Bonnie and Kathy

and we are NOT at a casino - April 08

4th of July Trivia

There are 30 places nationwide with the word Liberty in their names. Liberty, MO has the highest population at 26,000.

Iowa has 4 place names, more than any other state:

Libertyville, New Liberty, North Liberty,and West Liberty

Aurora Australis

AURORA AUSTRALIS: Auroras are dancing over the South Pole. "Solar winds from a coronal hole reached us today, June 26th, at about 2:45 PM New Zealand Standard Time," reports J. Dana Hrubes, Science Leader of the Amundsen-Scott Station at the geographic South Pole.

AURORA ALERTS: Did you miss the Northern Lights of June 25th? Next time get a wake-up call from Space Weather PHONE.

see www.spaceweather.com for more aurora pictures

Summer Vacation Pick

This is one of four man-made waterfalls in the waters surrounding NYC. Starting today through sometime this fall, these waterfalls will be on exhibition-lighted after dark. This one is taller than the Statue of Liberty, was designed by Olafur Eliasson for the Public Art Fund and is meant to bring in millions in tourism dollars. Green energy is used to power them. With the floods, tornadoes, etc. of 08 here in Iowa-I think we need some tourism dollars and with the Mini-crick(official spelling) so close to me... I wonder if I have to license my hot dog vendor cart? For artists' renditions of the other 3 NYC waterfalls (I guess no one wants to actually take a picture of them-maybe Omar can) visit this site:

http://publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/08/eliasson/eliasson-08.html

Meet Grace Beenken

The newest addition to the family is Grace Beenken born June 20th to Nathan Beenken. How many of us are there now?
Update: According to the list in the sidebar, Grace is #43.

I don't have any inside information but I think #44 is going to be male and have a black father...oh, wait a minute...that's President #44...

Undiscovered tribe is older than McCain

They are the amazing pictures that were beamed around the globe: a handful of warriors from an 'undiscovered tribe' in the rainforest on the Brazilian-Peruvian border brandishing bows and arrows at the aircraft that photographed them.
Or so the story was told and sold. But it has now emerged that, far from being unknown, the tribe's existence has been noted since 1910 and the mission to photograph them was undertaken in order to prove that 'uncontacted' tribes still existed in an area endangered by the menace of the logging industry.

I first saw this photo a couple of weeks ago...it's a fake...go figure...had I believed it in the first place I would have already posted it...

Update: the picture is not a hoax...this tribe exists:

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080624-amazon-tribe.html

Looks like you've done a great job at letting everyone know
all the different areas on your blog. All we need now is more
" kin folks" to check it out. You know us Kells, we are such
over achievers that everyone is probably too busy to check it
out. Think my over achieving days are over .....

Navigating through this site

The green sidebar to the right has a few informative sections to it. The 'archive' allows you to click on a title and you will be brought to that posting without having to go through the entire deck of postings to find something that interests you. 'Labels'-almost every posting has been labeled so if you are only interested in looking at say 'family pictures', click on that label and those postings will show. 'Favorite websites' are just that and you can click on one of those to be led directly to that site.

The dark blue sidebar below the green one is also interactive but is mostly filled with 'gadgets' that are automatic feeds right to this site from other sources and I have just copied and pasted them. I keep changing and adding/removing. My favorites are the temperature readings from GC, FL, OH, and NJ. I have been monitoring these quite closely and am coming to the conclusion that Iowa is the hottest and coldest place in the lower 48. You can click on these to get forecasts. The NASA images, places to see, happened this day in history are also interactive and you can get more images, info if you like by clicking on them or parts of them. The Youtube gadget allows you to view the most viewed videos on Youtube and to search for other videos. The videos may take a moment to buffer and may be choppy until they are buffered. Finally, the 'newsreel' starts you with GC news (although I have GC, Iowa listed-the feed picks up news form other Grundys in the country so beware) and you can click on the other sources for CNN, Sports Illustrated, etc.

The footer or very last gadget are the clocks from around the world. I haven't perfected the size and spacing of this one yet.

Actual postings like this one can be commented on, may have links to other sites, or pictures that you can enlarged (left click) or copied (right click).

How many of you remember the Grundy Hotel ?

According to Grandma Kell - it was quite a place of action

back in the 30's and 40's.

Note: this picture is from Jan, 1980...I think it was torn down shortly afterward.

Future Map of North America

This is Gordon-Michael Scallion's future map of North America. After the pole shifts and other Earth changes, this is his prediction for the year 2012. Looks like you have about 3 years to enjoy those coastal time-shares...and looks like all that remains intact is Tornado Alley...

Solstice in Alaska

Midnight baseball tonight to celebrate the solstice in Fairbanks-if anyone wants to make the trip. Deb and I had the opportunity to be in the Arctic Circle on the solstice back in '94. It was the strangest thing to see the sun circle the Earth, just above the horizon the entire time we were there. My sleeping patterns have never been the same, nor has my intolerance to cold weather...I had two rented parkas on and was still shaking---the natives only had shirts on. We were on the coast in a little Eskimo village and not in Fairbanks where I wore shorts. Anyway, I found some incredible photos of the Alaskan solstice and Midnight baseball game but they have rights on them so thought I should just post the link:


http://www.alaskastock.com/resultsframe.asp?txtkeys1=solstice

Moon Illusion

MOON ILLUSION: It is often said that cameras do not experience the Moon Illusion. So why does the Moon look so large in this photo, taken last night at the 2500-year-old Temple of Poseidon at Sounio, Greece? From www.spaceweather.com Visit site to see more pictures of moon illusions.

Installing a husband-sent by Deb

Dear Tech support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5 and then installed undesirable programs such as NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf 4.1.Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.

What can I do?

Signed,
Desperate.


DEAR DESPERATE,

First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme.html and try to download Tears 6.2 and don't forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.But remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.

Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother- I n-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.)Also do not attempt to reinstall Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Cooking 3.0 and Hot Lingerie 7.7.

Good Luck,
Tech Support