How To Be A Good Public Speaker

Happy Day After The Super Bowl. I guess there can be no question as to who won that game yesterday. The Seahawks. 

So what's with this video? This is shaking Marshawn Lynch wearing his ski mask being coached by his teammate Michael Robinson. Marshawn Lynch is extremely camera shy. He has been fined $50,000 by the NFL for not speaking to the media. 

I was curious about the two players so I checked out their stories. Marshawn is nicknamed "Beast Mode" and is an all American running back. He played football for the University of California, Berkeley where he became the schools all time career rusher. He went to high school at Oakland Tech where he played football, basketball and ran track. 

Michael Robinson is known as being "Well Rounded and Well Grounded". He went to Varina High School in Richmand Virginia. And he went to Penn State and played football under Joe Paterno as a quarter back and more. He has two degrees in three years and is 12 credits away from having his masters degree. His degrees are in advertising and public relations. He also says that he has a lot of on camera experience and it shows. 

It was a miracle that Michael Robinson could play in the winning game against the Denver Bronco's because he had an adverse reaction to the anti inflammatory "Indocin" and was in the hospital in August after thinking he only had a bug. He lost 30 pounds but came back to play this season.

One teacher who has a blog, "I'm Lovin Lit"  divised a lesson from this video. 

So mom's and teachers out there 

here is a great chart to help teach children about 

speaking in public. 

Marshawn could have used this. 

Maybe he will see these blog posts
and practice. 

*Because practice makes perfect...Right?*

My Protectors

Remember the time I came home from a date and found my Papa King and my dad on the front lawn with their shot guns? That was a bit shocking to say the least. My Nana King had died and Papa was living with us and he was sleeping in front bedroom of our house in Fair Oaks.

A board like Kenny made to save me.

I was out on a date with the boy who has been my husband for 52 years and I guess that someone knew I was out and wanted to surprise me when I got home because he tried to get into our front door. Papa King heard him and got my dad and the guns. Candy our little dog heard him too thank goodness. I guess that guy didn't know that my Papa had been a CHP and police chief for 40 years. But he should have known that Candy wouldn't put up with that kind of stuff. 

On another night I had just come home from a date and I was washing my face in the bathroom. The window was open because it was a hot summer night. I felt someone watching me and turned to look and I saw a persons chest. Yikes! I walked over and closed the cranked open window, dried my face and went and got Candy. I should have let her out the front door but I was a little afraid to do that. The next day Kenny my little brother checked the flower beds and found bare feet foot prints. He then proceeded to make planks of wood with nails in it like the one above and and buried them with the nails pointing up so that my admirer would get a big surprise if he went peeking around my windows.  

Eventually Papa, Danny, Kenny and my dad organized a stakeout. The only person they saw while in hiding was a neighbor boy that came up to our property and turned around and went away. I guess he could tell that there was going to be trouble if he came up peeking in my windows again. 

But Kenny left the boards with nails in the flower beds for a long time. My dad and papa talked to the boys folks about it.

Because that's what dads and grandpa's do. 

Be Careful With Buddy Burners

Doomsday Prepping Family Night: DIY Buddy Burners

But the Winner of the most views on my blog is;

"I love my Buddy Burners" 

It tells me that a lot of people, at least 1165, care about how to have a cooking tool for ruffing it. 

And there are some wonderful instructive pages out there on the internet for help in making a Buddy Burner. 

I love the blog post that was done by The Hepworth's.

I am including the picture of their project with this post. 

I really like the starter tab that they included on the top of the little burner can. 

In my post you will see me helping the children,  Matilda and Sarah Sullivan with neighbor friend Morgan Ivie, cooking eggs, toast and hash-browns. 

What you didn't see is that a little fire started on the wood chips in the landscaping. 

And you didn't see Sarah dashing water on the flames and you didn't see the little explosion that erupted, blew up in my face and singed my hair. 

That really did happen and even though I saved tuna cans and home-storage cans for months to make more we didn't cook outside with them again because of the extreme fire danger that was present in our area. 

When I was little I used my Buddy Burner on a picnic table on my patio in my backyard, not on wood-chips. 

You do have to be careful when using any fire source for cooking. 

And pouring water on burning wax is not being careful as Sarah learned. 

Salt, that's what should have been used. 

Yes SALT.

Love,
Grammy T.