Just gotta be in the headlines!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124700261179807839.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Your really do have to take a look.  It's such fun! It will bring a smile to your day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eExHIzBKRU0

The lead-in is a little slow, but the piece is worth waiting for. They do it all with such straight faces, but watch for the whistler to break up toward the end.  It's so hard to pucker when you are smiling!

I'm afraid most of m y lovely vegetable garden is cooked, and not in the way I'd intended.  The tomatoes are doing well, and so is the corn.  The rest is pretty much ruined by the heat of the past week, even though I watered every evening.  I'm clearing out the most messed up plants and will try some hardier seeds, if I can figure out what they ( Read more... )

The temperature here was 104 today.  I decided to stay in and 'hibernate.' Early in the morning the dogs and I took a walk, and I watered the most needy plants and promptly came in and closed everything up.  I decided to go to afternoon church.  It turned out to be a most peaceful and rewarding day over all. I finished a gift tunic I was making,  ( Read more... )

My brother sent me a memory journal made by my Grandpa in the early 80's when he was about 94.  I've been transcribing it to electronic format so it can be shared by all the family.  What amazes me is how involved I have become.  He was 50 when my  mother was born and really seemed a very old man when I  knew him in his 80's and 90's.  He was hard ( Read more... )

Beauty can grow even in in rocky soil.

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How twins are made


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I was filling up the green can with the last of chopped down bush again and something small bit or stung me on the wrist.  It's driving me nuts with itching and burning.  It feels like a spider bite, but I scratched off what appeared to be a tiny stinger.  I wonder what it was that spends times in a dried out dead bush?  Very unpleasant ( Read more... )

According to the BBC most folk’s will have only read about 6 of the hundred books on this list, but of course my friends are probably closer to 50. Me, I only got 45. Beat my score!

You know the drill, X off the ones you've read and keep a total. Here's mine.
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