Good morning Peeps! Happy Friday to you and I hope it is going to be a super fantastic day for you. FUN FAST and EXCITING!!!!

We had some major excitement this morning here in my little part of the world. We had a 5.4 earthquake this morning!!! Now if you live in California, an earthquake is no major thing cause you can normally expect to have a few, but here in my fair State of Ohio..well we don't have earthquakes here, so this is a huge news story this morning.

Most people were woke up from a sound sleep with the headboard and walls shaking and creaking. Some people calling in say they thought their house was possessed or that a wreak or something caused it. So far not much structural damage was reported, which is a good thing we can all be thankful for. Lovie & I didn't even feel a thing. That is good and perhaps it is because our love ROCKS our world anyway so a mere earthquake ain't got nothing on us!

Sooo you ready to answer the Friday Questions? Go Hog-wart wild and get your weekly fix. I've even added 5 BONUS questions for ya! Have fun Peeps and have a fantabulous Friday!!!

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY?

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU LAUGHED SO HARD YOU CRIED?


3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR OWN HANDWRITING?

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?


5. DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN? DO YOU HAVE GRANDCHILDREN?

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?


7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?


10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?

12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?

13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?

14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?

15. PINK OR BLUE?

16. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?


17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST


18. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?


19. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?

20. FAVORITE OUTDOOR SMELL?


5.... YES THAT'S RIGHT 5 BONUS QUESTIONS FOR THIS FABULOUS FRIDAY!!!

1. FAVORITE FOOD?


2. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?


3. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T.V. LAST NIGHT?

4. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?

5. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?

Have a great weekend Peeps!

Bear Hugs!
PolarB ;)

50 Things about PolarB that you might not know….

I have seen my guardian angel.

I discovered a really huge conch shell in the ocean but realized somebody was still inside after I brought it onshore! I put it back into the ocean. As much as I would have loved to have the shell, I valued the sea creature’s life more.

I have been a leader for many volunteer activities for the Gift of Sight Program. (Giving eye exams to under privileged children in poverty stricken school districts & free eyeglasses to children. Recycling used eyewear to go on International Missions to third world countries. Collecting gently used eyewear for the Lion’s Club and GOS.)

I have been to Niagra Falls (Canada) once and would love to go back again.

I have given furniture and clothes to a family of five who had nothing but a one room unit to live in. Seeing the smile on their faces was worth so much to my heart. It made me want to give them even more.

I love to visit the mountains. They call to me and my spirit is drawn to them.

I have never been to a nude beach but I have laid out in the sun nude.

I see shooting stars often during the summer months. They are beautiful!

I have been to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was pretty cool!

I have eaten deer and didn’t even know it until afterwards. It wasn’t bad but I would not choose to eat it again.

I don’t drink soda drinks often. (Maybe once or twice a month at best)

I like to try different types of cheeses. I am a cheese-a-holic!

I love Limburger Cheese! It does not taste like it smells.

I have seen a wild pack of coyotes near my house.

I was interviewed by the media for a national news event at age 5. It was regarding the first time man walked on the moon. It was on the evening news.

I used to sing in our chorus group in high school.

I learned to swim at age 8.

I jumped off a 10 foot diving board before I knew how to swim.

I sung alto in a church choir. I still love to sing old hymns.

I have marched in a parade before.

I can play a mean game of Checkers

I don’t know how to play Chess

I hate snakes! Eeeeewwwwwwww!!

I have petted a snake and almost held one. (I was highly inebriated)

I like Belgium beers (Blue Moon, Stella Artois)

It’s unusual if I consume alcoholic beverages more than every other month.

I’ve never had a birthday party as a child or as an adult.

I was never suspended from school, but played hooky several times in HS

I was bitten in the face by a Doberman when I was a small child.

I have won several 1st place awards for my photography and I have a photo published in The International Library of Photography.

I have seen Dorothy's shoes from Wizard of Oz

I have a personal letter written to me from one of my favorite authors- Rita Mae Brown. I’ve met her two times and had her autograph two of her books she wrote.

I fainted in a Frish’s restaurant when I was nine years old. I’ve only passed out twice in my life.

I have rode to the hospital in an ambulance three times. (2 asthma attacks and transported to another hospital after my knee surgery)

I have never been arrested.

I have been to several wild Hell’s Angel biker parties.

I have found that bikers are some of the nicest people in the world.

I have appeared on both Paul Dixon’s and Bob Braun’s show as a child. I met Ruth Lyons.

I self taught myself to cook, and can cook extremely well. I can taste something and usually tell what is in it and duplicate the recipe.

I know Neil Armstrong and his son. I lived near his house in the early 80’s. Yes this is the same man that was the first to walk on the moon!

I have never been to San Francisco but would like to go. I’ve never traveled further west than Indiana.

I have been to a couple of parties with the Mayor of a major city. She ran for Congress and she is now a Professor for a major university and still active in the political arena. She is very friendly and easy going.

I have been in a head-on car accident and wasn’t wearing a seat belt. My Jeep was completely destroyed and totaled.

I love chocolate but rarely eat it. It gives me migraines.

I hate sushi but love calamari.

I love liver and onions! I prefer chicken livers over beef liver.

I have never flown in an airplane but I would like to.

I used to ride on trains for transportation as a child.

I used to work in a haunted old gun power factory that was turned into a manufacturing facility. Before you ask…Yes, I had several ghost encounters along with a lot of other people. I did research on the place and found out there were a lot of deaths there in the 1800’s.

I do not chew my chewing gum for long after the flavor leaves and I have never put my chewing gum on a bedpost overnight.

What about you? I challenge you to leave me five to ten facts or more about you that I might not know. Come on… you can do it!

Have a great day!!
Love & Bear Hugs!
PolarB ;)

Hello Peeps!

I trust that you are all heading into a fantabulous week and that you had an enjoyable weekend. Lovie and I had an exciting weekend...it involved a great Friday evening with good friends and food...a loud boom and calling johnny law in to the scene of a crime!!!

Yes we are just fine and still have use of all of our limbs and parts, but before I get to that let me tell you about our fun on Friday night. The group of people I work with are a fun bunch of coworkers and we all get along fantastically well. I really do work with a great team that support one another and have fun in the process. Lately we've been going on monthly happy hours as a way to get together outside of work in a fun playful environment. This was our fourth one and it was a blast! We headed to BW3's for good food and drinks. One of the guys that used to be in our group came by to join us because he misses our lively group. He took another job last year and his new team somehow isn't quite as fun as we seem to be. I really like him and we have a great relationship as we love pulling pranks on one another whenever the opportunity presents itself. He is a great family man and I know his family well.

I'll tell ya my last prank I pulled on him. Last Halloween he dressed as a Hooter girl complete with bright orange shortie shorts and a Hooter cutoff halter top complete with a very buxom set of fake boobs. During the party a lot of pictures were taken at this Halloween party and fortunately for me, he sent me all the candid shots! Well that was like putty in my hands and of course I had to find a way of using the one where he was laying on a fireplace hearth posing like a centerfold model in all his hairy glory with that cute little orange outfit on. There is a history here that we all used to tease him about on of the field reps coming in that is an older woman who has a liking for our pretty boy. We nicknamed him "Cooter Bait" because she is always trying to entice him to have an intimate little dinner with her and she flirts outragously with him whenever she comes into town. My cohorts (coworkers) in this last prank got in on the action too. Someone bought him a tee-shirt that said "Cooter Bait" on it. I wrote a special song for him to the tune of "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver, except the new title was "Thank Gawd I'm her Cooter-Bait" I wrote the song out for him and had it framed with his lovely fireplace pose in that cute little orange outfit that was blown up to super-size proportions. We had a special little presentation for him in which he ROTFLMAO !!!

Well that was just one of many pranks we have pulled on one another and with other members of our team too. Like I said it is a pretty fun loving group and we tease each other often. Last thing I was teased merciless about was making the grave mistake of buying those little dickies that you wear under a sweater to give the look of having a turtle neck underneath the sweater but without the heat of a full turtleneck shirt. And yes.... I poke fun at myself too and wrote a fun little ditty to the tune of "Oh Mickie your so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind". It changed to "No dickies, you're not mine, I'm not lying, I'm not buying! No dickies! No dickies!" If you haven't guessed by now.. I am the official songwriter of our group. Somebody does something silly and yep you guessed it.. there's gonna be a song about it! For those of you who have been around a while reading my blog... remember the dead hamster story and song " No Not I...I did not survive! She put me in a baggie and she froze me when I died!" that I wrote? You guessed it.. That was for a coworker!

So anyway, we all headed to BW3's. We had a group of 12 and the place was hopping. My one buddy who is also a part time DJ sometimes was there as well and he is always lively and animated. You get him and Cooter-Boy together and no telling what will happen but it is guaranteed to be amusing. He is the type of guy that loves to tell these big outlandish tales based on odd facts and has you guessing all the time whether he is telling the truth or pulling your leg. Last time he told us about chickens who lay Easter Eggs that are already pastels colored as they are hatched. He had us all going and swore up and down it was the truth. None of us believed him. Of course he Googled it the next day and sure enough he was telling the truth. They call them the Easter Egg hens. He loves doing stuff like that to us. The conversation was upbeat fun and there was constant laughter about something. All around we had a great time and stayed for about four hours laughing and just having a blast. The food was great too. I know most people go to BW3's for the wings but I had the ribs and they were awesome! The Blue Moons went down pretty smooth too.

Saturday was cold and damp outside so we couldn't really work out in the yard much. We did the normal weekend stuff.... groceries, laundry, relaxing. I surfed a bit on the net and was sitting there all nice and relaxed with my new chair massager going up and down my back when all of the sudden we heard a huge BOOM!!! I was like WHAT THE HECK???!!! Lovie and I both ran to the door because it sounded like an airplane had crashed into our garage. Next thing I know Lovie is out the door and running down the driveway. I was trying to figure out what was going on and hurried to go grab a coat before I went outside. Lovie was mad I could tell. She walked across the street to where the mailboxes were and guess what? No mailboxes!! I saw her picking up shattered pieces of wood and the pieces of our mailbox, what was left of it anyway. Two other neighbors mailboxes were gone too laying in the middle of the street and a huge 3 foot round boulder had been hit and knocked into the road as well. I yelled to Lovie if she wanted me to call the neighbors and she said no, call the police.

I called to local police and tried to describe what happened to the best of our knowledge and then I called our neighbors because their property had a lot more damage than ours. We live in a quiet neighborhood so not a whole lot happens. We've had our mailbox taken out by kids with a baseball bat before which is why we installed two metal poles on each side of the mailbox. This time though when we found the metal poles they were bent completely in half. The 4x4 posts was in shreds and the mailbox was obliterated. Our neighbor across the street came out and saw the damage to his property and Lovie told him she saw the car leaving the scene. In fact the car had a lot of damage to it too because there were huge pieces left at the scene. It was a burgundy car and Lovie said it had to have major damage. Glass and headlight pieces everywhere. Huge chunks of metal from the car and of course all three of the remnants of the mailboxes scattered all over the street.

Our neighbor was pissed to say the least. He went racing down the road in his truck trying to look for the car. His yard was dug up pretty badly in addition to his boulder being moved about four foot and the mailbox damaged too. By then the police arrived and we gave him a quick rundown of what happened and he took off down the road too. We collected all the pieces and parts from our mailbox and posts and by then the other neighbor came out to see what all the fuss was about. The gist of it all was apparently a guy was driving who shouldn't have been behind the wheel. The police said he was most likely drunk by the tracks and how he swerved. We filled out a police statement and so did our neighbors. They haven't found the guy yet and most likely today three people will be digging new holes for posts and putting up new mailboxes.

After Lovie and I went inside, she looked at me and said... "Well that was some excitement for a Saturday night wasn't it?" For our little quiet country neighborhood I suppose it was. The police report will be posted in our little community press newspaper and hopefully they will find the guy and give him a lecture about driving drunk.

Side note here.... Lovie and I went out on our on little investigation mission Sunday morning scanning the neighborhood for a burgundy car with major front end damage. I happened to see a guy walking down the road with a huge gash on his forehead and in a driveway nearby was an old burgandy car... hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I couldn't get a better look at it and I didn't want to stop in case somebody pulled out a shotgun and started shooting at us for lingering on their property.

Lovie and Private Eye P-Bear will stay on the case to see what comes of it and I will report any finding or updates on this open case.

Anyway it was a great weekend and an exciting one at that! Bear hugs to you all and have a great week peeps.

Bear Hugs!
PolarB ;)