I hate sunflowers. It’s not how they look; it’s what their seeds do to me because of my allergies that I hate.
Avoiding sunflower seeds is fairly easy, but these days food manufacturers are putting sunflower oil in everything from coffee creamer to potato chips, and it’s getting harder & harder to avoid. I was […]
Meet the newest addition to the Thornton family; Pippin the Canary.
Yvonne had mentioned before that she’d like to have a pet finch or two, so for her birthday I bought her a bird cage & told her that she could pick out the bird. I suggested a canary (definitely my preference, but it was her […]
We have a new member of the family; Tessa!
Tessa is a Springer Spaniel, and came to us yesterday, June 29th. She is about 4 years old, and is about as nice a dog as you could ask for. Her previous owner passed away in May, and Tessa had been staying with his daughter, Susan. She […]
World Magazine is one of the best news weekly magazines available. The big difference between World and the other weeklies is World is up front about their biases, whereas the others try to come off as “objective” when they are anything but.
This will show a satellite photo of our block. It doesn’t point to our house exactly, but it’s close. Our house is three houses down from the pointer.
I love Google Maps! It rocks!