If you’re planning to send letters or packages to the troops in Iraq & Afghanistan here are the “mail-by” dates to ensure your parcel gets to your friend or loved one in time for Christmas.  Please note, shipments to Iraq & Afghanistan have the earliest deadlines & must be shipped by Dec. 4th for guaranteed timely delivery.  For troops in other parts of the world please refer to these handy timetables…   

http://www.usps.com/holiday/shippingcalendar.htm

God Bless our troops & Happy Holidays, KOOLigans!

A very important recall you should know about. 
The FDA has warned Americans the ReliOn single-use syringes made by Covidien could have been mislabeled and pose a risk to Diabetics.  Patients using the syringes could receive an overdose of insulin that’s 2 1/2 times what was intended.  Such an overdose could be fatal.  Covidien has voluntarily recalled nearly half a million of the ReliOn syringes.  The syringes were sold at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Clubs from August to October. The FDA says the lot # is 813900. 

      
Lee Bortel decorating for VOTE DAY!                                 

       
KOOL studio all dressed up in red, white and blue! 

Here’s a great way to get directions to your polling place.  Just click on “get customized voting info,” enter your address and it will give you turn by turn directions on where you go to vote.  Thanks Google Maps!

www.maps.google.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27468267/

http://www.cockeyed.com/archive/candy_code/candy_code.html

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/10/31/top_10_segments_from_the_simpsons_treeho

http://cbs13.com/video/?id=41531@kovr.dayport.com

It’s the first annual KOOL Karve-O-Rama!  We’re inviting you to be the decider of just which KOOL Morning Krew’s scalpel is the sharpest!  Since the other two haven’t carved their’s yet, early voting is allowed!  (hehehe)  So here’s my pumpkin.  :-) Peaker.    Respond with a comment and vote for your favorite!!!!

 
                         Carved and Cute by Tom Peake !

 
       Pumpkin with blood and bugs by Lee Bortel  !
   

    
                   John’s hand-carved Jack-O-Lantern!

 
         Carved and Created by Maria Knight!
                         EEEEEEEK! a rat!!!!

I Found Big Foot’s feet too! 

Maria was so convinced that Bigfoot exists, that she posted pictures of what was supposedly an actual Bigfoot stuffed into a freezer.  Unfortunately, scientists released their DNA findings over the weekend and said that Maria’s Bigfoot was no Bigfoot.  One test came back inconclusive, one came back as being human, and the third was that of an Opossum.  I gave her a lot of undue grief at the time because she really believed it.  Well, I take back everything I said.  After finding a Bigfoot myself, I apologize.  Here’s the proof.  I put him into this container, but I think you can clearly see that THIS IS A BIGFOOT!!!!!  Seeing is believing.

Moved some papers from the family room to the

living room for me.

I am now the proud owner of two monacles!

Newly custom etched cell phone!

My glass of iced tea!

Here’s the new hole my puppy gave me!

Connor & Sadie having a race to see who could chew the fastest!

Puppy’s home improvement project!

          Ain’t I Cute!

      I’m not stopping ’till this thing is gone!

             Connor and his new little friend.

2000’s Tom       90’s Tom            80’s Tom

70’s Sexy Tom    60’s Tom             50’s Tom

Ever wonder what you would look like if you could time travel to another era?
Well, I found a site that is a blast to waste time on, and might just give you a glimpse of yourself as a senior from another time. The site is called www.YearBookYourself.com and you can upload a photo of yourself, then march through the years! Give it a try. Here’s what they say I would have looked like in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and even as a member of the senior class of 2000!