Summer is nearly here and with it comes outdoor activities like bike riding, camping, and swimming.  If you have a big swim hole somewhere, how fun would this be?

This is the 16′ high water slide used by resorts and summer camps to provide safe, reliable waterborne fun for entire failies. The resilient structure defies punctures as it is constructed of a layer of commercial-grade, 1,000 denier polyester fabric sandwiched between two layers of 28 oz. PVC–the same method used to construct the inflatable boats used by the U.S. Navy Seals. 

Of course, make sure everyone can swim first. Second, be sure there is no underwater debris around the slide to avoid tragic accidents.  Then… HAVE FUN!

I can’t help it because I suppose I’m just a bad person, but looking at really bad pictures of people just absolutely tickles me.  Bad hair? Hahaha… Eyes closed? Haha… Tongue hanging out? Hee hee hee…

This is why I love love love Ellen Degeneres’s feature on her web page called Bad Paid-For Photos.  These are really bad photos that people actually paid for. A photographer was hired. WOW!

Two of my favorites:

Early onset of duck lips!

I’d ask for my money back.

Photo from TFJ Designs.

I know, I know. The photo showing this fabulous idea is all Christmasy, but it is an idea that would work for just about any occasion! My daughter’s high school graduation is this Saturday and wouldn’t it be cute to wrap her gifts in plain paper and then put different photos of her as she grew up?

From Our Suburban Farm,

I have SO much wrapping paper and so many wrapping supplies, so I didn’t do it for ALL the presents, but I did pretty much one for every person like this. 

This is GREAT!

Saying a disabled child should be culled like a deformed lamb is something you would never imagine anyone would say, much less something an elected official would say. Out loud. But sure enough, a local council member from Cornwall, England seems to have targeted special needs and handicapped children as unnecessary.  WOW.  From The Daily Mail,

He told the Disability News Service that runt lambs are often put down by farmers who deal with them by ‘smashing them against a wall’.

He said: ‘If they [farmers] have a misshapen lamb, they get rid of it. They get rid of it. Bang.’

Mr Brewer said he discussed his previous statements about putting disabled children down with a farmer from his Wadebridge East constituency. He claimed the farmer made it clear he ‘didn’t see a lot wrong with what I said, because it is something they do every day’.

He added: ‘We are just animals. He obviously has got a point – you can’t have lambs running around with five legs and two heads. It would be put down, smashed against the wall and be dealt with.’

The utter and complete insensitivity and disregard for human life is nothing short of shocking and abhorrent!

This makes me happy.

As a new college graduate, I printed my resume on a really pretty beige colored parchment paper. But that was 28 years ago when doing every resume was done on white paper and we were encouraged to think out side the box (purple paper! rice paper!). My resume paper was easy-to-read and printed on classy paper with an eye-soothing color.

Today, you aren’t advised to do that.  Today you should print your resume on white paper – perhaps a little thicker than regular copier paper.  You shouldn’t use the default Times New Roman font, but also don’t go with the clown font of Comic Sans (no one likes that except teachers!).   NBC News.com offers some more advice to new graduates including this huge faux pas,

Checking your phone, or checking out
Thirty percent of the managers Adecco surveyed said a big faux pas young jobseekers make is to check their phone or send a text while interviewing.

“Going into an interview, it is so imperative: The phone is on silent, it’s put away and it’s not brought out,” Marx said.

Many also complained that young jobseekers don’t make eye contact while interviewing, which Marx said can show a lack of confidence.

I knew a lady who once answered not one, not two, but THREE phone calls during a job interview. She didn’t get it.

Photo by j.o.h.n. walker.

What a sweet and charming husband this is who created a Tumblr account for his pregnant wife to cheer her up through the months of barf, pains, and swelling.  From Huffington Post,

When Jeffrey Bausch’s wife was almost three months pregnant, she started to feel nervous about becoming a mom. Dad-to-be wanted to do something to put her at ease and make her laugh. And so, Pregnant Husband, a Tumblr of animated GIFs documenting their journey, was born.

Here’s my favorite:

When my pregnant wife tells me that she just laughed so hard that she peed a little bit. I’m like:

This is precious! I love “Peek a Boo”…

Two year old Caroline Sparks was fatally shot by her five year old brother in a tragic, sad accident in Kentucky this week. The parents did not realize there was a bullet in the gun, a gift to the little boy in an area where guns are a way of life. According to local reports, the Mom had walked out on the front porch for a few moments when she heard the gunfire.

In the south, gun ownership is common. Guns are handed down from generation to generation and children learn to hunt at an early age. And accidents happen,

Her family kept the Crickett rifle in what they considered to be a safe spot, Cumberland County Coroner Gary White told the CNN affiliate.

The boy was playing with it Tuesday when it accidentally went off and killed his sister, White said.

“The little Crickett rifle is a single-shot rifle, and it has a child safety,” White told CNN. “It’s just a tragic situation.”  The Crickett website features three .22-caliber rifle models for kids, with shoulder stock colors ranging from pink to red, white and blue swirls. “My first rifle” is the company’s slogan.

What a sad situation.