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Visiting The State Farmer’s Market

Even though there was an authentic German baker at the State Farmer’s Market yesterday, I was there for grown close to home tomatoes, corn and watermelon.


Planting Time For Home Garden

The garden centers are buzzing with folks buying plants for home gardens.  We do container plantings on our deck because we are kind of lazy.  No breaking of the soil, or having to haul the garden hose down the yard to water. 
Once again this year, I am going with 4 tomato plants and once again [...]


Wacky Weather Out West

This is why I love my job, the weather always gets people talking.  Or in this cast shoveling….
As we get ready for a beautiful weekend and get out doors whether in the back yard or the beach, winter is raging in Colorado.  They are expecting feet of snow through Saturday.  Here is a picture from [...]


Russian Scientists Think An Ice Age Is Coming

Found this article on the internet.  It is from Pravda; yes that is the state run media from Russia.  It is an interesting take on the earth’s climate.  While most everybody says we are warming the earth with CO2, this article states that over the long haul, were talking hundreds of thousands of years, CO2 [...]


Christmas Lights Are Done

Say what?  Yes, this past Sunday I put the finishing touches on my outdoor Christmas lights.  My daughter wanted more lights, so I gave in and added two hundred more lights to a little bush near the garage.
I started putting lights outside on December 1st and honestly haven’t done much after one week.  I put [...]


Favorite Christmas Specials

I know that they get played every year at this time and they might seem to get old; but I still look forward to watching Christmas specials.  Obviously the one’s that I remember as a child are the best.  So if I had to list my three favorite specials they would be:
By far and away: #1) A [...]


Smile In The Sky

Well I saw it and didn’t realize it. Last evening while wheeling out my garbage, I noticed the first crescent moon and a couple of bright stars in the the sky. I thought how nice, but then started thinking about the clear skies and how that might effect the weather. Oh well, once a meteorologist [...]


November Blizzard Versus Our 70s

As we bask in record warmth today with highs in the mid to upper 70s, I still look at the calendar and realize it is November, so there has got to be someplace paying for our warmth.
I found it in North & South Dakota, where a blizzard has produced  20 to 40 mph winds, drifting snow [...]