Cell phone lodged in woman's throat

If you can't say something nice....

The Kansas City Star

A Blue Springs woman was taken to a hospital emergency room early today after a cell phone became lodged in her throat.

The woman was in an argument with a boyfriend when the incident occurred, said Sgt. Steve Decker of the Blue Springs Police Department.

Decker said police were told that the woman tried to swallow the telephone because she didn't want the boyfriend to have it. However the case is under investigation.

Police responded to a call about a non-breathing person about 4:50 a.m. in the 3000 block of Southwest U.S. 40, Decker said. Police arrived and found that the 24-year-old woman was having trouble breathing. Her identity was not released.

The woman was taken to the emergency room at St. Mary's Hospital in Blue Springs. She still had the telephone in her throat upon arrival at the hospital, Decker said.

A condition report was not available.

ScooterPie

We got Elizabeth a dog for Christmas. She has had him a few weeks. This is the year for early Christmas presents for some reason. The kids computer died, so Connie and I got them a new Mac Mini for Christmas, but gave it to them early so they could use it in the meantime. Zack needs it for school work and Elizabeth has quite a few fun sites she like to work on.

My sister, Robin, had two dogs a neighbor was trying to give away. Mom took one and we took the other, which is the runt. He's a cutie and doing pretty well. I always forget how much work it takes to train a dog, but Connie and I are both pretty good with animals. He's going to do fine. We finally let him meet Aslan, our Golden Retriever. He acts like his regal self and pretty much ignores Scooter, who is jumping all over him most of the time. But at least he is kind to Scooter. Could easily have him for lunch if he wanted to!

Yesterday, Connie went to get Scooter to bring him back in the house and he was all wet! he had fallen into our pool. Poor thing. Good thing I run 20 degrees warmer than the rest of the world. I cuddled him and got him warm again. See, I'm good for something!

Christmas Show Pictures

Here a few pictures I promised from yesterday's Children's Christmas Program at my church.

In the first picture you see our choir. The children did great. They sang 6 songs. The little girl in the front by the mic stand, the blond, is my daughter, Elizabeth.

The second picture is my son, Zachary, who was narrating the story of the shepherds.

The third picture is my daughter, Elizabeth, performing her first piano solo in church, The Waltz of the Christmas Toys.

Christmas Sunday

This morning we had our Christmas program with the school children. I was rather disappointed as 5 of our students were no shows. That was about 1/3 of our choir. But the remaining students did a great job. They sang 6 songs. We had 3 instrumental solos by the children and a narration by my son, Zachary. Had a pretty good crowd as well.

The program was followed by refreshments. All in all a very nice day. I'll post pictures when I get them loaded onto my computer.

Christmas Stuff

Christmas is close at hand and I haven't bought one present, haven't decorated, haven't bought a tree and that's just okay with me. Been so busy lately. Made several presents and I'm pleased how they've turned out so far. Hope the recipients are pleased as well. That's the hard thing about making gifts. They can't take them back for refunds!

Our Christmas program for the school is on Dec. 18 @ 9:30 a.m. if anyone wants to attend. It will be the school children performing for the church and their parents. That usually gets us a good sized crowd.

I've taught the children 6 Christmas songs. Some of them are not as popular as what you usually hear on the radio, but I like them. The kids liked them and that's what's important. I think it will be a nice program.

How I did

I didn't realized I never posted about the ceramics show after the fact. First of all, I am glad I did it. I got to see reactions to the type of things I made. I learned that people liked my regular stuff much more than they did my Christmas stuff. (Sure glad I crammed in so much Christmas stuff the last few weeks.)

People liked my ceramic roses the most. They also seemed to like my handmade stuff better than the molded stuff I just buy and glaze. I sold more of my vases etc. than any premade things I just glazed. So, that made me happy too.

I made enough to pay for my space and buy a few dinners. I guess I can't complain about that. I had a nice gal next to me and we were both first timers, so we had an interesting time figuring out what sold and why. A ceramic instructer next to me sold nothing. I felt kind of bad because she does this for a living and I sold more than she did.

Anyway, it was a good experience. I'll do it again next year and I'll start looking for other shows. I heard that there's a very good show in Lakewood. I'll have to try to find out about it.

Ceramics Show Tomorrow

Wow! I can't believe how much stuff I have made for tomorrow's show. I hope it isn't a bust. I must have 6 large boxes of stuff. Lots of stocking stuffers, plus some good sized vases and bowls and much more. The hardest thing is selling pieces I really like, but I can't keep it all and I can't give it all away, either. I've spent a lot of money buying the kiln and slab roller and potter's wheel. (Well, my dear wife bought me the slab roller.)

Some of my newest work is pictured below. That juicer has been popular in that color. I suppose yellow is a kitchen color. The head started out to be Santa Clause, but then it didn't look like him to me and I decided it was Jack Frost. Then when I put the glaze on it and fired it, as I was taking it out of the kiln, I decided it was my friend, Wayne, from church! (Don't know if he'll think that is a complement or not, but I really like it.)

The slab vase is an experiment using stains instead of glazes. It's very rustic and I'm pleased with it.

I love the last one. It's much more organic than most of my work. It sort of looks like a lava flow if the lava was guacamole! :-) Anyway, it's a very different candle holder and I'm very pleased with how it came out.