The Night Spider Web The ultimate "This wasn't here a minute ago"! This is literally all you could see when I walked out onto my porch. I was enjoying the cool night air and stretching my legs

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis I twisted my ankle the other day by stepping into a hole in the gravel of my road. Incredibly painful but not altogether

Some of those days. You know, the ones that make you want to just drop and stop everything you're doing? Just give up and go back to bed? Yeah, we all have those. But these are the days that separate those

Why do you do the things you do? What prompts you to get out of bed every morning? What makes you slug your way through work, day after day, fighting for your position and your pay? Why do you spend time

So what do you do when one of these little guys run into your front window, knocking himself senseless? You run outside to the rescue! When our little wild goldfinch ran into our window a couple days ago,

Today 243 years ago on April 19th, 1775 was the REAL day America was born. In the early morning hours, some 1500 Red-coated soldiers of King George III marched out of Boston under the orders of the Royal

"Motion makes motivation materialize." ~ John Fuhrman Your company or your business has taken you far from home (or maybe just a few miles away). You're tired, you get to bed and rest up for

Are comets perhaps not the 'dirty snowballs' that are so often portrayed in the media and in astronomical journals?   In fact, the comets which have been observed to date do not look like a body composed

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." ~Norman Vincent Peale You are what you think, should be what people say, but you can rule over your thoughts to make yourself (and your future)

Every year my grandmother taught me to always plant flowers in our gardens. She said that way we could share with the Bees. I have every year even if all I can plant is a pot of flowers. Above are the

Ahh, the dreaded scourge of many a summer day... I really wish that I was normal in regard to the Urushiol oils found in this wily plant. Most people have trouble with the toxic oils found on the leaves

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." ~Albert Einstein Have you ever been afraid? Of course, you have! Everyone has! But what has been noticed is how often people (even

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. How many times a day do you say "me"? What about "I"? Personally, I say them a LOT! It's not really out of conscious thought that

I will say that I am a pretty big fan of Steemit so far. It's a fun place to blog, communicate with other people with like and unlike minds, and possibly a good way to make some extra cash. But I do have

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. Too often we find ourselves bored with the very notion of living. Our senses are so overwhelmed by the busy-ness around us that we find we've lost the zest

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson. The name isn't very familiar to many outside of the literary world. But he did create some of the great

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.

When the truth is untold - shit happens! In 1917, Colonel George Patton was looking for a good location for a Tank Training School. One of the places he visited and stayed in was a village called Bourg

Yup, I'm not kidding! It was the world's longest sundae, a record set in 2016! Welcome to the beautiful little town of Nashville, Michigan! Where Good Time Pizza serves some of the best pies and Shirly's

So many times it seems just yesterday that the New Years parties wrapped up. Then, suddenly, it's the middle of March and the snow is melting and the crocus and periwinkle are poking through the soil and