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Here in West Virginia, guns are a common thing — many/most go hunting at least a couple of times a year and I grew up in Oklahoma where many/most people owned at least one gun. Not as much hunting in … Continue reading →

I got busy yesterday and forgot to mention one of December’s big events — the winter solstice.This year’s winter solstice occurred yesterday, December 21, 2022 at 4:48 p.m. EST for all of us in the Northern Hemisphere. This event is … Continue reading →

If you watched or listened to the news this morning you know that 6.4-magnitude earthquake occurred in northern California.  Earthquakes are scary things — they happen without warning and there are no “earthquake shelters” or anyplace you can hide from … Continue reading →

I was reading about various things that happened in 2022 and one event that happened near here had slipped my mind — in January the University of Maryland Medical Center transplanted a pig’s heart into a human. Unfortunately the man … Continue reading →

A few days ago, the subject was eggnog and how it became a Christmas tradition. A lot of other things we do, see and hear around Christmas have interesting backgrounds…. Reading the AARP magazine the other day, there was a … Continue reading →

Today is a day when we should all take a moment and think about our freedoms and how fortunate we are to have them. America has always been the “land of the free,” and a lot of that freedom is … Continue reading →

I’ve mentioned in the past that one of our Christmas trees is decorated with, among all the other ornaments, every Official White House Christmas ornament that has been released. Claire, and our Christmas tree, gets a new ornament every year.  … Continue reading →

A few days ago, Claire was texting with someone and the person had asked about our Christmas trees, wanting to know if they were real. (She had sent a picture and the person remarked that they really looked “real.”) Claire … Continue reading →

I heard something the other day that made me think of when I was a kid — boy was I gullible. I guess I wasn’t that much different than other kids…. when we were young, we all believed a lot … Continue reading →

A couple of nights ago, Claire was talking or texting to one of her brothers and he asked if she’d seen the full moon — we didn’t see it here because of the cloud cover. But last night we had … Continue reading →