It's Friday and you know what that means. Time for the Friday Five. This week with a TV TWIST. As always answer any 5 or go cookie crumbs on the covers crazy and answer them all. Ready...have at it....

1-You are out with your friends without your significant other, when an interested party sends you over a drink. Do you accept?

NO-

2-How many pairs of salt and pepper shakers, that are in use, do you have?

3

3-Have you ever stalked anyone?

NO, BUT I HAVE "BELLED" SOMEONE.....

4-Last person you saw naked?

Trooper Junior

5-Do you like your mashed potatoes smooth and creamy or lumpy and bumpy?

I LIKE THEM TO BE JUST LIKE ME....LUMPY AND BUMPY.

6-Closest thing to you that is pink?

MY VICTORIA'S SECRET "pannies", CAN'T GET ANY CLOSER THAN THAT.

7-How many rings does it usually take for you to answer the phone?

ON AVERAGE ABOUT 5.

8-Where would you like to be, and who would you like to be with during a blizzard?

IN A CABIN ON CHEAHA WITH THE YANKEE, IF HE IS AVAILABLE..IF NOT...JOE NAMETH.

9-What warning label should be on you?

WARNING: I HAVE A MIDDLE FINGER AND KNOW HOW TO USE IT.

10- Something funny you recently witnessed?

Someone (I won't say who....and, NO, it wasn't me), stepped out of their vehicle and their pants fell down.

11-Good news you have received lately?

I WAS ACCEPTED INTO THE; HEARTLESS-BITCHES INTERNATIONAL (a real group with their own website), ON THE FIRST TRY (YOU HAVE TO WRITE AN ESSAY ON WHY YOU ARE A HEARTLESS-BITCH....AND IF IT DOESN'T CUT THE MUSTARD WITH THE MAIN HEARTLESS-BITCH...YOU DON'T GET IN!)

12-How much of your body is covered when you sleep?

EVERYTHING BUT MY HEAD....AND SOMETIMES THAT TOO WHEN IT IS COMING A THUNDERSTORM.

13-Are you afraid of the dark?

NO,I'M AFRAID OF WHAT'S IN THE DARK.

14-Strangest place you have ever slept?

ROCKFORD,ILL

15-Do you wear shoes in the house?

NO. I TAKE MINE OFF AS SOON AS I AM IN THE DOOR. IF I WEAR ANY FOOTWEAR IN THE HOUSE, IT IS SOCKS.

16-Favorite TV doctor?

DR. STEVEN KILEY, MARCUS WELBY,MD...(HUBBA...HUBBA)

17-Favorite TV lawyer?

ALAN SHORE,BOSTON LEGAL

18-Favorite TV show based in another time era?

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRARIE (JUST NEED TO KEEP A BOX OF HANKIES NEAR)

19-Favorite TV variety show?

THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW

20-Favorite older TV comedy?

I LOVE LUCY

Later Ya'll......

WARNING:BRAGGING AND PICTURE SHOWING IN PROGRESS.(STEVIE WONDER SINGING,ISN'T SHE LOVELY FOLLOWS)

I couldn't help myself, I just had to share these adorable photos of my granddaughter, Angel at her first birthday party. What else is a proud Me-Ma to do...?

"I know I'm beautiful....but where are my presents...?"

"Hey....where is my crown...?"

"Will someone PLEASE tell Me-Ma to keep her fingers out of my icing?"

Later Ya'll...

Yesterday, the family gathered at my daughter's house to celebrate my granddaughter, Angel's first birthday.

As I sat between my daughter, and Daddy, watching the grandchildren play,my thoughts were on someone that wasn't here to share this day.

"You know what tomorrow is. Don't you?", Daddy asked, bringing me back to the present.

I nodded my head yes, refusing to make eye contact.

"21 years ago tomorrow, your Mother died."

Again, I nodded my head.

He reached out, putting his hand on mine, as I struggled to fight back tears.

Our eyes met, and neither looked away, each one saying a hundred things. For a split second that seemed like hours, we shared our past memories without saying a word.

The good times before cancer became a part of our life.

I can still see his face,clear as day, when we all found out that a silent and deadly killer had invaded her body.

The ups of good medical reports, the downs of the bad ones. The devastation, of the final one as her doctor told us it was only a matter of time.

I leaned over, into his arms. The same arms that Mother threw herself into as she took her final breath of life and slipped away from us at sunset.

Mother choose the dress she would be buried in...it is the one in the photo above this post. She made the dress herself, for my wedding in 1982-She was my Matron Of Honor.

Mother was a lady, and a lady always knows when to leave. I just wish she hadn't left so soon.

I wanted to post The Kingsmen Quartet singing: Wish You Were Here, but it wasn't available on Youtube. So, instead, I am posting a beautiful song by Gaither Vocal Band, called, Knowing You'll Be There.(MISTRESS REBA FOUND WISH YOU WERE HERE BY THE KINGSMEN, AND POSTED IT IN THE COMMENT SECTION.)

In LOVING MEMORY;

She is ALWAYS LOVED

NEVER forgotten

FOREVER in our hearts.

Later Ya'll...^Belle^

I am a daughter of the south. This is where I was born and raised.
Growing up I can remember when rebel flags were everywhere...in houses, on automobiles and clothing. Now, I can't remember the last time I saw one.

I have a T-Shirt I love, on the back is the Confederate flag. I only wear it around the house, and never out in public, lest someone think I am racist.

I never thought of it as being a symbol of white supremacy or the desire to keep my fellow human beings in bondage. Some folks do.

I remember a discussion on this topic with 2 Africian-American ladies I used to work with in my home town. One said she could care less about the flag. The other disagreed saying it was a symbol slavery.

The Civil War ended well over 100 years ago, yet, there are those who still live by the motto: HELL NO, WE WON'T FORGET!

A Charlie Daniels Band song, The South's Gonna Do It Again,when first released in the 1970's, ignited (around here), people to think about..., "...the war of Northern aggression".

Even my grandfather, the one named after General Robert E Lee, began quoting lines from the song: "Be proud you're a rebel, 'cause the south's gonna do it again...."

He had no use for Yankees, and even less, for "Damn Yankee's" (the ones that were here and living 'amognst' us. One of his most used lines was: Yankees are like hemorrhoids. "Pain in the ass when they come down and always a relief when they go back up."

I remember in the days before cable , when Gone With The Wind aired on TV for the first time. A bunch of us gathered at my grandparents home for the event.

Granddaddy held court in his recliner, muttering under his breath during certain scenes, "Damn Yankees". He went on and on about how 'they', destroyed the south, and we still had not recovered. I guess they didn't teach him in school that WE started it.

The choices of his 2 eldest granddaughter's puzzled him.

"One comes dragging home a hippy and here you are with a Damn Yankee!"

Initially it went over "like a turd in a punch bowl", , when I came dragging home a half Italian,Brooklyn born, Yankee. Even though his father was born and raised in Alabama, and that made him half Southern, it didn't matter to Grandaddy because, "The half that's a talkin' don't sound like any Southerner that I know".

The Brooklyn Yankee, managed to win over Granddaddy, or, Big Bob, as he was called by some. He did so by talking about his grandfather who fought during WWII, and had "chewed some of the same dirt", as Big Bob.

In his later years he mellowed quite a bit, though he still hated, President Reagan, "The movie star", and would get on a Yankee rant every now and then. He didn't blink an eye when the oldest granddaugter married a hispanic. In fact, they became buddies.

To quote from another Charlie Daniels Band song:

"WE'LL ALL STICK TOGETHER, AND YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK, THAT'S THE COWBOYS AND THE HIPPIES....THE REBELS AND THE YANKS..."

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG BOB....I MISS YOU.

Later Ya'll...^Belle^

TEXT MESSAGES FROM MY DAUGHTER:

The police found a body with no brain, saggy boobs,dirty panties and a foodstamp card. Girl, I was worried....U okay?

I couldn't get laid,so I bought a blowup doll...got her pregnant....nine months later....we had a whoopie cushion.Cutest little fart you ever saw.

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Annual Physical

An older man goes in for his yearly physical, with his wife tagging along.

When the doctor enters the examination room he says, "I will need a urine sample, a stool sample, and a sperm sample."

The old man, being hard of hearing, turns to his wife and asks, "What did he say?"

The wife yells back to him: "JUST GIVE HIM YOUR UNDERWEAR!"

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HOW TO CLEAN THE TOILET

1. Put both lids of the toilet up and add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the water in the bowl.

2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.

3. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close the lid. You may need to stand on the lid.

4. The cat will self agitate and make ample suds. Never mind the noises that come from the toilet, the cat is actually enjoying
this.

5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a 'power-wash' and 'rinse'.

6. Have someone open the front door of your home. Be sure that there are no people between the bathroom and the front door.

7. Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly lift the lid.

8. The cat will rocket out of the toilet, streak through the bathroom, and run outside where he will dry himself off.

9. Both the commode and the cat will be sparkling clean.

Sincerely,

The Dog

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DEER MEAT

A man kills a deer and takes it home to cook for dinner. Both he and his wife decide that they won't tell the kids what kind of
meat it is, but will give them a clue and let them guess. The kids were eager to know what the meat was on their plates, so begged
their dad for the clue. Well' he said, 'It's what mummy calls me sometimes'. The little girl screams 'Don't eat it, Don't eat it,
it's an ass hole!'
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TWENTY LINES TO MAKE YOU SMILE

1.. My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't.
2.. I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.
3.. Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them.
4.. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
5.. Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.
6.. You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
7.. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
8.. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.
9.. I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are just missing.
10.. Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
11.. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck-is-the-room-spinning medicine.
12.. God must love stupid people; He made so many.
13.. The gene pool could use a little chlorine
14.. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
15.. Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
16.. Being "over the hill" is much better than being under it!
17.. Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew up.
18.. Procrastinate Now!
19.. I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do You Want Fries With That?
20.. A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

Now for the bonus lines!

21.. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
22.. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!
23.. They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.
24.. He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless DEAD.
25.. A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory.
26.. Ham and eggs... A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.
27.. The trouble with life is there's no background music.
28.. The original point and click interface was a Smith & Wesson.
29.. I smile because I don't know what the heck is going on.

Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!
Life is too short and friends are too few!

Later Ya'll...^Belle^