Socked In..and Something Good for a Change.

Literally, we have like two different "lows" circling around us.  The rain has been falling since late last night. The back yard is flooding, and I have two boxers that refuse to go out and do their business in it.
One that insists to argue  with me, because I am keeping her tethered in the kitchen, where, if she does have an accident, it won't be on the carpet. It's like arguing with a teenage daughter over clothes or something.

Life is slowly returning to normal, had two ball games this week. Poor little ND really needs to watch out in the field, he was drilled three times in the chest. We would all tell him to pay attention, and no sooner "SMACK" he got it again.. finally after the third time ..coach moved him to a safer spot in the out field.

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So, we got some much needed good news last night. My Niece's Boyfriend proposed to her. and She said "YES".  I am pleased as punch for the happy little couple. And very proud of my niece, that before a man and etc.. she went to college, began a career in the medical field, is now trying to get in to PA school. And does not need to live off anyone. She is 28 and still "pure as the driven snow" ..
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My brother finds it hard to believe that she is related to us. Because neither he or I could have lasted that long..but she has stuck to her morals and has saved herself.  My brother is quite comical and all ready asking what I think the wedding night will be like....

They went to high school together, then he went to live in near Craley Pennsylvania, and became a nurse up there, now on Saturday he graduates from Penn State.  My sister and my niece were invited up..he took her to some park with a big compass thing, and got down on one knee...  So, God willing and the creeks don't rise, in a year they will become Mr and Mrs.  Awwwwwwwww

I will be very happy to give wedding plan updates over the next year. I did offer my services to plan a bachelorette party weekend to Vegas to see Motley Crue in October, but it was met with a resounding "NO"   I can't imagine why !  "Bubble Girl" as I like to call her teasingly really does need to get out from behind the BBC shows once in a while...

-JUGM

Penn State Selling Sanduskys Book....

Let me begin by saying that if this was one of my precious boys, I would hunt the  B-#$%*&  down and carve his "privates" off with a spoon!!!!!!!!!
I am a mother, and that is how I feel about any animal that would exploit and hurt small children. The events of the Penn State Scandal are sicking to me and probably are to most of you. Sandusky adopted kids, he ran a charity summer camp at the school, and the whole time he was abusing those same

underprivileged  kids claimed to be helping.. So far only 8 victims have been found, but I am sure that more will turn up.

And then to see that his book is STILL FOR SALE in the schools bookstore is nauseating, especially its title.:

 JOE HERMITT, The Patriot-News

Sandusky, Penn State's former defensive coordinator, is charged with sexually abusing eight children. In the wake of the Sandusky investigation, the university's board of trustees fired legendary coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier. In addition, the Attorney General's office has charged former athletic director Tim Curley with perjury as a result of the investigation.

"It is hopefully just a mistake, that they still have that [book] out and it's still available here,'' said one recent Penn State alum who glanced at the book, just to make sure it really was on sale. He asked that his name not be used.

Nope. It's not an oversight. A university bookstore spokesman said he was aware the book, which explores Sandusky's work with the children's charity he founded, The Second MIle, and his football career, was on display. It's located in the middle of the store, located on Pollack Road, not far from Old Main.

The Sandusky book can be found in a row entitled "Local Interest Section", between "Living Without Electricity", by Stephen Scott and Kenneth Pellman, and "The New Face of Small-Town America: Snapshots of Latino Life in Allentown, Pa..'', by Edgar Sandoval.

"I don't really have a comment on that,''' said a book store spokesman. "We haven't changed any operating procedure.''

The same grad who was hopeful that the book availability was an "oversight", then frowned at the news it wasn't.

"That is shameful, to try and promote that [book], in my opinion,'' said the alum, who made trip from Washington, D.C. for Saturday's Penn State-Nebraska game at Beaver Stadium at noon.

"That fact that it's in Penn State's bookstore is really hard to believe,'' said another alum, originally from Lewistown, Pa. She also declined to be identified.

She added: "I'm struggling with the question why JoePa had to be fired and to see this, it's disappointing.''

She was asked if she thought The Penn State Bookstore should pull the book from the shelf.

"I would hope they would,'' she said.