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November 2025
November is here. With leaves on the ground and the crisp air turning cold. November is a month of transition, where autumn fades into the whispers of winter and the holiday season slowly comes alive. It’s a month of gratitude, reflection, and preparation for what lies ahead. November is the time to be thankful.
Here are some things I am thankful for: My crazy family, band-aids, matching socks, clean underwear and or deodorant, elephants, Netflix, German potato salad, toilet paper, puppies and kittens, rainbows, duct tape, forever stamps and knowing you.
Here is the information we have so far in regard to our upcoming “60th” class reunion. It’s going to be on a Wednesday the 19th of August 2026. Please keep checking back for further information on our “Details of Events” page which is found in the menu.
November is a time for cozy nights, warm drinks, and lots of reflection, right? With the year almost ending and the holidays around the corner, it’s the perfect month to grab your notebook and jot down some thoughts you may have on projects you may wish to complete in the coming year. If you are anything like me, you may be already writing notes of day-by-day chores just to help our ever-slowing memory keep up to pace.
Humor can help with our lack of memory.
Fact is, people remember better if a subject is presented with humor, or if they are affected with some type of emotion. The funnier the joke, the more activity there is in your brain’s pleasure centers. The more the person can relate to something on a personal level the easier it is for them to remember it longer.
Yesterday I found a twenty-dollar bill on the street while on my way home. As a good Christian I thought “What would Jesus do?” …. so I turned it into wine.
I thought Friday was a sad day…
Turns out the next day was a sadder day.
A great man told his followers, 'There are two things in life that matters more than anything else - Integrity, if you'd made a promise, you carry it out, even if it bankrupts you, cripples you or kills you. The other thing is common sense, like not making that promise'.
Once you understand the complexity of why the pizza is made round. Packed in a square box and eaten as a triangle.
Then you will understand Women.
Cassette tapes have side A and side B.
So it’s only logical their successor would be the CD.
How do you drop an egg on a concrete floor without cracking it?
Concrete floors are really hard to crack.
"You were thinking about the egg weren't you!"
When I was young, I was poor.
After many years of demanding work, I am no longer young.
I would like to be poor one day. Because being poor every day is hard.
I learned the other day that a group of baboons is called a Congress.
I found it extremely insulting to the hard work and productivity of baboons.
It is hard to understand English, but you can learn it through tough thorough thought, though!
This husband and wife are having a tough time sleeping, given the fact that their neighbor’s dog is barking in the backyard all night long. Eventually, the wife tells her husband to go next door and get the dog to stop. The husband obeys and comes back a few minutes later’
“Okay, honey, I think I solve the problem!” he says as he goes back to bed. “But the dog is still barking!” the wife complains. “What did you do?” “I put their dog in our back yard. Now let’s see how the neighbors like it!”
What’s a quick and effortless way to turn a sofa into a bed?
Forget your wife’s birthday.
A young rabbi was an avid golfer. Even on Yom Kippur, the hottest day of the year, he snuck out by himself for a quick nine holes. On the last hole he teed off, and a gust of wing carried his ball directly over the hole and dropped it in for a hole in one.
An angle who saw this miracle complained to God, this guy is playing golf on Yom Kipper, and you cause him a hole in one? This is punishment. Of course it is, said the lord, smiling. Who can he tell?
What’s the opposite of November?
Yesvember.
My grief counselor died. He was so good, I don’t even care.
As I get older, I remember all the people I lost along the way.
Maybe my budding career as a tour guide was not the right choice.
"Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough."
Gravity is one of the fundamental forces of the universe. What happens when it is removed?
Gravy.
A waiter was serving Thanksgiving dinner at a fancy restaurant when he slipped, fell, and destroyed four countries.
It was the downfall of Greece and Turkey, and China was thoroughly destroyed. Due to this, most people left Hungary.
What did the turkey say to the turkey hunter on Thanksgiving Day? “Quack! Quack!”
My wife is a terrible cook; she can never get gravy right.
I have stuck with her though, through thick or thin.
In April of 1620, it rained. That same year, the Pilgrims arrived. I suppose the saying is true.
April showers bring Mayflowers.
What is the difference between a pirate and a cranberry farmer?
One buries his treasures, and the other treasures his berries.
“Waiter, waiter, why is my apple pie all mashed up?!”
“Sir, you asked me to step on it.”
How do you make pumpkin Pie?
Take the circumference of the pumpkin and divide it by the diameter of the pumpkin.
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself."
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was it was my own.
“If you see someone without a smile, give 'em yours!”
“If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, Indifference.”
Robin Williams
"I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
November is the month to remind us to be thankful for the many positive things happening in our life.
Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought
about you today. You make the world a better place just by
being in it.
Live life for today.
Look for a single moment of joy each day.
Pray for tomorrow.
Cherish your blessings.
And visit with your precious memories often.
Thank you for visiting.
Your Ballard High School Class of 1966 Reunion Committee.