FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY

WINTER ROAD TRIP TO FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APPeYCuY1IU

ONE WAY TO GET OUT OF THE SNOW

Young Chuck in Montana bought a horse from a farmer for $100. The farmeragreed to deliver the horse the next day. The next day he drove up andsaid, 'Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the horse died.'Chuck replied, 'Well, then just give me my money back.'The farmer said, 'Can't do that. I went and spent it already'Chuck said, 'Ok, then, just bring me the dead horse.'The farmer asked, 'What ya gonna do with him?Chuck said, 'I'm going to raffle him off.'The farmer said, 'You can't raffle off a dead horse!'Chuck said, 'Sure I can, Watch me. I just won't tell any body he's dead.'A month later, the farmer met up with Chuck and asked, 'What happened withthat dead horse?'Chuck said, 'I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a pieceand made a profit of $998.'The farmer said, 'Didn't anyone complain ?'Chuck said, 'Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.'Chuck grew up and works now for the government. He was the one who figuredout how to 'bail us out'.

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1.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDrGHn3S6Ic

2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDrGHn3S6Ic

3.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOuH_iNiP9g

I have been watching Citigroup for a couple weeks now and have a small position in this stock. My own personal opinion is that some of the financials are undervalued. Specifically Citigroup (C) (since the infusion of "bail out" money) , and Wells Fargo (WFC).I like the 3 day chart on Citigroup, (higher lows) and feel we are in a near term uptrend. I'm not trying to get rich here, just make some "golf money" so I sold the Feb $8.00 calls for .65 against the Citigroup stock. WILL TOMORROW BE REVERSAL WED. OR WILL THE UPTREND CONTINUE??????

I have been a nurse for 30 years and in that time have cared for many special patients. There was a time in the late 1980s when I had the privilege to care for Tabitha. I was working on the toddler unit of a major Children’s Hospital. My boss asked me one day when I came to work, if I would be the primary nurse for Tabitha. This baby had lived her entire life so far in this hospital. She started in the newborn ICU, then the infant unit, and now had graduated to the toddler unit.
Her main diagnosis was bronchopulmonary dysplasia or BPD. Since I loved respiratory patients, I said yes. Thus was to begin about one and a half years of caring for this little baby.
When I first met her she was on oxygen and had a femoral central line. She would never know a day without oxygen or a day at home. Tabitha’s home was the hospital. Her mother rarely visited and never called.
This was a time of primary care. Some other nurses were uncomfortable caring for Tabitha because she was so unstable. She was difficult to feed because she’d been tube fed for so long. I bathed her every day, fed her and put twill tape ribbons in her thin hair. Her smiles were rare, making me all the more determined to win them. Occasionally she would be doing well enough to go for a wagon ride. Just when it seemed she was doing better, she would have a setback. She was placed on a ventilator countless times. For someone who a good day was one not spent struggling for breath, she sure made me question my goals and objectives. What made me think I deserved so much when she received so little?
There finally came a time when they tracked down her mother to get permission to perform a tracheotomy. I hated that. Tabitha never outgrew her illness. She was in the ICU for the last time when she stopped breathing and passed away. It was 3:00 AM. Since they couldn’t reach her mother they called me. I went in to hold “my baby” for the last time. She had all her tubes removed and was a perfect baby in my arms. I only hope she didn’t have to wait too long before her mother finally came to say goodbye to the baby she never knew.
I know that Tabitha is an angel now and never has to struggle to breathe

JUST A FEW SCARY THOUGHTS FOR TODAY

I WOULD RATHER GO GOLFING