Mansour Moments: The Newest Members of the Family

Saturday, June 14, 2008

The Newest Members of the Family

We got five baby guineas. These small game birds should help eat some bugs in the yard, especially tics and spiders. We didn't appreciate how much fun having two-week-old

keets would be. Now we just have to convince Phoebe they're pets.

1 comment:

abcdecker said...: How fun is that! Cute birds! Are they a lot of work?; July 15, 2008 at 3:28 PM

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Words for Reflection

“The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.” - Native American Proverb

"You never really understand a person . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." - Harper Lee (via Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird)

“Where you come from is not nearly as important as where you’re going.” -unknown

“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.” -Aristotle

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” - Booker T. Washington

"Brick and mortar build a house; the laughter of children make a home." - Irish Proverb

"It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted." - Marie O'Conner

"I feel much better now that I've lost all hope." - T-shirt

“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give however makes a life.” -Arthur Ashe

“Justifying a fault doubles it.” - French Proverb

“It’s not having what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got.” -Sheryl Crow

"A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds." - British Nursery Rhyme

"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

“Peace comes not from the absence of conflict in life, but from the ability to cope with it.” -unknown

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.” -Bill Beattie

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." - Abigail Adams

"Hope is not about a good outcome. Hope is about making sense of what's going on in life." - Dr. Oz on knowing Randy Pausch

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” -Martin Luther King Jr.