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The National Debt is just a little over one light-year. I don’t know about ya’ll, but I’m feeling a lot better about a National Debt of only one light-year. Our closest star friend, Proxima Centauri, is 4.3 light-years from the Sun. The Canis Major dwarf Galaxy is the nearest to our solar system and it’s 25,000 light-years away. Astronomers who hazard a guess say that the whole universe is a whopping 79 billion light-years across. I think I’ll stop there. (a joke)
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Mount Shasta, Nature, Northern Ca. Wildfires, Presidential politics, Uncategorized, politics | No Comments
That’s why you don’t see airplane pilots (unless they’re gliders) buzzing around tall topographic features like mountains. The downdraft could suck them under. Here’s the thing, folks, lenticular clouds may look like they’re standing still, but they ain’t. These clouds are constantly forming in the updraft and dissipating in the downdraft and sometimes contain winds of 50 knots or more.
September 30th, 2008 | Posted in Mount Shasta, Nature, Uncategorized | No Comments
September 19th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
The victorious moment of which I’m speaking happened last night at the Democratic National Convertion, where Barack Obama was hailed by many as one of the greatest orators of our time. Even the critical Pat Buchanan, “right from the beginning”, looked shellshocked. This former presidental candidate called Obama’s acceptance speech the best and most important political convention speech he had ever heard, going back 48 years.
August 29th, 2008 | Posted in Beijing Olympics, Chinese slant on American Politics, Jerry Garcia, Mount Shasta, Presidential politics, Uncategorized, internet marketing, sendoutcards | No Comments
…when everything goes wrong and you want to curl up and die? How much control do we have over each day? —that is the question.
Yesterday was a doozy. The power, as in electrical, personal and corporate, went on the rampage. My body feels slammed, spirit included.
Waves of electrical Surges (compliments of Pacific [...]
August 21st, 2008 | Posted in Beijing Olympics, Mount Shasta, Send Out Cards, Uncategorized, sendoutcards | No Comments
Guess who opened the convention?
Everywhere I look these days, there’s a greeting card for the taking and making. Thanks to sendoutcards, I click them into being.
Happy to say, folks, I design my own cards every day and let the Great Printer in Salt Lake do the rest: print, stuff, stamp [...]
August 20th, 2008 | Posted in Send Out Cards, Uncategorized | No Comments
Hip hip hooray! I’m breathing the sweetest natural perfume in the free world—unlimited internet access suffused with gardenia. My little potted plant just bloomed today. This courageous life form has elected to flower in spite of all the bad air it’s been breathing lately. Speaking of which, our pollution level for Friday morning is [...]
August 1st, 2008 | Posted in Mount Shasta, Northern Ca. Wildfires, Send Out Cards, Uncategorized | No Comments
SendOutCards with Chris is a click away. I promise he has all the information about opportunities and more. He can even help you create your own sendoutcard with a personalized greeting.
Speaking of which, greetings from Laura in Mount Shasta. Way way up in Northern California, we know how we feel, but let’s see [...]
July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Mount Shasta, Northern Ca. Wildfires, Send Out Cards, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Happy to say, the first annual reunion of the Tatro boys (Chris, Kevin and Scott) was a huge success. Much golf was enjoyed by all. Only one club (Chris’ Taylor-Made driver) sustained lasting injuries (accidental) when it fell out of the bag that fell off the golf cart that Scott [...]
July 29th, 2008 | Posted in Mount Shasta, Northern Ca. Wildfires, Send Out Cards, Uncategorized | No Comments
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Living with a waning drinking supply has long been a fact of life for many countries. In the Western world, it’s a new, yet serious problem.
I’ve been really harping on our smoky air lately. Now I think I’ll go back to water—for the simple reason that one out of five people on this [...]
July 26th, 2008 | Posted in Mount Shasta, Send Out Cards, Uncategorized | No Comments