Slaters' Funny Farm

 Sunday Smiles was a blog post that I started last year to help us all open a blog post and see something that hopefully, brings a smile to your face. I would love for this to be a link up party, but I am not sure how to do that yet, although I am working on it. If you would like to be a part of it, for now just share your link to your post in the comments. Sunday January 12,2025 I am a chicken momma and life on the farm here is crazy when wintertime comes along, but I absolutely love this! It sure brought a smile to my face today!  Enjoy your Sunday!

Good Afternoon! As the new year approached, I was deciding whether I should make a resolution or not, as it seems that they usually go by the wayside before January is over. I just learned that yesterday is National Quit Day, where most people quit doing whatever they chose as their resolution. Why do we make them if we know we won't do them? Is it just human nature that we fail at what we start? I gave the idea a bit of thought and decided that instead of setting myself up for failure, I would set myself up an accountability program and find things that would organize my life and my business goals in one place and that I could change with my ever-changing responsibilities. I began to look at different online sites and people that are geared towards organizing and goals. I found Sage Grayson, a former book editor turned life and business coach.  Sage seems to understand women and all of the duties that we take on and how discouraged we can become. She also seems to have the right i...

 30 YEARS!  My husband and I are celebrating our 30th anniversary today. 30 years of wedded bliss - well, not always bliss.  We met at my grandpa's house when he came to visit my brother. (They had served time together in jail as he was struggling to pay his child support.) He says he knew he would marry me as soon as he seen me, but I can't say that it was love at first sight. We joke that I was at the table eating and when he walked up, I just said, "what do you want" and "he is not here" when he asked to speak with my brother, without even looking up from my plate. I say, " I believe it- I like to eat". Whether that happened or not, I don't remember.  We really only dated two months before we got married, but we had talked and spent time together for almost 2 years. I was a single mom, and he had previously been married and had a son that was just three months older than my daughter. He was great with my daughter, and she is so much like him...

  ELVIS PRESLEY - THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL TURNS 90 YEARS OLD TODAY! What a headline that would be! Today would be the 90th birthday for Elvis. Born January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi to Gladys and Vernon Presley following the still birth of his twin brother, Jesse, just 35 minutes prior. Elvis was born into a rather poor family and attended an Assembly of God church, which is where some of the inspiration for his music began. At the age of 10, he entered into a singing contest at a state fair and won 5th place with his rendition of "Old Shep". Elvis was very shy, which led to many struggles of stage fright later in his career. Gladys struggled to save enough money to purchase a guitar for his a few months later and this was the start of the star we still honor today.  Following the families' move to Memphis, Elvis was teased and sometimes bullied about his style and his music. He learned to love Beale Street and the clothes of the Lansky Brothers during his junior ...

 As many others do, I usually pick a word of the year. A word that is dedicated to how I want my new year to go. I do it more for my small business than for personal reasons normally, but this year it is for both. I thought about many words, but this word seems to be the one that stands out to me and the one that combines many of the others.  My word for 2025 is going to be GROWTH. Growth in not only my small business, but also in my team, my other job, my personal life, and within myself. I want to grow in my love for Christ and my love for my family. GROWTH will bring change, and change will bring new challenges to face, but growth will also allow me to do more of the things that I love and have planned for the year.  I have begun using the word daily in all my business aspects. When I am training new people, I speak of growth. As I am working my business, I am speaking of growth. I want to grow my customer base, my sales, and my team. I want to grow as a leader and a m...

 I love to look at the many things I have accomplished throughout the past year and today I am totally enveloped in a book that I will finish before the end of the year. I decided to take a look at my Goodreads pages and see what my year in books looked like. Here is a link to the actual page if you'd like to take a look.  Carol’s Year in Books | Goodreads I will try to summarize it briefly here as well. I have read 17 books but will finish the year with 18 read and had a goal of 14. I have read 4,147 pages but that will change as well as I have about another 100 pages in the book that I am reading now. I will possibly finish it tonight, but by tomorrow for sure. That seems like so many pages, but it truly is not as I know many of us have read many more and I know that is not a record for me either.  My shortest and longest books are a big difference in page count and genre as you will see below.  Shortest Book 8 pages Longest Book 353 pages I my average book length ...