Non Gun Stuff...

[PegLeg45]

I debated on whether or not to post it, but what the heck.....I'll brag on my mom a little.

Every year our local chapter of the Future Farmers of America (FFA) has an awards banquet to honor the achievements of the students. It's a big shindig with upwards of 400+ folks in attendance.
Local businesses and citizens donate items and services for a silent auction to help with costs and scholarships and such. We also try to have a live auction with some of the more expensive donations such as the his-n-hers watches donated by a jewelry store.

Back in December, my mom started on a hand stitched quilt with an FFA theme to donate to the live auction. My wife and I paid for the materials and my mom did the labor. She put over 250 hours of cutting, piecing, and sewing into the quilt.

At the auction, it sold for $1700.00 to a group of FFA Alumni supporters who had pooled their money to buy it. They then turned right around and donated it back to the FFA for a second round of auctioning, in order to give someone else a chance to bid on it and take it home. The second time it went for $800.00 to a single individual.

The FFA gave my mom the Alumni Supporter of the Year Award for her efforts......to say the least, I was thrilled..and proud.

Here's a few pics.....

Top layer finished...



Finished and ready to go.....



Hanging at the Awards banquet...

[1911 Junkie]

Dang! Mom sure can sew. Tell her great job!

My fingers would be bloody nubs.

[deepwater]

my mom made a nice (king size) quilt for the wife and I. using it now as winter is just starting here in the southern Hemisphere. beautiful work Peg..

[tombogan03884]

 Hey, that's really nice work, and a good result for the FFA.

[MikeBjerum]

PegLeg,

Pass on our thanks to your mom, and thanks to you and Mrs. Peg for your part in this!

FFA is one of the things that is great about our educational system, public, private and home schoolers.  Our son had other interests, but our daughter was active in FFA, and it was one of the best things for her and us as a family.

Thanks again!

[Sponsor]

[shooter32]

WOW... A job well done!!  Very nice, she deserves a BIG thank you!

My youngest son was in FFA, what a great educational class to be part of. Wish more young people would take advantage of this great class.

[PegLeg45]

Thanks for the words, guys.... It has been a busy last few months gathering supplies and donations, but it was worth it because we surpassed last years $$ amount by over $2000.00. I was proud.

We have a good group of young adults in our chapter. We also have the only Ag Academy in the state at our school. Ag Academy (AES) is a select group of junior and senior FFA students who follow a more stringent curriculum of studies, geared at the ag sciences. Our youngest will be a senior next year and and just got elected chapter VP. He is very involved, and by nature so are his mom and myself.
We cook for the class often, especially if they are studying a particular area of food production. Those youngsters can eat!
This past year, the junior class of twenty students went through 40 pounds of lamb in one swipe durin sheep and lamb production studies.
At Thanksgiving, it coincided with poultry production week, so we decided to cook Thanksgiving dinner for the class. We fried two large turkeys, made 15 lbs of chicken dressing, 15 lbs of homemade potato salad, a large pot of green beans, and a large pot of creamed corn, 2 peach cobblers, and a blueberry cobbler and....... THEY ATE IT ALL!.....
20 STUDENTS AND A FEW TEACHERS ate every last scrap.

[shooter32]

Eating is a specialty at that age

[long762range]

http://www.wptv.com/content/aroundtheweb/story/Strip-club-sued-over-strippers-kick-to-mans-head/IROL6MsNBU2H67bx5JI8LA.cspx

 Man claims stripper permanently injured him


WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- A Loxahatchee man is suing Cheetah nightclub, claiming he was permanently injured after a dancer kicked him in the head.

Michael Ireland has filed suit against the club, alleging dancer Sakeena Shageer kicked him 'without warning.' 

Cheetah Palm Beach manager Rod Kimbrough says that's not quite the way they remember the night.

"A patron violently slapped the young woman on her buttocks and she was walking around the top of the bar and I guess out of a natural response she turned around and kicked him.  From what I'm told he refused medical attention and came back in the club after that and had beers," says Kimbrough.

He also questions how Shageer, who dances by the stage name Suki, could have caused so much damage.

"She's a very nice, young small girl, definitely did nothing in a malice way."
 
"Small is the operative word?" asks Holmes.

"Yeah.  Five foot one," says Kimbrough.

Ireland has retained powerful local law firm Lytal and company.  They told us they tried to resolve the issue with the club's insurance carrier.  When that failed, they filed the lawsuit.

We could not reach Ireland for comment.  We also tried to reach Shageer, but she did not return our calls. 

Reason #97 Why I don't Go To Strip Clubs.   

[tombogan03884]

"Ireland has retained powerful local law firm Bendum and Cheatum  company.  They told us they tried to resolve the issue with the club's insurance carrier.  When that failed, they filed the lawsuit."