Imus leads the pack in being careful, without doubt. It was announced today that MSNBC that they will cancel running the simulcast of his show as the sponsors for the advertising have pulled their ads; they may sponsor again at a later time, but not for Imus’ show. Sometimes, one has to wonder if these folks ever had Mom’s who told them that they “must think before you speak” while they were growing up. After all, as my Mom would continue, “it just doesn’t show your intelligience, if you don’t think before you speak”. I know that some people are simply not raised the same as others, but you would hope and pray that there would be much more cooth than that! At any rate….
In Hays County, a rural county south of the Austin area, horror swept throughout the 5-county region, if not across the nation, as Daniel Galicia, a 7 year old boy, was shot to death while jumping on a trampoline with his friends. The man who shot the boy claimed that he had been shooting at a target at his own home with his new 22 gauge rifle. He told the authorities that he thought all his bullets had hit the target; he had no idea that any of his bullets had strayed and certainly didn’t think that they would have hit anything beyond the target. Apparently, he might not have thought that the children would have been playing in a community in a rural county where the houses were somewhat close together, about 1/3 a mile apart. The 37 year old man has been charged with manslaughter, a second degree felony that has a maximum sentence of 20 years. Sometimes, while even being in the country/rural environment one should just use a bit of common sense.
On a lighter note, I need to be a bit careful myself!
This afternoon after getting off work and running some errands, I stopped by my home to rest up a bit before heading back to work for an 8 hr shift this evening. I put up some candles that I bought, checked some of my emails, and laid down to rest up. After some tossing and turning after an ever so brief of a nap, I decided that I would continue my pursuit of photos of flowers and crosses for an upcoming photo project I am working upon. I turned upside my home looking for my keys as I was getting ready to leave. Nowhere to be found! I even asked Gibson and Moobaby (my cats) where in the world have they moved my keys and they looked at me with a very puzzled look. A lot of help they were!! After exasperation, I went to look at the front door. There they were!! They were still in the door where I left them as I unlocked the door and carried in the store bought items. Gracious!! Thank goodness my neighbors are honest. 🙂
I got to the gardens where I wanted to take some of my flower photos. I succeeded in taking some of them; however, my batteries died. 😦 I was trying to travel light while hiking through the gardens. *Sigh* I best not forget my batteries on Friday when I head out on my Bluebonnet Adventure!!
In the meantime, please enjoy some of the garden photos that I did manage to take before my batteries died in the camera….







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