Tonight is a night that I look forward to all year long, each and every year. At 2:00 a.m. we are all supposed to set our clocks forward one hour and to let Daylight Savings Time begin for the year 2011. Life is so much better when it stays lighter out for longer periods of time. Right in the middle of summer is actually stays light until after 9:00 p.m., which is so awesome. Since I spend so much of [...]
Every now and then I’ll get an email from my cousin, Larry, who I used to be so close to while growing up, but other than an occassional email I don’t hear much from him or any other member of that part of the family. Their house was just a few blocks up from us, we were close in age and had a lot in common with each other back then so we became pretty darned close there for most of [...]
In many ways we have been extremely lucky this winter with the small amount of snow that we have had to deal with last week. Other than that one time we haven’t had squat, which has made this winter a much easier one to get a handle on since I haven’t had to be out and about getting about the business around here at the farm under control when we get snow. Other places haven’t been all that lucky and [...]
A Nativity Scene was erected in a church yard last weekend, sometime during the night some folks came across this scene. An abandoned dog was looking for a comfortable, protected place to sleep. He chose baby Jesus as his comfort. No one had the heart to send him away so he was there all night. Don’t you agree that we should all have the good sense of this dog and curl up in Jesus’ lap from time to time. This is [...]
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 [...]