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Kravitzness

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:52:24 GMT

Well!

The Kravitzes were returning from a festive evening out with friends recently, only to be met on Columbia St. by JoAnn and Sue, all a-twitter with agitation and foreboding! It seems that the several "Shreveport's finest" surrounding a car in the parking lot around the corner were effecting a drug bust!

Involved were couple of women and a man, the latter of whom fled right through the middle of the Kravitz's usually (?) quiet residential block! While in flight, the perp* allegedly discarded a GUN over the fence from June's back yard into Mike-n-Eddy's back yard!

Possibly there might've even been some illicit drug-like substances left in the area, but neither Mike nor Eddy, we suspect, would come clean if they "found" any.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!

June's gone missing!! At about the same time, she walked up the block to move her car into her driveway, and HASN'T BEEN SEEN SINCE!! "And it's just not like her to fail to report her whereabouts at any given time to JoAnn and Sue!"

Not that the Kravitzes panic at the first reports of suspicious crinimal activity, but this dastardly scenario is just too much: 9-1-1 is called. Rescuers and peace officers descend upon the distraught friends. "Well, ma'am, maybe she just went to run some errands..."

"BUT IT'S JUST NOT LIKE HER... REPORT HER WHEREABOUTS... JOANN AND SUE!!" Surely that fleeing perp hid in June's car, forced her at ex-gunpoint to drive his getaway vehicle, and... OH the possible outcomes are just to horrific to be imagined!

A nail-bitingly long hour or so later, who should drive up but the missing little old lady herself, looking very serene, healthy and non-car-jacked; reporting that she did indeed move her car into her driveway as planned, and then went to her niece's birthday party!

We'll leave this scene with the ensuing discussion among friends about whether one should announce her whereabouts at any given time to JoAnn and Sue. "All's well that ends well!"

Y'all may recall that we've discussed Teensie & Weensie here on prior occasions. Perhaps you've tried, with varying degrees of success, to wipe those memories from your banks.

But the fickle finger of fate points to you this day with a story too fascinating to be left untold.

Teensie and Weensie are involved in a decorating extravaganza the likes of which Columbia Street hasn't seen since well before Jo Ann's nephew got married in her front room. Balloons! Potted floral arrangements! Surely it must be another nuptial event...

But NO. The wedding (of a friend) is next week. Teensie and Weensie, who in another vocational capacity are "caterers" (in fact, drive the 'Roach Coach' to various job sites and oil rigs, selling delicacies to blue-collar workers in the field), will be creating the wedding cake and other confections.

But this week, it's to be a LINGERIE SHOWER! Mrs. Kravitz regrets using the terms "Teensie and Weensie" and "lingerie" in the same paragraph, but you readers are surely inured to unfortunate mental images with regard to the goings-on in the Kravitz' lives by now.

It took two days for all those balloons to periodically pop, startling the Kravitzes and their houseguest, whose nerves were already on edge because of the nefarious and sinister events described above.

Mrs. Kravitz will take a nerve pill, perhaps put a cool, damp cloth on her forehead, and recover her frazzled fortitude, hopefully in time to bring you once again ...another Kravitz Report.

Partial Kravitz Report Archives:
December 2008, June 2008, April 2008, January 2007, September 2006, August 2006, Ditto, June 2006,

*http://picktheperp.com/

Bad news...

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:31:46 GMT

Out of coffee, out of money (until later today, dv) but for that which can be retrieved from amongst the couch cushions.

Good news: With my $2 & change, I scored a pound (ok, 12 oz) of Community Dark Roast @ $5.99

On sale for $4.99

With one of those taped-to-the-front coupons ("Save $1 NOW on this package of Community Dark Roast!")

And two $1 "Gas Money" coupons (rewards from prior shopping trips).

Grand total: $2.15

*sips* Ahhhhhhhhhh....

Mosaic of Me

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:37:27 GMT

DIRECTIONS:
- Go to Google image search.
- Type in your answer to each question.
- Choose a picture.
- Use this website ( http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php ) to make your collage.
- Save the image for use in this note.
- Post and tag your friends.

QUESTIONS:
1. What is your name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What is your hometown?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. What is your favorite movie?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What is one word to describe yourself?
10. How are you feeling right now?
11. What do you love most in the world?
12. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Sort of a random snapshot....

Jennifer Crosses the Jordan

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:34:53 GMT

I'm telling you, this was a truly exceptional girl.

She was a pure and beautiful 20-year old acquaintance, friend, associate, teacher and peer of ours, who lived full-tilt, singing & dancing to the Glory of God. The thing that struck me whenever I encountered Jennifer, from the time she was a pre-schooler, but especially in the past few years, was the spectacular luminosity of her countenance. As you read on, I think you'll see that it was probably just an outward manifestation of what was going on inside...

Other places have listed the outline of her life, but I think that the quotes she posted on her facebook page really show you her heart:

All things are only by His grace and only for His glory...

Peace is the ability to remain faithful in spite of the panic of unfulfilled dreams. -Stress Fractures

Your example is a silent sermon everyone can read. -J.C. Ryle

For I know the plans that I have for you, 'declares the Lord,' plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11

If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him." James 1:5

"Unless I shall be convinced by the testimonies of the Scriptures or by clear reason ... I neither can nor will make any retraction, since it is neither safe nor honourable to act against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen."
-Martin Luther

Character is how you treat those who cannot help you...

"In all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified, sound in speech which is beyond reproach, in order that the opponent may be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us." Titus 2:7-8

"Busyness rapes relationships. It substitutes shallow frenzy for deep friendship. It promises satisfying dreams but delivers hollow nightmares. It feeds the ego but starves the inner man. It fills a calendar but fractures a family."
-Growing Strong In The Seasons Of Life

"The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nore the one who never fails-but rather the one who moves on in spite of failure."
- Growing Strong In The Seasons of Life

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.
-Eric Liddell, "Chariots of Fire"

Worry kills, but confidence in God is like healing medicine. -C. H. Spurgeon

"The Lord puts his honours upon those who can wear them to the honour of the giver. He gives usefulness, acceptance, and influence to those who will not be puffed up by them, but will be abased by a sense of greater responsibility." -C. H. Spurgeon

We are feeble, blood-soaked threads, woven tightly together to fashion the tapestry of God's manifold grace.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land among the stars.-

"Life on earth is just the dress rehearsal before the real production." -The Purpose Driven Life

I can sleep when I'm dead!-

Well, you know Rome wasn't built by volunteers- Dr. Gabriel

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future. -

We have a God who delights in impossibilities. -Andrew Murray

To realize God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation. -Fenelon

Singing in tune is like being pregnant - you either are or you aren't.
- Dr. Thorn

God took her to be with Him, and who can blame Him?

"Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me,
may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me
because you loved me before the foundation of the world."
~John 17:24

Merry Kravitz Christmas

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:35:30 GMT

So, the Kravitzes are sitting on their porch on a Sunday evening, enjoying company and watching the cats and kittens frolicking about the neighborhood; Miss JoAnn has gone to bed early because they're working her to death. It could be a good night. But lo!

After dark (for some reason) out come Teensie & Weensie and "the boy", with ladders, various & sundry tools and bags and boxes. There's a project afoot!

Picture Weensie & her nephew on the roof, disentangling a batch of twinkling white icicle lights. They give an effect, while piled on one section of the roof, for all the world like the house is beginning to burn. Smoldering embers! We are tempted to call 9-1-1 just to see if the good pumper truck men from Station # 7 might come turn on the high-pressure hoses. But cooler heads prevail. The Kravitzes and their friends lurk behind their own tasteful light display, observing discreetly...

Abnah reports that the ladder just ascended by both "the boy" (the Kravitz report would like to give him a name) and Weensie is seated on one of the askew concrete front porch steps. Teensie, meanwhile, sits on the porch, swinging & chatting on her cell phone, seemingly oblivious to the drama playing out right over her head.

Weensie moves the ladder to a particularly uneven parcel of ground next to the stairs & props it against the roof. Surely she wouldn't... Oh, yes. She would. Up on the rooftop, perching on the gutter, climbing back down the ladder. The observers are wondering if they will have to call for Trauma 1 before the night is out. What's the tensile strength and center load test on that ladder?

There's a little shriek! Collective breaths are held. A voice is heard from the roof: "Uh, are you ok?"

"Yeah. My foot just slipped off the rung." Collective exhalations!

The evening closes anticlimactically. Columbia St. is quiet once again. The cats & kittens have gone "night-night". No emergency vehicles have been necessary. The resulting light display is surprisingly minimalist. The Kravitzes just inserted that picture for their (and your) amusement. There was no camera, let alone night-vision goggles, to be found on this side of Columbia St.

Mr. Kravitz is eyeing the newly created display. What is that look? What could it portend?

We'll leave that mystery for another edition of... The Kravitz Report.

Read more...

Ripping

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:59:22 GMT

Freeeeeeeedommmmmm!!

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:49:21 GMT

“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.” -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children (America), the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.” -- Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

”I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”—Adali Stevenson (1900-1965)

”Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I’m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.”—John Wayne (1907-1979)

”Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." -- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

”Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual—or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country. ” —Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

”Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.”—James Garfield (1831-1881)

”When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, “just men who will rule in the fear of God.” The preservation of government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws. ” —Noah Webster (1758-1843)

Now go out and vote, and may God bless America.

~compiled by CanadaFreePress

A couple of old photos

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:51:57 GMT

Just about 16 years ago:

Identity of this child withheld to protect the innocent.

How About This?

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:01:52 GMT

Happy 4th in New York Harbor

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:23:56 GMT