Awesome Photos of Birds

If you want to see some awesome photos of birds, go the the Audobon Magazine website. Click on the post title for the link. Prepare to be amazed.

How Come I've Never Seen This?

Here is a link to a strange snow phenomenum that I've never seen before. Click on the post title to get to the BBC story about snow rolls. Wind blew the snow into these rolls and pushed them into larger and larger rolls until they got too heavy to push or reached a fence post or other obstacle. How come that never happens here? I've never heard of such a thing. We sure got plenty of snow and plenty of wind and plenty of empty fields.

Please XYZ Now For The Cycle of Goodness

If you are wearing pants, do me a favor. Bend over and examine your zipper. Make sure the light is good. Put on your reading glasses if you need them. Do you find the letters YKK on your zipper? I did. YKK stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikaisha, a zipper company founded in 1934 by Tadao Yoshida. His company now makes 90 percent of the zippers in the world. The same company makes the machines that make zippers. Yoshida believed in the "Cycle of Goodness" or "No one prospers unless he or she renders benefits to others." He strived to make a high quality zipper; the best zipper that would hold up the life of the product. Such an awesome story, don't you think?

Project Feeder Watch Update

White Breasted Nuthatch-2, Black Capped Chickadee-4, Dark-Eyed Junco=3, Downy Woodpecker-1, American Robin - 3, Goldfinch - 4

I heard the chickadee singing it's other song. Instead of the usual chick-a-dee-dee-dee it was singing fee-bee. We do have another bird appropriate named the Phoebe that makes almost exactly the same fee-bee song but they're not around in January.

No, Not Really

Meredith Shoveling

You want me to do what?

But I'm a guest here. At least I thought I was.

I'm not gonna dignify that with a response.

Keeping Faith

Yesterday I finished this book by Jodi Picoult, one of my favorite authors. She's a good writer. I am not a fan of fantasy and this book has some fantasy in it. A year old daughter, named Faith, is seeing God as a woman, healing people, and showing signs of stigmata. This causes a crisis because of the media attention and her father suddenly wanting custody. Faith's father doesn't think it's healthy that the girl can't go in her yard or to school because of the throngs of television news crews and people seeking to be healed. The mother of Faith, Mariah, grows up during the crisis and becomes the kind of mother Faith always needed. Jodi writes a good story. Many chapters are held in the courtroom because of the custody hearing. During the story Mariah and Faith meet an professional athiest named Ian. He makes his living disproving miracles on television. I don't know very many people who publicly announce their athiesm and it makes me wonder, if we ever elected an athiest president, what would they use to take the oath of office? If they can't use a bible or a Koran or other religious book, would they use an alphabet board?