"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing." - Dave Barry

98 degrees now, 106 forecast for tomorrow. Welcome to summer in Arizona.

Some fat guy with long hear, a beard and a great voice sang Canada's national anthem at the opening of tonight's Stanley Cup game being played in Vancouver. Except he stopped singing halfway through and let the crowd take over. The cameras knew it was coming because they scanned the crowd ... and everybody was singing. It was very cool to hear 20,000 people singing their national anthem. They knew the lyrics!
If you tried that in a stadium in the U.S.??
Hey, half the time we can't even get the person holding the mic to get the lyrics right.

Evergreen trees are beautiful, especially the Blue Spruce. If your neighbor (Michigan) cuts the top 2' off of a 7' Blue Spruce he mistakenly thinks is on his property you may as well cut the whole thing down. Topping an evergreen effectively stops its vertical growth. It can't rebound.

No one has ever described a Eucalyptus tree as beautiful, except maybe a hungry koala bear. They're actually kind of ugly and messy. If you cut one of them down, leaving nothing more than a short stump (California), within the year a half-dozen shoots will appear around the circumference of that stump. Left alone each of those shoots will each grow into a "daughter tree" that can surpass the size of the original. It's almost impossible to kill a Eucalyptus tree.

That comparison is a great sermon illustration, but for the life of me I can't think of a sermon to put it in.

It was cool to see Li Na win the women's final of the French Open, the first Chinese tennis player to ever win a grand slam event. Apparently she's something of a rebel in China, sporting a prominent tattoo, taboo for women there. (Hey, that rhymes.) and working for herself instead of under the auspices of the government agency for sport.
I'm recording tomorrow men's final. Hope Federer pulls it out.

Why do some Christian women get a special sing-song voice when they're talking about spiritual stuff, or praying?
(I've never heard men do it but maybe somewhere....)
I guarantee they don't talk to their husbands like that, with an almost whispering sing-song tone.

I'm concerned about tomorrow.