Wordless Wednesday #7

photo by langooney

Getting to Know Me

I was over at Seb’s blog and he did this meme. I liked it, so here goes!!
1. If you could build a house anywhere, where would it be? I really like where I live now. However, I will withhold judgment until I get to Australia. I have a friend in Adelaide that I’d like to [...]

We Lose Another One

photos by Crystal_Ineka
Yvonne De Carlo died this month at the age of 84. You may remember her as Lily Munster on the 1960s sitcom “The Munsters”. She appeared in nearly 100 movies during her career; one of these roles was as the wife of Moses in “The Ten Commandments”.
At the age of 22, movie [...]

A Job I Do Not Want

Deadly Contest

Last week in Sacramento, California, a 28-year-old mother of two lost her life after participating in a contest to win a free playstation. Jennifer Strange was trying to win a Nintendo Wii game console for her kids in a contest called “Hold Your Wee for a Wii”, sponsored by Sacramento radio station KDND. The [...]

Wordless Wednesday #6

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Here Comes the Flood

I’ve got that Peter Gabriel song mentioned above on my mind right now.
This afternoon I was sitting in my computer room working when I hear my little bird Gobi in the other room making a racket. Gobi usually makes a racket anyway when I’m not in the room with him, but this was somehow different.
Then [...]

Parrots – Video Test

Everybody’s doin’ it… not that, I mean posting videos.
So here is my first try at posting a video. This came from Leslie Gillis. These are Grey-Cheeked parakeets; and the one in the middle is a baby (you can tell by the black beak which is a sign of a juvenile Grey-Cheek). You may have [...]

Nature Strikes Back

This NASA satellite image shows the Ayles Ice Shelf collapse, center and below the open water, on Aug. 13, 2005. Within days of breaking free and becoming an island, Ayles drifted about 30 miles before freezing into the sea ice seen here along top of photo.

relative location of Ayles Ice Shelf
It was reported by The [...]

Michael Richards Banned from Local Red Robin

There is a chain of restaurants called “Red Robin” that Bill and I like to frequent on weekends. I particularly like their Nacho Wraps and Whiskey River Chicken Wraps…but I digress.
This restaurant has about 250 locations, but I have only been to three. These restaurants have as a decorating trademark various pictures, photographs, and old [...]