Harvest Ham Dinner

This information came to me from Susan Hardy (New Horizons Band, and Sheridan Community Chorus member). She sold me some home made caramel last week and it was scrumptious!


Saturday, October 25 at The Tri-Church Parish (35 E. Main St. [Route 20]) in Brocton, NY (Parking available behind the church or at the Post Office across the street).

It will be an extravagant supply of home-baked foods. Cost: $7/adult and $4.50/child ages 5 - 9. Children ages 4 and younger are free. (Add 50 cents to prices if purchased at the door).
Menu: ham, potatoes, tossed salad, roll, squash or corn, breads, applesauce, and choice of desserts. Coffee, tea, or juice for beverages. Dinners are served or available for takeout from 4-7 p.m.


Eat in at tables available in fellowship hall, pre-school or 2 small classrooms downstairs.

For further information, contact Joyce Zirkle at 792-9817 or Susan Hardy at 672-6249.
Takeout line in rear section of sanctuary

Let us feed your bodies and offer to nourish your soul!

Bud's World (10/18/08)

Director of Purchasing: Lois Bidder Instrument repairman: Anita Hammer Attorney: Gil T. Azell

BRITTANY (age 4) had an ear ache and wanted a pain killer. She tried in vain to take the lid off the bottle of children’s’ aspirin. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a child-proof cap and she'd have to open it for her. Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: “How does it know it's me?”

I was just wondering…
If you have a circular driveway, how do you get out?
Why do steam irons have a “permanent” press setting?
Have you ever stopped to think and forgot to start again?

From the Sheridan Community Chorus Choir Loft
The Sheridan Community Chorus pot luck planning dinner will be held on Saturday, November 1 at 5:00 pm at The St. John Bosco Auditorium on Route 20 in Sheridan, NY. The goal for The Sheridan Community Chorus is to be ready for the 2009 Easter season. I’m hoping to have a place to rehearse, a sound system, a video projector, a DVD player, a CD player and music by February, 2009. Thus making this group a totally autonomous group. We need your help! Please invite anyone you think might be interested in joining us. Bring your ideas and energy! Singers and non-singers are needed! Please RSVP to Bud.

Quotes to remember:
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
~ Gustav Mahler
“Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.”
~ Henri Rabaud

Name that instrument (Answer to last week’s quiz): The modern version of this instrument was developed from the “Chalumeau” of 1690. Today is called the clarinet.

This week:
This musical instrument was originally designed in France in 1650. One of its original uses was to be played during hunting and its sound was called “recheat.” Players had to attach longer or shorter sections to their instrument to play in various keys.

Name the instrument. (Answer next week).

Why are band concert intermissions limited to 20 minutes?
So you don't have to retrain the drummers.

What do you call a male quartet?
Three men and a tenor.

What's the difference between a bass trombone and a chain saw?
Vibrato.

Today in History October 19
1992 – Bush, Clinton, & Perot met in their final Presidential debate in E. Lansing, Michigan
1963 – The Beatles recorded ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’
1957 – ‘Damn Yankees’ musical closed at The 46th Street Theater in NYC after 1,022 performances
1953 – Singer Julius LaRosa, a regular on the CBS program ‘Arthur Godfrey Time,’ was fired on the air by Arthur Godfrey, who accused him of lacking humility
1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrated the electric light
1817 – Tom Taylor (British playwright) was born. His play ‘Our American Cousin’ was being performed at Ford’s Theater when Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Boothe
1492 – Christopher Columbus sighted ‘Isabela Island’ (Fortune Island) in the Bahamas

Bud: (716) 934-7734, email: tubamanbud@gmail.com
For Community Chorus New Horizon Band updates:
www.frombudsworld.blogspot.com

A better golfer

"I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators."

~ Gerald R. Ford

Today's funny

"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."

~ Gore Vidal

November 1 Pot luck dinner

The Sheridan Community Chorus pot luck dinner will be held on Saturday, November 1 @ 5:00 pm at The St. John Bosco Auditorium (2777 Route 20) in Sheridan. Bring a dish (with food) to pass. Tableware and drinks will be provided.
We will be discussing our future plans for the upcoming 2009 calendar year.
Please bring your ideas and invite anyone interested in joining our group.
For further information, contact Bud (716) 934-7734 or tubamanbud@gmail.com

A normal day

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

~ Ellen Goodman

Pumpkin math

Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of your pumpkin by it's diameter?

A: Pumpkin Pi

Today's Wisdom

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."

~ Josh Billings

The Best Gifts

"The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity."

~ Oren Arnold

Today's Funny

"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."

~ George Carlin

Bud's World (10/12/08)

Director of Purchasing: Lois Bidder Instrument repairman: Anita Hammer Attorney: Gil T. Azell

Parent Humor
I called my daughter long-distance just to say hello. She had had a particularly rough day with her two boys, then aged nine months and three years. When I asked her how she was, she replied wearily, “I don’t know, Dad. I keep hoping I’m just the baby-sitter and that their parents will come home soon.”

I was just wondering…
Is there another word for thesaurus?
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
If a mute swears, does his mother make him wash his hands with soap?
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

From the Sheridan Community Chorus Choir Loft
The Sheridan Community Chorus pot luck dinner will be Saturday, November 1 at 5:00 pm at The St. John Bosco Auditorium in Sheridan, NY. All chorus members/spouses/significant others and anyone interested in the future of the chorus are invited to attend. The goals for The Sheridan Community Chorus are to be ready for the 2009 Easter season. I’m hoping to have a place to rehearse, a sound system, a video projector, a DVD player, a CD player and music by February, 2009. Thus making this group a totally autonomous group. We need your help!

Famous Quotes
“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.” ~Charlie Parker
“Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.” ~William F. Buckley, Jr.
"Play the music, not the instrument." ~Author Unknown

Name that instrument
(Answer to last week’s quiz): This instrument (from last week's quiz) used to be called the “sackbut.” Today is known as the trombone.
This week: This instrument’s name is of Italian origin. It has been made of wood, plastic, hard metal, rubber, metal resin and ivory. Many present-day professional players prefer theirs made from African hardwood. The modern version was developed from the “Chalumeau" of 1690.
Name the instrument. (answer next week).

Today in History October 12)
1973 - Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
1915 - Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile
1901 - Theodore Roosevelt renames “Executive Mansion,” “The White House”
1792 - Columbus Day is 1st celebrated

Bud: (716) 934-7734, email: tubamanbud@gmail.com

Sousa @ Chautauqua Institution

Here's a 1925 photograph of John Philip Sousa and his band at The Chautauqua Institution ("Panoramic Photography")

~courtesy Library of Congress

Dust Bunnies

After church, little Robbie tells his parents he has to go and talk to the minister right away. They agree and the pastor greets the family.
"Pastor," Robbie says, "I heard you say today that our bodies came from the dust."
"That's right, Johnny, I did."
"And I heard you say that when we die, our bodies go back to dust."
"Yes, I'm glad you were listening. Why do you ask?"
"Well you better come over to our house right away and look under my bed 'cause there's someone either comin' or goin'!"

We cordially invite you to The Sheridan Community Chorus Pot Luck Dinner on Saturday, November 1 at 5:00 pm at The St. John Bosco Auditorium (2777 Route 20) in Sheridan, NY.
We will be discussing the future of the chorus and we need your input & help.
Bring a dish to pass - tableware and drinks will be provided.
Please RSVP to Bud

Today's Wisdom

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests."

~John Stuart Mill

Sheridan Community Chorus

Saturday, 11/1/08 at 5:00 pm at The St. John Bosco Auditorium (2777 Route 20) in Sheridan, NY we will have the Sheridan Community Chorus pot luck dinner. Bring a dish to pass...tableware and drinks will be provided.
This will be a time of fellowship and to discuss the future of the chorus.
Bring your ideas, suggestions and an eagerness to get ready for 2009.
Think about your favorite memory of our group.
Invite others to join us.
Chorus members and spouses/significant others are all invited.
Please send you RSVP's to Bud

Sheridan Community Chorus

The Sheridan Community Chorus pot luck dinner will be held on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 5:00 pm at The St. John Bosco Auditorium (2777 Route 20) in Sheridan, NY. Sheridan, NY is between Silver Creek & Fredonia.
Chorus members, their spouses, significant others, prospective singers and anyone interested in the future of this chorus are invited to attend.
Please bring a dish to share and an eagerness to get going again. Drinks and tableware will be provided.
We want to be ready for the 2009 Easter season.
I have missed you all, and look forward to seeing you again.

Please RSVP to Bud

The Advil Commandments

So Moses is up on Mount Sinai and he says to God, "God, do I have a pounding headache!"

And God says, "Here, take these two tablets."

1st Snowfall of the season...

In case you often complain about our weather, here's a picture of my brother's backyard last Sunday (10/5/08).

Oh, by the way, he lives in Anchorage, Alaska.

Senior Citizens' Questions/Answers

Questions and Answers from an AARP Forum

Q: Where can men over the age of 65 find younger, sexy women who are interested in them?
A: Try a bookstore-------under fiction.

Q: What can a man do while his wife is going through menopause?
A: Keep busy. If you're handy with tools, you can finish the basement. When you are done, you will have a place to live.

Q: Someone has told me that menopause is mentioned in the Bible. Is that true? Where can it be found?
A: Yes. Matthew 14:92: 'And Mary rode Joseph's ass all the way to Egypt .'


Q: How can you avoid that terrible curse of the elderly-----wrinkles?
A: Take off your glasses

Q: Seriously! What can I do for these crow's feet and all those wrinkles on my face?
A: Go braless. It will usually pull them out.

Q: Why should 65+ year old people use valet parking?
A: Valets don't forget where they park your car.

Q: Is it common for 65+ year olds to have problems with short term memory storage?
A: Storing memory is not a problem, retrieving it is a problem.

Q: As people age, do they sleep more soundly?
A: Yes, but usually in the afternoon.

Q: Where should 65+ year olds look for eye glasses?
A: On their foreheads.

Q: What is the most common remark made by 65+ year olds when they enter antique stores?
A: “Gosh, I remember these.”

SMILE, You've still got your sense of humor, right?

~ Written by Betty White

Business Mergers in America...

With all the turmoil in the market today and the collapse of Lehman Bros and Acquisition of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America this might be some good advice. For all of you with any money left, be aware of the next expected mergers so that you can get in on the ground floor and make some BIG bucks.

Watch for these consolidations later this year:

1.) Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W R. Grace Co. Will merge and become:
Hale, Mary, Fuller, Grace.

2.) Polygram Records, Warner Bros., and Zesta Crackers join forces and become:
Poly, Warner Cracker.

3.) 3M will merge with Goodyear and become:
MMMGood.

4. Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining will merge and become:
ZipAudiDoDa .

5. FedEx is expected to join its competitor, UPS, and become:
FedUP.

6. Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers will become:
Fairwell Honeychild.

7. Grey Poupon and Docker Pants are expected to become:
PouponPants.

And finally...

8. Knotts Berry Farm and the National Organization of Women will become:
Knott NOW!

Thanks to Gregory Harper