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Oct, 2005? 

Today??™s Announcements:

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You know I think I forgot to tell you that my book, Sharlett's Web of Hope will be released Oct.17th.?  It can be preordered for 10.95 at www.publishamerica.com

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? ? ? ?  Title:?  Sharlett??™s Web of Hope

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Now on to the good stuff..........

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Today's Queue Stories
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?  Waiting on Wilma

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?  I don't really know what is happening in most of the world today.?  As for me, I am sitting here in Central Florida waiting for a hurricane.?  Silly, you say??  It does sound silly, even to me.? 

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?  So many storms have ravaged our state and others recently.?  For us here, it was only a little over a year when three major storms rocked our little world, as we know it.?  The most recent devastation was from Katrina and we all know the story of the complete devastation of New Orleans, Biloxi, and Mobile.?  Then there was Rita, not quite as bad because Texans are a tough people and were well prepared.

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?  Now, there is Miss Wilma.?  She's a different story.?  She has already broken three records for ferocity and strength and is ravaging Mexico as we speak.?  Being a typical female, she is keeping the state of Florida in suspense as she wobbles here, weakens, wobbles again and gathers strength.? 

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?  She was the first Category Five storm to maintain strength of up to 175 MPH.?  Now you know that is fast.?  Try hitting a brick wall traveling that fast in a vehicle.?  It hit Cancun at approximately that speed.?  As far as I know it is still hanging around in that area.?  Right now it down to a Category 3.?  That's supposed to calm our nerves.?  Guess what??  It didn't calm mine.

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?  I have been watching this storm with interest for the past week.?  It has to have made a record for being the longest running news show in history.?  I have? researched and tried to pinpoint exactly where the bugger will make landfall but I am no better than my friendly local meteorologist.?  It has been very frustrating for all of us here.

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?  My gloxinia is blooming so beautifully!?  Funny, how you think of this and wonder at the wind and know that is a very real possibility that it can come and destroy it all again.?  I took pictures of my pretty flowers this morning.?  I want to be able to remember them the way they are.?  I know, this too, shall pass, and tomorrow will be another sunny day.?  Reminds me to just enjoy today and whatever it may bring.

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?  I don't want to say I have fear but maybe there is a certain amount of dread.? 

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?  Maybe it's because this storm is so long in coming.?  Could be the anticipation.?  I have talked to many who express these same emotions.?  Pictures of those who have previously lost? all their worldly goods ? keep flashing vividly in my mind and I wonder how do you go through this when you are older and alone in this world.?  I cried with them and felt so much pain when I saw what they had gone through.?  I know they are praying right this very minute for those of us who are in a dangerous storm's path.?  How do you start over?

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?  I guess it all boils done to the fact that nothing, absolutely nothing in this life is guaranteed.?  We only have this moment.?  The things we cherish are so close to us.?  Material things can be replaced.? 

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?  I know it is true that material things can be replaced but it is the uncertainty.?  That feeling of sure doom that has been over our heads for over a week now.?  I am so tired of storms.?  I wonder if the weatherman is aware of that.?  This Wilma is particularly unruly.?  There is no way of really knowing.

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?  I wish I could just go to sleep until it is all over.?  I just might do that.?  Possibly the most sensible thing I can do.? 

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?  There are no motels in this area because all the Florida Keys, Fort Myers. Naples, Sarasota and most surrounding areas have been evacuated.?  All of the west coast is in danger of being hit.?  Even Tampa, right down the road from me, is not exempt.? 

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?  This makes me appreciate life so much, just because it is.?  I know if I go anywhere, my little cat will tag along.?  I live in an old 1967 mobile home that drew it's last breath last year.?  I don't know how much more wind it can stand.?  Just will you all please say a little prayer for us down here??  I know they say we live here by choice and of course we do.?  I have been here almost all my life.?  It is home.?  Whatever comes our way, we can handle, bottom line.

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?  It's just that we have no control over the weather and it is so frustrating.?  Our lives can be so in order and along comes a storm to make you see how little we really do have control .?  It is a very helpless feeling.? 

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?  I heard a fellow say it best on one of the news shows yesterday.?  He was evacuating his home and said when he leaves, he leaves with no idea of ever returning so if he loses? everything it wouldn't come as a big surprise.?  All things considered, that might be the best attitude, though very sad.? 

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?  I must have hope.?  My entire being screams with the? emotion of this entire thing.?  I want it to stop.?  Maybe I'll go outside and hold up my hands and tell it to "stop!"?  Reckon that would help??  It might help me some, I don't know.?  I doubt I'll find out or they might be putting me in a "permanent shelter."? 

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?  I guess you have to be here to realize our dilemma.?  Texas had a hard time evacuating.?  Can you just imagine this peninsula, that looks like a pencil on the map, being loaded down with vehicles trying to get out of the state??  There's more cars than we have road.?  I guess many are out there struggling on the few main highways, trying to get away.?  I don't blame them.? 

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?  I don't think it will be that bad myself, logically speaking.?  Life is filled with ups and downs.?  I know that whatever doesn't kill me only has a tendency to make me stronger.?  As it will be in this case.

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About Me:

I was born in Alabama, the middle of seven children. At about age four we moved to Central Florida and I have lived here most of my life. I am a Viet Nam Era Veteran. I have always enjoyed writing and as I get older it seems to come more naturally to me. I believe everyone has many stories inside them and some are blessed to be able to share them.
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KWBE

Bill Walker

wildbill6807@yahoo.com

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KWBE, the local radio station here in Beatrice.?  I was a boy of about 17 when it cranked up for the first time.?  That was about 1948, that is some time back. There was two that drifted in here from else where that had a lot to do with it, well guess better say three.?  I later became friends with all three. Well those three were friends in my thinking.

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There was Gordon C."Bud" Pentz,?  Bill Boyce, and Arlin Hollie. Over time I got to know these three. Each is a story many times over.

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I can't say just when each showed up. But I do know early on here these three men was a big part of radio station KWBE. Seems like in a short time they bought the fellow out that started the station.

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I hadn't been out to the station in many years, really never had a reason to go until a few days ago. I?  met a fellow there, and one thing led to another.?  I said something about knowing Mr. Gordon C."Bud" Pentz.?  I told this fellow I was, I guess a friend to Bud. . The talk had got to Bud and his dogs.

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Bud was a German Shepard man. Always seemed to have one, at least one. Now the funny was every one of these always seemed to have the same name.?  "Shadow."? ?  Every where Bud went Shad seemed to go also.?  Bud would leave Shad in the car, he always drove a station wagon, the windows rolled down. The gold from the U.S. Treasure could be in that car, no way was it going to come up missing with Shad guarding it.?  Shad told all that came close, I? have a job to do. That is guard this car,and what ever is in it. It is mine as long as Bud is not here.

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Bud could pull into the gas station, get out, be telling you what a?  deal he had for you as to putting some ad on the air.?  Shad would never get out, he was telling all that came close to the car, stay back, I got teeth.

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Sometimes it was hard to understand what the ad would be.?  You got some of Bud, but you also got some of Shad's talk.?  It went something like this.?  "Will, I can put you on the 'BARK BARK"? radio telling about "BARK BARK" your new car "BARK BARK" wash." Some of the times, Bud would say one word, Shad had two words. I think looking back Shad was a better salesman then Bud. You would jump for the ad, so you could shut up Shad.

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Bud was a Prince of a fellow, I think just? about everyone liked him. I don't recall a lot of things,? until someone reminds me, and this man at? KWBE did.? ? You know time does pass. You drop out, or someone you know drops out. You kind of lose contact for one reason or other.?  Days turn to weeks, and your path in life just don't cross. I only by accident seen Bud after folding the gas stations up.?  But I was always spoke to when I ran into Bud.?  He would say. "How is it going Will?"? ?  He always called me "Will."? 

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He sold out the radio station, and I heard he moved to Lincoln. Somewhere I was at, ran into him, quite by accident.?  Yes he had Shad with him. ? I got the,?  Hello? Will, how BARK BARK? is it going?"? 

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Bud was another of those I have know in my life, that had a few degrees from different schools of higher learning. I never heard the high tone talk of look at how smart I am. In lots of ways he was just a common man with a lot of smarts. He was one that you could just enjoy a few minutes of talk BARK BARK from.

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That was the last time I every seen Bud and Shad.?  He and Shad, their gone now.?  Bud is up there with that whole crowd of BARK BARK Shadows, I am sure of that.?  Hope St. Peter has some cotton to stuff in his ears cause I know how it is.?  "Hey St.PETE, I got a BARK BARK deal for you, BARK BARK."

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Every time I think of KWBE, ? I think of Gordon C."BUD" Pentz, a Prince of a fellow.

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Tinker and Poo; The Boys Write

http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-35741-5

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? A Heavenly Scent

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Sharon Bryant

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I remember a bathtub I saw one time at someone's house years ago.?  It had a seat inside of it with metal? rails on each side.?  I knew it was for someone with handicaps or having trouble standing in the tub/shower combo.

I think I'm ready to get one.

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I was at a craft show.?  It was held in a huge community center with three floors and each floor was packed with hundreds of booths.?  I strolled up and down the aisles, taking in everything.?  I passed up the little kids clothes since I have no little ones to buy for.?  I stopped at the doggie booth and bought some toys, new ID tags, and a sweater for our "Bob."

I looked at cute bird houses.?  I tasted new dips and love that new one called Blazing Saddles.?  Talk about HOT!?  I got hubby a new shirt, my son a pair of cut off jeans, and some jams and jellies.

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I was nearing the end on the second floor when I saw a booth with a lot of women in front of it, opening jars, smelling the contents.?  Naturally I had to check it out.?  I opened a jar, and the aroma of vanilla was wonderful.?  Only it wasn't a cooking booth.?  Nope, it was a lotion booth.?  I asked why the vanilla looked "curdled" and the lady said, "Oh, that's the salt mixed in with the vanilla. Just shower as usual, rinse, then rub some of this on your body, rinse again and you will have a heavenly scent that will stay with you for hours.

I bought two jars.?  I WANTED a heavenly scent besides chocolate for a few hours.

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Let me describe my shower.?  It's sure different from the old four legged bathtub I grew up with.?  But you sure could put a lot of water in the tub back in those days!?  Ah......the memories.?  Remind me one? day to tell? you what my brother did in that tub when we were kids!

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My shower is made of fiberglass.?  It has glass doors and it has a corner where you can put your shampoo and soap, or whatever you want.?  It has a ledge overhead and I've always got it filled with bath gels.?  I simply love scented bath gels.

I decided to use my new vanilla/salt scrub, as they call it, that night.? 

I lathered myself up, peaked my hair with my ocean breeze shampoo, conditioned my hair with coconut.?  (I really should have been born in Hawaii I think).?  And then I rinsed.?  I set the beater pace on the shower head and let the water massage my tired back.

It was time for the scrub.?  I stuck my fingers in the jar and pulled out some of the mixture.?  Oh, it felt good.?  I rubbed my arms, my legs, my tummy.?  I even put some on my face!?  Then I rinsed.

And then..........I turned the water off and turned to slide the shower door.? 

I was on a skating rink.?  My feet would not work right, they kept slipping all over.?  I grabbed the metal bar on the door for support.?  I felt like a water skier the first time.?  I slid, I slipped and? then before I knew what hit me, I was on the floor of the shower.?  Hubby heard the impact of body hitting all the shampoo bottles and soap bars hitting the floor of the shower.?  There I was, on my knees, laughing my head off.? 

I really don't want to tell you what he said when he slid the shower door open, but he did say, "What?"?  I looked up at him and said, "Care to go skiing with me?"? 

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I figure if I go buy one of those little seats with the metal bars, I can use my salt/vanilla scrub again.?  I will set myself in it, and salt myself to death, rinse and wait until the floor of the shower dries.?  I may be sitting in there for close to an hour but one thing is for sure........I'll have a heavenly scent.

? Sharon Bryant

1946 @bellsouth.net

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About Me:

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? I am Sharon Bryant,? 59 years old and reside in Alabama.

I lost my child in 1977 when he was five and I write
articles on bereavement often.

I am a chocolate/candy maker and also a wood crafter and knitter.

I am married to a wonderful man, and have two remaining children, a daughter 25,
Amy, and a second son, Randy, age 22.

My main goal in life is to help those who
have lost a child. My website is: www.angelsremembered.tk

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~ Is it Love? ~

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W. W. J. D. ?

Joyce C. Lock

? ? ? ?  Jesus said ... Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. ? This is the first and great commandment.?  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.?  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Mt. 22:37-40

So, there you have it.?  Hang the law.

Is it Love?

When you're the picture of health, yet you park in the handicapped zone ...

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Is it Love?

If you leave shopping carts in any path but yours,

at the risk of other cars getting scratched ...

Is it Love?

When you scream absurdities at traffic that inconveniences you ...

Is it Love?

What if you use an automobile to intimidate drivers in your path ??¦

Is it Love?

When you belittle someone who has less than your abilities ...

Is it Love?

Suppose you take the credit and bows for another's accomplishments ...

Is it Love?

When you say things, in anger, that can damage another's testimony ...

Is it Love?

Maybe someone calls you with an immediate need,

just before a church service,

yet you ignore the request to be on time ...

Is it Love?

When you look down on someone who isn't dressed just right ...

Is it Love?

If you complain when someone takes your seat ...

Is it Love?

When you rush past someone waiting to talk to you,

so as not to miss the person going out the door ...

Is it Love?

Suppose you see the Spirit compelling,

but give the position to one with more credentials.
Is it Love?

When you're faced with a dilemma of choosing God's will over opposition ...

Is it Love?

When God reveals something to you contrary to man's teachings,

yet you keep silent ...

Is it Love?

If you want to know what Jesus Would Do,

just ask yourself ...

? ~ Is it love? ~
?© by Joyce C. Lockhttp://our.homewithgod.com/heavenlyinspirations/ ? 

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