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Chicken Janet and Her Chickens
01 Aug 2011
It some parts of the country it’s fashionable to have a chicken coop. I am fashionable these days, because I…

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Lap Top Less
24 Jul 2011
I am seriously going crazy. And I mad as hell at Dell… For two weeks, two weeks, my laptop has…

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Two Women that Went to Heaven on the Same Day
28 Jun 2011
In the fall, in 1916, a little baby girl was born, just outside of Houston, in a black community…

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Anatomy of an Apple Pie: it’s all in the Heart
16 Jun 2011
This past week some friends of mine, lets just call them Mr. and Mrs., gave me some apples. They grew…

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This week’s Five

Selected Fire Facts

1. Over 1million acres burned in wildfires in Texas this summer.

2. Wildfire is first recorded in the Late Silurian fossil record, 420 million years ago, by fossils of charcoalified plants. Apparently not due to anthropogenic interference.

3. The name 'bonfire' is believed to be derived from the Celtic custom of burning the bones of the cattle which were slaughtered at Samhain - a 'bone fire'.

4. Celebratory bonfires have historical precedence in Alpine and Central Europe, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan Scandinavia, Slavic Europe, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and College Station.

5. "He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances", quoted from Jack London in "To Build A Fire'.
In the most recent past…
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