Bad Candy Ideas

(From Bligbi)

Gravity

It can be scary!

Falling Cow Zone might be a good name for a blog...

(From various places around the Web.)

This is Why You Don't Sit on the Front Pew!

From Fox News:

KOKOMO, Ind. - A pastor brought out a dirt bike during a church service to demonstrate the concept of unity. Now he's demonstrating the concept of healing.

Jeff Harlow, the senior pastor at Crossroads Community Church, broke his wrist when he lost control of the motorcycle at the start of Sunday's second service, driving off a 5-foot platform and into the vacant first row of seats. He underwent surgery on the wrist Monday.

"Jeff has already laughed a lot, so he's OK. I think his pride was bruised," said his wife, Becky.

Becky Harlow said her husband had recently attended a motorcycle race in Buchanan, Mich.

"He had this idea that he would bring this bike out onstage and show people how the rider would become one with the bike," she told the Kokomo Tribune. "He was going to just sit on it and drive it out. He was just walking the dirt bike out onstage and somehow it got away from him. It was not intended."

No one else was hurt.

Jeff Harlow had performed the demonstration at earlier services Saturday night and Sunday morning without incident.

Roswell 2008

I can't get enough of this stuff, and I really don't know why. So here we go:

Associated Press - July 8, 2008 9:55 AM ET
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - International UFO Museum and Research Center officials say attendance at Roswell's annual UFO festival jumped more than 25% this year.

The museum's executive director, Julie Shuster, says 7,216 people attended lectures, workshops, celebrity appearances and other events Thursday through Sunday.

She says she would have been happy if last year's attendance total had been met, especially with the economy the way it is and with gasoline prices rising.

The annual festival marks the anniversary of the Roswell Incident, a purported UFO crash on a nearby ranch in July 1947. The military later said it was a top-secret weather balloon.

Information from: Roswell Daily Record, http://www.roswell-record.com/

Miss New Mexico Galaxy 2008 Joan Marie Yazze-Gallegos and her dog 'Misty' participate in the CBS live broadcast of 'The Early Show' Thursday morning, July 3, 2008, helping kick off the 2008 UFO Festival.(AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record, Mark Wilson)

'Baby,' sporting designer glasses, participates in the pet costume contest held at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center Saturday morning July 5, 2008, during the 2008 Roswell UFO Festival. 'Baby' eventually took the 3rd place prize.(AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record, Mark Wilson)

Roswell Space Center owners Sharon Welz, left, and her husband Larry Welz, are pictured outside their store in Roswell, N.M., Tuesday, May 22, 2007. Sharon Welz said that 'we would welcome something like an alien roller coaster or a theme park, absolutely,' regarding a desire by city officials who want to build a UFO-themed amusement park, complete with an indoor roller coaster that would take passengers on a simulated alien abduction.(AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)

Roswell's biggest attraction is the International UFO Museum and Research Center, which has drawn 2.5 million visitors since opening in 1992, seen here along Main Street in downtown Roswell, N.M., Wednesday, May 23, 2007.(AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)

Alien eyes adorn a lamp post along Main Street in downtown Roswell, N.M., Wednesday, May 23, 2007.(AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf)

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Tony Snow

He was a great and gentle man, a man of faith and courage. Here is some of his wisdom.

Robert is Helping With Home Improvement...

...just by staying out of the way!

He's got a new little helicopter that really flies. It's like a large mosquito!

LINKS: Everyone is blogging now!

and...

We mean everyone!

and...

Teenage girl finds bat asleep in bra!

Vacation!

This blog will be on hiatus for about a week due to house painting. Or until the lovely and gracious Liz encourages Robert and me to spend some quality father-and-son bonding time elsewhere.

Thank you and have a great week!

David Byrne

David Byrne, former Talking Head, travelled through this area two years ago. He went to Marfa and Odessa as well as the Big Bend, and blogged about it here and here.

Independence Day

On July 4th, our tradition is to head over to Odessa's Independence Day Parade.

It normally feels like 120 degrees on the parade route, but this year it was overcast and about 80 degrees. Very nice.

We look so thrilled, don't we?


A flyover by the Commemorative Air Force...

Ector County Sheriff's Department

Is this guy a recycler...

or a homeless man?

Note the sleeping pig.

This green poodle reminds me of a B-52's song.

"Hey Robert!" shouts Jay Hendricks, Robert's buddy in the media.

The horses come last...

including this painted one...

...for obvious reasons.

We headed home to Kermit in time to see our hometown fireworks show. We sat virtually on the porch of Liz's classroom for a great view.