I got a phone call last night from an old friend who called to tell me that a good friend of ours from back in the good old days had just passed away behind bars in the prison that he was serving time in for kidnapping. I had no idea that this guy was doing time and I certainly didn’t know that he was into kidnapping. I did know that he had done some time in the 90′s for robbing [...]
I have a good friend that is confirmed bachelor just as I am. But where I am pretty quiet and laid back he is pretty wild and crazy and considers himself to be one of the best pick up artist in town. Me, I don’t even know how to text a girl with a pick up line and not sound like a complete idiot much less looking at one right in the eye and spewing out some outrageously witty line in an [...]
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.. Ninety percent of the world’s ice covers Antarctica . This ice also represents seventy percent of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert; The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches. Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, With an absolute humidity [...]
An important part of our homeschooling includes spending at least one day each week at the Lenawee County library, so in our ongoing quest for knowledge we decided today was the day to make the trip. Getting ready to go to the library with young children can be a real challenge at times but always well worth the effort. Gathering together the books and CD’s to be returned was no small chore, and finally getting them all loaded into our [...]