Friday evening a house caught fire, I assume from a lightening strike, although the news has not confirmed that. The house is just down the street from us. Firefighters shut down Penny Rd. while battling the fire as they had to truck water in. We have no fire hydrants since we are outside city limits. [...]

Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than [...]

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So Thursday afternoon we headed out to Wet & Wild at Emerald Point. We had a pretty good time. We have been to one before, but I cannot remember which one. This one did not seem as big, but the kids had fun and that’s all that really matters, right? Both Talon and Phoenix had [...]

I received an email a couple of weeks ago notifying me of a pre-opening showing of Transformers. Talon and I arrived 2 hours before the movie was scheduled to begin, thinking there would be long lines. There were not. They had it playing in 3 theaters and only had about 200 tickets pre-sold. The movie [...]