Feb 3, 2012
Remote snow watching here.These pictures are from Colorado.This first one is higher up in the mountains 3 or 4 more inches after I checked it earlier this morning.This is three miles from my house. I'...
Feb 2, 2012
This year's mountain snow pack in Colorado has been very disappointing, but everyone is counting on the storm moving in there tonight to make a big difference. Weather forecasters have been pointing t...
Feb 1, 2012
I don't have a lot of the right sort of pictures, should have stuck around while the official ones were being taken and gotten a few of my own. It was a full-on Catholic mass at the cathedral on the m...
Jan 26, 2012
What a surprise and thrill to receive this fox painting from Jeri and Ted for Christmas.Ted did a good job, using pictures I posted here on Greasy, especially capturing the look in his eye. I like it ...
Jan 25, 2012
He's 100 and she's 96. Every morning he asks her if she's feeling okay and tells her he still loves her. A family friend says:"They have such a close family and have great family support in the way o...
Jan 24, 2012
January Aurora Over Norway Image Credit & Copyright: Bjørn Jørgensen" What's that in the sky? An aurora. A large coronal mass ejection occurred on our Sun five days ago, throwing a cloud of fast mov...
Jan 23, 2012
I've heard that the reason migrating birds are able to navigate is there is something in their brain that is drawn by the magnetism of the North Pole, but the thought of magnets in growing cells is ve...
Jan 23, 2012
It's the year of the puppet.Marvin E. Quasniki, a “turquoise farmer from Tonopah” and a Henson Co. puppet, is running for president as a Libertarian candidate.Interview with the Las Vegas Sun:He s...
Jan 21, 2012
The Bellagio Las Vegas conservatory celebrates the year of the dragon....
Jan 20, 2012
There is a political corruption trial ongoing in Cleveland, Ohio, and because TV cameras are not allowed in the courtroom one of the TV stations is re-enacting each day's action using puppets. Channel...
Jan 18, 2012
At the end of this month I am flying down to Laredo, Texas for a family wedding. I have mixed feelings about it, after briefly glimpsing a few minutes of that TV show: "Bordertown Laredo" about cops f...
Jan 15, 2012
In today's paper there is an article about the local ambulance service in my other hometown looking at what it would take to have emergency medical technicians make house calls to city residents in ne...
Jan 14, 2012
One of my favorite side dishes is corn pudding. This first recipe is from a cookbook published by the Junior League of Memphis, Tennessee, copyright 1952. Easy Corn Pudding1 can cream-style corn(1/2 g...
Jan 14, 2012
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) brings 140,000 people to Las Vegas every year. It is a showcase for new trends in technology and product announcements. I was reading about how Microsoft announced ...