I realized that I hadn’t emptied my camera in awhile, so when I finally did, I found some great pictures! Told you it was a busy Labor Day weekend! The girls dressed Charity up like a princess – her blue eye always gets photographic red-eye, but she actually let the kids dress her up! Wonder […]
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Well, it was a last-minute attempt at a Labor Day outing with friends, and even though we strayed from our original idea of going to a Lake Erie-area haunted house and drive-thru zoo, we had LOTS of fun! We went to the Toledo Zoo, always a great zoo, even if this Labor Day Saturday of
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Believe me, I am definitely not expressing that parrots are pets to get on a whim, not that any pets should be obtained on a whim. But I wouldn’t really even recommend parrots, the loud and moody (however beautiful and insanely smart) creatures as pets, except to the perfect parrot owner – which might just
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Because I have two kids in the local city school system at the same time, I receive double the school memos. So while Friday’s after-school-folder-clean-out yielded the usual classwork, homework and doodles, there were also some notices clearly indicative of these times in which we’re living: a list of swine flu H1N1 symptoms and (what
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I did not go to Walmart yesterday, but I still have enough of a complaint to sit and write a blog post about the place! In case you’ve missed my other (many) Walmart rants, I’ll save you the search and link to a few of the various episodes depicting the times they wronged me. Like
Did you hear about this? Seems a man settling back for a quiet afternoon in his tiki bar (that’s a whole ‘nother story, I guess. Us Midwestern folks can’t really identify…) when he opened his can of Diet Pepsi, took a big gulp and began to gag. His wife came over, and to make a
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Now that the kids are back in school (2 out of 4 anyway), I have some (stress on the some, not a lot of) extra time to sit and blog again – something that wasn’t made a priority over our busy summer. Among our summertime fun and adventures were many trips to the Redbox. Surely
From the Financial Pages today – business news is not something I usually write about, but you’ll see why the following story would interest me: Disney To Acquire Marvel Entertainment Our family frequents the Orlando Florida area, home of Disney World and also their major competitor – Universal Studios. For those of you who don’t
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See if you enjoy this as much as I did – a group of female gorillas is given posters of their prospective mate. How did they react to it? Read: From cnn.com: by Nick Hunt So when three female gorillas at London Zoo heard that they would soon be visited by a brooding French hunk
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There’s really not much to say about the following article – someone did something extremely stupid, and I thought I’d share. At least no one was seriously hurt… CAR SET ABLAZE AFTER JOLIET WOMAN USED LIGHTER TO CHECK GAS CAN LEVEL By Lee Filas | Daily Herald Staff A 27-year-old Joliet woman is suffering from
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