I read recently that the summer job is a thing of the past. With the poor economy of the last seven years or so, businesses aren't making a practice of hiring extra help in the summertime. And a lot of the traditional part-time jobs for teenagers are now held by adults who can't find full-time…… MORE
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Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover
I may be a red head (or ginger as others call it) but I do have some blonde moments. The other day I was filling up the hummingbird feeder in our backyard with nectar and adding some bird seed to a bird feeder we have. I snapped the cage onto the bird feeder and hung it…… MORE
Time For A Road Trip
There's something about the road. For the past 2 months, I've been looking forward to my Cleveland Indians put forth their best effort against the Mariners. See, I love to drive. I don't mind flying, but driving allows me to observe the scenery. The mountains, the towns that once were, and, of course, the…… MORE
Time To Lose
I'm thinking about trying to lose weight again. I decide to do it every few years. And I'm pretty good at it. Once I lost 130 pounds in six months. Another time I lost 88 pounds. And I lost 50 pounds the first time I went on a diet, which was when I was 20…… MORE
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Well, it's officially summer. And I can tell my garden is loving the sunshine. At the beginning of May, I bought lots of vegetable plants and seeds. I planted them into the ground and have been watering them everyday (I guess you could say flooding them, because I thought they were dying.) They started to…… MORE
Shopping Online
A few years ago I reported the existence of a website designed to help extremely wealthy people buy things. I don't remember the name of the website now, and I haven't been able to find the exact site using search engines, but I suspect the company may have changed hands. The point of the website,…… MORE
Twisted Fathers’ Day
In honor of Fathers' Day, which is this Sunday, here are some of history's greatest fathers. Byron Keith Perkins – Perkins was temporarily let out of jail in January of 2006 so he could donate a kidney to his ailing son. Instead of showing up at the hospital, Perkins drove to his girlfriend's house, picked…… MORE
Duck!
My mom's neighbor is an elderly woman with a big love for her garden. When I went to visit my mom on Saturday I found that her neighbor hasn't touched her garden. There were weeds coming out from certain areas and some of the plants were drooping. I asked my mom what was going on…… MORE
A Horse Is A Horse Of Course Of Course
For years critics have been saying that horse racing is dead, that people just don’t care about it anymore. They point put the sparse crowds at Santa Anita race course and others throughout the country. They point out that many tracks, such as Hollywood Park and Bay Meadows have closed in recent years after their…… MORE
Weird Festivals!
For ten years in the 90's, the city of Boise had a pretty good festival. It was called the Boise River Festival, and it featured balloon launches, day and night parades, big-name free concerts, exhibits, cooking contests, variety entertainment, colorful souvenir t-shirts and tons of concessions. Some people thought it was weird to have a…… MORE
