Rehtional Thinking
Durham Crop Walk 2010
Even though the clouds rolled in early, no rain fell yesterday at the 36th annual Durham Crop Walk. I got to kick off the event yesterday. It was great to see lots of people raise money for hunger.
Below is a brief video of the kickoff. It occured in front of Duke Chapel. Music got the walkers [...]
Yard Work: Fertilizing Time
St. Patrick’s Day and Thanksgiving, those are two holidays that I enjoy. Those were also the holidays that a landscaper friend of mine told me to keep in mind while working around the yard.
He said in central North Carolina, we should fertilize our plants twice a year. And those times are the middle of March [...]
Standard To Daylight Saving Time
Our weekend is one hour shorter than normal, that’s because Sunday will only have 23 hours in it. We time shift at 2am on Sunday morning when it becomes 3am. With the shift that I work, up at 2:30am, it makes it tough when it is time to go back to work on Monday. I [...]
Productive Excercise
Lifting weights, sit-ups, jogging, are all ways that I get my exercise. These are things that I spend time doing during the week. But what happens when chores get in the way?
For example, this past Saturday I got out into the yard and cut my monkey grass and pruned some trees. Hauled all the pruned branches back into the [...]
Yard Work Coming Back
With our recent snowy weather, it seems like winter never wants to end and spring is going to be delayed. But a sure sign that spring has to come soon….I saw one of those lawn care companies spraying my neighbors lawn yesterday. I am not sure if it was for weeds or if he was [...]
Spectacular NASA Earth Pictures
My 5 mega-pixel camera takes a decent picture. But usually my subject is only several feet away. I have never tried to shoot a picture several hundred miles away. NASA has been taking photos of our planet from a satellite orbiting the earth at about 435 miles up.
I remember when the Apollo astronauts got full [...]
Watching Olympic Downhill Skiing
Driving down the highway at 65 to 70 mph, you normally don’t think that if the car stops suddenly, your body would still be moving at 65 to 70 mph. I would never want to personally prove this fact, but watching the women’s downhill last night, convinced me it must be true.
The course was slick [...]
Washington’s Day Not President’s Day
I thought today, Monday, February 15th, 2010, was President’s Day. You know, a national holiday where the stock market is closed and there is no mail. Well I was WRONG.
Not about the part about the stock market and mail, but about there being a federal holiday called President’s Day. We all know that George Washington was [...]
Snow and More Snow
My mom in Chicago said she got 12″ of snow, and she isn’t going anywhere. Wilmington, Delaware, and Washington, DC have now set records for the snowiest season on record. A lot of folks are wondering what is going on?!
Welcome to a return toward the norm. No doubt the last couple of decades have been [...]
Snow Disappears…
I found the flag and a bit of snow, all that was left of the snow fort that I built last week. I still see signs of snow in shady spots and in the piles that plows pushed up. But for the most part, pictures and memories are all that is left from our 5 [...]
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