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I have been trying to put these out on Friday each week for a month or so now and invariably something happens, like I write 8-10 other posts for various sites and this one somehow isn't at the top of the rotation. I know, I know, it is an outrage that my Active Rain blog isn't always at the top ...

Earlier today I wrote a post entitled Lions and Tigers and Bears, Just Say No! on one of my outside blogs, Rich Talks real Estate. That post was centered on the reports that came out regarding Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson's decision to "redirect" the $350 billion that remains of the $7...

To me Veterans Day is a celebration of the honorable service that soldiers have given in defense of our great country. From the signers of the Declaration of Independence, who were committing an act of treason against the crowne but ultimately gave birth to the very ideals that endure today, to t...

Today is the second time I will be participating in Bloggers Unite. Bloggers Unite is an online movement that unites the voices of diverse bloggers from all corners of the blogosphere. This is not an intrusive movement, the one reminder that I received about the action was today via e-mail notifi...

Today being Friday, it is time for my introduction of blogs from the greater blogosphere. If you saw last week's post it was on Halloween related blogs. This week's post is dedicated to those sports lovers out there. You know who you are! You see these two icons, one to the left and one to the r...

Last week we got our first really cold weather, including a couple of frosts. Luckily, I had been harvesting much of the remaining summer veggies. In fact the day of the first frost, I harvested the remaining eggplants and bell peppers. Large or small, they all were harvested as the only other op...

A few months back, I took a few raw peanuts, still in the shell and decided to add them where I had grown decorative corn earlier in the season. I had never grown peanuts and I was only investing four or five peanuts to anyway. I figured that if I had grown beans and peas, eggplants and cantalou...

This week in honor of that spookiest of holidays, Halloween, I decided to feature four spooky blogs. Now the first one is a bit different from the other three. The first one describes itself as "Celebrities, Humor, TV, Pics, and More." The superficial gallery is a fun and irreverent read. There i...