{"id":35974,"date":"2020-12-12T17:59:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T01:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=35974"},"modified":"2023-12-21T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T21:32:40","slug":"animals-and-humor-political-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=35974","title":{"rendered":"Animals and humor, political & religious"},"content":{"rendered":"

This posting is a bit late,<\/strong> but I’ve been having various problems with the computer program that loads the photos. Finally tonight a friend in Glenview, Illinois,\u00a0over the phone helped me solve the problems, so now we’re off and running again.<\/p>\n

This hurry-up posting, now that I can get back online, is simply a random mix of animal photos shot this past week, political cartoons, and religious humor that relatives have sent me.<\/p>\n

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A bonding experience.<\/strong> A blacktail doe near Mitchell cabin cleans her fawn’s ear last Monday. (Photo by Lynn Axelrod Mitchell<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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The bonding is complete as the fawn responds by nuzzling its mother. (Photo by Lynn Axelrod Mitchell<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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The stray cat we have taken in<\/strong>, Newy, joins a couple of deer grazing in our field last Sunday. Despite their close proximity, none of them seem at all nervous. (Photo by Lynn Axelrod Mitchell<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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Newy, however, is a bit nervous as wild turkeys stroll past the cabin right behind the deer. (Photo by Lynn Axelrod Mitchell<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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Goodnight<\/strong>, West Marin.<\/p>\n

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And now for some religious humor that my cousin Leck Mitchell and his wife Pat sent me from Colorado.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Sunday school teacher asked her class, “What was Jesus’ mother’s name?” One child answered, “Mary.”<\/p>\n

The teacher then asked, “Who knows what Jesus’ father’s name was?”<\/p>\n

A little kid said, “Verge.”<\/p>\n

Confused, the teacher asked, “Where did you get that?”<\/p>\n

The kid said, “Well, you know, they are always talking about Verge n’ Mary.”<\/p>\n

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I had been teaching my three-year old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord’s Prayer for several evenings at bedtime. She would repeat after me the lines from the prayer.<\/p>\n

Finally, she decided to go solo.I listened with pride as she carefully enunciated each word, right up to the end of the prayer:<\/p>\n

“Lead us not into temptation,” she prayed, “but deliver us from email.”<\/p>\n

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A Sunday school teacher asked her children as they were on the way to church service, “And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?”<\/p>\n

One bright little girl replied, “Because people are sleeping.”<\/p>\n

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Six-year-old Angie and her four-year-old brother Joel were sitting together in church. Joel giggled, sang, and talked outloud. Finally, his big sister had enough.<\/p>\n

“You’re not supposed to talk outloud in church.”<\/p>\n

“Why? Who’s going to stop me?” Joel asked.<\/p>\n

Angie pointed to the back of the church and said, “See those two men
\nstanding by the door? They’re hushers.”<\/p>\n

__________<\/p>\n

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