I saw the BoDeans open for U2 at the Oakland Coliseum in 1987. Now they’re a headliner for ‘Walleye Weekend’. How the mighty have fallen? Maybe this is the gig they always dreamed of…

Parents?

Baby boomers have long been considered the generation that did not want to grow up, perpetual adolescents even as they become eligible for Social Security. Now, a growing body of research shows that the real Peter Pans are not the boomers, but the generations that have followed. For many, by choice or circumstance, independence no longer begins at 21.

Baby boomers have long been considered the generation that did not want to grow up, perpetual adolescents even as they become eligible for Social Security. Now, a growing body of research shows that the real Peter Pans are not the boomers, but the generations that have followed. For many, by choice or circumstance, independence no longer begins at 21.

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Bethany Fenton (seated, left) backstage at ‘Britain’s Got Talent’. (The Sun)

A five year-old girl died just three days after achieving her ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ dream by singing for Simon Cowell.

Brave Bethany Fenton, who had an inoperable brain tumor, pleaded with her parents to perform ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ in front of the reality TV boss.

Her wish was granted last Saturday when she sang to Simon backstage and told him a knock-knock joke before the TV show’s nail-biting final.

Bethany also met some of the finalists including 13 year-old drummer Kieran Gaffney who wore her hospital tag on his wrist for luck.

But sadly she lost her fight for life at breakfast time Tuesday at Oxford’s Radcliffe Hospital after a sudden deterioration in her condition.

Proof that Simon Cowell may actually have a heart…

It’s that time again! Cherries are becoming ripe on the tree, and whether you prefer sweet or sour, they can bolster your pantry with several tasty treats for months to come. As this was our first year living a new home with 2 amazingly fruitful trees, we’ve had a great time picking and planning for how we will use them. Check out the ways we will make this year’s modest cherry harvest last!

Assuming that the birds haven’t eaten all of your harvest (you’ll know your cherries are ripe when the birds start to steal them), you can research your particular type of tree to determine when they are ready for pickin’ and eating! Pesky birds getting too many of them? We have had great success with hanging scratched DVD’s and CD’s from the branches. The reflective light is distracting for the birds, and they’ve pretty much left our crop alone.

Picking can be time consuming, but if you’re up for taking the cherries off the branches by the stems (instead of taking just the fruit), you can usually get 3-6 cherries at a time. I enlist the help of all my kids to do this. The older ones can get high up on ladders, while the younger ones use a makeshift scaffolding that’s wide enough to walk on safely and is lower to the ground. There will always be those beautiful cherries that live at the top and we won’t be able to reach. We’ll consider this our gift to the wild birds that live in the area!

They forgot to mention cherry pies! Can’t wait…

 ⁷But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ ⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. ¹⁰I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Pressing on Toward the Goal

 ¹²Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. ¹³Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Awesome sermon from Russ Shearer at Lakeside Community Church @ http://lakeside-church.com yesterday — may have something to do with the fact that he preached on my ‘life verse’…