Ever wonder what a feral hog is? Wildlife biologists define it as a cross between a wild and domestic hog. In 2004, a Georgia hunter in south Georgia bagged “Hogzilla”, a feral estimated to weigh 800 pounds.
On May 3, 2007, 11-year-old Jamison Stone of Pickensville, Ala. killed a porker that weighed 1,051 and measured 10 ft. 7 inches from hoof to snout. There are reports that the huge hog might have been farm-raised and released on 2500-acre Lost Creek Plantation.
Good news: Lowering heart risks saves as many lives as treatments. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the USA, killing about 1 million people a year.
From 1980 till 2000, the following data is found.
*Smoking has been reduced by 11.7% resulting in an estimated 39,930 lives saved.
*High blood pressure (top number) reduced by 5.1%, 68,800 lives saved.
*Inactivity reduced by 2.3%, 17,450 lives saved.
*NOW THE BIG ONE: Blood cholesterol was reduced by only 1/3 of a percent yet saved an estimated 82,800 lives. It doesn’t take long to figure out that reducing your cholesterol level is worth the effort.
*During this period, Body mass was up 2.6%.
*Diabetes was up 2.9% resulting in 25,900 and 33,470 deaths respectively.
Here is an ending thought for today by Herman Killebrew. (baseball player). .
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You are tearing up the grass.’ Dad would say, ‘We are not raising grass, we are raising boys.’”
I was fortunate this past week to spend some time with 3 of my grandchildren. I am sure I felt the normal love that all of you feel for your loved ones. Think for a moment, about that someone you love most and then consider the following. Would you agree to give the life of this special loved one to save the life of the person you loved the next best? Next, would you give the life of your most precious loved one to save the life of a poor deserving stranger? Finally, I am quite sure you would not agree to forfeit the life of your most precious one for a vile, hateful, and dangerous criminal. If your imagination can follow this strange logic, you would be exactly where God was when he decided the only answer was to allow his beloved Son to suffer a most embarrassing and humiliating death on the Cross to save a world full of vile sinners.
I heard this on a radio sermon today. He gave credit to someone who had said this in the past. I hope you get the idea and give thanks. God does deserve our thanks.
I thank God that he let me hear this today, because I had gotten careless and forgotten to be thankful.
For many years I used a Northwest Airline Visa credit card which accumulated an air mile for every dollar spent. We always paid off the bill at the end of the month.
Recently, Delta merged with Northwest and I have been notified that my visa card will be replaced by an American Express card. Since I have many available miles that will likely never be used, and further, American Express is not accepted at nearly as many places as a visa card, I decided to start paying with cash.
This is where kicking the habit of paying with a credit card got interesting. The first thing that I noticed was how much more I was spending. (I was not spending more, it just seemed that way) The second thing that I noticed was how difficult it was to have to go to the anytime teller for cash. It just seemed for the world that I was going to run out of money at any moment. The third thing I noticed was the pain I was experiencing when I had to pay cash for a big item. I purchased some lumber to build a fence and it seemed that $250 was a fortune. It just broke my heart to have to hand the clerk all those $20 bills. The next thing I noticed was how often I would pay by credit card while having the cash in my pocket. Now the good feeling I got was when I got my most recent bill. I had cut the bill by 40-50%.
When I told myself what I planned to do, it seemed like it would be “duck soup”. Boy, was I kidding myself. I don’t plan to give up, but getting over the old habit will be much tougher than I imagined. Breaking an old habit is not easy.
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