bitten him. She went to
the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began
pouring it down the man's throat.

By now, the police had arrived.
Breathe here...

They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and
assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about
to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all
happened over a little garden snake!

The police called an ambulance, which took away the
neighbor and his sobbing wife.

Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the sofa
and one of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He
missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table
fell over, the lamp on it shattered and, as the bulb broke, it
started a fire in the drapes.

The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell
through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who,
startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an
oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the
parked police car.

Meanwhile, neighbors saw the burning drapes and called in
the fire department. The firemen had started raising the fire
ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising
ladder tore out the overhead wires, put out the power, and
disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area
(but they did get the house fire out).

Time passed! Both men were discharged from the hospital,
the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police
acquired a new car and all was right with their world.

A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman
announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her
husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the
night.

And that's when he shot her.