What If You Came Home To This?

Indiana Jones is not the only one who hates snakes...Cryptomundo is one of my favorite sites.Last week there was an article about the increased sightings in cities of giant Albino snakes.

That whole idea is so gross but must admit that this caught my eye..

..."On Friday, July 10, 2009, a woman was taking a stroll in a trailer park on West Main Street in Annville Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, when she found the 10-foot-long albino Burmese python . The owner was unknown, but latter a local man admitted releasing two pythons because he couldn’t care for them any longer. He has been charged with cruelty to animals and introduction of non-native species into the wild."

Runes And Lost History

A recent Coast To Coast AM Radio show featured Ian Punnett's guest geologist and author Scott Wolter.
He discussed his groundbreaking research into the origins of the Kensington Rune Stone and its connections to other rune stones in America.
We have no recoeded history of explorers who came to America before Columbus.

The Kensington Rune Stone found in Minnesota contains Runic (letters in the old Norse alphabet) inscriptions with the date 1362. He believes the inscriptions were made by explorers from Gotland, an island off Sweden that had a military monastic order that was possibly the Knights Templar.

His latest research focused on the enigmatic Hooked X symbol, seen in the Kensington stone.
"... This symbol, which was used in the medieval era, also appeared in runic stones found in Maine and other locations, such as Rosslyn Chapel, he noted. Further, the mysterious Newport Tower in Rhode Island, which may have been built by Templars, has a notched keystone through which a line points exactly in the direction of the Kensington Rune Stone.

The Hooked X symbol is one of the runes in GRAL, an early spelling for grail, as in the Holy Grail, Wolter said. For more, see this set of related photos, as well as details about his upcoming History Channel special, Holy Grail in America."

Interesting. Perhaps one day Columbus Day will become Viking Day?The picture id from the Coast To Coast am site of the inscription menrioned.

Maybe A Past Life In Egypt?

Wonder if he sang?
The Pharaoh of Pop does not sound like the King of Pop,but a 3000 year old statue bearing an uncanny resemblance to Michael Jackson has been on display at The Field Museum in Chicago since 1998.
The limestone bust was carved sometime between 1550BC and 1050BC,It is of a woman.The remarkable resemblance has been drawing attention recently.A museum spokesman says he has no idea whether Jackson ever visited the museum.
Full article http://www.theinsider.com/news/2664482_Egyptian_Statue_Looks_Just_Like_Michael_Jackson

Right Or Left Pawed?

The cat has been revered through history.Some say the world is divided between "cat lovers" and "dog lovers." We had both when the children were small. My oldest daughter Jennifer had a black sat "Chico".He was part warrior and part loving pet.

While watching my little ones go to a few neighbors to Trick or Treat one long ago Halloween.I actually saw him go across the street,get his lady friend ,and go to the door after the children left.Standing tall on his hind legs,he rang the door bell and said "Meow" to the lady who answered.She was so delighted that both cats got special treats...


No longer having a pet, this story was still interesting:

" Right or Left Pawed?
It may not be obvious from the scratch marks cats dish out, but domestic felines favour one paw over the other. More often than not, females tend to be righties, while toms are lefties, say Deborah Wells and Sarah Millsopp, psychologists at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland.

However, these preferences only manifest when cats perform particularly dexterous feats. That's for the same reason we can open a door with either arm, yet struggle to write legibly with our non-dominant hand. "The more complex and challenging [the task], the more likely we're going to see true handedness," Wells says.

She and Millsopp tasked 42 domestic cats to ferret out a bit of tuna in a jar too small for their heads. Among 21 females, all but one favoured the right paw across dozens of trials, while 20 out of 21 males preferentially used the left. One male proved ambidextrous." http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17510-is-your-cat-left-or-right-pawed.html


The illustration is from the Etsy shop FamousFanPulls

FAN PULL - LUCKY Waving Asian Cat Ceiling Chain White
http://FamousFanPulls.etsy.com

Check out the wonderful assortment there.

Did You See A Child Here?

The Hospital Administrator and The child

A Hospital Administrator from a hospital in Texas ,who also is a minister, tells of being in an office catching up with some paper work one November evening.The office was in an old Pediatric ward. The ward had been closed for eight years now serving as an office area for a few people.

He heard noises of someone moving around in the hall.He went to investigate.He found a little girl about 7 or 8 with blonde hair and blue eyes playing ball.

He approached her.She reached out toward him, seemed to mouth a few words and began to dematerialize.

Whether he told anyone or moved to a new office is unknown at this point..He did say that two other people asked if he had seen a child there.

The original Art is from the Etsy shop DeadpanAlley http://DeadpanAlley.etsy.com
AMELIE'S BALL--La boule d'Amelie--Original Ink Illustration on Vintage Paper--
You may want to see some of the other work there.Thank you for allowing the use of Amaile.

A True Titanic Tale

As many people, DF had long been fascinated by the Titanic.She had no relatives aboard to her knowledge.none the less she read and pondered over the sinking of the great shop and the lost lives.

An Exhibit of the artifacts from the Titanic came to a city about an hour away from where she lived.She was eager to visit so she and three friends went for the opening of the event.

She looked over the various items overcome with sadness.As the group went to the gift shop for the exhibit while her friends were entranced with the replica of the jewelry,D found nothing of special importance to her.

As they were about to leave,she saw near the check out samples of actual coal used aboard the ship."I must have this.It was on the ship when it sank." she thought and bought a small piece.It was in a small gold colored box which she put safely in her purse.

The friends went for lunch at a favorite place near by.D however was not at all hungry.In fact,she felt a bit nauseous and sort of agitated..This continued all the way home.

She showed the treasure to her family.No one seemed particularly impressed.She set the package on her nightstand .Thinking of how it had endured the crash and the horrors of the sinking to spend years at the bottom of the sea,she prepared for bed.
She had some thoughts that perhaps she should get rid of it which she had thought at Lunch.She raised the blind and went on to bed.It was around 11PM.

She awoke later with an agitated feeling and looked at the window.There on the second story was the grizzled face of an older rather disheveled man wearing a blue work shirt and overhalls.He looked sad and frightened to her.
She screamed.Her family rushed in but no one was there.

She continued to fret about the piece of coal and considered putting it back in the ocean.She never did.
Neither would she say whether the face returned.She just said she locked it in a bag in her closet.

BTW this is a rrue story.

Ashes To As..--Painting?

There are many ways you have heard of to honor the deceased loved one from scattering the ashes at sea,tossing them from a helicopter over the mountains and even more recently sending them into space.This is a "different" approach...

"Widow uses dead husband's ashes for painting
A widow has immortalised the memory of her husband by commissioning a painting using his ashes.


The oil painting depicts a photo taken on the couple's final holiday last June Photo: CATERS

As well as following tradition and scattering some of his ashes the mother-of-one she chose to have the artwork made as a permanent and everlasting reminder of the former toolsetter.

"I always say that when I look at the painting I can feel George holding my hand," Mrs Filkins said.


Mr Filkins died of a heart attack last September following complications with a stomach ulcer.

The oil painting depicts a photo taken on the couple's final holiday last June, and is the view from their apartment in Menorca, Spain.


Just two weeks after their trip, Mr Filkins became ill and spent the next six weeks at Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital.

After his death Mrs Filkins, of Bradley, read an article on Sunderland artist Val Thompson, who specialises in incorporating ashes into her paintings, and decided to post some of her husband's ashes to her.

"I saw it in the paper and thought it was a nice idea to have," said the 55-year-old.

The painting cost around £900 and now takes pride of place in her living room. Mrs Filkins added: "It was on an easel when Val uncovered it I cried and fell in love with it.

"It's a happy picture and gives me the feeling I had when we were on holiday."

The couple met in 1972 when they both worked at the Lowe & Fletcher metal factory in Hatton Street, Bilston.

Mrs Filkins spent eight years as a secretary, while her husband was a tool setter for 40 years. They married at St Leonard's Church in Bilston, two years after meeting. Their only son Lee is now 29.

Mrs Filkins, a Wolves fan, also scattered some of her husband's ashes under his long-held seat in the Jack Harris stand at Molineux Stadium."