I have been cutting grass since I was 8 years old. I hate it – just hate it with a passion. It seems like so much make work to me. Grass’s main function is as a ground cover and an allergen. As a ground cover mine doesn’t do it’s job. As an allergen it is doing a wonderful job.

Despite how much I hate cutting grass, I am driven to do it because my father drilled it into me so well. Not sure if anything else he taught me took, but cutting the grass sure did. If it starts looking shaggy at all, I start to get nervous until I can get out and cut it. OY VEY, I am a basket case.

Were you paying attention last week?

1) What two people announced that they would be running for president last week?

2) Hugh Rodham’s grave stone was toppled in Scranton, Pa. last Monday. Why?

3) 20 years ago one of the worst terrorist attacks to take place on American soil happened. Where did this attack take place?

4) Do you remember the name of the perpetrators of the above mentioned attack?

5) Take me out to the ball game, but don’t forget to take me home! Which 2 teams played a 19 inning, 7 hour marathon last week?

6) April 20th, 1914 is the day of the massacre at the Ludlow, Colorado mine where strikers and women and children were shot. Who owned this mine?

7) Bad news for Iowa’a turkey industry last week. What was found in Buena Vista county last week?

8) The bible was nearly named the official state book in what state?

9) April 20th, 1999. The nation is shocked at what event in Colorado?

10) What 2 Republican presidential candidates came out for raising the age to get Social Security?

11) According to George W. Bush his brother will have one major problem getting elected. What is it?

12) Jack and Peter Decoster were sentenced to how much time in prison for selling tainted eggs that made over 2,000 people sick?

13) A coffee shop in Le Claire, Iowa was the site of what event this week that got national attention?

14) The Pope had a little set-to with what country when he marked the 100th anniversary of the genocide of what people?

15) A deputy in Tulsa has been charged with what in the death of an unarmed black man he shot during an arrest?

16) April 15th saw a major action by workers in fast food and other industries in at least how many US cities?

17) The CEO of a Seattle based credit card processing firm made headlines when he announced what that he will do to employees salary?

18) Singer Percy Sledge died this week. What was his most famous song?

19) A postal worker landed on the lawn of the Capitol this week in what kind of a vehicle?

20) Tomorrow is the Boston Marathon. This will be the what running of this event? (number of this marathon)

Be sure to acknowledge Earth Day Wednesday. It is the only planet we got and neither God or anyone else can change that. Let’s take care of our home.

Answers:

1) Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio

2) It was the day after his daughter announced she would run for president

3) Oklahoma City – The Murrah building was bombed

4) Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols

5) Red Sox and Yankees – do you care who won?

6) John D. Rockefeller

7) A turkey farm that had bird flu

8) Tennessee – the AG warned such an action would be declared unconstitutional

9) the shootings at Littleton high school

10) Chris Christie and Jeb Bush. Christie favors moving it to 69.

11) having George W. Bush as a brother.

12) 3 months

13) Hillary Clinton’s first campaign stop in Iowa

14) Turkey

15) manslaughter

16) 230

17) raise all employees to at least $70,000/ year

18) “When A Man Loves A Woman”

19) a gyrocopter

20) 119th

remember Earth Day!