We approach the end of another year. The months of November and December are the big months for retail folks.  This is probably because there are more holidays in those months. If you cheat a little, and include the last week of October, a lot more. You can call the 1st of November, All Saints […]

It is definitely Fall. so instead of the “British are coming” we cry “the Pumpkins are here.” I mean really here.  There is a huge pile of pumpkins as you walk into Walmart. They are about the Jack-o-lantern size, approximately twelve inches in diameter or slightly smaller.  More about that later. It is an interesting […]

Here we are in September. That if you were an old Roman it would be the seventh month of the year. You might recall that they only counted the months up to 10. They apparently didn’t like winter because their year started with March. Slowly the calendar got to the current 12 months with the […]

August has always had the Perseid meteor showers. This year there was no moon so they were really good. And recently the Astro-guys say they have confirmed that the universe is dying. It seems that it has lost energy over the past decade. Well Astro-guys, so have most of the rest humanity; we are getting […]

My goodness it is already the season of announcing that “I am running for president”. Not me, it has always been a mystery as to why someone would really want to be President. Nevertheless the Republicans have the most who want to be President but the Democrats have at least three. Who knows how many […]