I'm going to start this month with a warning about an e-mail scam that I received last week. It was a message from a friend saying that he was stuck in London and had no money, and could I please wire him some funds. Now, on the surface that sounded reasonable, because there were a lot of people stranded in London last week. However, I was pretty sure my friend wasn't overseas, as I had seen him downtown just a week or two before this. So, I phoned him to find out. Of course he wasn't home, so I didn't get an immediate confirmation of my suspicions. I did leave him a message and he called me the next day. Somehow his computer had been "hacked" and all his contacts were sent this message. He was not aware of the message when he called me, but said that his e-mail had frozen up and he had had to apply for a new e-mail address, as he could not access his old one. I also learned that these fraud schemes always ask you to wire the funds. If you do this, THERE IS NO WAY TO GET THEM BACK AND NO RECOURSE ONCE THE FUNDS ARE SENT. Always keep your virus scan program up to date and guard against your computer being attacked.
About Golf
In My Hand I Hold A Ball,
White And Dimpled, And Rather Small.
Oh How Bland It Does Appear,
This Harmless Looking Little Sphere.
By Its Size I Could Not Guess,
Or The Awesome Strength It Does Possess.
But Since I Fell Beneath Its Spell,
I've Wandered Through The Fires Of Hell.
My Life Has Not Been Quite The Same,
Since I Chose To Play This Stupid Game.
It Rules My Mind For Hours On End,
A Fortune It Has Made Me Spend.
It Has Made Me Curse And Made Me Cry,
And Hate Myself And Want To Die.
It Promises Me A Thing Called Par,
If I Hit It Straight And Far.
To Master Such A Tiny Ball,
Should Not Be Very Hard At All.
But My Desires The Ball Refuses,
And Does Exactly As It Chooses.
It Hooks And Slices, Dribbles And Dies,
And Disappears Before My Eyes.
Often It Will Have A Whim,
To Hit A Tree Or Take A Swim.
With Miles Of Grass On Which To Land,
It Finds A Tiny Patch Of Sand.
Then Has Me Offering Up My Soul,
If Only It Would Find The Hole.
It's Made Me Whimper Like A Pup,
And Swear That I Will Give It Up.
And Take To Drink To Ease My Sorrow,
But The Ball Knows ... I'll Be Back Tomorrow.
Stand proud you noble swingers of clubs and losers of balls....
A recent study found the average golfer walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found golfers drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year.
That means, on average, golfers get about 41 miles to the gallon.
Kind of makes you proud. Almost feel like a hybrid.
Do You Know A Buyer For This Home?
Fabulous 100 year old historic home in Crawford Bay. Presently operating as
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We spent Easter Weekend with our family in Kelowna. It was a good opportunity to update our family photo, so here we all are. The kids (old ones and young) had a great time hunting for Easter eggs and Dorothy liked the fact that she didn't have to cook or clean up!
Where did April go? This newsletter, up to this point was written a couple of weeks ago, but because it wasn't finished, I didn't publish it. Now I look back and wonder how it is possible that I got caught up so much that I wasn't able to get back to it. Anyway, to continue . . . .
There was an interesting article out of the RE/MAX newsroom last week. I pass it along for you to consider, and, if you'd like to comment, we'd love to hear from you: http://remax-western.ca/news/remax-recognized-most-trusted-real-estate-brand-canada
On the last weekend of April I participated in my first organized ride of the season, along with a friend from Nelson and about 750 others. We completed a 50 mile (80 km) ride in the Spokane area. Quite honestly, we felt fabulous at the end and could have done more! (Really) Not too warm, but no rain, and virtually no wind made for a great day of riding.
P.S. Nobody took this sign too seriously!
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Here is an update from Beverly Hill who is a few days into her deployment to Haiti. Please take a moment today and read her story describing the resilience of the Haitian people and their will to carry on after such a devastating disaster. Beverly is working with the Shelter Box organization, which I am pleased to support. -- "Since my arrival to Haiti, I've discovered many things. First, the people here are incredibly resilient. While their physical environment is still very much crumbled around them, there is a sense of "life goes on" here. Without a doubt, there is no real "normal" however, I've witnessed several events that demonstrate the will of the locals here to maintain as much normalcy as they can, even though so much has been lost and "home" for them has taken on a whole new meaning. Yesterday, on our way to visit a community just outside of Port au Prince, a young bride and her bridesmaids emerged off of a city bus onto a pile of rubble, and continued on to the church where her groom awaited. At a local market one evening, people swarmed the local vendors to stock up on the food items and things that would sustain them for the next few days. And, there are the babies that continue to be born, some premature and others to a situation of abandonment, but nonetheless are being well cared for at the present. One of the things I've enjoyed the most, aside from working with local communities to continue to provide them shelter three and one-half months post earthquake, is feeding the newborns at the Medi Share Medical Center at night, which is the compound from where all of the SRTs have been living and working since the day following the earthquake. Medical teams arrive and leave on a weekly basis and we've come to know many of them and appreciate their work, and they appreciate ours.
Quiz for people who know EVERYTHING
There are only nine questions.
This is a quiz for people who know everything!
I found out in a hurry that I didn't.
These are not trick questions..
They are straight questions with straight answers.
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
4.. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.
Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'
Answers To Quiz:
1... The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends: Boxing.
2. North American landmark constantly moving backward: Niagara Falls .
(The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)
3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons: Asparagus and rhubarb.
4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry.
5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle.
The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle...
7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe,question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellip ses.
8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce.
9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S': Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts..
PLEASE do your part by remembering to send this e-mail to at least one person.
Just don't send it back to me. I've already flunked it once!
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Well, I think that does it for now. Thanks for reading, and your comments or feedback are always welcome. Hopefully, I'll get back on schedule, and have another edition out before the end of this month!
Lorne & Drew
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