wingslogo19 281 Report post Posted May 12, 2011 Game day and so excited Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingslogo19 281 Report post Posted May 16, 2011 Monday back to work Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hockeytown0001 7,652 Report post Posted May 19, 2011 Post. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingslogo19 281 Report post Posted May 19, 2011 Great Thursday, the sun is shining and I won Pearl Jam tickets from the radio Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cjm502 165 Report post Posted May 19, 2011 Almost Friday Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest 13GoWings40 Report post Posted May 20, 2011 Just saw this thread, I guess I'll add my contribution. The off-season is far too long and we're only a few days in lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hockeytown0001 7,652 Report post Posted May 20, 2011 Just saw this thread, I guess I'll add my contribution. The off-season is far too long and we're only a few days in lol Make several contributions to this one to get it going again Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WizardOfOz30 1,886 Report post Posted May 20, 2011 They'll all be revived at some point. Happy Friday!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingslogo19 281 Report post Posted May 20, 2011 Friday and the sun is shining It's going to be a great long weekend Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WizardOfOz30 1,886 Report post Posted May 20, 2011 Friday and the sun is shining It's going to be a great long weekend Canadian holiday on Monday right? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WizardOfOz30 1,886 Report post Posted May 20, 2011 (edited) This makes me happy that there are still honest people out there: Found Money SALT LAKE CITY – When Josh Ferrin closed on his family's first home, he never thought he'd make the discovery of a lifetime — then give it back.Ferrin picked up the keys earlier this week and decided to check out the house in the Salt Lake City suburb of Bountiful. He was excited to finally have a place his family could call their own. As he walked into the garage, a piece of cloth that clung to an attic door caught his eye. He opened the hatch and climbed up the ladder, then pulled out a metal box that looked like a World War II ammunition case. "I freaked out, locked it my car, and called my wife to tell her she wouldn't believe what I had found," said Ferrin, who works as an artist for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City. Then he found seven more boxes, all stuffed full with tightly wound rolls of cash bundled together with twine — more than $40,000. Ferrin quickly took the boxes to his parent's house to count. Along with his wife and children, they spread out thousands of bills on a table, separating the bundles one by one. They stopped counting at $40,000, but estimated there was at least $5,000 more on the table. Ferrin thought about how such a large sum of money could go a long way, pay bills, buy things he never thought he could afford. "I'm not perfect, and I wish I could say there was never any doubt in my mind. We knew we had to give it back, but it doesn't mean I didn't think about our car in need of repairs, how we would love to adopt a child and aren't able to do that right now, or fix up our outdated house that we just bought," Ferrin said. "But the money wasn't ours to keep and I don't believe you get a chance very often to do something radically honest, to do something ridiculously awesome for someone else and that is a lesson I hope to teach to my children." He thought about the home's previous owner, Arnold Bangerter, who died in November and left the house to his children. "I could imagine him in his workshop. From time to time, he would carefully bundle up $100 with twine, climb up into his attic and put it into a box to save. And he didn't do that for me," Ferrin said of the man who had worked as a biologist for the Utah Department of Fish and Game. Bangerter purchased the home in 1966 and lived there with his wife, who died in 2005. After most of the money was counted, Ferrin called one of Bangerter's sons with the news. Kay Bangerter said he knew his father hid away money because he once found a bundle of cash taped beneath a drawer in their home, but he never considered his dad had stuffed away so much over the years. "He grew up in hard times and people that survived that era didn't have anything when they came out of it unless they saved it themselves," Kay Bangerter, the oldest of the six children, told the Deseret News. "He was a saver, not a spender." Bangerter called the money's return "a story that will outlast our generation and probably yours as well." "I'm a father, and I worry about the future for my kids," Ferrin said. "I can see him putting that money away for a rainy day and it would have been wrong of me to deny him that thing he worked on for years. I felt like I got to write a chapter in his life, a chapter he wasn't able to finish and see it through to its conclusion." I would do the same if it happened to me. Edited May 20, 2011 by WizardOfOz30 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingslogo19 281 Report post Posted May 20, 2011 Canadian holiday on Monday right? you would be correct there Dawn, it's Victoria Day it's only in Canada Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hockeytown0001 7,652 Report post Posted May 20, 2011 Sleepy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WizardOfOz30 1,886 Report post Posted May 23, 2011 Such crazy weather today. Storms roll in, it gets dark, windy and rain and then all of a sudden there's blue skies and sun - all within 1 hour. Looks like there's more on the way. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jenny 315 Report post Posted May 23, 2011 It looked that when I was driving home today. I drive more or less from east to west, so I'd go through a band of storm, then a band of really bright sun with blue skies, then storm, then sun. It was really weird. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingslogo19 281 Report post Posted May 24, 2011 Great long weekend Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jenny 315 Report post Posted May 24, 2011 The mosquitoes are out in force today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WizardOfOz30 1,886 Report post Posted May 25, 2011 It's all that rain we've had. I think I noticed some while I was out tonight too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jenny 315 Report post Posted May 25, 2011 They actually chased us out of the park earlier. And here we were trying to be all healthy and go for a walk! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingslogo19 281 Report post Posted May 25, 2011 Only 2 more days Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hockeytown0001 7,652 Report post Posted May 25, 2011 We'll miss Raffy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingslogo19 281 Report post Posted May 25, 2011 We'll miss Raffy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingslogo19 281 Report post Posted May 27, 2011 Friday!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hockeytown0001 7,652 Report post Posted May 29, 2011 More rain today. Meh. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MGreenberg 105 Report post Posted May 29, 2011 More rain today. Meh. We had a Tornado warning a few days ago and had golf ball size and bigger hail. Some people said on the news up to baseball size. Or try living in South Carolina, rained probably three to four days out of the week. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
