A blog from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Posted in Home on Nov 24th, 2009
Here is a buck looking up at the house at 11am this morning. He and his three doe friends were right at the edge of the lawn at the wood line. It is a good looking buck so I sent the picture off to one of the hunters that has been [...]
We are in the process trying to get the cats to live together. We have had some success and some not so good meetings. At one point Maisy jumps into the chair and settles into Marvin’s blanket and falls asleep.
Later on Marvin, forgetting that Maisy as out and about, [...]
Posted in News Items on Nov 22nd, 2009
I like the PBS program Frontline although every time I watch an episode it makes me furious about the status of our world and the “leaders” of our planet.
I am watching the episode Black Money.
Posted in News Items on Nov 22nd, 2009
Our rivers are being destroyed by an exotic species of fish and they are very close to making it to the Great Lakes. If you thought zebra mussels were bad for the Lakes, you haven’t seen anything yet. If these Asian Carp make it to the Lakes, the Lakes will be ruined.
Asian Carp [...]
Posted in Home on Nov 20th, 2009
We are letting hunters take some of the deer out of our wood and the only thing we are asking in return is some jerky. I am not a venison steak or ground fan but I love jerky no matter the animal it comes from. So tonight one of the hunters stopped by [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Nov 18th, 2009
I watch a lot of the History Channel and they have a very good series going on right now called “WWII in HD“. While the title is poorly chosen (sick of people thinking they need to put HD in the title of everything), the content is amazing. They mix archival footage with real [...]
Posted in Observations on Nov 18th, 2009
Ever feel like we as a civilization have gotten stupider? You can point to a million examples of stupid people doing stupid things. Then you realize that NASA has an Astrobiologist answer questions because the idiot parade is freaked out by a movie and some book predicting the end of the world in [...]
Poor little Marvin had a bad bad day today.
He had to go to the vet to get his shots. So into the kitty carrier he goes. He hates the kitty carrier so there is lots of crying. The kitty carrier is then loaded into the car. He hates the car and [...]