Why should the wedding ring be worn on the fourth finger?

There is a beautiful and convincing explanation given by the Chinese---

Thumb represents your parents
Second (index) finger represents your siblings
Middle finger represents yourself
Fourth (ring) finger represents your life partner
last (little) finger represents your children

First open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together back to back---

Second, open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb tip to tip.

Now try to separate your thumbs (representing the parents), they will open because your parents are not destined to live with you life long and have to leave you sooner or later.

Please join your thumbs as before, now separate your index fingers (representing sibings), they will also open because your siblings will have their own families and will lead their own separate lives.

Now join the index fingers as before, now separate your little fingers (representing your children), they will open too because the children also will get married and settle down on their own someday.

Finally, join your little fingers as before and now try to separate your ring fingers (representing your spouse) You will be surprised to see that you CANNOT....because husband and wife have to remain together all their lives through thick and thin!!!

Please try this out...

Isn't this a great theory?

Do you know how to tell a two-way mirror?

Interesting information about mirrors!

I thought this was good information. Who knows nowadays?

How can you tell when you are in a room, restroom, motel etc. with a mirror or a 2-way glass?

Here's how: I thought this was quite interesting!
And I know in about 30 seconds you're going to do what I did and find the nearest mirror.

Do you know how to determine if a mirror is 2-way or not?

A policewoman who travels all over the US and gives seminars and techniques for businesswomen passed this on.

When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a 2-way mirror (i.e., they can see you, but you can't see them)? There have been many cases of people installing 2-way mirrors in female changing rooms. It is very difficult to positively identify the surface by looking at it.

So, how do we determine with any amount of certainty what type of mirror we are looking at?

Just conduct this simple test: Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is GENUINE mirror.

However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail,
then BEWARE! IT IS A 2-WAY MIRROR! 'No Space, Leave the Place.'

So remember, every time you see a mirror, do the 'fingernail test.'
It doesn't cost you anything.

REMEMBER. No Space, Leave the Place:

Ladies: Share this with your girlfriends, sisters, daughters, etc.

Men: Share this with your wives, daughter s, daughter-in-law, mothers, girlfriends and/or friends.

behine the scenes of a State Fair

The Alaskan State Fair is scheduled to open on the 21st of this month so it is time for all the arts and crafty people to show off their talents. Have you ever wondered how people earn their ribbons? Well we had the chance to find out how the canning people earned their ribbons, we were recruited to be tasting judges. There were over 500 entries and we arrived at our duty station at 7 pm and we were told that we should be finished by 10 pm and if we stayed until the end of the tasting we would earn 2 tickets each for admission to the fair plus a ribbon that said we were judges. Anyway we arrived (Del, Cathy and myself) at 7 pm prompt and the tables were all set up to hold 8 people, there are 4 judges to each process, so I was paired with Cathy and two other people and Del was paired with 3 people. We had to judge the packaging, consistency, taste, smell. We tasted so many jams, jellies, preserves, marmalades, pickled beets, pickled who knew what, chutney, we had to rate each group and pick 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc, let me tell you, talk about a sugar high, oh my gosh, I tasted some weird stuff, good stuff, fabulous stuff and stuff to die for, at the very end of the tasting they broke out all the salmon stuff, smoked, canned, and by that time there were only 6 of us die hards left out of over 40 people for that tasting, we had to smell, taste, judge the looks and I am sick of salmon. I have never tasted so many different kinds of ways to can salmon, we had peppered salmon, jalapeno's salmon, dill salmon, smoked salmon, just plain salmon, pickled salmon. The reason they saved the salmon for last is if they had opened up the salmon before all the rest of the stuff, then everything would smell and taste like salmon. We finally finshed at midnight but my stomach did not settle down until the morning talk about tossing and turning, ugh, I did not feel the least bit hungry today and right now I could care less if I never had jam, jelly, preserves, pickles, salmon for a long long long time, but I am ready to do it again next year haahhahaah....it was fun.