The Government has a great web site with information about earthquakes. The site has maps that you can use to see recent activity, fault lines, and animations that simulate the shaking effects. You can see regional maps, maps of the entire US and maps of the world. These maps show how many quakes of different magnitudes have occurred within the past hour, past day and past week. It’s fascinating to check these maps every few days and see what has been happening. Did you know that in the past 7 days there have been over 800 earthquakes in the U. S.? We don’t hear about hardly any of them in the news, but they do happen all over the country, quite frequently. Check it out!
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Can’t forget to buy something nice for your sweetie on Valentice’s Day. I think messing up that requirement of modern American life might be grounds for divorce.
I bought my sweetheart a big red heart shaped box of chocolates. I know she will enjoy having a chocolate or two every night with her cup of tea while she relaxes before bed.
We are also going out to dinner together. I’m not sure where she wants to go, but she can pick any restaurant and I’ll be happy to take her there for a nice romantic dinner. I hope she picks Longhorn Steakhouse, but it’s up to her.
There’s a cable channel for Do It yourself home improvements and they have a pretty cool web site to go along with the show. The web site has video clips of their projects and links to a lot of contests that they run.
I just entered a contest to win a dream garage and another one to win a dream home. They have a contest running that’s about to end where you can win a dream log cabin that they are using to shoot the current log cabin projects series.
For some strange reason all the list of previous winners have photos with them and they are all women. WTF? Why are just women winning these cool prizes? Is it because guys don’t enter the contests? Or do the women site around the house all day with nothing to do but re-enter these contests with daily entries?
The only rodent to have a day on the American calendar designated as a holiday is the groundhog. Of course, they have certain responsibilities that go along with that, such as appearing on their designated day and forecasting the weather for the next 6 weeks. That’s a pretty big job, as the highly paid TV weathermen can’ seem to forecast the weather correctly for more than 24 hours out – and sometimes not even that good.
When I was a kid, we called these criters woodchucks and my grandfather would take his shotgun out tot he fields with him while riding the tractor and if he saw a woodchuck he would shoot the pest. And he shot plenty.
Now we have all these do-gooders who don’t like to see anything killed and they’ve probably passed laws protecting the furry little critters.
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