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It’s harder than it looks to throw a frisbee! At least for me, it kept wobbling in the air so it didn’t go too far.

After a few wobbly practice runs, I was able to throw it 29 feet.

Only one person guessed exactly 29 but I have seven gift packs to send so here are the seven winners:

1. Gail – guessed exactly 29! Yay for Gail!

2. Sue – guessed 30

3. Janet – guessed 27

4. Karen – guessed 32

5. Stacy – guessed 32.5

6. John – guessed 32.5

7. Zo – guessed 32.808399

Congratulations to all the winners! You’ll receive an email shortly asking for your mailing address and your JJ Summer Fun package will be on the way. Thanks, everyone, for playing. As soon as I find more JJ stuff, we’ll do it again. 🙂

UPDATE on WINNERS : We just heard from Gail (no photo) who says she lives in Akron,Ohio and  works in one of her local hospital emergency rooms. She has six children, two grandchildren and has been married for 27 years. And get this! She and her husband were on my show when their girls were 3, they are quadruplets. I loved the shows we did on multiple births. I’m so glad one of my “homies” won!!

Sue

Sue is one of my regular blog visitors and wrote to say, “That is soo awesome!!  This is so funny because I didn’t have a clue how far she could throw so I went out in my own backyard and threw my frisbe and measured 30 feet! So I went with  it! Happy Birthday Jenny!  And sooo many more to come!!  Love, Sue”

Karen

Karen is a stay-at home mom from Colorado Springs and is very excited about winning. Her email: “Yippie!!!!! Thank you :)”

Janet

Janet is thrilled saying she’s never won a contest before but it took a little longer for her delivery to arrive. She lives in Liverpool!

*NOTE TO Zo: Zo, your email got bounced back so please contact us at: pictures@jennyjones.com

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How far can I throw a frisbee?

Summer’s coming and what’s more fun than throwing a frisbee? I’ll tell you what – waterskiing is more fun. And okay, surfing in Hawaii. But I can’t waterski or surf so I’m throwing a frisbee. But how far can I throw it? If you can guess, you’ll win a Jenny Jones Show Summer Fun Pack. It includes a beach towel, beach ball, drink holder, hat, teddy bear, and frisbee. All you have to do is guess how far I can throw a frisbee (over or under is okay – just come the closest). You should know that I haven’t thrown one in a long time but I did a few practice throws and then… I did my best. How easy is this? I’m practically giving this stuff away – oh, right… I am!

One guess per person. Contest ends Thursday. Summer’s coming!! 🙂

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A date for Roula

One of my favorite shows of all time was back in 1994 when I set my stepmom, Roula, up on a date. She was married to my father and after he passed away, I convinced her to appear on the show so I could set her up on a date.

I just came across a copy of the show and put an edited version here on the website. It was so much fun!

Roula has since married her second husband, Victor, who unfortunately passed away in 2010.

She is still just as vibrant and beautiful today as she was then.

Click here for the video.

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R.I.P. Jim Paratore

I was stunned to receive a phone call today that the man who decided to give me a chance and put me on TV with my own talk show, Jim Paratore, died today. We worked closely together for the entire twelve-year run of the Jenny Jones Show. And we just had lunch a few months ago to catch up. Jim was with Warner Bros. for almost 20 years. Some of the many shows he was involved with include Extra, Judge Mathis, The People’s Court, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, The Tyra Banks Show, and TMZ. Jim was well known and very well respected in the television industry. I was told he was on a biking vacation in France with his wife and had a heart attack. He was only 58 years old. This is such a shock and so sad, especially for his wife and daughter.

R.I.P., my friend.

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Memorial Day

3,000 Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts placed 83,000 flags at Los Angeles National Cemetery for Memorial Day. Let us all remember those who lost their lives in service.

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My babies made the news!

A friend suggested I submit a photo of my baby hummingbirds (notice I said “my” as though I gave birth to them?) to the Los Angeles Times for their Reader Photos.

It’s a section on local “Southern California Moments” where they feature all kinds of photos taken around town and guess what?

They picked my photo!! I am so excited! My babies are famous!!

I’m continuing to add daily photos of the birds’ progress in the blog below until they fly away. 🙁 They are three weeks old today.

There’s a link below to the L.A. Times feature.

If you visit the page, please remember to “recommend” it. Thanks!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/reader-photos-southern-california-moments-day-142.html

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Baby Hummingbirds’ Journey

We discovered the nest in April inside a trumpet vine in our back yard. The baby hummingbirds hatched on May 1st. It’s amazing how quickly they grew. They will be three weeks old tomorrow and they’ll fly away soon. I’ll probably cry and will miss them so much. I hope they stay in the yard and maybe I can recognize them again at the feeders.

Nest was discovered April 19th

Day One (May 1st – 3 hours old)

It wasn’t easy getting this photo. I needed a ladder, a flashlight and some hair clips.

Day Two

The inside of this nest measures only 1/2-inch!

Day Four

They’re resting today and getting bigger (& fuzzier).

Day Seven

It looks like they’ve practically doubled in size in three days.

Day Eight

Taking an afternoon nap, enjoying the California sunshine.

Day Nine

Day Ten

Day Eleven

Day Thirteen

Day Fourteen

Day Fifteen (May 15th)

Day Sixteen

Day Seventeen

Day Eighteen

Day Nineteen

Day Twenty (running out of room)

Day Twenty-One (3 weeks old today – May 21st)

Day Twenty-Two at 3:00

Twenty Minutes Later

Day Twenty-Three

Day Twenty-Four (looks like he’s ready to move out)

Day Twenty-Five (bye-bye, birdies) 🙁

When baby hummingbirds hatch, they have no feathers and dark skin. Babies are hatched with their eyes closed and weigh about 0.62 grams (that’s 1/3 the weight of a dime). They are about one inch long with short, stubby, yellow beaks. The mother will drink nectar and eat bugs and then regurgitate them into the babies’ mouths, feeding them this mixture every 20 minutes. The babies will feel the wind from the wings of their mother and lift their little heads up and open their mouths. It will be about 3 weeks before they fly. Also, mother hummingbirds have no problem re-using another hummingbird’s nest. Sometimes the new mother will move in before the nest has had a chance to cool off from the previous brood. The nests are tiny.

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Posing for Playboy?

Speaking of Mother’s Day, this mother wants to pose for Playboy!

Does anybody want to see the rest of her body?  They shouldn’t even try airbrushing —  just print it on leather.

If there was ever a reason to use sunblock and never enter a tanning booth, this is it. I’m afraid we’re going to find out she’s only 23.

Tanning booths should not have a Happy Hour.

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No babies yet

I’m checking every day but no babies yet. This time, mom let me get really close so she either trusts me now or she’s had enough of me and refuses to leave. She sits on the eggs most of the day until the gardener shows up with the blower (it’s okay, he knows about the nest and he’s waiting to see the babies too).

So yesterday, Denis and I drove by a park and I saw something that made me say, “Stop the car! Stop the car!” He thought we hit an animal or something but I said, “There’s a carnival in the park! Maybe there’s a tilt-a-whirl! Let me out – I’m going!”

It was just a weekend carnival but they had all kinds of rides… even the ones that drop you from up high,  but no tilt-a-whirl. 🙁

I got my hopes up for nothing. I love tilt-a-whirls. Maybe it’s because when we were little, my sister and I used to join hands and spin around in circle until we got so dizzy we fell over. Good times.

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